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HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.
and on the following day a ship came in
sight. At the age of eighteen years, Charles
B. Scripture went to Virginia and engaged in
the mercantile business. He was there married,
October 3, 1842, to the above named
lady and in 1844 emigrated to Missouri. At
Arrow Rock, Saline county, Missouri, he
engaged in the wagon and carriage manufacture,
supplying emigrants with wagons with
which to cross the plains. He followed this
business until 1855, when he moved to
Howard county and turned his attention to
the lumber business, continuing it until 1860.
In 1862 the Federal soldiers burned his mill
and lumber and surrounding buildings, consisting
of a flouring mill, blacksmith shop,
etc., to the amount of $15,000. In 1864 he
was forced to leave that part of the country
and returned to his former home in Saline
county.
In 186'7 Mr. Scripture came to Texas and
located in Kaufman county. His coming
here at that time was for the benefit of his
health. In 1872 the family came to Dallas
and engaged in the hotel business, running
what was then known as the City Hotel, now
the St. Charles Hotel. The parents died in
Dallas, the mother, September 18. 1880, at
the age of sixty-three, and the father, September
15, 1883, aged sixty-six. Of their
eleven children, six grew to adult age, four of
them are in Texas and one is still in Missouri.
Mrs. Scripture was a member of the Episcopal
Church. A. W. Scripture was only a
year old w.hen his parents moved to Missouri,
where he was reared, assisting his father in
his business, and receiving his education in
the subscription schools. He remained with
his parents until the breaking out of the late
war, when in June, 1861, he enlisted as a
member of William Brown's Company, the
first cavalry regiment organized in Missouri,subsequently known as Colonel William
Brown's regiment. He participated in many
important engagements and served faithfully
until the close of the war, being surrendered
at Shreveport, Louisiana, May 26, 1865.
After the war he returned to his home in
Saline county, Missouri, and engaged in
work at the carpenter trade, following that
until 1869, when he turned his attention to
farming.
He was married, April 27, 1869, to Miss
Melinda Jackson, a daughter of Thomas and
Polly Ann (Marshall) Jackson. She was
born in Missouri and her parents werenatives
of Kentucky. By this union one child was
born, Clara. In 1873 Mr. Scripture came to
Dallas county and purchased an unimproved
farm of seventy-two acres of timber land;
located four miles east of Dallas. This he
cleared and on it resided until 1885, when
he moved to Taylor county and purchased
1,096 acres of wild land. He improved the
property and was extensively engaged in the
stock business there, for three years, after
which he returned to Dallas county. He,
however, still owns that land. After coining
back to Dallas county. he bought his present
home property, which consists of twenty
acres, and here he is engaged in the dairy
business. He keeps forty cows and disposes
of his product in Dallas.
Mrs. Scripture died March 8, 1872, and in
1873 he was united in marriage with Miss
Melissa Jane Moore, a native of Saline
county, Missouri, and a daughter of William
and Caroline (Chapple) Moore, who were
among the first settlers of Saline county and
were of German ancestry. By his second
marriage Mr. Scripture had one child. Orrn,
who died at the age of ten years.
Mr. Scripture is, in the truest sense of the
word, a self-made man. At the close 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/m1/754/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.