Thomas
W. Dollarhide, Sr.
Overton
Harris
Thomas
C. Dollarhide (born
1825 in
Virginia)
married Elizabeth
Victor (1829–1919)
in Scioto County, Ohio, in 1848. Moving on, they were in Tipton, Cass
County,
Indiana, by 1850 and in Louisville, Pottawatomie County, Kansas, by
1870. They
had seven children before splitting up before 1880. He remarried, to
Susan
Richards, in Hickory County, Missouri, in May 1880 and had more
children with
her.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth Dollarhide headed for Denison,
Texas, with her
four youngest children. The 1880 Census listed her as divorced, but
later
sources all described her as "widow of Thomas Dollarhide." The
children, in 1880, were Gillis
A.
(1855–1890), Horace George (1856–1950), Thomas Willard Sr. (1857–1941),
and
Luella (1868–1926). An older son, John R. (1854–1950),
and his wife
Mattie, lived in Norman, Oklahoma. Horace George left Denison soon,
perhaps
joining John there. Gillis, unmarried, died in Denison in 1890, leaving
Thomas
W. and Luella with Elizabeth, now called "Mother Dollarshide." She
lived for decades at 615 West Woodard Street.
In 1882, Thomas married Cora
Lucinda Griffin (1863–1949). Born in Iowa, she was in
Denison by 1880. The
couple lived at 127 West Monterey Street. In 1880, Thomas was working
as a
fireman on the railroad. Thereafter, he focused on establishing himself
in
business.
In 1887, T. W. Dollarhide &
Co. was selling
"groceries, produce, hay, feed and grain" at 323 West Main.
Associated with Tom in the business was Jesse
D. Yocom, soon to become Denison's mayor.
The Sunday GazetteerSunday, June 21, 18 91pg. 1
The 1891 City Directory listed
Thomas and Cora living at 1002 West
Nelson Street at the corner of Chandler Avenue. At 305 West Main was Dollarhide & Harbison,
selling "hardware, stoves,
cutlery, tinware, guns, ammunition,
sportsmen's supplies, agents for Hazzard
Powder Co." The new partner was Edward
C. Harbison. By
1893,
Thomas was a clerk at F. E. Shaffer & Co., hardware. Elizabeth
Dollarhide had
gone into business with Frank
E. Shaffer
at 321 West Main Street.
Enter
Overton Harris
Overton Harris (1857–1938) had come to Denison after
1880 from Boone County, Missouri. By
1887, he was a partner with Hiram
Brooks
(1856–1920) in Brooks & Harris, a firm selling groceries,
provisions,
and feed at 210 West Main Street. He and Hiram likely had been friends
back in
Cedar, Boone County, Missouri.
In 1891,
according
to the City Directory, Harris had become a partner with John W. Hayes
in Hayes & Harris, purveyors of clothing and
gents' furnishing goods, at 105 West Main Street. Both Hayes and Harris
were
rooming at 600 West Woodard Street and taking their meals at the
McDougall
Hotel.
"Hayes
& Harris, Denison, Tex."
Metal button found in antique mall.
Actual size 11/16 inch. This scan is much enlarged.
Later in 1891, Harris married Elizabeth's youngest
child, Luella.
The next year they had a daughter, Sabra
Harris, named after Overton's mother. Elizabeth lived
with Luella, Overton, and Sabra at 615 West Woodard Street, while
Thomas and
Cora, with their four offspring, had their separate household on
Monterey
Street.
By 1896, Overton Harris had withdrawn from Hayes
& Harris. That
year the firm of
Dollarhide, Maynard & Harris was selling
hardware and guns at 311
West Main.
This was a partnership among Elizabeth
Dollarhide, M. F.
Maynard, and
Overton Harris. Thomas W. Dollarhide was a salesman in the store.
"Dollarhide & Harris Hardware. 311
Main Street."
Robinson, Frank M., comp. Industrial Denison. [N.p.]: Means-Moore Co.,
[ca. 1909]. Page 81
Dollarhide & Harbison, Guns and
Hardware.
Photo by Paul Verkin, Denison Texas.
Collection of Grayson County Frontier Village.
Verkin took photographs in Denison from 1885 to around 1893
By 1903, Thomas had taken over Elizabeth's interest
in the business,
which had become Dollarhide & Harris, still at 311 West Main.
Thomas' son Jesse worked as a clerk there by 1905.
Dollarhide
& Harris advertisement in 1903 Denison City Directory
Thomas W. Dollarhide and Overton
Harris, located at 311 West Main Street
In 1907 the Harris household had moved to 723 West
Gandy Street. Two
years later, it had moved again, to 531 West Gandy. By 1915, the home
address
was 531 West Woodard. Elizabeth passed away in 1919.
Advertisement for Dollarhide
& Harris
Denison High School Yellow Jacket yearbook
1916
Around 1909, Thomas and Cora moved to 630 West
Woodard, a block away
from Overton, Luella, and Elizabeth. Luella, who had been working as a
choir
director, died in 1926. Overton lived on in the house with Sabra.
Unmarried,
she graduated from Denison's
Educational Institute in the Class of 1909 and
then worked as a stenographer in the MK&T offices. Overton
Harris continued
to work at Dollarhide & Harris until near his death in June
1938. The
business had operated at the same address, under one family's
ownership, for
over forty years.
H. H. Peterson's Peterson's Hardware succeeded
Dollarhide & Harris at the same location.
Thomas
Dollarhide lived until 1941, while his wife Cora survived
him, passing away in 1949. All the immediate family members were buried
in
Fairview
Cemetery in Denison.
| Name |
Birth |
Death |
Comments |
|
|
|
|
| Dollarhide, Cora
Lucinda Griffin |
1863 |
1949 |
w/o
Thomas Willard Dollarhide, Sr. |
| Dollarhide,
Gililis |
9
Oct 1855 |
15
July 1890 |
s/o
Thomas C. Dollarhide & Elizabeth Vector |
| Dollarhide,
Griffin Sr. |
1888 |
1964 |
|
| Dollarhide, Jessie |
4
Jan 1886 |
1929 |
s/o
Thomas C. Dollarhide & Elizabeth Vector |
| Dollarhide,
Elizabeth Vector |
1832 |
1919 |
w/o
Thomas C. Dollarhide |
| Dollarhide, Norris |
1882 |
1883 |
|
| Dollarhide, Thomas
Willard |
18
Dec 1856 |
14
May 1941 |
s/o
Thomas C. Dollarhide & Elizabeth Vector |
| Harris,
Luella Dollarhide |
1868 |
1928 |
d/o
Thomas C. Dollarhide & Elizabeth Vector |
| Harris,
Overton |
1856 |
25
June 1938 |
h/o
Luella Dollarhide |
| Harris,
Sarah (Sabra) |
1892 |
25
July 1966 |
d/o
Overton Harris & Luella Dollarhide |
