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Thomas Alexander Williams

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Thomas Alexander Williams, a Civil War veteran who served in the Confederate Cavalry, brought his family from Greene County, Alabama, and settled on this spot in 1874. He gave this acre of his farm as the building site for the first Garden Valley school, erected about 1875. A town grew up around the school that was later called Nash, Texas.
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