LOMAX, S. S.
Classed with the prominent and enterprising farmers of Bosque County, Texas, and deserving of specific consideration both as a leading farmer and highly respected citizen, is found the gentleman whose name initiates this article, S. S. Lomax. S. S. Lomax dates his birth in Abbeville County, South Carolina, October 9, 1842, son of J. A. Lomax and grandson of Terry Lomax, both natives of South Carolina.
He was two years old at the time his father moved to Mississippi, lived two years in Carroll County, and was reared in Holmes County. During the war he had charge of a shoe manufactory connected with his fathers plant, and at the close of the war he turned his attention to the stock business, operating at different places in Mississippi and Texas and give his time and energies exclusively to the stock business until 1884. That year he settled on his present farm in Bosque county, where he owns two hundred and seventy acres of land, all under cultivation except fifty acres.
Mr. Lomax was married April 28, 1864, to Miss Martha S Cooper, daughter of James C. And Mary (Simonton) Cooper, the former for some years a resident of this county and now deceased, and the latter still living in Bosque County. Mr. & Mrs. Lomax have seven children living, namely; Avery C., Hycen M., William R., Carlos A., Seaborn S, Lottie B. And Lucy M.; and they have three deceased: Aliff, the first born, who died at the age of two years; Benton, the fifth, at eighteen months; and Dorothy, the eighth at three years.
Mr Lomax has in many ways followed in the footsteps of his worthy sire. He is a Methodist and a trustee of the his church. Is an ardent supporter of the principles of Democracy, and is identified with the Masonic fraternity. As a man he is genial, frank and honorable, strong in his convictions, and never afraid to defend his position upon any point where principle is involved. (History of Texas, Central Texas Vol I, Pub. 1896 )
Classed with the prominent and enterprising farmers of Bosque County, Texas, and deserving of specific consideration both as a leading farmer and highly respected citizen, is found the gentleman whose name initiates this article, S. S. Lomax. S. S. Lomax dates his birth in Abbeville County, South Carolina, October 9, 1842, son of J. A. Lomax and grandson of Terry Lomax, both natives of South Carolina.
He was two years old at the time his father moved to Mississippi, lived two years in Carroll County, and was reared in Holmes County. During the war he had charge of a shoe manufactory connected with his fathers plant, and at the close of the war he turned his attention to the stock business, operating at different places in Mississippi and Texas and give his time and energies exclusively to the stock business until 1884. That year he settled on his present farm in Bosque county, where he owns two hundred and seventy acres of land, all under cultivation except fifty acres.
Mr. Lomax was married April 28, 1864, to Miss Martha S Cooper, daughter of James C. And Mary (Simonton) Cooper, the former for some years a resident of this county and now deceased, and the latter still living in Bosque County. Mr. & Mrs. Lomax have seven children living, namely; Avery C., Hycen M., William R., Carlos A., Seaborn S, Lottie B. And Lucy M.; and they have three deceased: Aliff, the first born, who died at the age of two years; Benton, the fifth, at eighteen months; and Dorothy, the eighth at three years.
Mr Lomax has in many ways followed in the footsteps of his worthy sire. He is a Methodist and a trustee of the his church. Is an ardent supporter of the principles of Democracy, and is identified with the Masonic fraternity. As a man he is genial, frank and honorable, strong in his convictions, and never afraid to defend his position upon any point where principle is involved. (History of Texas, Central Texas Vol I, Pub. 1896 )
LOMAX, S. S.
Classed with the prominent and enterprising farmers of Bosque County, Texas, and deserving of specific consideration both as a leading farmer and highly respected citizen, is found the gentleman whose name initiates this article, S. S. Lomax. S. S. Lomax dates his birth in Abbeville County, South Carolina, October 9, 1842, son of J. A. Lomax and grandson of Terry Lomax, both natives of South Carolina.
He was two years old at the time his father moved to Mississippi, lived two years in Carroll County, and was reared in Holmes County. During the war he had charge of a shoe manufactory connected with his fathers plant, and at the close of the war he turned his attention to the stock business, operating at different places in Mississippi and Texas and give his time and energies exclusively to the stock business until 1884. That year he settled on his present farm in Bosque county, where he owns two hundred and seventy acres of land, all under cultivation except fifty acres.
Mr. Lomax was married April 28, 1864, to Miss Martha S Cooper, daughter of James C. And Mary (Simonton) Cooper, the former for some years a resident of this county and now deceased, and the latter still living in Bosque County. Mr. & Mrs. Lomax have seven children living, namely; Avery C., Hycen M., William R., Carlos A., Seaborn S, Lottie B. And Lucy M.; and they have three deceased: Aliff, the first born, who died at the age of two years; Benton, the fifth, at eighteen months; and Dorothy, the eighth at three years.
Mr Lomax has in many ways followed in the footsteps of his worthy sire. He is a Methodist and a trustee of the his church. Is an ardent supporter of the principles of Democracy, and is identified with the Masonic fraternity. As a man he is genial, frank and honorable, strong in his convictions, and never afraid to defend his position upon any point where principle is involved. (History of Texas, Central Texas Vol I, Pub. 1896 )
Classed with the prominent and enterprising farmers of Bosque County, Texas, and deserving of specific consideration both as a leading farmer and highly respected citizen, is found the gentleman whose name initiates this article, S. S. Lomax. S. S. Lomax dates his birth in Abbeville County, South Carolina, October 9, 1842, son of J. A. Lomax and grandson of Terry Lomax, both natives of South Carolina.
He was two years old at the time his father moved to Mississippi, lived two years in Carroll County, and was reared in Holmes County. During the war he had charge of a shoe manufactory connected with his fathers plant, and at the close of the war he turned his attention to the stock business, operating at different places in Mississippi and Texas and give his time and energies exclusively to the stock business until 1884. That year he settled on his present farm in Bosque county, where he owns two hundred and seventy acres of land, all under cultivation except fifty acres.
Mr. Lomax was married April 28, 1864, to Miss Martha S Cooper, daughter of James C. And Mary (Simonton) Cooper, the former for some years a resident of this county and now deceased, and the latter still living in Bosque County. Mr. & Mrs. Lomax have seven children living, namely; Avery C., Hycen M., William R., Carlos A., Seaborn S, Lottie B. And Lucy M.; and they have three deceased: Aliff, the first born, who died at the age of two years; Benton, the fifth, at eighteen months; and Dorothy, the eighth at three years.
Mr Lomax has in many ways followed in the footsteps of his worthy sire. He is a Methodist and a trustee of the his church. Is an ardent supporter of the principles of Democracy, and is identified with the Masonic fraternity. As a man he is genial, frank and honorable, strong in his convictions, and never afraid to defend his position upon any point where principle is involved. (History of Texas, Central Texas Vol I, Pub. 1896 )
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