by Frances James When you drive down the 9000 block of Audelia Road, you might not be aware of the McCree Cemetery behind the telephone company building. The approximately three and a half acre cemetery is on a portion of Peters Colonist Harrison Hostead’s Survey No. 587. Virginia native Harrison Hostead (1800-1852) and Prudence Bartlett…
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A vintage article from Proud Heritage, Vol 1 by DCPA, currently out of print. William Chenault was born February 25, 1828, in Bedford County, Virginia, and came to Peters Colony of Texas from Indiana ca. 1846. He was issued Nacogdoches Third Class Certificate No. 2074 for 320 acres which he patented in Dallas County near…
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William Sachse (1820-1899) was born in Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia, Prussia (Germany) on December 16. 1820 to Henry Sachse and Mary Kemps Sachse. When he was twenty years old he emigrated from Germany to America, arriving in New York in August, 1840. Sachse is known to have lived for a while in Missouri. In late 1844…
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Son Of City’s Founder J. K. Sachse was the son of the founder of Sachse. His parents were William D. Sachse and Martha Frost. William D. Sachse was born in Prussia on December 16, 1820. Martha Frost was born in Mississippi on September 14, 1833. An article in the 1912 issue of the Garland News…
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