LEO FREDERICK ERNEST LOCKE

 

 

     Leo Frederick Ernest Locke, b December 18, 1911 at Otto, Falls County, Texas, d June 11, 1974 and buried in Trinity Lutheran Cemetery - was a son of Ehrenfried Locke, b September 6, 1891 in Posum, Germany, d October 6, 1960 in Falls County, and Emma Augusta Newman, b November 3,1891 at Brenham, d January 2, 1964 - a daughter of Fred Newman, who was a shoemaker in Germany before his immigration to America.

     Leo grew up on the family farm, where he learned the diversity of growing crops and of raising chickens, hogs, and other farm produce.

     On October 3, 1937, Leo was married to Pauline Pick, b April 4, 1919 in Falls County - a daughter of Gustav Julius Pick, b August 4, 1893, d October 10, 1925 of typhoid fever, and Selma Maria Weiser, b April 16, 1884 in Fedor, Texas, d December 18, 1955, who were married in February 1919.

     Leo built some of the first broiler houses on his farm, and an article was written about it in the Progressive Farmer. In addition to the chickens, Leo raised hogs for both and commercial use, lambs, and cattle. He planted cotton, corn, oats, and garden produce.

     They were the parents of five children, but their only son died at the age of one. The daughters attended school in Riesel, and later in Marlin High School.

     Grace Locke, b December 11, 1940, is unmarried and lives with her mother.

     Mildred Locke, b August 7, 1943 in a graduate of Marlin High School. She married November 11, 1967 to Otto Matjevich and lives in New York, where they have two children.

     Doris Lee Locke, b November 1, 1950 at Buie Hospital in Marlin - is a graduate of Marlin High School  and of Sam Houston Uruversity. She married John; Paul Grusendorf, and has two children.

     Linda Locke, b May 19, 1953, is a graduate of Marlin High School, and is married to Kevin Swinnea - a son of Suldon and Bonnie (Lauderdale) Swinnea. They live in Perry, Texas, and have Damon Scott Swinnea, and Infant Swinnea.  

     Leo Frederick Ernest Locke, Jr., b October 3, 1960, d 1961.

 

 

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 284 column 1 and 2.  
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