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Judge Robert Anderson Cole Jr

30 Mar 1857 – 28 Dec 1929

Birth30 Mar 1857
Death28 Dec 1929
CemeteryCrowell Cemetery
Crowell , Foard County , Texas , USA
Added byDelma Ingram on 26 Oct 2006
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District Judge Bk.1-P115

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son of Robert Anderson Cole - Minerva Stith Frances Emily Lockhart married Robert Cole on 16 February 1882 in Stephens County, Texas. Attorney ~ COLE, Judge ROBERT Judge Robert Cole holds and merits a place among the representative legal practitioners and citizens of Crowell in Foard County, Texas, an eminent jurist, an able judge, and an honored pioneer. He was born in Panola County, Mississippi, but came when a boy with his parents to Texas in 1869, landing in the city of Galveston, while later they located in Grimes County. Dr. R. A. Cole, the judge's father, died at Rockport, this state, in 1907. He had been a surgeon in the Confederate army during the war, and he was a practicing physician during many years. Judge Cole was reared in Grimes County, but before he became of age he left home and came to the then frontier of Texas, locating in 1876 at Breckenridge, in Stephens county. Fort Griffin, the noted frontier post of those days, was located in that county. The young lad worked with cattle outfits for a time, but that occupation not proving congenial he began the study of law and as soon as the opportunity offered he completed his legal studies under the Hon. T. B. Wheeler, ex-lieutenant governor of Texas, at that time a resident of Breckenridge but now living in Arkansas Pass. Robert Cole was admitted to the bar in February of 1880, and he came to what is now Foard County, then a part of Hardeman County, in 1885, and this county has remained his home ever since and he is numbered among its well-known and honored pioneers. This community at that time was given up almost entirely to large cattle ranges, and only a few widely scattered settlers were then farming the land. Mr. Cole, however, turned his attention to farming, twelve miles east of the present town of Crowell, on Paradise creek, and he remained there until 1892. The county of Foard had been organized in 1891, and the town of Crowell, its county seat, founded in the same year, and there its future judge located to begin his law practice. He was elected the judge of Foard County sometime after this, and he filled that office for four years, and for some time he also served as the county attorney by appointment of the county commissioners. Judge Cole is a successful lawyer and thoroughly familiar with conditions in Foard County and this section of the state. He is also a member of the firm of Massengill and Cole, real estate dealers. Judge Cole married Fannie Lockhart in Stephens County in 1881, but he has recently suffered the loss of this companion, her death occurring in 1908 while on a visit to her old home. There are six children in his family: Grover, Crutcher, Kinlock, Warwick, Robbie and Lottie. Judge Cole is a Mason, an Odd Fellow, a Knight of Pythias and a member of the Christian church. Source: A History of Central and Western Texas, Vol 1, Captain B. B. Paddock, The Lewis Publishing Company, New York, 1911

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Judge Robert Cole Mar 30, 1857- Dec 28,1929

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