RICHARD POPE VASSER

 

 

     Richard Pope Vasser, b February 20,1852 in Halifax County, Virginia, d March 27, 1934 at Chilton and buried in Carolina Cemetery, Falls County, Texas - was the third child of Charles W. and Mary (Womack) Vasser - natives of Virginia.

     Richard Pope Vasser was only one year old when his parents moved to Carroll County, Mississippi, where he grew to manhood and married. His parents were both deceased by the time he was about twelve years old, and he and his siblings were reared by his step-mother, Mary (Hughes) Vasser.

     About 1880, Richard Pope Vasser was married in Mississippi to Emma R. Hughes, b February 23, 1852, d January 5, 1923 and buried in Carolina Cemetery. In 1886, accompanied by his brother, A. Lafayette Vasser, and their families, Richard moved to Falls County, Texas, where their eldest brother, George R. Vasser, had settled ten years previously.

     Richard and Emma Vasser made a trip back to Mississippi in 1890, but returned to Falls County. On the return trip, they discovered that a young black boy, Green Vasser, who was born on the Vasser farm in Mississippi, had stowed away, under the wagon - so they brought him along to Chilton. Green lived and worked for the Vassers all his life, marrying there and rearing two children, Roy and Emma.

     In 1905, Richard Pope Vasser bought a farm two miles east of Chilton, and their is still occupied by the widow of their youngest son, Harry Lafayette Vasser.

     Richard Pope and Emma M. (Hughes) Vasser had five sons: .

     William McFarrin Vasser, b March 19, 1881 in Mississippi, d September 16, 1924 in Chilton and buried in Carolina Cemetery - married in Oklahoma to Lena Wood, b July 20, 1888, d April 13, 1958 and buried in Carolina Cemetery. Will and Lena Vasser had two children: Margaret Vasser, who married Tony Grichar, and moved to Waller, Texas; and Alfred Samuel ("Sam") Vasser, who married Laura "Ann" Ramsey - daughter of Catherine (Walston) Ramsey, born in Bowie County, Texas - the youngest child of Daniel and Ann Elizabeth (Powell) Walston, who died March 28,1970. Sam and Laura Ann Vasser reside in Marlin, Falls County, Texas, where they are members of the First Methodist Church, former members of Falls County Historical Commission and among the Founders of Falls County Historical Museum; and members of Marlin Country Club. Laura Ann (Ramsey-Rogers) was reared by her stepfather, Thomas Allen Rogers, to whom her mother, Catherine (Walston) Ramsey was married in Marlin, Texas. Thomas Allen Rogers, of the Reagan Community in Falls County, Texas, was a son of William C. and Floyd Ann (Phillips) Rogers, grandson of Nathaniel F. and Tennessee (Huffman) Rogers, and great grandson of Larkin and Mary (Aycock) Rogers - early settlers of Old Blue Ridge (present-day Stranger), in Falls County, Texas, where they settled from Alabama in 1846.

     Charles Dudley Vasser, b November 7, 1883 in Mississippi, d March 2, 1918.

     James Vasser (Jimmy), b August 10, 1886, d August 18, 1888 and buried in Carolina Cemetery.

     Harry Lafayette Vasser, b February 15, 1889 in Falls County, Texas, d October 1966 - married Myrtis Hathcock, and had three children: Lurline (Vasser) Leatherwood; Freeman Vasser; and Evelyn (Vasser) Daniels. Myrtis still lives in the farm of her parents-in-Iaw, Richard and Emma (Hughes) Vasser, where she and Harry Lafayette had lived so many years.

 

Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing the biographies of these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Commission, page 468 column 1 and 2.  
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