Cole, Calvin G.

Calvin Green and Elvira Ann Reeder Cole
From Proud Heritage, Vol 1 by DCPA. This 300 page hardcover book is available online.

Calvin Green Cole was the first child of John Cole born 1795, and Polly McDonald Cole born 1794. He was born June 16, 1816 in Tennessee and probably in Sumner County. When he was thirteen years old the family moved to Crawford County, Arkansas. They later moved to Washington County where Calvin, his father, and his brother, James, all had applied for and received an Entry Certificate for land.

Calvin Cole married Elvira Ann Reeder; their first four children were born on that land in Arkansas. They were: Green A. Cole born 1839, John C. born 1840, Tennessee C. born 1842, and Emily born 1844.

Sometime in 1844 the Calvin Cole family followed the rest of the John Cole family to Texas. Six more children were born in the
area in which John Cole had settled: Mary Ellen born December 5, 1845, James born 1847, Albert born 1849, Sarah E. born 1851, William Preston born August 8, 1852, and Minerva Ann born 1855.

Calvin Cole received through the Peters Colony Company a 640 acre land grant that had been surveyed in three parts. Two of
these, totaling 534 acres, were adjacent, being outlined today by Lovers Lane, Inwood, Mockingbird, and Lemmon. The balance of 106 acres was along the north side of the old channel of the Trinity River a short distance upstream from where Turtle Creek joined it.

Like his father, he bought land from William Grigsby. He bought 320 acres on both sides of Turtle Creek. It was a strip a half mile wide and a mile long. The mile long way of it would have a present-day center line of Lemmon Avenue. It would run from just east of Turtle Creek to near Craddock Park. It was on this land that he made his home at a point that was closest to his river bottom land. The house was located on the road out to Cedar Springs about where the Cipango Club (now the Mansion) was located many years later.

Calvin Green Cole died November 25, 1854. It is not known where he is buried.