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What happened to First Bank & Trust East Texas?
First Bank & Trust East Texas in Diboll, TX (earlier called Diboll State Bank and 2 other names) merged into Southside Bank of Tyler, TX on Nov 30, 2017. Southside Bank is open today.
The chain, step by step
From the day it opened to the bank at the end of the chain today. Each step is one entry in the FDIC's record.
- 1953Diboll State Bank opens in Diboll, TX
- Oct 6, 1989renamed First Bank & Trust Diboll
- Apr 1, 1990renamed First Bank & Trust
- Apr 25, 1990renamed First Bank & Trust East Texas
- Nov 30, 2017MERGEDFirst Bank & Trust East Texas merged into Southside Bank of Tyler, TX.FDIC certificate 17233 ends; its business continues under certificate 18297.
- TodayOPEN
Southside BankMain office Tyler, TX · FDIC certificate 18297 · 58 offices in 1 state on June 30, 2026Every Southside Bank office → Website on file with the FDIC: www.southside.com
If you still have something from First Bank & Trust East Texas
A lien that was never released
If a paid-off mortgage, home-equity line or car loan still shows First Bank & Trust East Texas as lienholder, start with Southside Bank. In a merger the surviving bank takes over the other bank's loans, so it is the bank to ask for a recordable lien release; if the loan was sold along the way, it can tell you to whom.
The FDIC says it cannot process lien releases for banks that merged or were acquired without government assistance, which is what the record shows here.
Record the release with the same county office that recorded the original mortgage or deed of trust.
An old account, passbook or CD
Ask Southside Bank to search for the account under the name First Bank & Trust East Texas. A passbook or certificate shows an account existed. It doesn't show the money is still there, and the OCC notes that federal rules require banks to keep most account records for five years.
Accounts nobody touches are eventually turned over to a state. The OCC puts the usual wait at three to five years with no activity, set by each state's law. Search the unclaimed-property program of the state of the owner's last known address on the bank's records, and any other state they lived in. It is free to search and to claim through a state's own site, and MissingMoney.com, an official site of the state administrators' association, searches most states at once.
A safe deposit box
Ask Southside Bank which branch now holds boxes from the First Bank & Trust East Texas office you used. The OCC says a box with no activity for three to five years (the period is set by state statute) is likely treated as dormant, and its contents may be turned over to the state's unclaimed-property program.
Box contents are not covered by FDIC insurance.
Not sure this is your bank?
Many banks shared a name. Match the city and the years above against your paperwork, or search again with the town.
Credit unions were never FDIC-insured and are not in this record; the NCUA credit union lookup covers those. Banks that closed before about 1970 are not in the FDIC's list either.
One caution: banks also sell single branches. If the office you used was sold to a different bank along the way, the account went with the branch, not with this chain. The office list below shows which bank each office reports under now.
This page is drawn from FDIC records and federal guidance. It is not legal advice, and BankBranches is not a bank or a government office. More detail: lien releases · old passbooks and CDs · safe deposit boxes · unclaimed money.
Where the guidance comes from ▾
Its offices in the FDIC deposit reports
20 offices filed under this charter in some year from 1994 on. 13 are still open as of June 30, 2026.
| Office | Now |
|---|---|
| 2510 W Frank AveLufkin, TX | OpenSouthside Bank |
| 2211 Three Lakes PkwyTyler, TX | OpenSouthside Bank |
| 200 E Crockett StCleveland, TX | OpenSouthside Bank |
| 104 N Temple DrDiboll, TX | OpenSouthside Bank |
| 275 W Gibson StJasper, TX | OpenSouthside Bank |
| 1009 N University DrNacogdoches, TX | OpenSouthside Bank |
| 14500 Old Highway 59 NSplendora, TX | OpenSouthside Bank |
| 541 S Timberland DrLufkin, TX | OpenSouthside Bank |
| 725 Sabine StHemphill, TX | OpenSouthside Bank |
| 321 N BrentwoodLufkin, TX | OpenSouthside Bank |
| 3310 S Loop 256Palestine, TX | OpenSouthside Bank |
| 421 S El Camino XingSan Augustine, TX | OpenSouthside Bank |
| 102 Timberland HwyPineland, TX | OpenSouthside Bank |
| 204 E Lamar StJasper, TX | No longer reported |
| 2395 Hg Mosley PkyLongview, TX | No longer reported |
| 111 Champion DriveLufkin, TX | No longer reported |
| 1302 Tom TempleLufkin, TX | No longer reported |
| #2 Porterwood Center 23741 U.S. Hwy 59 NorthPorter, TX | No longer reported |
| 1007 South MargaretKirbyville, TX | No longer reported |
| 201 North Green StreetLongview, TX | No longer reported |
Banks folded into First Bank & Trust East Texas
4 banks merged directly into this charter.
| Bank | Ended |
|---|---|
| Pineland State BankPineland, TX | Jul 26, 2001 |
| The First State BankJasper, TX | Feb 23, 2001 |
| First Bank and TrustCleveland, TX | Feb 9, 1999 |
| Peoples National BankLufkin, TX | Apr 1, 1990 |
Source: FDIC BankFind institution and history records, read Nov 15, 2026. The FDIC's list covers banks that ended in about 1970 or later. Look up certificate 17233 in the FDIC BankFind Suite to see the government's own entry. Corrections: me@byclaude.net.