A Joint Project of the Sam Rayburn House Historic Site and the Fannin County Historical Commission

Celebrating America 250 with Spotlights of Fannin County Citizens Who Participated In or Witnessed Historical Events

Fannin County, Texas -- John H. Floyd was born in Tennessee in 1850 and moved to Fannin County with his family in 1859.

At the age of 15 he began to work small quarries of stone and “succeeded . . . in developing of the finest industry of the kind in north Texas. . .[H]e has furnished more building material of the kind than any other man in the State. The town of Honey Grove is built up almost exclusively with stone from his quarries. He has furnished material also for public buildings, court houses, jails, etc., for nearly all the county seat towns in north Texas. . . He has shipped extensively to Dallas, the Merchants’ Exchange there being built of material from his quarries. . . It can be said that Mr. Floyd has been long and prominently identified with the general growth and development of his section of the State, inasmuch as had furnished much of the building material to north Texas. [The Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, 1889]

He died in 1932 and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Honey Grove.

In 2021 the quarry was briefly reopened to obtain stone for the renovation of the Fannin County Courthouse.