Brantley Montgomery Bond (1848-1933) came to Dallas from Mississippi in 1873 where he opened a neighborhood grocery store across from the county courthouse. Marrying fellow Mississippi native Caroline Alvernon “Carrie” McDonald (1857-1934) on December 22, 1876, the Bonds’ grocery served county officials who over time encouraged the soft-spoken grocer to run for public office. Brantley…
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Robert Ralston Lawther was born in 1836 in Warren County, Pennsylvania to James Lawther and Jane Hood Lawther. He was one of seven children born to the couple. Lawther was engaged in the mercantile business in his early life. While working in Iowa on 1858, he was married to Ellen E. Hoopes and together they…
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By Mike Judd The pioneer area of “Tuckerville” along today’s state highway 66 belonged to the prominent Tucker family for four generations. Charles Masters Tucker (1834-1898) came to the U.S. from Litton, Somerset County, England. His land holdings in northeast Dallas County eventually totalled 2,297 acres including the area from the Old Centerville and Castle…
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T. B. Baker was born on July 11, 1875 in Washington, Iowa to William Abner Baker and Luranah Grayson Baker. He was the youngest of seven children. His father was listed as being a farmer in most of the federal census reports and they resided in Kansas. T. B. was a single man of 25…
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