SARAH EVALINA RHODES
Died 1836
Note: she is not buried in the Dancy-Gunn Cemetery in Trinity and is why the author believes she is buried here with her siblings
Daughter of Dr. Henry Rhodes and Martha Mason Dancy, wife of John Winfield Scott Dancy. John Winfield Scott Dancy was born to William (his mother was aunt to General Winfield Scott) and Priscilla (Turner) Dancy (whose sister Burchett Turner Sykes was the mother to the six Sykes brothers of Decatur) in Greenville County, Virginia and was a descendant of Francis de Dance, a Castilian nobleman who fled persecution in France. After growing up in Decatur, John W. S. Dancy studied law, science, and languages and attended Nashville University where he received a law license in Tennessee from Judge John Catron, United States Supreme Court justice from 1837 to 1865. On August 27, 1835 Dancy was married to Sarah Evalina Rhodes by the Reverend Simon Burchett Turner Sykes, his cousin probably in the just completed United Methodist Church on Lafayette Street. After Sarah Evalina's death the following summer, John decided to move to Texas and on December of 1836 (seven months after the end of the Mexican War), he and Francis R. Lubbock arrived at Velasco on the schooner Corolla. Dancy became a citizen of Texas in January of 1837 and traveled throughout the republic where in 1838 he purchased 640 acres in Fayette County. He introduced long-staple cotton to Texas and developed the first hydraulic ram in the state to provide irrigation for his plantation. In 1841 he was elected Fayette County representative to the Sixth Congress of the Republic of Texas and later served in the Senate of the Second and Fourth state legislatures (1847-48 and 1851-53) and in the House of the Sixth Legislature (1855-56). Dancy ran for governor as a Democrat in 1853 but placed last in a field of six candidates led by Elisha M. Pease. In February 1861 he was a delegate to the Secession Convention. His early advocacy of railroad development earned him the nickname "Father of Texas Railroads." During his first legislative term he advocated annexing California and constructing a railroad to connect the West Coast to Texas. In 1850 Dancy proposed using public lands to finance railroad construction. He maintained a law practice in LaGrange and was a developer of Colorado City, the site chosen by the legislature in 1838 for the new capital but vetoed by President Sam Houston. He was a founding trustee of Rutersville College. During the Mexican invasions of 1842, Dancy served in the First Regiment of Texas Mounted Volunteers under John Coffee Hays. From May to July 1847 he served as a private in a spy company of Texas mounted volunteers commanded by Benjamin McCulloch. He also fought in Indian skirmishes. He married Lucy Ann Nowlin of Austin on October in 1849. They had a son and five daughters. Dancy died in LaGrange on February 13, 1866, and was buried in the LaGrange Cemetery. His daughter from his second marriage, was Martha Evelina "Lena" Dancy, who designed the Lena Dancy Homespun Dress, displayed at the Texas Memorial Museum, at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas.
Southern Advocate, October 11, 1836
Died at the residence of her father in Decatur, on Sunday 2d of October, MRS. SARAH EVELINA DANCY, consort of John W. Dancy, Esq. and eldest daughter of Dr. Henry W. Rhodes, aged 16 years and some few months and days.
