Collin County History
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  • Cemeteries
    • alphabetical listing >
      • A cemeteries >
        • Abston
        • Adams
        • Aleo
        • Alexander
        • Allen
        • Altoga
      • B cemeteries >
        • Baccus
        • Backbone
        • Baker
        • Bear Creek
        • Bethany
        • Bethel
        • Bethlehem
        • Biggs
        • Black - McKinney
        • Blue Ridge
        • Bosbie
        • Bowman
        • Bradley McKinney
        • Bradley Pike
        • Brinlee
        • Browning
        • Buckner
        • Bumpass
        • Burns
        • Bush
      • C cemeteries >
        • Cannon
        • Carter
        • Celina
        • Chambersville
        • Chapman
        • Clark
        • Clear Lake
        • Coats-Horton
        • Coffman
        • Coleman
        • Collin County Farm
        • Collinsworth
        • Community
        • Corinth
        • Cottage Hill
        • Cross Roads Celina
        • Cross Roads Desert
        • Culwell
      • D, E cemeteries >
        • Davis
        • Douglas
        • Dunaway
        • Elm Grove
      • F cemeteries >
        • Farmersville
        • Felker
        • Fisher-Roberts
        • Fitzhugh
        • Forbis
        • Frankford
        • Franklin
      • G cemeteries >
        • Garner
        • Gray
        • Grounds
        • Groves
      • H cemeteries >
        • Harris
        • Hawkins
        • Helms
        • Hendricks
        • Herndon
        • Herring-Hogge
        • Higgins
        • Highland
        • Honaker
        • Horn
        • Horn, Jeremiah
        • Huson
      • J, K cemeteries >
        • James
        • Johnson
        • Jones-Yeary
        • Kennedy
        • Kreymer
      • L cemeteries >
        • Lair
        • Leach-Thomas
        • League
        • Liberty
        • Lovell
      • M cemeteries >
        • Mantua
        • Maxwell
        • McAnery
        • McGarrah
        • McKinney family
        • McLarry
        • McMenemy
        • McMillen
        • McMinn
        • Melissa
        • Milligan
        • Millwood
        • Monkey Run
        • Montgomery
        • Moore
        • Mount Carmel
        • Mt. Pleasant Hill
        • Mugg
        • Muncey
        • Muncy
        • Murchison
        • Murphy family
      • N, O cemeteries >
        • Nevada
        • Noble
        • Old McKinney
        • Old Walnut Grove
        • Orenduff
      • P cemeteries >
        • Pecan Grove
        • Pendleton
        • Pike
        • Plano Mutual
        • Plano Pioneer
        • Pleasant Grove
        • Potters Field
        • Princeton
      • R cemeteries >
        • Race/Catlett
        • Richards
        • Ridgeview
        • Rike
        • Ross
        • Routh
        • Routh Family
        • Rowlett Creek
      • S cemeteries >
        • Scalf
        • Scott
        • Shack
        • Shephard
        • Shiloh
        • Slater
        • Smallwood
        • Smith Frisco
        • Smith Nevada
        • Snow Hill
        • Sonntag
        • St. Paul Baptist
        • St. Paul Catholic
        • Stiff Chapel
        • Stimson
        • Stony Point
        • Sullivan
      • T, U, V cemeteries >
        • Thompson
        • Throckmorton
        • Union
        • Van Winkle
        • Verona
      • W, Y cemeteries >
        • Wallace
        • Walnut Grove
        • Warden/Worden
        • Ware/Wear
        • Wells
        • West Shady Grove
        • Williams/Mt. Olive
        • Wilson
        • Wilson Chapel
        • Woodlawn
        • Wylie
        • Young
    • Cemetery Locations >
      • Allen
      • Blue Ridge
      • Celina
      • Chambersville
      • Culleoka
  • Churches
    • Church list >
      • A Churches >
        • Allen Baptist Church
        • Allen Christian Church
        • Altoga Baptist Church
        • Anna Baptist Church
        • Anna Christian Church
      • B Churches >
        • Bethel Methodist
        • Bethlehem Baptist Church
        • Blue Ridge Baptist
        • Blue Ridge Methodist Church
        • Bomar's Chapel
      • C Churches >
        • Celina Methodist Church
        • Chambersville Methodist
        • Corinth Christian
        • Corinth Presbyterian
