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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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