Join us Saturday, May 7, 2022 at 11:00am at W.W. Glover Cemetery for our annual PIONEER PICNIC.This is the biggest pioneer, history and nature lovers reunion in Dallas and surrounding counties! You are encouraged to bring a food item to share. We’ll have a table under the awning for the food. There’s plenty of room on…
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From Proud Heritage, Vol 1 by DCPA, not currently in print. Edward Cabell Browder born May 30, 1825 in Missouri was listed in the 1850 census in Missouri as a 25 year old farmer. He migrated to the Peters Colony as a single man and was issued a land certificate by Thomas W. Ward in 1850 and…
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by Frances James The Glover Cemetery is on the south side of the 6600 block of Military Parkway between a Baptist Church and a Methodist Church. The Churches had no connection with the cemetery as the cemetery had been in use for over seventy-five years before the churches were organized and built on the east…
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WIDOW OF PIONEER EXPLAINS HOW JIMTOWN GOT ITS NAME RECALLS TRINITY TOLL BRIDGE “When I first came to this house, in 1881, I came as a bride,” said Mrs. John H. Yeargan, at 2311 Cedar Springs, “and I have lived here ever since. There weren’t any neighboring houses close by, and Mr. Yeargan, who owned…
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Saturday, April 2, 2022 W. W. Glover Cemetery Work Day A great-great-grandson of William Wald Glover, M C Toyer, was the first to arrive and start working. Our main task was picking up the limbs that fell during the winter. We also cleaned several stones, planted flowers, and made plans for future work. Our pleasure…
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In February 2022, DCPA and family members held work days at the historic Beeman Cemetery. Below are some images from that effort. Additional comments and images will be added when it becomes available.
William Thomas Lagow (1869-1943) was an early resident of Dallas County. He appears to have been born in Augusta, Houston County, Texas to Silas Frank Lagow (1840-1897) and the former Elizabeth L. Murchison (1845-1876). Some accounts show him having been born in Houston in Harris County, but the 1870 census shows that the family consisted…
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