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Re: Who's your oldest Dallas ancestor?

DurrellDallas — 2012-05-08 00:02:52Z

My 2nd Great Grandfather is John Newton Dallas born in Alabama in 1827. He is the son of Dennis Dellis born about 1795 in Kentucky. Dennis served in the War of 1812 with Andrew Jackson.I believe Dennis has a brother named John Dellis (b 1790) (married Anna Currie in 1807)who also served in the War of 1812 and lived in close proximity to Dennis in 1820, 1830, and 1840. I would apreciate any further information on these individuals

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DurrellDallas — 2012-05-07 23:54:16Z

I am interested in sharing DNA information with others with a Dallas, Dellis, Dillis, or Dallis surname.

Re: Who's your oldest Dallas ancestor?

oldiesonthehill_1 — 2012-05-02 00:27:19Z

Hi Lin,

Great to hear from you.My line is:
1: WILLIAM DALLAS b 26.10.1755 d ?
married ELIZABETH MACDONALD.

2.DONALD DALLAS b 24.07.1791 Nairn, Scotland. d bef 1851. married MARY CAMERON born 1791 died 03.01.1858.

3.JOHN DALLAS b 1826 Crieff, Perthshire, Scot. d 17.09.1904 Galashiels, Selkirk, Scotland.
married DOROTHEA HENDERSON on 18.12.1849 (his second wife).

4.ROBERT DALLAS b 15.09.1853 in Stow, Roxburgh, Scotland. d 27.06.1937 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
married JANE RICHARDSON born 25.12.1855 in Old Machar, Aberdeen, Scotland. died 27.06.1937 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

5. William Dallas, Born 11 Sep 1880, Galashiels, Selkirk, Scotland died 2 Jul 1947, Brisbane, Married Marion Pryde

6. James William Dallas, born 16the October 1920 Brisbane died 10th July 1981, Brisbane Married Joyce Prideaux

7. Laraine Joyce Dallas Born 2nd May 1945, Married Nicholas Christopher Aniftos.

So we are 2nd cousins 1 time removed. I have for years been trying to find out where your father fitted into the family. I think he used to work with my nephew at the Brisbane Airport and he told Reace that they were related but Reace didn't know how and I could not figure it out. I live in Blackbutt email oldiesonthehill@bigpond.com - we visit Toowoomba every fortnight.
Chat soon,
Laraine

Re: Who's your oldest Dallas ancestor?

1laos — 2012-05-01 12:53:20Z

If you give me your direct line from William, I may have some more info. Mine is as follows (I'm no 8 on the list):

1: WILLIAM DALLAS b 26.10.1755 d ?
married ELIZABETH MACDONALD.

2.DONALD DALLAS b 24.07.1791 Nairn, Scotland. d bef 1851. married MARY CAMERON born 1791 died 03.01.1858.

3.JOHN DALLAS b 1826 Crieff, Perthshire, Scot. d 17.09.1904 Galashiels, Selkirk, Scotland.
married DOROTHEA HENDERSON on 18.12.1849 (his second wife).

4.ROBERT DALLAS b 15.09.1853 in Stow, Roxburgh, Scotland. d 27.06.1937 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
married JANE RICHARDSON born 25.12.1855 in Old Machar, Aberdeen, Scotland. died 27.06.1937 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

5.MARGARET RICHARDSON DALLAS born 11.12.1874 in Haddon St, Woodside, Aberdeen, Scotland. died 23.01.1911 Gayndah, Queensland, Australia.
married THOMAS WILSON.

6. JOHN (JACK) WILSON BORN 31.05.1900 in Rosewood, Queensland, Australia. died 13.06.1957 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
married MAGDALENA BAUER.

7. ERIC THOMAS WILSON born 04.10.1925 in Gayndah, Queensland, Australia. died 04.09.2011 in Maleny, Queensland, Australia.
married LILIAN MAVIS STIBBE

8. LYNETTE ANN (LIN) WILSON O'SULLIVAN

Cheers
Lin Wilson O'Sullivan

Re: Who's your oldest Dallas ancestor?

1laos — 2012-05-01 04:31:35Z

My great-grandmother was Margaret Richardson Dallas. Below is the line I have on the family tree. My late grandmother used to be in contact with Dallas family members in Canada and the USA when I was a child, but I have no recollection of their names or exactly where they lived.
Cheers
Lin Wilson O'Sullivan

1: WILLIAM DALLAS b 26.10.1755 d ?
married ELIZABETH MACDONALD.

