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Mr. Malone was married at Logansport. Illinois. on September 24, 1884, to Miss Mary J. Margrave, a member of a prominent Illinois family. Her par- ents, Thomas and Mrs. Nancy (Webb) Margrave, were natives of Illinois. Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Malone, namely: Richard T., of San Antonio; Verna L., now Mrs. Arthur Skillern of Dallas; Daisy, now Mrs. Clyde Cockrell of Dallas; Madge, Ralph W. Emory Duncan, Jr., and Marvin, of Dallas. The Malone home is located at 537 East Jefferson Street.
Mr. Malone died in Dallas March 28, 1908. He was a member of the I. O. O. F. and the Methodist Church, in both of which he was an active worker. Throughout the period in which Mr. Malone was a
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resident of Dallas he was an active worker for the betterment of his city and in his travels was a consistent booster for the North Texas Metropolis. Having spent practically his entire life in the vari- ous branches of the implement business, Mr. Malone was regarded as an authority on implements of all kinds, and as a salesman he was one of the best of the entire country, and built up a large business for the various organizations with which he was as- sociated. His death not only was a distinct loss to the implement world but to the Southwest in general.
B ENJAMIN FRANKLIN NASH, a native Texan, throughout his life was a factor in the business and agricultural circles of Texas, his various activities in these fields being interrupted only by the four years spent in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Mr. Nash was born in the historic old town of Nacogdoches, March 10, 1837. His father, Cooper Benton Nash, was a pioneer in cabinet making in Texas, and also was engaged in farining in Nacog- doches county for many years. His mother. Mrs. (Crabtree) Nash, was a native of Nacogdoches, Texas, and a member of a pioneer family of this state. He attended private school at intervals during his childhood and when eighteen years of age in- listed in the Confederate Army. He was in General Sul Ross' Brigade, being a bugler for this noted man in several battles. He was a member of Company C and saw service in Louisiana and Mississippi, being discharged at the close of the war in 1865. While serving in the army, romance entered his life in the meeting at Kosciusko, Mississippi, of the southern girl who later became his wife and the mother of his children. After the close of the war, he became the manager of the Quinn Lumber Company's mills in Mississippi where he remained for seven years. In the fall of 1875 he removed to Mexia, Texas and for one year farmed in Limestone county. He then removed to Dallas and engaged in the dairy business which he conducted until about 1895, at which time he sold his dairy in- terests and purchased a fine farm in Ellis county, where for several years he was actively engaged in farming.
Mr. Nash was married in Magnolia, Mississippi, November 1, 1865, to Miss Belinda Nash, a native of Mississippi and a member of a prominent family of that state. Her father, Dr. J. A. Nash, a pioneer of the medical profession, settled in Mis- sissippi in the early 50's and at the outbreak of the Civil War volunteered his services and became a member of the 13th Mississippi Brigade and saw active service at the Battles of Shiloh and Corinth, besides many skirmishes. Her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ransom (Nash) was a member of a pioneer family of Virginia, her ancestors coming to that state from England. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Nash, four of whom are living and are residents of Dallas: Alice, now J. J. Moore : whose husband is a well known contractor of this city; Julia, now Mrs. G. H. King and Mamie, at home and James B., also at home. The grand- children of Mrs. Nash are: Newton Blanchard Evans: Norma. now Mrs. B. Higginbotham; Helen. now Mrs. T. E. Thompson; Ruth Evans. a well known school teacher; Dora, now Mrs. Jim Culber- son and Ludy Evans of Dallas. The Nash home is located at 403 East 9th Street.
Mr. Nash died in Dallas, May 23, 1894. He was a member of the Baptist church and active in th.v various organizations of this church. He was throughout his life an active worker for the better- ment of his community and state and had a host of friends throughout Texas who know him as a gentleman of the highest standard, who assisted in every way in aiding his fellow man.
R. THOMAS EATON CRANFILL of Dallas was for many years one of the leading physicians of the Lone Star State. After giving up the practice of medicine he en. gaged in the insurance business and for a period of thirty-five years was a leader in this field. A feu- ture of his long and successful career in the insur- ance business was that he wrote many of the largest insurance policies that were written in Texas during the period in which he was active in this field.
