BIOGRAPHY
 ANDREW J. DENNIS was born in
Overton county, Tennessee, ,February 17, 1833. He was reared on a farm, received
a liberal education, and for a time was engaged in teaching. His life
occupation, however, has been farming.
James Dennis, his father, was a native of North Carolina. He died in Tennessee
at the age of fifty-two years. His wife passed away in 1875, aged seventy-eight.
She was before her marriage Miss Parmina Gunnells, and her mother, whose maiden
name was Bennefield, came to this country from Europe. By a previous marriage
James Dennis had six children, and by Permina he has seven. The names of the
last family are as follows: Nancy C., married W. M. Roberts, a native of
Tennessee, who came from Kentucky to Texas in 1878; Catherine S., who married
James Conner and lives in Clay county, Tennessee; George W., who was married and
lived in Tennessee, went through the war and after returning home was shot and
killed in his own house; Andrew J., the subject of our sketch; Thomas J., who
came to Texas in 1886; is now a resident of Dallas county; Daniel P., who was
married and lived in Texas, died January, 1886; and Sarah J., whose first
husband, Franklin Elder of Tennessee, was killed in the war, and who
subsequently moved to Illinois and there married Silas Follis, came in 1868 with
Mr. Follis to Texas, and is now living in Denton county.
Andrew J. Dennis came with one of his half-brothers to Texas, arriving in Dallas
county in December, 1854. He had only a small amount of money then and was at
first employed as a farm hand, working in that way five years. At the end of
that time he bought 110 acres of land, the farm on which he now lives. He has
since added to his original purchase and now has a fine farm, well improved with
good buildings, etc. Previous to the war his crops were wheat, oats and corn,
and he also raised stock. Since then he has given his attention to the raising
of cotton. He has never made a total failure of crops. He now keeps only such
stock as are needed for his own use on the farm.
Mr. Dennis was married to Miss Sarah Webb. Her father,
I. B. Webb, a native of
Tennessee, came to Texas in 1844, settled in Dallas county and took a headright
of 640 acres of land. He died in 1880, at the age of seventy-eight years. His
wife, the mother of Mrs. Dennis, was before her marriage Miss Mary Hughes. Her
death occurred in 1887. Her father, William Hughes, was a native of North
Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis have been blessed with nine children, viz.;
Margaret L., wife of W. H. Demere, lives in Dallas county;
James I., at home; L.
W. married and settled in life; and Z. H., George N., Charles W., Anna F., J.
Sutton and Mary Hughes, at home.
During the late war Mr. Dennis was the Confederate County Assessor of this
county serving as such from 1861 to 1865. He was at one time a member of the
Farmers' Alliance, but withdrew. He and his family are members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. |
Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas, Chicago; The
Lewis Publishing Company, 1892, pg 962
PERSONAL
A. J. Dennis, a farmer of Farmers' Branch, called on THE NEWS yesterday.
Mr. Dennis came to Dallas county from Tennessee in 1854 and has never been out
of the state since.
The Dallas Morning News - March 21, 1891
Children of Andrew Jackson Dennis &
Sarah A. (Webb) Dennis
- Margaret Letitia Dennis (1860-1898), married William Herbert
Demere buried at Webb Chapel Cemetery, Farmers Branch, Dallas Co., TX
- James Isaac Dennis (1862-1948), married (1) Katherine Butler Meason & (2)
Angie Pistole
- William Levi Dennis (1864-1897), married Nancy Roberts
buried at Webb Chapel Cemetery, Farmers Branch, Dallas Co., TX
- Zuleika Howard Dennis (1866-1957), married
Joseph Benjamin Gravley
buried at Webb Chapel Cemetery, Farmers Branch, Dallas Co., TX
- George Newton Dennis (1869-1929), married Bessie Allen Asbury
- John C. Dennis (1870-1871) buried at Webb Chapel Cemetery,
Farmers Branch, Dallas Co., TX
- Charles Whitfield Dennis (1872-1938) [Portrait],
married Sarah Jane Robinson
- Anna Ford (Ladye) Dennis (1874-1973), married Dr. Ewin Petty Hall
buried at Greenwood Cemetery, Dallas Co., TX
- Jack Sutton Dennis (1876-1960), married Lelia Ann May
- Mary Hughes Dennis (1878-1900) buried at Webb Chapel Cemetery,
Farmers Branch, Dallas Co., TX
- Sarah Permima Dennis (1880-1881) buried at Webb Chapel Cemetery,
Farmers Branch, Dallas Co., TX
- INFANT Dennis [Alsey, Alice, or Allie Dennis], 1882, stillborn
buried at Webb Chapel Cemetery, Farmers Branch, Dallas Co., TX
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