This name with this spelling has weathered many storms for many years across America. The first of this branch of the family has been found 1785/86 as German immigrants from Pennsylvania to the Shenandoah Valley, and there are records of the name in Penn sylvania about fifty years earlier. This branch became diluted with Scots-Irish…
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Another fine article by Frances James By Frances James (1922 – 2019) The address for the Oak Cliff Cemetery also known as the Beaty Cemetery is 1300 East Eighth Street in Oak Cliff. The first ten acre portion of the Beaty Cemetery is on land donated by William S. Beaty for a burial place where…
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Mat Wyrick was born in North Carolina in 1850. His family later moved to Bradley County, Tennessee where he married Melinda Jan Capp in 1870. They had two boys, Sim A. Wyrick and John S. Wyrick. Mat Wyrick followed his brother-in-law, James Capp, to Texas in about 1875. Mat Wyrick first stopped off at Fate,…
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Historic trees have been recognized in Texas for many years. The City of Dallas recently joined the movement by recognizing a 175 year old pecan tree known as the West Dallas Gateway Pecan. It stands at the west end of the Commerce Street Bridge opposite the Trinity River from downtown Dallas, on the south side…
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