From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is available online. In 1904 the Oriental Oil Company was organized. It was named from a meeting in the Oriental Hotel (later named the Baker Hotel [see note below]). First office was in Room 305 Wilson Building at 1621 Main Street. Phone number was 3673.…
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Transcribed from Dallas Daily Times Herald, August 2, 1914, p. 8 Mesquite, Tex., Aug. 1.– I see William Wall [Wald] Glover claims to be the oldest settler in Dallas county. I knew his mother (a widow Stockton) before she and his father was married. She lived north of Dallas in 1844, and two brothers and…
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Transcribed from Dallas Daily Herald, July 17, 1875 Pioneers of Dallas County. [Edited: See original clippings below.] On Tuesday the 13th day of July, 1875, in pursuance to a previous call the pioneers of Dallas county met at the Court house, in the city of Dallas, for the purpose of organizing a Pioneer Association. On…
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Transcribed from Dallas Daily Herald, Dec. 05, 1882 A Brief Sketch of His Life The funeral of Mr. John Knepfly took place Sunday at 2 o’clock p.m. from the family residence, 614 Main street, to the First Baptist church and thence to Trinity cemetery, where the remains were interred and the last sad rights (sic) and…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume II by DCPA. This hardcover book is available online. Ross Brand, as A. R. Brand was called, was born in Marion, Alabama, 7 August 1861. He came to the Sachse community in the early 1880s and married Elizabeth, William Sachse’s youngest daughter, on 10 February 1891. They were married by Judge J. T.…
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From Proud Heritage, Volume II by DCPA. This hardcover book is available online. The last of the herds of wild buffalo in Texas were grazing on the lush grass of Parker County when Camden Brady, the son of Harry and Sarah (Belknap) Brady, was born in April, 1885 in Weatherford. Harry Brady was part of a hide…
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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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