B. J. Forbes Dies at Tin Top Home
Funeral services were held at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 8, at the Church of Christ for Benjamin Johnson Forbes, Parker County's beloved circuit-riding preacher. Brother Forbes died in his sleep while taking a nap at his home in the Tin Top community at 2 p.m. Thursday. He had worked in his garden Thursday morning and had plowed the day before. He came in from the garden and ate lunch with his daughter, Mrs. Bryant Caraway, and had listened to President Eisenhower's speech on the radio. After lunch, Brother Forbes lay across his bed to rest. A short time afterwards, his daughter attempted to awaken him and was unable to do so. He was pronounced dead of a heart attack on the arrival of a doctor. Claud Smith, minister of the Church of Christ, officiated at the funeral services which were held at the Church of Christ on South Main. Burial was in Spring Creek Cemetery. ---Firm Foundation, March 23, 1954, p. 15.
B. J. Forbes came to Texas in 1889 with his family, settling in Collin County. At a summer revival in that county conducted by Brother Randolph Clark and his brother, Addison Clark, Brother Forbes found God and expressed a desire to preach the gospel. B.J. enrolled in Add-Ran College in 1893. He paid for his room and board by doing the chores around the Clark home. He began preaching on the weekends in communities near Thorp Springs in 1895. After his graduation in 1897, he went to Parker County to teach school. Here he met Minnie Sisk. They were married in 1898 and continued to live in the Balch community for the remainder of their lives. He taught school in Lipan in 1902. Brother Forbes was a well known breeder of horses. He read the Bible and practiced his sermons as he traveled down the road. Brother Forbes was Parker County's representative in the Texas Legislature from 1926 to 1932. In his lifetime, Brother Forbes held 39 revivals under a brush arbor at Kickapoo Falls. After his wife's death, he lived with his daughter. Brother Forbes kept no records of how many sermons he preached or how many lives he led to Christ, but this humble, dedicated servant of God left his mark on the lives of all who knew him. —-Contributor: Searchers of our Past (47220553)
Funeral services were held at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 8, at the Church of Christ for Benjamin Johnson Forbes, Parker County's beloved circuit-riding preacher. Brother Forbes died in his sleep while taking a nap at his home in the Tin Top community at 2 p.m. Thursday. He had worked in his garden Thursday morning and had plowed the day before. He came in from the garden and ate lunch with his daughter, Mrs. Bryant Caraway, and had listened to President Eisenhower's speech on the radio. After lunch, Brother Forbes lay across his bed to rest. A short time afterwards, his daughter attempted to awaken him and was unable to do so. He was pronounced dead of a heart attack on the arrival of a doctor. Claud Smith, minister of the Church of Christ, officiated at the funeral services which were held at the Church of Christ on South Main. Burial was in Spring Creek Cemetery. ---Firm Foundation, March 23, 1954, p. 15.
B. J. Forbes came to Texas in 1889 with his family, settling in Collin County. At a summer revival in that county conducted by Brother Randolph Clark and his brother, Addison Clark, Brother Forbes found God and expressed a desire to preach the gospel. B.J. enrolled in Add-Ran College in 1893. He paid for his room and board by doing the chores around the Clark home. He began preaching on the weekends in communities near Thorp Springs in 1895. After his graduation in 1897, he went to Parker County to teach school. Here he met Minnie Sisk. They were married in 1898 and continued to live in the Balch community for the remainder of their lives. He taught school in Lipan in 1902. Brother Forbes was a well known breeder of horses. He read the Bible and practiced his sermons as he traveled down the road. Brother Forbes was Parker County's representative in the Texas Legislature from 1926 to 1932. In his lifetime, Brother Forbes held 39 revivals under a brush arbor at Kickapoo Falls. After his wife's death, he lived with his daughter. Brother Forbes kept no records of how many sermons he preached or how many lives he led to Christ, but this humble, dedicated servant of God left his mark on the lives of all who knew him. —-Contributor: Searchers of our Past (47220553)
B. J. Forbes Dies at Tin Top Home
Funeral services were held at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 8, at the Church of Christ for Benjamin Johnson Forbes, Parker County's beloved circuit-riding preacher. Brother Forbes died in his sleep while taking a nap at his home in the Tin Top community at 2 p.m. Thursday. He had worked in his garden Thursday morning and had plowed the day before. He came in from the garden and ate lunch with his daughter, Mrs. Bryant Caraway, and had listened to President Eisenhower's speech on the radio. After lunch, Brother Forbes lay across his bed to rest. A short time afterwards, his daughter attempted to awaken him and was unable to do so. He was pronounced dead of a heart attack on the arrival of a doctor. Claud Smith, minister of the Church of Christ, officiated at the funeral services which were held at the Church of Christ on South Main. Burial was in Spring Creek Cemetery. ---Firm Foundation, March 23, 1954, p. 15.
