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White Rock Cemetery Garden of Memories

WHITE ROCK CEMETERY GARDEN OF MEMORIES Historical Narrative Written and Researched by Sheniqua Cummings for the Texas Historical Commission 2019 Undertold Marker Application, Dallas County I. BACKGROUND For over 170 years, the land that the White Rock Cemetery Garden of Memories now occupies has retained the history of the Upper White Rock community. Aptly named…
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White Rock Cemetery Garden of Memories – Historical Marker Dedication, Postponed

Due to the forecast of inclement weather, last Saturday’s scheduled historical marker ceremony has been postponed. The new date and time will be posted here when it becomes available. Get future posts by email.

McAdams Cemetery Workday, 11/23/24

Today at the McAdams Cemetery we had 10 participants 6 of which are DCPA members. The weather was beautiful and we all had a wonderful time. Mike Rowlands worked on two tombstones with about half  the group watching and helping him. Mike and Marsha Leach took care of cutting up and disposing of a medium sized…
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G. H. Schoellkopf, Early Texas Saddle Maker

(Used with permission) Gottlieb Heinrich/Henry Schoellkopf was born in Germany on September 23, 1849. He came to the United States when he was a youth of 14. A newspaper article in the Amarillo Daily News of June 18. 1940 recounted his early days. Not long after the Civil War, G. H. Schoellkopf had come to Texas in…
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Fletcher Cemetery

By Frances James (1922 – 2019) The entrance to the Fletcher Cemetery is down the alley behind the houses that face either 800 Block of Carney or 2500 Glenbrook in Garland. There are small signs at the entrances to this shared alley that say “Cemetery.” Whether the people who own the houses or the Garland…
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Mills Cemetery

By Frances James (1922 – 2019) The Mills Cemetery at 1925 Commerce in Garland is near the intersection of Bankhead Highway and Centerville  Road.  To the east is the Rowlett Creek Preserve and Mill Creek, just south of the cemetery, empties into this greenbelt area.  The over two acre Mills Cemetery and the expansion  across…
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Robert Leon Brau and wife, Helen Gertrude Smith

From Proud Heritage, Volume II by DCPA. This hardcover book is available online. Helen Gertrude Smith, born 28 December 1907, Bourgere, Louisiana, the fifteenth and last child born to Ada Elizabeth (Tuggle) Smith (born 18 August 1872, died 25 October 1952) and Robert Thomas Smith (born 14 January 1865, died 20 May 1920). Helen’s grandmother, Mary Ellen…
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H. B. Cox, Early Days of Dallas County

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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Organizational Meeting of Dallas County Pioneers

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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John Knepfly

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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