Foote - west of McKinney at Rock Hill Road and Hardin Blvd.
The Foote post office opened on January 16, 1901 with John W. Cox as postmaster. It was discontinued on November 14, 1903.
ON THE WING
(McKinney) Weekly Democrat Gazette, August 22, 1912
Personal Mention of People You Know by Our Field Man.
After a lay-off for several days on account of rain and bad roads, buckskin became frisky and anxious to renew the battle and the first victim to lose his pate to give us a job was L. B. Brakebill, who is a native of Tennessee and a Texan since 1875. In 1869 he was married to Miss A. M. Long and their union brought into this world seven children, two of whom are girls and all except James, the youngest, married and have families of their own. Stopping in Dallas four years and becoming dissatisfied, he removed to Missouri where, at the end of another four year term, he decided to return to Texas and settled in Collin county where he has since resided and acquired over four hundred acres of black land. His immense grain crop now threshed and stored in a large grainary: large fields of corn whose ears have something up their sleeve for the gluttony hog that grinds hominy, for soon, forsooth, he will go to the packery and with the juice pressed from his sides and a plunge into a bath of liquid smoke, he'll go on the market labeled "country cured bacon." Other fields on whose fertile soils are growing acres of the fleecy staple will soon be "white unto the harvest" and be another means of inflating his bank roll. We hesitated to cause a "depression" in his finance, but we acquired the habit years ago and nothing short of a subscription to the Daily Courier-Gazette would avert a panic to avoid a smash he "subbed."
Mrs. W. M. Duncan is one of the most loyal and enthusiastic readers of the Democrat-Gazette the field man has found. No other paper need come to her with that old sterotype brand "just as good" for she will accept no substitute. She was formerly known as Miss Margaret Ashlock born within a mile of her present home and was married to W. M. Duncan thirty-seven years ago and the proud parents of eleven children seven of whom are married. They own six hundred and fifty acres of black land in Collin county. He threshed over six thousand bushels of wheat this season and all, with the exception of a few bushels exceeding the capacity of his granary, is being held for better prices. Mrs. Duncann's father, Meredith Ashlock, and Dr. Foote came to Collin county about the same time and were neighbors for many years.
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FOOTE COMMUNITY JOTTINGS
(McKinney) Daily Courier Gazette, March 1, 1938
by Mrs. O. S. Scott
We have the pleasure of a recent visit to Mrs. J. E. Smith, who is Correspondent of the daily Courier-Gazette and Weekly Democrat-Gazette for the Foote community, about seven miles west of McKinney. At the time of our call, Mr. Smith was busy in the field, sowing his spring oats, while his good wife was industriously engaged in looking after her household duties. She has been the Foote reporter for our papers for some six or seven years or longer. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have a modern farm home with built-in kitchen fixtures, natural gas piped in our service equal to any city home. They also now have the rural electric line surveyed along in front of their door and therefore expect soon to have electric service as well as gas, just like city homes. Their place is located on a pike, connecting their community with McKinney and points west. The writer was very much interested in beautiful candlewick drapes and rugs dexterously made by the man of the home, which is an unusual art for men to practice or have knowledge of. Miss Mary Blanche, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, is a Sophomore in the North Texas State Teachers College at Denton. She received her high school education and graduated from the Boyd High of McKinney. Mr. Smith is a native of this county, being one of the several sons of the late County Commissioner Mack Smith, who served in that capacity for several years in Precinct No. 1 of this county and was during his lifetime one of the most influential citizens and farmers of West Collin.
Foote has an active Baptist Church with regular preaching and Sunday School each Lord's Day. Its average attendance is around forty-five during the winter months. Troy E. Scalf is the Superintendent and Rev. D. W. Grigg of McKinney is serving as pastor at the present time. His preaching appointments are on each First and Third Sundays of the month. The Church is also equipped with a large commodious tabernacle nearby suited for services in warm weather. However, both the tabernacle and the churches are equipped with natural gas heating facilities and both are being wired for electric lighting Rural Electrification lines are already being strung, starting at the Denton County line and coming toward McKinney. This utility is being obtained by many country homes, churches and schools in recent months as a result of the wise fostering policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, which has given more benefits to the farming class throughout the nation in more different ways than was ever hoped for from the Federal Government until our great President moved into the White House five years ago Rural life is being robbed of much of its drudgery and drawbacks in this modern day of hardtop all weather highways and pikes, autos, trucks, electricity and in some communities like Foote even natural gas for fuel and lights.
