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of 1858, the State of Texas conferred an original patent of land title,
a "headright", to William and Mary Myers, for one square mile of
land in Dallas County, Texas, USA. Currently, it is approximately
bounded by Hampton Road on the west, Remond on the north, the midpoint
between Winnetka and Turner on the east, and Davis Avenue on the south.
Today this area contains most of Stevens Park Golf Course, Stevens Park Estates, western Kessler Park, Rosemont Elementary School, Saint Cecilia R.C. Church, and a small part of US Interstate 30. The clubhouse for Stevens Park Memorial Golf Course is located just east of the center of the William Myers Section. Five Mile Creek Cemetery; Dallas, Texas Kiest, west of Westmoreland Road |
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WILLIAM MYERS Born Mar. 29, 1801 Died Feb. 21, 1872 |
MARY A. MYERS Born Mach 7, 1801 Died Dec. 12, 1870 |
William and Mary Ann Myers
were born in Garrard County, Kentucky. They were first cousins, of German descent.
They married in January of 1825. In 1846 the family immigrated to Dallas
County, Texas. They were granted a free square mile of land for being
its first permanent settlers. William and Mary lived in a cabin on the
east half of their Section. They raised
wheat, oats, corn, peach and apples trees, bees, cattle and horses.
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MERIDITH MYERS Feb. 21, 1829 April 5, 1905 |
EMILY MYERS Oct. 21, 1834 Nov 5, 1866 |
Meridith Myers was the oldest surviving son
of William and Mary He moved to Texas with his parents in 1846. About
1856 he married Emily M. Eddy.
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SARAH E. MYERS Aug. 8, 1842/b> Jan. 13, 1931 |
After the death of his first wife in 1866 Meredith Myers married Sarah Elizabeth Rogers.
Meredith's family lived in a farmhouse whose site
is now a group of trees behind the YWCA on South Hampton, near the corner
of Wright and Franklin. Meridith became a surveyor and at various
times he owned, or co-owned, large portions of the "William. Myers Section".
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HARRIETT PHILLIPS Sept. 25, 1824 May 5, 1904 |
T.A. PHILIPS July 30, 1819 Aug. 10, 1873 |
Thomas A. Philips married the oldest child of William and Mary Myers, daughter Harriett. Just before the Civil War, Thomas and Harriett bought 40 acres of the William Myers Section from her parents, the "north 1/4 of the northwest quarter-section", land that is now commercial sites along Fort Worth Avenue east of Hampton Road. |
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30 October 2000, last revised 22 April 2017
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