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Pryor, Dr. Samuel B., and young wife from Virginia and last from Arkansas, came 1846. His first child, Ashton R. (late police officer) was born in Dallas, Oeto- ber 29, 1847. Dr. P. was district clerk from December, 1846, to August, 1850; was the first mayor of Dallas, in 1856-'57
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and died in 1867. His widow and other children reside in sonthwestern Arkan- sas.
Porter, John F. and family, came before July, 1848.
Porter, George R., came single.
Paxton, Edwin H., came single, before 1848. Pound, Bales O. C., came single, before 1848. Pemberton, Gideon, came single, before 1848.
Roland, Joseph, and family, came before 1848.
Rieketts, Zedekiah, and family, before 1848. Ricketts, Daniel D. and David M., single. Reed, Benjamin, and family, before 1848. Ramsey, Samuel, and family, before 1848. Runyon, Silas R., and family, came before 1848.
Reedy, David W., came in 1845; his wife, Mary E., in 1844. The Rawlins family from Illinois.
Rawlins, Elder Roderick and wife, eame in 1844. Of their children, Louisa, married Lewis Hull; Naney, married Pleasant Taylor (both living in Dallas); Pleasant King married Mrs. Lydia Spruance: he died June 6, 1887; Lu- cinda married Samnel Keller; Tabitha married Carlos Wise; Mary married M. M. Miller; Roderick A. (Captain Aleck) married Virginia Bledsoe; Elder William married in Illinois.
Rawlins, Pleasant K., as above; his stepson, Thomas Spruance, married Bettie Bled- soe; his son A. H. Rawlins married first Maggie Swindells, second George Rogers; R. D. (Dod) married Henrietta Jacobs; John S., married Mary Peacock; Lncy A., married Robert Brotherton, who died in 1866 or '67, and she is now the wife of Irvine Lavender; Mary E.,
married James Henry Ellis; Benjamin S., died in 1863.
Rawlins, Elder William, son of Elder Kod- erick, and family, came in 1846. His children are IInbbard M., George, Allen, Frank, Malinda, Lucinda, and Mrs. Rich- ard T. Bandy.
Rogers, Elijah, married Lowina Crowley. Robinson, John B., came before July, 1848. Robertson, Mrs. Elizabeth, and family before July, 1848.
Robertson, IIngh, and family, before July, 1848.
Robertson, Joseph M., came single, before July, 1848.
Rhodes, Elisha L., and family, before July, 1848.
Rhodes, Frederick, and family, before July, 1848.
Ray, Robert, and family came from, Illinois in 1845. Of his children, all coming with him, Susan married Andrew T. Nanny, and Mary married Benjamin F. Andrews, both in Illinois; William mar- ried Lucinda Hart; Elizabeth married Abe Hart; Rebecca married John II. Daniel, a soldier in the Mexican war; Nancy married Timothy Caldwell; Jane inarried Joseph Lockett; of twin boys, Robert married Emeline Me Comas, and Samuel married Miss White; Martha married James Kinchelow, who died a prisoner in Camp Donglas, Chicago: ten and all married.
Ray, George M., came in 1846, from Tennes- see. His wife Subrina is now the widow of James Sheppard, residing in Dallas, with her stepdaughter Mrs. E. A. (Dr. A. A.) Johnston.
Rowe, William, and family, before July, 1848. Rowe William B., and family, before July, 1848.
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Rowe Jolın M. and William H., single, before July, 1848.
Riley, James R. and family, before, July 1848. Riley Thomas, came single, before July, 1848. Ramsey, Isaac, and family, before July, 1848. Romine, William, came single, before July, 1848.
Reedy, E. L., came single, before July, 1848. Renfro, Creath, and family, removed to the frontier, where he and his son were killed by the Indians in 1859 and '60.
Ray, James, came single, before July, 1848. Ream, Mrs. Sarah, and family, before July 1848.
Ream, Sylvester, came single, before July, 1848.
Roberts, Joel, and family, before July, 1848. Ramsey, Samuel, and family, before July, 1848.
