OBITUARY FOR MARION POTTER
This article appeared in the "Dallas Times Herald" on October 28, 1937. Pictures of Georgia Ann (Johnson) Potter sitting in her rocker by the old brick fireplace and of the four surviving children standing in front of the "honeymoon house" accompanied the article. These surviving children were left to right: Virgil Hardin Potter of Dallas, Mrs. Elsie Mae (Potter) Haynes of Los Angeles, California, Earl Watts Potter of Dallas, and Mrs. Ora (Potter) Soules of Mesquite. (Note: Corrections to the following article are placed in parenthesis and initialed by VirJean Potter Bozarth.)
Mesquite Native is Buried
By Mother Who Walked Here
With Oxcart From Louisiana
(Died on October 21, 1937)
Marion Potter, 72, was buried Friday in Pleasant Mound Cemetery, one of the oldest burial grounds in Dallas County, beside the graves of his mother, who walked from Shreveport to Dallas behind the ox cart loaded with family possessions, and his father who pioneered in the Mesquite community in 1850. / Beside a glowing wood fireplace in the home near Mesquite, which he built as a honeymoon house almost forty eight years ago, sat his wife, too feeble to attend the services, but reminiscing of the events of yesteryear. Her husband was born within 300 yards of the home which he built for his bride, in which all their children were born and in which he died Thursday. Before she came to the almost wilderness from which the couple carved their home place of pecan trees and row upon row of cotton, Mrs. Potter often plowed with oxen on the farm of her parents near Weatherford. / Lydia Potter, mother of Marion Potter, was born in Kentucky, but was living in Shreveport when her father Matt Mark (His actual name was Watts Marks VPB) set out for Texas in 1846. Walking to Dallas behind the ox cart with their possessions, the family camped for three months on the banks of the Trinity River near the site of the present court house and then settled on what was then known as the Bennett property, near where Mesquite is now, on the adjoining rise from the Potter farm. There she met and married Absalom Potter, a native of Kentucky. (Census records show Absalom was born in Tennessee VPB) / Marion Potter was born in the old homestead of Absalom and Lydia Potter, whose older children attended school at Scyene with the Younger boys whose later escapades became nationally notorious. When Marion Potter married and built the honeymoon house, there was only one home that could be seen from his farm cabin, which has been enlarged from time to time. It was a good day's drive into Dallas on a shopping tour in those days, his wife said. / Funeral services were held for the 72 year old native of Dallas County at the Mesquite Baptist Church, the pallbearers being three grandsons, Jimmie Sales (Soules - VPB), C. J. Sales (Soules - VPB), Carson Oliver; two great nephews, Charles Potter and Nolan Potter, and a nephew, Will Potter. The Rev. Rex M. Thompson officiated. / Near the flower covered grave of Marion Potter is that of a half brother George Badgley, who had been buried for forty-one years when the county decided to cut the Scyene road through the Pleasant Mound Cemetery. As Badgley's grave was in the center of what is now the road, the body was re-buried on the present Potter site.
This article appeared in the "Dallas Times Herald" on October 28, 1937. Pictures of Georgia Ann (Johnson) Potter sitting in her rocker by the old brick fireplace and of the four surviving children standing in front of the "honeymoon house" accompanied the article. These surviving children were left to right: Virgil Hardin Potter of Dallas, Mrs. Elsie Mae (Potter) Haynes of Los Angeles, California, Earl Watts Potter of Dallas, and Mrs. Ora (Potter) Soules of Mesquite. (Note: Corrections to the following article are placed in parenthesis and initialed by VirJean Potter Bozarth.)
