LDPierce wrote: > > Does anybody in the pierce list know anything about this??? > > Looking for copy of Life and times of Bishop Geo F Pierce > > PIERCES CHAPEL, TEXAS. Pierces (Pierce's) Chapel is on Farm Road 747 fourteen miles northwest of Rusk in western Cherokee County. The community grew up around a Methodist church named for Bishop George F. Pierce, who preached there during the 1860s on his way to the annual state conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. An early school was established in the church, and a separate schoolhouse was later built nearby. In 1896 the local one-teacher school had an enrollment of forty-seven. During the mid-1930s the community comprised the school, a church, and a number of houses. The school was later closed, but in the 1980s there were still two churches and a store in the area. > > BIBLIOGRAPHY: Cherokee County History (Jacksonville, Texas: Cherokee County Historical Commission, 1986). > LD, Last year Harry Pierce of High Shoals, GA sent me some information on Lovick Pierce and his son Bishop George Forster Pierce. Harry is descended from a different Lovick Pierce who also lived in Georgia--apparently there are several Lovick Pierce's from Georgia. The following is quoted from "History of Greene County, Georgia": "In February, 1811, George Foster Pierce was born in Greene County, Georgia three miles from Greensboro. He was the son of Reverend Lovick Pierce, born March 24, 1785, in Halifax County, N.C. In 1804 Lovick and his brother Reddick were admitted on trial as itinerant Methodist preachers in Charleston, S.C. Rev. Lovick Pierce was first on the Great Pedee Circuit in Eastern S.C., next the Apalachee Circuit in Ga. On this circuit he met and married Ann Foster, Sept. 1809." "George Pierce...entered the freshman class at Franklin College, now the U. of Ga., when he was fifteen years old and was a member of the Phi Kappa society and a champion debater. After three and one half years in August 1829 he graduated with an A.B. degree before he was nineteen. He was licensed to preach in 1830 and preached his first sermon at Monticello, Ga. ... In 1832, he preached in Augusta, then his first station was in Savannah where he met and married Ann Marie Waldron, and had children; Ella, Lovick, Jr., Claudia, Mary, Ann, and Sarah, died." "He was made Pres. of Georgia Female College in Macon now Wesleyan in 1839 and was personally very popular, with his winning smile, joyous manner, hearty laugh and friendliness..." "At the age of 43 he was made a Bishop and his Conference carried him from coast to coast..." Dan Pierce Saugus, CA