Jones County, Texas - Biography - Scarborough Family *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************** The Western Enterprise Anson, Jones County, Texas Thursday, August 26, 1933 50th Anniversary Edition HIS FAMILY SETTLED HERE 55 YEARS AGO by Dr. Lee R. Scarborough Dr. Lee R. Scarborough is president of Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth. He came to Jones County with his parents, Parson and Mrs. George Washington Scarborough in 1878 and received his training as a youth in this country of wide open spaces. My father, Rev. George Washington Scarborough, and his family moved to Jones County from McLennan County in the fall of 1878. His family consisted of his wife, his sons: Cicero, George, their wives, Will, Lee, and their daughter, Ada, who afterwards became Mrs. C.C. McCargo. They settled on the Clear Fork near Truby Mound. They filed on some land, built log houses, plowed 75 acres of land and started a ranch and a farm. My father was a Baptist preacher. He was the second settled in Jones County. As other ranchmen moved in, he lead in building a log school house just below Truby Post office and on the north side of the Clear Fork. They secured the services of Miss Emma Scarborough, who still lives, as the first teacher ever employed in Jones County. There I learned my A, B, C's. My father preached in the cow ranches in a wide section. He encouraged the establishment of schools, the building of churches, and the organization of the counties in stable government. There are probably 20-25 Baptist churches in that section of the West which my father layed the foundations for and helped to organize. He was one of the original promoters and builders of Simmons University. My brother, George, was the second sheriff of Jones county and was re-eelcted, I think four times. My older brohter, Cicero "C.B." was his deputy for many years. The contribution which these two brave officers made to the establishment of law and order, there and in all the West, will never be known. They captured many of the worst desperadoes, at great peril to their own lives, who ever lived in the west. My father died in Cameron, Texas in June 1899, my mother died in August 1908. George was killed by desperadoes in Arizona in 1900. Cicero died in August 19008. My sister, Mrs. McCargo, died in Anson in 1928. My brother, Will, still lives at Midland, Texas. My first ambition was to be the best roper of the West, my second ambition was to be one of the best lawyers in Texas, my last ambition was to be one of the truest disciples of Christ and one of the best soul-winning preachers. All of these ambitions were born in my heart in the healthful atmostphere of Jones County.