“PIONEER WOMAN WILL BE BURIED AT CEDAR HILL,PIONEER WOMAN WILL BE BURIED AT CEDAR HILL
Funeral services for Mrs. William Ware, 73 of 3529 McFarlin, who died Thursday brought to an end a career which dated back to pioneer days in Texas, will be held at 2 pm Saturday at the chapel of Lamar & Smith. Dr. George W. Truett will officiate and burial will be in Little Bethel Cemetery at Cedar Hill. Mrs. Ware was the granddaughter of B.F. Adams, one of the surveyors of Texas in early day, who was active in affairs of this section during 1830’s and 1840’s. Mr. Adams was paid for his work in land grants, amassing about 48,000 acres, valued at that time from 25 cents to 50 cents an acre. Most of it was in East and Central Texas. Mrs. Ware’s mother, Mrs. T. A. Smith, was given that tract of land embracing Mountain Creek section, and it was in that area that Mrs. Ware was reared. After her marriage, she went to Corsicana and later to McKinney, where she remained for nearly 30 years. Her husband owned an electric power plant at McKinney and later owned one at Wills Point for many years. In 1924 they came to Dallas, where her husband died in 1926 and where she lived until her death. She was a member of the Rebekah Lodge, the Daughters of the Confederacy, the Delphian Club, and the First Baptist Church, Dallas, where she was an active worker.

Source:  Dallas Morning News, Nov. 1, 1938

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