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| Birth: | 6 May 1885 in Macedonia, Franklin, IL 1 |
| Death: | 27 Aug 1974 in Dallas, Dallas, TX |
| Sex: | M |
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| Emma Francis Cochran (Wife) b. 28 Feb 1892 in Rosser, Kaufman, TX
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| Marriage: | 29 SEP 1917 in Kaufman, TX |
| Divorce: | 1946 |
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 Bess Fisher b. 25 Jul 1919 in Rosser, Kaufman, TX
- Ruth May Fisher b. 24 May 1922 in Groesbeck, Limestone, TX
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When he was 26 years old, he married his first wife, but the tragic deaths of his wife and new baby changed the course of his life. Lewis owned a farm and worked as a barber during his first years married to Emma Cochran.
During WWII, at about 60 years of age, Lewis did work similar to a merchant marine, working for the War Department, serving out of Galveston, TX., as a deck hand on the Dredge "Manhattan". Lewis lived a few years in DeQueen, Arkansas, where he worked as a farm hand around 1948.
In the 1950's, Lewis moved in with the Mauldin family in Dallas, and lived with my family until he became ill and had to move to a nursing home. In all the years that I knew him, Grandpa Lewis was a fun loving, but sometimes serious, man who loved to read, especially westerns. He always loved the old radio shows, variety and music. I learned to enjoy gospel music from listening to his radio with him. Many days when Ann and I would come home from school, he would pop us corn and visit with us. He told of coming to Texas from Illinois, and how difficult it was crossing the Red River in covered wagons. Lewis took Ann and I on a roller-coster ride when he was in his 70's, and he enjoyed it more than we did. We also went with him to live music shows in the band shell at Fair Park.
Shown on a work badge in old family files dated 1945, Cactus Ordinance Works, a Chemical Corp. for Brown & Root Inc. the following: a thumb print, date of birth, 5'8" tall, 135 pounds, gray hair, blue eyes. As he grew older and his hair whiter, he always wore his hair in a burr cut.
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- Certificate of Birth from the State of Illinois, copy obtained Jan. 24, 1942 by his sister Mrs. Nora Fisher Perry of Ennis, TX.
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