A native son .of Texas, Dr. Cranfill was born November 17, 1854. His father, Eaton A. Cran- fill, a native of Kentucky, was a member of a well known family of that State. His mother was Mrs. Martha ( Galloway) Cranfill. His early education was received in the public schools of Texas after which he became a student of Vanderbilt University from which he received the M. D. degree. Later, he attended Eclectic College in Cincinnati, after which he returned to Texas and started the practice of medicine in Hill County. In a few years he removed to Coryell County where he practiced for several years going then to Waco. While residing in that city he gave up the practice of medicine and en- tered the insurance field in which he met with sig- nal success, becoming one of the best known in- surance men of this State.
Dr. Cranfill was married in Coryell County Texas, August 17 1886, to Miss Annie Cooper, a native of Tennessee, and a member of a pioneer family of Texas who came here in the early days. Her parents, J. M. and Susan (Cardwell) Cooper, were natives of Tennessee and members of promi- nent families of that State. Three children were born to Dr. and Mrs. Cranfill: Hallie. now Mrs. Travis Golay of Denver, Colorado; Britt E., well known in the commercial life of Wichita Falls, and Truett B., a leader among the younger generation of business men of Dallas. The Cranfill home is lo- cated at 3601 Drexel Drive.
Dr. Cranfill died at Dallas, Texas, on April 22. 1926. He was a member of the A. F. & A. M .. Knights Templar, Shrine, Knights of Pythias. B. P. O. E. and the Baptist Church. Of an old and hon- ored Texas family, Dr. Cranfill was true to the teachings and traditions of the Lone Star State. He was a brother of Dr. J. B. Crantill of Dallas, well known in the religious, educational, political and journalistic circles of the Southwest. The Career of Dr. Cranfill was a most remarkable one and few men have been continuously so long in the field of insurance as he was. He was regarded as an authority on insurance matters, knowing this field as few have known it. In the profession for which he was educated, he was one of the leaders of his time, and when he decided to leave the profes- sional world for a business career, he put his whole heart in the work, and none who knew him can doubt that this was the opportunity he saw to best serve the State he loved that chiefly inspired him. A great and gallant Texan passed on when Dr. Thomas Eaton Cranfill died.
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ACOB DAVIS CULLUM was one of the pioneers in the real estate business of Dal- las, Texas, and for more than half a cen- tury was one of the leaders of this field in this city.
A native of Tennessee, Mr. Cullum was born in Tipton County April 21, 1848. His father, the Rev. M. H. Cullum, was one of the leading Ministers of the Methodist Church of Tennessee, and after re- moving to Dallas in 1872, he organized the Oak Lawn Methodist Church during that year and throughout this life was a leader in Church circles. His mother, Mrs. Elizabeth (Davis) Cullum, was a member of a prominent Tennessee family. His education was received in the schools of his native State. He came to Texas with his parents in 1872 settling in Dallas County, where he farmed for a few years. He then removed to Dallas and with Mr. C. B. Gillespie, formed a partnership for oper- ating in the field of real estate and for twenty years was the foremost real estate firm of Dallas. After two decades in business together, they sepa- rated and as each had reared a family in the mean- time, each took his respective sons into his business. Mr. Cullum's firm was known as the J. D. Cullum Company, which was one of the best known and is numbered among the oldest, if not the very oldest real estate organization in this city.
Mr. Cullum was married in Buffalo Gap, Taylor County, Texas, June 8, 1888, to Miss Eudona Haynes, a native of Bonham, Texas. Her father, A. J. Haynes, a native of Kentucky, was for many years a well known Presbyterian minister of Taylor County Texas, where he had removed in 1882 and lived for the remainder of his life. Her mother, Mrs. Melissa (Patterson) Haynes, was a native of Mckenzie, Tennessee, and a member of one of that city's leading families. The children of this mar- riage are: Landon Haynes Cullum and Franklin Page Cullum, well known business men of Wiehita Falls, Texas, and Jacob Davis Cullum of Dallas, who heads the J. D. Cullum Company, one of the leading realty firms of this city. By a former marriage with Miss Louisa Harper, Mr. Cullum had five daughters, three of whom are living, namely: Mrs. W. F. Bryan of Austin, Mrs. C. C. Ussery of Gainesville and Mrs. O. E. Fellers of Dallas. The Cullum home is located at 2731 Oak Lawn Avenue, and while the house is not the first one, the family home has occupied this plot of ground for over for- ty years.
