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Page 6A — THE GILMER MIRROR, Gilmer, Texas May 22, 2013
RO SE WOOD, May 20—The
area received a really good
rain on Wednesday and early
Thursday. Reported rainfall
amounts ranged from 1.4 to
over 2 inches in the region.
“Mortgage Hill” logged 1.95
inches. The pastures and
gardens appear to have a new
coat of paint after the refresh-
ing rain.
On May 5, Harmony United
Methodist Church recognized
the graduating high school
seniors of the church family.
Engraved Bibles were pre-
sented to Harmony seniors
Willie Dowden, Emily Elwell,
Shelby Hutto and Madison
Spencer and to Chapel Hill
senior Andra Whitfield.
A large congregation at-
tended HUMC for Mother’s
Day services where the chil-
dren of the church presented
roses to all of the mothers
present. The sermon brought
by Pastor Richard Carl was
“He Called Her Woman.” Fam-
ily night supper was held on
Wednesday, May 15.
Marie Williams, accompa-
nied by her husband Willie,
returned to Temple last week
for a checkup at Scott and
White Hospital, following her
recent surgery.
Our community was sad-
dened last week with the
passing of former Rosewood
resident Margie Gee Wood, 77,
of Bullard. Margie grew up in
this area, and she and her fam-
ily attended Rosewood Baptist
Church. Our thoughts and
prayers are with her family.
The annual Rosewood Cem-
etery Association Memorial
Day and Homecoming will
be on Sunday, June 2, at
Rosewood Baptist Church,
beginning at 10:45 a.m. Special
recognition will be made for
those interred in the cemetery
during the past year.
This meeting will be the
50th annual service since
these formal days of local
memorial began in 1964 with
the first meeting at Harmony
Methodist Church. Special
music and a brief history
of the cemetery will be pre-
sented. A covered-dish meal
will follow the service in the
fellowship hall. All are invited
to attend.
Whitney Trimble and Colby
Dickson were united in mar-
riage on Saturday evening in a
beautiful double-ring ceremo-
ny at First Baptist Church in
Mount Vernon. An elaborate
reception was held at the Big
Pasture events center near
Lake Cypress Springs.
Colby and Whitney are
both teachers and coaches at
Pittsburg ISD.
Lula Hilton received word
last week of her brother, Don
Furr of Greenock, Scotland,
being diagnosed with terminal
cancer.
Joan Trimble received
extensive injuries last Friday
in a one-car auto accident on
FM 1002.
Rosewood Baptist Church
received three new members
by letter transfer on Sunday.
These were Jim and Evelyn
Parker and Gerald Carter.
ROSEWOOD-OF-YESTER-
YEAR:
With the death last week of
Margie Gee Wood, memories
were jostled of the contribu-
tions of the Gee Family in this
area in days gone by.
James M. and Lizzie Gee
lived and raised their family
on a large farm in Cypress
Creek bottom on what is now
Fox Road.
The community was then
called Mount Gilead, which
had a Methodist Church (lo-
cated at present intersection
of FM 852 and Ermine Road),
and a school (located at pres-
ent intersection of FM 852 and
Elk Road).
In 1929, Mt. Gilead School
consolidated with Rosewood,
and in 1938, the original con-
solidation vote for Harmony
School was held. Mr. Gee was
a leader in the effort to obtain
an accredited high school in
the area.
At this time, Rosewood High
School only went through the
ninth grade. It was possible
for rural students to go on to
Gilmer and finish the final two
years of high school work, but
it was a hardship to do this.
Long bus rides over unpaved
roads (Hwy. 154 was not built
until 1950) and hard economic
Depression Era times caused
only a small percentage of
rural teens to pursue further
education.
When the first consolida-
tion vote to create a new school
was taken on August 20,1938,
four of the rural school dis-
tricts, Union (Little Mound),
Honey Creek (present-day
Holly Lake area), Rhonesboro
and Rosewood voted by an
overwhelming majority of
160 to 4 to consolidate. Grice
turned down the vote initially,
but four months later also ap-
proved consolidation.
James M. Gee was elected to
the original school board and
was subsequently elected by
the other trustees as the first
president of the board.
One of the first issues at
hand for the new school was
to select a name. Mr. Gee sug-
gested since the issue had
passed with a clear mandate
from the voters that the new
school be christened “HAR-
MONY.” So Mr. Gee is the one
responsible for the name of the
school, which now has grown
to over 1,100 students.
Mr. and Mrs. Gee and their
family were strong Christians,
and faithfully attended Rose-
wood Baptist Church. Mr.
Gee served as Sunday School
superintendent at Rosewood
for many years. Many re-
membered him and one other
man as the only males who
attended Sunday School for
many years, especially in the
Depression and World War II
eras. The Gees continued their
church service at Calvary
Baptist Church in Gilmer af-
ter they moved to the county
seat.
Mr. Gee was a farmer/
businessman by trade and an
innovator in the truest sense.
He had one of the first large
commercial broiler produc-
tions in this area. Long before
Pilgrims, Tyson and other
poultry magnates appeared,
Mr. Gee raised chickens in
large numbers on his farm.
The Gees eventually sold
their farm to Jeffie Odom
and moved to Gilmer. Mr.
Gee continued his interest
in agriculture and poultry
production by establishing a
chick hatchery and farm store
on Hwy. 154 West.
This author has fond mem-
ories of stopping with his dad
at Mr. Gee’s store and visiting
with him. Baby chicks were
always on display and were
intriguing to kids and adults
alike.
James Malone Gee is one
of a long list of dedicated,
hard-working, enterprising,
and loyal individuals who have
contributed to the develop-
ment of Upshur County.
James and Lizzie Gee, along
with two of their five children,
Malone and Louise, are buried
in the Rosewood Cemetery.
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Overton, Mac. The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 136, No. 41, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 22, 2013, newspaper, May 22, 2013; Gilmer, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth650120/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Upshur County Library.