By Frances James (1922 – 2019) The Crawford Cemetery has an address of 700 Cedar Hill in Cedar Hill, Texas. This site is in the southwest corner of Dallas County. Ever since histories have been written about Dallas County mention has been made of “the tornado that wiped out the village of Cedar Hill in…
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We had a wonderful informative tour hosted by Sheniqua Cummings, and descendants of pioneer Anderson Bonner, Tony Suber and Glen Bonner. First time guests were Erin Schmidt and Hilary Fry. Our members Marsha and Mike Leach, Gwyneva Winters, Bill Vilbig, Mike Magers, and Kathy Ann Reid were in attendance. We learned many interesting things about…
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Please see the photos of the amazing work done by Mike Rowlands and the other volunteers at the historic Oakland Cemetery in South Dallas just yesterday. Thank you, Mike, for your fine work and for sharing your time and expertise and thank you to the volunteers who helped to make this happen. This is an…
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Please see the photos of the amazing work done by Mike Rowlands and the other volunteers at the old McAdams Cemetery last Saturday. Thank you, Mike, for your fine work and for sharing your time and expertise and thank you to the volunteers who helped to make this happen. This is an on going project…
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Date: 10/21/23 Volunteers: Kathy Ann Reid, Marsha and Mike Leach, Gwyneva Winters, Marla and Wally Daniels who brought their handy little tractor with mower and front end loader. We marked the tombstones with orange caution cones, trimmed around them then Wally carefully mowed. We drug out brush and trash and blew the dust off of…
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By Frances James (1922 – 2019) The Sowers Cemetery in Irving is located on Pioneer Road near the intersection with Grauwyler. The land for the cemetery is a portion of the Peters Colony 320 acre G.W. Parson Survey. When Illinois native Edmund (1826-1909) and Freelove Thompson Sowers (1833-1901) came to Texas in 1856 they found…
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Betsy Farris was our leader, pointing out the history of each cemetery and notable monuments of people who were buried there. The 9/16/23 tour began at Kit Cemetery, 1413 E. Irving Blvd, Irving, Texas 75060. Kit cemetery is in the southeast corner of Oak Grove cemetery, has a separate entrance and is separated by a…
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From Proud Heritage, Vol. 1 by DCPA, not currently in print. John Henderson was born on 4 January 1821 in what was then the Arkansas Territory; during the same month Moses Austin received permission from New Spain to settle three hundred American families in Texas. John Henderson arrived in Texas as a single man in 1840; his…
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By Frances James (1922 – 2019) On the West side of Dallas County very near the Tarrant County line is one of the historic black cemeteries in Dallas County. This cemetery is located off of Hard Rock Road and is south of Highway 183. The new 161 Toll Road is adjacent to the cemetery located…
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Elmwood Memorial Park is next to the Pleasant Mound Public Cemetery and has an interesting burial located there. Raymond Elzie Hamilton was affiliated with Bonnie and Clyde. Findagrave listing for Ray Hamilton. Raymond Elzie Hamilton: Hamilton was born May 21,1913 in a tent on the banks of a river near Schulter, Oklahoma, a small community…
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