Child of Old Peters Colony, South Denton County Pioneer, Dies of Stroke at Home here

A child of the original Peters Colony which broke the first furrows through southern Denton County. Mrs. Isabelle Dudley Everett, 81, died from the effects of a stroke Saturday at her home 720 South Haskell.
Mrs. Everett will be buried Sunday afternoon on old Cemetery Hill near Hebron, site of the community's only church during her childhood. Her uncle donated the plat to the community for a church and cemetery early in the history of the county.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the chapel of the George A. Brewer Undertaking Company.

Mother Native of England
Mrs. Everett's mother, Mary Ann Jackson, came to Texas with her parents from Devonshire, England. In 1848 they landed from a steamboat at Jefferson, and in an oxcart headed est for the long tract of land partly in Dallas County along the east bank of the Trinity which had been granted to the Peters Colony. Shortly after they settled in Denton County Mary Ann Jackson was married to William R. Dudley, a young pioneer from Virginia.
Isabelle Dudley was born Nov 23, 1858, in a community which was still hauling lumber for its houses overland from Jefferson. The community then centered around the old settlement of Trinity Mills,, now vanished. In the early years of her life, Negro slaves did the household work around the Dudleys farm and later a number of cattle herds bound north for the Kansas market stamped near their farm. A journey to Dallas, now a thirty-minute affair, was then an overnight  trip.

Dallassites Since 1890
She was married Nov 25, 1875 to J. W. Everett. Fifteen years later they moved to Dallas. He died here in 1924. She had lived in the Haskell Avenue home since 1906.
Survivors include four children, W. R. Everett Sr., Lee J. Everett and Miss Clara Belle Everett, all of Dallas, and G. Dudley Everett, former Dallas high school and A & M College football and track star, who lives at Stephenville.
Dr. W. Marshall Craig will conduct the funeral service in Dallas and the Rev. W. W.  Lyons of Hebron will officiate at the cemetery. Pallbearers will be Henry Chandler, Joe Chandler, Robert McFarland, Roy McCormick, C. C. Nelson and Foster Jacoby.

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The Carrollton Chronicle - March 31, 1940
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

ISABELLE D. EVERTT
1850 - 1940

Furneaux Cemetery, Carrollton, Denton Co., Texas