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President Teddy Roosevelt Visits Dallas, 1905

Transcribed from the Bryan (Texas) Weekly Eagle, April 6, 1905 PRESIDENT IN TEXAS Dallas Thronged to Welcome Chief Executive of Nation. SEES BUSINESS PART Thousands of Persons Cheer the Chief Executive, and He Makes Open-Air Address and Tendered Grand Banquet. Dallas, April 5 – For the first time in the history of the city of Dallas the city…
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Mills Cemetery

By Frances James (1922 – 2019) The Mills Cemetery at 1925 Commerce in Garland is near the intersection of Bankhead Highway and Centerville  Road.  To the east is the Rowlett Creek Preserve and Mill Creek, just south of the cemetery, empties into this greenbelt area.  The over two acre Mills Cemetery and the expansion  across…
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Oriental Oil Company

From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. In 1904 the Oriental Oil Company was organized. It was named from a meeting in the Oriental Hotel (later named the Baker Hotel [see note below]). First office was in Room 305 Wilson Building at 1621 Main Street. Phone number was 3673.…
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H. B. Cox, Early Days of Dallas County

Transcribed from Dallas Daily Times Herald, August 2, 1914, p. 8 Mesquite, Tex., Aug. 1.– I see William Wall [Wald] Glover claims to be the oldest settler in Dallas county. I knew his mother (a widow Stockton) before she and his father was married. She lived north of Dallas in 1844, and two brothers and…
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Organizational Meeting of Dallas County Pioneers

Transcribed from Dallas Daily Herald, July 17, 1875 Pioneers of Dallas County. [Edited: See original clippings below.] On Tuesday the 13th day of July, 1875, in pursuance to a previous call the pioneers of Dallas county met at the Court house, in the city of Dallas, for the purpose of organizing a Pioneer Association. On…
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Trees Cemetery

By Frances James (1922 – 2019) The Trees Cemetery is located in Duncanville at 1800 Santa Fe. The original site for this family cemetery is a small portion of the 320 acre Thomas Anderson Survey. Crawford Trees’ Survey is east of the Anderson Survey and the now two and one half acre Trees Cemetery began…
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John Knepfly

Transcribed from Dallas Daily Herald, Dec. 05, 1882 A Brief Sketch of His Life The funeral of Mr. John Knepfly took place Sunday at 2 o’clock p.m. from the family residence, 614 Main street, to the First Baptist church and thence to Trinity cemetery, where the remains were interred and the last sad rights (sic) and…
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Unusual Burials at Motley Cemetery

It is not unheard of, but from time to time when there is an amputation, the limb may be buried by itself. There happen to be two such burials at Motley Cemetery in Mesquite, Texas, as noted below: John Motley was born in Dallas County on September 29, 1877, the son of Robert Page Motley…
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Trinity Mills

We see many references to Trinity Mills in northern Dallas County. A marker stands in Carrollton entitled “Trinity Mills Community” which tells a condensed version of how the little community came to be. The area was part of Alexander Wilson Perry’s land grant and was named for a grist mill once owned by Perry and a…
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Perry Cemetery

By Frances James (1922 – 2019) The Perry Cemetery is in Carrollton with an address of 1800 Perry Road. The cemetery was started as a family cemetery in 1896 near the Alexander W. Perry’s home. When Alexander came to Texas in 1844 he was a thirty year old Illinois native with five children. He had…
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