Foote takes its name from the late L. A. Foote and brother the late Ed Foote, sons of the late Dr. G. A. Foote, a pioneer McKinney physician and extensive property owner, who was President of the Collin County National Bank when he died, many years ago. The Foote Ranch, consisting of several hundred acres, was run as a cattle ranch for many years by the Foote brothers. In later years it was acquired by the late Jesse Atkinson, who owned it at the time of his death. This is a fine community, around which were located some of West Collin's most widely known and successful early day farmers such as the late William Duncan, Capt. Grundy Lewis, J. P. Turner, Frans. Jim P. and Isaac Griffin. One of the older and More successful farmers still in this community is F. M. Griffin. Another widely known Foote community farmer is Marshall J. Carter, who is usually in charge of the Agricultural exhibit at the Annual Collin County Fair, held in McKinney every fall. There are a number of excellent farmers and splendid farm homes to be found in the Foote community.
Prairie Grove Schoolhouse is located northwest of Foote. It is taught this year by Mrs. R. A. Crank of Prosper. This is her first year in charge of this school, and she seems to be giving perfect satisfaction to both pupils and patrons. Mrs. Crank is an intelligent cultured and public-spirited lady, who is now Daily Courier-Gazette and Weekly Democrat-Gazette correspondent at Prosper and vicinity. The Board of Trustees of her school that she is teaching this year is composed of J. E. Smith, J. J. Nash and W. H. Washburn.
E. H. Chandler and wife have owned and operated the general merchantile store at Foote for the past eight years. Their home and store, both have natural gas piped into them for heating purposes. They consider themselves fortunate in being situated on the new rural electric line that is being built from Denton eastward towards McKinney. They are quite well pleased at the early prospects of having electric lights and other conveniences in the home made possible by equipping it with electricity. Mr. and Mrs. Chandler have one of the best deep wells of water in this section of the county. Mr. Chandler, who enjoys the sport of fishing is looking forward with pleasure to May 1 when the season will officially open. However, Mrs. Chandler informed us that eager fishermen of their community as well as elsewhere over the county, had been fishing, more or less, all this winter in Lake Dallas when weather was at all favorable for the sport. Mrs. Chandler says she often hears some wonderful fish stories from her husband and friends upon their return from the lake. The Chandler Store is a favorite resort for the men of the community to gather at on rainy days to while away the time and visit with each other.
As this newspaper representative slowly motored through the Foote section we observed several farmers busy in their fields sowing oats and doing other early spring work. These farmers seem to be alert and pushing their work rather than letting it push them. The Foote community is populated by a thrifty, industrious, intelligent, wideawake citizenship. We enjoyed meeting several of its inhabitants and hope to repeat our visit in this community at some distant date again in the future.
ON THE WING
(McKinney) Weekly Democrat Gazette, August 22, 1912
Personal Mention of People You Know by Our Field Man.
After a lay-off for several days on account of rain and bad roads, buckskin became frisky and anxious to renew the battle and the first victim to lose his pate to give us a job was L. B. Brakebill, who is a native of Tennessee and a Texan since 1875. In 1869 he was married to Miss A. M. Long and their union brought into this world seven children, two of whom are girls and all except James, the youngest, married and have families of their own. Stopping in Dallas four years and becoming dissatisfied, he removed to Missouri where, at the end of another four year term, he decided to return to Texas and settled in Collin county where he has since resided and acquired over four hundred acres of black land. His immense grain crop now threshed and stored in a large grainary: large fields of corn whose ears have something up their sleeve for the gluttony hog that grinds hominy, for soon, forsooth, he will go to the packery and with the juice pressed from his sides and a plunge into a bath of liquid smoke, he'll go on the market labeled "country cured bacon." Other fields on whose fertile soils are growing acres of the fleecy staple will soon be "white unto the harvest" and be another means of inflating his bank roll. We hesitated to cause a "depression" in his finance, but we acquired the habit years ago and nothing short of a subscription to the Daily Courier-Gazette would avert a panic to avoid a smash he "subbed."
Mrs. W. M. Duncan is one of the most loyal and enthusiastic readers of the Democrat-Gazette the field man has found. No other paper need come to her with that old sterotype brand "just as good" for she will accept no substitute. She was formerly known as Miss Margaret Ashlock born within a mile of her present home and was married to W. M. Duncan thirty-seven years ago and the proud parents of eleven children seven of whom are married. They own six hundred and fifty acres of black land in Collin county. He threshed over six thousand bushels of wheat this season and all, with the exception of a few bushels exceeding the capacity of his granary, is being held for better prices. Mrs. Duncann's father, Meredith Ashlock, and Dr. Foote came to Collin county about the same time and were neighbors for many years.