2.DONALD DALLAS b 24.07.1791 Nairn, Scotland. d bef 1851. married MARY CAMERON born 1791 died 03.01.1858.

3.JOHN DALLAS b 1826 Crieff, Perthshire, Scot. d 17.09.1904 Galashiels, Selkirk, Scotland.
married DOROTHEA HENDERSON on 18.12.1849 (his second wife).

4.ROBERT DALLAS b 15.09.1853 in Stow, Roxburgh, Scotland. d 27.06.1937 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
married JANE RICHARDSON born 25.12.1855 in Old Machar, Aberdeen, Scotland. died 27.06.1937 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

5.MARGARET RICHARDSON DALLAS born 11.12.1874 in Haddon St, Woodside, Aberdeen, Scotland. died 23.01.1911 Gayndah, Queensland, Australia.
married THOMAS WILSON.

Re: Who's your oldest Dallas ancestor?

oldiesonthehill_1 — 2012-05-01 03:47:02Z

William Dallas born 26th October 1755 was my 4th Great Grandfather. Would like further info if you have it. I have some info on some of his descendents.

Re: Who's your oldest Dallas ancestor?

1laos — 2012-04-30 12:08:25Z

My great, great, great, great, great grandfather was William Dallas, born 26.10.1755 in Nairn, Scotland.

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beelady15 — 2012-03-17 22:40:52Z

I am related to Duncan Dallas who lived in Cawdor Inchyettle. Is there anybody interested

Re: Who's your oldest Dallas ancestor?

ieclarke — 2012-03-09 11:15:10Z

HI Carol

I am Gill George (nee Dallas) I live in New Zealand. My family are from Scotland then Ireland. I know we have family in the US. I have a book I got from Scotland that goes back back to 1300, I think. gillgeorge@clear.net.nz also on Face Book. as Gill Paul George. Warm regards Gill

Re: Who's your oldest Dallas ancestor?

tkloy1 — 2012-02-20 23:16:04Z

My Dallas family is from Preble County, Ohio! Can you tell me more about the family tree you have? I am hoping it is connected with mine...
My most recent Dallas relative is Veda May (Dallas) Walsh, B: 1883 in Ohio, daughter of...Craig Dallas, B: 1857 in Ohio, moved to Preble County OH around 1900, son of....Asbury Dallas, B: 1820 in Virginia.

Thanks!

Re: Who's your oldest Dallas ancestor?

tkloy1 — 2012-02-20 23:01:11Z

For the last commentor looking for thier Barbados/Jamaica connection: I just saw information on the Dallas family from Jamaica...it was in a book called "Prominent Families of the USA". There is a link to that book here on Ancestry.

My line, however, does not connect with that line. The last positive name I have is Asbury Dallas, born around 1820 in Virginia. Does anyone know anything about that line? I've hit a brick wall with this...

Also, I'd love to know more about the Dallas Group as well. Thanks!

Re: Lachlan Dallas born 1801 - Dockfours Inverness

sgmcgregor — 2011-12-21 19:46:43Z

Hello,

First of all, I'm not sure this thread is still active, and that you will be checking any added posts. I tried posting to you through caithness.org where I found your original posting - and if anyone else linked to the same family reads this, I would welcome a reply. I came across a posting on caithness.org from January 2009 regarding your research into Lachlan Dallas and Agnes (Ann) Grieve.

I am not directly descended from Lachlan, but rather one of his brothers - James Dallas, who was married to Margaret MacPherson. James first moved north from Inverness to the Dornoch area, and then Golspie. He ran a successful saddlery business there (although there were problems with debt along the way), and then moved north to Wick in Caithness, Scotland.

I have managed to do a lot of research on James, and have also tracked Lachlan Dallas a little.

If you are still interested in learning more about the Dallas family, I would like to hear from you. My website can be found at http://stevenmcgregor.cwahi.net/.

Sadly I haven't got round to adding all of the information I have found so far, but hopefully it will give you a taste of what I have managed to find so far.

For my part, although I have researched the Dallas family back to Lachlan and James' parents - James Dallas and Isabella Sinclair - I cannot be 100% sure of my connection.

My Great-Grandfather was William Dallas, and he was born as William Oman - the son of Williamina Oman who went on to marry Daniel "Donald" Dallas in 1877. Daniel, or Donald as I always refer to him (he used this name throughout his whole life), was the illegitemate son of Donald Dallas and Janet Nicolson. Donald Dallas senior was the son of James Dallas and Margaret MacPherson, and therefore a nephew to your Lachlan Dallas and Agnes Grieve.

