Cecil McQueen was born in Houston County, near Latexo, August 15, 1893, to B. F. and Rosa (Lewis) McQueen.  He came to Coleman County with his brother, B. U., when he was 18 and B. U. was 20 years old.  For awhile, they lived with their uncle, John McQueen, who lived northwest of Fisk.  They worked for him and surrounding neighbors on their farms (see John Morgan McQueen).

     Ora Atkins was born January 24, 1892 near Belton in Bell County, to James Daniel and Mary Elizabeth (Wheeler) Atkins.  She came to Coleman County with her father, two brothers, Jarrett and W. D. (Bill) and a sister, Una.  They came in a covered wagon to the Fisk community where J. D. had previously come and rented a farm north of Fisk.  Ora and Cecil met in the Fisk community and began a courtship that ended in an engagement.  Cecil returned to his boyhood home in Houston County and got a job, then returned for Ora.  They rode a train to Crockett where they were married November 11, 1913.  They were living there when their first child, J. C., was born August 27, 1914. They then returned to Coleman County and settled near Valera where Cecil began working on the railroad.  A daughter, Cleo, was born there March 30, 1916.  They then moved to the Weathered place southwest of Fisk on a farm at the foot of a mountain.  Two more children were born here, Cecil Harvey, October 8, 1918 and Euniece Arlene, May 8, 1921.  Ora's sister, Una and her husband, Phillip Schulle, and their two children, Edith and Mildred, lived about three quarters of a mile away, also on the Weatherred place.

     Cotton was the main "money" crop with maize and corn raised to feed the cows, horses, hogs and chickens.  The cotton was taken by wagon to John Terry's gin at Fisk, then brought back and unloaded at the "field gate" until a wagon load, approximately 4 or 5 bales, was ginned then Cecil and Phillip would load the 500 pound bales and take to Coleman to sell.  Some years the "jumbo" grasshoppers would be so bad we had to poison with arsenic and bran; then the family would go around the field each morning with paddles to kill the ones that escaped the poison.  Vera Marie was born November 21, 1921.  In 1923, Cecil rented a place across the field from F. B. Simmons, joining the Weathered place on the southeast.  This was good black land and we raised lots of cotton, corn and maize.  While living here, two more children were born, Lillian Virginia, March 31, 1925, and their last child, Joyce June, June 4, 1933. Cecil bought a 1925 Model T Ford which cost him $500.00 in 1925.  All the children attended Brown Ranch School with J. B. graduating in 1932 and Cleo in 1934.  Water was a big problem in the community.  Most folks had stock tanks and the people and the stock used from the same tank.  Cecil dug a "seep" well near the tank for his family's use.  When the tanks dried up in the summer, there was a "community well" at Fisk, near the gin, where we hauled water in three wooden barrels.

     In 1947, after working Mr. Simmon's place for 24 years, Cecil and Ora bought the John Ehrler place about a mile north of Fisk on the Coleman highway, where they lived until his health forced him to retire from his beloved farm.  In 1957, they went to Dublin and bought a home to be near their daughter, Cleo, who still lives near Dublin and is married to Dale Cook.  Ora passed away March 6, 1968 and Cecil February 9, 1974, both buried in the Live Oak Cemetery near Dublin.  Their children are all still living.  J. B. and his wife, Kay, in Montclair, California; Harvey and his wife, Lynette (Hicks) live near Amarillo; Arlene and her husband, Edward Bennett, live in San Angelo (see Arlene McQueen Lowe Bennett); Vera and her husband, George Cullins, live in Coleman; Lillian and her husband, J. R. Gould, live in Big Spring; and June and her husband, Finice Southerland live in Brownwood.