From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. In the middle of the nineteenth century, Simpson G. Ayers was a cotton farmer in Tippah County, Mississippi. Little is known about Simpson Ayers, other than he was the father of twenty or more children by two wives. Among Simpson’s children was William R.,…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. Osborn Love was born in 1800 in Rutherford County, North Carolina to Charles and Fereby Love. He was the third of eight children: John, James, Osborn, Elizabeth, Charity, Sarah, Charles and Nancy. He married Jane Fondren in Rutherford County on 15 August 1825. She was born in…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. L. C. (Leeander Calvin) LaFon rode a horse to Texas from Tennessee, according to a family story my grandfather, Vernie Lee LaFon, related to me several years ago. That journey would have been in the early 1880s, as he married Susan Elizabeth…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. Favorite memories of my childhood, when we lived at 4654 McKinney Avenue, were the times my mother, Annie Marion, loaded her five children (John Ray, Faye, Robert, Ida Lea, and Dulcie Anne) and her mother, Allie Cox, into her 1929 Nash and…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. Donald F. Huffhines was born December 9, 1929, and died November 18, 2000. During World War II his father, J.C., worked as a government inspector for Guiberson Motors, the company holding the contract for installing motors in tanks for the U.S. Army.…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. Marie Buhrer was one of nine children born to Jacob Buhrer (b. 1855) and Anna (Hinterman) Buhrer (b. 1854). Their house was a white two-story home on 200 acres on the west bank of White Rock Creek. The family attended St. Paul’s…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. Fred Braden Spainhouer was born September 16, 1889 in Russellville, Arkansas. He was the son of Aaron and Emma Pittman Spainhouer, both of whom are buried at Cottonwood Cemetery. Myrtle Viola Houston was born in the community of Elm Grove on April…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. George Washington “Dub” Foster, Sr. was born May 23, 1917 on his family’s farm at Liberty Grove in northeastern Dallas County. His grandfather, George Washington Forster, was seriously ill at the time and Dub wasn’t named until after his grandfather’s death, which…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. Frances Sims Daniel (1790-1853) arrived in North Texas on February 2, 1849. She settled on 640 acres in present-day University Park (Daniel Avenue) just north of what is now Dallas Hall on the Southern Methodist University campus. This land was purchased for…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume I by DCPA, currently out of print. When James Loving decided to leave Kentucky for the Republic of Texas in 1843, he had in mind free rich land and great navigable rivers. At the time, James was 32 years old and his wife, Margaret Nancy Morgan Loving, was 23. He did not anticipate…
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