It's ironic that he and his mother Lillie Maud (Davis) Tucker were selling oil shares for promoter Ira J. Bell and his future wife Miss Alice Vivian Grissom was living there. Right next door is the 'Mint Cafe' where Uncle Bob Lewis had coffee every morning. There is a short story about him and his daughter Gladys and son-in-law Bob Penn in the book ‘Pecos, A History of the Pioneer West’ Volumes 1 & 2 by Alton Hughes. On First St. the ‘West of the Pecos Museum’ has a jail picture of a stable boy who stole Bob Lewis' guns and horse. He was the last horse thief hung in Texas. Grandfather Bob Grissom came from East Texas to farm in the rich Pecos River Valley. He bought 320 acres and built a two story house for his family. It was located 26 miles North of Pecos on US #285 near the old ghost town of Dixieland which later became a boom town with the discovery of oil. I have letters to R. F. and Electra Grissom postmarked 1905 Dixieland. He sold the farm and moved to Pecos so the children could attend school but his frail wife soon died in 1911. Later he married Miss Marion Snow Hudson and they grew some of the finest Pecos cantaloupes on the 68 acre farm located at Range Road #1216 about 11 miles North of Pecos. What stands out in my boyhood memory how grandfather grew the sweetest melons. I think he sold his interest in a successful company to his partner M L Todd because he saw his life ending. He was 69 when they found him slumped over the wheel of his tractor. In front of the ‘West of the Pecos Museum’ is a Historic Marker #5397 Title: ‘The Pecos Cantaloupe’. The name R F Grissom a true pioneer of the industry is missing from the story.

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Contributed by Omer Divers, Jr.