Joe Beverly Recalls Early
History.
Crowell, Foard county, Sept. 26, 1921.
I have with much
interest read your special edition. The item pertaining to the early
settlement and organization of Collin county, I am sure is correct in most
that is given. However, in writing of historical facts one can not depend
entirely on tradition for correctness.
For instance,
the writer says that "Hominyville was a thriving village before Plano sprang
up." He also says that Jim Brown and his father-in-law, Patterson, built an
ox mill at the place. Alvin Patterson, the partner in the mill, who moved to
Weston in 1860, was Jim Brown's brother-in-law, instead of father-in-law.
Plano had sprung up and had a postoffice before the timbers were cut and
hewn or the stones dressed for the Hominyville mill.
After more than
three score years since either town was started, perhaps living witnesses
will be a little hard to find. Suppose we ask Dick Clark who lives on a farm
northwest from Plano on the headwaters of Spring Creek? Or his brother, Matt
Clark, at Frisco" It is likely that Tom Muse, or Capt. Board will remember.
This much to get the cord straight. While we are at the place where
Hominyville stood, let us stop a minute and see John Brown and his wife,
Addie. This house stands about at the place where the widow Patterson,
Alvin's mother, built a nice residence at the time the mill was built. But
as this was before their day and generation John and Addie can't tell much
about the early history. Three or four hundred yards south of their place
Mr. Benge, a brother-in-law of Brown and Patterson, built a good large house
and kept tavern. He also kept a store. The store was burned and never
rebuilt. This was east of the Dallas and McKinney road-the mill was south
and west of the road. On the south bank of the Klepper branch and on the
roadside, John Hanner has a wood shop where he repaired wagons and plows and
made ox yokes. Half a mile or less up the branch his brother, Ike, had a
blacksmith shop. For that day and time Jim Brown and Alvin Patterson each
had a nice residence with brick or white rock chimneys. Bit it will do no
good to walk out over the grounds for not even one stone could be found upon
another. I would be glad t know what has become of Will Patterson, Alvin's
younger brother. He was a gallant Confederate soldier. Shot through the back
of his head with a minnie ball, captured and taken prisoner at Arkansas
Post. After the war he lived several years at the old home place and made a
good and useful citizen.
Joe W. Beverly
Communities Index
- Recommended
citation:
"Hominyville - Collin County
Communities," Collin County, Texas History and Genealogy Webpage by
Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries, Inc., <http://www.geocities/genfriendsghl>
[Accessed Fri February 13 13:37:28 US/Central 2004 ].
