Posted February 1, 2008
From: Cathy Bradley cathbrad@tx.rr.om I'm trying to find information about my g-grandfather, Keeling Bradley. I have recently discovered that he was the "editor and proprietor" of the Grapevine Advocate in 1892, according to the Dallas Morning News of that time. Does anyone know about this newspaper and/or its history?

Posted November 11, 2007
From: Cr4127slw@aol.com I am trying to trace my husbands family history. His great grandfather's names was James Henry Holley, born about 1870 in Grapevine and died 4-20-1933 in Lodi, Marion County, Texas. He married Georgia Parr about 1906. She died in 1912 in Lodi, Marion County, Texas. I understand the Tarrant County Courthouse burned in 1876 and that lots of records were lost. I am trying to find the names of the parents of James Henry Holley and his wife Georgia Parr Holley. Thank you.

Posted October 6, 2007
I'm new in town and don't know the local history at all. Why are so many things called Bear Creek? Did this area have bears?
Jim Walters   jameswwalters@gmail.com
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Posted August 25, 2007 - REPLY to Laura E. Pasley's query of August 21, 2007

Regarding Laura Paslay's query about "Dr. Bob": I checked Mary Ann Sparger's "The History of the Medical Profession in Grapevine", dated 1 May 1965. She mentions Bob, son of Dr. Dabney Minor Lipscomb. With that information, I located an entry about "Dr. Bob" in the Grapevine Area History book, p. 265-66: '"Dr. Bob" [Robert Scrivner Lipscomb], as he was called, graduated with the second class of Texas A & M College. Then he took a medical degree from Tulane University. He and his brother, "Dr. Will", practiced medicine together in Grapevine for the remainder of their lives. Their office was on Main Street." Dr. Robert Lipscomb died in January 1936. I also have an obituary/death notice for Mrs. A. R. Pasley [sic] from the 20 Aug 1936 issue of the Sun.
Nancy Maxwell, Genealogy Librarian
Frances Pittman Malcolm Genealogy Room
Grapevine Public Library1201 Municipal Way
Grapevine, TX 76051
Voice: 817-410-3429
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Posted August 21, 2007
Good afternoon, I am looking for a list of names from the original settlers. The last name is Wuero. I may be spelling it incorrectly. Please help. Thank you and have a great day. Reply to: Clara Webber email: CWebber@bop.gov

Posted August 21, 2007
My grandmother killed herself in 1936 at the drug store beside the bank in the 400 blk of S. Main. She was in her 30's and had four children. My father is 80 and he has been down in the dumps so I took him to Grapevine today and we took lots of photos. He lived there from birth in 1927 until his Mama died in 1936. My question is there was s doctor they called "Dr. Bob" and I can't find information on him. My dad lived on his property with his family. Also, was there a doctors office next door to the drug store? She apparently had gone to the doctor and he wasn't there so she got 20 cents from my grandfather, went into the drug store and bought carbolic acid, drank it and collapsed. I would like to know what funeral place would have handled her and one more question, there was a store my daddy took eggs to trade in called "Old Grandpa's." If anyone has any information, please let me know. Thanks so much, Linnie Mae Frances Sexton PASLAY's granddaughter.

Laura E. Pasley Certified Independent Consultant Heritage Makers
http://www.laurapasleyscreativecorner.com lepasley@sbcglobal.net

Posted July 2, 2007
I had an Aunt Katherine who lived in Grapevine back in the late 1950s. I do not know her married name but her maiden name was Watts. I heard she had a daughter who became a doctor and moved away. Anyone have any leads on this family? Katherine was originally from Baltimore, MD. Reply to: Joseph A. Watts joseph_watts@health.state.ak.us

Posted September 9, 2006
Grapevine, TX has had a very early connection with Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific back in the 1920s and 1930s. I've been trying to locate a copy of "Dear Bro. Wall, Fraternally Lincoln" collected letters by Dixie Wall Fraser, copyright 1993. This would have been a collection of letters from Lincoln Clark of Pitcairn to Benjamin Richard Wall, Mayor of Grapevine. Can you help me in any way? Walter J. Kramarski If you have information about this book, please email the Grapevine Historical Society.