Rattan, Thomas, and family, came from Illi- nois in 1841; settled in Collin. Of his children, Hamp, then of Bird's Fort, was killed by Indians, one and one-half miles southwest of Carrollton, Dallas county, Christmas day, 1841; Littleton ; John died in Collin; Mary married William Fitzhugh; Harriet married An- drew J. Witt, and died in Dallas; Ann married James W. Throckmorton; Hugh married a daughter of David Turner; Jennic married Mr. Moore, and died in Collin; Tollie married Robert Dowell, and lives in Collin; Edward married Miss Stiff, and lives in Collin; Louisa married Hogan Witt (cousin in Preston), of Collin; Temperance married John Kincaid; Thomas lives near Van Al- styne.
Robinson, William, married Ann Matterson. Robinson, J. M., married Lonisa Newton. Sheppard, Mrs. Subrina, daughter of Hugh Brown, of Georgia, came to Dallas the
wife of George M. Ray, in 1846; her second husband was Elder Thacker V. Griffin, and she is now the widow of James Sheppard, residing with her step- daughter, Mrs. E. A. (Dr. A. A.) John- ston.
Smith, Patrick P., a soldier at Monterey in 1846; son of Abraham T. Smith, who was killed by Indians on the Brazos river in 1841; now dead.
Shahan, David, and family, came in 1844 or 1845.
Shahan, William P., came single, in 1844 or 1845.
Smith, Chilton, and family, came in 1844 or 1845.
Sprowls, William, and family, came from Illi- nois in 1844 or 1845.
Samson, Dr. Jonathan L., came in 1845; visited California and died. His widow married the late Mr. Bourgeois.
Sharrock, James, and family, before 1848. Sharrock, Everard, and family before 1848.
Sharrock, Everard, Jr., came single, before 1848.
Sharrock, George W., came single before 1848.
Simmons, James A., and family, died early. Stewart, Samuel A., and family, before 1848. Sloan, Robert (a gallant and early Indian fighter), and family, came from Red River county in 1844. He commanded a scouting party through Dallas county in 1840; died in Stephenville, in 1886. Sloan, Samuel (brother of Robert), came from Red River county in 1844; was a soldier in the Texan army of 1836. He now lives in Stephens county.
Stewart, William A., married Susan O. Har- wood.
Slayback, Anderson, married Lucinda Chap- man.
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Stone, Thomas, married Elizabeth Ross. Seroggins, William, married Lueretia Strong. Smith, Rev. James A., and family, came from Mississippi in 1846. Hle, his twin brother Wesley, now of Eastland county, and his brother William A., superin- tendent of the State Blind Asylum during the war, were all Methodist preachers, and each one in the locality of his residence; from his ruddy com- plexion and bristly hair, was known by the sobriquet of "Cedar Top,"-by the way, three excellent and sincere men. James A. Smith's children were: John Wesley, married Miss Wilburn; Joshua La Fayette, married Miss Daniels; was a captain in Stone's Sixth Texas Cavalry ; murdered in Dallas, in 1867, by Wilson, an attache of the Freedmen's Burean, who fled the country; Robert married Sophironia Winn; Fanny Killen married John M. Laws, and is dead.
Swing, Matt L., came in 1848; now in New Jersey.
Snow, William J., caine single before 1848; married Eleanor Otwell.
Snow, J. M., came from Arkansas in 1848.
Stadden, Seth, and family, from Illinois in 1846.
Story, John L., before 1848.
Sernteh, Nathan, single, before 1848.
Story, Thomas C., single, before 1848.
Starkey, Jesse S., before 1848.
Simpson, Lionel, before 1848.
Smith, Absalom, and family, before 1848.
Snyder, John D., single, before 1848.
Seurloek, John, and family, before 1848.
Sewell, James M. and Thomas J., single, be- fore 1848.
Sweet, Levi J., and family, before 1848.
Sage. Daniel, before 1848.
Taylor, Pleasant, in Illinois married Nancy,
daughter of Elder Roderiek Rawlins; eame in 1844. Their children were Al- fred, Alonzo, Addie, Paris, all dead; -, killed by a pet bear; living- Pleasant King, who married Annie Col- lins, and Sophronia, wife of R. P. Aun- pangh. Alfred married Lizzie Green, now the wife of Frank M. Ervay.
Tuggle, Henry, married Minerva A. Biflle. Trees, Crawford, came in 1845; in 1846 married Annie M. Kimmel, being the first couple married in the new county, in July or August, 1846, the record being destroyed. Her name is errone- onsly printed Henderson on a former page.
