In 1858, 14-year-old Albert Salmon set up a sheep-herding camp in an elevated elm grove above Green Creek. He remarked that the location would be a nice place to be buried. He died a few month later and became the first person to be buried in what later became the Clairette Cemetery. A village grew up nearby known as Mayfield’ Switch, later the name was changed to Clairette. Larry Mayfield tells the story that a meeting was held to consider a name change, the speaker was standing on a Clairette soap crate – and that became the name. In December of 1892 Clairette citizens organized the post office in the home of Alwida Johnson. The post office closed on April 27, 1973.

P.T.A. “Stephenville Bicentennial P.T.A. Report.” Stephenville, Texas, 1976. In Dick Smith Library, Tarleton State University.