December Meeting Saturday December 10, 20229am at CC Young Brian Luallen the CEO of Fair Park will be our guest speaker to share with us about the Texas State Fair and the future of Fair Park.Call 972-260-9334 for breakfast reservations. No charge for meeting which starts at 10am. October Cemetery EventsSaturday, Oct. 22, 2022, 10:00…
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On Saturday, January 24, 2015 at the Warren Angus Ferris Cemetery the Craig Austin Rowley Chapter, The Society of the War of 1812 in the State of Texas, and the John Cavet Chapter of the United States Daughters of 1812 honored Benjamin Dye (1793-1852) for his service in the War of 1812. Ben Sandifer’s Photos:…
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Anderson Bonner (1830-1920) was a freedman and successful businessman who began purchasing land in 1870 in what is today North Dallas. By the time of his death, he owned nearly 3,000 acres north of Forest Lane and east of White Rock Creek. In 1976, the site of his homestead (and 44 remaining acres) were dedicated…
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This past Saturday, September 3, 2022 volunteers and family members gathered at Big A Cemetery in Rowlett and proceeded to set a military gravestone for War of 1812 veteran Thomas Newman and also to reset the gravestone base for his granddaughter. Pictured below left to right, they are Daniel, Hunter, Susan, Larry, Paul and Drake. Paul…
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Please make sure to put September 1st at 6:00 p.m meeting on your calendar at the Pavilion in CC Young Senior Living. Dinner will begin serving at 6 and our speaker will begin at 7. Clarence Glover, Jr is our next speaker who will be sharing his past 40 years of research of the pioneers…
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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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