Monroe County, Kentucky To Dallas, TX It was during the early fall of 1854 when a small group of Kentucky settlers prepared for their overland journey to the Texas frontier. The caravan of eleven covered wagons left Monroe County, Kentucky and traveled first to Memphis where they crossed the mighty Mississippi River and then on…
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John Milton McCoy was a nephew of John C. McCoy. John M. McCoy was an early resident of Dallas, moving to the area in 1870. McCoy served as Dallas’ first city attorney. McCoy also wrote the 1871 charter for the City of Dallas. John M. McCoy (1838-1922) was the son of Lewis C. McCoy (1806…
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Owned the Land in and around Love Field John Branaman & Margaret Morris Hughes Bachman Margaret Morris Hughes, daughter of William and Ailsey Hughes of Hughesville, Virginia, married John Branaman Bachman in 1845 in Maury County, Tennessee. She was born in 1824 in Stokes County, North Carolina. John Bachman was the son of Dr. Daniel…
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By Frances James (1922 – 2019) The Albert Carver Cemetery is located at the comer of Masters Drive and Bruton Road about nine miles southeast of the Dallas County Courthouse. The land for the family cemetery was donated by Albert Carver (1827-1911) from the 320 acres he acquired by trading a fine horse and saddle…
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John C. McCoy’s name appears often in the records of Dallas County Pioneer Association, as he was the first president of the group. Here is a brief timeline of his interesting life. For more information, please see the extensive biography for John C. McCoy, on our Pioneers page. Get future posts by email.
This name with this spelling has weathered many storms for many years across America. The first of this branch of the family has been found 1785/86 as German immigrants from Pennsylvania to the Shenandoah Valley, and there are records of the name in Penn sylvania about fifty years earlier. This branch became diluted with Scots-Irish…
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Another fine article by Frances James By Frances James (1922 – 2019) The address for the Oak Cliff Cemetery also known as the Beaty Cemetery is 1300 East Eighth Street in Oak Cliff. The first ten acre portion of the Beaty Cemetery is on land donated by William S. Beaty for a burial place where…
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Mat Wyrick was born in North Carolina in 1850. His family later moved to Bradley County, Tennessee where he married Melinda Jan Capp in 1870. They had two boys, Sim A. Wyrick and John S. Wyrick. Mat Wyrick followed his brother-in-law, James Capp, to Texas in about 1875. Mat Wyrick first stopped off at Fate,…
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Historic trees have been recognized in Texas for many years. The City of Dallas recently joined the movement by recognizing a 175 year old pecan tree known as the West Dallas Gateway Pecan. It stands at the west end of the Commerce Street Bridge opposite the Trinity River from downtown Dallas, on the south side…
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In 1845 J. B. Wilmeth having learned – mainly from an advertising pamphlet of a colony agent – of the fertility and other attractions of the broad prairies in the region of “The Three Forks of Trinity” and also of the grant of title free to one mile square to every head of a family…
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