        • Cottage Hill Methodist
      • D, E Churches >
        • Dunn Memorial Baptist
        • East Fork Baptist
        • Elm Grove Presbyterian
      • F Churches >
        • Farmersville Baptist
        • Farmersville Methodist
        • Foncine Christian
        • Foote Baptist
        • Forest Grove Christian
        • Frankford Methodist
        • Friendship Baptist
        • Frisco First Baptist
        • Frisco Methodist
      • H, L Churches >
        • Lebanon Baptist Church
      • M Churches >
        • Mantua Christian
        • McKinney Churches >
          • McKinney Central Presbyterian
          • McKinney First Baptist
          • McKinney First Christian
          • McKinney First Methodist
          • McKinney First Presbyterian
          • McKinney St. Peter Episcopal
          • Mt. Olive Baptist
          • St. Mark
        • McMinn Chapel
        • Melissa Christian
        • Melissa First Baptist
        • Mount Pleasant Hill Baptist
        • Murphy First Baptist
      • N, O Churches >
        • Nevada Baptist
        • Nevada Methodist
        • Orchard Gap
      • P Churches >
        • Pike Baptist
        • Pike Methodist
        • Plano churches >
          • Baccus Christian
          • Bethany Christian
          • Fannie Harrington Chapel
          • Liberty Baptist
          • Plano Baptist
          • Plano Christian
          • Plano Methodist
          • Plano Presbyterian
          • Rowlett Creek Baptist
          • Shiloh, Plano
        • Pleasant Grove Methodist
        • Aleo Baptist
        • Prosper Methodist
        • Prosper Presbyterian
      • R Churches >
        • Renner Baptist
        • Rosemond Baptist
      • S Churches >
        • Shady Grove
        • Shiloh, Wylie
        • Snow Hill Baptist
        • St. Paul, Melissa
        • St. Paul, St. Paul
        • Stiff Chapel
        • Stony Point
      • V Churches >
        • Valdasta Baptist
        • Van Alstyne Methodist
        • Verona Baptist
        • Verona Methodist
      • W Churches >
        • Walnut Grove Presbyterian
        • West Shady Grove Baptist
        • Westminster Baptist
        • Weston Christian
        • Wilmeth Chapel
        • Wilson Chapel
        • Wylie First Baptist
        • Wylie First Methodist
  • Communities
    • Community list >
      • A Communities >
        • Aleo
        • Alla
        • Allen
        • Altoga
        • Anna
        • Ardath
        • Arnold
        • Ash Grove
      • B Communities >
        • Barksdale
        • Bethany
        • Biggers
        • Bilderback
        • Bishop
        • Blue Ridge
        • Blythe Chapel
        • Bomer Chapel
        • Bosbie
        • Branch
        • Brushy
      • C Communities >
        • Cairo
        • Callis
        • Celina
        • Chambliss
        • Clear Lake
        • Cliff
        • Climax
        • Coffman
        • Copeville
        • Corinth
        • Cottage Hill
        • Cow Skin
        • Crossroads
        • Culleoka
      • D Communities >
        • Dallas
        • Delba
        • Decatur
        • Desert
        • Dixon
        • Donna
        • Dublin
        • Dump
        • Dunn Memorial
      • E Communities >
        • Empire
        • Emerson
        • Enloe
        • Erudia
        • Eureka
      • F Communities >
        • Fairview
        • Farmersville
        • Faulkner
        • Fayburg
        • Fitzhugh Mills
        • Foncine
        • Foote
        • Forest Grove
        • Frankford
        • Franklin
        • Frisco
        • Frognot
      • G Communities >
        • Glen
        • Graybill
      • H Communities >
        • Halltown
        • Hart Springs
        • Hedgecoxe
        • Helm
        • Henslee Chapel
        • Higgins
        • Highland
        • Hominyville
        • Honaker Chapel
        • Honey Creek
        • Hopewell
      • I, J, K Communities >
        • Illinois
        • Josephine
        • Kelly
        • Kreymer
      • L Communities >
        • Lavon
        • Lebanon
        • Liberty
        • Lone Elm
        • Lolaville
        • Lone Star
        • Lone Tree
        • Long Street
        • Longneck
        • Lovejoy
        • Lowry Crossing
        • Lucas
      • M Communities >
        • Mantua
        • Marilee
