It is not unheard of, but from time to time when there is an amputation, the limb may be buried by itself. There happen to be two such burials at Motley Cemetery in Mesquite, Texas, as noted below: John Motley was born in Dallas County on September 29, 1877, the son of Robert Page Motley…
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We see many references to Trinity Mills in northern Dallas County. A marker stands in Carrollton entitled “Trinity Mills Community” which tells a condensed version of how the little community came to be. The area was part of Alexander Wilson Perry’s land grant and was named for a grist mill once owned by Perry and a…
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By Frances James (1922 – 2019) The Perry Cemetery is in Carrollton with an address of 1800 Perry Road. The cemetery was started as a family cemetery in 1896 near the Alexander W. Perry’s home. When Alexander came to Texas in 1844 he was a thirty year old Illinois native with five children. He had…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. In 1927 a young baker and his wife moved to Dallas from Muskogee, Oklahoma. Kathryn and Roy Braden who had learned to bake on a troop ship in World War I, bought a little shop on Gaston Avenue around the corner from…
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Transcribed from July 19, 1914, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 13, col. 3. OLDEST NATIVE OF DALLAS CO. IS DISCOVERED William Wald Glover William Wald Glover was born July 31, 1846 in Dallas County, Texas and died March 13, 1928, also in Dallas County. He married Julia Ann Lanham on July 15, 1871 and the couple…
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