Jester

Navarro County, Texas

A map of where this is in the county. — 5.8 mi north-east of Oak Valley · Navarro County

Eleven miles southwest of Corsicana on the St. Louis and Southwestern, Jester began as a stop called Switch in the 1880s and took its new name in 1899, for George Taylor Jester, the Corsicana man who was lieutenant governor. Its school enrolled forty-seven students by 1906; the post office closed in 1909, reopened in 1923 and closed again after 1930. About ten people were left by the mid-1930s, the store and church closed after the war, the school consolidated into Purdon's, and it was off the highway maps by the 1960s.

Jester in red on the General Land Office map of Navarro County, 1924, among the original land grants — Jester on the Land Office's county map of July 1924, in red; the names around it are the original land grants. Courtesy of the Texas General Land Office, Austin. Map 73249, Navarro County, July 1924. Used under licence. The whole county map →

Also within two miles. Burying grounds: Curry Cemetery.

Among the places · On the map

From Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas, entry for Jester, Navarro County (Christopher Long, 1952; revised 1995)..