Editing San Saba County, Texas (section)

===Post-Civil War history===
In the 1880s-'90s, mob rule not only whipped and forced out numerous people in towns throughout Texas, but also took 140 lives in Texas following the Civil War. San Saba County had the worst of the violence, with 25 lives taken by lynching from 1880 to 1896. Mob killings in Texas in the years after the war were often racially motivated crimes committed by members of the Ku Klux Klan against suspected slave rebels and white abolitionists. An investigation led to the [[Texas Rangers Division|Texas Rangers]] restoring order.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cox|first=Mike|title=The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900|year=2009|publisher=Forge Books|isbn=978-0-7653-1892-3|pages=439–441}}</ref> Many of the mob executions committed throughout Texas in the time following the Civil War were racially motivated and often committed by members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), which formed in Shelby County, Texas.<ref name="tshaonline.org">{{Cite web|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/jgl01|title=LYNCHING|last=R.|first=ROSS, JOHN|date=June 15, 2010|website=www.tshaonline.org|language=en|access-date=July 30, 2018}}</ref> Most of the people killed by vigilante mobs in the five years after the war were "suspected slave rebels and white abolitionists". Although the KKK in Texas was less active by the 1870s, lives continued to be taken each year. In 1885, for the state of Texas, "...an estimated 22 mobs lynched 43 people, including 19 blacks and 24 whites, one of whom was female".<ref name="tshaonline.org"/> "The San Saba County lynchers, the deadliest of the lot, claimed some 25 victims between 1880 and 1896. Vigilante lynching died out in the 1890s, but other varieties of mobs continued."<ref name="tshaonline.org" />

The San Saba Male and Female Academy was founded in 1882.<ref name="San Saba County"/><ref>{{cite book|last=Burton|first=Jeffrey|title=The Deadliest Outlaws: The Ketchum Gang and the Wild Bunch|year=2009|publisher=University of North Texas Press|isbn=978-1-57441-270-3|page=19}}</ref>  In 1889, the United Confederate Veterans William P. Rogers Camp No. 322 was established, named for Col. William P. Rogers.<ref name="United Confederate Veterans William P. Rogers Camp No. 322">{{cite web|title=United Confederate Veterans William P. Rogers Camp No. 322|url=http://www.9key.com/markers/marker_detail.asp?atlas_number=5411012748|publisher=William Nienke, Sam Morrow|access-date=November 28, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707072341/http://www.9key.com/markers/marker_detail.asp?atlas_number=5411012748|archive-date=July 7, 2011}}</ref>  West Texas Normal and Business College was organized by Francis Marion Behrns in 1885.<ref>{{cite web|last=Upchurch|first=Alice Gray|title=West Texas Normal and Business College|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/kbw11|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=November 28, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Seeber|first=Jill S|title=Francis Marion Behrns|url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbe97|work=Handbook of Texas Online|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date=November 28, 2010}}</ref>