A native of Georgia, Isaac Parker came to Texas in 1833 as part of the pioneer family that built Ft. Parker in Limestone County. He fought in the Texas Revolution and served in the Republic of Texas Congress, representing part of East Texas. He . . . — — Map (db m270606) HM
On North College Street at East Main Street (MLK Jr. Blvd), on the right when traveling north on North College Street.
Emory W. Rogers was born in Lawrence County, Alabama on July 2, 1813. Nancy Clinton was born on October 28, 1810. The Couple Married in 1833.
Mr. Rogers obtained a "Headright" certificate from the Republic of Texas in 1839, for 640 acres of . . . — — Map (db m212735) HM
On L R Campbell Road (Farm to Market Road 876) 0.1 miles south of Bell Branch Road, on the right when traveling north.
In use from approximately 1850 to 1873, the Shawnee Cattle Trail was the first north-south cattle trail and reached the farthest east of the four great cattle-driving trails from Texas to the northern markets. These included the Shawnee Chisholm, . . . — — Map (db m289841) HM
South Carolina native Edward H. Tarrant enlisted in the Kentucky Militia in 1814 and served under Gen. Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans. Moving to Tennessee after 1816, he was elected Colonel of the Henry County Militia and served as . . . — — Map (db m188852) HM
Near Navasota Street near East 7th Street, on the right when traveling north.
Served in the Army of Texas, 1836, the Army of the United States in the Mexican War, 1846, the Confederate Army, 1861-1865. Born in Kentucky June 25, 1818. Died in Ellis County, Texas August 3, 1884.
His wife Rebecca Ann (Barker) Singleton. . . . — — Map (db m26536) HM
Born in Virginia February 14, 1781. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, 1820. Signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and President of the Constitutional Convention, 1836. Senator in the Congress of the Republic of Texas, . . . — — Map (db m25858) HM
On West Main Street (Business U.S. 287) east of South Rogers Street, on the right when traveling east.
Ellis County's first courthouse was made of cedar logs and built here in 1850. A second courthouse was built on this square in 1853 and a third in 1874. In 1894 Virginia native and San Antonio architect James Riely Gordon was commissioned to design . . . — — Map (db m151374) HM
On L R Campbell Road 0.1 miles south of Bell Branch Road, on the right when traveling north.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, cotton became an increasingly valuable crop in the state's economy. By 1852, Texas ranked eighth in the nation among cotton-producing states. In Ellis County, production totaled just 359 bales in 1860. The . . . — — Map (db m289850) HM
On East Water Street west of Church Street, on the right when traveling west.
W.R. Hudson and J.M. Higgins, early pioneers in this area, came from Cherokee County in East Texas to settle here in 1853. They laid off a townsite in 1854 and named it Milford. The town developed steadily, and soon boasted homes, a school, post . . . — — Map (db m183587) HM
Henry McKinney (1863-1936) was born in Kemp, Kaufman County and, at the age of 20, enlisted in Company C of the Frontier Battalion of the Texas Rangers. After one year, McKinney was discharged and returned to Kemp. He married Viola Dorsey . . . — — Map (db m191318) HM
On West 2nd Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Thomas Ingles Smith was born in 1800 in Virginia and was a soldier in the War of 1812 in a company commanded by his father, General Bird B. Smith.
Smith arrived in Texas late in 1836, and soon enlisted in the Republic of Texas army under Gen . . . — — Map (db m60599) HM
On Northwest Main at W Knox St, on the left when traveling north on Northwest Main.
In the 1930s, Ennis resident John Louie Clarke (1868–1956) recognized the beauty of Country Club Hills as yearly a profusion of bluebonnets swept across the meadow near his home. Clarke began clearing a walking path to view the wildflowers across . . . — — Map (db m269579) HM
On West 3rd Avenue near North 13th Street, on the left when traveling east.
Navarro County was created in 1846 by an act of the first Texas Legislature. It was named for early statesman Jose Antonio Navarro (1795-1871), a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. The first county seat was established at the home of . . . — — Map (db m62139) HM
On West Avenue H at South 3rd Street, on the right when traveling east on West Avenue H.
Early education in the area included an 1850 one-room log cabin in the Hawkins Settlement, serving as a school and church. Its location was where South 14th Street in Midlothian is now. The Hawkins Settlement was later named Lebanon. A new school . . . — — Map (db m194922) HM
On Walter Stephenson Road 0.1 miles west of Clearview DrIve, on the left when traveling west.
