The Lone Star School was organized about 1892.  A deed dated July 18, 1892, indicates that D. H. Benton and wife, A. D., deeded three acres of land to citizens of School District No. 1 for public school purposes.  In 1898 it was called School District No. 1, school #5 and in 1913 the district was given as #65.  The one room school was built about eight miles northeast of Coleman on the north bank of Hords Creek to serve a community that had sprung up in that area.  Adjoining the school grounds is a little cemetery which started when there was a death in a neighboring community at a time when people could not get to town due to high water, so they had the burial there.  The last burial was the father of Sid Griffin.  There was a flood in 1932 which washed away some graves and tombstones.  It is recalled that before the flood there was a tombstone with the death date of 1882.  The earliest tombstone now is that of Rhoda Benton (1815 - 1892).  Her son gave the land for the cemetery as it joined the Benton land.

Mrs. R. L. Snodgrass attended school at Lone Star in 1898 - 1899; her first teacher was Miss Wood Murry.  There were forty pupils and her desk mate was Minnie Claiborne.  Mrs. Snodgrass also reported the news of the Lone Star community to the Coleman paper.  Sunday School was held in the school and occasionally a preacher of different denominations came out to preach.  Community gatherings, such as box suppers, etc., were also held in the school.

W. C. Rickard taught at Lone Star in 1898 and there were 28 students.  Families who had children enrolled were Augustine, Benton, Claibomne, Collins, Girvin, Miskell, Mulanax, Riddle, Stevens and Walker. Some of the other teachers were Judith Hall, Effie McMurry, Belle Patton (who drove her yellow pony hitched to her buggy), Etta Walker, Mr. Connor, Ola McCleskey, Stella Wason (or Watson); Laura Featherston, (who rode a horse from Coleman), Mattie Riddle, a Lavender, Ura Alford, Helen Halbert Woodward, Clara O’Neal, a MacNamara, Mrs. Ruth Lindsey, Mrs. John Dunn, Mr. Bolton (who walked or rode his bicycle from Coleman), two Knight men and Mrs. Garland Abbey.  Mrs. Abbey went to Cross Roads when the schools consolidated.  Bob Walker, Mr. Helton and Carey Jameson were among some of the trustees who served many years.

Basketball and baseball were popular sports.  Roland Jameson’s dad used to let him use the wagon and team to take the baseball players to other schools.  Their theme song was “Lone Star Will Shine Tonight.”  The girls’ basketball uniforms were sateen bloomers and middy blouses.  The boys and girls had separate playgrounds, but sometimes after late recess on Friday they could play ball together.

In 1931, the one room school building was torn down by Bob Walker, John Henderson and Roland Jameson and rebuilt to a two room structure.  This was due to about 80 pupils enrolled.  They had two teachers when the new school was finished.  The school never had a bus, but did hire Roland Jameson to use his personal car to pick up children and transport them to school one year.  The school district was a very large area and until it was consolidated with Camp Colorado, Watts Creek and Union Hill and became Cross Roads, in 1936, it had the lowest tax rate in the county - twenty five cents.

There was never an organized church in Lone Star.  People of the community went to one of four churches: one of the Double Churches, Watts Creek, or Junction.