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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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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Transcribed from July 19, 1914, Dallas Daily Times Herald, p. 13, col. 3. OLDEST NATIVE OF DALLAS CO. IS DISCOVERED William Wald Glover William Wald Glover was born July 31, 1846 in Dallas County, Texas and died March 13, 1928, also in Dallas County. He married Julia Ann Lanham on July 15, 1871 and the couple…
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Samuel Eric Curry was born in Lancaster, Texas, January 12,1901. His father was J. W. Curry who had been born in Virginia and came to Texas as a teen-age boy to make his way in life. Sam’s mother was Lucy Angeline Greene of Lancaster, Texas. The family was active in church and civic affairs in…
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By Frances James (1922 – 2019) Calvary Hill Cemetery at 3235 Lombardy Lane is the second cemetery within the city limits of Dallas owned by the Catholic Diocese. The first cemetery was a four to seven acre site, (before the streets were widened) purchased in 1874, near the Houston and Texas Central Railroad and Hall…
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By Frances James (1922 – 2019) Calvary Hill Cemetery at 3235 Lombardy Lane is the second cemetery within the city limits of Dallas owned by the Catholic Diocese. The first cemetery was a four to seven acre site, (before the streets were widened) purchased in 1874, near the Houston and Texas Central Railroad and Hall…
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Abram McCoy Horne, deceased, one of the earliest settlers of Dallas county, had the distinction of being the first white person born in Lexington, Missouri, the date of his birth being July 31, 1819. He was a son of the Reverend William Horne, a native of East Tennessee, and a minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian…
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Simpson Levi Beckley was born in Kentucky on April 11, 1813 to Levi Beckley (1775 – 1848) and Keziah Boswell Beckley (1776 – 1852). Simpson’s parents had moved to the new state of Kentucky from Virginia. Simpson Levi was the youngest of three sons. Simpson Levi married Ruth Mathews on January 8, 1835. He was…
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Abram McCoy Horne, deceased, one of the earliest settlers of Dallas county, had the distinction of being the first white person born in Lexington, Missouri, the date of his birth being July 31, 1819. He was a son of the Reverend William Horne, a native of East Tennessee, and a minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian…
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