John C. Teas and E. Y. Teas began Teas Nursery in 1843 in Raysville, Indiana. John C. and E. Y. Teas were founding members of the Indiana Pomological Society (later called Indiana Horticultural Society). In 1868, John C. Teas brought Teas Nursery to Carthage, Missouri, and there developed the “Teas Weeping Mulberry,” the white flowering redbud, and several varieties of the catalpa tree. His son Edward J. (Papa) Teas was born in 1870. Read More