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Enos Truss

19 Jan 1836 – 28 Jul 1875

Birth	19 Jan 1836
Death	28 Jul 1875
Cemetery	Long Creek Cemetery Sunnyvale , Dallas County , Texas , USA
Added by	Ed Elam on 18 Aug 2008
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13026384

Bio

Enos served as Private, Company A, 10th Regiment, Alabama Infantry in the Confederate States Army. He spent 21 months in a Federal Army (Union) prison camp. After the war, about 1868, he and his parents loaded their belongings in four wagons drawn by horses and oxen, seated the women and children in them, and headed west. As soon as they reached Dallas County, Enos rented a farm at New Hope for a year. He then bought 336 acres near Rose Hill and moved there. He freighted his cotton crop overland to Jefferson and the waiting river steamers during his first years in Dallas County. After he died, his widow and children moved to Mesquite. A family story concerning the "Great Mesquite Train Robbery" of 10 April 1878. Members of the gang with Sam Bass, after robbing the west bound Texas and Pacific, came to their house and spent the night. Versions of the story conflict in whether they were prisoners or "guests" in the custom of the day to lodge and feed whomever came for the night. Bio compiled from information provided by Diane Miller, Melba Lambert Straigis and Marilyn Kosanke.

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Family

Parents

• Rev James Truss 1799–1882
• Priscilla Dulaney Truss 1799–1879

Spouse

• Mary Elizabeth Courson Truss 1840–1924

Siblings

• Marilda Truss Lambert 1823–1900
• Nancy Amanda Truss Smith 1830–?

Children

• Eleanor Jane Truss Hatter 1860–1941
• Joseph Lemuel "Joe" Truss 1866–1925
• Mary Priscilla Truss Lechner 1868–1958
• Julia Sibretta "Syble" Truss Kirkland 1870–1960
• Martha Truss Duckworth 1873–1907
• Eva Alice Truss 1875–1892

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