DELBA
(northeast of Blue Ridge, across the Fannin
County Line)
DELBA JOTTINGS
Daily Courier Gazette, June 6, 1938
by Mrs. O. S. Scott
This Daily
Courier-Gazette and Weekly Democrat-Gazette field representative was glad to
avail herself of the opportunity to recently visit Delba, located in the
southwestern part of Fannin County, and not far from the North Collin line. We
made our first stop at the home of J. C. Sartin, a prominent farmer of the Delba
section of the country. We were accompanied on this visit by our
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Berlyn Scott of McKinney. Mr. and Mrs. Sartin are the
parents of three children - Eugene, Norma Jean and Kenneth Buryl. Their fourth
child, a little boy, passed away when he was only about two years old. When we
called at the Sartin home, we found visiting them Mrs. And Mrs. J. D. Cash,
parents of Mrs. Sartin, who live on a farm in the same neighborhood. We were
more than pleased to make their acquaintance and were most hospitably received.
Hereafter Miss
Eudene Sartin will serve as Daily Courier-Gazette and Weekly Democrat-Gazette
representative at Delba and surrounding territory, which is thickly settled.
Hence, our readers in the northern part of Collin and southern part of Fannin
Counties in the Delba trade territory will be able, henceforth, to read their
own community happenings in the columns of our two papers. Miss Eudene is
anxious to have the help of neighbors and friends in covering the personals and
local news happenings of her territory in and around Delba, and we are sure she
will get this cooperation. It will be a benefit to the community to receive this
publicity through the columns of the Democrat-Gazette, Collin County's oldest
newspaper, now in its fifty-fifth year, and in the Daily Courier-Gazette, which
is the only Daily published in Collin County.
Delba appreciates
the advantages of public school education as is indicated by its well cared for
two-room schoolhouse. However, the present term of school has only one teacher,
Miss Tommie Dament, who has held this position for the past several years. We
were pleased to note on the occasion of our visit to Delba that the young school
girls were busy caring for and watering the flower beds on the school campus.
The Delba School will soon close, but these energetic, public-spirited young
girls propose to continue to look after the flowers and shrubs of their school
during the summer vacation months in a way that will keep them growing and will
continue to beautify this community center of public school education. The Delba
School Board is composed of Ray Nolan, J. T. Flannigan and James Sartin.
We learned that our
new-made friends, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Cash of this community, are the parents of
five daughters, all of whom are teachers, which bespeak the high ideals and
lasting influence of the parental home in which they were born and reared. These
daughters are: Mrs. Effie McCreary and Mrs. Othel Patterson, both of whom are
living on R. F. D. No. 1, Farmersville; Mrs. Maudie Simms, Route 3, Celeste;
Mrs. Stella Sartin, Route 1, Blue Ridge and Miss Audrey Cash, now teaching in
the New Liberty School, located on Route 1, Farmersville. The Cash family had
the misfortune of losing their only son, Bennie, who met a tragic death in 1921,
at the age of eighteen, while he was in swimming in the pool at Pike.
Rev. Mr. Hendricks
preaches the Third Sunday, in each month at the Indian Creek Baptist Church, in
this vicinity. However, its Sunday School functions every Lord's Day, with Jack
Cross as Superintendent, and Mrs. Grace Richardson as pianist. An average
attendance of around fifty are in this Sunday School every Sunday, improving
their knowledge of the Scriptures and learning the better way of life as best
they can and as taught them through the Holy Scriptures. The Baptist Training
Union is held every Sunday evening with Jack Cross as leader.
Crops in this
section, like all others in this part of North Texas, look only fairly well
considering the rather wet spring that we have had thus far. But dry weather and
sunshine is due and when it comes, will bring everything out and produce a
wonderful change in the advancement of every variety of crop and garden stuff to
be found on the places of these thrifty farm men and women.
Communities Index
- Recommended
citation:
"Delba - Collin County Communities,"
Collin County, Texas History and Genealogy Webpage by Genealogy Friends of
Plano Libraries, Inc., <http://www.geocities/genfriendsghl>
[Accessed Fri February 13 13:37:28 US/Central 2004 ].
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