Pine Springs Baptist Church - Sunday School, WMU, Brotherhood, BYPU - Smith County, TX Pine Springs Baptist Church - 1881-1978 Tyler, Texas, Smith County Permission given to submit to the TXGenWeb Archives by Bob White 13 November 2004 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************** Sunday School Directors A Sunday School was first organized at Pine Springs on January 7, 1894. Records show that in 1900 the enrollment stood at sixty-five with eight teachers. That compares with a 1978 enrollment of 342 and thirty-six teachers. 1894-1900 J.D. Ray 1900-1905 M.P. Ray 1905 William Hinds - (Methodist) 1906 J.F. Ray 1907 M.P. Ray 1908-1911 Will Wood 1911-1913 M.P. Ray - 1913-1918 G.H. Atkins 1918-1934 J.L. Fortner 1934 W.B. Hardy, Sr. 1935-1937 W.D. Fortner 1938-1942 Leroy Fortner 1942-1943 Charles McCollum 1944-1947 Leroy Fortner 1947-1949 Charles McCollum 1949-1954 Leroy Fortner 1954-1957 Ernest Owens 1957-1968 Ray Bagwell 1968-1971 William Pilkington 1971-1973 Richard Barron 1973-1978 Ray Bagwell W.M.U. PRESIDENTS No records are available for the first years of the century but from 1900 to 1908 these three women are believed to have served. Mrs. Burl Owens Mrs. W.C. Hamil Mrs. Foster 1908 Mrs. Tom Ash 1913 Miss Mittie Ray 1914 Mrs. Henry Matthews 1914 Mrs. E.G. Harvey 1925 Mrs. Tom Ash 1927 Mrs. Fred Hardy 1930 Mrs. J.S. Brown 1932 Mrs. W.O. Williams 1934 Mrs. Mildred Bagwell 1935 Mrs. Eunice Calhoun 1936 Mrs. Fred Hardy 1937 Mrs. Evelyn McCullough 1940 Mrs. Nora Larison 1941 Mrs. Jewel Carrell 1943 Mrs. B.S. Shamburger 1944 Mrs. Mildred Bagwell 1947 Mrs. Evelyn McCullough 1950 Mrs. Duke Wood 1951 Mrs. Zoy Theadore 1952 Mrs. Pauline McCollum 1953 Mrs. Corrine Beasley 1955 Mrs. Ida Mae Pinkerton 1956 Mrs. Mildred Bagwell 1960 Mrs. Mabel Cook 1963 Mrs. Margaret Geddie 1967 Mrs. Chloe Fielder 1976 Mrs. Chloe Fielder MEN'S BROTHERHOOD DIRECTORS 1943 Corbin Hood 1947 F.G. Taylor 1948 O.B. Dozier 1949 W.D. Fortner 1950 W.W. Johnson 1951 A.M. Geddie, Jr. 1954 Ernest Owens 1955 Wayne West 1956 O.B. Dozier 1959 W.B. Alston 1962 Robert Kelly 1964 J.C. Fielder 1966 Bob White 1968 J.C. Fielder 1969 Royce Laseter 1971 Joe Warren Directors Of Baptist Young People's Union, Training Union, Church Training 1916 Ora Hicks Gwin 1919 Clyde Burns 1920 Leroy Fortner 1921 Earl Hardy 1922 Harold Nunn 1923 Fred Hardy 1925 L.W. Lawson 1927 J.H. Propes 1928 Nora Ginn Larison 1929 Charles McCollum 1930 Pauline Marsh McCollum 1931 Virginia Stegall 1932 Charles McCollum 1933 W. D. Fortner 1934 Charles McCollum 1937 Kendall Taylor 1939 C. A. Hones 1944 W. D. Fortner 1946 James E. Fortner 1947 Lester McCullough 1949 Elbert Barron 1950 B. F. Barron 1951 Goe. Haston 1955 Robert Kelly 1959 W. B. Alston 1962 J. C. Fielder 1965 Sam Goldwater 1968 Glen Cook 1970 J. C. Fielder 1973 Bob White 1974 Jimmy Tidwell 1975 J. C. Fielder 1978 Molly Anderson