Mr. Cullum died in Dallas June 2, 1924. In addi- tion to being one of the leading real estate mien of Dallas, he was also one of the city's most esteemed citizens. He took an active part in matters having to do with the development of his city and State. Besides serving for several terms as County Com- missioner, he held other offices of trust and helped in every way in the upbuilding of Dallas. He was a member of the Oak Lawn Methodist Church, having united with this church soon after its organization by his father, the Rev. M. H. Cullum, one of the best loved Ministers of Texas. He was for many years a steward in the church and for more than twenty years Superintendent of the Sunday School. Mr. Cullum was of a strong personality and throughout his career a man of large influence in Dallas, not only because of the esteem and friend- ship in which he was held by those who knew him personally, but because of the knowledge, judgment and experience he brought to bear in managing and
directing the policies of his business. His career brought not only honor to himself but credit to the State of Texas at large and Dallas in particular.
OBERT JACKSON for several years was a leader in the brokerage and real estate circles of Dallas, Texas, having located in this city in 1910 and soon thereafter made his influence felt in the various lines of business in which he was engaged.
A native of Ireland, Mr. Jackson was born July 16, 1862. His father, Robert Jackson, also a native of Ireland, was one of a family of nine children and came to America when the subject of this sketch was a small child, landing at Galveston, but coming almost direct to Collin County where, for a period of twelve years, he was engaged in farming and stock raising. He then removed to Dallas where he lived the remainder of his life. His mother, Mrs. Mary Jackson, was a member of a well known family of Ireland. His education was received in the public schools of Collin County prior to the time he was fourteen years of age. He left school at that time and engaged in the trading busi- ness, and while a very young man learned the fun- damentals of general business. For many years he was engaged in the brokerage business in Collin County, dealing in various lines and also real estate, handling some of the most important real estate transactions in that county. After removing to Dallas he continued in the brokerage and real estate business, handling city property and farm lands.
Mr. Jackson was married in Manor, Travis Coun- ty, Texas, February 18, 1904 to Miss Rebecca Mary Riggle, a native of Travis County and a member of a pioneer Texas family. She graduated in art at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, June 4, 1902, having covered a five-year course in three years. Her father, Ruben S. Riggle, a native of Tennessee, served throughout the Civil War in the Confederate Army, was seriously wounded and died from the effects of his wounds. During his service he was captured and held a prisoner for six months, but escaped at the end of that time and joined his regiment. Her mother, Martha Ann (Eppright) Riggle, was a member of a pioneer Texas family, her parents having removed to the Lone Star State in 1846 and settled in Travis County, where they became a factor in the business and agricultural life. Her great-grand-father was a native of Hol- land and came to America in the latter part of the eighteenth century, settling in Missouri. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Jackson: Vel- ma Anne, now Mrs. Victor H. Lindlahr of Chicago, whose husband, Dr. V. H. Lindlahr has one of the leading sanitariums of that part of the country, located at Amhurst, a suburb of Chicago, where he also has a large private practice and is a well known writer and lecturer on medical subjects. The other two children, Robert Riggle and Quincy Mary, are at home.
Mr. Jackson died in Dallas March 15, 1915. He was a member of the A. F. and A. M., the Scottish Rite and a Shriner of Hella Temple. He was a member of the Christian Church and of other or- ganizations of Dallas. Mr. Jackson was a man of large heart and generous impulses, and gave freely to the endowment of charity as well as to individual appeals. He was successful in his business ven- tures, and to him success meant opportunity for doing good.