This family burial ground served the Newton family, early area pioneers. Larkin Newton, who owned this property, came to Texas in 1848 with one of his nephews, Elbert. They followed Elbert's brother, Asa Newton, who settled near present-day Ovilla . . . — — Map (db m304778) HM
On Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard (Business U.S. 287) at Wyatt Street, on the right when traveling west on Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard.
On August 5, 1947 19 men in a 1946 Chevrolet flatbed truck traveling Northbound on Highway 77 in Waxahachie, Texas were killed when a Southbound gasoline truck accidently ran head on into the truck. It was the most fatal accident in the history of . . . — — Map (db m310136) HM
On West Main Street 0.1 miles east of North Hawkins Street, on the right when traveling west.
Constructed in 1904 by Dennis Mahoney, contractor and builder. He came from Connecticut to Texas in late 1800s to build Trinity University in Waxahachie (now in San Antonio). Cornerstone was laid March 21, 1902. He later moved to Waxahachie and . . . — — Map (db m221772) HM
On Farm to Market Road 1183 at Interurban Road, on the right when traveling west on Highway 1183.
Settlement of this area began as early as 1848. The town of Alma was established in 1871, when the Houston and Texas Central Railroad was built through Ellis County. C.C. Hemming deeded part of his property for the railroad right-of-way and a town . . . — — Map (db m164888) HM
On Texas Route 34 2.5 miles north of Isom Road, on the right when traveling north.
For Daniel Buckley’s sacrifice in the 1836 Battle of Goliad, the Republic of Texas granted his heirs some 2,200 acres on the west bank of the Trinity River, in what became Ellis County. In 1871, his widow sold Alsdorf Faulkner (1838-1901) some of . . . — — Map (db m310010) HM
On South Rogers Street at South College Street, on the right when traveling south on South Rogers Street.
Located on an early Waxahachie Creek fording site that served pioneer settlers of the area, this truss bridge was built in 1889. It was manufactured by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio, and was one of thirteen approved by Ellis County . . . — — Map (db m151995) HM
Near Navasota Street north of East 7th Street, on the right when traveling north.
Here rest Frances Lenoir McCulloch and her son Benjamin McCulloch
Two of the sons of Alexander and Frances Lenoir McCulloch · Benjamin and Henry Eustace · Were Brigadier Generals in the Confederate Army
Frances Lenoir McCulloch was . . . — — Map (db m166414) HM
On West Ennis Avenue (Business U.S. 287) at South Gaines Street, on the left when traveling west on West Ennis Avenue.
Born on an Ellis County farm, Jack Lummus attended school at Alma and Ennis, and Baylor University on an athletics scholarship. He played minor league baseball in Texas and football for the New York Giants. He joined the U.S. Marines in 1942 and . . . — — Map (db m164756) HM
On U.S. 287 east of Boyce Road, on the right when traveling south.
Georgia native Thomas C. Neel married Willia E. Latimer in 1848. The couple moved their family to Texas in 1854 and to Ellis County in 1855. They established a cotton and wheat plantation near what would become Ennis. Neel called his wife "Will" and . . . — — Map (db m152969) HM
On Old Highway 287 at U.S. 287, on the right when traveling south on Old Highway 287.
John I. Richardson (1839-1922), county surveyor, Mason, and veteran of the 12th Texas Confederate Cavalry, married Ann Elizabeth Reagor (1849-1923) in 1865. Both were descendants of the family for which Reagor Springs was named. A cousin, Robert S. . . . — — Map (db m152970) HM
On Bells Chapel Road 0.2 miles north of Farm to Market Road 813, on the right when traveling north.
Robert Russell Graves (1814-1897) came from Alabama to Texas in 1838 with his wife Esther (Hinkle) Graves (1815-1865), their children, and her father Joseph Hinkle (1771-1859). They came to Ellis County in 1857 and settled on 510 acres purchased . . . — — Map (db m139120) HM
On South Hawkins Street at West Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling south on South Hawkins Street.
Eddy Pennell Hawkins, a member of a pioneer Ellis County family, built the first two rooms of this home soon after he wed Netta Lewis Carson in 1878. In 1900 he enlarged it to its present three-story style, a reflection of his position as a . . . — — Map (db m291052) HM
On South Hawkins Street south of West Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling south.
Benjamin Franklin Hawkins, a member of the Peters Colony who was instrumental in the organization of Ellis County, built a one-story house here in 1851. It was incorporated into a two-story house in the 1880s, and was remodeled into its current . . . — — Map (db m255569) HM
On Rutherford Road 0.2 miles south of Farrar Road, on the right when traveling south.
