Early Settlers in Mt. Enterprise
"Remembering Rusk Co" Some of the older families in Mt. Enterprise were: March, Lacy, Ross, Langford, Jenkins, Fogg, Turner, Bussey, Magee, Anderson, Parker, Griffin, Furlow, Hightower, Haltom,Lawler, Madden, Stegall, Wolverton, Sory, Westfall, Birdwell, Collins, Blackburn, Ash, Jones, Ferguson, Ham, Watson, Cogburn, Smithhart, Thompson, Green, Palmer, Miller, Phillips, McDonald, Vardeman, Wood, Branch, Howeth, Quade, Watkins, Matlock, Lawson, Heath, Reierson, Wrenn, Gatlin, Pierce, Norvell, Davis, Bartlett, Stein, Morrow, Chapman, McClure, Thompson, Shumate.
From the Rusk County Texas 1860 Census- Beat no 4- H. D. E. Redwine....Mount Enterprise area, came the following names: extracted by Gloria B. Mayfield
| Micah Well | John A. Koonce | J.V. Frazier |
| Wyatt Vaughn | Hiriam Adison Ash (mine, gbm) | A.J. Panchard |
| J.B. Cavin | Robert J. Hicks | Nelson Ash |
| James A. Bane | James Rayburn | Elijah Hampton |
| W.T. Bush | Francis Williams | Robert Roe Haltom |
| William Ham | Jesse S. Ham | Sintha Lane |
| Dosen A. Hancock | James Hudman | Mary Koonce |
| Greenville Wolverton | James M. Hull | Jessley A. Thompson |
| William Nichols | Charles May | Charles Barthold |
| L.D. Stevens | John Sory | W.H. Ragsdale |
| Sarah D. Avery | Squire W. March | Isaac Edmonson |
| Archibald M. March | J. Gilchrist | A.S. Hayter |
| J.F. Wallace | William Reavis | William P. Petty |
| William H. Freeman | Susan L. Riley | P.G. Rierson |
| Jabez Booker | William Owens | John M. Reid |
| John E. Terrell | Isaac Brock | Thomas Jones |
| Elizabeth Birdwell | Berry B. Liles | Robert E. Wilkes |
| James C. Wright | Gilbert M.C. Smith | Mary M. Evans |
| Charles N. Pierson | Moses W. Collier | William M. Riley |
| George T. Birdwell | James Haarden | Jesse Mayfield |
| John Owens | N.B. Branch | J.S. Langston |
| Jas. H. Long | H.G. Gentry | W.R. Grimes |
| Isham Smith | Susan Loller | Levi T. Harris |
| D.W. Harrell | R.C. Linthicum | Sarah J. Walker |
| J.B. Webster | Joseph Webster | Isaac Battle |
| Thomas Channel | B.F. McFarland | Julia Estill |
| Nancy Rogers Jordan Anderson | WM Coats | James Wiley Harle |
| A. Jackson Ivey | william Reeves | George M. Guiren |
| Joseph Gentry | John T. Sey | William McDonald |
| Daniel Woodland | Reuben Carmichael | George W. Warren |
| Wm. A. McCrary | J.D. Lock | John G. Randolph |
| J.E.H.S. Manning | E.V.Gatlin | Claiburn Matlock |
| Mrs. Elizabeth Shoffit Matlock | Sam Smith | Washington Nelson |
| John W. Lock | Nancy Ivey | James W. King |
| William W. Grant | Thomas Bell | Pleasanat Coffman |
| Levi J. Matlock | Harrison Fenton | C.F. Winder |
| Charity Boyette Winder | J.D. Nichols | D.W. Dorsey |
| Henry Loller | John T. Myrick | Allen Birdwell |
| Sarah J. Vannoy | James Anderson | John C. Birdwell |
| John P. Furlow | Martha Atkinson | William Haltom |
| Priscilla Lundy Harris | Martha M. Haltom Grayson | Belzora V. Camp |
| M.E. Allen | J.S. Renfro | E.W. Hartless |
| John L. Salmon | Martha Linthicum | John Parker |
| Byrd Linthicum | Isaac Morris | Elizabeth Reed Morris |
| James B. Gentry | Susan Booker | Martha Atkinson Furlow |