Cockrell Descendant, Mrs. Dargan, 79, Dies
Mrs. Sarah Cockrell Dargan, 79, of 3525 Turtle Creek, granddaughter of one of Dallas' earliest citizens, died here Tuesday.
Her grandfather, Alexander Cockrell, was a contemporary of John Neely Bryan, founder of Dallas. Cockrell built the first bridge across the Trinity River and the first 3-story building in Dallas, a hotel.
Mrs. Dargan was a lifelong resident of Dallas, exccept for the period between 1942 and 1954 when she lived in Houston with her second husband, the late Kemp S. Dargan, an insurance man. She returned to Dallas after Dargan's death in 1954.
Her daughter by her first marriage, to A. A. Green of Dallas, is the wife of Dallas furniture dealer Larry Hart.
Mrs. Dargan ws a member of the Hesitation Club, the Brook Hollow Golf Club and the Highland Park Methodist Church.
funeral services will be held at p.m. Wednesday in the Cox Chapel of Highland Park Methodist Church. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