Constructed in 1919 by the Texas Bridge Company at a cost of $565.00, this Warren Pony truss bridge provided transportation across Red Oak Creek for area residents. Prior to the bridge's construction, the only way for people to cross the creek . . . — — Map (db m198720) HM
On Sardis Road west of Saralvo Road, on the left when traveling west.
Methodist Church activities in this area can be traced to 1845, when the Rev. Thomas Welch, a circuit-riding minister, preached a sermon. Following a brush arbor meeting near this site in 1873, a formal congregation was organized. Services were . . . — — Map (db m170521) HM
On West Main Street (State Highway 34) at Couch Street, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street.
3 miles northeast
from here was buried
General Edward
H. Tarrant
Veteran of the War of 1812, member
of the Texas Congress and a
courageous Indian fighter • Born
in North Carolina, 1796 • Died in
Parker County, Texas, August . . . — — Map (db m117285) HM
On George Hopper Road at South 9th Street, on the right when traveling west on George Hopper Road.
This Church was erected in 1966 in the NW corner of the B.F. Hawkins Survey. (Hawkins, among the original settlers in the area, became the first Clerk of Ellis County Courts and his father, William Alden Hawkins, who settled at Hawkins Spring, was . . . — — Map (db m194941) HM
On South 31st Street at Scott Blvd, on the right when traveling north on South 31st Street.
Born on a farm in Ellis County, George V. Brindley, Sr., graduated from the University of Texas Department of Medicine at Galveston in 1911 and joined the medical staff of Temple Sanitarium that year. Starting in general hospital work, he became a . . . — — Map (db m207354) HM
On Williams Street at Harris Street, on the right when traveling west on Williams Street.
Frustrated by poor infrastructure, residents of an African American community in Italy called "The Hill" rallied to get a hearing with the city council in the mid-twentieth century. A group of African American men met in a small building on Poplar . . . — — Map (db m212061) HM
On Harris Street 0.1 miles south of Hardeman Street, on the right when traveling south.
Born on June 28, 1873, in Weston, Missouri, William Hobart Stafford was a notable Ellis County educator. His father, John Thomas Stafford, served with Company D in the 65th Missouri Colored Infantry during the Civil War, and later studied at . . . — — Map (db m303748) HM
On Ovilla Road at Shiloh Road, on the left when traveling north on Ovilla Road.
The first organized church in Ellis County, the Shiloh
Cumberland Presbyterian Congregation was chartered
with twenty members on July 25, 1847, two years
before the formation of the county. The church was
begun under the leadership of the . . . — — Map (db m244957) HM
On County Highway 3140 0.5 miles State Highway 31, on the left when traveling south.
North Carolina native Alexander Younger (1786-1866) and his wife Jane Merchant (Hancock) (1798-1881) came to Texas in 1847. They first settled in present Ellis County, where they were granted land in the Peters Colony. By 1850 they had moved to . . . — — Map (db m214219) HM
On L R Campbell Road (Farm to Market Road 876) 0.1 miles south of Bell Branch Road, on the right when traveling north.
Some of the first pioneers to help in the development of Ellis County, the Sims family settled on and around what would become the foundation for the L.R. Campbell Ranch, later known as the Pecan Springs Ranch. Over the years they would purchase . . . — — Map (db m289842) HM
On West Main Street (Business U.S. 287) east of North Hawkins Street, on the right when traveling east.
A pioneer among privately-endowed Texas libraries. Situated in Getzendaner Park, which had been donated to the city on Dec. 31, 1895, by Capt. W.H. Getzendaner (1834-1909), an attorney, Confederate veteran, banker, and president of the Dallas & Waco . . . — — Map (db m151256) HM
On North College Street 0.2 miles north of Water Street, on the left when traveling north.
Robert M. Wyatt came to central Texas in 1860. "Had a muddy time of it at the Trinity" he wrote in his journal dated Wednesday 14th Nov. 1860. "Friday morning 16th Nov. we landed in Waxahachie and found a vacant house near the Methodist Church and . . . — — Map (db m212696) HM
On South Rockwall Avenue at Riley Street, on the left when traveling north on South Rockwall Avenue.
In the 1880s Presbyterian missionary Alexander R. Wilson began conducting school in the rural South Prong community of Ellis County. One of his pupils was a promising black farm boy named William Henry Burnett. Through Wilson's personal guidance, . . . — — Map (db m97646) HM
On State Highway 34 at Vrzalik Road, on the left when traveling east on State Highway 34.
In the 19th century, Slavic people from Moravia, Bohemia and
Silesia, from the modern-day Czech Republic, began immigrating to
the United States due to political persecution, economic hardship
and a desire for greater freedom. The first Czech . . . — — Map (db m309667) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
