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Whatever was needed to survive, Fogle and the
other men did. They finally arrived in
Fannin County in the fall of 1876. . Henry Fogle did
realize his dream of a fine Apple orchard. He also made apple cider vinegar
and sold both wagon loads of fruit and
wholesale and retail barrels of his vinegar as well
, as far away as Wichita Falls, Ft.
Worth, Dallas, McKinney and locally. Pearl Fogle (Morris)
remembers a loving Grand- father who liked to hear her attempt to say "Vinegar",
the times her mother sent her
after it at her grandfather Fogle's..She said she
did better pointing to the barrels of it
and asking for some of that "Stuff". Mary Ann Fogle
must have had many virtues;
goodness being one of them. Isom Jones cherished a
small dish she had given him as
a child and he still had it when he was quite old.
Bert Davis told a granddaughter,
Mary Helen, "I thought your grandmother Fogle was
the prettiest woman I ever saw.
When I was little boy, I can remember her in a pretty
black dress and a shawl over her
head, as she went to school events at Slab Town."
She attended the Ivanhoe Baptist
Church that had been organized four years before her
arrival in the community. Bud
Fogle said he remembered his brother Melvin and himself
playing with the old Buffalo
gun Grandpa had brought with him on the wagon Train
to Texas, but didn't recall what finally became of it. He too had faint
memories of a loving Grandmother who gave the children special attention
and love. In March of 1896, Mary Ann MCCoy Fogle under-
went surgery in her home and failed to survive the
ordeal. This was known as Kitchen
Table surgery. There were no hospitals in Fannin County
until after 1900. Her husband, Henry, lived for 13 more years, passing
away at their home on May 9, 1909. Both are
buried in Owens Chapel cemetary and so is their only
daughter Maragret Fogle Miller .
The fruit trees Henry had plant, continued to bear
fruit for family and friends until early
1920's, when they too succumbed to old age. Not verified,
but possibly a clue to our
McCoy family, William McCoy was born about 1760 and
died about 1820. He married
Helen Carroll who was born about 1765 and died about
1820. William MCCoy had a
brother or a son, Henson, who probably lived
in Oregon. William and Helen McCoys'
son, our .James McCoy was born about the year 1800
and died in early 1871 at Ivanhoe.
James McCoy was first married to Mary Ann Fillmore
who was born about 1804 and died
about 1845 and buried in Linn County, Missouri. They
had a son, Joe McCoy, an early
day school teacher in Fannin County. They were also
parents of our Mary Ann and Lotta
MCCoy( Hicks) or (Hix). I think Uncle Will once said
that his grandmother McCoy .James'
wife, died in Missouri and that one aunt tood Lotta
" and another aunt took his mother to
raise. I believe an Aunt Charity Holloway reared our
Mary Ann as she mentioned her as
being in MCKinney, Texas. There were possibly other
children of this marriage and a
number of MCCoy's by second wife Sarah McCloud . Fogles
are originally German,
Vogle meaning Bird. The name is spelled with
and V, and F as locally, The daugh- ter, Maragret, referred to her
Fogles as being Pennsylvania ~Dutch; as this is where we landed
in America possibly late 1600 or early 1700. There
is a Fogelsville, Pennsylvania. It was
named for a General John Fogel, who built the first
hotel there. Solomon Fogel gave land
for its first school. The last known Fogel of this
family died there in 1959. Two historic
homes are listed there as Fogels, "II Our Henry Fogle
is believed to have been born near
Quincy, Illinois about 1836 or 1837. His parents could
have lived here or been in a wagon
train at the time; we are not sure. He was married
in Los Angelos, California to our Mary
Ann McCoy.
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