Kellow Family
Robert Earl Kellow opened a pioneering garage in Burke that was later purchased by Robert Weisinger. For an unknown period after 1910, Kellow worked at a lumber mill as a laborer and opened a blacksmith shop some time before 1920. The blacksmith shop must have evolved into an auto repair shop after when automobiles started traveling through Burke on the Houston Road.
Robert Kellow
The Kellows came to Angelina County from Montgomery County where Alabama native Robert Kellow (b. 1853) lived in 1900 with his second wife Ora. Robert and his first wife, whose name is not known, had the following chidren:
- Robert Earl, born in 1881 in Texas
- Ellen, born in 1886 in Texas
- Loss (son) born in 1890 in Texas
- Annie B., born about 1897 in Texas
- Adrian, born about 1900 in Texas
Robert Earl Kellow
Earl's wife Maud Rhoda Arrington, daughter of William Larkin Arrington. was born about 1886 in Texas. Earl and Maud Arrington Kellow had the following children:
- Earl Pedigo, born about 1908 in Texas
- Paul P., born about 1910 in Texas
- Tracy (son), born about 1912 in Texas
- Clifford, born about 1915 in Texas
- Fannie Ruth born about 1918 in Texas
- Foy born about 1923 in Texas
- Ditzler P. Dobbs (stepdaughter) born about 1904 in Texas
Earl's son, Paul, operated automotive repair shop on U. S. 69 near Two Point in Lufkin in the 1960s.
By 1930 Earl Kellow had returned to farming, and Robert Weisinger is shown as a "salesman" at a "gasoline station". Presumably this refers to the station he purchased from Kellow.
Earl Kellow eventually moved to Cleveland, Texas where he operated a garage adjacent his home until his deat in the early 1950s.
Sources:
- 1900 Census, Montgomery County, Texas, Precinct 5, Page 16, Dwelling 147 (Robert Kellow)
- 1910 Census, Angelina County, Texas, Precinct 4, Page 20, Dwelling 182(Robert E. Kellow)
- 1920 Census, Angelina County, Texas, Precinct 4, Page 4, Dwelling 28 (Earl Kellow)
- Personal Recollections, Paula Kellow Rusk