The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 25, 1948 Page: 13 of 14
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Before Ollie, Brother Forbes, as
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out for lunch. “Ollie and I figure
two meals a day are enough for
us.”
A minister of the Church of
Christ, Brother Forbes preaches in
Parker, Palo Pinto, Erath, and
Hood Counties. “Distances don’t
make much difference—Ollie and I
get up early and travel late. And
we take the near cuts—just strike
right out over the fields and little
roads and once in awhile we hit an
old road, no longer in use, that I
traveled decades ago. A man can
really think back, riding an old
road for an old road’s like meeting
an old friend.”
While following the plow on
weekdays or riding Ollie to church
on weekends, Forbes composes and
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Brother Forbes across my ranch
the other day,” a friends says. “He
didn’t know I was there and I
listened to one of the best sermons
I ever heard.”
And Forges declares: “A man can
lose himself and prepare a sermon
on horseback, He never could do
that in a car—Most likely he’d
find himself in a ditch.”
Sometimes, riding along on Ollie,
Brother Forbes reflects on the
state of the world. “I’ve always
been an optimist and hope I al-
ways will be. I think everything
will turn out for the best. There’s a
great world crime wave on now,
but crime waves ebb and flow like
the ocean tides.”
A native of Pettus County, Mo.,
Forbes came to Collin County,
Texas in 1889. He went to Add-
Ran Christian College at Thorp
Spring, Hood County (a school that
later became Texas Christian Uni-
versity). After leaving the college
in 1898 he taught school in Parker
and Hood Counties before settling
down to his main occupation as a
farmer.
Brown-eyed Brother Forbes was
Parker County’s representative in
the Texas Legislature from 1926 to
1932. Slightly built and of medium
height, he weighs 140 pounds, his
thick crop of hair is now grey.
“Once it was red as a woodchuck—
folks could warm their hands over
it in the winter.” Overalls, a cot-
ton shirt and an old straw hat can-
not hide the innate dignity of this
quiet, serious, well-loved man.
There is dignity in his weather-
proof face, in his manner and voice,
and in his strong, toil-scarred hands
the dignity is there.
To find the oldtimer you follow
a lonely county road a dozen miles
south of Weatherford. You go
through a couple of barbed wire
gates cross a cottonfield path and
stop your car at the bank of a
dry river. After that, you are on
foot and you follow the river a
quarter of a mile, cross it, and
walk through snagging brush an-
other quarter of a mile and then
you catch sight of Forbes and
Ollie, plowing.
This year, he and Ollie plowed,
planted and picked three acres of
cotton which yielded a bale, and
five acres of corn which amounted
to 125 bushels. All that, besides the
feed crop. Forbes never hires any
help. “Ollie and I do every lick.”
The pair are admirably suited.
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ly field, surveyed those 10 acres
and sighed: “I’ll do it if I ever
have enough time.” He smiled
faintly at tns and added: “No man
ever has enough time.”
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‘‘Ollie goes along nice and slow but
she keeps going. When I was
younger and after I wasn’t so
young, I followed a team of mules,
but those plagued mules just wore
me down.”
Forbes has a son and a daughter.
His wife died in 1931.
He never sets any fee for his
sermons—just takes any pay the
churches want to give him. He
spends Saturday nights at the
homes of the brethren. “I’m al-
ways welcome.”
Brother Forbes can read the New
Testament in Greek as easily as
in English but he doesn’t read the
Bible much any more -
“I’ve read it so much that now
I just think the Bible instead of
reading it. I just turn the verses
and chapters over in my mind.”
He pieaches without notes.
“Folks have been after me to set
down some of my sermons for the
young men who will come along
when I’m gone. He stood ankle
deep in the sandy loam of his lone-
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HORSEBACK PREACHER.—Every weekend for 54 years
Benjamin Johnson Forbes has traveled by horse or buggy to
fill guest preaching assignments in Parker or neighboring
counties. He is shown here with Ollie, his 20-year-old mare,
Five days a week Ollie pulls the plow which Forbes follows on
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lots 7 and 8, block 16, Wink.
D. H. Fritz et ux to A. C. Mor-
ton, warranty deed, lot 19, block j
67, Wink.
Carl H. Dunn to City of Kermit,
warranty deed, lot 1, block 7,
Kermit Walton.
Juan A. Garza et ux to Gulf
Oil Corp., warranty deed, lot 28,
block 13, Kermit Walton.
O. E. Sanders to S. A. Weaver,
quit claim deed, lots 11 and 12,
block 88, Kermit.
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lease, lots 11 and 12, block 88,
Kermit..
F. G. Claiborne et ux to Gilber
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block 62, Wink.
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46, 1-s execution.
V. R. Bldg. Corp, to Key Invest-
ment Co., party wall sale, lots 2
and 3, block 24 and block 23, Ker-
mit original.
Sam Chest to Louis Hight, city
lease lot 12, block 32, Kermit.
S. M. Halley et al to the public,
lot 6, block 26, Kermit.
Iva Myrtle Reed et vir to H. W.
Poreter, quitclaim deed, lot 7,
block 34, Original.
S. A. Weaver to Frank F. Har-
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Frank F. Harris to Bruce R.
Cramer, lease, lot 46, block "B",
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60, Wink.
A. C. Blackburn et ux to In-
that buggy. Ollie rides smooth, and
easy. She’s a ‘fox trotter’ and a
single-footer but mostly a fox-
trotter. A ‘fox-trotter’ is a lot eas-
ier on a man than a jog-trotter.”
Forbes lives in the Balch com-
munity of Parker County, 12 miles
south of Weatherford. He owns 265
acres, most of which he leases to
his daughter and son-in-law with
whom he resides. But he reserves
for himself and Ollie a small or-
chard, a garden and 10-acre plot
on which he grows cotton, feed and
corn. “I also own a couple of hogs.”
Up at dawn, Forbes farms until
dusk five days per week. He works
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Williams, Nev H. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 25, 1948, newspaper, November 25, 1948; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1466756/m1/13/: accessed February 18, 2025), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Winkler County Library.