Thomas, John (the first chief justice in Dal- las county); wife Ilannah and children came from Missouri in 1844. Their ehildren: John died a soldier in Mexico; Alex. A., also a soldier in Mexico, mar- ried Mary E. Armstrong; Ellis C. mar- ried Julia Moon; Elizabeth B. married Charles II. Durgin; Eliza married Reese Jones; Sarah A. married P. A. Sayre. Turner, William A., came single, before July, 1848; married Alinda Turner.
Toliver, J. M., from Illinois in 1846.
Tilley, Jefferson, eame in 1844; married Eliza Cole.
Thompson, Marlin M., came in 1848; mar- ried Lney Horton.
Turner, Levi, and family, before 1848.
Turner, William, and family, 1848.
Turner, William (?), single, before 1848.
Taylor, Calvin, single, before 1848.
Trimble, William C., single, before 1848.
Theker, John S., and family, before 1848.
Vanee, Thomas, and family, before 1848. Vanee, John C. and family, before 1848.
Vanee, Charles K., and family, before 1848. Valentine, Henry K., and family, before 1848.
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Vernoy, Thomas, came single in 1845, mar- ried Julia A. Bast and died early.
Vernoy, Julia, married first Mr. Bast and second William Jones.
Vail, Hiram, came single, married Betsey Keenan.
Weatherford, Money, and family, from Illi- nois in 1845.
Weatherford, Hairbird, single, from Illinois in 1845.
Wampler, Thomas J., and family, before 1848. Wampler, Valentine, and family, before 1848. Wampler, Martin, J. S., Austin C. and Will- iam R. came single.
Walker, William J., and family, from Ten- nessee, 1846.
Walker, A. G., from Kentucky, 1845.
Wilson, Richard, and family, before 1848. Wilson, Aaron B., and family, before 1848. Wilson, George, and family, from Missouri
in 1840; from Lamar county in 1848. Among his children are Thomas, Charles, James K. P. and Nancy E., wife of James N. Wittenburg. He yet lives, over eighty, near Cedar Hill; was Lieu- tenant Colonel in Young's regiment at the close of the Mexican war.
Williams, Thomas C., and family, from Ten- nessee in 1845. Among his children are T. J., J. B., E. A., M. J. and R. H. Wright, John W., and family, before 1848. Wright, John W. (2), and family, before 1848. Wright, John, and family, before 1848. Wand, Henry, and family, before 1848. Wilburn, Edward, and family, came in 1845. Wilburn, Hiram, and family, came in 1845. Winn, Francis A., and family came in 1845; among his children were Berry; W. M. married Ann R. West; Emma, married John R. West; Viola H., married Ed- ward W. Hunt; Helena, married T. J. Winn.
West, James, and family, before 1848. Whitlock, John, and family, before 1849.
West, Robert J., and family, came in 1845; of his children: Ann R. married Dr. C. C. Gillespie; Alice married Thomas H. Floyd; John R. married Emma Winn; Robert H. lives in violation of Genesis, chapter 2d, verse 24, notwithstanding he was the first native to be county judge.
Warner, John, came single before 1848. Webb, Alexander W., from Illinois to Bowie county in 1840; to Bird's Fort in 1841; escaped when the Indians killed Rattan ; settled with his family in Dallas county in 1842.
Webb, Isaac B., and family, from Tennessee in 1844; of his children, William D. married Olivia Merrill; J. Whit; Sarah; J. N. was born in Dallas county, July 1, 1846.
Winneford, Norvell R., married Matilda Goar.
Winneford, William, came single.
Witt, Preston, came in 1842, died in 1877; his widow lives in Kansas.
Witt, Wade H., and family, came in 1845.
Witt, Andrew J., came in 1845; married Harriet Rattan; both dead.
Witt, Pleasant, twin of Preston, came in 1842, and is dead.
Witt, Eli, and family. Witt, John, came single.
The above were all brothers, from illinois. Wise, Carlos, came single before 1848; mar- ried Tabitha Rawlins.
Young, John and family, came before 1848. Zachary, Mrs. Sarah, and two children came from Kentucky in 1845; her daughter married Henry C. Long and died early.
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EARLY INCIDENTS Dallas News of July, 1892.
