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HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.
has two children: Mary Helen, born August
15, 1887, and Bessa Anna, December 3, 1890.
During the Civil war, Mr. Marsh enlisted,
in 1862, and acted the part of a brave soldier
until hostilities ceased. He was in a number
of skirmishes and battles, but was never
wounded or taken prisoner. Returning home,
he resumed farming, in which he has since
been engaged and in which he has met with
eminent success. His farm is well improved
with good buildings, cotton gin, etc. and
general prosperity prevails.
ILLIAM A. J. MITCHELL, an
enterprising young farmer near Sowers,
in the northwestern part of
Dallas county, was born in Greene county,
Missouri, and is a descendant of two of the
first settled families of that county, and of
English and German extraction. His paternal
grandfather, William Mitchell, and his
father were natives of South Carolina, and
the former subsequently moved with his
family to Missouri, settling in Greene county,
where the town of Springfield now stands.
He lived there ever afterward, dying at an
advanced age, and after a life that was
marked with much adventure and hardships.
Our subject's maternal grandfather, Andrew
Wasner, was a native of one of the Eastern
States, probably Pennsylvania, as he was of
German descent. He subsequently settled
in Indiana, and later in Greene county, Missouri,
where he afterward died. James J.
Mitchell, the father of our subject, was reared
in the latter country, where he married Elizabeth
Wasner, who was born in Indiana, but
who was also reared in Greene county, Missouri.
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell resided in that
county until coming to Texas in 1863, settling
first in Fannin county, and a year later
in Dallas county, buying a farm west of the
city of Dallas. He sold this place in 1874,
and purchased another on the west fork of
Trinity river, which he made his home until
death, which occurred four years later, at the
age of forty-seven years. He was a farmer and
stock-raiser all his life, and, although never
accumulating a large property, was in comfortable
circumstances at the time of his
death. Our subject's mother died in 1873,
at the old home place west of Dallas, at the
age of forty-four years. They were the parents
of three children: William, our subject;
Laura E., who was married to Daniel G.
Lindsey, of Brown county, Texas, and died
in December, 1889; and Sallie, who died at
the age of seven years.
William A. J. Mitchell was born in Greene
county, Missouri, June 20, 1854, but when
ten years of age he came with his parents to
Texas, and his youth and subsequent life has
been spent in this county. He assumed the
responsibility of caring for himself at the age
of eleven years, and after reaching his majority
he purchased the home place on the west
fork of the Trinity river, which he owned
and operated until two years ago.' He then
bought another farm, which he conducted in
connection with the home place until two years
ago, when he sold the latter farm, and bought
127 acres near Sowers, where he has since resided.
He also owns some timber land, and,
although a young man, is in a fair way to
make for himself and those dependent on him
a comfortable home.
Mr. Mitchell was married in December,
1882, to Ella Sowers, a daughter of Levi and
Elizabeth (Brown) Sowers. She was left an
orphan at the age of five years, and was reared
by an uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Edmond
D. Sowers, mention of whom is made else
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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/m1/1085/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.