B. J. Forbes came to Texas in 1889 with his family, settling in Collin County. At a summer revival in that county conducted by Brother Randolph Clark and his brother, Addison Clark, Brother Forbes found God and expressed a desire to preach the gospel. B.J. enrolled in Add-Ran College in 1893. He paid for his room and board by doing the chores around the Clark home. He began preaching on the weekends in communities near Thorp Springs in 1895. After his graduation in 1897, he went to Parker County to teach school. Here he met Minnie Sisk. They were married in 1898 and continued to live in the Balch community for the remainder of their lives. He taught school in Lipan in 1902. Brother Forbes was a well known breeder of horses. He read the Bible and practiced his sermons as he traveled down the road. Brother Forbes was Parker County's representative in the Texas Legislature from 1926 to 1932. In his lifetime, Brother Forbes held 39 revivals under a brush arbor at Kickapoo Falls. After his wife's death, he lived with his daughter. Brother Forbes kept no records of how many sermons he preached or how many lives he led to Christ, but this humble, dedicated servant of God left his mark on the lives of all who knew him. —-Contributor: Searchers of our Past (47220553)
Funeral services were held at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 8, at the Church of Christ for Benjamin Johnson Forbes, Parker County's beloved circuit-riding preacher. Brother Forbes died in his sleep while taking a nap at his home in the Tin Top community at 2 p.m. Thursday. He had worked in his garden Thursday morning and had plowed the day before. He came in from the garden and ate lunch with his daughter, Mrs. Bryant Caraway, and had listened to President Eisenhower's speech on the radio. After lunch, Brother Forbes lay across his bed to rest. A short time afterwards, his daughter attempted to awaken him and was unable to do so. He was pronounced dead of a heart attack on the arrival of a doctor. Claud Smith, minister of the Church of Christ, officiated at the funeral services which were held at the Church of Christ on South Main. Burial was in Spring Creek Cemetery. ---Firm Foundation, March 23, 1954, p. 15.
B. J. Forbes came to Texas in 1889 with his family, settling in Collin County. At a summer revival in that county conducted by Brother Randolph Clark and his brother, Addison Clark, Brother Forbes found God and expressed a desire to preach the gospel. B.J. enrolled in Add-Ran College in 1893. He paid for his room and board by doing the chores around the Clark home. He began preaching on the weekends in communities near Thorp Springs in 1895. After his graduation in 1897, he went to Parker County to teach school. Here he met Minnie Sisk. They were married in 1898 and continued to live in the Balch community for the remainder of their lives. He taught school in Lipan in 1902. Brother Forbes was a well known breeder of horses. He read the Bible and practiced his sermons as he traveled down the road. Brother Forbes was Parker County's representative in the Texas Legislature from 1926 to 1932. In his lifetime, Brother Forbes held 39 revivals under a brush arbor at Kickapoo Falls. After his wife's death, he lived with his daughter. Brother Forbes kept no records of how many sermons he preached or how many lives he led to Christ, but this humble, dedicated servant of God left his mark on the lives of all who knew him. —-Contributor: Searchers of our Past (47220553)
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