Judge Nat. M. Burford was among the first officials to serve Dallas county in a judicial capacity after it was organized. Ile pos- sesses a ready memory and is an interesting conversationalist. Judge Burford came from Smith county, Tennesse, to Jefferson, Texas, in February, 1846. He lived in Jefferson until October, 1848, when he came to Dallas, where he has since continuonsly resided. His official career began when he was elected dis- trict attorney of the fourteenth judicial dis- trict in 1850. He was re-elected in 1852, and in February, 1856, he was elected Judge for the new Sixteenth Judicial District, which had just been created of the counties of Dallas, Collin, Grayson, Cooke, Wise, Denton, Parker, Montague, Jack, Young, Johnson and Ellis.
While he was serving as district judge in 1862 he entered the Confederate army, a member of Good's battery, and in the fall of that year he was discharged by the secretary of war and authorized to raise a regiment of infantry or cavalry as to him seemed best. He came home and soon had formed the Nineteenthi Texas Cavalry. He was elected Colonel and hé reported in person to the secretary of war at Richmond, Virginia. IIe conunanded the regiment in Arkansas, Lonisi- ana and Missouri, but owing to failing health he resigned and returned home in 1864. In 1862, at the outbreak of the war, it is said that the Congressional Democratic convention which met in Dallas, would have nominated
him for Congress, but war had been declared and the convention declined to nominate.
In 1866 lic was Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Eleventh Texas Legis- lature. In 1872 or 1874 he was elected County Judge of Dallas county; in 1878 he was elected Judge for the new district com- posed of the counties of Dallas and Ellis. He served two years and resigned on account of failing health, terminating his long carcer as a public officer. " I have no more aspirations to get office," lie said in a short speech at the reunion. "There is not an office in the world that I would have. All that I desire is to have the love and respect of my neigh- bors and friends and to be permitted to spend my remaining days in peace. I have nearly reached three-score and ten and I want to be ready to answer my Maker's call."
" When I was elected District Judge in 1856," said, Judge Burford, " the district was composed of twelve counties, and now with the county of Dallas divided into two districts there are, I believe, five times as many cases tried in either court at one term as I tried in my district in a whole year. I believe this is true of civil suits filed. Even taking into consideration the increase of pop- ulation, I think the increase of crime has ex- ceeded the growth in number of the people. Crime has increased in its enormity, but I don't know that there has been any increase in misdemeanors. When I was District Attor- ney my income arose largely from gaming cases prosecuted in the older counties of the district. During my first terin as District
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Judge I tried only three murder cases; the other felony cases tried were for horse-steal- ing. 'The high crime of murder increased with the advent of railroads. They brought a float- ing population, adventurers and people of un- settled habits, and robbery and murder began to increase. The people who came before the railroads came with the intention of facing the dangers of a new country and settling homes for their children. They were plain, honest people who were not roving about over the country, and the old pioneers knew each other, they shared with each other, they welcomed the honest toiling stranger and in social ties they became cemented with a bond of brotherhood. In the trial of cases these days there are more continuances and post- ponements than we had.
"I remember a remarkable case which I had to prosecute when I was District Attor- ney," Judge Burford continued as he drew together tlie threads of the past. "There was a promising young man by the name of Steelman, a grandson of Judge Underwood of Georgia. He came to this country at the age of nineteen early in the '50s and he soon got to drinking and dissipating. One day at Palestine he entered a saloon drunk, and an- other young man was in there playing a fiddle. Steelman passed close to the fiddler, whose el- bow struck him, whereupon Steelinan turned upon him and fired in his face with a small pistol loaded with bird shot, putting his eyes out. The young man testified that the flash of the pistol was the last light he ever saw. Steelman as soon as he had fired turned and ran out of the saloon and jumped on a horse,
which was standing at the rack near the sa- loon. The horse ran with him about two miles and drew up at a house, where Steel- man dismounted and going into the house got on the bed. It turned out that he had mounted the horse of the young man whose eyes he had shot ont, and the horse carried him to the home of the widowed mother of the young man, where he was found by the officers! The shooting aroused considerable prejudice against him, and General Thomas J. Rosk, the United States Senator, who had known Steelman's father back in Georgia, came from Nacogdoches to defend him when the case came up for trial. He succeeded in getting a change of venue to Athens, in Hen- derson county. The case was called for trial there, and when court met Steelman received a letter from Rusk to the effect that his wife was sick and could not come. Ile told Steel- man to try and get the case continued, and if he could not get a continuance to get Judge John H. Reagan, now chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission, to defend him. As soon as Stechinan read the letter he said he knew that the reason why General Rusk did not come was because he could not bear to see a grandson of Judge Underwood sent to the penitentiary. Steelman never denied the shooting. He said that he might have done it, but if he did he had no recollection of it. He was forced to go to trial and Judge Rea- gan defended him.
