Texas Genealogical Records, Ellis County, Volume 16, 1800-1962 Page: 31
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The first Sunday in May is decoration day at another
Cemetery, near the site of Old Red Oak. It was first the
Kimbell family burial ground. Later it was given to the
Baptist Church, the only chur ch at Old Red Oak. The old
cemetery, known simply as Red Oak Cemetery, is still man-
tained under the auspices of the Red Oak Baptist Church.
Mrs. S. P. Davis is acting president of the cemetery
association and Mrs. Malon Wilsford is secretary.
April 24, 1961
When Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McManus got ready to put the
plumbing in their landmark homeon Highland Drive, in the
RED OAK-OVILLA area, they found that they would have to
install it wherever they could find a chink in the wall
rather than where they would like to have it.
The house, one of the oldest in Ellis County, was "about
100 years old" when the present owners acquired it in 1931.
The siding covers old cedar logs put together with wooden
pets; so old and so hard the plumbers couldn't drill through
them.
Then, when they got ready to paper the walls, they
found they couldn't do that either, because the walls were
not true, and try as they would, they couldn't make the
design on the paper "hit."
That is the way those venerable old houses were const-
ructed and that is part of their charm.
The McManus house was b uilt by John Chapman, said to
have been the first Chapman in Ellis County. Legend has it
that the beautiful side attracted his attention as he drove
cattle through from Waco to the Kansas City and St. Louis
mar kets.
The house stands on a hill eight miles from the Dallas
city limits and the land slopes down to the road.
July 21, 1961
Went down to NASH to visit Mr. and Mrs. H.W. West, known
as "Mr. Henry and Miss Ida," who will have been married 60
years comeAugust 15.
It was just before Miss Ida's seventy-ninth birthday.
She was busy in the kitchen, cutting corn off the cob and
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Daughters of the American Revolution. Rebecca Boyce Chapter (Waxahachie, Tex.). Genealogical Records Committee. Texas Genealogical Records, Ellis County, Volume 16, 1800-1962, book, 1962; Waxahachie, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth105041/m1/42/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nicholas P. Sims Library.