Spanish trail into San Antonio at Nacogdoches, thus avoiding these wild tribes who were then on the warpath west of here. (Henry Stout told the author of seeing Mr. Crockett and talked of the trip into Texas.) At this time there were no houses west of Robbinsville, which place was named for one John Robbins, one of the early settlers of Red River County, his place being the last one so far as anyone knew until reaching Mexico. (See Plat on page 20: David Crockett's Trail into Texas.)

David Crockett, being a great hunter, was prevailed upon by Capt. Becknall to stop a few days and rest his horses; and the party went on a hunt in the country west of here. Old Uncle Henry Stout, heretofore spoken of, himself being a great hunter and one of the most remarkable guides on any frontier, went with Mr. Crockett out for one hundred miles or more with the hope they might strike the famous herds of buffalo, which Mr. Crockett was extremely anxious to do. Mr. Stout whom I knew personally, told me of this trip. While out hunting they were riding through some skirts of timber with grass and weeds in the ravines often coming up to the saddle skirts of the horses. There were no roads or bridle paths anywhere. They suddenly rode into droves of bees nesting in the grass. Evidently the City of Honey Grove got its name from this circumstance and David Crockett afterwards referred to that place as Honey Grove.