Occupation: Ret Merchant
Robert A. Poole missed the opportunity for a good education because of the frontier environment in which he grew up. He came to manhood with little knowledge beyond reading, writing, and ciphering, though experience had taught him how to work and mingle with men. At the age of seventeen, his father placed him in a dry goods store in Bowie County. There he learned the principles essential to successful merchandising and subsequently spent thirty years as a tradesman. Four years of this time he owned and conducted a store at Doaksville, Indian Territory. From there he returned to Texas in 1861 and after putting his affairs in order enlisted in the Confederate army in April 1862, joining Company H under Capt. William E. Estes at New Boston. This company was attached to the First Texas Battalion under Major Phil Crump of Jefferson, Texas, and when assigned to the Tennessee Department became a part of the 32d Regiment under the command of Col. J. A. Andrews with Captain Estes as major. The regiment was in General Ector's Brigade, General French's Division, and with that command, Mr. Poole served until the end of the war. He was discharged at Meridian, Mississippi, and reached home in Bowie County Mav 25, 1865. .
During the next year, he tried farming with free labor, and on September 25, 1866, established his home on Nolan River in Johnson County, known as AVardville. The following spring he returned to his old calling as a merchant at Piano in Collin County, where he remained three years, and on returning to Johnson County engaged in business at Cleburne, where he rounded out thirty years of active commercial pursuits. He and his business partner, Sol Lockett, erected the first brick building on the townsite of Cleburne, which is still standing, now occupied bv a saddlery and shoe shop and a barber shop. Other matters engaged his attention from time to time and proved him a vigorous type of citizen as well as business man. President Cleveland appointed him postmaster of Cleburne and he began his duties in June 1893, and served nearly five years until his successor was appointed under the McKinley administration. On leaving the post office he was in the grain and feed business, but several years later retired, and lived without special care or anxiety until his death on October 14, 1919, at the age of eighty-four.
The official service briefly noted indicates his somewhat active participation in the democratic party. He joined the Missionary Baptist Church in 1876 and thereafter walked in the fear of his Maker and by his example made his religion a positive influence on the lives of others. He was a right-living Mason from the time he joined the order while a soldier in Mississippi in 1863.
Robert A. Poole missed the opportunity for a good education because of the frontier environment in which he grew up. He came to manhood with little knowledge beyond reading, writing, and ciphering, though experience had taught him how to work and mingle with men. At the age of seventeen, his father placed him in a dry goods store in Bowie County. There he learned the principles essential to successful merchandising and subsequently spent thirty years as a tradesman. Four years of this time he owned and conducted a store at Doaksville, Indian Territory. From there he returned to Texas in 1861 and after putting his affairs in order enlisted in the Confederate army in April 1862, joining Company H under Capt. William E. Estes at New Boston. This company was attached to the First Texas Battalion under Major Phil Crump of Jefferson, Texas, and when assigned to the Tennessee Department became a part of the 32d Regiment under the command of Col. J. A. Andrews with Captain Estes as major. The regiment was in General Ector's Brigade, General French's Division, and with that command, Mr. Poole served until the end of the war. He was discharged at Meridian, Mississippi, and reached home in Bowie County Mav 25, 1865. .
During the next year, he tried farming with free labor, and on September 25, 1866, established his home on Nolan River in Johnson County, known as AVardville. The following spring he returned to his old calling as a merchant at Piano in Collin County, where he remained three years, and on returning to Johnson County engaged in business at Cleburne, where he rounded out thirty years of active commercial pursuits. He and his business partner, Sol Lockett, erected the first brick building on the townsite of Cleburne, which is still standing, now occupied bv a saddlery and shoe shop and a barber shop. Other matters engaged his attention from time to time and proved him a vigorous type of citizen as well as business man. President Cleveland appointed him postmaster of Cleburne and he began his duties in June 1893, and served nearly five years until his successor was appointed under the McKinley administration. On leaving the post office he was in the grain and feed business, but several years later retired, and lived without special care or anxiety until his death on October 14, 1919, at the age of eighty-four.
The official service briefly noted indicates his somewhat active participation in the democratic party. He joined the Missionary Baptist Church in 1876 and thereafter walked in the fear of his Maker and by his example made his religion a positive influence on the lives of others. He was a right-living Mason from the time he joined the order while a soldier in Mississippi in 1863.
