Almost twenty-five years earlier, this company had been based in Leon County and doing work in Tyler County. Since then, it had moved to Nacogdoches County. The Lufkin Daily News reported in 1943 that T. O. Sutton & Sons had a sawmill operating at Chireno. Three years later, according to The Gulf Coast Lumberman, a new mill was being erected alongside of the old mill. The old mill had a new planing mill and cross circulation dry kilns. The new sawmill would operate a circular headrig that could cut 5,200 feet per hour. It also had a new planing mill at Woodville. The company had divested itself of all other mills by 1946.
The company was listed was listed in the 1957 Directory of Wood-Using and Related Industries in East Texas. The Sutton family would reestablish itself in the lumbering business in 1979, when it opened the current G & S Lumber Company for business.