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tbatry;e.iy.[r.Lisididta.32n-ntis,mMr. and Mrs. J. A. \ Fooshee, Esteemed Pioneers, Will Have Been Married 50 Years Ago Saturday.iynsul:etigLai11-allireils)S-leronHow delighted all Nocona is to celebrate the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Foo-shee, two of the most prominent citizens of our city. The golden weddding will be celebrated in their modern home as a modern wedding of today with a double ring ceremony. performed by a great-grandson of Rev. Dick Holland of fifty years ago.- Music, songs and a receiving line wall make the occasion in reality an exact replica of a pres-|ent day wedding party. We salute the pioneer teacher, mountain creek farmer, general merchant, banker, cattleman, landholder, manufacturer, home-maker, friend of orphans lcng grown with the city and the times. They are each members of the Nocona Chamber of Commerce, holding in high esteem its officers, in sympathy with its undertakings, encouraging with conservative ability our young business men to press on to bigger and better things.May a Divine Father crown this golden wedding with honor, justly to | due them, adding years of useful-■or ness to their lives is the wish of their -ill! hosts of friends.James Absolam Fooshee, son of George Washington and Mary Paul Fooshee. was bom at Pin Hook Landing on the Tennessee River in Mego County. East Tennessee. He was left motherless in early childhood, during the reconstruction period following the Civil War, which jhad swept away his father's fortune | in slaves, leaving the family mothered | less and in dire poverty. “Gone With The Wind” gives one an insight to characteristics developed in a child of that day.The father remarried, leaving young Jim to cope with life's haf3Ships. Mr. Fooshee was mainlyeducated in the Tennessee rural schools of that day with a group of other children in crude log hues. He later attended school in Decatur, rg. Tennessee, where he gathered sufficient knowledge to qualify as a nd teacher at the age of nineteen years, in He taught his first school i;i Tennes-ool see at that time and later taughtng two other schools where he was real garded a good teacher.”-et. Restless, bitter, and with a feeling at of outrage, the father drifted to nd Texas. J. A. followed. He then be-ith gan to lay plans for a home all his ;ed own so that he would not have to 580 move. Moving had been the bane on of his childhood, is In Montague County, he took anot I (Continued on Last Page)nyesce.ofon:heasteet
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Nocona News
Nocona, Texas, US
Fri, Feb 12, 1937
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