Occupation: Ret Merchant
Robert A. Poole missed the opportunity for a good education because of the frontier environment in which he grew up. He came to manhood with little knowledge beyond reading, writing, and ciphering, though experience had taught him how to work and mingle with men. At the age of seventeen, his father placed him in a dry goods store in Bowie County. There he learned the principles essential to successful merchandising and subsequently spent thirty years as a tradesman. Four years of this time he owned and conducted a store at Doaksville, Indian Territory. From there he returned to Texas in 1861 and after putting his affairs in order enlisted in the Confederate army in April 1862, joining Company H under Capt. William E. Estes at New Boston. This company was attached to the First Texas Battalion under Major Phil Crump of Jefferson, Texas, and when assigned to the Tennessee Department became a part of the 32d Regiment under the command of Col. J. A. Andrews with Captain Estes as major. The regiment was in General Ector's Brigade, General French's Division, and with that command, Mr. Poole served until the end of the war. He was discharged at Meridian, Mississippi, and reached home in Bowie County Mav 25, 1865. .
During the next year, he tried farming with free labor, and on September 25, 1866, established his home on Nolan River in Johnson County, known as AVardville. The following spring he returned to his old calling as a merchant at Piano in Collin County, where he remained three years, and on returning to Johnson County engaged in business at Cleburne, where he rounded out thirty years of active commercial pursuits. He and his business partner, Sol Lockett, erected the first brick building on the townsite of Cleburne, which is still standing, now occupied bv a saddlery and shoe shop and a barber shop. Other matters engaged his attention from time to time and proved him a vigorous type of citizen as well as business man. President Cleveland appointed him postmaster of Cleburne and he began his duties in June 1893, and served nearly five years until his successor was appointed under the McKinley administration. On leaving the post office he was in the grain and feed business, but several years later retired, and lived without special care or anxiety until his death on October 14, 1919, at the age of eighty-four.
The official service briefly noted indicates his somewhat active participation in the democratic party. He joined the Missionary Baptist Church in 1876 and thereafter walked in the fear of his Maker and by his example made his religion a positive influence on the lives of others. He was a right-living Mason from the time he joined the order while a soldier in Mississippi in 1863.
Robert A. Poole missed the opportunity for a good education because of the frontier environment in which he grew up. He came to manhood with little knowledge beyond reading, writing, and ciphering, though experience had taught him how to work and mingle with men. At the age of seventeen, his father placed him in a dry goods store in Bowie County. There he learned the principles essential to successful merchandising and subsequently spent thirty years as a tradesman. Four years of this time he owned and conducted a store at Doaksville, Indian Territory. From there he returned to Texas in 1861 and after putting his affairs in order enlisted in the Confederate army in April 1862, joining Company H under Capt. William E. Estes at New Boston. This company was attached to the First Texas Battalion under Major Phil Crump of Jefferson, Texas, and when assigned to the Tennessee Department became a part of the 32d Regiment under the command of Col. J. A. Andrews with Captain Estes as major. The regiment was in General Ector's Brigade, General French's Division, and with that command, Mr. Poole served until the end of the war. He was discharged at Meridian, Mississippi, and reached home in Bowie County Mav 25, 1865. .
During the next year, he tried farming with free labor, and on September 25, 1866, established his home on Nolan River in Johnson County, known as AVardville. The following spring he returned to his old calling as a merchant at Piano in Collin County, where he remained three years, and on returning to Johnson County engaged in business at Cleburne, where he rounded out thirty years of active commercial pursuits. He and his business partner, Sol Lockett, erected the first brick building on the townsite of Cleburne, which is still standing, now occupied bv a saddlery and shoe shop and a barber shop. Other matters engaged his attention from time to time and proved him a vigorous type of citizen as well as business man. President Cleveland appointed him postmaster of Cleburne and he began his duties in June 1893, and served nearly five years until his successor was appointed under the McKinley administration. On leaving the post office he was in the grain and feed business, but several years later retired, and lived without special care or anxiety until his death on October 14, 1919, at the age of eighty-four.
The official service briefly noted indicates his somewhat active participation in the democratic party. He joined the Missionary Baptist Church in 1876 and thereafter walked in the fear of his Maker and by his example made his religion a positive influence on the lives of others. He was a right-living Mason from the time he joined the order while a soldier in Mississippi in 1863.
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