Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries




Tribute of Respect

Mr. Abe Robertson died at his home near Mills, on Thursday night, Feb. 25, 
1897. While returning home from Mexia on Wednesday the 23rd, the deceased in
some way fell out of his wagon which passed over his bowels, and being heavily
loaded produced injuries so serious that in spite of all the loving hands of
his children, friends, and the aid of two skillful physicians, could do, death
only released him from pain.

Mr. Robertson (familiarly known as "Tex") was born in Bowie County, Tex., Aug.
27th, 1842; then quite young his parents moved to Upshur county, from there to 
Freestone county, settling near Fairfield. In 1861 he enlisted as a soldier, and
while he never wore any honors, none that ever wore the "gray" carried a truer
heart or was more loyal to the "Lost Cause".  Shortly after the war he married
Miss Eva Dunbar. After fifteen years of wedded life, his wife died, leaving him
with five children, (the youngest two years old) all of whom are still living
besides a sister, brother, and a host of relatives and friends.
 
We might dwell upon his later years, out let this suffice. On several occassions
before his death he remarked, "I am proud of my children".  That seemed to be 
his sole desire, to live for his children. Then the time came several times he
said, "I am not afraid to go, but would life to have lived to have seen my baby
older."

Surely! Oh, surely! somewhere in the "mystic hereafter" there will be a meeting
with father and mother, never more to say farewell, no more partings, but with
our "One Father" sing his praises forevermore.
  
Ones that loved him.  X.