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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2ALQ_old-ellis-county-jail_Waxahachie-TX.html
Due to overcrowding in the existing jail facility, this structure was completed in 1888. The Ellis County Commissioners Court awarded the contract to Pauly Jail Building and Manufacturing Company of St. Louis, Missouri. A round turret with conical…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27H3_thomas-j-jordan_Milford-TX.html
Soldier in the Texas Army in
1836 · Born in Tennessee June
17, 1808 · Died November 24, 1880
His wife
Stacy Choate Jordan
Born in Tennessee, October 15,
1816 · Died January 27, 1884
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27H2_james-mcdaniel_Milford-TX.html
Served in the Army of Texas in
1836 · Born in Alabama, September
10, 1810 · Died January 11, 1885
His wife
Isabella Weir
McDaniel
Born in Alabama, March
8, 1818 · Died May 4, 1897
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27H1_john-marr-hardeman_Italy-TX.html
A soldier in the Army of Texas
in 1836 · Born in Tennessee, Feb-
ruary 2, 1804; died October 15, 1891
His wife
Mary Hardeman
Born in Tennessee, February
12, 1812 · Died February 19, 1857
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27H0_general-edward-h-tarrant_Italy-TX.html
3 miles northeast
from here was buried
General Edward
H. Tarrant
Veteran of the War of 1812, member
of the Texas Congress and a
courageous Indian fighter · Born
in North Carolina, 1796 · Died in
Parker County, Texas, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM27GZ_chambers-creek_Forreston-TX.html
Named in honor of
Thomas Jefferson Chambers
(1802-1865)
to whom the first land grant within
present Ellis County was made in 1834
by the Mexican government
Also known as Howe's Settlement
in honor of William R. Howe,
first settler in the r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R71_bells-chapel-cemetery_Waxahachie-TX.html
Founded 1875. Site for church and cemetery was given on Dec. 27, 1875, by local landowners John and Elizabeth Gibbons. This tract and some later purchases were deeded to the Methodist Episcopal Church South.
Church and cemetery were named in ho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ3O_parsons-cavalry_Waxahachie-TX.html
Originally comprised of men from Ellis and surrounding counties. Organized for Civil War service at Rockett's Spring (4 mi. E. of this site), Sept. 1861, unit was trained and commanded by Col. William H Parsons, Mexican War veteran, colorful dueli…