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New
Hope Missionary Baptist Church
Photo courtesy Gerald
Massey, April 2012 |
History in
a Pine Cone
The origin of the name is unknown, as is most of Black Ankle's history.
In 1940 the community reportedly had both a school and church and
today only the church remains.
Photographer's Note:
This is a location on a map with nothing there now. As I left the
paved portion of FM-353, about 1.75 miles, it then turned in to a
dirt road weaving its way through the dense woods and rolling hills
of the Piney Woods of East
Texas. All I found was the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church,
a small wooden structure, and then few scattered dwellings. |
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Black Ankle,
Texas Forum
Subject:
Black Ankle, Texas
I came across Black Ankle on the TexasEscapes.com
site. My grandfather, Leroy Belton, was the pastor of the church
from the early 1990s to 2004 when he had a stroke. He eventually
died May 2007. I believe there were only two members of the church
that actually still lived in the community. Mostly everyone lived
in Nacogdoches
or San
Augustine and continued to come to this church because it was
a family church. The church only had services one Sunday per month.
Please let me know if I can provide any other information. Unfortunately,
I no longer have any connections to the area as everyone our family
knew has died. - LaShondra Holmes, February 15, 2015
Subject:
Black Ankle, Texas
I was looking through my Grandma's things today and found in her
handwriting that she (Ellen Hazel Davis) and my Grandpa (Robert
Oval Corbello) were married in Black Ankle on September 24, 1932.
It would be interesting to have more information on this "town."
Thank you. - Sandra Corbello, McClelland, Texas, August 20, 2006.
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