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among the early settlers on North Sulphur. McFarland located
north of present-day Ladonia at the crossing on Sulphur while
Davis lived some three miles to the westward.
Other pioneers of note who may be reckoned among the fore-
runners were: Robert Kerr and Jacob Black, who settled near
Rowlett in Tulip Bend; Bastian Oliver, who located on the river
west of Sowell's Bluff; William Cox who built his cabin on Timber
Creek; William Rice and Wesley Chesser, who headrighted on upper
Bois D'Arc near present-day Orangeville; the Davises, who joined
the Dugan-Washburn settlement on Bois D'Arc; and William
Onstott, who very early fixed his home on Bois D'Arc northeast of
Ft. Inglish. To the west, James and Samuel Blagg settled on the
site of what is now Sherman. William R. Caruthers lived where
the Ray Yards are, west of where Denison is now situated, and
Richard McIntire, after living a year at Shawneetown, located per-
manently at the Shawnee Crossing on Choctaw. Many other
pioneers, less well known, but no less worthy, came into the section
prior to 1838, for Rowlett estimated the population by the summer
of 1837 to have amounted to six hundred or seven hundred persons,
and noted that the settlements extended as far west as the Cross
Timbers and the Trinity.38
Thus two years after the first advent of the pioneers into the
area a very considerable population occupied the country west of
the Bois D'Arc. The principal settlements extended along Red
River, clustered at the mouth of Bois D'Arc, at the Blue Prairie,
then known as Raleigh, at Rowlett's settlement, Lexington, in
Tulip Bend, at Sowell's Bluff, at Warren, and at Coffee's Station
in Preston Bend. The entire length of Bois D'Arc was thinly set-
tled with groups at Ft. Inglish, and at present-day Orangeville and
second wife was the mother of Andrew Davis, the famous pioneer preacher.
Sam Houston, on his first trip to Texas in December, 1832, stopped at the
Davis home in Jonesboro "to rest and feed up his horse." The next
month Davis' second wife died, and he soon moved to Shelby County, carry-
ing with him his son and a negro slave in whose charge Andrew had been
placed. There the elder Davis married a third wife, a widow named
Margaret Bascus. In 1836 he returned to Red River County to recruit a
company for Houston's army, but did not reach south Texas in time to
take part in the revolution. Returning to north Texas, Davis located
some ten miles west of Clarksville, where he remained until 1837 when he
moved to the North Sulphur region. Phelen, History of Early Methodism
in Texas, 1817-1876, 173.
88"Information from Dr. Rowlett on Red River," The Lamar Papers, IV,
219.272
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