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- In 1916 the entire town of Paris burned, and my Dad moved his wife and son to paris, TX to help in the reconstruction. This was the only time he was in the Carpenter's Union, and I just recently came across his Union cards. He wife left Paris to care for her sister in Hillsboro who had contracted influenza, as her mother had passed away a few years earlier. My mother told me that her sister recovered, but Donald did not. As so, my Dad took Carl Jacob to live with his Dad and sister in booniville, as he could not take care of his business.
And in paris he met my mother who was a portrait photographer at the time.
My Dad was very devoted to his father, John Jacob and his sister, Adele. He had a very sad beginning to his life - losing his mother when he was only 10 years old and being raised by his sister, his first wife dying in the influenza epidemic of a918, and then losing his baby boy at age 10. So I imagine it was painful for him to talk of those things. I remember Carl Jacob's picture being on the dresser all of my growing up years. However he had a very happy life after he and my mother married. And he was always jolly and was full of funny stories - and he absolutely loved children - in fact, he was a big kid himself as long as he was in good health. He had many, many friends with who he fished and hunted.
He followed his father's and brother's trade of cabinet and boat builder and wood carver. His advertising always said: "Anything Made of Wood."
In 1989, I was approached by a physicianin Paris asking if I could provide information on my father's life, as he was thinking of writing a book on the furniture builders of Lamar Co., TX, as it was the furniture maufacturing capitol of Texas in the early 1900s. I was so happy to do this, and was able to collect more than 100 pages of pictures and text that I sen tto him.
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