From Proud Heritage, Volume I by DCPA, currently out of print.
Amon McCommas, born 5 June 1804 in Kentucky, and his wife, Mary Brumfield, born 16 September 1805 in Virginia, came to Dallas in 1844 from Missouri. They settled about five miles northeast of John Neely Bryan’s cabin near the end of present day Ross Avenue.
Amon McCommas was a farmer and minister. He was on the first board of commissioners for Dallas County and was one of the first County judges. Amon and Mary McCommas’ children were: Elisha, John, William, Amon Jr., .James B., Stephen, Rossana, Mary E. and Armilda. The order of birth may not be correct.
Amon McCommas died in May 1877 and his wife, Mary, died in June of the same year. Their son, Elisha McCommas, born 19 March 1830 in Ohio came to Dallas at age 14 with his parents. Six years later, on 24 December 1850, he married Rhoda Ann Tucker, who was born 16 July 1835 in Missouri. Their son Wallace Elisha McCommas, born 22 Aprii 1869, married Julia McDaniel, born 9 March 1874, daughter of John McDaniel and Harriet Rowe of the Scyene Community.
Wallace Elisha McCom(m)as died in 1903 at 33 years of age. At some time prior to his death one of the “m ‘s” was dropped from the spelling of the name. His son, Cecil McComas, born in 1900, uses only one “m” [after the Mc]. This is the family for which the street “McCommas” in Dallas was named. Cecil McComas, now retired, was a clerk for the Texas and Pacific Railway Co. He presently lives in Temple, Texas.
By Cecil McComas, Temple
