Texas Genealogical Records, Ellis County, Volume 16, 1800-1962 Page: 84
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June 2, 1959
That calf they are fattening for the FORRESTON Home-
comihg, June 14, inspired us to dig further into the history
of the town.
We usually start digging in the cemeteries, so we went
down to the Forreston burial ground which is being groomed
for the reunion. Indidentally, the hat will be passed and
all money collected above the cost of the barbecue dinner
will go to the cemetery maintenance fund.
We were interested in the story of Mrs. Elizabeth Ward
Couch. Her grave and that of her daughter are enclosed with
in an old iron fence. According to the inscription on the
stone that marks Mrs. Couch's grave, she was born in British
Honduras in 18b9 and died in Forreston in 1907. Some of the
old timers were telling us that her husband went to California
during the gold rush and never returned. Nobody ever knew
what happened to him.
There were Indians in the woods around FORRESTON during
those days when Mrs. Couch was living alone, except for her
child, in a house near Chambers Creek.
Also saw the grave of Captain Carr Forest, an early
settler, for whom the town of FORRESTON was named. Captain
Forrest was born in 1826 and died in 1909. His brother,
Joseph P. Forest was born in 1824 and died in 1876, and a
sister, Matilda P. Vanlear,was born in 1829 and died in 1907.
Stopped to visit Mr. and Mrs. Robert Justice who live
on the old Captain Forrest homeplace, near the spot where
the first PORRESTON postoffice was established in Captain
Forrest's store.
Mr. Justice came to FORRESTON from Arkadelphia, Ark.,
in a covered wagon in 1884 and Mrs. J. came from Alabama in
1895. Mr. and Mrs. Justice were married at BOZ at the home
of a Baptist minister, "Brother Alexander."
Before her marriage, Mrs. Justice was Miss Della Adams
of Anderson Ranch of FIVE POINTS. Her brother was the late
Charles J. Adams who used the nom de plume, "Uncle Josh,"
for his writings for the old WAXAHACHIE Enterprise, around
1897 or 1898.
Mrs. Charles J. Adams was formerly Miss IMinnie Jennings
o f BETIL and she now lives at 525 East Munson St., Denison,
we learned from Mrs. Justice.
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Daughters of the American Revolution. Rebecca Boyce Chapter (Waxahachie, Tex.). Genealogical Records Committee. Texas Genealogical Records, Ellis County, Volume 16, 1800-1962, book, 1962; Waxahachie, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth105041/m1/95/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nicholas P. Sims Library.