Eldest son of Lucy "Jane" Monroe Browder, who was the niece and ward of United States President James Monroe. She came to the Peters Colony area (Dallas) of Texas as a widow with her sons, Edward and Isham. Edward and Isham's father was Pleasant Browder.
Edward's mother lived with him until her death. She had her own land patent in the Peters Colony and was quite active in real estate developing and land trading. She was known as Dallas's first business-woman.
Edward married Elizabeth Coats, and she claimed family heritage to Pocahontas. Edward was a surveyor who laid out the first chic suburb of Dallas, and soon his development, "The Cedars", was opened to builders and settlers seeking the finest location in Dallas just before the railroads arrived in 1872 and 1873. Many years after his girls had all been duly christened without any reference to their distinguished ancestor, Edward perpetuated the name of his female antecedents by giving the name "Pocahontas" to one of the streets in his subdivision. The street was on the north side of present "Old City Park", but now bears the name of Griffin East, a feeder into R. L. Thornton Freeway.
Edward, his wife, his mother, and his brother are all buried at Pioneer Park (formerly known as Masonic Cemetery). United Daughters of the Confederacy provided markers for their graves.
Bibliography: Edward Cabell Browder and Elizabeth Coats Browder, by Jack Hittson, From Proud Heritage, Vol 1 by DCPA; Dallas County - a record of its pioneers...pg 16-19.
Edward's mother lived with him until her death. She had her own land patent in the Peters Colony and was quite active in real estate developing and land trading. She was known as Dallas's first business-woman.
Edward married Elizabeth Coats, and she claimed family heritage to Pocahontas. Edward was a surveyor who laid out the first chic suburb of Dallas, and soon his development, "The Cedars", was opened to builders and settlers seeking the finest location in Dallas just before the railroads arrived in 1872 and 1873. Many years after his girls had all been duly christened without any reference to their distinguished ancestor, Edward perpetuated the name of his female antecedents by giving the name "Pocahontas" to one of the streets in his subdivision. The street was on the north side of present "Old City Park", but now bears the name of Griffin East, a feeder into R. L. Thornton Freeway.
Edward, his wife, his mother, and his brother are all buried at Pioneer Park (formerly known as Masonic Cemetery). United Daughters of the Confederacy provided markers for their graves.
Bibliography: Edward Cabell Browder and Elizabeth Coats Browder, by Jack Hittson, From Proud Heritage, Vol 1 by DCPA; Dallas County - a record of its pioneers...pg 16-19.
Eldest son of Lucy "Jane" Monroe Browder, who was the niece and ward of United States President James Monroe. She came to the Peters Colony area (Dallas) of Texas as a widow with her sons, Edward and Isham. Edward and Isham's father was Pleasant Browder.
Edward's mother lived with him until her death. She had her own land patent in the Peters Colony and was quite active in real estate developing and land trading. She was known as Dallas's first business-woman.
Edward married Elizabeth Coats, and she claimed family heritage to Pocahontas. Edward was a surveyor who laid out the first chic suburb of Dallas, and soon his development, "The Cedars", was opened to builders and settlers seeking the finest location in Dallas just before the railroads arrived in 1872 and 1873. Many years after his girls had all been duly christened without any reference to their distinguished ancestor, Edward perpetuated the name of his female antecedents by giving the name "Pocahontas" to one of the streets in his subdivision. The street was on the north side of present "Old City Park", but now bears the name of Griffin East, a feeder into R. L. Thornton Freeway.
Edward, his wife, his mother, and his brother are all buried at Pioneer Park (formerly known as Masonic Cemetery). United Daughters of the Confederacy provided markers for their graves.
Bibliography: Edward Cabell Browder and Elizabeth Coats Browder, by Jack Hittson, From Proud Heritage, Vol 1 by DCPA; Dallas County - a record of its pioneers...pg 16-19.
Edward's mother lived with him until her death. She had her own land patent in the Peters Colony and was quite active in real estate developing and land trading. She was known as Dallas's first business-woman.
Edward married Elizabeth Coats, and she claimed family heritage to Pocahontas. Edward was a surveyor who laid out the first chic suburb of Dallas, and soon his development, "The Cedars", was opened to builders and settlers seeking the finest location in Dallas just before the railroads arrived in 1872 and 1873. Many years after his girls had all been duly christened without any reference to their distinguished ancestor, Edward perpetuated the name of his female antecedents by giving the name "Pocahontas" to one of the streets in his subdivision. The street was on the north side of present "Old City Park", but now bears the name of Griffin East, a feeder into R. L. Thornton Freeway.
Edward, his wife, his mother, and his brother are all buried at Pioneer Park (formerly known as Masonic Cemetery). United Daughters of the Confederacy provided markers for their graves.
Bibliography: Edward Cabell Browder and Elizabeth Coats Browder, by Jack Hittson, From Proud Heritage, Vol 1 by DCPA; Dallas County - a record of its pioneers...pg 16-19.
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