From Proud Heritage, Vol. 1 by DCPA, not currently in print.
Joseph Larkin Cole was the last born of the children of John Cole (1795) and Polly McDonald (1794). He was less than two years old when his parents brought him to Texas from his birthplace in Washington County, Arkansas. He worked on his father’s farm and lived in his father’s home except for the time of his service with the Confederate Army until 1888 when he and his family moved into Dallas to the corner of San Jacinto and Ervay.
Joseph Cole inherited the southwestern corner of his father’s headright along with Land his father had bought from Henderson Couch, a neighbor to the west. The total area involved was a Little under 300 acres. Today this would run from just east of Turtle Creek to Lomo Alto on the west and Lorraine Avenue on the north to Hawthorne on the south. About the center of the area stands the pecan tree that the City of Highland Park decorates each Christmas.
Joseph Cole married John Virginia Overton on June 20, 1869. Virginia was born in Missouri April 8, 1847 and died in Dallas June 2, 1930 and was buried in Greenwood Cemetery. Joseph and Virginia had three children: Mary . Virginia born November 8, 1870, Joseph Waller born February 12, 1872 and Eugene Virgil born March 25, 1875. Joseph Larkin Cole died June 22, 1933 and was buried in Greenwood.
Joseph L. Cole was a charter member of the Dallas County Pioneers Association.
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