Mesquite Native is Buried
By Mother Who Walked Here
With Oxcart From Louisiana
(Died on October 21, 1937)
Marion Potter, 72, was buried Friday in Pleasant Mound Cemetery, one of the oldest burial grounds in Dallas County, beside the graves of his mother, who walked from Shreveport to Dallas behind the ox cart loaded with family possessions, and his father who pioneered in the Mesquite community in 1850. / Beside a glowing wood fireplace in the home near Mesquite, which he built as a honeymoon house almost forty eight years ago, sat his wife, too feeble to attend the services, but reminiscing of the events of yesteryear. Her husband was born within 300 yards of the home which he built for his bride, in which all their children were born and in which he died Thursday. Before she came to the almost wilderness from which the couple carved their home place of pecan trees and row upon row of cotton, Mrs. Potter often plowed with oxen on the farm of her parents near Weatherford. / Lydia Potter, mother of Marion Potter, was born in Kentucky, but was living in Shreveport when her father Matt Mark (His actual name was Watts Marks VPB) set out for Texas in 1846. Walking to Dallas behind the ox cart with their possessions, the family camped for three months on the banks of the Trinity River near the site of the present court house and then settled on what was then known as the Bennett property, near where Mesquite is now, on the adjoining rise from the Potter farm. There she met and married Absalom Potter, a native of Kentucky. (Census records show Absalom was born in Tennessee VPB) / Marion Potter was born in the old homestead of Absalom and Lydia Potter, whose older children attended school at Scyene with the Younger boys whose later escapades became nationally notorious. When Marion Potter married and built the honeymoon house, there was only one home that could be seen from his farm cabin, which has been enlarged from time to time. It was a good day's drive into Dallas on a shopping tour in those days, his wife said. / Funeral services were held for the 72 year old native of Dallas County at the Mesquite Baptist Church, the pallbearers being three grandsons, Jimmie Sales (Soules - VPB), C. J. Sales (Soules - VPB), Carson Oliver; two great nephews, Charles Potter and Nolan Potter, and a nephew, Will Potter. The Rev. Rex M. Thompson officiated. / Near the flower covered grave of Marion Potter is that of a half brother George Badgley, who had been buried for forty-one years when the county decided to cut the Scyene road through the Pleasant Mound Cemetery. As Badgley's grave was in the center of what is now the road, the body was re-buried on the present Potter site.
OBITUARY FOR MARION POTTER
This article appeared in the "Dallas Times Herald" on October 28, 1937. Pictures of Georgia Ann (Johnson) Potter sitting in her rocker by the old brick fireplace and of the four surviving children standing in front of the "honeymoon house" accompanied the article. These surviving children were left to right: Virgil Hardin Potter of Dallas, Mrs. Elsie Mae (Potter) Haynes of Los Angeles, California, Earl Watts Potter of Dallas, and Mrs. Ora (Potter) Soules of Mesquite. (Note: Corrections to the following article are placed in parenthesis and initialed by VirJean Potter Bozarth.)
Mesquite Native is Buried
By Mother Who Walked Here
With Oxcart From Louisiana
(Died on October 21, 1937)
Marion Potter, 72, was buried Friday in Pleasant Mound Cemetery, one of the oldest burial grounds in Dallas County, beside the graves of his mother, who walked from Shreveport to Dallas behind the ox cart loaded with family possessions, and his father who pioneered in the Mesquite community in 1850. / Beside a glowing wood fireplace in the home near Mesquite, which he built as a honeymoon house almost forty eight years ago, sat his wife, too feeble to attend the services, but reminiscing of the events of yesteryear. Her husband was born within 300 yards of the home which he built for his bride, in which all their children were born and in which he died Thursday. Before she came to the almost wilderness from which the couple carved their home place of pecan trees and row upon row of cotton, Mrs. Potter often plowed with oxen on the farm of her parents near Weatherford. / Lydia Potter, mother of Marion Potter, was born in Kentucky, but was living in Shreveport when her father Matt Mark (His actual name was Watts Marks VPB) set out for Texas in 1846. Walking to Dallas behind the ox cart with their possessions, the family camped for three months on the banks of the Trinity River near the site of the present court house and then settled on what was then known as the Bennett property, near where Mesquite is now, on the adjoining rise from the Potter farm. There she met and married Absalom Potter, a native of Kentucky. (Census records show Absalom was born in Tennessee VPB) / Marion Potter was born in the old homestead of Absalom and Lydia Potter, whose older children attended school at Scyene with the Younger boys whose later escapades became nationally notorious. When Marion Potter married and built the honeymoon house, there was only one home that could be seen from his farm cabin, which has been enlarged from time to time. It was a good day's drive into Dallas on a shopping tour in those days, his wife said. / Funeral services were held for the 72 year old native of Dallas County at the Mesquite Baptist Church, the pallbearers being three grandsons, Jimmie Sales (Soules - VPB), C. J. Sales (Soules - VPB), Carson Oliver; two great nephews, Charles Potter and Nolan Potter, and a nephew, Will Potter. The Rev. Rex M. Thompson officiated. / Near the flower covered grave of Marion Potter is that of a half brother George Badgley, who had been buried for forty-one years when the county decided to cut the Scyene road through the Pleasant Mound Cemetery. As Badgley's grave was in the center of what is now the road, the body was re-buried on the present Potter site.
