"Rockdale, my hometown, is Texas' heart and significant part of its soul," George Sessions Perry wrote in his book, Texas: A World Unto Itself. Perry wrote with lifelong affection about his hometown, first as a novelist and later as a magazine journalist. He describes the pioneers of Rockdale as typical of restless Southerners who hitched their wagons and moved to Texas after the Civil War. . . . Clay Coppedge . . .
Showing posts with label farm. Show all posts
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Friday, February 17, 2012
1906 :: Perry Farm for Sale
FOR SALE -- 520-acre farm near Lexington, or will trade for stock of merchandise or other desirable property. J.W. PERRY, Rockdale, Tex. Dallas Morning News, February 17, 1906
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
1951 :: Old Grocery Firm Makes Last Stand
Special to The News
Rockdale, Texas, Oct. 12. -- After a life of fifty years the Noack Grocery Company will operate for the last time Saturday.
The business was purchased this week by T.A. and M.D. Weems, owners of Howell's Grocery and Market.
The Weems brothers will move their store to the new location when remodeling of the building has been completed.
The Noack Grocery Company was started by the late Andrew Noack, who came to America at age of nine. He came to Rockdale in 1899 on horseback from Winchester with but 50¢ in his pocket. He soon found work, and by thrift and good management within a short time opened a bottling works. The next year he opened a small grocery store with $99 capital.
The business later was operated by a son, Eddie Noack, and a son-in-law, H.L. Fieseler, who sold to the Weems brothers.
Both Fieseler and Noack have farm interest and cattle and will operate these and other interests individually.
October 13, 1951
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