The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 1954 Page: 12 of 16
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THE HOPKINS COUNTY ECHO. SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS FRIDAY, JANUARY 15,1954.
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Mrs. Rhodes Yonlh Injured
InAcridenl
later married Isabella Brown Har-
per. Isabella, widow of Mr. Har-
per had two sow: C. G. (Lu m),
Hobby House
anifBlex (A R) Harper, and
«n^ daughter, Maty H a r p er
(Biftkes). The Harper children
after growing op moved away
from Forest Academy.
Dogan and Isabella MrCorlde
Receives
Quests
By. Cell* M. Wright
Salphar Syria**
had three sons and four daughter?*
with five living to maturity. These
were Martha Dennis McCorkle
who married Isaac Ardi* and
had four ehlldren; Saletha Anr.
McCorkle, who married W. Bill
llleka and had six children; Soph-
ronia (Fronie) Isabella McCor-
kle, who married Howard Grain-
ger and had three children; Rob-
ert Lee McCorkle, who married
Myrtie Revillc and had three
children;/ Henry Clay McCorkle,
who married Lillian Patman and
had four children. Thus, Logan
and his second wife had at one
tlmwpn their home about eigh-
teen .‘children.
H.‘ C. MeCorkle, after losing
his first wife Lillian, married
Della Corbin Garrett and they
now live in Sulphur Springs.
Many of the other McCorkles also
moved away from Forest Acad-
emy after growing up.
Some of the other principal
families at the Academy and in
adjoining communities were the
Garret*, the Pettys, the Jennings,
the two Beviiies, McGlamerys,
Nances and Sewells, the Morgana,
Hicks and King families, the
Browns, T. B. Lewis and Ray
families, the Mattisons and T.
C. Wells, the Carrolls and others.
Mr*. John S. McGill, who war
reared at the Academy, remem-
ers the old camp meeting year*
vividly. Her mother was Nannie
Howard before she married W.
A. BoviHe in 1878. They moved
there to farm and raise stock.
There were five children in this
Berille family. Tom Milam, the
son of Judge J. K. Milam of Sul-
phur SpririgB, married Era Bev-
ille, sister of Ethel Beville Mc-
Gill. Another prominent family
there was the Will A. Lanier fam-
ily-
Old Uncle Will A. Lanier had
seven children: Will Potter Lan-
ier, Asa Lanier, Clem and ffpr-
man Lanier, Fru Lanier (Mrs, J.
M. Melson, Norah Lanier (Mrs,
W. M. Walker-, and Jessie Lan-
ier (Mrs. H: H. Henderson). Of
these only Mrs. Henderson of
Austin is living today. Uncle W.
A. Lanier’s brother, James S.
I-anier established a large trust
funud in his will, the interest of
which was to care for the Lanier
(graves in the Forest Academy
cemetery from year to year.
There were other Lanier families
in t^e community also, but we can
relate their history later. H
Mrs. Moore Rhodes was hos-
tess to her bridge club Tuesday
evenlng^i^ceiying gueats In her
home on the airport road.
Winter pot plants and howls
of green ivy and other winter
flowers decorated the roomi
where table* were arranged for
a de«ert ‘7 course before the
series of games.
In bridge Mrs. H. H. Harrison
was presented with the high
score favor and Mrs. C. F. Mc-
Intyre was lucky in the bingo.
Mrs. H. B. Sickles, who with her
family is leaving soon for Jaek*-
boro to reside, was presented
with g lovely farewell gift from
the group.
Table* were laid in white linen
covers antf were centered with
tali tapers in unique arrange-
ments which cast the tight for the
refreshment course. During the
games, Coke, condies and nuts
were served by Mrs. Rhodes.
(No portion of the following
article may be republished or
quoted, except with the consent
of Celia M. Wright, except that
poeme' mav be quoted when full
credit is given to the author and
Sources.)
Old Foreat Academy
Forest Academy is the famous
old center of the Methodist (’amp
Meeting grounds in Hopkins
County, where camp meetings
flourished for forty years or
longer, from the' I87fl’s until
about lOld. ('amp meeting wa*
the most important event in the
year, climaxing as it did both
the summer and the spiritual life
of the community. Held in Aug-
ust for about two week* every
year, It yielded an immortal in-
fluence for God. Harper’s Chapel
Sue U* Before You Buy!
Kitts Bros. Memorials
SULPHUR SPRINGS
518 Main St. Phono 3^5
PICTURED ABOVE are, left to right: 1st row: Miss Jennie Searls, Ass’t. Tcncher, Lettie Murphy,
Corn Mnttison, May Ray, Lottie Beville, Abbie Darby, Kate Garrett, Grace Garrett, Roby Ray, Hugh
Crowder, Allen Ardi*, Dennis Hicks, DeWitt Morgan, John Patman, Whig Warren, William Patman,
Amo* Murphy, Paul Ray. Jessie Ray.
