Exploring the shaded woods around the property.
Enjoying a spring day!
A calf just born!
Snow is rare where we live, but the storm we had in 2004 really changed our landscape for a few days.
The sun sets on the Tejas Registered Longhorn Ranch.
We enjoy watching our numerous Barn Swallows nest and grow.
Our ranch is part of the original homestead settled by W.H. and Betty Pierce in 1888. There are several historic old wood structures, including barns, a house and some wells on the property. The Pierce family originally came from Kentucky. W.H.’s parents, Jacob and Elizabeth Hazel Pierce are buried together in the Everheart Cemetery near the property. W.H. and Betty are buried in Whitewright’s Oak Hill Cemetery. W.H.’s mother Elizabeth Hazel’s sister was the mother of Nancy Hanks, who was the mother of Abraham Lincoln.
—Genealogical research from various sources
Early settlers in this part of Grayson County were attracted to the Whitewright area after the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas (MAT) railroad built a line southeast from Denison to Whitewright. The new town was created and named for William Whitewright (1825-1898), a railroad official and vice-president of Union Trust Company of New York, the railroad's financial backer. A post office was established in 1878, along with numerous homes and businesses. By 1894 Whitewright boasted schools, churches, a newspaper, a college, and community organizations, as well as railroad depots, cotton gins, restaurants, drugstores, grocery stores, wagon yards and livery stables, lumberyards, hardware stores, blacksmith shops, and numerous other businesses.
—Grayson County Texas Public Information Website
There are two creeks on the property. One is the famous Bois d’Arc Creek. As a sizable tributary to the Red River, Bois d'Arc Creek was significant to the early history of Fannin County. Along it the settlement of the county progressed rapidly after the arrival of Daniel Rowlett and six families in early 1836. En route to the Alamo, David Crockett wrote to his family about "Bodark Bayou," the richness of the area, and the possibility that he would settle in the vicinity. Fort Inglish, which provided protection for the early settlers of Fannin County, was located on Bois d'Arc Creek. The stream also provided the original name of the county seat, which was called Bois d'Arc at its establishment in 1843 but renamed Bonham in 1844.
—Handbook of Texas Online
We provide freshly-cut oat hay to our cattle in winter.
Ranch History
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Tejas Registered Longhorn Ranch
Joe and Nancy Demko
P.O. Box 698
Sherman, Texas 75091-0698
Joe and Nancy Demko
P.O. Box 698
Sherman, Texas 75091-