Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, Sunnyvale, Texas
Where in the heck is Sunnyvale, you ask? It makes a triangle with Garland to the north and Mesquite to the west. The [...]
Rowlett Creek Cemetery, Part V – Republic of Texas edition
Rounding out our interesting headstones from the Rowlett Creek Cemetery in Plano, I present the double headstone of the Baccuses. Jacob Baccus and [...]
Rowlett Creek Cemetery, Part IV
Closing out our cool Woodmen of the World headstones (but not our Rowlett Creek cemetery series!), I present for your visual enjoyment the [...]
Rowlett Creek Cemetery, Part III
For our next interesting headstone in Rowlett Creek Cemetery, I bring you Bettie, wife of A.J. Ogle. Bettie was chosen because she has [...]
Rowlett Creek Cemetery, Part II
Rowlett Creek cemetery has many intricate headstones. At your local cemetery, you may have noticed headstones that look like large tree branches or [...]
Rowlett Creek Cemetery, Part I
Located off Rowlett Cemetery Road (just west of Custer Road) in Rowlett is one of the older cemeteries in Collin County. It belonged [...]
Pecan Grove Cemetery, Marjorie Fuller comes home
In our last post, we discussed Marjorie Fuller and her mother (Seraphine) being held by the Japanese in China, losing their passports under [...]
Pecan Grove Cemetery, McKillop Family
Pecan Grove Cemetery, Take II McKillop Family The swanky burial in Pecan Grove Cemetery that interested me was that of Harry Emmett McKillop. [...]
History of Toilet Paper, fit to be dyed
Were you the victim of a pink 1970s bathroom? Did the roses stare at you from every angle? Were you confused about where [...]
Old Red sans clock tower
Max Orlopp, the architect behind Old Red, opened an architecture firm in Dallas by 1917. The firm is listed as Orlopp & Orlopp [...]