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Glover Cemetery Work Day

Saturday, April 2, 2022 W. W. Glover Cemetery Work Day A great-great-grandson of William Wald Glover, M C Toyer, was the first to arrive and start working.  Our main task was picking up the limbs that fell during the winter.  We also cleaned several stones, planted flowers, and made plans for future work. Our pleasure…
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Beeman Cemetery 2022 Work Days

In February 2022, DCPA and family members held work days at the historic Beeman Cemetery. Below are some images from that effort. Additional comments and images will be added when it becomes available.

William Thomas and Emma Beeman Lagow

William Thomas Lagow (1869-1943) was an early resident of Dallas County. He appears to have been born in Augusta, Houston County, Texas to Silas Frank Lagow (1840-1897) and the former Elizabeth L. Murchison (1845-1876). Some accounts show him having been born in Houston in Harris County, but the 1870 census shows that the family consisted…
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Clement and Nathalie Bernard Letot

From DCPA’s Proud Heritage, Vol. I, not currently in print. Clement Letot, founder of Letot, Texas, is the only veteran of the Crimean War ever known to have settled in Dallas County. A native of France, who was born near Paris in 1836, Letot served in the French fleet that was sent into the Black Sea…
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William Brown Miller

From Proud Heritage – Vol. I (not currently in print), published by Dallas County Pioneer Association William Brown Miller came to Texas from Alabama in 1849. He purchased 1,284 acres of land located on present Bonnie View Road near Kiest and built Millermore, the only remaining antebellum house still extant in Dallas, which is presently…
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Honey Springs Cemetery

By Frances James This three acre cemetery has also been called the Coming Home, the Home Coming, and the Queen City. It is located near the intersection of Overton and Illinois on the west side of the Trinity River. Bulova and Cotton are short streets that dead end at the cemetery. The land in the…
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Quarterly Newsletter, Spring 2022

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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Joppa/Joppee Community

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 and Diana Jane Davis Jackson

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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McCree Cemetery

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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