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Retired from Haliburton Oilfield services in Duncan Oklahoma.
Always wanted to hit oil. purchased several leases in OK.
Years later his royalty property struck oil and his grandsons reaped the benefit of his foresight.
After retirement lived out his life in his hometown Azle, TX.
Ran a roller rink and a laundrymat for a while.
.He was badly crippled with Arthritis and would travel to Hot Springs Arkansas to bath in their springs
Because of his ailments he couldn't drive, so used a golfcart to ride downtown every morning to his coffee shop.
Said he saw the last public hanging in Texas at Fort Worth. One of Jesse's cousins Marshall Holmes said Mark probably knew the man hanged.
As a young man, he said the trip in model T Ford to Fort Worth about 30 miles nearly took all day with always a flat or two.
He lived his later years in a little trailer next to his sister Mattie's home..
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