Dallas County Pioneer Association is pleased to announce our co-sponsorship of the 25th Annual Legacies Dallas History Conference. Please note additional details below. Date: Saturday, January 27, 2024 Times: Registration 8:00 A.M; Conference 9:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M. Place: Dallas History & Archives Division – Dallas Public Library, 7th Floor, J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX…
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We had a wonderful informative tour hosted by Sheniqua Cummings, and descendants of pioneer Anderson Bonner, Tony Suber and Glen Bonner. First time guests were Erin Schmidt and Hilary Fry. Our members Marsha and Mike Leach, Gwyneva Winters, Bill Vilbig, Mike Magers, and Kathy Ann Reid were in attendance. We learned many interesting things about…
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Please see the photos of the amazing work done by Mike Rowlands and the other volunteers at the historic Oakland Cemetery in South Dallas just yesterday. Thank you, Mike, for your fine work and for sharing your time and expertise and thank you to the volunteers who helped to make this happen. This is an…
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Date: 10/21/23 Volunteers: Kathy Ann Reid, Marsha and Mike Leach, Gwyneva Winters, Marla and Wally Daniels who brought their handy little tractor with mower and front end loader. We marked the tombstones with orange caution cones, trimmed around them then Wally carefully mowed. We drug out brush and trash and blew the dust off of…
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Betsy Farris was our leader, pointing out the history of each cemetery and notable monuments of people who were buried there. The 9/16/23 tour began at Kit Cemetery, 1413 E. Irving Blvd, Irving, Texas 75060. Kit cemetery is in the southeast corner of Oak Grove cemetery, has a separate entrance and is separated by a…
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On Saturday, April 15, 2023 DCPA and the Fort Worth Ave. Development Group held a hands-on headstone repair workshop with one of Texas’s foremost authorities on Historic Gravestone and Monument Preservation – Mike Rowlands. Mike demonstrated how to safely clean, reset, and perform repairs on historic headstones. The process of putting back together a broken-in-half…
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On Sunday, January 22, 2023 at Big A Cemetery the Craig Austin Rowley Chapter, The Society of the War of 1812 in the State of Texas, and the John Cavet Chapter of the United States Daughters of 1812 honored Thomas R. Newman, Jr. (1792 – 1915) for his service in the War of 1812. Ceremony:…
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Members of DCPA Cemetery Group joined friends and family members attending the Bennett Family Gardens Texas Historical Marker Dedication Ceremony on November 4, 2022, including Gwyneva Winters, Kathy Ann Reid, Marsha and Mike Leach. Below are images from that event.
December Meeting Saturday December 10, 20229am at CC Young Brian Luallen the CEO of Fair Park will be our guest speaker to share with us about the Texas State Fair and the future of Fair Park.Call 972-260-9334 for breakfast reservations. No charge for meeting which starts at 10am. October Cemetery EventsSaturday, Oct. 22, 2022, 10:00…
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SPACE IS LIMITED Dallas City Archives Tour, 9/15/2022 – Dallas City Archivist John Slate has generously offered to give as many as 15 people a tour of the facility. Due to the size of the rooms, attendance is limited. Meet John Slate: Meet the City Staff: John H. Slate, City of Dallas Archivist – Dallas…
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