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Submitted: 4/25/13 • Approved: 4/27/13 • Last Updated: 11/17/13 • R866982-G0-S3
*On December 3, 1885, Dr G B Fakes bought from the State of Arkansas Section 10, and from this land, Mrs G B Fakes, wife of Dr Fakes, gave one acre to the people to build a Methodist church and cemetery.
The first church was a little log building which served the people until 1904. It was also used for a school. When it was replaced with another, larger building, it too was used for church and school until 1946, when it was consolidated with the McCrory district...
Not all the land was owned by the Fakes. Mr Will Jelks owned one section to the south of the Fakes, and the Jelks sisters, Florence and Lavenia, to the southwest...
Long before this was Fakes Chapel, it was called Pull-Tight. It is said that two women were fighting and pulling hair and someone called out, "Pull tighter!" And from then on it was called Pull-Tight, and some people still call it that...
Fakes Chapel was noted for its big dinners. The people would get together on Cache River at a place called the high banks. They would spread their table-cloths on the ground and put their food on it. People came from miles around when there was a dinner on the ground at Fakes Chapel...
Contributed on 4/25/13 by hawkinsdonna48
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