History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties. Page: 566
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ing flour with soda and water, the family
called in their neighbors to share the rare
treat with them. Lumber was hauled from
Bastrop on ox wagons. In February of 1853
it was so cold that the Gabriel was frozen
over and great blocks of ice were cut and
stored away in one of the cellars. In 1863,
Mr. Clamp engaged in the mercantile business,
under the firm name of Anderson, Clamp
& Co. They bought domestic at $28 a bolt,
forty yards in a bolt, and sold it for $160,00
(Confederate money). In 1865 Mr. Clamp
went in business alone, adding furniture to
his stock and since 1879 has given his attention
to the latter business entirely. In 1878
he was elected Mayor of the town and served
two years. Politically, he is, and always has
been q, stanch lRepublican, and was a Union
man during the war. Mr. and Mrs. Clamp
are members of the Presbyterian Church, in
which organization Mr. Clamp is an Elder.
Mr. and Mrs. Clamp had eleven children of
whom nine were reared to maturity. Mr.
Clamp has lived in Georgetown for forty-two
years and has seen the town and county grow
up around him, has suffered many sorrows,
and found compensating joys here, and pronounces
Williamson county, the garden spot
of Texas, and a place which the Lord has certainly
blessed. He is a successful business
man and his highly valued for his enterprise
arid sterling qualities of mind and heart.
F RED A. GRAVES.--"Seest thou a
man diligent in business, he shall stand
before kings; he shall not stand before
mean men." This observation of the author
of the Book of Proverbs has formed the text
* for a greater number of learned sern ns than
it has found exemplars in the actual affairsof life. But illustrations are not lacking, and
in the somewhat long list of thrifty and successful
men whose personal records appear in
this volume, probably none more fully justifies
a reference to these words of wisdom
spoken-by the poet and philosopher than the
subject of this brief sketch.
Fred A. Graves, son of John and Julia
Graves, was born in Walton county, Georgia,
May 17, 1847. His parents coming to
this State five years later, his childhood and
early youth were passed in Washington
county, where they first settled, and in Milam
county, to which they moved five years later.
At the age of fifteen-1862-he entered the
Confederate army, enlisting in the Fourth
Texas cavalry, Sibley's brigade, with which
he served in Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana,
taking part in all the engagements in which
his'command participated, being in active
service until the close of the war. When hostilities
had ceased he returned home; worked
awhile on his father's farm; attended school
one session, and then took work in the stock
business at $15 per month. He was so employed,
receiving an increase of wages from
time to time and investing his earnings in
land and stock, until 1871, at which date he
married and began farming and stock-raising
on a small scale for himself. He prospered
steadily from the beginning, and at this writing,
1893, he owns three different farms, aggregating
5,300 acres, 900 of which is in
cultivation and yielding in accordance with
the well-known productiveness of the black,
waxy belt in which it lies.' Mr. Graves farms
largely by tenants, for whom he has made full
provision, and with whom he gets.along most
satisfactorily. He runs in connection with
his farming operations and for neighborhood
patronage, a large steam gin, which is kept
busy during the ginning season. He is also/
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Lewis Publishing Company. History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties., book, 1893; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29785/m1/610/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.