R. E. Saxon, Henderson Co., TX

Athens Weekly Review
Sept. 3, 1925
R. E. Saxon

R. E. Saxon was born at Chatfield, Navarro county, March 28, 1877, and came to Henderson county at the age of five years, when his recently widowed mother moved with her six fatherless children to this county. She later married W. J. Loper to which union was born six children that were born to his mother.

He attended school in the Shady Grove and Pleasant Ridge community schools and like so many others of our prominent men of the county, was raised on the farm.

He followed farming as an occupation until he was thirty-five years old and made a success of it.

Mr. Saxon has been twice married; the first time in December 1898 to Miss Emma Palmer of Van Zandt county, by whom he has two children, a son and a daughter.

In June 1909 he was united in marriage to Miss Bertha McClain; to which union was born one boy and five girls.

In 1913 he moved to Murchison and engaged in the general merchandise business which he is now conducting. Applying the same business talent to his commercial venture that made him successful as a farmer, Mr. Saxon promptly took his place as one of the substantial business men of his town and has been no small factor in molding the destinies of the thriving little city. He has been active as a member of the W.O.W. and still maintains his affiliation with that order which he joined twenty-three years ago.

A live-long democrat he has no apologies to offer for the single instance in which he refused to support the nominee of his party, who did not measure up to the standard as he saw it. He justly deserves and has a large and growing patronage and has built his business through fair and honest dealings, step by step from a small beginning to its present proportions that is adequate at all times to meet the requirements of his trade.

His home town has the reputation of putting over in a big way, whatever it undertakes whether it be a community project, or one that affects the county as a whole. Mr. Saxon believes in team work and is big enough to work harmoniously with others in the advancement of all that makes for wholesome progress in his home town and county.

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