From Proud Heritage, Volume I by DCPA, currently out of print.
Thomas Fletcher Nash, who was born in 1850, was one of the better known children of Thomas Jefferson Nash. He married Mary Frances Hobbs in 1873, and they had eleven children as follows:
1) Adelia Nash 1874-1949; 2) Mary Leola Nash Floyd 1876-1845; 3) Lillian Nash Cammack 1878-1956; 4) Olin Wilburn Nash 1881-1930; 5) Albert Ware Nash 1883-1934; 6) Estella Nash Moore 1885-1949; 7) Effie Nash Taggart 1887-1952; 8) Lorena Nash Campbell 1890- ; 9) Willie Gibbs Nash 1892-1973; 10) Gladys Nash Peavy 1896-? ; 11) Thomas F. Nash, Jr. 1900-1962.
Thomas F. Nash was an attorney in Garland Texas, and active in both local and State politics. He was responsible for bringing the two communities of Duck Creek and Embree into one town and having it named Garland in honor of President Cleveland’s Attorney General, Augustus H. Garland.
He served in the Texas Legislature in the 1880’s; and in 1892, when he was elected County Judge of Dallas County, the family moved from Garland to Dallas. Their home was at 2809 Routh Street, which is now the red-painted Sample House directly across the street from the Quadrangle.
In 1900, Thomas F. Nash was elected Judge of the 14th District Court and served in that capacity until his death in 1908.
All eleven of the children of Mr. and Mrs Thomas F. Nash remained in Dallas County throughout their lifetimes. Their contributions to the community were in many field including medicine, law, politics, business and church. They were a family-oriented group of individuals, as were all descendants of Thomas Jefferson Nash.
By W. E. Peavy, Jr., Garland
