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Clara Belle Williams Franklin 1856 - 1945    Only
a few months before leaving town, Clara had managed to get her students
settled into a church building that would double as a school for the
next eight years. It was the new AME Quinn Chapel, purchased from
the white Methodist church in December and subsequently moved to what
was then the north end of Austin Avenue. Clara and her father
negotiated the deal for a reported $450 (a subsequent report put the
amount at $600.)    The
newly weds had been in Waco for no more than six months when they
decided to return to Denison. In February of 1879 the News reported that Clara was back. 
For
the next two years George Franklin kept busy working in Denison as a
barber, immigration agent, storekeeper, and drayman. There are
brief accounts in the newspapers that tell where he worked as a barber,
but the two clippings below demonstrate that he was more than just a
haircutter.
The return of George and Clara to Denison in early 1879 coincided with her father's move to Sherman.  Biography Index African-American Biography Index African-American Research Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |
