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Fogle Family Reunion
& History Recalled
From
Mary Ann Leatherman
FOGLE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 1976 (Bonham State Park
July 3rd and
4th SATURDAY. JULY 3- 2:00-6:00- Get acquainted. 6:00
p.m.- Begin serving of
Barbecue Supper. 7: 30 p.m. -All meet together to
hear, "I Remember". Start with'...
Artie Fogle "moore and continue with next oldest until
all are heard. SUNDAY. july 4- Anytime before 10: -a.m.- Breakfast. 10:30
a.m.- Assemble for prayer followed by brief sermon, Rev. Stan Fog1e. 12:00
noon- Lunch. 1:00 p.m.- Brief Business Session and nomination of Off.,
Clean up of Cottage and picnic area to leave Park nice.
2:00 p.m.- Begin farewells, until we meet again.
1876- Henry
Fogle and Family of California and Texas -19761 Henry Fogle and
his wife, Mary Ann MCCoy Fogle, whom he married in
Los Angeles, California
already had a family of William, Maragret, Benjamin,
James and six weeks old baby
John, when they decided to join a Wagon Train heading
for Texas in the early spring
of 1876. There were eleven other families with a like
mind and possibly sixteen or
seven- teen wagons in all. The long trip lasted some
six months. Fogle had a sheep
ranch of 160 acres in El Monte Township, county of
Los Angeles, for which he had
paid $800 in gold some years earlier. Margaret told
a granddaughter, Josie Delozier,
that an older brother Will and she would watch after
the sheep until the wolves or bears would attack the flock. Then they ran
for home, too scared to do more than get their
pa. Lack of water had been a hardship in trying to
ranch, much like today and even
the land he had bought with gold, along with other
families who purchased adjoining
him was in dispute. The first store in that area was
said to have been just across and in
front of their adobe home. Texas seemed like the ideal
place for the fruit farm, Henry
wanted to plant. Although he hated to leave his brothers
and nephews, with whom he
was close, Texas beckoned. His late father-in-law,
James MCCoy, of Missouri had
purchased land in the Ivanhoe area shortly before
his death in 1871. This land remains
in the family today, 105 years later, and is listed
in the Texas Family Land Heritage
along with eight other Fannin County farms.
Henry Fogle was
proud of the fine horses he brought with him
from California. So proud, in ~fact, that he operated
a race track on "Hawkins Prairie"
for a while. A daughter-in-law, Mrs. Jim Fogle, said
he lost considerable money on this venture. It is pure speculation, but
its possible that the "Denton Mare" relieved him of
some of~ the gold he was reputed to have brought with
him, but never verified.
Note: (The Denton Mare was a fine race horse, owned
by the out- law, Sam Bass. He
and his cronies would go where they were not
known and place bets on his horse and
lose several races before going for the really big
money and giving her free rein to win
it all). On their way to Texas, soldiers rode escort
from one Fort to the next for the
Wagon Trains' protection. It is said the train just
ahead or them was massacred. Since
this was about the year of Custer's Battle or the
Little Big Horn, it's quite possible. When
the people in the Wagon Train came to the high Mountains
in order to cross over, they would unload a part or their belongings and
take the other provisions to the top or the mountain, unload there and
return for the other half .until everything and everybody
had been transported safely up and over the mountains.
An old Indian man followed
them a number of days. They would not see him until
night when he would slip up and
sit under their wagons to get the corn that the horses
would drop as they were eating. The people gave him coffee and shared their
food with him. Then one day he abandoned them.
A very unfortunate incident occurred. A teen age boy
of one or the other families shot an
old Indian woman as she sat on a rock braiding her
hair and she fell into the river below.
The people in the train were horrified at his actions.
They also feared he had endangered
all their safety. However . a large group of Indians
appeared immediately and demanded
the guilty boy. Neither the soldiers or anyone else
tried to stop them from getting him
and they scalped him there before his parents. The
soldiers and other members of the
Train, apparently satisfied that justice had
been accomplished. The Indians then rode
away without further harm to anyone else. The
Train experienced many difficulties. Sometimes the dust from the stampede
of the buffalo was so terrible they had to camp in
the daytime because they could neither
see or breathe or travel because of it. Sometimes
at night the wolves and insects were so
bad they would burn their bedding if necessary to
smoke them away.
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