Mary and her husband are one of the first settlers in Oak Cliff, Jan 12, 1845.
Daughter of Robert McClanahan Crockett and Elizabeth White Crockett. She had 5 siblings.
HORD, MARY JANE CROCKETT (1812-1876).
Mary Jane Crockett Hord,
frontier wife, mother, and teacher, daughter of Elizabeth
(White) and South Carolina State Representative Robert
McClannahan Crockett, was born in Lancaster, South Carolina, on April 10, 1812.
She had three brothers, including John M.Crockett, later lieutenant governor of Texas, and two sisters.
She attended Franklin Academy, which her father had helped
establish in Lancaster, and received a sound education that
served her well in later years.
She married Lewis McKenzie and had two sons. Lewis died in 1836, and Mary Jane and her sons moved to Obion County, Tennessee, where she met and married William H. Hord on January 23, 1839. Mary Jane, her children Robert and Crockett McKenzie, her husband William, their children John and Thomas Alan Hord,qv and a black family left Tennessee and arrived in the area of Robertson and Dallas counties on January 12, 1845. They built a home on 640 acres of high, oak-covered land on Cedar Creek and here Mary Jane and
William's children Ferdinand, William, Jr., and Martha Jane were born.
Mary Jane had considerable medical knowledge, a well-filled medicine chest, medicinal herbs in her garden, and a healthy family. Four of the children, Robert and Crockett McKenzie and Thomas and Ferdinand Hord, became Civil War Confederate soldiers; only Crockett failed to survive that conflict.
Red-haired Mary Jane was a warm and gracious hostess,and the Hord home often provided shelter and comfort to
circuit-riding ministers and was a welcome sight for
California-bound Forty-niners who enjoyed the genuine
hospitality of that home.
Seeing the need for good, basic education for her children and other pioneer children, Mary Jane Hord opened a school at her home. This was one of the very first schools in the Dallas area. The black children on the homeplace were welcomed and learned along with the other children. The school gained a reputation for quality because of Mrs. Hord's own educational background, and students attended from as far away as Ellis County, many of them staying at the Hord home during the week. When other facilities became available, Mary Jane closed her school.
She died at home in Dallas on December 30, 1876, and is now buried in the Oak Cliff Cemetery in Dallas.
Daughter of Robert McClanahan Crockett and Elizabeth White Crockett. She had 5 siblings.
HORD, MARY JANE CROCKETT (1812-1876).
Mary Jane Crockett Hord,
frontier wife, mother, and teacher, daughter of Elizabeth
(White) and South Carolina State Representative Robert
McClannahan Crockett, was born in Lancaster, South Carolina, on April 10, 1812.
She had three brothers, including John M.Crockett, later lieutenant governor of Texas, and two sisters.
She attended Franklin Academy, which her father had helped
establish in Lancaster, and received a sound education that
served her well in later years.
She married Lewis McKenzie and had two sons. Lewis died in 1836, and Mary Jane and her sons moved to Obion County, Tennessee, where she met and married William H. Hord on January 23, 1839. Mary Jane, her children Robert and Crockett McKenzie, her husband William, their children John and Thomas Alan Hord,qv and a black family left Tennessee and arrived in the area of Robertson and Dallas counties on January 12, 1845. They built a home on 640 acres of high, oak-covered land on Cedar Creek and here Mary Jane and
William's children Ferdinand, William, Jr., and Martha Jane were born.
Mary Jane had considerable medical knowledge, a well-filled medicine chest, medicinal herbs in her garden, and a healthy family. Four of the children, Robert and Crockett McKenzie and Thomas and Ferdinand Hord, became Civil War Confederate soldiers; only Crockett failed to survive that conflict.
Red-haired Mary Jane was a warm and gracious hostess,and the Hord home often provided shelter and comfort to
circuit-riding ministers and was a welcome sight for
California-bound Forty-niners who enjoyed the genuine
hospitality of that home.
Seeing the need for good, basic education for her children and other pioneer children, Mary Jane Hord opened a school at her home. This was one of the very first schools in the Dallas area. The black children on the homeplace were welcomed and learned along with the other children. The school gained a reputation for quality because of Mrs. Hord's own educational background, and students attended from as far away as Ellis County, many of them staying at the Hord home during the week. When other facilities became available, Mary Jane closed her school.
She died at home in Dallas on December 30, 1876, and is now buried in the Oak Cliff Cemetery in Dallas.
