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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN80_bethesda-presbyterian-church-and-cemetery_Lindale-TX.html
In 1879 William Lee Henderson (b1808), his wife Eleanor Shelby (b1817) and their nine children moved from their Alabama home to Texas by wagon train. Church records indicate worship services were held in a shelter built by the Hendersons shortly a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMNW_judge-stockton-p-donley_Tyler-TX.html
in whose honor Donley County was namedConfederate officerAssociate Justice of the Supreme Court of Texasborn in MissouriMay 27, 1831died Feb. 17, 1871
his wifeEmma Donleyborn July 15, 1834died July 9, 1909
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMEE_wood-verner-cemetery_Tyler-TX.html
The oldest known graveyard in the Dixie area, Wood-Verner cemetery is named for two families who owned land surrounding the site. The earliest marked grave is that of John Gordon, who died in 1850. Affiliated with the local Methodist church for mu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMEC_tyler-junior-college_Tyler-TX.html
Tyler Junior College was established in 1926 during the formative years of the junior college movement in Texas. This institution began as an extension of the Tyler public school system with school superintendent G.O. Clough serving as its first p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMBC_the-kay-house_Winona-TX.html
South Carolina planter Francis Lemuel Kay (1814-1867) settled in Smith County in 1856. Between 1856 and 1860, Kay bought 640 acres of land and built this two-story home for his wife Mary Ellen (Black) (1826-1896) and their eleven children. By 1860…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMAU_elisha-everett-lott_Tyler-TX.html
Elisha Everett Lott moved to Harrison County, Texas in 1840. Elected to the Republic of Texas Congress in 1842, he helped open this area of Texas for settlement. He moved here in 1845, and in 1846 was instrumental in the organization of Smith Coun…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMAQ_camp-ford_Tyler-TX.html
stockade prison of Federal soldiers during the Civil War
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMAP_milburn-gary-house_Tyler-TX.html
Anglo settlement of the Gum Springs area in Smith County was underway when the community name changed to Starrville in 1852, in honor of pioneer Russel Julius Starr. Located on the Dallas-Shreveport Freight Route, Starrville included a post office…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHVS_camp-ford_Tyler-TX.html
On this site during the Civil War was located Camp Ford the largest prisoner of war compound for Union troops west of Mississippi river named in honor of Col. John S. "Rip" Ford who originally established a training camp here in 1862. It was conve…