Annie Carpenter Love

Annie Carpenter Love's marker stands in Corbet, a railroad stop with older roots. The Handbook of Texas says Colonel Cook settled the area in 1866 and the community was called Cook's Schoolhouse. After the railroad arrived, the station was first named Waters, then renamed Corbet. A post office ran from 1893 through 1929. In 1906 the school had one teacher and fifty-seven pupils, and by 1914 about 300 people lived there. The place had dwindled to a hundred by 1945 and eighty by 1970, where it stayed.

What the plaque says

Annie Carpenter Love (1869-1943) One of a family of 10 children, Tennessee-born Annie M. Carpenter grew up hearing stories of her pioneer forebears. She came to Navarro County with her parents in 1876. She taught school in this area before her marriage in 1901 to William F. Love. Determined to preserve a bit of local heritage, she collected historical objects during the 1930s for a museum room at the county courthouse. In 1933 she published her "History of Navarro County," based on research and interviews with surviving pioneers. For a time, Mrs. Love lived at this homestead in the Corbet community. (1978)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Petroleum Industry Park — 7.5 mi
  The pipes and drilling tower mark where a city water well struck oil on June 9, 1894, the start of the first Texas field to produce oil and gas in important quantities.
• Blind Lemon Memorial Cemetery — 14 mi
  The Freestone County grave of the Texas blues singer Blind Lemon Jefferson, who recorded for Paramount in Chicago from 1926 and died there in December 1929.

More markers nearby

• Hamilton-Beeman Cemetery — 4.4 mi
• David Wilson Campbell — 4.8 mi
• Campbell-Elrod Cemetery — 4.9 mi
• Corsicana State Home — 5.6 mi