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HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.
three acres of land, which he has improved
and made an attractive home. Mr. Spiller is
a young man and full of energy, and the day
is not far distant when he will be one of Dallas
county's foremost men. He was married
December 25, 1879, to Miss Linnie M. Ledbetter,
who was born June 24, 1858. Her
father, Olive V. Ledbetter, was born in middle
Tennessee May 30, 1827, and came to Texas
in 1848. He was married March 4, 1848, to
Miss Margaret Fox, who was born July 24,
1826, and they reared Ca family of ten children,
viz.: T. J., who died when young; Nathaniel
B., who also died in infancy; W. C.;
Minerva M., wife of Alfred Dnsen; W. 0).
Linnie, wife of A. M. Spiller; J. J., A. L.,
T. J., and C. E., all born in Texas. Mr. and
Mrs. Spiller have had seven children, namely:
Della, born December 5, 1880, died November
17, 1881, Norah L., born August 3,
1882, died August 8, 1885; Allie L., born
September 15, 1883, died July 5, 1883;
Corrall A., born October 31, 1886; Rose,
born July 7, 1885, died August 10, 1886;
Elbert B., born August 22, 1889; and Earl,
born August 22, 1889, died February 5, 1890.
Mr. and Mrs. Spiller are both members of the
Methodist Church.
ILLIAM M. MOON, former Sheriff
of the county, now night watchman
of the Texas and Pacific railroad,
was born near Independence, Missouri, March
18, 1830. His parents were Jesse and Mary
J. (Gilman)' Moon, natives of Pennsylvania
and North Carolina respectively. The father
was taken, when a small child to North Carolina,
where the father, grandfather of subject,
died, and his wife removed to Tennessee.
Jesse went to Missouri, in 1818, and engagedin fanning, returning home in the latter part
of the war of 1812. April, 1845, he removed
to Texas and settled in what is now Dallas
county and here he died in September of the
same year. His settlement was made about
six miles north of the present site of the city
of Dallas. He was only fifty-two when he
died. His wife survived him for eight years
and then died, aged forty. They had six
children, namely: Julia A., wife of Ellis C.
Thomas, both deceased, leaving five children,
now all married; our subject; Sarah J., died,
single, when about thirty years of age; Jesse
died when thirty-one, having been a soldier
through the late war, was faithful and brave
in danger; Martha, wife of M. I. More, deceased,
resident of Dallas, and Nancy E., wife
of J. C. McConnell, both deceased.
Our subject was reared on the farm and
followed that pursuit until 1855, when he
came to Dallas and engaged as a clerk in the
general merchandise store of Gold and Donaldson,
where he remained about two years, then
served as Deputy Sheriff under Burnett M.
Henderson, during his term, then bought a
blacksmith shop, which he ran until the open
ing of the war. When he began he had two
forges and at the time of the beginning of
the war those two forges had increased to five.
His partner was his brother-in-law, J. C. McConnell,
and in 1861 he sold out to him and
enlisted in July, 1861, in Company H, Third
Texas Cavalry, in which he served four years,
all but two days. He never returned home
until the close of the war. His conmmanding
officer was General Pine, and he took part
with him in the battles of Oak Hill, or Wilson
creek, and Pea Ridge, and was then ordered
across the Mississippi, but did not get to the
battle of Shiloh, which they intended to take
part in. He served the remainder of the
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Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20932/m1/1049/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.