William Dallas (Oman) may, or may not, be the true son of Donald and Williamina, or maybe only a step-son, but I have chosen to research the Dallas family in detail because this was my mother's surname, and her father before her, etc.

So if you are interested in corresponding, please feel free to get in touch.

Kind Regards, and best wishes for the upcomnig holiday season,

Steven McGregor (Thurso, Caithness, Scotland)

Re: Joshua Dallas 1802-1879

corap494 — 2011-11-27 20:05:49Z

Thanks for your quick reply. I will continue my research and put in extra effort in the questions you have cited. If I can find where I found the information and verify them again, I will post the information for your review.

Re: Joshua Dallas 1802-1879

damnorway — 2011-11-27 10:11:41Z

Thanks for the reply. I think your info is substantially correct although I will point out some points for your consideration. Since you do not show any citations, I have no way to evaluate your work.

I do not think Mary "Polly" Woods died abt. 1853, but even if she did, Joshua would not have married Nancy Keeton in 1852. There is no proof at all for Joshua and Nancy´s marriage and the source seems to be the LDS website. I have a love/hate relationship with this site as there are no citations to check but there are also no citations shown on Anc.Com.

Nancy Dallas might, or might not, have died in 1889, but she was not the wife of Joshua.

Joshua´s wife, Mary Dallas, widowed, is enumerated with son Boone in 1880.
Census, 1880 St. Clair Co. MO, Roscoe dist. 269 pg. 401 B (6/8) June
Dallas, Mary 75 widow keeping house VA VA VA
Dallas, Boon 26 son S. MO VA VA
Keeton, Nancy 15 S. servent MO MO MO
Roscoe twp. is full of Dallas in 1880.
HOH are Jno. B. Dallas, P. W. Dallas

You do not show Boone as a child of this couple. As you can see, he was b. abt. 1854 also making suspect Mary´s death and Joshua´s mg. to Nancy.

Boone is living with mother in 1880 and sister Mary J. in 1900.

State of MO Death Certif. 10855
St Clair Co. MO, Osage twp.
Daniel Boone Dallas, male, white single, farmer
dob. 1853, St. Clair Co. MO
dod. Apr. 27, 1910, cause Paralysis
father: Joshua Dallas, Mother unknown
Informant C. S. Stratton, Roscoe twp.
C. S. Stratton also signed DC and was prob. DR.
Burial, Green Cem. 28 Apr., 1910

Intuition prompts me to speculate that Daniel B. was born handicapped poss. due to parents age.
He never married and died of paralysis. It is somewhat unusual for the DR to be informant, especially since St. Clair Co. was full of Dallas relatives.

You also have at least 2 children listed wrong and 2 are suspect and not cited?

You show Frances b. 1827 but with no citation. Do you have any proof of her?
You show Julia b. ?? but also with no citation - need proof.

You show Susan b. 1830. She was b. abt. 1833. She is 27 in 1860 and 37 in 1870. She married Hammond Morris III (need citation)

You show Sarah b. 1836. She was b. 13 Dec. 1830.
Sarah Ann was md. twice, 1st to Isaac Copenhaver, date unknown (1860 census) + TX Death and Burials 1903-1973.

William Green Copenhaver, male, farmer, white, married, age 89
b. 5 Jul. 1860, MO, d. 1949, Grand Saline, Van Zandt, TX
burial, Grand Saline, TX 15 May 1949
father Isiac L. Copenhaver
Mother Sarah Dallas

2nd to John Budd. She died as Susan Budd:

Online database, MO death 1910-1958
St. Clair Co. MO, Roscoe twp. file 6142
Sarah Ann Budd, fm. white widow Housewife
Name of Husband John Budd
dob. 13 Dec. 1830 Near Booneville, MO
dod. 20 Feb. 1930 St. Clair Co. MO Myocarditis
age. 79y 2m, 10d
Father: Joshua Dallas, b. don´t know
Mother, Polly Woods b. don´t know
Informant Mrs. Lydia Mills Ayer MO
Burial Ayer Cem. 21 Feb. 1930

Re: Joshua Dallas 1802-1879

corap494 — 2011-11-27 01:27:46Z

I am also doing research on Joshua Dallas whose son John Brinton Dallas married Rhoda Ellen Cole in 1859 in Cooper Co, Missouri. According to my research Mary "Polly" Woods Dallas died about 1853.

