Second Quarter, 2021 Cemetery Report, Southeast Dallas County by Marsha Leach The RYLIE CEMETERY at 10377 Rylie Road is watched over by the Rylie Cemetery Association which was founded in 1962. They maintain the cemetery grounds through private donations, mostly from family descendants. The cemetery is protected by a chain link fence and is in…
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The organizers have advised us that the event that was to have been held on 11/21,/21 has been canceled.
From Proud Heritage, Vol 1 by DCPA. 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 Bachman of Delina, Tennessee, (Marshall County). He was…
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John Taylor and Catharine Bunting Coit John Taylor Coit traveled to Dallas County, Texas, late in the spring of 1858 to locate a new Texas home for his bride, purchasing 320 acres 15 June 1858 on the Dallas/Collin County line in the Thomas J. Yager survey. While searching for land, John stayed with the McKamy…
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Edward Titche was born August 6, 1866 to Lazarus Titche (1829-1894) and Babette Haas Titche (1829-1914) in Winnsboro, Louisiana. Both of his parents had been born in Germany and emigrated to the United States. Lazarus was a merchant and Edward was the sixth of seven children born to the couple. Edward was living in Louisiana…
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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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By Millie Coffey From my infancy the family attended Oak Lawn Christian Church on the corner of Herschel and Douglas streets, then later we moved to Preston Road Christian Church where I joined at the tender age of eight. Then one Sunday morning in August of 1934, Mother and I moved our membership to Greenville…
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In anticipation of the Rylie Reunion on October 2, 2021, the Rylie Cemetery Association is having a work day Saturday, September 25, 2021. Contact information for further details is in the above image, but the Rylie Cemetery is located on Rylie Road, between Tufts and Ellenwood, Rylie, Texas. https://dallaspioneer.org/events/rylie-cemetery-cleanup-day/
E.L. Burks Variety Stores E. Logan Burks (1902-1991) came to Dallas in 1920 from his parents’ farm near Bullard, Texas, after attending Toby’s Business College in Waco, Texas. He found a place to live at the Y.M.C.A., as many young men did in that day. After a stint as a bookkeeper for Southwestern Bell Telephone…
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On September 16, 2019, we had a long, hot, interesting day as witnesses of the disinterments from the Durrett Cemetery and the reinterments of George and Elizabeth Durrett (Edgewood Cemetery), and the Strong Baby Girl, Nancy C. Strong (Hutchins Cemetery). This is the story from our leaving the Edgewood Cemetery to the Hutchins Cemetery. From…
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