C. C. High
Mr. High was born in
Georgia, March 7, 1851, and came to Texas with his father when only
five years old. At the age of fourteen he served an apprenticeship in a
blacksmith shop in Crockett, where he married at the age of twenty to
Miss Elizabeth Howell.
He emigrated to Eastland in 1873 and stopped at McGough
Springs. He served two years in the Texas Ranger Company "A" under
Captain Walder. On the lot he still occupies, Mr. High put up the first
blacksmith shop established in the county.
Mr. High is a pioneer Odd Fellow, and assisted in the
organization of the first lodge in Eastland. He is a Past Grand and
Past Chief Patriarch, and held the office of Treasurer in the Eastland
City Lodge for sixteen years.
Mr. High is an open-hearted and typical frontiersman, true
as steel which he hammers.
from History of Eastland County,
Texas, by Mrs. George Langston, A.D. Aldridge & Co., Dallas,
1904, pp. 76-77.