Dallas County Pioneer Association Founded 1875, Reorganized 1979 P O Box 12496 Dallas TX 75225 972-260-9334 – dcpa1875@gmail.comFrom the PresidentHowdy, Make sure to put the March 3 at 6:00 p.m meeting on your calendar at Highland Oaks Church.Dinner will begin serving at 6 and our spearker will begin at 7. Harry Hall will be the speaker. He is the…
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Over the years, Joppa/Joppee has been spelled numerous ways including Joppa, Joppee, Joppie and Joppy. This article is intended to be an overview of the history of the community. We will use the name Joppee for convenience, since this is how the name has usually been pronounced. Joppee is one of the older Freedman communities…
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James Everts Jackson came to Texas from Missouri with his father, John Jackson, mother, four brothers , and four sisters. Being a single male over 17 years of age, he was granted 320 acres in the Peters Colony at the southwest corner of what is now Audelia Road and Walnut, the present site of Richland…
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by Frances James When you drive down the 9000 block of Audelia Road, you might not be aware of the McCree Cemetery behind the telephone company building. The approximately three and a half acre cemetery is on a portion of Peters Colonist Harrison Hostead’s Survey No. 587. Virginia native Harrison Hostead (1800-1852) and Prudence Bartlett…
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A vintage article from Proud Heritage, Vol 1 by DCPA, currently out of print. William Chenault was born February 25, 1828, in Bedford County, Virginia, and came to Peters Colony of Texas from Indiana ca. 1846. He was issued Nacogdoches Third Class Certificate No. 2074 for 320 acres which he patented in Dallas County near…
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William Sachse (1820-1899) was born in Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia, Prussia (Germany) on December 16. 1820 to Henry Sachse and Mary Kemps Sachse. When he was twenty years old he emigrated from Germany to America, arriving in New York in August, 1840. Sachse is known to have lived for a while in Missouri. In late 1844…
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Son Of City’s Founder J. K. Sachse was the son of the founder of Sachse. His parents were William D. Sachse and Martha Frost. William D. Sachse was born in Prussia on December 16, 1820. Martha Frost was born in Mississippi on September 14, 1833. An article in the 1912 issue of the Garland News…
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by Frances James The Beeman Cemetery is south of Haskell Avenue, off Dolphin Road. Go east on Minga and turn right on (Gault) Pepper to the end. There is no street address for the cemetery. It is behind the Shearith Israel Cemetery on Dolphin Road. John Beeman was quoted as saying the site for the…
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The freedman’s town called Little Egypt dates back to the years immediately following the Civil War. A group of former slaves named Jeff (sometimes called John) Hill, Ephriham Floyd and their wives Hannah Hill and Amanda Floyd either bought from or were deeded land by an unnamed former slave holder just north of what would…
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The story given here is based on Benjamin J. Prigmore’s own account of his life recorded in the Dallas Morning News, June 7, 1891 in a story written by Cliff D. Cates entitled “Old Pioneers of Texas.” Benjamin J. Prigmore (1830- 1901) was the son of Kentucky native Joseph Prigmore (1807-ca. 1862). Joseph and his…
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