From Proud Heritage, Vol 1 by DCPA, not currently in print. Jacob and Anna Hinterman Buhrer left Ellenboro, West Virginia, their first home in America, to come to Dallas in the summer of 1879, bringing their first child, Lena, with them. Jacob’s sister, Anna, came also. In 1879 she married a young Swiss dairyman, Christian Moser,…
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From Proud Heritage, Vol. 1 by DCPA, not currently in print. Dr. John Cole was born in Virginia, June 15, 1795. A young veteran of the War of 1812, he met and married Polly McDonald who was also born in Virginia, June 9, 1794. They began their family in Sumner County, Tennessee, June 16, 1816…
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From Proud Heritage – Vol. I (not currently in print), published by Dallas County Pioneer Association William Brown Miller came to Texas from Alabama in 1849. He purchased 1,284 acres of land located on present Bonnie View Road near Kiest and built Millermore, the only remaining antebellum house still extant in Dallas, which is presently…
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Amon McCommas, Sr. Amon McCommas, Sr., and wife Mary ‘Polly’ Brumfield, were one of the first six families who came to settle in the Peters Colony, a community where, although scattered, a few hostile Indians remained. Amon and Mary had been married in 1826 in Lawrence County, Ohio, where Mary was born in 1805. Amon…
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William C. McKamy, Sr. came to Texas around 1851 from Tennessee. On October 21, 1845, he had previously married the former Rachel Loyd Wester and they brought with them their three children: William Albert, John Lewis and a daughter Keziah (a family name) McKamy. Once settled here, they had three more children: Mary E., William…
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Phillip, Isaac and Alexander Sanger are credited with having founded Sanger Brothers. They were three sons of Elias and Barbetta Sanger of Bavaria. Elias was a wine merchant and farmer. Isaac had been born in Bavaria (Germany) in 1836 and emigrated to the United States when he was 16, in 1852. Lehman (born in 1838)…
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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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