The Ayers Family in Dallas | 3 |
Enoch Noah Bennett and wife, Mary Ann Vanzant, wife Jane Vanzant and wife, Rachel Josephine Beckner | 4 |
Osborn Love and wife, Jane Fondren | 5 |
The LaFons: From Tennessee to Texas | 7 |
Howard Cox Family, Dallas County, Texas | 8 |
Emet David Florence, Perl (Curtis) Florence | 11 |
Donald Huffhines (1929-2000) | 13 |
Vivian Marie Womack Warner – From Blossom to Full Bloom | 14 |
The Family of John Byron and Sarah (Thompson) May | 15 |
John Cooper Cook | 17 |
James Lemon Miller, CSA | 19 |
The Manner Family | 20 |
A. W. Perry and Family | 21 |
Mary Buhrer Gracey (1895-1976) | 23 |
Fred and Myrtle Spainhouer | 24 |
G. W. Foster, Sr. | 25 |
Frances (Sims) Daniel | 26 |
Dewitt Clinton Harry Family | 27 |
Patrick Henry Lively | 28 |
Wesley Cockrell | 30 |
Bernard W. (Bernie) Coffee | 32 |
Calloway Patrick, Founder of Patrick Community | 33 |
Henry W. Houston Family | 35 |
George Dotson | 36 |
Wesley M. Chenault | 37 |
Azariah Moss | 39 |
Biography of John Martin Rawlins, Citizen of Republic of Texas | 39 |
James Calvin Temple – Grace Edha Sitton Temple Family | 41 |
Dr. Daniel Webster Gilbert | 42 |
Dr. Franklin Monroe and Dorothy Gilbert | 44 |
Mary E. Bright Ross | 46 |
Thomas Newell Merritt | 47 |
Peggy Sample Ellis Galloway | 48 |
Adolphus Gouhenant (Gounah) Update (-) | 49 |
John Franklin Dillon and Mattie Brell Boykin | 50 |
The Gibson Family, Doyle George and Ann Gibson Family | 52 |
DAR Marks Grave of Ellender Penny Witt | 53 |
The Family of Sarah and George H. Beeler | 54 |
William Harry Hughes, Sr. | 56 |
William Harry Hughes, Jr. | 58 |
Hart/Randolph Families | 60 |
“Mom Managed for Family Time” by Joanna Thomason | 62 |
Herbert Gilbert Hughes, Sr. | 63 |
Albert George Chenault | 65 |
Eugene Benjamin Germany | 67 |
William C. Story | 69 |
“Hattie’s Trip to Texas” by John Winniford | 70 |
John Mayrant Smith Family | 71 |
Frederic Moss and Ruth E. Smith | 73 |
Nell Katherine Hughes | 73 |
Pearl Edna Hughes | 74 |
William M. C. Hill | 75 |
“Early Memories II” by Robert McCutcheon | 76 |
William Larner | 77 |
Pvt. John Welsey Low, World War I Hero | 79 |
“Sallie” Burch and Cardwell Elmer | 80 |
“The Tale of a Tombstone'” Ellis Charles Thomas and wife, Julia Ann Moon | 81 |
The Strucely Family in Dallas County | 83 |
Calvin and Ina Bell Rylie Low | 85 |
John T. Lively and Bluff View Dairy | 87 |
James H. Morriss | 88 |
“Miss Cleora [Clanton] Bucks City Hall – and Wins” | 89 |
James Walter “Walt” Bayless | 91 |
Margaret Wright Edwards | 91 |
Bonnie Wright Binford Langley | 93 |
Francis Augustus Sayre and wife, Sarah Ann Thomas | 94 |
The Samuell Family in Dallas | 96 |
Robert Campbell Stubbs | 97 |
Early Mooneyham Family in Dallas | 99 |
T. J. McClain | 101 |
Jacob Lutz, Sr. Family | 101 |
The Lynch Family | 103 |
Andrew Jackson and Sarah Ann (Smith) Porter | 104 |
John Preston Potter and wife, Martha Ann Odom | 106 |
Walter Phillip Buhrer | 107 |
Albert and Sophia Cooper | 108 |
“When ‘Big Tex’ Went to Minnesota” (Tex Reynolds) | 118 |
Joseph Harrison Cox Family | 120 |
Ormwell Clark – Family History | 121 |
Emily Beeman, Frontier Mother | 122 |
Harrison Hustead | 123 |
William Leonard Smith and Family | 124 |
How the John Beemans Got Their Land Grant | 127 |
Family of Mary and Ed Spencer | 127 |
Mattie Agatha Pace and Owen Bates Corley – Remembering Grandfather and Grandmother | 129 |
Gennie Taylor and John Noel Harris | 131 |
Nicholas and Nancy Pace, Garland Pioneers | 133 |
” and Counting” (Earl O. Cullum) | 134 |
“Growing Up in the City With Two Horses” (Riek Family) | 135 |
Charles Masters Tucker Family | 138 |
Patrick McDonough | 140 |
Jessie Fitzgerald Tucker | 143 |
Nicolas Farine | 145 |
Christopher Columbus Tucker | 146 |
Charles Sidney Daniel, Sr. | 147 |
Elihu H. Tucker | 148 |
Paul Jones Prewitt and Sarah “Sally” Moss | 149 |
Harriett Harding and John Arstrong Rylie | 150 |
William Sidney Tucker | 152 |
William Newton Stults and Amanda Dealia Stratton | 153 |
John Morris Family of Cedar Hill | 154 |
Texana Christian and Tom Parks | 155 |
The Life of Rosa Willeford Pelton | 157 |
Anthony M. and Frances Brockman Leake | 159 |
Ross Kenneth Bagby, Sr. | 161 |
Harmon R. Raney Family | 162 |
Worthington Family of Irving | 163 |
Memories of Robert Van Adkins | 165 |
The Peterman Brothers | 166 |
