Pleasant Browder

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Pleasant married Lucy Jane Monroe on 16 Dec 1819 in , Chariton Co., Missouri, USA. Lucy (daughter of Joseph Jones Monroe and Elizabeth Kerr) was born on 26 Jul 1800 in Charlotte, Essex Co., Virginia, USA; died on 13 Feb 1873 in Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Edward served as Dallas' first district Clerk from 1850 to 1874, was an initial member of Tannehill Masonic Lodge, and was one of the first stewards, class leaders and Sunday School superintendents at First Methodist Church . During the Civil War he was elected Captain of Company C in the Eighteenth Texas Cavalry. Edward's brother Isham also served in Company C but died of disease in 1862.

After the war, Lucy and Edward bought and sold land in Dallas. In 1865, Lucy conveyed to Edward the approximately sixty acres containing Browder's Spring. In 1871, the Texas Legislature passed a bill granting right-of-way for the Southern Pacific Railroad with a short rider requiring that in pass within one mile of Broder's Spring, thus assuring the growth of Dallas.

In the early 1870's Edward Browder developed Browder's Addition, a fashionable suburb southeast of Dallas, between town and Browder's Spring. In 1872 the city named Browder Street after Edward. The area near Browder's Spring was established as the first city park in honor of the 1876 national centennial, and a portion remains today as Old City Park.

Edward Browder died in 1878. The next year, his son, Pleasant Browder, sold Browder's Spring to a private company, which delivered water to Dallas customers. The spring was later sold to the city. Dallas used water from the spring for about eight years before the town's need outgrew the spring's capacity. The spring was reactivated for a short time during the long drought of 1908-1913.

Edward belonged to the Methodist Church.
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Buried:
Old Dallas Cemetery in downtown Dallas, Texas

Edward married Elizabeth Coats on 26 Sep 1849 in Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas, USA. Elizabeth (daughter of Samuel Coats and Nancy Jones) was born on 19 Oct 1830 in , , Tennessee, USA; died on 16 May 1878 in Dallas, Dallas Co., Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Isham served in Company C, 18th Texas Cavalry during the American Civil War, but he died of disease in 1862.

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Harriet married James Holland McCorkle on 21 Feb 1883. James was born on 20 Apr 1856 in Starrville, Smith Co., Texas, USA; died on 17 Apr 1936 in Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto Co., Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mildred married James Irvine on 8 Oct 1922 in Gordon, Palo Pinto, Texas. James was born on 11 Apr 1899; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]