Ellis County Texas Archives Obituaries.....Roe, Allen Gordon January 25, 1935
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The News
County Pioneer Farmer, Is Dead
Sardis Man Dies Eight Days After Celebrating 90th Birthday

Special to The News
WAXAHACHIE, Texas, Jan. 26—Funeral services for Allen Roe Sr., 90, one of Ellis
County's best-known pioneers, who died at the family home in Sardis, were held
at the Sardis Methodist Church Saturday afternoon, followed by burial in Sardis
Cemetery. Mr. Roe had been ill since his ninetieth birthday, celebrated eight
days ago. Born in Kentucky, he came to Texas with an uncle and settled on a farm
near Ovilla. When 16 he enlisted in the Confederate Army and was a member of
Parson's Brigade and the Nineteenth Texas Infantry.
     After the close of the war, Mr. Roe married Miss Sally Pogue of Ellis
County. Part of the home which he built that year is still standing. Hauled by
oxwagon, the lumber came from East Texas.
     The Ellis County pioneer remembered when there was no house but his between
Waxahachie and Mansfield. A large section of that part of the country was black
prairie over which roamed thousands of wild horses, cattle and game.
     Until three years ago, Mr. Roe was active in the cultivation of his farm
and was able to read without glasses until about two years ago. On his
eighty-fourth birthday he built a brick chimney for the house in which he has
lived for sixty-five years.
     The first Mrs. Roe died in 1879. Surviving children of this union are Frank
Roe, Mrs. Laura Seagroves and Miss Estelle Roe, all of Los Angeles, Cal.; Mrs.
Lula Fowler, Mansfield; Mrs. Gertrude Putnam, Forth Worth, and Mrs. Sadie
Cavender, Denver, Colo.
     In 1894 Mr. Roe married Miss Emma Josephine Sullivan of Memphis, Tenn.
Children by this marriage are Ewell T. Roe and Mrs. Ora Kelly, Waxahachie; Mrs.
Louis Green, Forth worth; Mrs. Nettie Bennett, Midland; the Rev. Allen Roe,
Austin, and Grady Roe, who lives on the homestead.
     The Rev. J. L. Ray, Methodist circuit pastor, and E. R. Patterson, pastor
at Bethel, officiated at the funeral.

Additional Comments:
I don't know what publication this came from. It was sent to me by Ann T. Smith
Data Management Editor, Handbook of Texas

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