        • Martin's Box
        • Maxwell
        • McKinney
        • McKinney Communities >
          • Bloomdale
          • Bois d'Arc
          • Bowlby
          • Buckner
          • Chambersville
          • Lewisville
          • McDonald
          • White's Grove
          • Wilmeth
        • McMinn Chapel
        • Melissa
        • Mesquite
        • Milligan
        • Millwood
        • Mississippi
        • Monkey Run
        • Moreland
        • Morris
        • Mt. Pisgah
        • Murphy
      • N, O Communities >
        • Nevada
        • New Albany
        • New Hope
        • New Life
        • Nickelville
        • Orchard Gap
      • P Communities >
        • Parker
        • Parris
        • Pedigo
        • Petersburg
        • Pike
        • Plano
        • Possum Trot
        • Princeton
        • Prosper
      • R Communities >
        • Red Oak
        • Renner
        • Rhea Mills
        • Rhymer
        • Richardson
        • Richland
        • Rock Hill
        • Roland
        • Roseland
        • Rosemond
        • Routh
        • Rowlett
        • Russellville
        • Ruth
      • S Communities >
        • Sedalia
        • Sellers
        • Shepton
        • Sleepy Hollow
        • Snow Hill
        • Spring Creek
        • Spring Hill
        • Squeezepenny
        • St. Paul
        • Stiff Chapel
        • Stinson
        • Sugar Hill
        • Stony Point
        • Swayback
      • T Communities >
        • Thompson
        • Throckmorton
        • Ticky
        • Trinity
      • V Communities >
        • Valdasta
        • Van Alstyne
        • Verona
        • Vineland
        • Viney Grove
      • W Communities >
        • Walnut Grove
        • Warden
        • Water Ridge
        • Westminster
        • Weston
        • Wetsel
        • Wilson
        • Wilson Chapel
        • Winningkoff
        • Womble
        • Wood Dale
        • Woodlawn
        • Wylie
  • History
    • History list >
      • County history >
        • Beginnings
        • County Seat
        • Farming
        • Geographic features
        • Peters Colony
        • Preemption Claims
      • Hangings
      • Indians >
        • Indian Massacres
        • Muncey Massacre
      • Lodges and Clubs >
        • Empire Masonic
        • Farmersville Masonic
        • Lee Masonic
        • McKinney Masonic
        • North Texas Masonic Lodges
        • Pike Masonic
        • Plano Debating Society
        • Prosper IOOF
      • Medical >
        • Doctors
      • Fire Department >
        • Firemen's Band
        • McKinney Fire
        • Sheriffs
      • Railroads >
        • Clear Lake Rail
        • Farmersville Depot
        • Eastline
        • Frisco Depot
        • Interurban
        • Murphy Depot
        • Melissa Station
        • Plano HTC Station
        • Plano Texas Electric
      • Tornados
      • Wars >
        • Buckner Volunteers
        • Civil War
        • Civil War Old Timers
        • Civil War Roll
        • Civil War Veterans
        • Fitzhugh's Regiment
        • Fitzhugh's Texas Rangers
        • Hedgcoxe War
        • Mexican War
  • Maps
  • Places
    • Places list >
      • A Places >
        • Allen Station
        • Altoga Bank
        • Allen Railroad Dam
        • Altoga Store
        • Aston Building
      • B Places >
        • Barnom Meat
        • Battle Harness
        • Blue Ridge Store
        • Boils Store
        • Branch Store
        • Bridges >
          • CR122
          • CR277
          • CR475
          • CR476
          • CR579
          • CR581
          • FM1378
          • McKinney Railroad Bridge
        • Bush Springs
        • Butler's Drug Store
      • C Places >
        • Carlisle Grocery
        • Central National Road
        • Clear Lake Store
        • Climax Store
        • Coffey Stable
        • Collin McKinney Cabin
      • D, E Places >
        • Daniel Gin
        • Desert Store
      • F Places >
        • Fairview Railroad District
        • Farmers Gin
        • Farmersville Bank
        • Forest Grove Store
        • Fossil Fish
        • Frisco Journal
      • G Places >
        • Gordon Millinery
        • Gulledge & Bros
        • Gumbo Pits
      • H Places >
        • Hick City Market
