1901 Letterhead OCKER TEXAS Joseph Robert SCHILLER & MARESH Czech GHOST TOWN

Description

PLEASE READ BEFORE BUYING.
I sell
ONLY
ORIGINAL
items and NOT ANY reproductions.
This sale is for
one
advertising
LETTERHEAD
(not a post card)
from
Joseph Robert Schiller, Sr.
of
SCHILLER & MARESH
general agents and dealers in
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
( of all kinds )
in
OCKER, TEXAS
during
the year of
1901 .
THIS LETTER IS
HAND WRITTEN & SIGNED
by
J. R. Schiller
also known as
J
O
SEPH R
O
BERT S
C
HILLER, SR.
Joseph's son, Joseph Robert Schiller, Jr., of Temple, Texas died Wednesday January 3, 2007 at a Temple Nursing Center.  He was 95 years old.
CONDITION: It has normal folds, 3 file holes at the top, minor flaws but, in good condition.
The "EBAY ITEM" THING IS JUST A LOOSE PIECE OF PAPER THAT IS NOT ATTACHED TO THIS LETTERHEAD.
Approximately
11" X 8 1/2"
in size.
HISTORICAL NOTES:
OCKER, TEXAS
.
Ocker is a farming and church community at the intersection of Farm roads 320 and 53, eleven miles east of Temple in eastern Bell County. It was founded by
Czech settlers
in the 1880s and was granted a post office in 1888. The office and the community were named for B. Ocker, a shopkeeper in the community and the first postmaster. In 1890 Ocker had a general store, a mill and gin, a sorghum manufactory, a doctor, and a barber. Some seventy-eight Czech families were living in the vicinity of Ocker by 1893. In 1896 it was a flourishing town of some fifty-five inhabitants; at that time it had a second gin and Baptist and Christian churches. The Rolnicky Vzajemni Orchranni Spolek Statu Texas, a farmers' mutual aid and insurance society, was founded in 1901 in Ocker by a group of Czech farmers. Ocker slowly declined thereafter; it lost its post office in 1904 and declined to a population of twenty by 1933. The reported population was ten in 1964. The town had disappeared by 1968, though in 1988 the Ocker Brethren Church still stood some two miles south of the former townsite. The church received a Texas Historical Marker in 1994 and was shown on county highway maps in 2000.  Ocker was just 16 miles East of Temple, Texas.
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