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WHEREAS, John Robert Logan Sr.and Laura Logan moved to Texas around 1884 from Springfield,
Kentucky. By 1896, he lived in Quakertown, Denton's thriving middle-class black
community. The year the Denton County courthouse was built marks the first
documented account of the Logan lineage in Denton,Texas.With the birth of Lloyd D.
Logan Sr.;and
WHEREAS, still today, 128 years later, the richness of our ancestry permeates throughout the city
of Denton;and
WHEREAS, we're embracing and honoring our past to shape the continued progress of our future as
our path has been laced with grace and abounds in unbreakable faith;and
WHEREAS, the Logan family will hold their Annual Family Reunion on Saturday,August 03,2024
at Quakertown Park in Denton, TX as we're going back to where it all began.
NOW,THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me as Mayor of the City of Denton, on behalf of the
City Council and all citizens hereof, I, Gerard Hudspeth, Mayor of the City of Denton,
Texas,do hereby declare and proclaim the 3rd day of August 2024 as
"LOGAN FAMILY DAY"
in the City of Denton.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF,I have hereunto set my hand and caused the
official sea]of the City of Denton,Texas to be affixed this the 3rd day of
August 2024,
GERARD HUDSPETH,MAYOR
ATTEST:
LAUREN THODEN,CITY SECRETARY