 Reuben Donnell 1816 - 1889 Reuben
and his children moved to north Texas a few years after Mariah's death.
His mother-in-law, Elizabeth Hill, went with them. Her husband, Daniel
Hill, had died in Tippah County, Mississippi in 1877. On January 8,
1877, Reuben bought 194 1/4 acres on Mineral Creek (DB 35, p. 333) near
Whitesboro in the extreme west central part of Grayson County and many
of his children settled near him or in the surrounding counties on both
sides of the Texas/Oklahoma border. Grayson County, in north central
Texas, is bordered by the Red River and by Fannin, Collin, Denton, and
Cooke counties. The county seat is Sherman, which lies approximately
sixty-five miles north of Dallas. From 1870 to 1880, settlement in
north Texas flourished. The arrival of the Houston and Texas Central
Railroad in Sherman and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas in Denison in
late 1872 initiated a period
of phenomenal growth and development for Grayson County. The population expanded from 14,387 in 1870 to 38,108 in 1880, the largest increase that ever occurred in the entire history of the county. By the end of the 1870s when the Donnells arrived, the community of Whitesboro had a bank, a newspaper, and train service from the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, that had extended its tracks to Whitesboro from Denison in 1879. Reuben farmed in the area until he died in 1889 and was reportedly buried in Dixie Cemetery about five miles outside of Whitesboro, although his grave marker has not been found. After his death, his heirs sold the land to D.C. Sullivan (DB 87:322-325). http://www.marywcampbell.com/mwcDonnellR.htm  Dixie Cemetery Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |