Paine Bush, son of Fanny White and Tandy Bush, was born in Salado and graduated from Thomas Arnold High School and the University of Texas Law School. He moved to Dallas in 1918, where he reared his family and enjoyed an outstanding legal career, retiring in 1972 as Presiding Judge of 8 Dallas District Courts. He remained devoted throughout his life to his birthplace and the site of his early schooling. In 1954, he led his Salado colleagues in organizing Chapter 22 of the Sons of the Republic of Texas. At the 1938 Salado Reunion honoring Salado College and Thomas Arnold High School, he proposed a Memorial Association, and 35 years later, in his declining years, he charged the 1973 Robertson Colony-Salado College Foundation with responsibility to develop the 8-acre College Hill area as a public park in memory of pioneer Texans. The park possibilities inspired Alice Robertson Sneed West, Liz Sutherland Carpenter, and others, who passed the torch to the 2011 Robertson Colony-Salado College Foundation, community leaders whose service links them in spirit and tradition with Paine Bush, a trustee whose vision continued to guide its goals. Judge Bush is buried in Dallas Laurel Land Cemetery, and earlier Bush family members were among the first buried in the Old Salado Graveyard.