GEORGE R. VASSER
George R. Vasser, b June 25, 1848 in Halifax County, Virginia, d February 8,
1924 at Chilton and buried in Carolina Cemetery - was the second of four
children of Charles W. and Mary (Womack) Vasser. Charles and Mary were married
on May 20, 1845 in Virginia, and had three children born there: Martha Vasser, b
1846; George R. Vasser, b June 25, 1848; and Richard Pope Vasser, b February 20,
1852. The family moved to Carroll County, Mississippi about 1853, and it was
there that their last child was born: A. Lafayette Vasser, b May 20, 1854. Mary
(Womack) Vasser died there about 1860; and Charles W. Vasser married second to
Mary Hughes. They had two children: Louella Vasser, b ca 1862; and Charlie
Elizabeth Vasser, b 1864 after her father had left with the Confederate States
Army during the Civil War. Charles W. Vasser was wounded and captured, and died
in a federal prison in Illinois on May 12, 1865.
In 1876, George R. Vasser, now age twenty-six, immigrated to Falls County, Texas
- settling on the Old Satin Road east of present-day Chilton. He worked for ten
years before purchasing his own farm, presently owned by Hollis Vasser, his
great nephew, and his wife's grandson (son of Gibson and Julia Pearl (Nelson)
Vasser; and grandson of A. Lafayette and Alice (Key) Vasser).
At the time George bought his farm, his two brothers, Richard Pope Vasser and A.
Lafayette Vasser, brought their families to Falls County in 1886. After
Lafayette died in 1894, George married his former sister-in-Law, widow of his
brother, Alice (Key) Vasser, in 1896. George R. and Alice (Key) Vasser had one
son, Alpha Vasser, b 1898, d April 26, 1964 in Waco, McLennan County, Texas and
buried there in Oakwood Cemetery, Alpha Vasser was married in December 1922 to
Mae Mills.
In 1901 , George and Alice Vasser moved the family to Chilton, Texas, where they
both died.
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 467 column 1 and page 468 column 1 and 2.
Member of Falls County Historical Commission.
