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Samuel Lafayett Hassell
1 May 1872 – 16 May 1920
| Birth | 1 May 1872 |
| Death | 16 May 1920 |
| Cemetery | Greenwood Memorial Park and Mausoleum Fort Worth , Tarrant County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Debbie Gibbons on 01 Oct 2011 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77115651 |
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Son of Samuel Lafayette Hassell and Nancy Winn Powell. Husband of Alice Leona Pylant ******** HASSELL, SAMUEL LAFAYETTE A leader in business circles in Fort Worth, Samuel Lafayette Hassell has been a resident of this city for a considerable period, and is identified with numerous enterprises of importance in the place. He is president of the Hassell Drug Company, Incorporated, that industry occupying his chief attention. Mr. Hassell is a native son of Alabama, born in Tuscaloosa, that state, on May 1, 1872, and his parents are S. L. and Nannie Winn (Powell) Hassell, both of Alabama. Mr. Hassell as a boy attended the schools of Tuscaloosa, and when he had finished his high school there he entered the employ of a drug- firm at Atlanta, Georgia, where he remained five years. He came to Fort Worth in 1893 and followed ranching for five years. He then took the examination of pharmacy at Dallas, which he successfully passed, and coming to Fort Worth, entered the employ of D. C. Weaver and remained until the death of Mr. Weaver, a period of about nine years. He then formed the Hassell Drug Company and purchased the store, and he is president and manager of same. The concern is well established, thriving and prosperous, and in his connection therewith Mr. Hassell has proven his business capacity to be one of good order. Mr. Hassell is a man who stands well in his community, both from a social standpoint as well as in business circles. He is president of the Fort Worth Gun Club and is one of its best trap shooters. He is also a member of the Ad Club and of the Chamber of Commerce, and also of Fort Worth Lodge, No. 124, B. P. O. E. In 1895 Mr. Hassell was married to Miss Alice Pylant, the daughter of W. J. Pylant of Auburn, Texas, and to them have been born four children, as follows: Samuel Lomax Hassell; Thelma Hassell; Myra Gains Hassell, and Affie Hassell. (Source: A History of Texas and Texans Vol 3, by Frank Johnson, Eugene Barker, and Ernest Winkler - Published by American Historical Society 1914)
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- Sam Lomax Hassell 1896–1967
- Thelma Hassell Rigg 1897–1994
- Myra Gaines Hassell McCluer 1899–1995
- Buff Affie Hassell Ray 1901–1996
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