This article appeared in the "Dallas Times Herald" on October 28, 1937. Pictures of Georgia Ann (Johnson) Potter sitting in her rocker by the old brick fireplace and of the four surviving children standing in front of the "honeymoon house" accompanied the article. These surviving children were left to right: Virgil Hardin Potter of Dallas, Mrs. Elsie Mae (Potter) Haynes of Los Angeles, California, Earl Watts Potter of Dallas, and Mrs. Ora (Potter) Soules of Mesquite. (Note: Corrections to the following article are placed in parenthesis and initialed by VirJean Potter Bozarth.)
Mesquite Native is Buried
By Mother Who Walked Here
With Oxcart From Louisiana
(Died on October 21, 1937)
Marion Potter, 72, was buried Friday in Pleasant Mound Cemetery, one of the oldest burial grounds in Dallas County, beside the graves of his mother, who walked from Shreveport to Dallas behind the ox cart loaded with family possessions, and his father who pioneered in the Mesquite community in 1850. / Beside a glowing wood fireplace in the home near Mesquite, which he built as a honeymoon house almost forty eight years ago, sat his wife, too feeble to attend the services, but reminiscing of the events of yesteryear. Her husband was born within 300 yards of the home which he built for his bride, in which all their children were born and in which he died Thursday. Before she came to the almost wilderness from which the couple carved their home place of pecan trees and row upon row of cotton, Mrs. Potter often plowed with oxen on the farm of her parents near Weatherford. / Lydia Potter, mother of Marion Potter, was born in Kentucky, but was living in Shreveport when her father Matt Mark (His actual name was Watts Marks VPB) set out for Texas in 1846. Walking to Dallas behind the ox cart with their possessions, the family camped for three months on the banks of the Trinity River near the site of the present court house and then settled on what was then known as the Bennett property, near where Mesquite is now, on the adjoining rise from the Potter farm. There she met and married Absalom Potter, a native of Kentucky. (Census records show Absalom was born in Tennessee VPB) / Marion Potter was born in the old homestead of Absalom and Lydia Potter, whose older children attended school at Scyene with the Younger boys whose later escapades became nationally notorious. When Marion Potter married and built the honeymoon house, there was only one home that could be seen from his farm cabin, which has been enlarged from time to time. It was a good day's drive into Dallas on a shopping tour in those days, his wife said. / Funeral services were held for the 72 year old native of Dallas County at the Mesquite Baptist Church, the pallbearers being three grandsons, Jimmie Sales (Soules - VPB), C. J. Sales (Soules - VPB), Carson Oliver; two great nephews, Charles Potter and Nolan Potter, and a nephew, Will Potter. The Rev. Rex M. Thompson officiated. / Near the flower covered grave of Marion Potter is that of a half brother George Badgley, who had been buried for forty-one years when the county decided to cut the Scyene road through the Pleasant Mound Cemetery. As Badgley's grave was in the center of what is now the road, the body was re-buried on the present Potter site.
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