MRS. JOHN NEELY BRYAN ILL.
Is Widow of Man Who Located City of Dallas--She "Has Pneumonia
With No Hopes For Her."
The following postal card to Alex Cockrell was received yesterday:
"Charlie, Clay County, Texas, Feb 14.
I write you the sad news that mother has pneumonia, with no hopes for her. Respectfully, J. N. BRYAN."
The lady referred to is Mrs. John Neely Bryan, widow of the man who located the city of Dallas, built the first house in the town and in the county. He also donated to the county, when it was organized some years after his settlement on the east bank of the Trinity, his house being erected near the end of the Commerce street bridge, the block of land now known as the Courthouse Square and on which the courthouse stands. Bryan street was named in his honor.
Mrs. Bryan came to what is now Dallas County with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Beeman, when a young girl just blooming into womanhood and not long afterward was married to John Neely Bryan and it was here in Dallas that her son, John Neely Bryan, who wrote the above postal card, was born.
It was during this period from 1841 until a few year later that the Beemans, the Cochrans, the Knights, the Hughes, the Rawlins, the Cockrells, the Lavenders, the Patricks, the Webbs, the Brandenbergs, and a few others came to the village of Dallas and located homes in its vicinity. Of the heads of families of these pioneers very few remain.
