Forreston, Texas

Contributed by Jean Caddel

 

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Forreston High School - Class of 1916

From Images of Ellis Co. - The Early Years

 

Forreston High School Choir of 1945

The Forreston High School Choir of 1945, many of whom will be performing at a Homecoming June 10, include: (front row from left) Betty Sims, Now Mrs. Billy Jack Hunter; Marjorie Ball, now Mrs. Redmond; Helen Mullins, now Mrs. Felix Smith; Wynell Johnston; Vaida Ward, now Mrs. Durham; Helen Oglesby, now Mrs. James Scott; Jimmy Lou Sims, now Mrs. Glen Stephenson; Billie Jean Wakeland, now Mrs. R. B. Taulbee; Betty Jo Winn, now Mrs. Raymond Crouch; (middle row) Jimmie Faye Lewis, now Mrs. Al Bynum; Ida May Mullins, now Mrs. Carroll; Betty Jo Lloyd, now Mrs. R. H. Wright; Loretta Wood, Mrs. O. P. Embry; Jacquelyn Harwell, now Mrs. Wally Robinson; Patsy Horman, now Mrs. Tom Winters; Marie Norman, now Mrs. Billy Heine; Leta Violet Jarrott, now Mrs. Tom Truman; Gertrude Upchurch, now Mrs. Jimmy Thigpen; (back row) Doris Carroll, now Mrs. Bill Boyd; Bobbye Earl Robinson, now Mrs. Harlan Hill; Helen Swinney, now Mrs. Tommy Cash; Maurine Justin Wakeland, teacher and choir director; Anna Laura Mayo; Lucille Miller, now Mrs. Joyner; and Margarite Bell, now Mrs. Marvin Scales.

Waxahachie Daily Light, June 1983

 

Forreston Store

Built in 1912 - Has been everything from a Hardware Store to a Grocery Store & Corley Dry Goods before it became "Old Forreston Flea Market."

Waxahachie Daily Light, Monday, Aug. 6, 1984.

 

Ross Tate on a tractor near Forreston, circa 1930.

(Courtesy Ellis County Museum)

 

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Katy (MK&T) Railroad Station at Forreston, ca 1915

L-R: Mr. Lowe, agent; Clarence Bohanan, assistant agent; Bill Worley, Visitor.

(Courtesy Ellis County Museum)

 

Workers posing at old red cotton gin in Forrstton

 

Rock wagon on Tate Farm, two miles east of Forreston, 1922-1923. The youngster in the wagon is James B. "Bugs" Tate. The wagon was used to hual rock for building the Forreston-Nash Road.

 

Threshing time in Forreston, Texas, 1920's. This steam thresher had a boiler that was fired with coal. Thresher shown far right with John L. Taylor of Forreston at controls. The long belt pulled the grain separator to extract the grain. The mule-drawn wagon hauled the straw to the separator. The straw, front left is waiting to be separated. The big stack, left background, has already been separated. The long spout on the left conveys the grain after separation, while the chute on the left conveys the straw to the stack. Left of the thresher is the cook shack.

 


 

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