The Sachse Sentinel (Sachse, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 1977 Page: 3 of 10
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FROM OUT OF TH E PAST
A portion of this article was in last
month's paper; for those who may have
missed it, we are printing it again in it's
entirety.
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MR. SACHSE OLD HOME
AND THE YARBOROUGH FAMILY
WAGON THAT MR. SACHSE HAULED
LUMBER WITH. NOW OWNED BY LEE H CJTSON
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EDITOR'S NOTE: This
article appears exactly
as it was printed in 1889.
Some of the phrases and
expression may seem
strange when compared to
our present-day language.
(From Biographical Sou-
venir of the State of
Texas, which contains
biographical sketches of
the representative pub-
lic, and many early set-
tled families. As pub-
lished by F.A. Battery &
Company, Chicago 1889)
WILLIAM SACHSE, an old
settler of Texas and an
extensive land owner, was
born in Herford, Prussia,
December 16, 1820, was
reared at a .hotel, and at
the age of twenty came to
America, landing in New
York in August, 1840,
thence he went to Phila-
delphia, thence to Pitts-
burgh, thence to Mis-
souri where he lived un-
til 1844, and thence to
Texas, arriving here
January 15, 1845. Others
came with him, and the
party first located in
Collin County, but the
Indians were very hostile
and forced them back.
Mr. Sachse found refuge
in Lamar county and there
made a crop, in the fall he
returned to Collin and that
county has been his home
ever since. While in Lamar
county he married (1845)
and on his return to Collin
acquired his head right to
six hundred and forty acres,
and commenced improving at
once. He was very success-
ful as a farmer, ranchman
and trader, acquired five
thousand acres of good
land, has given large farms
to his children of whom
mention will be made further
on, and still owns three
thousand acres. In his
early Texas days Mr. Sachse
found game aboundant, and
his meat was the flesh of
bear and buffalo, soon,
however, he secured some
pigs, but had great diffi-
culty in keeping the bears
from devouring them. The
chief want was bread, and
that was made from the corn
he had raised in Lamar Coun-
ty. This corn was beaten
into meal in a mortar, but
after a while he procured a
small steel hand mill and
was able to grind his maize.
The next year he raised a
little wheat, which he
ground in a coffee mill.
The first plank he purchased
cost him $20 per M, and then
even he had to haul it one
hundred miles. His cotton
mill and gin, combined, was
among the first erected in
the county, and was run by
an ox and horse power, but
in a few years it was des-
troyed by fire (1869), and
he at once erected another
plant, run by steam.
Mr. Sachse is the archi-
tect of his own fortune,
but has been very liberal
toward his poorer neigh-
bors, and in the early days
would supply them with
breadstuffs, pay or no pay,
and is now gratefully
remembered by all early
comers for his benevolent
acts.
The father of William
Sachse was Henry Sachse,
whose life was passed
mostly in public business
in his native land, P
Prussia, he married Miss
May Kemps, who bore him
two children, of whom the
elder is William, and who
after his parents death,
came to America, as stated
above. William Sachse has
been twice married and has
reared a large and inter-
esting family. His first
wife was Miss Elizabeth
McCulloch, who was born
in 1815, daughter of Henry
McCulloch, of South Carol-
ine. Mr. McCulloch was a
blacksmith and a gunsmith,
moved from his native
state to Alabama, thence
came to Texas, and later
went to California where
he died in 1862. To the
marriage of Mr. Sachse
and this lady four child-
ren were born, Thomas
Benjamin Sachse was born
May 25, 1846, and died
July 5, 1856. James
Alfred Sachse was born
September 22, 1849.
Susan Adline Sachse was
born May 8, 1851 and died
October 16, 1853. Ellen
Sachse was born September
7, 1852. Mrs. Elizabeth
Sachse was called away in
1852 and Mr. Sachse took
for his second companion
and spouse Miss Martha A.
Frost, who was born
September 14, 1833. This
lady is a daughter of
Benjamin Frost of Miss-
issippi. Mr. Frost came
to Texas in 1846 where he
became a farmer and jus-
tice of the peace and
died in 1886. To this
second marriage of Mr.
Sachse ten children have
been born; Daniel Boone
Sachse was born February
16, 1856, John William
Sachse was born Septem-
ber 26, 1857 and died
March 25, 1873, Arizona
Emily Sachse was born
September 11, 1859 and died
September 21, 1881, Ben-
jamin Wilson Sachse was
born November 24, 1861 and
died June 10, 1862, Mis-
souri Ann Sachse was born
August 12, 1863, Dewitt
Clinton Sachse was born
August 17, 1866, J. K.
Sachse was born March 4,
1869, Jasper Newton
Sachse was born December
21, 1872, Alabama Eliza-
beth Sachse was born
September 1, 187?,
Francis Marion Sachse
was born August 1, 1877.
Mr. Sachse is an ardent
Free Mason, is an Odd
Fellow, a Knight of
Honor, and a Knight of
the Golden Rule, and is
looked upon as one of
the best farmers in
Collin county, and is one
of the best citizens.
When William Sachse took
up his headright in 1855,
he had three neighbors,
Collin McKinney, for
whom the County of Collin
and Town of McKinney were
named, a fine old gentle-
man loved by everyone, a
Mr. Huffines, who lived
west of White Rock and
who got his first cotton
seed from William Sachse's
gin, and John Neel Bryan,
first Dallas settler, who
lived in a log cabin he
built in 1842 on the bank
of the Trinity only a
short distance from where
the restored (of original
materials) cabin stands
today on the lawn of the
court house of Dallas.
When the Gulf Colorado and
Santa Fe Railroad brought
their rail line into Dallas,
it was necessary to come
through the holdings of Mr.
Sachse. He gave the neces-
sary right of way and a
townsite to the Santa Fe,
and they, in turn, built a
nice station and called the
town Sachse. Further appre-
ciation was expressed by the
railroad company by the
issuance of a lifetime pass
to Mr. Sachse acceptable
over all its lines.
Mr. Sachse served as a bug-
ler in the Confederate States
Army from 1862 to 65.
In the year 1882 a great
misfortune befell Mr. Sachse
when as a bondsman for a Col.
Oglesby, the Tax Collector
for Collin County, he was
called upon to indemnify the
County for $40,000.00 that
had been misappropriated by
the said Col. Oglesby. In
order to raise so much cash
on short notice, Mr.Sachse
was compelled to sell his
most valuable holdings in
the heart of Dallas, Texas.
Mr. Sachse was a breeder of
fine mules at the time and
hundreds of his choicest
animals were also sacrified.
This misfortune did not
crush his generous spirit,
however. Sometime later
Col. Oglesby committed
suicide in the St. George
Hotel in Dallas.
Mr. Sachse set aside a block
of land adjoining the town-
site for God's Acres on which
the Christian Church was
built and a cemetery laid out.
He was laid to rest in this
cemetery December 23, 1899.
As his children married
he gave them a home and a
large farm which had been
put in shape for cotton
raising. Mr. Sachse
built a nice brick home
near the railroad station,
of which he was very
proud. This left the
original large stone
ranch home available for
one of the children.
This place was known as
the Lone Elm Ranch, a
name derived from a large
elm tree that grew in the
yard. Jasper Newton
Sachse acquired this
property and there reared
his family.
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Citizens for a Better Sachse. The Sachse Sentinel (Sachse, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 1977, newspaper, April 1, 1977; Sachse, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth347583/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sachse Public Library.