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Pyron Cemetery
Photo Courtesy Charlene Beatty Beauchamp, 2001 |
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It's been a
while since Pyron has been on the map. In fact a view of the current TxDoT Scurry
County map doesn't even show Pyron.
Scurry County has several place
names with real frontier flavor (except for Fluvanna). There's Wildcat
and Hell Roaring Draw, and Hudd - four letters that just appear
out of nowhere and don't seem to indicate a watercourse, town or geological feature.
A man named
Bob Pyron settled on Buffalo Creek in the late 1880s and the community
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| | The
former Pyron school
Photo Courtesy Charlene Beatty Beauchamp, 2001 |
| | The
former Pyron school gymnasium
Photo Courtesy Charlene Beatty Beauchamp, 2001 |
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There was a
school and post office by 1900 and since they didn't yet have a church, services
were held in the school. The population was 10 in 1910.
Like hundreds
of towns, Pyron moved to be near the newly laid railroad tracks of the Santa
Fe. When highway
84 bypassed the town, the residents just vacated the area rather than move the
town again.
After WWII, a major statewide school consolidation closed
the Pyron school and children were bussed to nearby Hermleigh
or Roscoe.
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Photo Courtesy Charlene Beatty Beauchamp |
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