Nancy Ann Dyke Cole married William Edward Keeton and he died in 1849.

Joshua Dallas and Nancy Keeton married in 1852 in St Clair County.

Joshua and Nancy had one son named Daniel Boone Dallas.

Joshua died April 7, 1879 and Nancy died July 3, 1889 in Johnson, Missouri.

Joshua and Mary "Polly" Woods Dallas's children are as follows:
Born in Cooper County, Missouri
Elizabeth born 4-12=1822
Jael K born 12-6-1823
Nancy K born 8-26-1825
Frances born 5-6-1827
Charles born 5-6-1829
Susan born 9-12-1830
Evaline born 2-28-1832
Green Woods born 2-13-1834
Sarah born 12-13-1836

Born in St Clair County, Missouri
John Brinton born 10-13-1838
Margaret born 8-2-1840
Mary Jane born 4-28-1842
Melissa K born 3-12-1844
Peter Woods born 2-14-1846
Amanda C born 2-19-1847
Joshua B born in 1849
Julia born ??

The must be an error where you found that Polly Dallas was 27 years old. I could not explain that and was unaware of where Daniel Boone Dallas was living. I hope some of this assists you in your research.

I am also linked through John B Dallas and Rhoda Ellen Cole and I have not been able to find Joshua's parents. Do you have any information on them?

Re: alfred dallas, dungiven ireland

pink_2 — 2011-11-18 10:12:59Z

alfred dallas and eileen were my grandparents, eileen died nearly four years ago, remember my grandfather vaquely, he was tall, dark and handsome...

Re: Who's your oldest Dallas ancestor?

Bill_Dahnke — 2011-11-14 18:27:28Z

Thank you for your reply. I have contacted you via ancestry.com where I have included my e-mail.

Regards,
Bill

Re: Who's your oldest Dallas ancestor?

CTackettCA — 2011-11-14 07:36:08Z

Have any idea where his parents were from on any census records?

Re: Who's your oldest Dallas ancestor?

CTackettCA — 2011-11-14 07:31:02Z

Send me your email and I will send you an invite. The group hasn't been real active lately, but maybe you can liven it up. My Dallas line came from Scotland

Re: William Dallas, b. 1853 Lagrange IN > MT in 1878 -- Biography

zonie2 — 2011-11-09 23:33:25Z

I am not related.

Re: William Dallas, b. 1853 Lagrange IN > MT in 1878 -- Biography

Koledon — 2011-11-09 15:51:29Z

I believe the one in Chicago has one, and also the Fort wayne Indiana library. Just in case anyone else wants to find it. How is it that you are related?

Re: William Dallas, b. 1853 Lagrange IN > MT in 1878 -- Biography

zonie2 — 2011-11-08 01:51:26Z

I am sorry to find the link to Progressive Men of the State of Montana is no longer available online & I do not have
access to the book. I believe William Dallas is the son of Lorenzo Dallas and Sarah Kitchen. Possibly you can gain access to Progressive Men of Montana, which contains very
interesting biographies, through interlibrary loan.

Re: William Dallas, b. 1853 Lagrange IN > MT in 1878 -- Biography

Koledon — 2011-11-07 02:24:29Z

The link wasn't active but it is a joy to finally find the name of a Dallas linked to Lagrange IN.Do you have anymore information on this Dalls? who his parents were possibly? I have some ideas but I can't be sure

Re: Who's your oldest Dallas ancestor?

Koledon — 2011-11-07 02:13:08Z

My oldest would be William Dallas born in New Jersey(?). He married a mary Grey.she was Born in New Jersey around 1797 and died in Preble county Ohio in 1835. They had 14 children and I have information on them aswell. It seems like some of these people's Dallas families lived in Ohio too. any information would be helpful!

Re: Who's your oldest Dallas ancestor?

Bill_Dahnke — 2011-11-03 22:30:29Z

Carol,
I would be interested in joining the Dallas family association. I have a 1901 newspaper artcle for Joshua Dallas, a soldier in the Revoltionary War, who died in 1848 in Obion County, TN. I will be happy to share this article with the group. Our SAR chapter would like to do a graveside ceremony for him if we can gather more evidence on his military service in virginia. Right now I am trying to find descendants who might know more about him. I also would like to find out if he was brother to Robert Dallas, a soldier from Pittsylvania County, VA.

