Wheatland United Methodist Church is known as the “oldest Methodist church west of the Trinity River”. Originally it resided in the small farming community of Wheatland. The Wheatland community may have been older than Dallas or Hord’s Ridge (the original name of Oak Cliff). With settlers arriving just before Texas entered the American Union, Wheatland…
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February 20 McKinney Family Cemetery at 11:00 AM 10425 Rylie Crest Dr., Dallas- The purpose is to clean the cemetery to the degree allowed by the number of people who arrive between 11:00 and 11:30. An additional benefit is for members to see the cemetery, and visit with other history lovers. A portion of the…
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At this point, there will be no meeting in March due to the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak. Watch this section for later developments and check the website calendar.
Saturday, January 16, 2021, a group of folks met at the Beeman Memorial Cemetery. The weather was a bit cool but otherwise perfect. The location was easy to find and at various times, there were between one and two dozen people in attendance. Several of them were Beeman descendants and were able to tell us…
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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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