Dr. Lilburn Howard Colley
Colleyville, Tarrant County, Texas
Marker Inscription
A veteran of the Union Army during the Civil War, Dr. L. H. Colley (1843-1924) and his wife, Martha Sabrina (Fowks) (1860-1914), migrated from Missouri to Texas in 1880. They settled in Bransford Community in 1885, where Dr. Colley became a respected physician and an election official for the Pleasant Run School District. In 1914, when Walter G. Couch opened a grocery store in a two-room building near the Colley's home, Dr. Colley suggested naming the area Colleyville. The community has grown to include Bransford, Old Union, Pleasant Glade, Pleasant Run and Spring Garden. (1983)
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Dr. L. H. Colley, a Union Army veteran of the Civil War, migrated with his wife from Missouri to Texas in 1880 and settled in the Bransford community in 1885, where he became a respected physician and school-district election official. When a grocery store opened near his home in 1914, Colley suggested naming the growing area Colleyville. The community he named eventually absorbed several neighboring settlements.
Why it matters
A Northern veteran's resettlement in Texas and the town that took his name illustrate the mingling of former adversaries in the frontier communities of the postwar South.
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Related people
- · Lilburn Howard Colley
- · Martha Sabrina Colley
- · Walter G. Couch
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