WIDOW OF PIONEER EXPLAINS HOW JIMTOWN GOT ITS NAME RECALLS TRINITY TOLL BRIDGE “When I first came to this house, in 1881, I came as a bride,” said Mrs. John H. Yeargan, at 2311 Cedar Springs, “and I have lived here ever since. There weren’t any neighboring houses close by, and Mr. Yeargan, who owned…
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In February 2022, DCPA and family members held work days at the historic Beeman Cemetery. Below are some images from that effort. Additional comments and images will be added when it becomes available.
William Thomas Lagow (1869-1943) was an early resident of Dallas County. He appears to have been born in Augusta, Houston County, Texas to Silas Frank Lagow (1840-1897) and the former Elizabeth L. Murchison (1845-1876). Some accounts show him having been born in Houston in Harris County, but the 1870 census shows that the family consisted…
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From DCPA’s Proud Heritage, Vol. I, not currently in print. Clement Letot, founder of Letot, Texas, is the only veteran of the Crimean War ever known to have settled in Dallas County. A native of France, who was born near Paris in 1836, Letot served in the French fleet that was sent into the Black Sea…
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From Proud Heritage – Vol. I (not currently in print), published by Dallas County Pioneer Association William Brown Miller came to Texas from Alabama in 1849. He purchased 1,284 acres of land located on present Bonnie View Road near Kiest and built Millermore, the only remaining antebellum house still extant in Dallas, which is presently…
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By Frances James This three acre cemetery has also been called the Coming Home, the Home Coming, and the Queen City. It is located near the intersection of Overton and Illinois on the west side of the Trinity River. Bulova and Cotton are short streets that dead end at the cemetery. The land in the…
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Over the years, Joppa/Joppee has been spelled numerous ways including Joppa, Joppee, Joppie and Joppy. This article is intended to be an overview of the history of the community. We will use the name Joppee for convenience, since this is how the name has usually been pronounced. Joppee is one of the older Freedman communities…
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James Everts Jackson came to Texas from Missouri with his father, John Jackson, mother, four brothers , and four sisters. Being a single male over 17 years of age, he was granted 320 acres in the Peters Colony at the southwest corner of what is now Audelia Road and Walnut, the present site of Richland…
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by Frances James When you drive down the 9000 block of Audelia Road, you might not be aware of the McCree Cemetery behind the telephone company building. The approximately three and a half acre cemetery is on a portion of Peters Colonist Harrison Hostead’s Survey No. 587. Virginia native Harrison Hostead (1800-1852) and Prudence Bartlett…
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A vintage article from Proud Heritage, Vol 1 by DCPA, currently out of print. William Chenault was born February 25, 1828, in Bedford County, Virginia, and came to Peters Colony of Texas from Indiana ca. 1846. He was issued Nacogdoches Third Class Certificate No. 2074 for 320 acres which he patented in Dallas County near…
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