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HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.
county, Mississippi. Henry lives in the same
county and four miles west of his brother,
where he runs a blacksmith shop in connection
with his farm.
The subject of our sketch remained on the
farm with his father until he reached his
majority, receiving a common-school education.
In his twenty-third year he began to
farm for himself, having previous to this
bought and paid for a small farm. He was
married in the latter part of 1851, to Miss
Mary Hedges, a native of Mississippi and a
daughter of James Hedges, the Mills family
having moved to Mississippi in 1844. The
issue from this union was two children, both
dying in infancy, and with the birth of the
last one the mother also died. Mr. Mills was
married a second time, December 25, 1856,
to Catherine Fondron, a native of Chickasaw
county, Mississippi, and a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John R. Fondron. Her parents
came from Mississippi to Texas some time in
the '40s, and took a headright about fifteen
miles southeast of the city of Dallas.
Mr. Mills enlisted in the Confederate service
in the spring of 1862, in General Ross'
Brigade, Sixth Texas Cavalry, Company F,
Captain Rawlins, and was in all the principal
engagements east of the Mississippi river.
He was with General Jackson until after the
fall of Atlanta, and was then under General
Forrestin his raid through Tennessee. After
the general surrender he returned to his
home without having ever received a wound
or seen anything of prison life.
After the war he took up his trade, that
of blacksmithing, which he bad learned in
his earlier days, and was thus occupied near
Lancaster for seventeen years. He then
bought the farm on which he now lives and
where he is surrounded with all the comforts
of life, his present prosperity being the resultof his own well directed efforts. By his honorable
dealings and his upright life he has
won the respect and esteem of all who know
him. With his friends his word has always
been his bond. Politically, he affiliates with
the Democratic party.
1B. GROSS, of Mesquite, Dallas county,
Texas, was born in Tennessee, in 1856,
o the fifth in a family of ten children
born to G. W. and Amanda (Wade) Gross,
natives of Tennessee and Virginia. The
father was one of the pioneer settlers of his
section of Tennessee, where he died when our
subject was quite yonng. The mother still
survives, and resides with her son, A. F.
G. B. Gross, our subject, received his
early education in Tennessee, and in 1877
came to this State, where he commenced
farming on rented land, on shares. In 1878
he commenced clerking in the store of J. W.
Gross, and later for R. S. Kimbrough, and
in both stores clerked about ten years. In
1889 he bought his brother's business, consisting
of a large stock of dry-goods and drugs,
and is now doing a business of $25,000 annually.
Besides his mercantile interests, he
is the owner of two large farms, consisting
of 110 acres, which are under a fine state of
cultivation. He has good box houses, fine
water, etc.
He was married in 1855, to Miss Emma
R. Chapman, a native of this State, and
daughter of D. G. and N. C. (Coats) Chapman,
old settlers of this county. The father,
one of the best known men of the county, has
been dead about eight years; the mother still
survives. They were the parents of nine
children. Mr. and Mrs. Gross have two
children,-Ernest and Robert O. The par-
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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/m1/974/: accessed March 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.