Died 1836
Note: she is not buried in the Dancy-Gunn Cemetery in Trinity and is why the author believes she is buried here with her siblings
Daughter of Dr. Henry Rhodes and Martha Mason Dancy, wife of John Winfield Scott Dancy. John Winfield Scott Dancy was born to William (his mother was aunt to General Winfield Scott) and Priscilla (Turner) Dancy (whose sister Burchett Turner Sykes was the mother to the six Sykes brothers of Decatur) in Greenville County, Virginia and was a descendant of Francis de Dance, a Castilian nobleman who fled persecution in France. After growing up in Decatur, John W. S. Dancy studied law, science, and languages and attended Nashville University where he received a law license in Tennessee from Judge John Catron, United States Supreme Court justice from 1837 to 1865. On August 27, 1835 Dancy was married to Sarah Evalina Rhodes by the Reverend Simon Burchett Turner Sykes, his cousin probably in the just completed United Methodist Church on Lafayette Street. After Sarah Evalina's death the following summer, John decided to move to Texas and on December of 1836 (seven months after the end of the Mexican War), he and Francis R. Lubbock arrived at Velasco on the schooner Corolla. Dancy became a citizen of Texas in January of 1837 and traveled throughout the republic where in 1838 he purchased 640 acres in Fayette County. He introduced long-staple cotton to Texas and developed the first hydraulic ram in the state to provide irrigation for his plantation. In 1841 he was elected Fayette County representative to the Sixth Congress of the Republic of Texas and later served in the Senate of the Second and Fourth state legislatures (1847-48 and 1851-53) and in the House of the Sixth Legislature (1855-56). Dancy ran for governor as a Democrat in 1853 but placed last in a field of six candidates led by Elisha M. Pease. In February 1861 he was a delegate to the Secession Convention. His early advocacy of railroad development earned him the nickname "Father of Texas Railroads." During his first legislative term he advocated annexing California and constructing a railroad to connect the West Coast to Texas. In 1850 Dancy proposed using public lands to finance railroad construction. He maintained a law practice in LaGrange and was a developer of Colorado City, the site chosen by the legislature in 1838 for the new capital but vetoed by President Sam Houston. He was a founding trustee of Rutersville College. During the Mexican invasions of 1842, Dancy served in the First Regiment of Texas Mounted Volunteers under John Coffee Hays. From May to July 1847 he served as a private in a spy company of Texas mounted volunteers commanded by Benjamin McCulloch. He also fought in Indian skirmishes. He married Lucy Ann Nowlin of Austin on October in 1849. They had a son and five daughters. Dancy died in LaGrange on February 13, 1866, and was buried in the LaGrange Cemetery. His daughter from his second marriage, was Martha Evelina "Lena" Dancy, who designed the Lena Dancy Homespun Dress, displayed at the Texas Memorial Museum, at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas.
Southern Advocate, October 11, 1836
Died at the residence of her father in Decatur, on Sunday 2d of October, MRS. SARAH EVELINA DANCY, consort of John W. Dancy, Esq. and eldest daughter of Dr. Henry W. Rhodes, aged 16 years and some few months and days.
SARAH EVALINA RHODES
Died 1836
Note: she is not buried in the Dancy-Gunn Cemetery in Trinity and is why the author believes she is buried here with her siblings
Daughter of Dr. Henry Rhodes and Martha Mason Dancy, wife of John Winfield Scott Dancy. John Winfield Scott Dancy was born to William (his mother was aunt to General Winfield Scott) and Priscilla (Turner) Dancy (whose sister Burchett Turner Sykes was the mother to the six Sykes brothers of Decatur) in Greenville County, Virginia and was a descendant of Francis de Dance, a Castilian nobleman who fled persecution in France. After growing up in Decatur, John W. S. Dancy studied law, science, and languages and attended Nashville University where he received a law license in Tennessee from Judge John Catron, United States Supreme Court justice from 1837 to 1865. On August 27, 1835 Dancy was married to Sarah Evalina Rhodes by the Reverend Simon Burchett Turner Sykes, his cousin probably in the just completed United Methodist Church on Lafayette Street. After Sarah Evalina's death the following summer, John decided to move to Texas and on December of 1836 (seven months after the end of the Mexican War), he and Francis R. Lubbock arrived at Velasco on the schooner Corolla. Dancy became a citizen of Texas in January of 1837 and traveled throughout the republic where in 1838 he purchased 640 acres in Fayette County. He introduced long-staple cotton to Texas and developed the first hydraulic ram in the state to provide irrigation for his plantation. In 1841 he was elected Fayette County representative to the Sixth Congress of the Republic of Texas and later served in the Senate of the Second and Fourth state legislatures (1847-48 and 1851-53) and in the House of the Sixth Legislature (1855-56). Dancy ran for governor as a Democrat in 1853 but placed last in a field of six candidates led by Elisha M. Pease. In February 1861 he was a delegate to the Secession Convention. His early advocacy of railroad development earned him the nickname "Father of Texas Railroads." During his first legislative term he advocated annexing California and constructing a railroad to connect the West Coast to Texas. In 1850 Dancy proposed using public lands to finance railroad construction. He maintained a law practice in LaGrange and was a developer of Colorado City, the site chosen by the legislature in 1838 for the new capital but vetoed by President Sam Houston. He was a founding trustee of Rutersville College. During the Mexican invasions of 1842, Dancy served in the First Regiment of Texas Mounted Volunteers under John Coffee Hays. From May to July 1847 he served as a private in a spy company of Texas mounted volunteers commanded by Benjamin McCulloch. He also fought in Indian skirmishes. He married Lucy Ann Nowlin of Austin on October in 1849. They had a son and five daughters. Dancy died in LaGrange on February 13, 1866, and was buried in the LaGrange Cemetery. His daughter from his second marriage, was Martha Evelina "Lena" Dancy, who designed the Lena Dancy Homespun Dress, displayed at the Texas Memorial Museum, at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas.
