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- written by: Janice Mauldin Castleman
5841 Waterworks Rd.
Midlothian, TX 76065
972 723-6132
castle96@flash.net
Emma grew up on a farm in Cottonwood, TX. She was the post mistriss in Rosser, TX for many years, beginning Nov. 3, 1944. The town of Rosser
began as the town of Trinidad in 1841. It was without postal service
from 1866 till June of 1886. Emma was intelligent, strong, and had a good sense of humor. She enjoyed quilting, sewing, and outdoors activities. She was divorced from her husband for many years, lived in Ennis and Dallas, before her death.
Notes for LEWIS MARSHALL FISHER:
When he was 26 years old, he married his first wife, but the tragic
deaths of his wife and new baby changed the course of his life. Lewis
owned a farm and worked as a barber during his first years married to
Emma Cochran.
During WWII, at about 60 years of age, Lewis did work similiar to a
merchant marine, working for the War Department, serving out of
Galveston, TX., as a deck hand on the Dredge "Manhattan". Lewis lived a
few years in DeQueen, Arkansas, where he worked as a farm hand around
1948.
In the 1950's, Lewis moved in with the Mauldin family in Dallas, and
lived with my family until he became ill and had to move to a nursing home. In all the years that I knew him, Grandpaw Lewis was a fun loving, but sometimes serious, man who loved to read, especially westerns. He always loved the old radio shows, variety and music. I learned to enjoy gospel music from listening to his radio with him. Many days when Ann and I would come home from school, he would pop us corn and visit with us. He told of coming to Texas from Illinois, and how difficult it was crossing the Red River in covered wagons. Lewis took Ann and I on a roller-coster ride when he was in his 70's, and he enjoyed it more than
we did. We also went with him to live music shows in the band shell at
Fair Park.
Shown on a work badge in old family files dated 1945, Cactus Ordinance Works, a Chemical Corp. for Brown & Root Inc. the following: a thumb
print, date of birth, 5'8" tall, 135 pounds, gray hair, blue eyes. As he
grew older and his hair whiter, he always wore his hair in a burr cut.
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