From Proud Heritage, Volume II by DCPA. This hardcover book is available online. Baxter Manton Bell was a native of Tennessee. He was born 9 January 1823, the twelfth of sixteen children. Not much is known of Baxter’s early years. He married 21 February 1842 to Sarah E. Haun. Baxter came to Texas around 1858. He brought…
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We see many references to Trinity Mills in northern Dallas County. A marker stands in Carrollton entitled “Trinity Mills Community” which tells a condensed version of how the little community came to be. The area was part of Alexander Wilson Perry’s land grant and was named for a grist mill once owned by Perry and a…
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We see many references to Trinity Mills in northern Dallas County. A marker stands in Carrollton entitled “Trinity Mills Community” which tells a condensed version of how the little community came to be.
From Proud Heritage, Volume II by DCPA. This hardcover book is available online. Daniel Bechtol and his wife, Mahala, migrated to Duck Creek, Dallas County, Texas, from Middletown, Frederick County, Maryland, in 1876, settling on 310 acres in what is now south Garland. Daniel Bechtol was born 13 January 1824 near Middletown, the son of Ludwig (Lewis)…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. Henry Washington Ball was born in Talladega, Alabama in 1840, the son of Reuben Ball whose relatives included Mary Ball, mother of George Washington. Reuben married Mourning “Morning” (Carter) Ball in Georgia in 1832. They moved to Alabama in 1838. The 1850…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. Jeff Ball was born in 1870, the son of Henry Washington Ball and wife, Frances “Frankey” Adams. Frankey was the daughter of Elias and Elizabeth (Harris) Adams of Alabama, who married in 1861. Jeff married Ollie Yates in 1893. She was born…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. Uzziel Baggett, a widower, and his family took up lands in what is now Dallas County as Peters colonists in 1844. His headright lay within the present limits of the city of Cedar Hill. Uzziel Baggett was born 14 March 1797 in…
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By Frances James (1922 – 2019) The Perry Cemetery is in Carrollton with an address of 1800 Perry Road. The cemetery was started as a family cemetery in 1896 near the Alexander W. Perry’s home. When Alexander came to Texas in 1844 he was a thirty year old Illinois native with five children. He had…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. Seaborn Jones Baggett, the eldest son of Uzziel and Sarah Baggett, was a Peters Colony pioneer in Dallas County like his father. He was born in 1825 in Walton County, Georgia, and was named for Seaborn Jones, a prominent Georgia politician of…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. In 1927 a young baker and his wife moved to Dallas from Muskogee, Oklahoma. Kathryn and Roy Braden who had learned to bake on a troop ship in World War I, bought a little shop on Gaston Avenue around the corner from…
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