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Thomas E. Recer, a Confederate of the Climax community was in McKinney Friday. He had been in the old Confederate reunion in Dallas. Mr. Recer is in his eightieth year. He enlisted in Company E, Col Mm. Fitzhugh's regiment in Farmersville in 1862 and served three years thereafter. He spent most of his time as brigade butcher. Mr. Recer is a native of Tennessee, but when a child came to Texas with his parents long before the war. His father, the late Abe Recer, settled near where Mr. Recer is now living.

Abe Recer built a toll bridge across Sister Grove creek soon after the war which was the first bridge that spanned that stream between McKinney and Farmersville. Abe Recer later bought the farm now known as the Armp Mallow farm two miles northeast of the McKinney courthouse on which John and Ben Mallow and families reside.

Since the death of Mr. Recer's wife, he is making his home with his widowed daughter, Mrs. C. C. Murphy, three miles northeast of Climax. Mr. Recer is a very familiar figure on McKinney streets and is known and respected by all the older citizens of our town and surrounding community.

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