Building of the Gate
A couple of days before Christmas in 2001, Jerry Wade, grandson
of the W. T. Wade
couple buried in this cemetery, and some of his friends, Melburn
Persons & Robert Gaston,
who also had kin buried in this cemetery,installed
the new gate that Jerry had built.
Jerry is the one on the right in
the bottom picture.
Left to Right: Robert Gaston, Melburn Persons, Jerry
Wade
End of old school building with Church of Christ
building in background at right.
Pictured in the foreground are a young Celestine
Wade (Celestine Schneider) and Jack Manery.
Morince (Stewarts Chapel) School
-1918--1919.
The only one identified is Lydia
Caroline Wade , top left.
Stewart's Chapel School Group of
1935- 1936
Bottom Row L-R: Eddy McEnturff; Benny
Paul Woods; Billy Dedman; Bill Jordan; Bobby McEnturff; Horace
Robinett; Bob Jones; Gerald Robinett.
Second Row L-R: Sylvia Jo Jackson;
Rusty Woods; Roy Gene McEnturff; Calvin Gaston; Keith Wade; B.
W. Wade; Revo Cotton; Jerry Wade; Billy Paul Pickens; James Charles
Wade; Don Charles Jordan; R. C. Hindman.
Third Row L-R: Librarian who was
Mrs. Ruby Johnson's sister, Clara Dyke; Cora Jackson; Louellia
Mullins; Vernell Williams; Unknown; Unknown; Wynell Wade; Pan
Jo Fisher; Dixie Wade; Janell Cotton; Vanetta Dedman; Wanda Wade;
Rita Fisher; Lee Roy Leech.
Top Row L-R: Ruthdeen Cotton; Maybell
Hindman; Annie Laura Wade; Wilma Jean McEnturff; Athene Campbell;
Doris Rae Pickens; Daphine Cotton; Billy Paul Hindman; Jimmy
Jackson; Doug Pickens; Mrs. Ruby Johnson (Mrs. Jim Johnson).
This picture is from the Lydia (Wade)
Pickens collection. The identification of the children in this
picture was made by the following former students: Doug Pickens;
Doris (Pickens) Phillips; Don Pickens; Betty Jo (Jones) Sims
and Eddy McEnturff. If you know the identity of the unknown children
listed, please e-mail Betty
Phillips and we will add their names.
Stewart's Chapel School Group of
1937-1938
Bottom row: Don Wayne Wade; Harold
Couch; Don Pickens; Max McEnturff; & Robert Leech.
Second Row: Jimmy Jackson; Bob Jones;
Gerald Robinett; David Couch; Billy Dedmond; Bobby McEnturff;
& Doug Pickens.
Third Row: Virginia Cotton; Betty
Jones; Frances Robinett; Doris Pickens; Daphine Cotton; Ruthdeen
Cotton; Doris Jackson; Pattizo Martin; Sylvia Jo Jackson; &
Gay Nell Carter.
Top Row: Teacher, Mrs. Ruby Johnson;
Teacher, Lee Roy Leech; & Eddy McEnturff.
The identification of the children
in this picture was made by the following former students: Doug
Pickens; Doris (Pickens) Phillips; Don Pickens; and Betty Jo
(Jones) Sims.
Old Morince (Stewarts Chapel) School
(probably at the back) with unknown children.
Old Morince Families
Top row: William "Billy"
Tinsley Wade; Matthew Harris Wade; David Edward Wade; Richard
Jerome Wade; Melissa Jane Wade; Ella Rhea Wade.
Bottom row: Arizona "Zona"
Wade; Quillie Wade; William Tinsley Wade; Leona Wade; Lydia Caroline
(Brazeal) Wade; James Earnest Wade on her lap.
This picture was taken in 1898......not
yet born were: Buck Winn Wade; Herman "Pete" Elliot
Wade, and Lydia Caroline Wade. Two other children, George Willis
Wade died in 1878 at nine months old and Annie Eliza Wade died
in 1882 at three years old. Of the fifteen children, Lydia is
the only survivor at age 96 in 2001.
This picture is from the collection
of Lydia Caroline (Wade) Pickens. The picture was taken in 1898
at the home of her parents, William Tinsley & Lydia Caroline
(Brazeal) Wade, in the Morence community. The Wades were the parents
of fifteen children with Lydia being the youngest.
Caroline & Young Lydia soon after the death of
W. T. (Bill) Wade
This is the Morince home of Michael
Mack "Mike" Robinett. On the left, with the cane, is
son,
John, who never married. In the middle
is Michael Mack "Mike" and Mary Ann Morris Robinett.
On the left is son & wife, Dee
and Alma May Simmons Robinett with their daughter,
Fannie Dee, who was born in 1898
and died in 1997.
This picture was taken about 1899
to 1900, just before Mike died.
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Van Zandt County ~
Betty Pickens Phillips
