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Page Four CHEKOKEEAN/HERALD of Rusk, Texas—Thursday, May 7,1992
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RU8K JIJNIOR HlftH District Tennis winners are In front Julie Boren and Ellalne
Kincad, first place 7th grade doubles; Leigh Emerson and Kandy Sit greaves, third
place, 7th grade doubles; and standing, Michael Nelson, first, 8th grade boy
singles; and Wendy Moore, third place. 8th grade girls singles. -staff photo
Cherokee Historical Commission
seeks its seventh DSA Award
¡Seven categories of work have
bien selected by Cherokee County
Historical Commission members aB
entries in the 1992 competition for
the Distinguished Service Award
given by the Texas Historical Com-
mission as the Commission seeks
it seventh award following actions
in the Commission's April business
meeting.
•The Distinguished Service Award
is the highest recognition a commis-
sjon can get from the Texas Histori-
cal Commission. The Cherokee
County body has earned six of the
OSAfl, five of them in succession
and received its sixth in the recent
slate conference in Houston,
i Entries selected to date and those
who will prepare them are Organ-
izational Structure (required) and
Museum Assistance, Chairman
.^ohn Allen Templeton; Historical
Mixkers, Mrs. Raymond Huttash;
Oral History, Dr. Jane Purt.le; His-
toric Cemeteries, Dr. John Ross and
frs. Huttash; Historic Photo-
raphs, Grady Singletary. Other
itries will be selected in a later
fleeting.
5 The Commission has ordered 56
áiore Texan a books for the Texas
Collections of the libraries in Wells,
^Ito, Rusk and Jacksonville, Mrs. J.
0 Goodson, project chairman, re-
ported. The purchases will continue
tfie Texana Books project the Com-
mission launched in late 1987, she
Explained, and is funded by pro-
ceeds from the sale of the "Cherokee
bounty History," which was pub-
lished by the Commission in 1986.
To date several hundred Texana
ttooks have been given to the four
libraries through this project.
I All arrangements were completed
r copying historic photos of
pheroke'e County structures, events
|nd personalities, Chairman Grady
Singletary, announced. The ses-
sion was scheduled May 2 in the
Stella HillMemorial Library in Alto.
The project is building an archive of
copies ofhistoric photos and related
information for research purposes
and for preserving county history.
The archive has more than 1,300
copies of such photos to date.
Plano are completed for the
Commission's annual history din-
ner set for 7 p.m. May 26 at Scur-
lock student Center, Lon Morris
College. Dr. James C. Kroll of Na-
cogdoches will be the dinner speaker
this year, the ninth such occasion
which highlights Texas history.
Begun in Rusk, the event outgrew
facilities and was moved to Jackson-
ville as it became more a regional
affair than a county one.
Reservations for the annual din-
ner can be made now in person or
via mail with George Dodd, vice-
dhairman, at his office at the South-
western Electric Service Co. in
Jacksonville. Dinner tickets are $6
per person. Reservations must be
made by noon May 22, because tick-
ets will not be available at the door.
Reservations made by mail should •
be sent to George Dodd, P.O. Box
1810, Jacksonville 75766. Tickets
for the dinner will be mailed imme-
diately to those who make reserva-
tions by mail.
Those making reservation in
person will be given their tickets
then. Tickets must be presented at
the door May 26. Reservations for
the dinner will not be handled in^
the Commission's office this year,
Dodd stressed.
Mrs. Huttash reported on pro-
ceedings at the Texas Historical
Commission's Annual Preservation
Conference in Houston April 23-25,
where she represented the county
commission and accepted the DSA
certificate for the Commission's
1991 work. Thirty other commis-
sions in Texas also won the DSA
this year, she explained.Dedication
of an Official Texas Historical
Marker at Henry's Chapel is sched-
uled May 17 at 2:30 p.m. and an-
other will be dedicated June 28 at
Emmaus. Dedication of markers
for the Ben Canon Ferry Site on the
Neches River on US 84, the
Mewshaw State Sawmill and
Maydelle CCC Camp, Cherokee
County Courthouse and Little
Bean's Indian Village at US 84 and
FM 347 at Oakland will be sched-
uled later, according to the report
from Bernard Mayfield, marker
chairman.
The Jacksonville Middle School
Junior Historians chapter's shar-
ing first place with two other chap-
ters for outstanding chapters in
Texas, announced at the state
Junior Historian conference, was
recognized. The Commission
launched the Junior Historian pro-
gram in 1981 and is sponsor of that
chapter, two in New Summerfield
schools, one in Rusk and one at
Jacksonville High School.
• Because the histpry dinner falls
on the Commission's regular meet-
ing date, the May business meet-
ing will be cancelled as customary.
The Commission will resume regu-
lar business meetings June 23.
Commission members present
were Mrs. Henry Rose and Single-
tary from Alto; Mrs. L. H. Clifton
and Mrs. B. J. McCutcheon of New
Summerfield; Secretary James
Cromwell, Judge J. W. Summers
and Mrs. John McCarty of Rusk;
Mrs. L. E. Martin, Mrs. Goodson,
Mrs. Huttash, Dr. Ross, Dodd and
Chairman Templeton of Jackson-
ville; Terry Guinn of Lake Striker;
and Dr. Jane Purtle of Bullard.
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Parsleys speak at Rotary Club
■J DwightandKathyParsley,owner
d(f Cherokee Gym and Fitness Cen-
ters in Jacksonville arid Tyler spoke
lip the Rusk Rotary Club Wednes-
day noon.
< "Wehave almostdoubled the size
«¡¡f our place in Jacksonville and
have acceptance of our newest gym
in Tyler," stated Dwight Parsley,
who is also director of Marketing
Education at Jacksonville High
School.