Re: William H Linder 1849-1931-Illinois

kds1964 — 2011-10-10 01:39:54Z

Are you referring to Nancy Boyd Linder, spouse of Jobe Linder? If so, I also have had great difficulty in finding out anything about (his) father, William Henry Linder,other than headstone.
You can email me at kumonwdm@hotmail.com, if you have some info or would like to communicate with me. Nancy & Jobe Linder were my great-grandparents.

1817 death of Alexander James Dallas in Pennsylvania

midge1249 — 2011-08-05 23:15:47Z

DIED, on Thursday morning last, at Philadelphia, Alexander James Dallas.

From the Harrisburg Republican of Tuesday, January 21, 1817

John Edward Dallas Oct 31, 1938

allens1411 — 2011-07-29 12:40:57Z

Seeking contact with John Edward Dallas born Oct 31, 1938. Parents Kathryn and John Joseph Dallas. Brother Steven. Were in Lorain, OH.

John Joseph Dallas 1912-1967

allens1411 — 2011-07-23 16:51:31Z

Seeking info on two sons of John Joseph Dallas of Lorain, Oh. He passed away in Huntsville AL. Apparently working there. Wife Kathryn Welch Dallas was still in Lorain, OH. Sons Stephan K and John.

Re: Who's your oldest Dallas ancestor?

marizz1 — 2011-07-18 02:57:31Z

The oldest that I know of is Robert Dallas (1756-1839). He married Nancy Turner in Bedford Co., VA. However I am not sure where he was born. One site says England but perhaps it could be Scotland or Ireland?

Re: Dallas family from north-east Scotland

johnmacrae01 — 2011-07-17 06:23:27Z

Harriet

Thanks for the post. To date I have found nothing more here regarding this Dallas branch of "my" McRae family so it appears they moved away, but to where? Shipping records might offer further clues. Do NZ marriage records of that time record any details of the partners' parents because, if so, strong positive indicators may be found there?

John

Re: Dallas family from north-east Scotland

hmtaylor — 2011-07-17 03:41:27Z

I have an Alexander DALLAS born Scotland c1834 married Mary Emma RIDLEY 2nd June 1858 Christchurch New Zealand.

Harriet

Re: Dallas family from north-east Scotland

hmtaylor — 2011-07-17 03:40:55Z

I have an Alexander DALLAS born Scotland c1834 married Mary Emma RIDLEY 2nd June 1858 Christchurch New Zealand.

Harriet

Dallas family from north-east Scotland

johnmacrae01 — 2011-07-16 06:08:51Z

I am trying to trace descendants of this family who lived in the Inverness/Nairn/Cawdor/Elgin area of north-east Scotland. Any leads would be gratefully received.

In Inverness on 18 June 1832 William Dallas married Janet McRae who was born about 1806. Their children were:-
1. Ann Dallas was born on 6 April 1833 and was baptised at Inverness on 10 April 1833.
2. Janet Dallas was born on 15 June 1834 and was baptised in Inverness on 24 June 1834.
3. Margaret Dallas was born on 6 August 1836 and was baptised in Inverness on 31 August 1836.
4. John Dallas was born on 28 April 1839 and was baptised at Cawdor, Nairn on 6 May 1839.
5. Alexander Dallas was born on 8 May 1841 and was baptised at Cawdor, Nairn on 23 May 1841.
6. Isabella Dallas was born on 2 March 1845 and was baptised at Nairn, Nairnshire on 6 April 1845.
7. Mary Dallas was born on 19 September 1847 and was baptised in Elgin, Morayshire on 3 October 1847.

Thanks. John Macrae

Re: Who's your oldest Dallas ancestor?

smrouten — 2011-07-12 02:09:58Z

Peter Dallas born 1793 in Scotland died 1850 on Ohio.

Re: Dallas family of Ohio

sademac — 2011-07-11 14:58:51Z

Need more info. What time frame are you talking about? What part of Ohio? Have you looked at any Ohio census records?

Dallas family of Ohio

aliceshrader — 2011-07-11 03:06:40Z

Hi. I'm looking for trees related to my mother's side, Dallas, in Ohio. His name was William Halpin Dallas and he worked for Aetna Life Insurance. That's all I know about him. His father exposed mediums...cool, huh? I don't even know his wife's name, my grandmother, but his daughter was Elizabeth Ann and son was Billy Dallas. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Re: Who's your oldest Dallas ancestor?

