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Thomas B. Maddox was born in Virginia on August 31,
1828. His wife was Betty Litton
Maddox. Westward migration brought the
family from Virginia to Kentucky, where George B. was born on
November 4, 1853. At the age of four, he
moved with his parents to Missouri,
where a daughter, Sallie, was born.
Betty died in Calloway County,
Missouri.
By the early 1870’s, the father
with his daughter, Sallie, and twenty one year old son, George B., had
established a residence in the Bedford area of Tarrant County, Texas. Soon, Thomas bought one hundred and thirty
acres of farm land north west of the point where the Cotton Belt Railway
overpasses present day Highway 377.
Though a farmer at heart, Thomas B.
Maddox found opportunities to fill his political ambitions. He served three terms as Commissioner of
Tarrant County during which time the county seat was moved from Birdville to Fort Worth. He also served in the Twenty-Third State
Legislature of Texas in 1890.
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