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I am a Nacogdoches girl, born and bred. My roots in our small town run deep. Mixed in with my Nacogdoches roots is an inherited love of baking. In fact, back in World War I, my great-great-grandfather, Franklin Feazell, owned a bakery in the downtown area. Sadly, he was forced to close his bakery during the war due to the fact that he was an honest man. He would not cheat on his ration card, so he was unable to keep the business going. Shortly after closing the bakery, he succumbed to the flu epidemic. Following the war, however, his brother Fred opened another bakery business, again in the downtown area.
While I have been unable to locate any documentation confirming the name of the bakery, I did discover that there was one in Downtown Nacogdoches called "The City Bakery" from 1914 to 1915. I also found this photograph that seems to be from that time period with a sign on a building that appears to say "City Bakery Cafe". Was this the bakery owned by my great-great-grandfather? So far, I am not sure, but how many bakeries could there have been in one small town in 1915? Probably not many. And, even if The City Bakery was not the one owned by Franklin Feazell, it was still a piece of Nacogdoches history, which makes it something special!
the city bakery