        • Hillis Store
        • Horseshoe Plunge
        • Housewright Feed
        • Housewright Hardware
        • Hudson Harness
      • L, M Places >
        • Lebanon Store
        • McCauley Gin
      • McKinney Places >
        • Ashburn Hospital
        • Blurton Hotel
        • Bullock's Motors
        • C & E Steak House
        • Caldwell Sanitorium
        • Coliseum
        • Collin County Bank
        • Collin County Flour
        • Cotton Mill
        • Courthouses
        • Dixies
        • Elm Saloon
        • Gotcher Nursery
        • Johnson Furniture
        • McKinney Bank
        • McKinney City Hall
        • McKinney Hospital
        • McKinney Post Office
        • McKinney Union Depot
        • Mississippi Store
        • Poor Farm
        • Pope Motor
        • Pope Theatre
        • Prison
        • Smith Drug
        • Throckmorton Law Office
        • White Lumber
      • N, O Places >
        • Nelson Hotel
        • Old Settlers Park
        • Old SH5
        • Onion Shed
      • P Places >
        • Plano Bank
        • Plano Star Courier
        • Pot Rack Creek
        • POW Camp
        • Prosper Flour
        • Pud Joplin Hole
      • R Places >
        • Raymond's Restaurant
        • Red River Bridge
        • Rhea Mills Store
      • S Places >
        • Sapp Bros. Cafe
        • Schimelpfenig Store
        • Shawnee Trail
        • Shephard Mule Barn
        • Sherley Bros. Store
        • Stiff Creek Bridge
        • Stony Point Store
      • T Places >
        • Thompson Gin
      • W Places >
        • Weston Drug
      • White Blacksmith
      • Wylie Grocery
      • Wylie Hotel
      • Young Drug Store
  • Schools
    • Schools list >
      • A Schools >
        • Alla School
        • Anna School
      • B Schools >
        • Baccus School
        • Bishop School
        • Bloomdale School
        • Blue Ridge School
        • Bush School
      • C Schools >
        • Celina School
        • Chambersville School
        • Climax School
        • Colleges
        • Copeville School
        • Culleoka School
      • D Schools >
        • Doty School
      • Early Schools
      • E Schools >
        • Empire College
      • F Schools >
        • Finch School
      • G Schools
      • H Schools >
        • Higgins School
        • Hobbins School
      • J, K Schools >
        • Johnson School
        • Jones Academy
        • Kelley School
      • L Schools >
        • Lavon School
        • Lone Elm School
        • Lovejoy School
      • M Schools >
        • Mantua School
        • McKinney Central Ward
        • Melissa School
        • Mendenhall Elementary
        • Milligan School
        • Murphy School
        • Muse Academy
      • N, O Schools
      • P Schools >
        • Plano High School
        • Prosper School
      • R Schools >
        • Rhea Mills School
        • Robertson School
        • Rock Hill School
      • S Schools >
        • Sedalia School
        • Spring Creek School
        • Stiff Chapel School
        • Stony Point School
      • T, U Schools
      • V Schools
      • W, Y Schools >
        • White Rock School
        • Wilmeth School
        • Wilson School
        • Winningkoff School
  • Timeline
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    • October
    • November
    • December
  • People
    • Houses >
      • A Houses >
        • Abernathy-Crouch
        • Aldridge
        • Angel
        • Aron-Harris
      • B Houses >
        • Bain-Honaker
        • Barnes-Largent
        • Bass
        • Beverly - Harris
        • Bingham
        • Board - Everett
        • Board - Jones
        • Bolin
        • Brown, John
        • Brown, Thomas
        • Burris - Finch
        • Burton
        • Burton, Dr.
        • Bush
        • Bush, Sterling
      • C Houses >
        • Campbell
        • Carlisle House
        • Carpenter
        • Clardy
        • Clark
        • Clark, Matt
        • Clifton
        • Cline-Bass
        • Coggins
        • Coit
        • Comer
        • Crouch-Perkins
        • Crozier
      • D Houses >
        • Daniel
        • Davis, Harvey
        • Davis, John
        • Davis, Olney
        • Davis-Hill
        • Ditto Dowell
        • Dowell, J. S.
