Lee County Texas Archives Photo Group.....Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Mathis 1939
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Keith Mathis ckm001@shsu.edu June 23, 2010, 9:04 pm

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Pictured are Clarence & Clara Lucille "Sit" (Jensen) Mathis on their farm 
located about 10 miles outside of Lexington, sometime around 1938-1940.  
Clarence and "Sit" were married on 30 Sep 1933 in Lee County.  They were hard-
working people who scratched out a living by subsistence farming until it got 
harder to do, and finally moved near the Gulf Coast to Galveston County in 
1944.  There Clarence found work in the petrochemical plants as a painter.  
Clarence died in 1959 after a 30 foot fall from a pipe rack at Monsanto in 
Texas City left him bedridden in 1952. Clara went on to live 62 years in 
Galveston County surrounded by her children and grandchildren, where she 
retired from the Clear Creek School District after 19 years working in the 
cafeteria.  Clara passed away on 31 Jul 2006 at the ripe old age of 92.  Both 
are buried in the Lexington Cemetery.      

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