Biography - DZ Springer

Daniel Zack Springer

Mary Susan Burks/Richardson

Daniel Zack Springer was born 6 January 1871 in Lexington, Lauderdale Co., Alabama to Thomas Springer and Francis A. T. "Mary" Lanier. He married Mary Alice Hamm, daughter of Augustas and Mary Ann (Tanner) Hamm 14 September 1890 in Cato, Faulkner Co., AR. They had five children together before Mary died on 25 March 1903 in Cato, Faulkner Co., AR. She is buried at the Cato Cemetery. Daniel returned to Florence Alabama and there remarried on 18 October 1903 to Mary Susan (Burks) Richardson, the daughter of Charles and Priscilla Adaline (Clemmons) Burks, the widow of William Jackson Richardson. Mary had one son, Thomas Lee Richardson, who returned with them to Cato to join the Springer family. Daniel and Mary had five children together. Dan and the family moved to Greenville, Hunt County, Texas to join two of his brothers, Will and Jacob Springer. It was there that their youngest child, Floy, was born. By 1920, they had moved to Oklahoma to purchase cheap farming land but the depression hit and they lost everything. They packed up and moved south to the black dirt country of Navarro County and lived there for several years. After they daughter, Floy died just after childbirth, they took her new born son, Charles David Williams, to raise. Dan and Mary worked on a ranch in Freestone County and appears there in the 1940 census. In 1941 they moved to Farmers Branch, in North Dallas along with several of their now adult children. Charles David William's father, Charles Edward Williams, remarried and came to take take Charles David back to Navarro County but the family doctor convinced him to leave the sick child with his grandmother. He convinced Edward that if he took the child, he would certainly die. Edward died shortly after of Typhoid Fever.

Daniel Z. Springer died at the home of his son Frank Springer. That day, Ernest, Charles, Frank and others had been swimming. Charles David Williams said Dan had walked up and down the bank and was getting along very well. That night he slept with Mary and Charles. Charles said he was sleeping on one side of the bed, Mary in the middle, and Dan on the other side. Sometime during the night, Dan sat up so suddenly that he woke Charles and Mary, then he fell back in the bed dead. This was on September 8. 1946. Dan had requested to be buried back in Navarro County next to his daughter Floy at the Dresden Cemetery. Mary Springer died 28 July 1966 in Irving, Dallas Co., TX. She was laid to rest next to Dan and Floy at the Dresden Cemetery, Dresden, Navarro Co., Texas.

Daniel & Mary Alice (Hamm)
Springer Family

The four children in the photo are:
Standing in back is Belton. In front standing is Anna.
In Alice's lap is Pearl, and on Alice's left is Dora.
(Murphy not born yet)

Cato Cemetery
Cato, Faulkner Co., Arkansas

Children of Daniel Zack & Mary Alice (Hamm) Springer

Name	Born	Died	Spouse
Dora Bell Springer	20 Jul 1892	20 Oct 1908	Joseph Cornileus Richardson
Anna Adline Springer	8 May 1894	6 Apr 1930	Joseph Cornileus Richardson
Pearl Dee Springer	26 Dec 1895	11 Feb 1987	Sylvester Hugh Walden
Belton Daniel Springer	30 Aug 1898	26 Feb 1984	Lola Mae Threlkeld
Murphey Samuel Springer	10 Aug 1901	21 Oct 1979	Stella Mae Jackson

Children of William Jackson Richardson & Mary Susan (Burks) Richardson

Name	Born	Died	Spouse
Thomas Lee Richardson	18 Apr 1898	12 Sep 1977	Anna E. Richardson

Daniel & Mary Susan (Burks) Springer Family - about 1908

Anna, Dora, Pearl

Belton, Daniel Z, Murphy, Murphey, Mary Susan (Burks/Richardson) Thomas Lee Richardson

Frank, Fred

(Earnest, Idell & Floy not born yet)

Children of Dan & Mary Springer

Left to Right: Fred, Frank, Idell, Earnest
Front Row: Ollie Walden (grand daughter) and Floy

Children of Daniel Z. & Mary Susan (Burks\Richardson) Springer

Name	Born	Died	Spouse
Benjamin Frank Springer	25 Feb 1906	9 Dec 1962	Thelma Lois Ray
Fred Redrick Springer	30 Aug 1907	22 Jul 1956	Louie Eleanor Robinson
Earnest Coen Springer	3 Feb 1910	18 Jul 1966	Sarah Kathrine Neal
Florence Idell Springer	29 Nov 1912	23 Jul 1995	Nolan Daniel Forshaw
Floy Springer	16 Mar 1916	9 Sep 1935	Charles Edward Williams

Burial

Dresden Cemetery, Navarro Co., TX

DAN Z. SPRINGER
1871-1946

Dresden Cemetery, Navarro Co., TX

MOTHER
MARY S. SPRINGER
June 16, 1873
July 28, 1966

Obituaries

RITES HELD MONDAY FOR D.Z. SPRINGER OF FARMERS BRANCH
Daniel Zack Springer, aged 75 years. Farmers Branch, died in Dallas Sunday. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Farmers Branch church. Interment was in the Dresden Cemetery with Rev. Archie Williams in charge. Surviving are his wife of Farmers Branch, five sons, Belton, Murphy, Frank and Fred Springer, all of Dallas, and Ernest Springer Farmers Branch; two daughters Mrs. N.D. Forshaw [FORSHAW], Farmers Branch and Mrs Pearl Walton [WALDEN], Dallas; three brothers, Will Springer, Greenville; Matthew and Jimmie Springer both of Little Rock Ark., and other relatives. Corley Funeral Home directed arrangements.

Notes:

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Corsicana Daily Sun; Monday, September 9, 1946

Mrs. Mary Springer
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Susan Springer, 93, of 2526 Richland in Farmers Branch were held Friday in the Maple Lawn Baptist Church of which she was a member. Dr. J. T. Lambert officiated for the rites and burial at Dresden Cemetery in Blooming Grove. Mrs. Springer, who died Thursday morning in an Irving rest home after a lengthy illness was a former resident of Blooming Grove. A native of Florence, Ala., she had lived in Farmers Branch 20 years. Survivors include her son, T. L. Richardson of Florence Ala a daughter, Mrs. M. D. [N.D.] Forshaw of Dallas; two stepsons, B. D. Springer and M. S. Springer, both of Lancaster; a step-daughter, Mrs. S.H. Walden of Dallas; eight grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Census
1900 Faulkner Co., AR ED 32 Sheet: 8 Line 90
1910 Faulkner Co., AR ED 35 Sheet 2 Line 38
1920 Bryan Co., OK ED 33 Sheet 3A Line 12

Other Documents

Death Certificate for Daniel Z. Springer

Death Certificate For Mary Susan Springer

Notes

Submitted by Edward L. Williams