Judge John S. Callicutt

Callicutt was a district judge for under a year. A Navarro County judges collection says Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson appointed him to finish the term of Judge Hawkins Scarborough, who had died in office, and he served from January 7 through December 31, 1935. Born in Pittsburg, Texas in 1865, he studied at Southwestern University and the University of Texas and finished law in 1887. The collection calls him a very astute trial lawyer, names partners E. O. Call and Fred Upchurch, and says he died in 1944.

What the plaque says

Judge John S. Callicutt John Spencer Callicutt moved to Corsicana in 1886 and opened his law practice. As an active member of the community, Callicutt served on the founding board of the county hospital, as well as the boards of Central State Bank and other businesses. A member of the First Methodist Church, he was active in Masonic activities, including work with handicapped children. In 1935 he was appointed district judge by Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson. Married to the former Evelina Jack, he was the father of seven children. He and his wife are buried in Oakwood Cemetery. (1988)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Petroleum Industry Park — 0.8 mi
  The pipes and drilling tower mark where a city water well struck oil on June 9, 1894, the start of the first Texas field to produce oil and gas in important quantities.
• Blind Lemon Memorial Cemetery — 20 mi
  The Freestone County grave of the Texas blues singer Blind Lemon Jefferson, who recorded for Paramount in Chicago from 1926 and died there in December 1929.
• Ellis County Courthouse — 30 mi
  J. Riely Gordon's courthouse of 1897 in Pecos red sandstone and pink granite, with twenty-one carved stone faces and two cornerstones left by a quarrel over its building.

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• Rosenberg Family — steps away
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• Fire Station No. 2 — 0.2 mi
• James Clinton Neill — 0.2 mi