" The jury returned a verdict of guilty and assessed his punishment at seven years' con- finement in the penitentiary. Judge Bennet H. Martin was on the beneh, and I never
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shall forget the scene when he sentenced Steelman. He said to him: "Now, you are hardly grown and you have a short sentence. It should be a lesson to you, and you will be discharged in time to yet make a sober, up- right citizen.' Steelman, in receiving the sentence, replied: 'Judge, you know there is no respectable society that will receive an ex-convict. I can never dismiss the thought from my mind, no matter where I go, that I am an ex-convict. I have disgraced my family and I am not worthy of the position of an honest and upright citizen. I have severed all the sacred family ties that bound me to my inother and my kindred, and by my own act I will be disgraced with the stripes of a con- vict. If I should get out and try to lead a sober life and be a respectable citizen some man would some day say That man has been in the penitentiary,' and then, Judge, I would try to kill him. There is a society along the Rio Grande that receives ex-conviets, but I eannot go there. No, sir; I will remain in the penitentiary.' Steelman cried while he talked to the judge, and his candor, earnest- ness and his despair at the thought of his be- ing a convict caused a number in the court- room to weep. This trial and sentence oc- curred in 1853. In November, 1855, Gen- eral Rusk, who was supporting the Texas and Pacific railway bill in congress, came to Texas to look over the line for the proposed road from Marshall to the Colorado river. He camped near Dallas and he came in to see me. lle told me that he wanted to go to Anstin to secure a pardon for Mr. Steelinan. Ile said that he had been laboring industriously for six
months past to get Steelman to accept a pardon. He says, 'Heis the most remarkable man I ever seen. The superintendent of the peniten- tiary writes to me that he has not locked Steelman up the last year. IIe says he works hard, carries the key to his own cell, has nothing to do with anybody, and declares that he would not leave the penitentiary, and they have agreed to keep him employed there his life-time. But at last,' said General Rusk, 'I got him to consent to accept a par- don upon the condition that I would take him direct from the penitentiary to New York and secure him a place in the United States navy. He would not agree to serve unless he was sent to foreign shores. I have secured a commission for him and he is to ship from New York to Africa.' About that time Governor Bell was elected to con- gress and " Smoky Jim " Henderson, a per- sonal friend of General Rusk, became gov- ernor upon the resignation of Governor Bell. Henderson granted the pardon and General Rusk and took Steelman to New York. IIe re- fused to even pass through his native State, and he said that he did not want his mother and his old Georgia acquaintances to know what had become of him. I was told that he remained two days in New York and then shipped to Africa, as General Rusk said he would do. I have never since heard of Steel- man. In all my dealing with men charged with crime he was the most remarkable man that I ever met."
THE PIONEER ASSOCIATION
Of Dallas county, Texas, was organized July 13, 1875. Following is a list of the
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original members. Those marked (*) are
dead. Those marked (+) have moved.
Anderson, John, and wife, Emily J.
*Browder, Edward C.
*Beeman, Samnel, and wife, *Mary A. Beeman, Wm. H., and wife, Martha.
*Baird, George W., and wife, Mary E. Burford, Nathaniel M., and wife, *Mary J., who died March 23, 1888.
Brown, John Henry, and wife, Mary Mitchell Brown.
Cox, John H., E. A., D. B., M., H. B. and Mrs. L.
*Cochran, Mrs. Nancy J. and her children, viz .: John H. and wife, Martha; Arch- elaus M. and wife, Mary A .; William P. and wife, Amanda; James M. and wife, * Maggie B.
*Cameron, David R., and wife, *Susan.
*Cameron, Chris C., L. Frank Cameron, E. A. Cameron.
*Crockett, John M., died August 4, 1887.