Mary and her husband are one of the first settlers in Oak Cliff, Jan 12, 1845.
Daughter of Robert McClanahan Crockett and Elizabeth White Crockett. She had 5 siblings.
HORD, MARY JANE CROCKETT (1812-1876).
Mary Jane Crockett Hord,
frontier wife, mother, and teacher, daughter of Elizabeth
(White) and South Carolina State Representative Robert
McClannahan Crockett, was born in Lancaster, South Carolina, on April 10, 1812.
She had three brothers, including John M.Crockett, later lieutenant governor of Texas, and two sisters.
She attended Franklin Academy, which her father had helped
establish in Lancaster, and received a sound education that
served her well in later years.
She married Lewis McKenzie and had two sons. Lewis died in 1836, and Mary Jane and her sons moved to Obion County, Tennessee, where she met and married William H. Hord on January 23, 1839. Mary Jane, her children Robert and Crockett McKenzie, her husband William, their children John and Thomas Alan Hord,qv and a black family left Tennessee and arrived in the area of Robertson and Dallas counties on January 12, 1845. They built a home on 640 acres of high, oak-covered land on Cedar Creek and here Mary Jane and
William's children Ferdinand, William, Jr., and Martha Jane were born.
Mary Jane had considerable medical knowledge, a well-filled medicine chest, medicinal herbs in her garden, and a healthy family. Four of the children, Robert and Crockett McKenzie and Thomas and Ferdinand Hord, became Civil War Confederate soldiers; only Crockett failed to survive that conflict.
Red-haired Mary Jane was a warm and gracious hostess,and the Hord home often provided shelter and comfort to
circuit-riding ministers and was a welcome sight for
California-bound Forty-niners who enjoyed the genuine
hospitality of that home.
Seeing the need for good, basic education for her children and other pioneer children, Mary Jane Hord opened a school at her home. This was one of the very first schools in the Dallas area. The black children on the homeplace were welcomed and learned along with the other children. The school gained a reputation for quality because of Mrs. Hord's own educational background, and students attended from as far away as Ellis County, many of them staying at the Hord home during the week. When other facilities became available, Mary Jane closed her school.
She died at home in Dallas on December 30, 1876, and is now buried in the Oak Cliff Cemetery in Dallas.
Daughter of Robert McClanahan Crockett and Elizabeth White Crockett. She had 5 siblings.
HORD, MARY JANE CROCKETT (1812-1876).
Mary Jane Crockett Hord,
frontier wife, mother, and teacher, daughter of Elizabeth
(White) and South Carolina State Representative Robert
McClannahan Crockett, was born in Lancaster, South Carolina, on April 10, 1812.
She had three brothers, including John M.Crockett, later lieutenant governor of Texas, and two sisters.
She attended Franklin Academy, which her father had helped
establish in Lancaster, and received a sound education that
served her well in later years.
She married Lewis McKenzie and had two sons. Lewis died in 1836, and Mary Jane and her sons moved to Obion County, Tennessee, where she met and married William H. Hord on January 23, 1839. Mary Jane, her children Robert and Crockett McKenzie, her husband William, their children John and Thomas Alan Hord,qv and a black family left Tennessee and arrived in the area of Robertson and Dallas counties on January 12, 1845. They built a home on 640 acres of high, oak-covered land on Cedar Creek and here Mary Jane and
William's children Ferdinand, William, Jr., and Martha Jane were born.
Mary Jane had considerable medical knowledge, a well-filled medicine chest, medicinal herbs in her garden, and a healthy family. Four of the children, Robert and Crockett McKenzie and Thomas and Ferdinand Hord, became Civil War Confederate soldiers; only Crockett failed to survive that conflict.
Red-haired Mary Jane was a warm and gracious hostess,and the Hord home often provided shelter and comfort to
circuit-riding ministers and was a welcome sight for
California-bound Forty-niners who enjoyed the genuine
hospitality of that home.
Seeing the need for good, basic education for her children and other pioneer children, Mary Jane Hord opened a school at her home. This was one of the very first schools in the Dallas area. The black children on the homeplace were welcomed and learned along with the other children. The school gained a reputation for quality because of Mrs. Hord's own educational background, and students attended from as far away as Ellis County, many of them staying at the Hord home during the week. When other facilities became available, Mary Jane closed her school.
She died at home in Dallas on December 30, 1876, and is now buried in the Oak Cliff Cemetery in Dallas.
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