Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas. Page: 710 of 1,110
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HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.
and started overland for Texas. November
15, 1856, he landed in Lancaster, this county.
He bought a farm west of Lancaster four
miles, and there spent the residue of his days
,and died. He was a farmer, from his boyhood
all through life, and his education was
such as the common schools of Kentucky
afforded then. He was the father of eight
children that lived to be grown and married:
William H., J. A., Solomon, John C., Daniel
H., Albert, Susan E., Annie E. and Minnie.
Of these, four sons and one daughter still
survive: James A. resides in Excelsior
Springs, Missouri; John C., Dallas county,
Texas; Daniel H., Sangamon county, Illinois;
Susan E., wife of Lelian Moore, Sedalia,
Missouri.
Solomon lived on the farm with his father
until he reached his twenty-third year. He
was then married, December 12, 1848, to
Julia Cambell, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth
(Robertson) Cambell, who went from
Kentucky to Illinois. After his marriage he
bought a farm and began working for himself.
In 1856 he sold out his possessions and came
with his father to Texas. He first bought
land three miles west of where he now lives,
which he at once set about improving.
His war record is au honorable one. During
the trouble with Mexico, when he was
only twenty years of age, he enlisted in the
Fourth Illinois Regiment, under Colonel
Baker, and was in the service twelve months.
He was along the first that were called out
as twelve months' volunteers. Having served
his time, he was honorably discharged and
returned to his home in Illinois. When the
Civil war came on he enlisted, in 1862, in
Warren B. Stone's regiment, but he was
afterward commanded by Colonel Isham
Chisam. He served three years, duringwhich time he participated in several important
engagements, being with the forces
that operated west of the Mississippi river.
After the general surrender in 1865 he returned
to his home. His career, in some respects,
has been a remarkable one. Although
he has served through two wars he was never
sick a day, never wounded and never lost a
day from service.
In August, 1863, while Mr. Brundage was
in the Confederate lines, his wife died. In
1864, he was united in marriage with Miss
Martha J. Barrow, a native of Wisconsin and
a daughter of David and Julia Barrow. 'He
has never been blessed with children.
Mr. Brundage is a member of the Meth.
odist Episcopal Church South. His political
views have ever been in harmony with Democratic
principles.
OBERT A. BLAIR, D. D. S., of Dallas,
Texas, who has proven quite an acquisition
to the dental profession, is worthy
of a space in the annals of his adopted home.
He was born in the State of Alabama in 1865,
and is a son of Thomas H. and Mary J.
(Colvin) Blair, natives of South Carolina and
Alabama respectively. The father was a merchant
and planter, and died at the age of
fifty years. His wife passed away one year
before his death. They reared six children,
of whom the Doctor is the fifth-born and
only son. He received his elementary education
in the private schools, and at the age of
fourteen years he entered the University of
Alabama, and was graduated at the age of
eighteen years, the youngest member of his
class. At the age of nineteen years he cane
to Terrell, Texas, and helped to make the
first brick that was used in the construction
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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/m1/710/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.