Dorrhendricks — 2011-05-15 19:56:04Z

The oldest ancetor in the line I am researching is Archibald Dallas. Residing in New Jersey in the 1770's He was a Captain in the Rev. War and was killed in battle in Delaware in 1777. Had three surviving sons.

Dallas family in Hamilton Bermuda

ellenrozsa — 2011-05-02 03:15:16Z

My great uncle Frederick C. Johann (b. 1899, d. 1994) emigrated to Bermuda from Connecticut as a young man and worked in the tourism industry. He married a local girl whose last name was Dallas. They had a son, Donald, still living in Hamilton.

I'm looking for my great aunt's first name.

Re: Marmaduke Dallas

battlewagon — 2011-03-06 13:36:26Z

Greetings - I am also related through Marmaduke Dallas through his son Granville, who went to Missouri in the 1830's (with Marmaduke). Contact me offline at battlewagon at juno dot come and we'll discuss.

Tim Braun
Virginia

Marmaduke Dallas

pianoteachermeb — 2011-02-24 09:37:45Z

Anyone know anything about Marmaduke Dallas born in Virginia but lived in Missouri? My great grandfather, Samuel Dallas was one of his sons who moved to Oregon. I would love any information about Marmaduke. It was rumored in our family that he married a very young indentured servant.

Re: Dallas Families of MD.PA. TX.

jeffyuna — 2011-02-09 15:28:13Z

James Loraine Dallas b. 1834 is the son of James Loraine Dallas b.1778 who is the son of Walter Riddle Dallas b.1750 who is the son of Walter Dallas d. 1772 who is the son of James Dallas of St Martins & Elizabeth Riddle. Finding Walter Dallas on the internet as a son of James & Elizabeth is a difficult if not impossible task. My mom is a Dallas and dug it up in public records. Walter Dallas is the 1/2 brother of Dr Robert Dallas (Jamaica)who is the father of George Mifflim Dallas.

Re: Dallas Families of MD.PA. TX.

jeffyuna — 2011-02-08 01:58:48Z

James Dallas of St Martins Scotland was married twice. First to Elizabeth Riddle AKA Elizabeth Reid Dallas. They James Loraine Jr & Walter Riddle Dallas. His second wife was Barbara Cockburn and they had Alexander James Dallas (statesman). Alexander James Dallas had George Mifflin Dallas (VP).

Dallas/ Coolkenny, Ballycastle, Northern Ireland

brettmiller_1 — 2011-02-01 17:00:26Z

Hi

I am looking for information regarding Robert Dallas and Rose Galloway of Coolkenny near Ballycastle Northern Ireland. I am particularly interested in where the Dallas family originated?
Brett

Re: Dallas/ Dallis/Loudoun Co VA ca 1767

LoisNewell35 — 2011-01-27 15:21:35Z

Dennis Dallas was killed by slaves in 1767. This resulted in the 1st public hanging in Loudoun Co VA He was an Overseer for George West. His wife Mary (?) later md James Williamson. The Williamson family were also in Hampshire & Monongalia Co VA/WV

Descendants of Joshua Dallas, Jr. of St. Clair County, Missouri

Bill_Dahnke — 2011-01-14 00:43:04Z

I am looking for information on the origins of the Dallas TWP in St. Clair County, MO. Does the name have any connection to the family of Joshua Dallas, Jr. who, according to a newspaper article in the Union City, TN Commercial in 1901, moved to St. Clair County, MO. In this same newspaper article, it mentions his his father, Joshua Dallas, Sr. (ca 1760-1847), who died in Obion County, TN and was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. My SAR chapter in Obion County, TN is interested in having a grave dedication for Joshua Dallas, and needs to contact any of his descendants for more information on the Dalls family. Are there any descendants of Joshua Dallas, Jr. still living in St. Clair County? Any help, suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Bill Dahnke
President
Jackson Purchase Chapter
TNSSAR
Union City, TN

Re: DALLAS Meredith Eugene

Lace_Lynch — 2010-11-12 17:51:13Z

On Nov. 1, 2010 shortly after 2 a.m., Meredith Dallas, surrounded by family, died peacefully at the Friends Care Center, where he had been living for the past year.

The third child and second son of a factory foreman, Meredith Eugene Dallas, or Dal, as his friends and colleagues affectionately called him, was born on Dec. 3, 1916, in Detroit, Michigan, to William and Ethel Dallas who would go on to have six children.
When his older brother died at the age nine, the 6-year-old Meredith became the vessel of his father’s ambition — that his oldest son grow up to be a Methodist minister.

