Annetta Girard was born on November 18, 1871 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas to François Pierre Girard Jr of France and Rebecca Rutherford of Cherokee County, Texas.
A few years after her father's death, her mother Rebecca married a prosperous Dallas farmer by the name of David Alexander Lacey of Dallas County, Texas. Annetta met and soon after married her step-brother Albert Lacey after he returned home from college on November 20, 1889 in Dallas County, Texas. The two never lived in the same house till they married. Their union gave them eight children. Cora, David, Robert, Winnie, Berdie, Charley, Frances and Joyce.
Annetta, husband Albert, her mother Rebecca, half sister Lillian and Lillian's husband Charles Smith Hall were founding members of the First Christian Church of Grand Prairie, Texas. The church was established in 1903.
Annetta, in her later years was almost completely deaf. While walking home from the store after buying milk on December 18, 1944, she was struck and killed instantly by a train near downtown Grand Prairie. Story is told by family members that on the way back home she had to stand and wait for the train to pass. Once the train had past, she started across the tracks behind it. She stepped from behind one train onto the second set of tracks only to be struck and killed by the train coming from the opposite direction. Her son-in-law, Joe Lawson was the first family member to arrive at the scene to identify her after his wife, Annetta's daughter Birdie called him in a panic about the accident.
Annetta's final resting place is at the Old Southland cemetery in Grand Prairie, Dallas County, Texas next to her husband Albert.
Research and Biography by T E Lacey
A few years after her father's death, her mother Rebecca married a prosperous Dallas farmer by the name of David Alexander Lacey of Dallas County, Texas. Annetta met and soon after married her step-brother Albert Lacey after he returned home from college on November 20, 1889 in Dallas County, Texas. The two never lived in the same house till they married. Their union gave them eight children. Cora, David, Robert, Winnie, Berdie, Charley, Frances and Joyce.
Annetta, husband Albert, her mother Rebecca, half sister Lillian and Lillian's husband Charles Smith Hall were founding members of the First Christian Church of Grand Prairie, Texas. The church was established in 1903.
Annetta, in her later years was almost completely deaf. While walking home from the store after buying milk on December 18, 1944, she was struck and killed instantly by a train near downtown Grand Prairie. Story is told by family members that on the way back home she had to stand and wait for the train to pass. Once the train had past, she started across the tracks behind it. She stepped from behind one train onto the second set of tracks only to be struck and killed by the train coming from the opposite direction. Her son-in-law, Joe Lawson was the first family member to arrive at the scene to identify her after his wife, Annetta's daughter Birdie called him in a panic about the accident.
Annetta's final resting place is at the Old Southland cemetery in Grand Prairie, Dallas County, Texas next to her husband Albert.
Research and Biography by T E Lacey
Annetta Girard was born on November 18, 1871 in Huntsville, Walker County, Texas to François Pierre Girard Jr of France and Rebecca Rutherford of Cherokee County, Texas.
A few years after her father's death, her mother Rebecca married a prosperous Dallas farmer by the name of David Alexander Lacey of Dallas County, Texas. Annetta met and soon after married her step-brother Albert Lacey after he returned home from college on November 20, 1889 in Dallas County, Texas. The two never lived in the same house till they married. Their union gave them eight children. Cora, David, Robert, Winnie, Berdie, Charley, Frances and Joyce.
Annetta, husband Albert, her mother Rebecca, half sister Lillian and Lillian's husband Charles Smith Hall were founding members of the First Christian Church of Grand Prairie, Texas. The church was established in 1903.
Annetta, in her later years was almost completely deaf. While walking home from the store after buying milk on December 18, 1944, she was struck and killed instantly by a train near downtown Grand Prairie. Story is told by family members that on the way back home she had to stand and wait for the train to pass. Once the train had past, she started across the tracks behind it. She stepped from behind one train onto the second set of tracks only to be struck and killed by the train coming from the opposite direction. Her son-in-law, Joe Lawson was the first family member to arrive at the scene to identify her after his wife, Annetta's daughter Birdie called him in a panic about the accident.
Annetta's final resting place is at the Old Southland cemetery in Grand Prairie, Dallas County, Texas next to her husband Albert.
Research and Biography by T E Lacey
A few years after her father's death, her mother Rebecca married a prosperous Dallas farmer by the name of David Alexander Lacey of Dallas County, Texas. Annetta met and soon after married her step-brother Albert Lacey after he returned home from college on November 20, 1889 in Dallas County, Texas. The two never lived in the same house till they married. Their union gave them eight children. Cora, David, Robert, Winnie, Berdie, Charley, Frances and Joyce.
Annetta, husband Albert, her mother Rebecca, half sister Lillian and Lillian's husband Charles Smith Hall were founding members of the First Christian Church of Grand Prairie, Texas. The church was established in 1903.
Annetta, in her later years was almost completely deaf. While walking home from the store after buying milk on December 18, 1944, she was struck and killed instantly by a train near downtown Grand Prairie. Story is told by family members that on the way back home she had to stand and wait for the train to pass. Once the train had past, she started across the tracks behind it. She stepped from behind one train onto the second set of tracks only to be struck and killed by the train coming from the opposite direction. Her son-in-law, Joe Lawson was the first family member to arrive at the scene to identify her after his wife, Annetta's daughter Birdie called him in a panic about the accident.
Annetta's final resting place is at the Old Southland cemetery in Grand Prairie, Dallas County, Texas next to her husband Albert.
Research and Biography by T E Lacey
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