Southern Advocate, October 11, 1836
Died at the residence of her father in Decatur, on Sunday 2d of October, MRS. SARAH EVELINA DANCY, consort of John W. Dancy, Esq. and eldest daughter of Dr. Henry W. Rhodes, aged 16 years and some few months and days.
Died 1836
Note: she is not buried in the Dancy-Gunn Cemetery in Trinity and is why the author believes she is buried here with her siblings
Daughter of Dr. Henry Rhodes and Martha Mason Dancy, wife of John Winfield Scott Dancy. John Winfield Scott Dancy was born to William (his mother was aunt to General Winfield Scott) and Priscilla (Turner) Dancy (whose sister Burchett Turner Sykes was the mother to the six Sykes brothers of Decatur) in Greenville County, Virginia and was a descendant of Francis de Dance, a Castilian nobleman who fled persecution in France. After growing up in Decatur, John W. S. Dancy studied law, science, and languages and attended Nashville University where he received a law license in Tennessee from Judge John Catron, United States Supreme Court justice from 1837 to 1865. On August 27, 1835 Dancy was married to Sarah Evalina Rhodes by the Reverend Simon Burchett Turner Sykes, his cousin probably in the just completed United Methodist Church on Lafayette Street. After Sarah Evalina's death the following summer, John decided to move to Texas and on December of 1836 (seven months after the end of the Mexican War), he and Francis R. Lubbock arrived at Velasco on the schooner Corolla. Dancy became a citizen of Texas in January of 1837 and traveled throughout the republic where in 1838 he purchased 640 acres in Fayette County. He introduced long-staple cotton to Texas and developed the first hydraulic ram in the state to provide irrigation for his plantation. In 1841 he was elected Fayette County representative to the Sixth Congress of the Republic of Texas and later served in the Senate of the Second and Fourth state legislatures (1847-48 and 1851-53) and in the House of the Sixth Legislature (1855-56). Dancy ran for governor as a Democrat in 1853 but placed last in a field of six candidates led by Elisha M. Pease. In February 1861 he was a delegate to the Secession Convention. His early advocacy of railroad development earned him the nickname "Father of Texas Railroads." During his first legislative term he advocated annexing California and constructing a railroad to connect the West Coast to Texas. In 1850 Dancy proposed using public lands to finance railroad construction. He maintained a law practice in LaGrange and was a developer of Colorado City, the site chosen by the legislature in 1838 for the new capital but vetoed by President Sam Houston. He was a founding trustee of Rutersville College. During the Mexican invasions of 1842, Dancy served in the First Regiment of Texas Mounted Volunteers under John Coffee Hays. From May to July 1847 he served as a private in a spy company of Texas mounted volunteers commanded by Benjamin McCulloch. He also fought in Indian skirmishes. He married Lucy Ann Nowlin of Austin on October in 1849. They had a son and five daughters. Dancy died in LaGrange on February 13, 1866, and was buried in the LaGrange Cemetery. His daughter from his second marriage, was Martha Evelina "Lena" Dancy, who designed the Lena Dancy Homespun Dress, displayed at the Texas Memorial Museum, at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas.
Southern Advocate, October 11, 1836
Died at the residence of her father in Decatur, on Sunday 2d of October, MRS. SARAH EVELINA DANCY, consort of John W. Dancy, Esq. and eldest daughter of Dr. Henry W. Rhodes, aged 16 years and some few months and days.
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