        • Dowell BB
        • Dowell McKinney
        • Dulaney Cottage
        • Dulaney
      • E, F Houses >
        • Estes
        • Faires
        • Faires-Bell
        • Ferguson
        • Foote
        • Foreman
        • Fox
        • Fox-Caldwell
      • G Houses >
        • George
        • Giles
        • Goodner
        • Gough-Hughston
        • Graves
        • Greer
      • H Houses >
        • Hart
        • Heard, Charles
        • Heard, John
        • Heard-Craig
        • Herrington, Delta
        • Herrington, John
        • Hill, Ben
        • Hill, John
        • Hill, Moran
        • hill,wr
        • Hill-Robberson
        • Hoard
        • Holsonbake
        • Hood
        • Howell
        • Howell-Merritt
        • Isbell
      • J, K, L Houses >
        • Johnson, John
        • Johnson, Thomas
        • King
        • Kinnamon
        • Kirkpatrick
        • Lamm
        • Largent
      • M Houses >
        • Magnolia
        • Martin
        • Matthews
        • McKinney Cabin
        • McKinney, Younger
        • McKinney Area Houses
        • Merritt - Dowdy
        • Metz
        • Miller
        • Mitchell
        • Mormon
        • Muse
      • N, O Houses >
        • Neathery
        • Noel
        • Nenney
        • Newsome, R. F.
        • Newsome-King
        • Ogle
        • Ogle, Dr.
        • Ownsby
      • P, R Houses >
        • Pate
        • Pitts
        • Rhea
        • Robbins
        • Roller
      • S Houses >
        • Scott, A.M.
        • Scott, L. A.
        • Scott Barker
        • Smith
        • Sparks, James
        • Sparks, John
        • Stallcup
        • Stibbens
        • Stiff
        • Stone
      • T Houses >
        • Taylor
        • Taylor, J. H.
        • Taylor, Two Bit
        • Thomas, Ben
        • Thomas, James
        • Thompson
      • W Houses >
        • Waddill
        • Webb
        • Wells
        • Wiley
        • Wilmeth
        • Wilson, Ammie
        • Wilson, A. G.
        • Wilson, G. A.
        • Wilson Creek
        • Woodman
        • Wyatt
      • Y Houses >
        • Yeager
        • Young, John
        • Young, Wesley
    • People list >
      • A Surnames >
        • Ab Surnames >
          • Abel
          • Abernathy >
            • Abernathy, Homer
            • Abernathy, JR
            • Abernathy, Jewell
            • Abernathy, Mrs. Mollie
            • Abernathy, Robert
            • Abernathy, William Roberts
            • Abston
        • Ad Surnames >
          • Adams >
            • Adams, George
            • Adams, James
            • Adams, Mrs.
          • Adamson >
            • Adamson, Amelia
            • Adamson, Larkin
          • Addington
        • Ai, Ak Surnames >
          • Airhart
          • Akers >
            • Akers, Abraham
            • Akers, Pearl
          • Akin >
            • Akin, Asbury
            • Akin, J. W.
        • Al Surnames >
          • Alder
          • Aldridge >
            • Mrs. Lively Aldridge
            • James Kinnon Aldridge
          • Alexander
          • Allee
          • Allen >
            • Allen, A. W.
            • Allen, Annie Louise
            • Allen, Doria
            • Allen, Ebenezer
            • Allen, Grandma
            • Allen, Mrs. J. H.
            • Allen, Mrs. Nancy
            • Allen, W. C.
            • Allen, Weston
          • Allison >
            • Allison, RD
            • Allison, SB
            • Allison, Wm
        • An Surnames >
          • Anderson >
            • Anderson, Mrs. AL
            • Anderson, Annie Jane
            • Anderson, Dixie
            • Anderson, JL
            • Anderson, Will
          • Andrews >
            • Andrews, FG
            • Andrews, Moses
            • Andrews, Raine
            • Andrews, TW
            • Andrews, Tom
            • Andrews, WM
            • Andrews, Wm, Jr
          • Angel >
            • Angel, JL
            • Angel, JR
          • Antione
        • Ar Surnames >
          • Archer
          • Armstrong >
            • Armstrong, PM
            • Armstrong, Stokley
          • Arnold
          • Aron
        • As Surnames >
          • Ashby >
            • Ashby-Howe
            • Ashby-Stiff
          • Ashlock
          • Askew
          • Aston
        • At Surnames >
          • Atkinson >
            • Atkinson, Andy
            • Atkinson, Jesse
          • Atterberry >
            • Atterberry, Eva Ruth
            • Atterberry, HA
            • Atterberry, John
          • Aven
      • B Surnames >
        • Ba Surnames >
          • Bac Surnames >
            • Baccus >
              • Baccus, Jacob
              • Baccus, Jacob, Jr.
