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Biographies on this page:
Hagman, Larry
Holland, Gustavus Adolphus
Hopkins, William Henry
Hunter, Andrew Jackson
Johnson, William Oscar
Jones, George Donald
Jones, John
Holland, Gustavus Adolphus
Born: 1859, Kentucky
Married:
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Date of Death:
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Gustavus Adolphus (G.A.) Holland was born in Kentucky
in 1859, and came to Texas in 1882. He was a banker, a mayor
of Weatherford for three terms, a delegate to the 1932 Democratic
convention that nominated Franklin D. Roosevelt for the first
term; a Democratic elector and a school board member for twenty
years. He also served as a Parker County Selective Service Board
member during the early part of World War II. G. A. Holland
helped develope Parker county through the establishment of post
offices at Poolville and Peaster, and banks at Millsap, Peaster
and Poolville. Holland Lake in Weatherford is named for him.
Hopkins, William
Henry
Born: Dec. 25, 1863, Poyner, Ripley County Missouri
Married: July 22, 1891, Aledo, Parker County Texas
Spouse: Margaret Fredonia Vaughn
Date of Death: May 28, 1935, Aledo, Parker County Texas
Burial: , Brown Cemetary Aledo, Texas
Biography: W.H. Hopkins, Pioneer Aledo Resident
Dies Monday, William Henry Hopkins, age 71 years, 5 months and
2 days,a long time resident of Parker County, passed away at
his home at Aledo Monday morning. Mr. Hopkins was born at Poyner,
Mo; and came to Texas with his parents in 1872. They settled
in Parker County, locating at Aledo which has continued to be
his home for 63 years. On July 22, 1891, he was married to Margaret
Fredonis Vaughn, and to this union were born six children, of
whom the following five survive: W.A. Hopkins, Weatherford;Tom
Hopkins,Aledo; John Hopkins, Mesquite, Texas; Mrs. Elbert Martin,
Fouke, Ark. and Mrs John Browning, Fort Worth. The funeral services
will be conducted by Rev. Mr. Rainbolt at the Aledo Baptist
Church, Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. Interment taking place
in the Brown Cemetary at Aledo.
Submitted by: Tommy Hopkins,
Email: tommy@mesh.net
Hunter, Andrew
Jackson
Born: 11 Jul 1816, near Fincastle, Campbell, Tennessee
Married: 27 Sep 1858, Kaufman, Texas
Spouse: Margaret Franklin Spikes
Date of Death: 17 Jul 1890, Weatherford, Parker, Texas
Burial: , Dean Cemetery, Parker, Texas
Biography: *From the Van Zant County History: "At the August 1852 election
Andrew Jackson Hunter was elected Chief Justice of the county, whereupon
the townspeople opportuned him to secure title to the land they now occupied,
and this he set about trying to do. This task was accomplished in the following
manner..." When he came to Parker County he settled on Sanchez Creek, about
six miles southwest of Weatherford. He was the third elected County Judge
when the county was created in 1855 and played a very prominent part in the
early history of the County. When the court house was built, his name was
chiseled into the cornerstone. When he settled in Parker County it was on
the western fringes of civilization and was under constant threat of Indian
attack. The Judge Hunter homeplace was a typical Texas frontier double log
cabin with a covered "Dog Trot" between the two main rooms. The cabin site
was surrounded by a high pole stockade to provide protection from the Indians
who at that time were often raiding and killing the settlers on the Texas
frontier. Charles W. Hunter (great grandson) of Fort Worth recalls being
told by his grandfather (Andrew Jackson Hunter Jr.) how he had to run from
the fields to the stockade to escape the Comanches. *Palo Pinto County History:
On March 2, 1866, a raiding party of Comanche Indians attacked the home of
Bolin Savage, a Confederate veteran, on Sanchez Creek. "Mrs. A.J. Hunter,
wife of the Parker County Judge, saw this attack from a distance and alerted
her husband, who rode with haste into Weatherford to get help in chasing
these Indians. Mrs. M.C. Hendrick (Martha Hunter Hendrick, niece of the judge),
who also lived on Sanchez Creek, east of the Savages, saw the Indians pass
near her home with some of the settlers horses. After hearing a disturbance
to the west, she soon followed and found that the Indians had killed and
scalped Bolin Savage and carried away little five-year-old Sam Savage.