"Children as young as two years
of age come to the gym to begin
trainingfor twirling, tumbling and
Thank you!
You will never know how much I appreciate the
overwhelming vote of confidence you gave me
in the May 2 Rusk District 3 City Council Election.
I will do my best to serve you well!
(■loria Guinn Jennings
Pd. Pol. Adv. by Gloria Jennings
physical body improvement, also
all ages of students participate in
programs offered. We have had
many foreign students to come to
learn twirling and dancing as well
as physical improvement. We en-
courage good setting to all who come
to us in order to maintain enthusi-
asm toward reaching desired re-
sults," stated Kathy Parsley, who
is the director of training at the
gym.
The speakers al so mentioned that
everyone runs and plays when they
are children, butinlateryearsthis
activity begins to decline. Many
physical problems such as over-
weight, heart disease, bone disor-
der and other problems could be
prevented by maintaining active
participation in continuing exer-
cises.
Dr. Edward Crook and Dwight
Parsley were visiting Rotarians.
Houston White was program chair-
man.
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Marker dedication set May 17
One of Cherokee County's oldest
communities will become an official
Texas historical subject at 2:30 p.m.
May 17 when an Official Texas
Historical marker will be dedicated
for the Henry's Chapel community
southeast of Troup on FM 13, ac-
cording to Bernard Mayfield, Chero-
kee County Historical Commission
marker chairman.
The dedication of the Henry's
Chapel marker will commemorate
the founding of the community
named for the Rev. William Porter
Henry, a pioneer Presbyterian
minister and farmer who donated
the land for the early church around
which the community's life centered.
In appreciation for the gift of the
site, the community residents
named the community for the min-
ister and his life-long leadership in
the area.
Mayfield will make the official
dedication of the historical marker
in behalf of the historical commis-
sion and the Texas Historical Com-
mission after Mrs. Sam Womack of
Tyler, a descendant of the Rev.
Henry tells the story of the historic
nearby Sharp Top School estab-
lished by the pioneers and the story
of the early church.
The Rev. Jim Powell, pastor of
Henry's Chapel United Methodist
Church now on the first church's
site, will give the invocation. Mrs.
Fae Cross, relative of the author of
the history of the old school and
community, will unveil the marker.
Kevin Kirby will give the benedic-
tion. Ryan Townsend will lead the
pledges of allegiance to the U.S. and
Texas flags. John Allen Templeton,
historical commission chairman,
will preside.
In 1848, the Rev. Porter moved to
Henry's Chapel area from Alabama
and preached in the area all of his
life while carrying on an extensive
farming operation. Henry's Chapel
came into being after the minister
moved to that area to land he owned
and after living first at Knoxville, a
town founded in 1854 by Ten-
nesseeans.
Knoxville waxed and then waned
after the International & Great
Northern (today's Union Pacific
Line) by passed it and built through
Troup a few miles away. Henry's
Chapel never developed as a town
to the extent Knoxville had before
the advent of the new railroad, but
it maintained a community life on a
lesser scale as it does today.
Church
will honor
pastor, wife
Pastor and Wife's Anniversary
celebration is planned for May 17 at -
the Elm Grove Baptist Church. The
event will honor the church's pastor
the Rev. George McDuff and Mrs.
McDuff.
Participating in the celebration
will be Cherokee County choirs from
Blounts Chapel, Mount Olive, West
Union, Mount Pleasant, Shady
Grove CME, Woodville CME,
Church of God in Christ, Pleasant
Plain, Rising Star, Linwood, New
Hope, Thomas Chapel and Rock Hill.
Those who will have part in the
program are the Rev. Wickware,
Regena Nelson, I.P. Hunter, Ruby
Christopher, the Rev. Myron
Wardell, Ray Jean McDuffand Betty
Christopher. Mrs. L. V. Stafford is
church secretary.
The Rev. Henry donated nve acres
for a school, a church and cemetery
at the site of Henry's Chapel in
1874, two years the railroad built
through Troup on its way from St.
Louis to Houston.
The Sharp Top School, named that
because of the unusual pitch of the
schoolhouse. roof, functioned until
the 1930s. A Cumberland Presby-
terian Church was active there
many decades. After it disbanded,
the site was used by the Methodists
for a church still active. The ceme-
tery begun beside the church is in
use today and is maintained prop-
erly by descendants of pioneers of
the community.
In addition to being pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Henry's
Chapel, the Rev. Porter was a trus-
tee of the once famous Larissa Col-
lege, founded by the Cumberland
Presbyterian denomination near
present Mount Selman in Cherokee
County. The Civil War decimated
the enrollment by taking most of its
male students, but it continued to
operate during the war only to fold
after the war. It was combined with
Trinity University, then at Tehua-
cana, Tx, which later moved to
Waxahachie and is now in San
Antonio. Trinity U ni vervity severed
connections with the Cumberland
Presbyterian denomination early in
the 1900s when it and the Presbyte-
rian Church—USA (Northern)
merged.
Mrs. Womack and relatives of the
Henry family have sponsored the
historical marker project and re-
searched the history of the church,
school and cemetery.
The dedication of the marker
Sunday afternoon, May 17, will
make more than 100 historical sites,
subjects, structures and event in
Cherokee county marked by the
Cherokee County Historical Com-
mission. Similar markers dedica-
tion ceremonies are being planned
for the Emmaus community and
church, Mewshaw State Sawmill
and Maydelle CCC Camp Ben
Cannon's Ferry, Cherokee County
Courthouse. Meanwhileapplicatons
for markers for several other eli-
gible subjects are awaiting approval
by the Texas Historical Commis-
sion in Austin.
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