Franklin County GaArchives News.....7 year old Georgia Prodigy is in 8th Grade; Talks like Adult on Complicated Subjects April 13, 1935
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Indianapolis Recorder April 13, 1935
Probably the world's most advanced school child for his age, and undoubtedly the 
universe's greatest negro prodigy, is little David Forston, seven year old boy of 
Royston, Georgia, who has made more grades than he is years old.

His sister, Ruby Brown, only seventeen summers, completed the third year in 
college shortly after her fourteenth birthday; while her baby, Thomas Junior, aged 
one year and three months, can read, and goes to town alone on errands. "I have 
always hoped that someday I would be able to help those less fortunate than 
myself. I had visions of being a doctor for so long." young David remarked, "until 
now this has become my one ambition in life, and I believe I can render better 
services to mankind in that work than in any other endeavor."

Has Big Vocabulary
David is a clear-eyed modest youth, who speaks with sincerity and in an 
unbountiful, yet unhesitating manner. He has a vocabulary that is akin to a 
college professor's well demonstrated in discussions of  the happenings of the 
day, scientific subjects, and others covering a wide scope of topics.

This boy was born with a hankering for learning and soon after being able to 
toddle he began going to school with his father, Warren Forston, who taught in the 

Elberton, Georgia, Negro high school for fifteen years, up until his death in 
1929. After David had successfully mastered the art of writing his name at  a year 
and a half, he began to learn to read. This accomplishment proved an appetizer for 
the little fellow, and at the age of three, as the records reveal, he could write 
a letter.

David's mother, Minnie Forston, was ambitious for her children, and since her 
death these orphans have carried on just as they would have had she lived, for she 
often said;
"You have to first make your tools before you can build a place."

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