Submitted by: Jim Hunter,
Email: jim@4udesigns.com
URL: http://www.parsonstech.com/genealogy/trees/jhunter/john.htm
Johnson, William
Oscar
Born: August 29, 1870, Freestone County, Texas
Married: January 20, 1889, unknown
Spouse: Mary L. "Mollie" Clark
Date of Death: March 19, 1959, Weatherford, Texas
Burial: March 22, 1959, Poe Prairie Cemetery
Biography: Rev. W. O. Johnson, age 88 years died peacefully at
Campbell Memorial Hospital, Weatherford, Thursday, March 19, 1959. Mr. Johnson
was born in Freestone Co., Texas, residing in Palo Pinto and Parker Counties
most of is life. For some 35 years his civic and spiritual leadership deeply
influenced the Littlefield Bend Community where he lived. Since 1936 he had
resided just northwest of Weatherford where he built his own home at age
70. He was at one time a coal miner, stone cutter, rock mason, and carpenter.
As a farmer, he practiced progressive agriculture. At the age of 20 he received
a Local Preachers License from the Methodist Church. He served as pastor
to a number of rural churches in the Weatherford area during the minister
shortage of WWII. He married Mary L. "Mollie" Clark January 20, 1889 and
had eleven children (Joseph A., Arthur R., Thomas J., Samuel G., Edward L.,
William O., Joel C., Mary Estell, Ellen Nora, Benjamin B., and Woodrow W.)
with her before her death in 1922. He remarried in 1923 and had two more
children (John C., and Cecil W.) with Bonnie Ethel Millican.
Submitted by: Melinda Schrock,
Email: edges1@juno.com
JONES, George
Donald
Born: 1836, Sanders Fork, Cannon County, Tennessee
Married: about 1865 in Parker County, TX
Spouse: Frances Isabelle Franklin
Date of Death: ,
Burial: ,
Biography: This Biography is pieced
together from several sources including recollections of Margaret
Jones Witt. George D. Jones was born near Murfreesboro, TN.
As a boy he fell out of a tree and broke ribs, and fell from
a house and broke his collar bone. He was also burned badly
when he fell into a pot of scalding water and injured his foot
with an axe. George D. Jones was ordained to preach in Weatherford
(Baptist), but his health prevented him from preaching often.
George D. Jones and Frances Isabelle Franklin were married in
the home of his parents Erasmus and Christianna Bond Jones in
Parker County about 1865. During the Civil War George enlisted
in Col. Tom Green's Brigade of the Confederacy. Early in the
War he ate too many hardboil eggs an became sick and was captured
by the Yanks. He was a prisoner for about three months and was
among the few prisoners exchanged during the war. He was placed
in Lee's Army at Richmond, but he disliked it so much he walked
back to Texas. Later he fought in General Sibley's Army and
fought in one of the only far west battles of the War at Val
Verde New Mexico. They were able to capture several cannon which
were later lost in a bayou in LA. After the war George D. Jones
and several of his brothers were arrested for the murder of
a Mr. Luckey (union sympathizer), but they were later aquitted.
In 1869 his brothers moved on to SE Colorado where they founded
a large cattle ranch but George and his family remained in TX.
George and Frances had twelve children.
Submitted by: Douglas Whitlock,
Email: whit103@aol.com
URL:
JONES, John
Born: ca. 1835, Illinois
Married: 1853, Collin Co., Texas
Spouse: Matilda LEE
Date of Death: 1916, Parker Co., Texas
Burial: , Greenwood Community Cemetery, Parker Co., Texas
Biography: John Jones and wife Matilda Lee raised
ten children in Parker and Jack Counties. He was a veteran of
the Texas State Troops, a force that protected the state's frontier
during the Civil War.
Submitted by: George Lee,
Email: geolee@juno.com
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