              • Baccus, John
            • Bacon
            • Bagwill
          • Bai Surnames >
            • Bailey >
              • Bailey reunion
              • Bailey, Bertha
              • Bailey, Thomas
            • Bain
            • Baines
            • Baird
            • Baker >
              • Baker, Joseph
              • Baker, Mary
              • Baker, Royal
          • Bal Surnames >
            • Balch
            • Baldridge >
              • Baldridge, JE
              • Baldridge, Lula
              • Baldridge, WF
              • Baldridge, WH
              • Baldwin
              • Bales >
                • Bales, Flossie
                • Bales, Thurman
              • Ball >
                • Ball, AT
                • Ball, Hilary
              • Ballard
              • Ballew >
                • Ballew, Stephen
          • Bar Surnames >
            • Barker
            • Barkley
            • Barnard
            • Barnes >
              • Barnes, Birdie
              • Barnes, Ellender
              • Barnes, Mrs. HC
              • Barnes, Joe
              • Barnes, TS
              • Barnes, Thomas
            • Barnett >
              • Barnett family
              • Barnett, James
              • Barnett, Jennie
            • Barnum
            • Barron
            • Barrow >
              • Barrow, Clyde
              • Barrow, EL
            • Barry
            • Barton
          • Bas Surnames >
            • Bass >
              • Bass, Frank
              • Bass, Jonas
              • Bass, Sam
              • Bass, TA
            • Bassham
          • Bat Surnames >
            • Bateman >
              • Bateman, Althea
              • Bateman, Quait
            • Bates >
              • Bates, Bessie
            • Battle
          • Baugh
          • Baxter >
            • Baxter, Elijah
            • Baxter, Ernest
            • Baxter, Mary
        • Be Surnames >
          • Bea Surnames >
            • Beaty >
              • Beaty, Eliza
              • Beaty, Henry
            • Beaver
          • Bec Surnames >
            • Beck >
              • Beck, John
              • Beck, Richard
              • Beck, Sanford
            • Beckham
          • Bel names >
            • Belden
            • Belew >
              • Belew, Melvin
              • Belew, Mood
            • Bell >
              • Bell, Baxter
              • Bell, Eugene
            • Belt >
              • Belt, Bertha
              • Belt, Clifford
            • Bennett
          • Ber Surnames >
            • Berry >
              • Berry, Alex
              • Berry, Eliza
              • Berry, George
              • Berry, Samuel
            • Berryman
          • Betty
          • Beverly >
            • Beverly, Joe
            • Beverly, John
            • Beverly, Mrs. John
            • Beverly, WT
            • Beverly, Wm
        • Bi Surnames >
          • Bibles
          • Bic Names >
            • Bickham
            • Bickley >
              • Bickley Family
              • Bickley, WP
          • Big Surnames >
            • Biggers
            • Biggs >
              • Biggs, Ben
              • Biggs, Horace
              • Biggs, JW
              • Biggs, Joab
              • Biggs, Lottie
          • Bil Surnames >
            • Bilderback
            • Billingsley
          • Bingham
          • Birdwell
          • Bishop >
            • Bishop, Frankford
        • Bl Surnames >
          • Blackburn
          • Blakeman
          • Blalack >
            • Blalack, Mrs. Frank
            • Blalack, Tilden
          • Blalock
          • Blankenship
          • Blasingame
          • Blazer
        • Bo Surnames >
          • Boa Surnames >
            • Boals
            • Board
            • Boatwright
          • Bog Surnames >
            • Bogard
            • Bogart
          • Boils
          • Bol surnames >
            • Bolin
            • Bolton
          • Bom Surnames >
            • Boman
            • Bomar >
              • Bomar, Avery
              • Bomar, Dave
              • Bomar, Elmer
              • Bomar, James
              • Bomar, Lonnie
              • Bomar, Nora
              • Bomar, Thomas
              • Bomar, William D.
          • Bone
          • Boone
          • Boren >
            • Boren, Bertie
            • Boren, Mike
          • Bos Names >
            • Bostick
            • Boswell
          • Bounds >
            • Bounds Family
            • Bounds, Joe
          • Bow Names >
            • Bowlby
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          • Dawson
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        • De names >
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          • Dowling
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        • Dr Names >
          • Drake >
            • Drake, A. D.
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            • Drake, W. G.