My Father, Ralph Donald Bagby | 167 |
The Family of Zula Skillern and John Vest Folsom | 169 |
Clarence Orla and Janet Bright Bagby | 170 |
Alfred Bagby, Bronze Star Recipient | 173 |
Picnicking in the Cemetery | 174 |
Richard B. Corley | 175 |
A Family of Talent and Achievement (Bagby) | 176 |
Wesley Fletcher and Elizabeth (Pearl) Curtis | 178 |
Danny Clifton Carney | 179 |
James A. Forster Family | 181 |
William Ernest and Hessie Wade Reed | 182 |
“From Oilfield to Ambassador” (R. Richard Rubottom) | 183 |
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World War II Section: |
“Proud to be Back Home” (George A. Riek) | 187 |
“On the Homefront” by Frances James | 188 |
“Bud’s Best War Souvenir” (J.J. “Bud” O’Connell) | 188 |
Bernard Coffey – Service Record | 189 |
Mildred Coffey’s Story as a Vounteer Red Cross Worker | 191 |
James Walter Tinsley, Jr. | 191 |
The Herman Perry Saga | 192 |
“I Was a Nurse’s Aide During World War II” by Louise Buhrer | 194 |
“My Job Was Building the Airfields” by Ralph Kerr | 195 |
“Memories of World War II” by Dorothy (Clanton) Smith | 196 |
“The Dallas and the Texas in World War II” by Earl O. Cullum | 198 |
“Remembering V-E Day by Jack Warner Mackey | 198 |
“The War” by Eugene Marshall | 199 |
“Inducted in Amarillo” by Ruben Leal, Jr. | 201 |
“Aviation Cadets in World War II by John C. Winniford | 202 |
“After Pearl Harbor, Wake Island” by Lee Huffhines | 202 |
Judge Robert “Bob” Ellis Day | 203 |
A Military Career; Mayor of Seoul, Korea; Golf With Ike (James Sevier Killough) | 206 |
Elloise Huffines, Military Pilot | 209 |
Fred Frichot and Mary Peterman | 211 |
Electrician’s Mate, Janicek of the Silent Service | 212 |
Girl’s Victory Corps (Mae Riek) | 214 |
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Community Section: |
City Yet Country (Continued from “The Street That Never Was” by G. Eugene Marshall | 216 |
Accurate Machine Works | 217 |
Ervay Street Car | 220 |
When Electricity Came to Dallas | 221 |
“Treading the Boards in Dallas” by Frances James | 223 |
The Barrow-Parker Gang in Dallas County | 227 |
North Oak Cliff Baptist Church | 227 |
Herbert M. Greene, Architect | 228 |
Parkland Hospital at Dallas | 229 |
“Nevermore” by Eugene Marshall | 230 |
Neiman Marcus: An Employee’s Story | 232 |
The Cullum Companies | 235 |
Old City Park | 236 |
History of Webb Chapel Cemetery – Dallas County, Texas | 237 |
Coffey’s College: A Dallas Inspired Venture | 240 |
Katy Railroad | 242 |
E. L. Burks Variety Storoes | 243 |
Mesquite Community Fair Photo | 246 |
Developments on the Trinity River | 246 |
The River and Why We Are Here | 248 |
The Potter Art Metal Studio of Dallas | 250 |
Texas’ First Country Club | 251 |
First Christian Church of Rowlett | 253 |
The Flagman of Dallas | 256 |
Oriental Oil Company | 257 |
Bryan’s Smokehouse Barbecue Story | 257 |
Nelson’s Blacksmith and Woodwork Shop | 261 |
Early Local Doctors Doctored Sans MDs | 262 |
White Rock Creek | 263 |
The Bishop Arts Building | 266 |
Revolutionary War Widow Catherine Reed | 266 |
Last Manhattan Project Member | 268 |
Whatever Happened to Pig Stands?? | 269 |
Old City Park Print Shop | 270 |
Oak Cliff Christian Church | 273 |
Plumbs and Then Plumb Jelly for the Taking | 275 |
“The Street That Never Was” by Eugene Marshall | 276 |
Schultz Lumber Company | 278 |
Spake House Historical Notes | 279 |
Dallas Love Field – Photos | 280 |
Development of The Farmers Market | 282 |
Hampton Place Baptist Church | 282 |
Early Zahn Family of Dallas | 285 |
Williams Funeral Directors | 286 |
Pleasant Valley Store | 287 |
Smith Co. Real Estate, An Early Dallas Business | 289 |
Dallas’ First Skyscraper and John N. Harris, Jr. | 291 |
Number Please: Seagoville’s First Telephone Office | 292 |
East Dallas Christian Church | 293 |
The Whistling Doctor of Seagoville | 296 |
I Skated in the Century Room with Dot Franey by Mae Riek | 296 |
Greenville Avenue Christian Church | 298 |
Seagoville’s First School | 300 |
An Organist Reminisces | 301 |
The Seago Hotel | 303 |
Braden’s Cake Shop | 303 |
I Graduated Fifty-five Years Later by James Harris | 305 |
In Dallas County 1844-1877 – Elder Amon McCommas | 306 |
The Old Gingerbread House | 308 |
Liberty Grove’s First Gin | 314 |
Rose Hill’s Pioneer Doctor | 314 |
Sons of Hermann | 315 |