MARYSVILLE, TEXAS.

Marysville is on South Fish Creek fifteen miles northwest of Gainesville in Cooke County. It had a post office from 1873 until the mid-1940s.In 1859, Richard Corn and his wife, Mary, bought land located in the Sivells Bend area and two or three years later, bought land on South Fish Creek. It was named either in honor of Mary (Fitch) Corn, an early settler who moved to the area with her husband, Richard, in 1867, or after Marysville, California, hometown of Mrs. Corn's brother, R. A. Fitch, who moved to this area of Cooke County in 1869. To encourage the establishment of businesses, Richard Corn gave a building lot with each residence lot sold. By 1900 Marysville had 350 residents, and the town supported two cotton gins and two dry goods stores, three grocery stores, two blacksmith shops, a school, Methodist and Baptist Churches, a Masonic Lodge, an Eastern Star chapter, a drugstore, and a livery stable. In 1907 the Baptist Church had over 200 members. . The town's population level held steady at 160 residents from 1925 to 1942, when Camp Howze was built in northwestern Cooke County. The government army training camp, Camp Howze .removed roughly three-fourths of the area to the north, east, and south of Marysville from the control of the community, .homesteads were razed and water wells destroyed. With the loss of this many small family farms, Marysville declined. .After the war, in 1947, previous owners were given first option to purchase their lands, but most did not, having become established elsewhere. By the late 1980s it had seventy residents and a church and reported no businesses. The best-known resident of Marysville was Daniel Montague, for whom Montague County is named; he is buried in the Marysville Cemetery. By 2000 the population was listed as fifteen.

Information from the Gainesville Daily Register, and The First 100 years Cooke County, A. Smith