Hominyville - Plano
Joe Beverly Recalls Early History.
Crowell, Foard county, Sept. 26, 1921.
I have with much interest read your special edition. The item pertaining to the early settlement and organization of Collin county, I am sure is correct in most that is given. However, in writing of historical facts one can not depend entirely on tradition for correctness.
For instance, the writer says that "Hominyville was a thriving village before Plano sprang up." He also says that Jim Brown and his father-in-law, Patterson, built an ox mill at the place. Alvin Patterson, the partner in the mill, who moved to Weston in 1860, was Jim Brown's brother-in-law, instead of father-in-law. Plano had sprung up and had a postoffice before the timbers were cut and hewn or the stones dressed for the Hominyville mill.
After more than three score years since either town was started, perhaps living witnesses will be a little hard to find. Suppose we ask Dick Clark who lives on a farm northwest from Plano on the headwaters of Spring Creek? Or his brother, Matt Clark, at Frisco" It is likely that Tom Muse, or Capt. Board will remember. This much to get the cord straight. While we are at the place where Hominyville stood, let us stop a minute and see John Brown and his wife, Addie. This house stands about at the place where the widow Patterson, Alvin's mother, built a nice residence at the time the mill was built. But as this was before their day and generation John and Addie can't tell much about the early history. Three or four hundred yards south of their place Mr. Benge, a brother-in-law of Brown and Patterson, built a good large house and kept tavern. He also kept a store. The store was burned and never rebuilt. This was east of the Dallas and McKinney road-the mill was south and west of the road. On the south bank of the Klepper branch and on the roadside, John Hanner has a wood shop where he repaired wagons and plows and made ox yokes. Half a mile or less up the branch his brother, Ike, had a blacksmith shop. For that day and time Jim Brown and Alvin Patterson each had a nice residence with brick or white rock chimneys. Bit it will do no good to walk out over the grounds for not even one stone could be found upon another. I would be glad t know what has become of Will Patterson, Alvin's younger brother. He was a gallant Confederate soldier. Shot through the back of his head with a minnie ball, captured and taken prisoner at Arkansas Post. After the war he lived several years at the old home place and made a good and useful citizen.
Joe W. Beverly
Crowell, Foard county, Sept. 26, 1921.
I have with much interest read your special edition. The item pertaining to the early settlement and organization of Collin county, I am sure is correct in most that is given. However, in writing of historical facts one can not depend entirely on tradition for correctness.
For instance, the writer says that "Hominyville was a thriving village before Plano sprang up." He also says that Jim Brown and his father-in-law, Patterson, built an ox mill at the place. Alvin Patterson, the partner in the mill, who moved to Weston in 1860, was Jim Brown's brother-in-law, instead of father-in-law. Plano had sprung up and had a postoffice before the timbers were cut and hewn or the stones dressed for the Hominyville mill.
After more than three score years since either town was started, perhaps living witnesses will be a little hard to find. Suppose we ask Dick Clark who lives on a farm northwest from Plano on the headwaters of Spring Creek? Or his brother, Matt Clark, at Frisco" It is likely that Tom Muse, or Capt. Board will remember. This much to get the cord straight. While we are at the place where Hominyville stood, let us stop a minute and see John Brown and his wife, Addie. This house stands about at the place where the widow Patterson, Alvin's mother, built a nice residence at the time the mill was built. But as this was before their day and generation John and Addie can't tell much about the early history. Three or four hundred yards south of their place Mr. Benge, a brother-in-law of Brown and Patterson, built a good large house and kept tavern. He also kept a store. The store was burned and never rebuilt. This was east of the Dallas and McKinney road-the mill was south and west of the road. On the south bank of the Klepper branch and on the roadside, John Hanner has a wood shop where he repaired wagons and plows and made ox yokes. Half a mile or less up the branch his brother, Ike, had a blacksmith shop. For that day and time Jim Brown and Alvin Patterson each had a nice residence with brick or white rock chimneys. Bit it will do no good to walk out over the grounds for not even one stone could be found upon another. I would be glad t know what has become of Will Patterson, Alvin's younger brother. He was a gallant Confederate soldier. Shot through the back of his head with a minnie ball, captured and taken prisoner at Arkansas Post. After the war he lived several years at the old home place and made a good and useful citizen.
Joe W. Beverly