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OHN MAXEY LOWERY, of Dallas, served Dallas' County for almost thirty-five years as a public official and was known as one of the most efficient officers this county ever had. Mr. Lowery knew practically every eiti- zen of Dallas County, who in turn loved him for his fine traits of character and for his great work among the boys and girls while serving as probation officer. Many of the younger generation of this county have Mr. Lowery to thank for their start on the right road after some minor offense which might have led to crime, but for his support and timely advice. He came to Dallas in 1894 when twenty-one years of age and started work on a farm near this city. During this period he applied all his spare moments and many hours extending far into the night, to study, as his early educational advan- tages were limited. At the end of three months' farm work and study he started working for Dallas County as road supervisor, later becoming deputy constable, which office he held for four years. He then acted as a guard for state convicts for a period of six years. In 1905 he became deputy sheriff of Dallas County, and served in this office for three years. He then was made probation officer, serving in this office for six years. During this period he handled more than five thousand boys and girls, who since that time have grown to manhood and womanhood, settled in Dallas and elsewhere, but all would speak with one voice in the highest praise of Mr. Lowery and the methods he used while serving as probation officer. In 1919, he was elected tax collector, which he held for three terms and during his last campaign he won, over his opponent, by the largest majority ever given a man in Dallas County. Hle went out of this offiee December 31, 1925, after serving the county for thirty-three consecutive years. His retirement was caused by failing health. John Maxey Lowery was a man of unusual ability along many lines, and possessed a personality that made and held his friends by thousands.
A native of Tennessee, Mr. Lowery was born in Sparta, November 23, 1873. His father, Hugh L. Lowery, also a native of Tennessee, spent his life in farming in that state. He was a Confederate soldier and served throughout the war between the states, was wounded, captured and held prisoner for many months. Mr. Lowery attended the schools of Sparta, Tennessee, where he advanced as far as the fourth grade, but his full education was ob- tained through self-help and his contact with men and things in after life. He worked on his father's farm until he came to Texas.
Mr. Lowery was married in Dallas, November 16, 1902, to Miss Abbye Minor Thigpen, a native of Dallas and a member of one of the pioneer families of Dallas County. Her father, J. E. Thigpen, lived in Dallas County for a period of fifty-six years, during which time he was engaged in farming and stock raising. Mr. Thigpen was one of the most highly esteemed citizens of this part of the state, and although he was modest, he was active in every movement for the betterment of his community and state. He died here in 1924. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Lowery: Grace, married to I .. F. Scott, who is the manager of the Western Auto Supply Company, of El Paso; Kittie Lou, married to Alfred G. Cain, manager of the Cain Oil Company of Dallas, and Kathleen, married to Vernon D. Singleton, associated with his father
in the Singleton Dry Cleaning business of Dallas. The Lowrey home is located at 1214 Belleau Drive.
Mr. Lowery died in Dallas, December 1, 1928. He was a member of the I. O. O. F., the Kiwanis Club, the Oak Cliff Commercial Association and the Rosemont Christian Church. He was a deacon in this church for a period of four years and throughout his residence here was active in church work. Mr. Lowery had an abiding faith in the fu- ture of Oak Cliff, and at a time when others did not see a great future for this section of Dallas, he foresaw a great and steady growth. He demon- strated his faith by words and deeds, investing in much business property in this part of the city. While he started to work in Dallas County at a salary of $2.00 per week, with his room and board included, at the time of his death he had accumu- lated a substantial estate. Among the citizenship of Dallas who have helped in every way in the development of their city, the name of John Maxey Lowery will ever be numbered.
AMUEL ALBERT WILLIAMS. A native of Texas, Samuel Albert Williams made the state his home throughout his lifetime, and was engaged in business in various West Texas cities. Mr. Williams was an educator during the early part of his career, teaching school for five years. Following this he went to Hutto, where he was in the grocery business for two years. He then moved to Georgetown, operating a con- fectionery store there for one year, subsequently going to Eldorado, where he engaged in the general mercantile business for seven years. At that time he sold his Eldorado interests and moved to San Angelo, where he was in the confectionery business for twelve years, being engaged in that business at the time of his death. Mrs. Williams has since moved to Dallas, and makes this city her home, living at 5512 Victor street.
Samuel Albert Williams was born in Williamson County, Texas, on the seventeenth day of December, 1865, and was a son of John HI. Williams and Sarah (McClurie) Williams, both of whom were natives of Georgia. Mr. Williams came to Texas before the Civil war and settled in Williamson County, acquiring extensive farming interests there, and also serving as county commissioner. Samuel Albert Williams was educated in the public schools near his home, and at Baylor University, following which he taught school for a while, then entered on his business career.
