From Proud Heritage, Volume II by DCPA. This hardcover book is available online. Ahab was born in Grainger County, Tennessee on 16 October 1807, the son of John Bowen and grandson of Moses Bowen, who married Rebecca Rees and came from Wales to Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1698. John Bowen married Sarah Bean, and died when Ahab…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume II by DCPA. This hardcover book is available online. Henry Boll, Sr., born 14 November 1830 in the Canton of Aaragu, Switzerland, was one of five children born to Henri Boll and Magdelena Peier (also spelled Perzer in some records). After completing his formal education, he moved to the Zurich area, where he…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume II by DCPA. This hardcover book is available online. Mary Theodosia Williams, born 26 May 1834 in Alabama, possibly in Walker County, was the eldest child of John Mason Williams and his wife, Theodosia Menasco. Mary T., as she was known, married James Lee Price on 9 February 1854 in Pontotoc County, Mississippi.…
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By Frances James (1922 – 2019) The Trees Cemetery is located in Duncanville at 1800 Santa Fe. The original site for this family cemetery is a small portion of the 320 acre Thomas Anderson Survey. Crawford Trees’ Survey is east of the Anderson Survey and the now two and one half acre Trees Cemetery began…
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It is not unheard of, but from time to time when there is an amputation, the limb may be buried by itself. There happen to be two such burials at Motley Cemetery in Mesquite, Texas, as noted below: John Motley was born in Dallas County on September 29, 1877, the son of Robert Page Motley…
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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 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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