John F. Dale was born January 28,
1829 on a Kentucky
farm. He married Mattie Counts Colley,
his second wife, on a farm near Richmond,
Missouri in about 1853. Mattie was born about 1845 near Richmond, Missouri. She died on a farm near Keller,
Texas and buried in Bourland Cemetery.
The family came to the Keller
Community about the autumn of 1878 by way of covered wagon. They were farmers and of Baptist faith. John E. Dale served in the Civil War in the
Home Guards of Ray County.
John F. and his first wife were the
parents of the following children:
1) Henry P. Dale
2) Isaac Franklin
Dale
3) Thomas Dale
4) Fannie Dale
5) Alice Dale
6) John McClellan
Dale
7) Mattie May Dale
John F. and Mattie Counts Colley
were the parents of:
1) George Monroe
Dale
2) Edward Everett
Dale
John F. Dale died December 1898 and
is buried in Navajo
Cemetery, Jackson County,
Oklahoma.
Information provided by Edward
Everett Dale, October 1966.
