A history of Texas and Texans . Hereached manhood, however, with a spelndid physique,good judgment and an inordinate ambition to succeedat something. Mr. Piekards grandparents, William and MilliePiekard, went to Tennessee from North Carolina, wherethev passed their lives on a plantation which was con-ducted without slave labor. Of their children, threesons and two daughters, we record that Xaney was thewife of Eev. David Jones, a Baptist preacher, andEmily, wife of Harvey Cloyce, lives in Arkansas. Oneson was named Alexander and another .John Piekard died in JLaury county, Tenne
A history of Texas and Texans . Hereached manhood, however, with a spelndid physique,good judgment and an inordinate ambition to succeedat something. Mr. Piekards grandparents, William and MilliePiekard, went to Tennessee from North Carolina, wherethev passed their lives on a plantation which was con-ducted without slave labor. Of their children, threesons and two daughters, we record that Xaney was thewife of Eev. David Jones, a Baptist preacher, andEmily, wife of Harvey Cloyce, lives in Arkansas. Oneson was named Alexander and another .John Piekard died in JLaury county, Tennessee. Thefather of the subject of this sketch was born there in1831 and passed awav in 1901, in Kaufman, Texas. Inearly life he operated a sawmill and was thus occupiedduring the Civil war and so missed service in the Con-federate army with his two brothers. After the war heengaged in agricultural pursuits and reared his familyon a farm. His widow, Sallie E. (Cooper) Piekard,lives with her son, W. Ed Piekard, in Kaufman, Of^.(3^^^ TEXAS AND TEXANS 1981 She is a daughter of Eobert Cooper, of Lewis county,Tennessee, a public olficer and farmer. Her childrenare E. Josephine, widow of Rev. John King, of Kauf-man, Texas; Laura, deceased, was the wife of ilonroe?Wyrick; William Edward, whose name introduces thissketch; Mrs. llary E. King, deceased; and Cora Lee,who died unmarried. Ed Pickard, as he is familiarly known, seems to havemade little progress financially back in the old state ofTennessee when he iiKinifl. :iiiil lie rlniso start hiscareer with a wife :iiiimiiu -trimuei^ in Texn^. Wlien hereached Dallas, neremlin- l:i, 1^-:,. |„. tmiiel his cashresources amountiiij; tn ^.KT. He fell in ifh Par-son Hughes at Dallas, who rented him land and•furnishfd him entirely the first year. While hemade a crop of thirty-five bales of cotton, fifteen hun-dred bushels of corn and some other grain, he haddomestic misfortune. Death entered his home andclaimed his wife, leaving
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