Hopkins Co. TX - Obit for Jesse Augustus Rasure

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JESSE AUGUSTUS RASURE, age 72, who for the past 36 years served as
postmaster of Dike, died at the family home Thursday night. Mr. Rasure
was a most efficient postmaster. Dike is a fourth-class post office and
comes under the Civil Service law in naming a postmaster, which calls for
an examination with the appointment going to one of the three making the
highest grade on examination. Curtis Hamby has been acting postmaster
during Mr. Rasure^Òs illness and will continue to act till a new
postmaster is named. There is no salary attached to the Dike postmaster
whose salary depends on the business done in the office and estimated to
be around $40.00 a month. He was born in Warrick County, near Boonville,
Indiana, Nov. 26, 1866. He was the eldest child of three by the second
marriage of George and Mary Ford Floyd Rasure, and only two of these
children grew to maturity, he and his brother, Charlie. Mr. Jesse^Òs
mother first married Mr. Floyd by whom one child came, Arzella, first
wife of R. Boon Leewright, mother of Lillie. His father by a former
marriage had William, John L., Aunt Mary Hall, and Aunt Sarah Leewright,
Boon Leewright^Òs second wife and mother to Elmer, Pine, and Ora. Mr.
Jesse was related to the Rhodes, the Hurleys, and the Argenbrights in
this way - Henry Hurley of Pleasant Grove, deceased, was half-brother to
Jasper Rhodes. The mother, Katharine Rasure Rhodes, was the first cousin
to George Rasure, father of Jesse A. Rasure. She first married Lewis
Hurley and they were the parents of Henry. After the death of the father,
she was married to George Rhodes, and they had Jasper, Elizabeth (Mrs.
Argenbright Grisby,) and others. Mrs. Joe McCormack (Elizabeth) was a
sister to Katherine Rasure Rhodes and first cousin to Uncle George
Rasure. Mr. Jesse came to Texas first in 1892, lived for a while in the
home of T. A. Welch at Nelta. He returned to his native state and was
married first to Mary Perigo. She lived only about nine months after
marriage and was taken to her reward by death. They had no offsprings. He
later came back to Texas and lived for a while with his sister, Mrs. Boon
Leewright and family. About seven years after his first marriage he was
joined in wedlock to Miss Mattie Wilburn, Jan. 25, 1903. To this union
three children came to bless their home, Bernice, born Dec. 18, 1903;
Velma, born Feb. 21, 1905; and Arvie, born May 19, 1910. Survivors
include his widow, two daughters, Mrs. M. E. Dunn of Dallas, and Bernice
Rasure of Abilene, and one son, Arvie Rasure of Magnolia, Arkansas. He
was united with the Church of Christ in the summer of 1902, was converted
under the ministry of John S. Denton at Nelta and was baptized in the gin
pool. Mr. Rasure died March 2, 1939, at his home. Funeral services
conducted at the Church of Christ by Rev. J. W. Pigg at Dike with burial
in the Connor graveyard. (Daily-News Telegram)