        • Du names >
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          • Dungan >
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          • Dupont
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            • Dye, Thomas
            • Dye family
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      • E Surnames >
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        • El, Em, En, Ep names >
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          • Emberton
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            • Emerson, H. T.
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          • England >
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          • Enloe >
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            • Enloe, John
          • Epps
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            • Erwin, Beulah
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          • Estes >
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            • Estes, Jack >
              • Estes, Ben
          • Eubanks >
            • Eubanks, J. A.
            • Eubanks, J. H.
            • Eubanks, L. J.
          • Evans >
            • Evans, Dora
            • Evans, W. A.
      • F Surnames >
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          • Fair
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          • Fant
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            • Farley, Cleo
            • Farley, Darrell
          • Farrar
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            • Farrell, Gracie
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          • Faulkner >
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            • Faulkner, J. W.
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          • Finley
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          • Fitzhugh >
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        • Fl Surnames >
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            • Flesher Reunion
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            • Fletcher, M. C.
        • Fo Surnames >
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            • Foote, Gerald
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            • Foote, Phillip
          • Forbes
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            • Ford, Ova
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          • Forte
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            • Fowler, E. A.
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            • Fowler, John
          • Fox >
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            • Fox, Mrs. Sam
        • Fr Surnames >
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            • Fuller, Robert
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            • Gough, W. M.
        • Gr names >
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              • Graves, Wickliffe
            • Gray >
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              • Gray, J. R.
          • Gre names >
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            • Gregory
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      • H names >
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            • Harris >
              • Harris, Billy
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            • Harrod
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          • Has-Haz >
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            • Herring
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          • Ho names >
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              • Hooper >
                • Hooper, Hattie
                • Hooper, Mary
                • Hooper, Vesta
              • Hope
              • Horn >
                • Horn Info
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              • Hornbuckle
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              • Howard >
                • Howard, Dora
                • Howard, Emma
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              • Howell
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                • Hunter, William
              • Hurst
      • I - J surnames >
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          • Jennings
          • Jetton
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            • Johnson, Earl
            • Johnson, Floyd
            • Johnson, Granville
            • Johnson, Ruby
            • Johnson, John
            • Johnson, Margaret
            • Johnson, Rebekah
            • Johnson, Rutebega
          • Jones
          • Joyce
          • Jungjohan
      • K surnames >
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          • Kerr, A. F.
          • Kerr, Belle
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          • Kerr, John
          • Kerr, W. M.
        • Keyes
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        • Kincaid
        • King >
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          • King, E. E.
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          • King, John C.
          • King marriages
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          • Kirby, Patsy
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        • Kirk
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        • Kunkle
      • L Surnames >
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            • Lair, J. B.
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          • Lamm
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            • Largent, Ray
            • Largent, Roy
          • Latta >
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            • Latta, James
            • Latta, Minnie
          • Lawson
        • Le - Li surnames >
          • Ledbetter
          • Leigh
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            • Lewis, Charles
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            • Lewis, Martin
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            • Lewis, Ruby
            • Lewis, S. J.
            • Lewis, Tom
          • Lindsay
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        • Lo - Ly >
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            • Love, M. M.
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            • Love, Cora
          • Lovejoy >
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            • Lovejoy, John
          • Lovelady
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Finch, Paula
PAULA FINCH
Courier Gazette, April 10, 1988, by Janet Margul
DREAMS OF BROADWAY
...[Paula Finch] was born in 1905 in Garland and spent her childhood in Farmersville.
Finch’s father had a store, R. G. McCain Co., up until the ravages of the Depression closed it.
“You would call it a department store now,” she said. “We called it a dry goods store then.”
When Finch was 13, the family moved to McKinney, where her father opened another R. G. McCain Co. store, where the Ritz Building stands now. She remembers growing up performing.
“I loved plays and recitations,” she said. “I had a lot of dreams. I wanted to go to New York City to the American Academy.”
But her father was what she called “a little old-fashioned” and wouldn’t let her go to New York City. He said she was too young. So she went to Southern Methodist University for a year, studying in SMU’s drama department.
“At that time it wasn’t much of a theater department,” she said. “It was mainly for training ministers.”
She remembers there were a lot of study clubs she attended, learning literature and literary criticism.
Finch attended a private school taught by Mrs. A. A. Cocke for two years, living with Cocke and her daughter.
“Mrs. Cocke was wonderful,” Finch said. “She was filled with Browning and Shakespeare and I absorbed it.”
