Submitted by Rev. Willie Rainwater. 

You are Invited to a Historical Land Mark Ceremony Ribbon Cutting
Black Pioneer Founder Families of the 1800’s

June 19, 10:30am Celebration at Mary Heads Carter Park
2320 Heads Lane – History, Music, Fun, Food!

Poems, songs, Honoring Black Pioneers, Celebration of Diversity, call for Equality,
Commemoration of the End of Slavery on Juneteenth 1865 and Acknowledging the History of the Struggle for Civil Rights

Rufus H. Heads, a Black American, was born in January 1853 in Texas they married in 1877, in Dallas, Carrollton Texas to Betty Holmes. Was born in November 1853 in Missouri and in late 1877 they built a simple frame house here on this property, now called Mary Heads Carter Park and Kids Corral.

The Heads had four children who grew to adulthood. The Heads donated land for the - First Black School – Heads Park. When the Heads property was divided in 1910, one son, Walter Heads received this portion of land.

To 1939 after Walter Heads death, Annie Heads Rainwater received this portion of the family homestead. Annie and Charlie Wash Rainwater had six children who grew up to adulthood (1990) occupied as residence until she joined her first cousin.

Mary Heads was born in 1906 in Carrollton, Texas. Mary Heads was a teacher back in the 1930’s in Addison Texas for over 30 years. In 1990, they gave the old Homestead Place to the City of Carrollton to use as a park in Mary Heads Carters name.

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Submitted by Rev. Willie Rainwater. For questions, contact Rev. Willie Rainwater at leerainwater@tx.rr.com.