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Dallas Morning News, 19 Sep 1926, Sec 9, page 1.

Mesquite “Friend to Man” Laid to Rest

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E .P. (Uncle Ed) Paschall
Special to The News.
Mesquite, Texas, Sept. 18 – An early Texas resident, who lived his life after the ideal, of Elbert Hubbard, was buried Thursday.

Tohundreds who crossed the threshold of his home to find a warm Southernwelcome, E. P. Paschall was known as Uncle Ed.  Dead at the age of84, he had numbered among his friends many celebrities who paid floraltribute to his memory.

It was said of Uncle Ed that no strangerwas ever turned away from his door; that he was ever ready to lend ahelping hand to those in need and that he realized an ideal;, to “live ina house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.”

The lateMr. Paschall was born in Henry County, Tennessee, Dec. 18, 1842. He died last Wednesday.  He enlisted in the Civil War with theSixth Company of the Fifth Regiment of Tennessee Volunteers.  In1864 he married Miss Wilmouth Brisendine . They came to Texas in1871, and Uncle Ed bought a tract of land four miles east of Mesquite.

Forfifty-five years Uncle Ed lived on his farm and strived to makethe community a better place in which to live, friends said.  Hewas a stanch Democrat and often entertained candidates for office.

Ninechildren were born, seven of whom survive.  They are J.P. Paschall, Royce City; A. L., E, V., Eddie and James Paschall andMmes. W. H. Caldwell and R. E. Ellis all of Mesquite.  Thereare twenty-seven grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.

Thefuneral service was held at the Long Creek Church. Active pallbearers were his grandsons.  He was buried at LongCreek Cemetery.
 

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I found this at: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~jwheat/obits/obits37.html
Submitted by Bobby Bennett

Mesquite Pioneer Dies.

     Mesquite, Tex., Feb. 15 (Special). Funeral services were held here this
afternoon for Mrs. S. E. Weatherford, 73, pioneer resident, who died at the
home of her son, Bill, Sunday. Burial was in Long Creek Cemetery. Surviving are
one son, Bill, of Mesquite, and two daughters, Mesdames Mary Lumley and Dick
Anderson of Dallas. [as given]

- February 15, 1937, Dallas Daily Times Herald,
Sec. II, p. 9, col. 6.

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 Son of Dallas’ First Justice of the Peace Will Be Buried Today

Funeralservicesfor Wall Coats, 66, of Mesquite and son of DallasCounty’sfirst Justiceof the Peace, will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday attheMesquite BaptistChurch, the Rev. Grover Lewis, Tripp BaptistChurch,and the Rev. RexThompson, Mesquite Baptist Church,officiating. Burial will be inLong Creek Cemetery.

Mr.Coats’ parents were Thomas D. Coats, whoserved Dallas County as itsfirst Justice ofthe Peace,  in 1850 andMaryAnn Coats, who settledin the county in1846.

Mr. Coats diedThursday [14 Apr 1938] inDallas as he wason his way to visit relativesafter coming from hishome in Malvern,  Ark.

Survivingarethree daughters, Mrs. Maggie Mick.  Mrs. Ethel Post, both of LosAngeles,  Calif., and Mrs. Lucille Cougale,Terminal Island,Calif.;two sons, Mack Coats, Hot Springs Ark.,and  Clint Coats,Los Angeles, andtwelve grandchildren.

- Dallas Morning News, 16 April 1938, Section I, page 3.

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Submitted by Bobby Bennett

ALFRED P. SUMMERS was born in Henry county, Tennessee, August 15, 1839. He has been
identified with the interests of Texas from his early manhood, is now one of the
prosperous farmers of Dallas county ,and is justly entitled to appropriate mention
in this volume. Of his parents and family, we record the following facts: Charles L.
Summers, his father, was born in North Carolina, July 21, 1800. He was first married
to Miss Lovelace, who died soon after her marriage. His second marriage occurred in
North Carolina, to Malinda Chandler. He then moved to Kentucky, and ere long was
again bereft of his companion, who died, leaving one child, Mary Ann Summers, who
became the wife of William Gray, and died in December, 1869. After his wife's death
Mr. Summers moved to Tennessee, and there, in 1838, wedded Mrs. Elizabeth (Paschall)
Key. Mr. Summers was for many years engaged in agricultural pursuits, owning a farm
in Tennessee. In 1858 he came to Texas, coming through with wagons and being forty,
days on the journey. The first year he rented land, and the second year bought 200
acres near where Mesquite now stands. It was all unimproved then, and he moved upon
it and at once began the work of development. At that time the county was thinly
settled, and they had to go to Dallas to do their trading and get their mail. Seven
children were born to them: 1. Alfred P. Summers being the oldest. 2. Thomas
Summers, 3. Sarah Summers, deceased, 4. John M. Summers, who was killed at the
battle of Chickamauga, 5. Luther R. Summers, 6. Rebecca E. Summers, wife of Stephen
Moore, 7. Frances C. Summers, who died young. Alfred P. Summers lived with his
father up to the time of the war. He enlisted in the Sixth Texas Cavalry, in
September, 1861, and served through the war, participating in the battles of Pea
Ridge, Fayetteville, Corinth, Franklin, Iuka, Peach Tree Ridge, Holly Springs and
Thompson Station, and fighting Sherman on his march to the sea. He was detailed and
went to Vicksburg with Major Quay, going to Mississippi to gather up mules for the
army. He was surrendered at Jackson, Mississippi, May 13, 1865.Returning home, he
rented land and engaged in farming. January 27, 1869, he was united in marriage with
Miss Mary F. Elam, who was horn in Hickory county, Missouri, April 15, 1842, and
came to Texas when she was five years old. Her parents, lsaac and Margaret (Lanham)
Elam, were natives of Virginia and Kentucky respectively, the father born in 1803,
and her mother in 1811. The names of the twelve children in the Elam family are as
follows: 1. Parallee Elam, wife of B. F. Bethurum, 2. Emily Elam, wife of H. Cox, 3.
Narcissa Elam, wife of Joseph Cox, 4. F. Elam, 5. William C. Elam, 6. Jane Elam,
wife of Money Weatherford, 7. Drusilla Elam, wife of Christopher Cox, 8. Mary F.
Elam, wife of A. P. Summers, 9. Adaline Elam, wife of J. J. Pratt, 10. Thomas B.
Elam, 11. Livonia Elam, who died young, 12. Matilda Elam, who has been blind since
she was three months old. Of these, six are now living. In 1870, Mr. Summers bought
172 acres of land. He now has it all fenced and sixty-five acres under cultivation.
Beginning life a poor boy, he has made fair progress and is now the owner of a nice
little farm and comfortable home. He and his wife have had six children: 1. Charles
E. Summers, who died November 29, 1890, at the age of twenty-one years, 2. Alva W.
Summers, 3. Mattie Summers, twin to Maggie, 4. Maggie Summers, twin to Mattie, 5.
Frank D. Summers. Mr. Summers belongs to the A. F. & A. M., Scyene Lodge, No. 295,
of which he has served as W. M. for several years. He and his wife are members of
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

Memorial & Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas, 1892. Unknown.