Endures Coercion, Violence, Neglect, Two Lawsuits End With Triumph for the People by Kathy Ann Reid (Gleaned from Frances James’ Lagow Cemetery File) November, 2021 One acre of the Lagow League, donated in 1883 by Richard Lagow to the people in School Precinct No. 62, was mentioned in many obituaries with the words, “the funeral…
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Dallas County Pioneer AssociationFounded 1875, Reorganized 1979P O Box 12496 Dallas TX 75225972-260-9334info@dallaspioneer.org===From the President I hope you are staying cool and enjoying our wonderful weather here in North Texas. Please make sure to put September 1st at 6:00 p.m meeting on your calendar at the Pavilion in CC Young Senior Living.Dinner will begin serving…
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Please make sure to put September 1st at 6:00 p.m meeting on your calendar at the Pavilion in CC Young Senior Living. Dinner will begin serving at 6 and our speaker will begin at 7. Clarence Glover, Jr is our next speaker who will be sharing his past 40 years of research of the pioneers…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume I by DCPA, not currently in print. Obadiah Woodson Knight, a 38 year old Virginian, followed his older brother, Gabriel B., from Tennessee to Texas in 1846. Obadiah brought with him his 24 year old second wife, Serena Caroline Hughes, and seven children – five by his first and late wife, Mary Ann,…
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On Sunday, September 25, 2016, at Greenwood Cemetery in Dallas, the Craig Austin Rowley Chapter, The Society of the War of 1812 in the State of Texas, and the John Cavet Chapter of the United States Daughters of 1812, dedicated a new 1812 marker and re-dedicated the 1812 marker that was placed at his grave…
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