This ambition dovetailed nicely with the influence Detroit’s Central Methodist Church had on the young Meredith. Of particular influence were people of social conscience and national renown, like educator and civil rights leader Mary Bethune, who would on occasion speak to the congregation. Through the church, Meredith was active in the Young People’s League, an organization that examined issues of race and labor in America (an organization that would later be labeled by Joe McCarthy as a Communist front). Politically and philosophically influenced by these activities, Meredith became a pacifist by the time he completed high school.

Meredith had not considered going to college, but when a recruiter from Albion College, a Methodist school, visited Central and asked the minister if he would recommend a potential student, the minister recommended Meredith.

When his older sister, Beatrice, a nurse, offered financial support, Meredith enrolled in Albion. It was there that Dal (the nickname was born at Albion and stuck) met George Dewey, who would become a close friend for the next 60 years. It was also at Albion that Dal met Willa Louise Winter. Dal, a philosophy and speech major, was asked in his senior year to take over a freshman philosophy course when a professor took ill. Willa was a student in that class. Both student and teacher were soon smitten.

After graduating from Albion in 1939, Dal pursued a graduate degree in divinity at Union Theological Seminary. At Union he joined a group of activist seminarians that believed that Christ’s work was best learned as practiced in the trenches, rather than studied in the safe confines of the ivory tower. They created a settlement house in the slums of Newark, then another settlement house in Harlem. They took in homeless people and drunks off the street, fed them, clothed them and tried to find them work.
Already infected with the zeal of service, and deeply in love with her beau, Willa was eager to leave Albion when Dal asked her to join their Christian commune in Newark.

In 1940, at the beginning of World War II, Dal was one of eight seminarians who refused to register for the draft. As seminarians they were exempt from service; as pacifists they felt compelled to make a public stand. How they would be charged in federal court was not known; if found guilty of treason, there was even talk of death sentences. The day the “Union Eight” were sentenced to serve a year and a day in the Danbury, Conn. federal penitentiary, they were front-page news in The New York Times.
Dal and Willa wanted to marry before Dal was sent away, but because Dal was a felon, they couldn’t get a license in either the state of New York or Connecticut. They were able to get a license in Detroit, but the elders of Central Methodist would not allow the ceremony to take place in the church. So the minister of Central performed the ceremony in his home. When the newlyweds left the parsonage, photographers literally jumped out of the bushes. The next morning their wedding photograph was on the front page of the Detroit Free Press.

At the Danbury penitentiary, the Union Eight, through acts of civil disobedience such as deliberately sitting in the black section during meals, helped integrate the prison’s dining hall. For these acts they were frequently put in solitary confinement.

While at Danbury, Dal learned basic nursing skills and worked as the prison’s operating room nurse. Upon his release, the prison authorities registered him for the draft. When his number came up, Dal refused to serve. Again he was arrested.
This time he was sent to a boy’s detention center in Ashland, Ky., to head up the facility’s infirmary. Wanting to be near Dal, Willa and their young daughter, Barrie, born in 1942, moved into Willa’s parents’ house in Portsmouth, Ohio.
A peace conference in 1943 drew Willa to the village of Yellow Springs, a hundred miles to the north. She liked the place enough to move there, and in 1945 Dal was paroled to his family in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Dal’s first job in Yellow Springs was doing blood chemistry analysis for the Fels Institute. A year later, Dal became assistant to the dean at Antioch College. He soon found himself an avid thespian with the Antioch Area Theatre. In pursuit of a career in theater, Dal was awarded a full scholarship with stipend to the masters program in theater at Case Western Reserve, so the family, which now included their second daughter, Patti, moved to Cleveland for two years. After his graduate work, Dal accepted a faculty position in Antioch’s theater department. Dal and Willa’s last two children, Wendy and Tony, were soon born in Yellow Springs.

Through theater and teaching, Dal found his purpose in life. Having given up on the ministry (because God, he said, had never spoken to him), Dal found his church in the Antioch Area Theatre. Dal, along with Paul Treichler and Arthur Lithgow (known around Antioch in the 1950s as “The Triumvirate”), went on to shape Antioch’s theater department into a world-class program. Dal was a founding director and actor with Antioch’s Shakespeare Under the Stars, which opened in 1952 — its stage built off the massive stone steps of the Main Building. Between 1952 and 1958, a company of professional actors, students and villagers presented all of Shakespeare’s plays. This was the first time in the world that all of Shakespeare’s plays had been presented one after the other in one location. Then in 1961, using a similar mix of professional actors and students, Dal spearheaded six years of plays in the Antioch Amphitheatre — presenting five shows a summer, ranging from the Greeks and Shakespeare to Genet and Beckett. Dal usually directed three of the shows and acted in a fourth — sometimes directing and acting simultaneously.

