Mason, TX, United States
Koocksville. Pioneers began to settle this locality in the 1850s. The oldest marked grave in Crosby Cemetery is dated 1856. The community became known as Koocksville after William Koock (1838-1890), a native of Germany, built a one-room log store here in 1867. Koock and his wife Minna (Jordan) (1843
-1912) lived in the store before Koock moved his business to a picket structure and then to a two-story rock building erected in the early 1870s. Koock's store was the headquarters for cattle and shee
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