Recer
Confederate Vet Served with Collin County Company
Thomas F. Recer, a Confederate of the Climax community was in McKinney Friday. He had been to the old Confederate reunion is Dallas. Mr. Recer is in his eightieth year. He enlisted in Company E, Col. Mm. Fitzhugh's regiment, in Farmersville in 1862 and served three years thereafter. He spent most of his time as brigade butcher. Mr. Recer is a native of Tennessee, but when a child came to Texas with his parents long before the war. His father, the late Abe Recer, settled near where Mr. Recer is now living.
Abe Recer built a toll bridge across Sister Grove creek soon after the war which was the first bridge that spanned that stream between McKinney and Farmersville. Abe Recer later bought the farm now known as the Armp Mallow farm two miles northeast of the McKinney courthouse on which John and Ben Mallow and families reside.
Since the death of Mr. Recer's wife, he is making his home with his widowed daughter Mrs. C. C. Murphy, three miles northeast of Climax. Mr. Recer is a very familiar figure on McKinney streets and is known and respected by all the older citizens of our town and surrounding community. Daily Courier Gazette
Thomas F. Recer, a Confederate of the Climax community was in McKinney Friday. He had been to the old Confederate reunion is Dallas. Mr. Recer is in his eightieth year. He enlisted in Company E, Col. Mm. Fitzhugh's regiment, in Farmersville in 1862 and served three years thereafter. He spent most of his time as brigade butcher. Mr. Recer is a native of Tennessee, but when a child came to Texas with his parents long before the war. His father, the late Abe Recer, settled near where Mr. Recer is now living.
Abe Recer built a toll bridge across Sister Grove creek soon after the war which was the first bridge that spanned that stream between McKinney and Farmersville. Abe Recer later bought the farm now known as the Armp Mallow farm two miles northeast of the McKinney courthouse on which John and Ben Mallow and families reside.
Since the death of Mr. Recer's wife, he is making his home with his widowed daughter Mrs. C. C. Murphy, three miles northeast of Climax. Mr. Recer is a very familiar figure on McKinney streets and is known and respected by all the older citizens of our town and surrounding community. Daily Courier Gazette
Mrs. Recer Died Suddenly Here Friday Evening
Mrs. Lillie Oma Recer, 54, a native of Collin County, died suddenly at 8:50p.m. Friday at her home, 215 Andrews Street from a stroke of paralysis.
Lillie Oma Thomapson Recer was born May 15, 1892, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Thomapson. She married Allie Otis Recer in 1926 and she was a member of the Pleasant rove Methodist Church. She had made her home in McKinney the past 11 years.
Surviving the deceased besides the husband, A. C. (Bud) Recer, and one son, Houston Howard, who lives east of McKinney, are two sisters, Mrs. R. T. Taylor of Oklahoma City and Mrs. H. J. Rawlings of White Deer; two grandchildren, Shirley Ann and Billy Wayne Howard and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers and three sisters.
Funeral services are to be held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon in the chapel of the Harris Funeral Home here with interment following in Pecan Grove Cemetery. Rev. J. R. Hilger of Greenville will officiate and Fred Denton, Tommie Sjoemake, Jack Brown, Walter Yargrough, Leonard Partain and Roy Howard will act as pallbearers.
Mrs. Lillie Oma Recer, 54, a native of Collin County, died suddenly at 8:50p.m. Friday at her home, 215 Andrews Street from a stroke of paralysis.
Lillie Oma Thomapson Recer was born May 15, 1892, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Thomapson. She married Allie Otis Recer in 1926 and she was a member of the Pleasant rove Methodist Church. She had made her home in McKinney the past 11 years.
Surviving the deceased besides the husband, A. C. (Bud) Recer, and one son, Houston Howard, who lives east of McKinney, are two sisters, Mrs. R. T. Taylor of Oklahoma City and Mrs. H. J. Rawlings of White Deer; two grandchildren, Shirley Ann and Billy Wayne Howard and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers and three sisters.
Funeral services are to be held at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon in the chapel of the Harris Funeral Home here with interment following in Pecan Grove Cemetery. Rev. J. R. Hilger of Greenville will officiate and Fred Denton, Tommie Sjoemake, Jack Brown, Walter Yargrough, Leonard Partain and Roy Howard will act as pallbearers.
