Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas. Page: 843 of 1,110
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HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.
he is married and resides in Marshall, Texas;
James N., married, is a farmer and stockraiser
of Harrison county: Texas, he was a
member of the Engineer Corps for three
years, and served until the cessation of hostilities;
John A., single, is receiving agent
of the Missouri, Kansas Andrew L., married, is a farmer of
Harrison county, Texas; Ella, wife of J. C.
Mow, resides at Oak Cliff, and her husband
is Station Agent of the Missouri, Kansas Nannie is the wife
W. C. Lane, an attorney of Marshall, Texas;
Muggy, wife of W. B. Wynne, an attorney
of Wills Point, Texas; Hattie Lee resides at
home, and is abstract clerk in the Missouri,
Kansas Mary
died in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1863;
Sallie, wife of C. H. Shilling, died in Texas
in 1876; and Fannie, wife of Frank Howard,
died in Harrison county, Texas, in 1879.
Mr. and Mrs. Henderson passed their golden
milestone of life September 16, 1891, and
the principal part of their lives have been
spent on farms on the frontier. They have
twenty-two grandchildren. Both are honored
and respected by a host of warm friends, and
may the sunset of their lives be cloudless.
j AMUEL N. BRASWELL, Justice of
the Peace for Precinct No. 1, Dallas,
was born in Georgia, January 23, 1827,
a son of Samuel Braswell, a farmer who was
born in North Carolina and removed to
Georgia at an early day. Both the parents
died in Georgia. Mr. Braswell, the youngest
of four children, received his education in
excellent private schools and became a successful
teacher in his native State; read law
and began practice in Barnesville, Georgia.In 1858 he moved to this State, settling in
Mount Pleasant, Titus county, where he was
in 1866 elected State Senator, to represent
the Eighth district. This being the first election
after the war, he took an active part in
the stirring scenes incident to reconstruction.
In 1871 he moved to Corsicana, this State,
and finally, in 1874, to Dallas. In 1886 he
was elected Justice of the Peace for Precinct
No. 1, this county, and served with such
fidelity that he was re-elected in 1888 and
again inl 1890. He is noted for the equity
of his decisions and promptness in the execution
of business. The "Judge," as he is called,
is one of the old-school Southern gentleman,
-honest, affable and able. He has been a
member of the Masonic order for forty years,
and an active member of the Methodist Episcopal
Church for twenty-five years. Politically
he is a Democrat of the Jacksonian
school.
He was married in Georgia, to Miss Mary
A. Anderson, and they have living four children
and two grandchildren-all in this State.
-J. BEKKERS, proprietor of a saloon
on Elm street, Dallas, was
born in Belgium, in 1859, the second
son of J. J. Bekkers and Clementee (Van
Grinderbeck), natives of Belgium. The father
was an artist, and was a director of drawing
and anatomy for many years. He was chairman
of the committee that organized the
French colony that came to Dallas in 1853
under the management of Mr. Considerant.
.Mr. J. J. Bekkers took an active interest in
the general government of the colony in Dallas
county, but always remained in his native
country, where he died, in 1872. His wife
still lives in that country, and is a pensioner
of the Belgian Government.
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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/m1/843/?q=braswell: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.