Mr. Williams was married at Georgetown, Texas, on the tenth day of June, 1894, to Miss Gey Teague, a native of Franklin County, and a daughter of Abner Atkin Teague, and Mary (Damiel) Teague. Mr. Teague, a native of Georgia, came to Texas before the Civil war, and prior to that time was a merchant. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in the Confederate army, serving through the en- tire war, following which he resumed his business career. Mrs. Teague was a native of Alabama. Mr. and Mrs. Williams had two children, Beatrice. wife of P. D. Beavers, of Dallas, and Marvin Hil- ton Williams, with the North Texas National Bank at Dallas.
Mr. Williams was a Mason and a member of the Baptist Church. His death occurred at San Angelo, on the twenty-second day of December, 1916.
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APTAIN ANDREW JACKSON BROWN was for many years one of the most useful citizens of Texas. He was a pioneer of the life insurance business of Dallas, having moved from Alvarado, Johnson County in 1890, and for many years thereafter, he was one of the fore- most men of the insurance field, and one of the out- standing citizens of Dallas.
He was born on a farm in Lincoln County, Ten- nessee, April 16th, 1844. ITis paternal grandfather, William Brown, a native of North Carolina, was of Irish descent, and a Revolutionary soldier. His maternal grandfather, Joshua A. Ewing, was of Scotch ancestry. The Ewing family, one of the most respected and well known in Tennessee, re- moved from Virginia and were among the first settlers of Lincoln County in or about 1800.
Captain Brown had the misfortune, when less than two years of age, to lose his mother. He lost his father when he was only eight. This left his care to his maternal grandmother Ewing, who brought him up.
When seventeen years of age, he left school to became a Confederate soldier, his State having seceded from the Union. He joined the Thirty- Second Tennessee, which became part of General John C. Brown's brigade. He was in all the battles in which his regiment participated, except the battle of Fort Donaldson, which he escaped by being ill in Nashville, Tennessee.
After the war, he was poverty stricken, and after . the lapse of two years, found his way to Texas, lo- cating in Alvarado.
In 1871 he was married to Miss Edmonia Milliken, eldest daughter of Captain Samuel Milliken, a high- ly esteemed pioneer citizen of Alvarado, formerly of Paducah, Kentucky. In a history of his life, which Captain Brown wrote in 1910 at the request of his son Edgar D. Brown, he said of his wife: "Many mothers may have been equally solicitous as to the well-being of their families, but none was ever more willing to endure the hardships, and sufferings of a maternal life than she. Self denial has ever found expression in her ceaseless toil, and sleepless nights have marked the measure of her de- votion to those she loved."
Captain Brown was successively a farmer, mer- chant, cattleman and the state manager of a life insurance company. He succeeded in each of these avocations except the cattle venture. Conditions unforseen and unpreventable by any human fore- sight denied him success there. Entering the in- surance business, he continued for fifteen years, retiring in 1905. The life insurance company print- ed in the local papers of Dallas, his home, a most complimentary statement to the effect that he was one of the most successful state managers that the company ever had, and carried with him into his re- tirement the highest regard of the president and all the officers of the company; that his books had been carefully audited and that they balanced to a cent, and the millions of dollars that had passed through his hands had all been properly accounted for.
In 1884 he became Captain of the Alvarado Guards, a section of the Second Texas Regiment of the Texas Volunteer Guards, and as fine a military company as there was in Texas at that time.
He was a 32nd degree Mason, having been made a master mason at Blanche, Lincoln County, Ten-
nessee in 1866. a Royal Arch and Knight Templar soon after coming to Texas.
In 1888, while he was residing in Johnson Coun- ty, he was nominated for the legislature while he was absent. On his return, he accepted the nomina- tion, was overwhelmingly elected, but declined re- nomination, in the meantime entering the life insur- ance business. The Governor of the State tendered him the appointment of Superintendent of the pen- itentiaries. This he declined, because he found it necessary to recoup his losses in the cattle business and make some provision for his family. He was, however, deeply interested in the prison problems and made very many valuable suggestions as to their solution. Later he accepted an appointement on the Board of the A. and M. College of Texas. He became one of its most useful members, and was always deeply interested in the success of the Col- lege. In 1898 he was appointed by Governor Sayers, the first Police Commissioner of Dallas un- der the old charter. In this position he served the City most earnestly and efficiently.
He never sought an office, but accepted the re- sponsibilities when they were tendered him only as a public duty. In his early citizenship of Johnson County, when the mob spirit was dominant, it was known that he stood for law and order, and could not be provoked to join a mob.
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