Robert came to northeast Texas, from Wilson Co., TN., before 1880. He was the eldest of 13 children. He lived in Red River County, near the community of Fulbright, when he married his second wife Lizzie Gibson, the local school teacher. They married on 25 Apr 1894, in the home of the Baptist Preacher, James Elbert Horner. The large wedding was attended by the Boyd, Jones and Shaw families. All were listed as witnesses.

W.R. owned a farm near Deport, TX., and his parents & siblings lived in the area of the Old Cherry Community and Fulbright, but my grandma always said "they were from Bogata." W.R. & Lizzie's first child(ren) were twins, Robert & Ruthie, who only lived for several days. They were born in 1894 and were buried in Red River County. About 1900, with the population still migrating westward with the railroad opening up more vast lands, Robert, his wife & three children, moved to northeast central Runnels Co. and settled in the community of Norwood, later known as Bonoit, where he built a two story house. For some reason by 1903, he decided to sell his farm and move to near Wall, TX., in Tom Green Co. in the community of Lipan Flats. He did not like it there, so on 26 Dec 1904, he again moved his family west, settling in the Arden community in Irion County, which was twenty miles west of San Angelo. There, he became a rancher, raising cattle on 645 acres.

He became a pillar in the community and raised nine girls & five boys. Two sons died at an early age. Having a daughter with a family living in Miami, FL., Robert & his son Willie Ray decided to visit them, staying over a year. In 1928, Robert is found in Miami working as a temporary nightwatchman at the John Deering Estate Vizcaya Villa** prior to his return to Arden, Texas. He and his wife lived happily until her early death in 1929.

After his last daughter marries, W.R. retires and in 1938, he leases his ranch to his son-in-law, W.L. Pringle for 75 cents an acre for five years with the stipulation that no Johnson grass be allowed to grow on his land. W.R. a frugal man, travels visiting with his grown children, when on 23 Dec 1942, he dies while visiting his daughter Geneva Brooks in Artesia, NM., at age 85 years. He was buried beside his wife of 35 years in the Arden Cemetery. Grandma Pringle, his eldest daughter, wanted her parents and their two sons, removed and reinterred in the Pringle Family Plot in Fairmount Cemetery in San Angelo, TX., on 5 Dec 1947.

**James Deering is known for the farm equipment manufacturing company of Deering Harvester Company that introduced the reaper that enabled farmers to harvest an acre of grain in one hour. He became one of America's wealthiest families from his company merging to become International Harvester. He built his 34 room mansion Vizcaya for 12 years on 180 acres and it is now a Historic Museum.