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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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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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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