Perry Heights Home of Oak Lawn Pioneer

Llora Cullum Pierce moved into this home at 4322 Hall Street in 1924 when she was 59, with her three children after her husband died after two years of ill health in 1923. Her husband was Rev. John Foster Pierce who taught at Southern Methodist University since 1920 after preaching all across Texas in various …

Edward Gordon Perry, Sr.

Edward Gordon Perry grew up in a little town called Woodville, Tennessee, about two hours east of Memphis.  As a young man in 1908, he moved to El Paso and was the first businessman in El Paso to begin selling Fords in 1912 (the model T type) along with his brother-in-law.  Three years later he …