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Dallas Morning News 25 Dec 1899

TWO PIONEERS PASS AWAY

Death of William Sachse, Founder of the Town of Sachse, Dallas, County

NOTED FOR THRIFT AND GENEROSITY



Something of His Career - James C. Heffington, Leading Farmer and Citizen,
Buried



Saturday afternoon Wm. Sachse was buried near Sachse.

The deceased was one of the pioneers of Dallas County, coming to the county
fifty years ago from Germany. He was 79 years old and had lived from his early
manhood in the county, seeing it grow and develop from its early pioneer
beginnings to its present proportions, a county as fully populated as any in
the State and with its tax roll of assessed values reaching nearly one hundred
million dollars. He saw the city of Dallas grow from a struggling village of a
few loghouses to the grand city it now is, with its splendid public buildings
and business houses from three to seven stories high, its railroads, street
railways, paved streets, telegraph and telephone systems and great business
enterprises.

At his funeral were sixty-two of his descendants, children and grandchildren,
all being present except one granddaughter. He was loved by all his neighbors
for his kindness, his integrity and his worth as a good citizen, a pure man
and a kind and ever-helping
neighbor.

A short time before his death he had surveyed a block of land which he donated
and dedicated as a neighborhood cemetery, and his grave was the first one made
in it. It is on an eminence, a high mound that overlooks the surrounding
country and from about the grave the people could look down into the town of
Rockwall, some miles away. The town of Sachse was named in honor of the
deceased, being located on land that he owned and donated in part to the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad for a station, being in Dallas County, twenty-
one miles from the city of Dallas. During his life he acquired a goodly
portion of this world's goods, owning at his death a vast deal of land about
his homestead.

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James C. Heffington, aged 72, one of the oldest settlers of Dallas County,
died at his home near Richardson early Saturday morning. He had been ill for
some time, but the immediate cause of death was paralysis. He came to Texas
from Kentucky about the year 1850. At the outbreak of war he enlisted in the
Confederate army and did his full duty as a soldier. Returning from the war,
he married and settled near Richardson, where he resided until his death. Mr.
Heffington was a successful farmer and a useful citizen. He belonged to that
class of pioneers who made Texas, and Dallas County in particular, a rival of
the most favored spot in all the domain of this earth for the habitation of
man. He leaves quite a number of children, among them Mrs. J. E. Turner, wife
of the county assessor.