Young Street
Rev. William C. Young was appointed Missionary Chaplain for the Arkansas Confederate Cavalry in 1865. He was a prominent Methodist minister in Dallas. He was active in neo-Confederate groups and was part of the overthrow of the multi-racial democracy of Reconstruction.
Marilla Street is named after Rev. W.C. Young's mother. Young also named the streets Cadiz, Canton, and Evergreen after towns related to his family history.
The following are articles on Marilla and Young. I strongly recommend the seventeen page article which gives you an indepth background of the various streets named by Young and tells you of the horrific Ed Johnson lynching in Tennessee and the Dallas neo-Confederate campaign to have a sheriff there which colluded in his lynching pardoned.
Marilla Street is named after Rev. W.C. Young's mother. Young also named the streets Cadiz, Canton, and Evergreen after towns related to his family history.
The following are articles on Marilla and Young. I strongly recommend the seventeen page article which gives you an indepth background of the various streets named by Young and tells you of the horrific Ed Johnson lynching in Tennessee and the Dallas neo-Confederate campaign to have a sheriff there which colluded in his lynching pardoned.
This is the short two page article.
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This is the deep dive article. It gives you a lot of background.
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