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Clara Belle Williams Franklin
1856 - 1945

Only a few months before leaving town, Clara had managed to get her students settled into a church building that would double as a school for the next eight years. It was the new AME Quinn Chapel, purchased from the white Methodist church in December and subsequently moved to what was then the north end of Austin Avenue. Clara and her father negotiated the deal for a reported $450 (a subsequent report put the amount at $600.)

The newly weds had been in Waco for no more than six months when they decided to return to Denison. In February of 1879 the News reported that Clara was back.

For the next two years George Franklin kept busy working in Denison as a barber, immigration agent, storekeeper, and drayman. There are brief accounts in the newspapers that tell where he worked as a barber, but the two clippings below demonstrate that he was more than just a haircutter.

The return of George and Clara to Denison in early 1879 coincided with her father's move to Sherman.

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