FULTON COUNTY, GA - OBITS  E. L. Rasbury

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Edgar L. Rasbury was the son of Mansel Rasbury and his
first wife, Amanda Witcher, daughter of Diskin H.
Witcher and Sarah Brooks.

Lampasas Dispatch, July 17, 1947 

E. L. Rasbury, 88,
pioneer West Texan and former Texas Ranger, died at his
home here at 334 West Concho shortly before 3 o'clock
Sunday afternoon. 

Funeral services were held at 5
o'clock Tuesday afternoon from the Briggs-Gamel Chapel
in Lampasas.  Sons of old friends are to be
pallbearers. Surviving are the widow, the former Emma
Forbes; two children, Mrs. Bertha Luckett, here,and E.
L. Rasbury, Jr. of Shelby, N. C.; three grandchildren,
Mrs. J. R. Hubbard of Austin, Capt. A. E. Luckett of
San Antonio, and E. L. Rasbury III, now a student at
North Carolina University, and great-grandson, A. E.
Luckett, Jr. 

Mr. Rasbury was born at Atlanta, GA., Oct.
9, 1858.  He came to Lampasas as a boy and in 1874 he
was through San Antonio with a group of buffalo
hunters.  Because of his proclivity with the rifle, he
became the camp hunter and a group of 12 or more other
men did the skinning.  Often Mr. Rasbury's rifle
accounted for as many ar 25 to 40 head of buffalo in a
day. When he returned here in 1878, however, he saw
only one lone buffalo. He joined the Texas Rangers in
1885 and was stationed for a few months at Big Springs.
On becoming ill there, he was forced to return to
Lampasas. He had been a resident of Texas since 1872.
He became a member of Hidkes Brothers, Lampasas, at the
time the firm was organized, remaining there until 1904
when he sold his interest to his cousins, C. B. and M.
Y. Stokes. He then moved to Ballinger where he joined
his brother-in-law, R. W. Bruce, in organizing the
wholesale grocery firm of Rasbury and Bruce.  They sold
this business a few years later to the Radford Grocery
Company.  and Mr. Rasbury engaged in the buying and
selling of cotton on a large scale.  He was director of
the First National Bank at Ballinger for a period of 10
years or more. For the last several years, Mr. Rasbury
had been partially paralyzed  He had resided here 18
years. Arrangements here are in charge of the Johnson
Funeral Home.  (Courtesy of Ima Jean Brooks, Lampasas.)