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Sugar Glaspy, a founding member of the Ennis Heritage Society, has written for the Memories page in honor of Women’s History Month a two-part history of a Navarro and Ellis County woman, Emily Middleton, who inspired her. Middleton, a late 19th century woman, was the subject of a recent talk that Glaspy presented to the Society. The first installment of her story on Middleton follows and will be concluded in next week’s edition of the Ennis News.

There’s a story about a person who saw an angel walking down the street. The angel was carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. “What are you going to do with that torch and that bucket of water?” the person asked. The angel stopped abruptly, looked at the person, and said, “With the torch, I’m going to burn down the mansions of heaven; and with the bucket of water, I’m going to put out the fires of hell. Then we’re going to see who really loves God.”