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Jacob Washington Bogan died at the age of 99
years and 5 months. He was buried in the Mineola
Cemetery.
Henry Shadrack and Amanda Hoss Bogan came to
Mineola in 1884 to live with their son, Jacob
Washington Bogan. Mr. Bogan was born 17 August
1822 in Gwinnett County, Georgia. He was an officer in
the Civil War, serving the Confederacy in Company C,
Sixth Georgia Regiment of the Cavalry.
Henry S. and Amanda Bogan were parents of
eleven children. They moved to Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma in 1906.
Source: Clara Bogan Bunn
JOHN M. BOYD, born 4 June 1827 in Tennessee
came to Wood County circa 1850. He married Sarah J.
Ellege born 27 November 1833 in Alabama. They were
married by Peter M. Gunstream of the Holly Spring
Community on 6 March 1851. Several children were
born to this couple; two sons and two daughters are
listed in the 1880 census.
John Boyd was elected sheriff of Wood County in
1858. He served one term and was succeeded by W. M.
McCord. In 1862, he was re-elected and served two
terms.
John M. and Sarah Ellege Boyd and some of their
descendants were buried in the Shady Grove
Cemetery.
I. G. BROMBERG born 1852 in Provinee Rosen,
Prussia came to America in 1869 and to Wood County
in 1875. Bromberg had $600.00 to invest and he settled
in the small village of Mineola to start a grocery
business. He sold groceries for a short time then mov-
ing north to present Johnson Street Bromberg enlarged
his establishment to include general merchandise. Still
later, he erected a two story building on the corner of
Broad and Johnson where he carried a varied assort-
ment of merchandise. For a long period of years
Bromberg's was considered one of the best stores in the
county.
A son, Louis Nathaniel, was born in Mineola circa
1884 and attended the local school. At the age of 15 he
passed the entrance examination to the University of
Texas and by 1905 held two degrees and a Phi BetaKappa key. He took a job in his father's store at $9 per
week. He later became manager, after his father movedto Dallas and bought an interest in E. M. Kahn's
Department Store. "Louie" Bromberg became presi-
dent of E. M. Kahn's and held that position many
years before his death.
I. G. Bromberg petitioned for citizenship in 1887.
W. M. Giles signed the petition; it was granted by
Judge C. W. Raines of Wood County. Bromberg was
among the more civic-minded men of Mineola and at
his death left a substantial amount of money toward
the building of a new school in the town.
Source: Court Records Wood County
Democrat, 1908 Edition
JAMES BURRELL BROWN and his family
arrived in Wood County in 1869. He was born 2 October
1837 in Meridian, Mississippi and was married to
Cynthia G. Stephens 6 December 1855.
During the Civil War, James B. Brown served as
private in Company F, 2nd Regiment of the Mississippi
Cavalry. In 1869, the Brown family came with the Eli-
jah W. Lacys and others to Wood County in wagons,
settling near Winnsboro. Elijah Lacy was killed in 1870
while assisting the Wood County sheriff in the capture
of a fugitive.
The children of James B. and Cynthia Stephens
Brown were David E., Burwell James, William Oliver,
John Rufus, Albartus J., Nancy Narissa, Phelix
Willard, Susan A., Mary Alice, and Henry Isham.
John Rufus Brown married Sarah Elizabeth Lacy,
daughter of Elijah W. and Jane E. Lacy 15 November
1882. Their children were William Franklin, Lucy Ivey,
Nezzie Leola, and Jay Albartus. All were born in the
Sharon Community in the 1880's.
James Burwell Brown died in 1908 and was buried
in the Ebenezer Cemetery. Cynthia Stephens Brown
died in 1876 and was buried in Sharon Cemetery.
Source: Fern Woodson Barta
JAMES NOONAN BROWN, born 1812 in
Cuthbert, Georgia, came to Wood County in 1852. He
was a son of John Thompson and Nancy Camp Brown,
and a grandson of "Red Deer", daughter of a CherokeeIndian Chief, and John Brown of South Carolina.
Shortly after his birth, John Noonan moved with68
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