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| | Handbook of Texas Online: |
 | | Joy is a small church community at the crossing of Farm Road 1252 (old Thunderstruck Road) and an unnamed thoroughfare, north of Interstate 20 in extreme eastern Smith County. |
 | | The Joy school closed in May 1935, but a new two-room school opened in 1936 and served local students until 1940-41, when the Joy school closed and its students were sent to the Gladewater schools. |
 | | Joy had a church, the school building, the store, a sawmill, and a cluster of farms at the intersection of two dirt roads in 1936. |
| www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/JJ/hvj28.html (577 words) |
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