Need More School was built in 1896 to meet the needs of a number of families in the general area of what later became the Echo community.  Mr. and Mrs. Tobe Phillips donated the land and Mr. Phillips became one of the first trustees.  When the school was completed, some said, “We need more pupils.”  So the school was called “Need More” until it was moved to its last site in 1905.  In 1900, a flood washed the building off its foundation, but men and boys of the neighborhood moved it back. It served the school until it was moved in 1905 to the Dibrell land and Mrs. J. C. Dibrell named it Echo School.

On December 10, 1899 a group of seven covered wagons left Oglesby, Coryell County, Texas, and headed for Coleman County.  Four of the wagons held the families of the A. P. and W. A. Hubbard and two held the F. M. McClures, relatives of the Hubbards.  In the other wagon was a friend, John Williams.  They stopped at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Bartholomew; Mrs. A. H. (Isabel Miller) Thurman is a grandaughter of the Bartholomews.