2nd row: Della Mattison Emily Darby. Fra Bevilie, Annie Beville, Carl Morgan, Hattie War-
ren, Clara Morgan, Carrie McGinnis, Minnie Crowder, Hope Adams, Ernest Hicks, Linton Garrptt,
Homer Beville, Arch Ardis, Claud Garrett, John Wells, Ben Garrett.
3rd row: Fannie Patman, Sallie Lewis, Gilpah Morgan, Dovie Ray, Laura Garrison, Sallie
Wells Effie Patmin, Mary Potman, Bascom Pat man, James Wells, Ambrose Murphy, Bunn Mason.
-4th row: Ethel Beville, Althea Lewis, Wordic Adams, Mary Patman, Bob Jennings, Grady Gar-
rett, Oran Mason, Tom Darby, R. I* Martin, teacher.
had a bunch of,pal Church South, was organiz-
ing the War. led in the home of Henry Clay’s
iad homesteaded grandfather,- whe^e the settlers
there after first: worshipped for about three years,
e old states to Probably the McCorkles preceded
where he built ‘he Pettys to this settlement, but
t county he cut Mr. Petty joined in the work al-
■r and hauled ready begun and gave the land
t Academy Mr.' for lhe buildings. In 1882, a new
o build the first Methodist Church was built,
the community, Logan H. McCorkle married
both for church Martha Blount in Mississippi.
*es. (Petty had They had five children to live
which was located at Martin
Springs from the 1880’* until
about 111.30, sprang directly out
of the Camp Meeting a( ForesV
Academy. This place fat about
aine miles from Sulphur Springs
southeast, and one mile west and
a little north of Como.
There was a large wooden -ar-
bor built for the preaching ser-
vices, and standing nearby in a
semi-circle were the small plank
buildings for the camper*. A*
the Camp Meeting became estab-
lished, it wa* the custom for aach
family coming from any distance
to make camp around about these
plank houses,4 oi““t#nt».” Tho
families living near the grounds
owned thd tents and dwelt in
them during the weeks of the re-
vival campaigns: Men of the fam-
ilies would return to their re-
spective homes morning and ev-
ening to tend to the stock. Each
family had its tent which stood
permantely to house its people
at that time.
The big arbor was northeast
of tba present Forest Academy
Church in the old days, aqd on
the grounds was the best well of
water in that vieiftity. Great aak
trees guarded the grounda and
shaded the wofghippei* from the
Angltst sun. Mr Ed. C. Petty,
who gave some of the lend for
the church, school, and cemetery,
to maturity: Kate McCorkle, who
married Will Brown and had
several children; Eoline McCor-
kle, who married Randall Iiybura
Ramey and had seven children;
Roxie McCorkle, who married
Milus Nichols. Roxie died and
her three children were reared
by Logan and his wife. Thomas
Claude McCorkle, who married
Sallie Potman and had six child-
ren to live to maturity; Mollie
McCorkle, who .married Cornel-
ius Patman and had four children
to be ‘grown; we shall trace the
descendant* of these children in
later articled. In those days es-
pecially there were many child-
ren bom who did not live to
maturity, and we usually report
those who jived and married. ^
After Martha Blount McCorkle
died — Martha is said to hast*
As goes the soil, so goes our civilisation. Our country churches thrive aohmgas -there is
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help Mr. Petty build it.
Henry Clay McCorkle, born on
August 24, 1873: recalls that
when he went to school in the
second building above that it was
already old in 1881. He remem-
bers today many of the incidents
relative to Forest Academy and
its history. . H. C. McCorkle’*
father, (Logan Henderson McCor-
kle, and grandfather Thomaa Mc-
Corkle came to this site about
1850 with his family. They stop-
ped near Spring Branch to make
their home, about one and one-
half miles northwest of Forest the earliest marked grave at For-
Academy. The Methodist Episco- est Academy In 1858 —. Logan
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used to bring his chair out by
the trunk of a big red oak tree
and sit (hers outside the arbor
itself to listen to th5 services.
Col. iPetty’s father, W. S. Pet-
ty, who perhaps gave a share of
the land also, was born ia North
Carolina in 1^04,’ married Maty
Carlas there, and reared five
children: Robert E., Jamas L.,
William Pitt, Martha E., and Ed-
ward C. Petty. The e lder Patty,
ta said to have conducted and
controlled the . first railroad car
in the United States, propelled
by horse power, and likewise was
the first train engineer after
steam began to be used. W. S.
Petty homesteaded in the Forest
Academy community and Ed Pat-
ty lived on this homestead later.
Ha hid married Alice Wells in
Missis*ippl, and they had eleven
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 1954, newspaper, January 15, 1954; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth811648/m1/12/?q=%22Logan+Henderson+McCorkle%22: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.