Hopkins Co., TX - Obit - Levi I. Mercer, 1925
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MERCER, LEVI  I. - Cumby, Hopkins Co., Texas - Dec. 19, 1925 - Levi I. Mercer,
who died in Dallas from effects of injuries in an automobile accident there,
was buried here. Mr. Mercer was born in Minnesota, Jan. 26, 1862, coming to
Texas with his parents in 1871. On the trip down the Mississippi from St.
Louis, they traveled to new Orleans on the Robert E. Lee, which had just the
year before made the race with the Natchez from New Orleans to St. Louis. The
father of Mr. Mercer and the captain of the Robert E. Lee had been boyhood
chums. His parents located in Hunt County, but soon moved into Hopkins, where
the younger Mercer resided nearly fifty years. He taught school at Miller
Grove, moving to this place in 1892, where for many years he conducted a fire
insurance agency. He was also connected with a retail grocery business here
for several years and along about 1898 served a term in the Legislature from
this county. (Dallas Morning News, Dec. 20, 1925)