Freestone County, Texas
Biographies 



Biography of Cecil Storey 
    (Dec 21, 1884-?, burial unknown)
    
A History of Texas and Texans, VOLUME 4
By Frank White Johnson, Eugene Campbell Barker, Ernest William Winkler
Published by American Historical Society, 1914

Page 1853

CECIL STOREY. A young attorney who is rapidly making a name for himself in 
northwest Texas, Cecil Storey has been in practice at Vernon since 1909, and
besides his important relations with his profession in that section, he is also 
prominent in politics. He belongs to one of the old Texas families, and has 
worthily lived up to the traditions and standards of both the old and the new 
generations of Texans.

Cecil Storey was born in Freestone county, Texas, December 21, 1884. His 
parents are William F. and Arabella Josephine (Johnson) Storey. The paternal 
grandparents were Captain J. W. and Anginetta (Wills) Storey. Captain Storey 
made a record during the Civil war as a Confederate officer, and was one of the 
pioneers of Freestone county. He died in 1900 at the age of seventy-four. His
wife was brought to Texas as a child, and her family, the Wills, were among the
first to make homes in the wilderness of Freestone county. Dr. J. R. and 
Amarilla Johnson, the maternal grandparents, were likewise among the older 
settlers. Dr. Johnson practiced medicine in this state for fifty years, and 
died in 1897 at the age of seventy-seven. His wife is still living, making her
home with her daughter in Freestone county. William F. Storey, the father of 
Cecil, was born in Texas in Freestone county, graduated from the Agricultural
and Mechanical College, and became an important factor in the political life of
Freestone county. He served as county clerk for a number of years, and 
afterwards engaged in banking at Fairfield. He is still a well known banker in 
that part of the state and is now fifty-two years of age. The mother who was 
born in South Carolina, came to Texas as a child of eight years, and was 
educated and married in Limestone county. She is now fifty years of age. There
were six sons and two daughters in the family, of whom Cecil was the third.

As a boy he attended public school in Freestone county until the fall of 1905. 
For two terms he was a student of shorthand and commercial arts in the 
Metropolitan Business College at Dallas, and stood at the head of his class in 
that work. In 1906 he entered the University of Texas, and was graduated in the
law department in June 1909. In the July following he established his office at 
Vernon, and has since been in active practice in that city. On locating at 
Vernon he became associated with Hon. R. W. Hall. When Mr. Hall was appointed 
on the Court of Appeals, at Amarillo, Texas, Mr. Storey succeeded to a large 
part of his practice, and now conducts a general and large corporation business,
representing locally two railroads. In politics he is serving his second term 
as chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of Wilbarger county, is also 
on his second term as chairman of the Thirteenth Congressional District 
Committee, and is chairman of the Seventh Supreme Judicial District Committee.
As to his political affiliation it is needless to say that he is a Democrat. 
Fraternally Mr. Storey's associations are with the Knights of Pythias, the 
Modern Woodmen of America, and the Masonic Order.

In Fort Worth, Texas, May 9, 1912, occurred the marriage of Mr. Storey to Miss 
Fannie T. Boger, a daughter of A. T. and Mattie (Fly) Boger. Her parents were
both born in Georgia, and her mother taught the first school in Vernon. Mr. 
Storey, though he started out as a boy on his efforts has succeeded in 
establishing himself firmly in professional and civic affairs, and is regarded 
as one of the coming leaders of the bar in Northwest Texas. He is fond of 
outdoor life and during his college career and since has taken much interest in
athletic sports.