As an actor and director Dal was superlative. The two parts for which he is most fondly remembered are Willy Lohman, in Death of a Salesman, and Malvolio, in Twelfth Night, a role he first performed for Shakespeare Under the Stars, then reprised in 1958 in Central Park for Joseph Papp’s Public Theatre, then later in the amphitheatre. As a director, actor and teacher, Dal had lasting influence on scores of students who went on to professional careers in the field and were instrumental in starting up the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; the Actors Theatre of Louisville; the American Conservatory Theatre; the Virginia Stage Company; the Shared Experience Theatre Company in London, England; Otrabanda and Talking Band.

In the 1970s, influenced by the works of Carl Rogers, Fritz Pearls and others, Dal became involved in the human potential movement. Looking towards a second career upon retiring from Antioch, in 1976 he was granted a PhD in Gestalt therapy through the Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities. Along with counseling individuals and couples, Dal combined psychotherapy with theatre for dream workshops, in which participants plumbed the gestalt of their dreams by casting and directing others in “staged” versions of their dreams. Dal worked as a psychotherapist for the next 20 years of his life.

Dal was an authentic man who thought deeply about the meaning of a life, and in that vein struggled to walk his talk. His impact as an artist and human being was substantial and spanned decades. He was deeply loved by many, and by many he is already deeply missed.

He is survived by his sisters Marjorie Kammer and Eunice George and a large extended family; his widow, Willa Dallas, and their children and partners, Barrie and Peter Grenell, Patti Dallas and Marianne MacQueen, Wendy Dallas and Anne Block, and Tony Dallas and Migiwa Orimo; grandchildren Alex Grenell, Nathania Dallas and Paloma Dallas and her husband, JuanSi González, and their daughter, Camila Dallas González.

A memorial to celebrate the life of Meredith Dallas will be held in the Glen Helen Building on June 19,2011 Father’s Day, the last day of the Antioch College Reunion, at 2 p.m.

DALLAS Meredith

Lace_Lynch — 2010-11-04 16:13:57Z

Meredith Dallas, theater director, actor, teacher and psychologist died peacefully in the company of family at the Friends Care Center, Yellow Springs, Ohio on Nov. 1, 2010 at 2 a.m. He was 93.

Meredith, known to his friends and colleagues as Dal, had been living with his wife, Willa, at the Friends Care Center for the past year. He and Willa had been married for 70 years; they had lived in Yellow Springs, Ohio for more than 60 years.

He is survived by Willa, by four grown children and their partners, Barrie and Peter Grenell, Patti Dallas and Marianne MacQueen, Wendy Dallas and Anne Block, Tony Dallas and Migiwa Orimo; by grandchildren Paloma Dallas, Alex Grenell and Nathania Dallas; by great-grandchild Camila; and by sisters Eunice George and Marjorie Kammer and numerous offspring.

Yellow Springs News

ELIZABETH J. DALLAS .Of Brookline,

KENNELLYMARKA — 2010-09-18 04:12:27Z

ELIZABETH J. DALLAS ,
DALLAS ELIZABETH J.
Of Brookline, on Tuesday Sept. 14, 2010;
wife of the late William J.; beloved mother of Anthony (Chrissy), Diane (Joe) Eichmiller, Teresa (Jack), Michael (Eloise) and William J. Jr. (Nicole); sister of the late William, Charles and Darlene Fields; also 12 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Friends may call at FRANK F. DEBOR FUNERAL HOME INC., 1065 Brookline Blvd., 412-561-0380 Saturday and Sunday 2-4 and 6-8pm. Mass of Christian Burial Monday at 10am in the Church of the Resurrection.
www.deborfuneralhome.com
Published in Pittsburgh ,pa,

Church of the Resurrection."

Re: Who's your oldest Dallas ancestor?

kylsbaby1 — 2010-09-09 03:44:25Z

Alexander Dallas (c1760) Inverness, Scotland , and his wife Marjorie Cameron. Descends down thur their son David Dallas with wife Sarah Sage.