*Cole, James M., and wife, Sarah A .; John H. Cole, and wife, Elizabeth; Martin V. Cole, and wife, Maggie; +Joseph Cole, and wife, +Jennie.
*Collins, James, and wife, +Nancy; +Thomas Collins, and wife, +Mary; * Albert G. Collins, and wife, Pamelia.
*Coats, James A., and wife, *N. A .; Marion A. Coats.
+Carter, Wormley, born in Loudoun county, Virginia, June 16, 1816,-married in Dallas county Lucy Anderson, and lives, since 1880, near Lewisville, Denton county.
Coombes, Z. Ellis
Durgin, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Daniels, John H., and wife, Rebecca. Ellis, Mrs. Thomas. *Elam, Wm. B., and wife, Mary.
*Elam, Isaac, and wife, *Margaret.
Freeman, Wm: S., and wife, *Susan. *Fondren, Jolın R.
*Good, John J., and wife, +Susan A., now of El Paso.
Gracey, Marquis D. L .; Emory A. Gracey. +Gaskins, George, and wife, +Easter.
+Glover, George W., and wife, *M. Hord, William H., and wife, *Mary J. Hart, Abram, and wife, Elizabeth.
*Hill, Mrs. S. J.
*Harwood, Alexander, died July 31, 1885.
+Ilanght, Peter, and wife, Susan J .; +Samuel A. Haught; * Adam C. Haught.
Jenkins, Mrs. Cynthia.
*Jones, Mrs. Eliza.
Knight, Gabriel A., and wife, Hannah E.
*Keenan, Thomas. Lawrence, nee Coats, Mrs. John P.
*Laws, Mrs. Fanny.
+ Murphy, nee Witt, Mrs. Lucy V.
*McCommas, Elder Amon.
* McCoy, John C., died April 30, 1887.
Patrick, Callaway H., and wife, Rhoda E.
Reedy, David W., and wife, Mary E.
Rawlins, R. A., and wife, Virginia Bledsoe; R. E. Rawlins.
Smith, John W., and wife, *Lucinda Black- burn.
Sayer, Mrs. S. A.
*Thomas, Alexander A., and wife, Mary.
*Witt, Preston, and wife, +Mrs. H. A. Witt; +Wade H. Witt, and wife, +Mrs. D. G .; John T. Witt, born in Dallas county in 1846; G. A. Witt, born in Dallas county in 1848.
Webb, Alexander W, and wife, *Lucinda; *Isaac B. Webb, and wife, *Mary H .; Win. D. Webb, and wife, Olivia; J. Witt Webb; Miss Sarah Webb; * I. N. Webb, and wife, Fanny.
Williams, Thomas C.
These were the original members. The
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original officers were John C. McCoy, presi- dent; William H. HIord, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Durgin, Isaac B Webb, Mrs. Naney J. Coch- ran, vice presidents; Edward C. Browder, secretary; John W. Smith, treasurer; Elder Amon McCommas, Chaplain. Executive Committee: Mrs. E. B. Durgin, John M. Crockett, John H. Cochran, Mrs. Martha Beeman, Mrs. Fanny Laws, Win. B. Elam, R. A. Rawlins and Mrs. Thomas Ellis.
Nine years passed without another meet- ing, but, beginning at Shady View Park in 1884, there have been annual reunions ever since,-in 1885 at the same place, in 1886 and 1887 in the City Park; and in 1888 at the Park Pavilion in Oak Cliff. John C. McCoy was president till his death in April, 1887; and since the reunion in July, 1887, John Henry Brown has been president.
The membership has largely increased, not- withstanding the deaths and removals from the county, and some not so marked are doubtless dead and others have removed. Among the members as old Texans from other counties, but now resident in Dallas, are Mrs. Angeline Keiper, Mrs. Julia Hens- ley, Mrs. Gabriella Snodgrass, Richard D. Martin and his wife Jane, fifty years in Texas, Mrs. Clara Brown Mitchell, born on Mata- gorda bay, Mrs. Rebecca Murdock, Mrs. Emeline Flinn, Mrs. Martha Hoyt, Mrs. Lizzie Roberts, Mrs. Robert M. Forbes, Mrs. Virginia Randall, Mrs. Angusta E. Randall, Dr. Frederick E. Hughes and wife Mary E., *Charles C. Bryant, *Mrs. Welthea Bryant Leachman.
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