Kirtley, Texas

Kirtley is an unincorporated community in west central Fayette County, Texas, United States.

Dr. William Primm, for whom the town was originally named, was an early colonist from a family of wealthy aristocrats in Virginia.

The main industry in Kirtley (then Primm) was farming, replaced in the latter half of the 20th century by sand and gravel mining.

Convicts from the La Grange jail were transported by train to work in Kirtley's fields in the early 1900s.

The cemetery around which the town was centered, on land originally owned by Dr. Primm, held some of his family members' burial sites.

On board were conductor Scoggins, brakemen Jones and Rightmer, engineer Hawkins, and foreman Brown.