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practiced medicine in old Fort Houston, andhis wife, Hypatia;
William M. Micheaux, for whom the Michaux addition is named,
and his wife Narcissa.
Arabella Jeanette Petitt; SarahJane Petitt; Judge WilliamAlexander
and wife, Susan S. Alexander; John B. Mallard;
Thomas H. Ricks and wife. Roberta Ricks; Amirald Ricks;
Alexina Ricks McMeans; James L. McMeans, one of the founders
of the Christian church in Palestine;Louis Bowden; Drisilla
McMeans Bowden; Henry Petty; the Long_ family; Captain Thomas
J. Johnson and wife, U. C. V.; Henry Davis and wife, Mary
Eliza; Judge A. E. McClure, who lived in old Fort Houston and
who was the second owner of the Trinity Advocate, and his wife,
Anne Glenn McClure; Marshall Glenn, captain of the first
company to leave Palestine for the Civil War; Ellen E. Douglas
Jackson, wife of Fred Jackson; W. Y. Lacy and wife, Ann Eliza
Lacy; Dorothy Lacy, wife of Martin Lacy, whose home was in
Cherokee county at old Fort Lacy; Martha Lacy Dawson; Dr.J.D.
Rankin; Margaret A. Rankin; Turner Parker, who built the first
church in Palestine--a Methodist church--and who was one of
its founders, and wife, Louisa; J. M. Swanson and his wife,
Celia; Colonel H. C. Swanson, early merchant of Palestine, and
his wife, Mary E. Micheaux Swanson; R. J. Royall and wife,
Dollie Graves Royall; Edward Davis and wife, Pammie F. Davis;
John J. McBride; Thomas W. Butler.
Judge W. G. W. Jowers, physician, legislator, state
senator, and county judge, his wife, Bettie Lamon Jowers, and
also his second wofe, Paulina Catherine Tatum Beeson Jowers;
one of the founders of the Presbyterian church in Palestine,
Rev. James B. Woodard, and his wife, Talitha; Rufus M. Watts
and Rhoda, his wife; D. H. Harrell; M. M. Wylie, wife of
William Wylie; John Murchison, early merchant who had a tomb
of Italian marble built over the grave of his wife, Pauline H.
Murchison, who died in 1858, which is in good condition today;
Martin Murchison; Martha Murchison; Bettie B. Ricks; D. C.
McMeans; Josiah Camps' wife, Louisa; Dr. J. H. Rankin; Dr. W.
S. H. Kirksey;N. P. Mead; Mary Lucretia Jackson Word; Eli
Bailey, Palestine's first postmaster; C. L. Price, for whom
Price's Mountain was named, and his wife, E. A. Price; Winnette
DeGrasse; Cynthia A. Duke; wife of W. DeGrasse; Augustus
H. Martin; Alexander Joost, Palestine's first merchant and
one-time resident of Fort Houston, and his wife, Nancy Lee
Joost, and his second wife, Jane Fuller; one of the first
school teachers in Palestine, Florence Elleu, first daughter of
Judge R. A. Reeves and Mrs. Reeves; Susan, daughter of C. G.
and Mary M. Reeves; the father and mother of Dr. Grabam, onetime
citizen of Palestine, later of Austin; W. J. Moore and
wife, Sarah E. Moore; Colonel G. R. Howard, one of the early
merchants of Palestine, and his wife, Cornelia Cox Howard;
Judge James Perry, for whom Perry street was named; Ira Green
and his wife, Georgie Martin Green; Charles Mills, brother
to Roger Q. Mills, andwife; Emsley Garner and wife, Millie
M. Garner.
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Anderson County Genealogical Society. The Tracings, Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 1983, periodical, November 1983; Palestine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth37987/m1/42/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Anderson County Genealogical Society.