[More about Sheila Tirrell's question of August 7, 2006:]
Hi everyone -- I feel sure that this table could have come from the old Wallis Hotel or Brick Hotel as it was called. Lula Higgins had one of the tables from the old hotel (I think it closed in 1933ish) and her family gave it to the CVB when the replica Wallis opened! If you go into the first floor of the Wallis - it is there to the right with the guest book on it. It is a little night/side table. So, it is entirely possible that this person also acquired one of the pieces of furniture when the hotel closed. Thankfully, Gene Wiley's family, got most of the major pieces of furniture and kept them all these years and now has loaned some of it back to the city for display in the Wallis. Don't know anything about that date.

Don't know anything about Adrian Bakler. If she means Baker -- there was the Baker Hotel which was owned by an A. Baker according to the history book. Sallie

Posted August 7, 2006
My name is Sheila Tirrell. I lived in Grapevine years ago and purchased a small side table at a garage sale. I recently noticed writing on the bottom of the table that I had forgotten about. Was there a Grapevine Hotel in about 1927? And do you have any information about an Adrian Bakler who would have been in the area at about that time? Does the date September 9, 1927 hold any significance? Just curious about this piece of furniture. Thanks you for any help or information.
Sincerely,
Sheila Tirrell

Posted August 5, 2006
According to a 1950 article in the Dallas Morning News, Benjamin Richard Wall, former Mayor of Grapevine, kept a diary from October 19, 1887. Is there anyone who knows what happened to Mayor Wall's diary? Please email any information about the diary to the Grapevine Historical Society

Posted May 13, 2006
My name is Jane Moore and I write for the Citizens' Advocate newspaper in Coppell. We've been doing a big history series on Coppell and I am helping write a story on the honky tonks that lined Sandy Lake road in the 1930s and 1940s. Apparently the most famous one was called Midway and was owned by a man from Grapevine, who I believe was named Joe Stout. I was told he also owned a similar place in Grapevine.

I am looking for pictures or information on any of these places or the people associated with them. Coppell was kind of a no-man's land in those years and was called all different things, so I have a feeling some of this history overlaps into Grapevine. If you have any information that might be valuable to this story, please contact Jane at 972-393-7065 or email janeworld@comcast.net janeworld@comcast.net

Posted Aug 19, 2005
I am looking for information on my Gr Gr Gr Gr Louden Leander Fowler. It is my understanding that he moved to Tarrant County, Grapevine area in the late 1860's. He was raising my Gr Gr Gr Grandfather Sylvester Leander Fowler who returned to Missouri, in the 1880's and his sister Mollie who stayed in Texas and married a man by the name of Grandvill Blevins in 1876. (who's marriage record I found) If anyone has info on this family I would greatly appreciate hearing from them I have reached a dead end.Thank you C Bittner c_bittner66@msn.com

Posted Feb 11, 2005 I was born and raised in Kentucky but I am definitely related to the Borah family of Grapevine, Texas. I am currently living in Arlington, Texas. Several other branches of my family (Austin, Rogers and Taylor) also came through this area of Texas. I am writing to ask if you know of anyone in the Grapevine area who is either actively researching or knowledgeable about the Borah branch of the family there who would not mind being contacted about that branch of the family. My great grandmother was Anna Borah.
Reply to Deborah     Deborah.Kaelin@ssa.gov

Posted Feb 11, 2005 Hello: My name is Kenny Friend and I am the GrGrGrandson of David Tanihill. He is listed in the 1850 Census of Tarrant County with his wife Cassie, a son and daughter Mary. Mary married my GrGrandfather Thomas Jefferson Donaldson on the 24th of September 1868. David is listed in the 1885 land map, 1853, 1854, 1863, and the 1864 Tax Assessment List on Tarrant County. This is all that I know of them as their daughter Mary and husband Thomas both died in December of 1884 leaving 5 children and they never did know their Grandparents. Their name is spelled different ways, Tannihill, Tannyhill, Tannahill. Thank you for any help that you can give me.
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Posted Feb 18, 2005
I am looking for information on Christina Quayle that married a "Hudgins" in Grapevine, Texas. Her father was Amos Quayle and she had a daughter named Daphne Hudgins. She remarried to Austin Kane, but I am looking for who the prior husband was.
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