Joseph Frank Drosihn

Joseph Frank Drosihn

• Joseph Frank Drosihn was born on 16 November 1870 in Sachsen.
• Joseph Frank Drosihn arrived circa 1887, from Germany, according to his obituary.
• He married Dorinda Isabell Jones, daughter of Wiley Thomas Jones and Sophrona (?), on 15 November 1898 in Argyle, Denton County, Texas, with Rev. J. R. Atchley officiating.
• Joseph Frank Drosihn and Dorinda Isabell Jones appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Denton County, Texas, living next door to Dorinda's sister Penelope Sullivan, and only a few households away from their parents.. Other members of the household included Samuel Enid Drosihn.
• He was a blacksmith, according to the 1900 census.
• Joseph Frank Drosihn and Dorinda Isabell Jones appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Denton County, Texas. Other members of the household included Samuel Enid Drosihn, Rudolph Purley Drosihn, Frank Drosihn, Cecil Drosihn and Gertrude Dorinda Drosihn.
• He was a self-employed blacksmith, according to the 1910 census.
• Joseph Frank Drosihn and Dorinda Isabell Jones appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Denton County, Texas. Other members of the household included Samuel Enid Drosihn, Rudolph Purley Drosihn, Frank Drosihn, Cecil Drosihn and Gertrude Dorinda Drosihn.
• He was operating a farm, according to the 1920 census.
• Joseph Frank Drosihn died on 29 January 1949 at age 78 in Denton County, Texas.
• He was interred at Old Hall Cemetery, near Lewisville, Denton County, Texas.
• The following appeared on 31 January 1949 in the Dallas Morning News: Funeral services for J. F. Drosihn, 79, Denton County resident sixty years, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Goen Funeral Home in Denton. Burial will be Old Hall Cemtery near Lewisville. He was the father of Mrs. R. L. Shipley and Frank Drosihn, both of Dallas. He died Saturday night in a Denton hospital. Drosihn was born in Germany and came to the United States when he was seventeen. He settled at Lewisville where he was a blacksmith and a farmer. Other survivors are his wife and three sons, R. P. Drosihn of Denton, Cecil Brosihn [sic] of Boyd, Wise County, and F. E. Drosihn [sic] of Memphis, Tenn.

• Last Edited: 30 Dec 2014