She went back to SMU after her time of study with Cocke, and still remembers the differing points of view offered by some of her professors there....
Finch came back to McKinney to teach speech. And she married the boy next door, A. H. Finch.
“My husband was a wonderful man,” she said. “He was very supportive and indulgent. He was behind anything I wanted to do.”
She had married into one of the founding families of Collin County. When one mentions Finch Park, or Fannie Finch Elementary School, she is quick to point out, “That’s my husband’s family.”...
Finch’s love of books and the stage led her to professional book reviewing. She has given book reviews to groups all over Texas and, in an age where women generally stayed at home and kept house, she traveled to wherever a group would pay her.
“I loved book,” she said. “I still do. I read everything I could find. My life had been filled with Browning and Shakespeare and I had absorbed it. I always loved to give speeches, to perform.”
FOR LOVE OF A CHILD
The Finches’ only child, Paula, was born in 1931 and Finch admits that, from that time on, her life has been dominated by trying to help her daughter.
The child had special needs. Common procedure in 1931 would have been institutionalization at birth, but that was a course Finch couldn’t accept for her daughter.
“I’ve never told my daughter she had a handicap,” Finch said. “She’s 57 now and she still doesn’t know. I worked too make sure she would have a good life. Bit it was hard.”
She was fighting a uphill battle. In the Depression era, there were no resources available for mentally handicapped children. No Collin County Development Center, no special education classes in the schools. When Finch wanted to get her daughter ready for school, there were no kindergartens.
“So I got lesson plans from the university and started my own kindergarten,” Finch said. “I had several little children here, trying to prepare Paula for school, get her used to working with other children. I had the kindergarten for several years.”
When her daughter entered the public schools, Finch was ready to help her with her schoolwork. And she started substitute teaching, where she found that other children had problems, too.
“But I’ve always believed that if you can do something reasonably well, then you would be able to step over the things you couldn’t do as well,” Finch said. “We worked to find talents Paula could develop which would enable her to step over her weaknesses.”
For years Finch took her daughter to Dallas every Saturday for accordion lessons and Paula blossomed in them. The child became so accomplished a musician that she became part of a treasured Christmas entertainment – Paula playing and her mother telling Christmas stories.
“Paula played the accordion in her high school graduation ceremony,” Finch remembered. “That was a proud moment.”
After graduation, the Finches decided to put in a shop on the square – Paula’s Shop.
“We bought and sold beautiful things. I loved the shop,” Finch said. “We learned a lot and developed a keen appreciation of beautiful things. And it helped Paula.
“When I’d go to market, they would try to get us to buy junk, telling us that it would sell,” she said. “But I didn’t buy it. When people are exposed to beautiful things, they develop an appreciation for them. And the people of McKinney responded to that.
“But when my husband had a bad heart attack, he wanted us home with him,” Finch said. “And playing the accordion was not the most restful thing for a patient. So what were we to do?”
The mother and daughter took up art, learning to paint, and there Finch found what is probably one of her daughter’s strongest talents.
Paula’s fingerpaintings are unusual, full of color and rhythm and strength. Many people responded to her paintings and she won a number of awards in art shows.
“One year Paula won three blue ribbons,” Finch said. “That was the proudest day of my life.”
“Her accomplishments gave me the feeling I could step over a lot of things and she could, too. Looking back, Paula’s music and the art were her ways of succeeding. It proved that anyone could make it if they worked hard. But with Paula, it was harder.”
Finch says her daughter’s capacity for love is her greatest talent, however. Paula’s love is pure, her mother said, not sullied by jealousy or unkindness.
“She has such a pure love, Finch said. “I’m not like that, I don’t think anybody is. But Paula is. She had such a trusting, innocent, pure love like nobody else.”
ON THE WAY TO THE LIBRARY
In 1916, the Owl Club of McKinney organized the first library. According to Finch, it was a natural thing to do, considering the times.
“There was no television, no radio,” she said. “Women had a motive to improve themselves, their homes and their community. Women’s clubs were a means to achieve those goals.”
The clubs of McKinney banded together to form the Federation of Women’s Clubs. The Federation accomplished many things for the community in its strength, including the building of sidewalks.
“The thought of the library held them together,” Finch said. “It went on for 50 years and was a constant struggle. Many people gave individually, but the city gave as little as possible.”....
Finch started working with the library in the late 1930s....

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