. Sixty years in Texas. heir fifteen children eleven lived to be grown,and six still survive. The eleven are as follows:Lucy J., widow of Jerry Brown, resides in Seattle,Washington; Marietta, deceased; Isabella, deceased,wife of J. W. Jones; George W., of Grayson County,Texas; C. L., of this county; J. J., deceased; Adelia,deceased; Mary E., deceased, wife of T. J. Jackson;Thomas F.; Albert R., a Methodist minister of Kauf-man County, who has been preaching in the NorthTexas Conference many years, and is now stationedin the town of Kaufman, Texas; Anna E., wife ofJohn Jackson, of this county;
. Sixty years in Texas. heir fifteen children eleven lived to be grown,and six still survive. The eleven are as follows:Lucy J., widow of Jerry Brown, resides in Seattle,Washington; Marietta, deceased; Isabella, deceased,wife of J. W. Jones; George W., of Grayson County,Texas; C. L., of this county; J. J., deceased; Adelia,deceased; Mary E., deceased, wife of T. J. Jackson;Thomas F.; Albert R., a Methodist minister of Kauf-man County, who has been preaching in the NorthTexas Conference many years, and is now stationedin the town of Kaufman, Texas; Anna E., wife ofJohn Jackson, of this county; Emma E., F. Nash, our present District Judge, hasbeen elected by the people of this county twice to theLegislature. He served in the Seventeenth andEighteenth Legislature, and he was also electedCounty Judge and served two terms, from 1892 to1896. He was elected District Judge in 1900, re-elected without opposition in 1904, and is now serv-ing his third term. T. F. Nashs father and grand father were both. JOHN H. COLE Sixty Years in Texas. 149 slave owners, and his mothers father was a slaveowner. His father owned about twenty slaves whenthe war ended and lost their value, of course, byemancipation. Thomas J. Nash, though a Democrat and seces-sionist, always believed in Henry Clays doctrine ofgradual emancipation. Again, he never would sellhis negroes, because he could not well sell a wholefamily together. In othere words, he would not sella mother from her child—a child from its mother—nor separate brothers and sisters. JOHN H. COLE John H. Cole, who departed this life last January,was a retired farmer of Dallas County. He wasborn in Robertson County, Tennessee, in January,1827, the fifth of ten children born to John andMary (McDonald) Cole, natives of Virginia. Hisfather moved to Tennessee in an early day, where hewas a farmer and a physician. He was also one ofthe early practitioners of Dallas County, and in 1829he moved to Washington County, Arkansas, an
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