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FOOTE COMMUNITY JOTTINGS
(McKinney) Daily Courier Gazette, March 1, 1938
by Mrs. O. S. Scott
We have the pleasure of a recent visit to Mrs. J. E. Smith, who is Correspondent of the daily Courier-Gazette and Weekly Democrat-Gazette for the Foote community, about seven miles west of McKinney. At the time of our call, Mr. Smith was busy in the field, sowing his spring oats, while his good wife was industriously engaged in looking after her household duties. She has been the Foote reporter for our papers for some six or seven years or longer. Mr. and Mrs. Smith have a modern farm home with built-in kitchen fixtures, natural gas piped in our service equal to any city home. They also now have the rural electric line surveyed along in front of their door and therefore expect soon to have electric service as well as gas, just like city homes. Their place is located on a pike, connecting their community with McKinney and points west. The writer was very much interested in beautiful candlewick drapes and rugs dexterously made by the man of the home, which is an unusual art for men to practice or have knowledge of. Miss Mary Blanche, the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, is a Sophomore in the North Texas State Teachers College at Denton. She received her high school education and graduated from the Boyd High of McKinney. Mr. Smith is a native of this county, being one of the several sons of the late County Commissioner Mack Smith, who served in that capacity for several years in Precinct No. 1 of this county and was during his lifetime one of the most influential citizens and farmers of West Collin.
Foote has an active Baptist Church with regular preaching and Sunday School each Lord's Day. Its average attendance is around forty-five during the winter months. Troy E. Scalf is the Superintendent and Rev. D. W. Grigg of McKinney is serving as pastor at the present time. His preaching appointments are on each First and Third Sundays of the month. The Church is also equipped with a large commodious tabernacle nearby suited for services in warm weather. However, both the tabernacle and the churches are equipped with natural gas heating facilities and both are being wired for electric lighting Rural Electrification lines are already being strung, starting at the Denton County line and coming toward McKinney. This utility is being obtained by many country homes, churches and schools in recent months as a result of the wise fostering policies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, which has given more benefits to the farming class throughout the nation in more different ways than was ever hoped for from the Federal Government until our great President moved into the White House five years ago Rural life is being robbed of much of its drudgery and drawbacks in this modern day of hardtop all weather highways and pikes, autos, trucks, electricity and in some communities like Foote even natural gas for fuel and lights.
Foote takes its name from the late L. A. Foote and brother the late Ed Foote, sons of the late Dr. G. A. Foote, a pioneer McKinney physician and extensive property owner, who was President of the Collin County National Bank when he died, many years ago. The Foote Ranch, consisting of several hundred acres, was run as a cattle ranch for many years by the Foote brothers. In later years it was acquired by the late Jesse Atkinson, who owned it at the time of his death. This is a fine community, around which were located some of West Collin's most widely known and successful early day farmers such as the late William Duncan, Capt. Grundy Lewis, J. P. Turner, Frans. Jim P. and Isaac Griffin. One of the older and More successful farmers still in this community is F. M. Griffin. Another widely known Foote community farmer is Marshall J. Carter, who is usually in charge of the Agricultural exhibit at the Annual Collin County Fair, held in McKinney every fall. There are a number of excellent farmers and splendid farm homes to be found in the Foote community.
Prairie Grove Schoolhouse is located northwest of Foote. It is taught this year by Mrs. R. A. Crank of Prosper. This is her first year in charge of this school, and she seems to be giving perfect satisfaction to both pupils and patrons. Mrs. Crank is an intelligent cultured and public-spirited lady, who is now Daily Courier-Gazette and Weekly Democrat-Gazette correspondent at Prosper and vicinity. The Board of Trustees of her school that she is teaching this year is composed of J. E. Smith, J. J. Nash and W. H. Washburn.
E. H. Chandler and wife have owned and operated the general merchantile store at Foote for the past eight years. Their home and store, both have natural gas piped into them for heating purposes. They consider themselves fortunate in being situated on the new rural electric line that is being built from Denton eastward towards McKinney. They are quite well pleased at the early prospects of having electric lights and other conveniences in the home made possible by equipping it with electricity. Mr. and Mrs. Chandler have one of the best deep wells of water in this section of the county. Mr. Chandler, who enjoys the sport of fishing is looking forward with pleasure to May 1 when the season will officially open. However, Mrs. Chandler informed us that eager fishermen of their community as well as elsewhere over the county, had been fishing, more or less, all this winter in Lake Dallas when weather was at all favorable for the sport. Mrs. Chandler says she often hears some wonderful fish stories from her husband and friends upon their return from the lake. The Chandler Store is a favorite resort for the men of the community to gather at on rainy days to while away the time and visit with each other.
As this newspaper representative slowly motored through the Foote section we observed several farmers busy in their fields sowing oats and doing other early spring work. These farmers seem to be alert and pushing their work rather than letting it push them. The Foote community is populated by a thrifty, industrious, intelligent, wideawake citizenship. We enjoyed meeting several of its inhabitants and hope to repeat our visit in this community at some distant date again in the future.
