Fanning Family Album                                Fanning      Turner     Browning     Shirley
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Eliza Elmira Means Fanning and Isaac Fanning. Mother and father of John Joseph Fanning, came to Texas in 1849 at the age of 17. His father, Dr. John Fanning was a pioneer Hopkins County physician or dentist. Isaac and Eliza are buried in the Pickton, Texas cemetery.
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Bart Fanning Family - 1938
Bart Fanning and Esther Turner married in 1933. Bart worked at the Winnsboro Oil Mill, then NeHi Bottling Company in Tyler, Texas. In 1936 they moved to the Center Grove Community for 4 years, then Newsome, Texas for 3 years, then back to Center Grove until 1958. Bart was a farmer and carpenter. After the war, he ran a milk route for Kraft Cheese Plant in Winnsboro, Texas collecting milk from farmers in Wood County, Texas. About 1950 he and Travis Irby were partners in a hardwood sawmill in Hopkins County and produced bridge lumber. After that he was a union carpenter, then for Bruce Sherer Contractor. From 1954 until 1958 he was an independent contractor working out of the Cameron Lumber Company in Winnsboro, Texas. He died at the age of 49, and is buried at Caney Cemetery. Doyle Owens preached his funeral. Horace Russell, sr. gave an impromptu eulogy.
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Bart suffered from rheumatoid arthritis the last years of his life. Through the pain, he worked to the end. Esther worked as a clerk in variety store during that time. After Bart's death, she moved to Lubbock, Texas. She worked in a couple of ladies' specialty clothing store. She opened a Mode-O-Day shop in the '60s. After burglars cleaned out the store one night, she became an hearing aid consultant. The last years were as a house parent at Texas Baptist Children's Home. After she was diagnosed with untreatable cancer she lived in special quarters Pat and Diana provided for her. E. Harold Henderson and Ted Stanley preached her funeral.
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Holiday 1940
Orrin Fanning, daughter Gwyn, Ella Mae Lineburger, Truman and girlfriend at Caddo Lake.
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Signora Browning Fanning and son, F. M.
Siggie taught the adult Sunday School class at Center Grove Baptist Church. She was regarded as an authority on scripture.
F. M. was in the signal corps and made training films for the armed forces during WW2. After the war he and Orrin had a wholesale auto parts business as Fanning Brothers in Longview, Texas..
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John Walter Fanning and wife, Fay Fields
John Walter joined the SeaBees at the start of the war. He saw action in France and in the Pacific. He said a SeaBee was a marine with a shovel instead of a gun. He sent home great souvenirs and told great war stories. He was in the wholesale drug business in Atlanta, Texas and later in Lubbock, Texas.
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Bart Fanning 1955
Our neighbor across the creek and up the hill to the east was Horace Russell. He was a respected landowner in Hopkins County. He was strong man with a lusty baritone voice. The songs that resounded across the little valley between our houses were his original compositions, and he bellowed them with gusto. His favorite was "Barto, The Preacher's Friend".
I asked Horace Russell, jr. if he remembered the words to those songs. He wrote me a letter which I have footnoted with oral tradition from my childhood.
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Truman Fanning was the youngest in his generation. He was killed in action in Belgium January 7, 1945. He is buried at Caney between his parents, John Joseph and Siggie Fanning.
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Truman Isaac Fanning 1943.
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Center Grove farm kids 1947
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The children of Bart and Esther Fanning claim their heritage thankful the Lord's mercy has granted us full and productive lives..
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And here is a silly panorama of thumbnails of my life. ... Scroll to see if you are still curious ----------------------------->
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Browning Photo Album
F. M. and Tennie C. Browning.
Bap and La farmed in the Center Grove Community in the southeast corner of Hopkins County, Texas. They are buried at Caney Baptist Church Cemetery.
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Signora Browning Fanning.
Siggie was the only girl, she had 4 brothers. She married John Joseph Fanning and they farmed in the Center Grove Community, Hopkins County Texas. They Lived in Lubbock for a few years during WWI. They are buried at Caney Cemetery.
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Turner Photo Album
RuthAnn Melinda Martin Turner
Wife of Charles Turner and mother of Allen Turner.
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Allen Turner
Allen Turner was born 09/08/1875 in Douglas County Georgia. He died 07/10/1942 in Commerce, Texas. He was a Baptist preacher - buried at Hopewell Cemetary, Wood County Texas.
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.Allen Turner Family 1922    This group photo shows all the family members
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Winnsboro High School Graduation 1931 Esther Turner Fanning shown circled.
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AllenTurner, Dora, and Ruth 1940
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Turner Family circa 1955
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Women: Susan Dora Shirley Turner, wife of Allen and mother of others. Ruth Turner Bacon, Mary Ceil Turner Nance, Esther Turner Fanning. Men: Finis Turner, Martin Leo Turner, Clovis Bings Turner, Roy Turner, Coy Turner.
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Turner Grandchildren
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C. B. Turner, Norris Fanning, Donald Turner, Peggy Turner, Rosemary Fanning, Sandra Nance, Bradley Nance, John Allen Fanning, Bobby Nance, Dora Ann Turner, Diana Fanning, Carolyn Bacon, Judy Turner
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Turner Family 1969
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Shirley Photo Album
Susan Dora Shirley Turner
She was born 07/17/1885 in Douglas County Georgia. She Married Allen Turner in 1906 at Pittsburg Texas. She died 02/06/1971 in Mt. Pleasant, Texas. She is buried at Hopewell Cemetary in Wood County, Texas
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Shirley Family about 1910
This photo was taken of Carrie and husband John Shirley, and Connie Shirley about 1910.
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Dora and Connie about 1940
Susan Dora Shirley Turner visits sister Connie Shirley Metcalf.
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Shirley Family about 1967
This photo of John Shirley, his wife Carrie, and Susan Dora Shirley Turner was taken in the 1960's.
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On the back of the picture Dora noted it was the first time they had all dined together since they were children.
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