Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas. Page: 808 of 1,110
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HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.
Bertie Amanda, and Eulalia Louise, students
at the Dallas high school; and James Wilfred,
the youngest, aged ten years.
When he came to Dallas in the fall of
1889, he engaged at once in business with the
real estate firm of Leopold after
the dissolution of the firm, he continued in
business alone until February 23, 1891, when
he suffered a partial stroke of paralysis of
the right side, which has ever since disabled
him from active business.
Socially he is a member of Trinity Lodge,
No. 198, and Ridgely Encampment, No. 25;
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, with
which orderhe has been connected for a quarter
of a century, having held many important positions
therein, and represented his lodge in the
Grand Lodges of Alabama, Missouri and
Texas; he is a Deputy Grand Master of the
Ancient Order of United Workmen, and a
Past Chancellor of Amity Lodge, Knights of
Pythias, Dallas. He is a strong believer in
religion, and a member of the Southern
Methodist Church, and resides at No. 318,
Cole avenue. His only sister, Nancy J.
Lemmon, a young lady of fine intelligence,
died at the age of eighteen, in 1860. Her
death was a very happy one, and produced a
marked effect upon the remaining members
of the family ever afterward. His mother,
now in her seventy-fifth year lives with him
and his only brother, Captain William H.
Lernnon, corner Lemmon and Cole avenues,
in the north part of the city.
ENJAMIN E. TORBERT, member of
the city police force of Dallas, settled
in this county, January 21, 1872. He
was born in Upson county, Georgia, June 17,
1845, the seventh in a family of eleven children.
His parents were Lemuel and Martha(Glanston) Torbert. His father, a native of
Tennessee and a farmer by occupation, was
closely identified with the settling and improving
of the locality in which he lived.
His death occurred in 1870, at the age of
sixty-nine years. Mr. Torbert's mother died
in 1853, leaving a large family to mourn her
loss.
Our subject began life as a farmer boy, and
was engaged in agricultural pursuits until he
reached his majority. He was united in
marriage with Miss Millie Aven, August 22,
1866. She was the daughter of James and
Rebecca (Rodgers) Aven. Her father was
reared on a farm in Tennessee, and subsequently
moved to Georgia, becoming one
of the pioneers of that State. His death occurred
there, June 1, 1882, at the advanced
age of seventy-two years. Her mother died
in 1881, in her sixty-second year. They left
a large family. (f their children only five
are now living, and all, save Mrs. Torbert,
reside in their native State.
When Mr. Torbert arrived in Dallas
county, he had only $15 in money. Renting
a farm he at once went to work in earnest,
but at the end of three years he was driven
from the farm by the invasion of grasshoppers
that infested this locality at that time.
Moving to the city of Dallas, he was variously
employed for some time. In 1882 he accepted
a position on the city police force,
and has been retained in that capacity ever
since.
During the war he served in the Confederate
army. In 1862 he enlisted in the six
months' service, after which he joined the
Woodson Guards of the Thirty-second Georgia
Regiment, and served until the close of
the war. He took part in numerous engagements,
and was slightly wounded in the left
side.
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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/m1/808/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.