Information on Cory Cemetery in Balch Springs by Marilyn Kosanke In the 1930s and 1940s (and probably decades before) there was periodically terrible flooding of Hickory Creek all up and down the section of the creek that runs north and south on the west of LBJ. Quoting “Marie Hughes – History” from Balch Springs News, July…
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Date: January 16, 2021 – 11:00 to 1:00 Our DCPA Cemetery Committee is sponsoring its first field trip of the year, weather permitting, to visit the Beeman Cemetery located at 3599 Osage Circle, Dallas, Texas. The purpose is to see the cemetery and visit with other history lovers. Several Beeman descendants will be among us…
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Next meeting – Scheduled for 12/5/2020 at 10AM (9AM if you plan to eat). Please note: MEAL RESERVATIONS MUST BE MADE TO 972-260-9334 BY DECEMBER 1ST. RESERVATIONS ARE NOT ACCEPTED BY EMAIL. As always there is a $15 meal charge payable at the meeting. If you make a reservation and do not attend you will still…
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Dallas County Pioneer Association Members and Guests: On Saturday, October 17, 2020 you are invited to join us at the W. W. Glover Cemetery from 11:00 until 1:30. The goal is to get people together in an outdoor setting to talk about history, and to socialize. A few descendants of Anna Hunnicutt Cox are committed…
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When Col. W. L. and Lucinda William moved to Dallas in 1867 to set up his law practice, they wanted to worship at a Baptist church. Two little Baptists churches had already failed and a third one, Pleasant View Baptist, moved to the “suburbs,” or rather a small farming community nearby. It is still in existence today…
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Community Church – The church committee of Pleasant Valley was to be duly appointed, or elected, by the citizens of Pleasant Valley. This appointed committee then superintended construction of the Arbor Church around 1873. This building was used as a meeting place for the Baptist, Christian, Methodist Episcopal, and Cumberland Presbyterian church members. Thomas G.…
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Established 1866 History of the Cottonwood Church dates back to 1866. The old record book of the church’s earliest history has ended up in the care of the Wylie Christian Church. The following information was found in the 1866 record book, “State of Texas, County of Kaufman, (now Rockwall County) the undersigned met together on…
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Pioneer Dallas Couple to Celebrate Golden Wedding – Dallas Morning News, Sunday, May 30, 1920, Dallas, Texas, Page: TwoThe golden anniversary of their wedding will be celebrated by Mr. and Mrs. James Allen McMurry at their home, 1305 Casey Street on Wednesday from 5 to 10 p. m. They were married in 1870…and came to Dallas…
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First Christian Church Of Rowlett By Carolyn Sue Chenault Rowlett was a tiny farming community of less than 1,000 people when a church of the Disciples of Christ was founded there in 1893. It was the first church to be organized in this area of cotton, corn and onions. Thirteen church pioneers led by Aunt…
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Picnic to Honor Murdered Settler When James Loving decided to leave Kentucky for the Three Forks of the Trinity in 1843, he had in mind free rich land and great navigated rivers. He did not know he and his brother Oliver would be murdered. Neither did he know that 108 years afterward on August 11,…
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