When Robert John 'Bob' McCammon was two years old, he boarded a train with his family in Esbon, Kansas bound for Sinton, Texas on Christmas Day 1909. When the family left Kansas, it was snowing and very cold and when they arrived in Texas several days later, the wind was blowing, the sun was shining and the temperatures were in the pleasant eighties. When he was ten years old, he broke his left leg halfway between the knee and hip after falling into a silo. He was doing well until he broke it again six weeks later. At the age of 14, he was the winner of a greased pig contest and received a $5 gold piece as his prize. Several years later his family took a five-week trip to Kansas and Colorado. They visited family in Kansas to celebrate his maternal grandparents' 60th and his parents' 32nd wedding anniversaries and in Colorado, he and his brother Victor climbed Pike's Peak in a six-inch snowstorm. The rest of the family reached the summit by the Pike's Peak Railway, also known as the Cog Road.
Bob graduated from Sinton High School and married Ruby Rice, his sweetheart from a nearby town, on May 23, 1926 when they were both 19 years old. They lived with Bob's parents for a time after their marriage and their only child, Roy Stanley McCammon, was born in an upstairs bedroom in late 1927. Bob worked a while in a vegetable packing shed in Sinton, where the locally picked vegetables were sorted and packed in boxes to be shipped to other locations. After the packing shed business, Bob worked for the Gulf Coast Music Company out of Corpus Christi, Texas, where he was responsible for placing Wurlitzer jukeboxes in cafes and dancehalls, keeping the music updated and collecting nickels from the money boxes. Bob had a Plymouth Coupe and he liked to speed down the road in it. He used his car on the job to deliver and pick up jukeboxes.
After Bob and Ruby divorced, he married Aileen Skipper who was a waitress at the Steak House, a cafe in Sinton. It was while sitting in his Plymouth outside the cafe waiting for Aileen to get off work that he shot himself with a pistol that had recently been given to him to repay a debt. We do not know if it was an accident or intentional, but he died at the very young age of 32. He is buried in the Sinton Cemetery.
Bob graduated from Sinton High School and married Ruby Rice, his sweetheart from a nearby town, on May 23, 1926 when they were both 19 years old. They lived with Bob's parents for a time after their marriage and their only child, Roy Stanley McCammon, was born in an upstairs bedroom in late 1927. Bob worked a while in a vegetable packing shed in Sinton, where the locally picked vegetables were sorted and packed in boxes to be shipped to other locations. After the packing shed business, Bob worked for the Gulf Coast Music Company out of Corpus Christi, Texas, where he was responsible for placing Wurlitzer jukeboxes in cafes and dancehalls, keeping the music updated and collecting nickels from the money boxes. Bob had a Plymouth Coupe and he liked to speed down the road in it. He used his car on the job to deliver and pick up jukeboxes.
After Bob and Ruby divorced, he married Aileen Skipper who was a waitress at the Steak House, a cafe in Sinton. It was while sitting in his Plymouth outside the cafe waiting for Aileen to get off work that he shot himself with a pistol that had recently been given to him to repay a debt. We do not know if it was an accident or intentional, but he died at the very young age of 32. He is buried in the Sinton Cemetery.
When Robert John 'Bob' McCammon was two years old, he boarded a train with his family in Esbon, Kansas bound for Sinton, Texas on Christmas Day 1909. When the family left Kansas, it was snowing and very cold and when they arrived in Texas several days later, the wind was blowing, the sun was shining and the temperatures were in the pleasant eighties. When he was ten years old, he broke his left leg halfway between the knee and hip after falling into a silo. He was doing well until he broke it again six weeks later. At the age of 14, he was the winner of a greased pig contest and received a $5 gold piece as his prize. Several years later his family took a five-week trip to Kansas and Colorado. They visited family in Kansas to celebrate his maternal grandparents' 60th and his parents' 32nd wedding anniversaries and in Colorado, he and his brother Victor climbed Pike's Peak in a six-inch snowstorm. The rest of the family reached the summit by the Pike's Peak Railway, also known as the Cog Road.
Bob graduated from Sinton High School and married Ruby Rice, his sweetheart from a nearby town, on May 23, 1926 when they were both 19 years old. They lived with Bob's parents for a time after their marriage and their only child, Roy Stanley McCammon, was born in an upstairs bedroom in late 1927. Bob worked a while in a vegetable packing shed in Sinton, where the locally picked vegetables were sorted and packed in boxes to be shipped to other locations. After the packing shed business, Bob worked for the Gulf Coast Music Company out of Corpus Christi, Texas, where he was responsible for placing Wurlitzer jukeboxes in cafes and dancehalls, keeping the music updated and collecting nickels from the money boxes. Bob had a Plymouth Coupe and he liked to speed down the road in it. He used his car on the job to deliver and pick up jukeboxes.
After Bob and Ruby divorced, he married Aileen Skipper who was a waitress at the Steak House, a cafe in Sinton. It was while sitting in his Plymouth outside the cafe waiting for Aileen to get off work that he shot himself with a pistol that had recently been given to him to repay a debt. We do not know if it was an accident or intentional, but he died at the very young age of 32. He is buried in the Sinton Cemetery.
Bob graduated from Sinton High School and married Ruby Rice, his sweetheart from a nearby town, on May 23, 1926 when they were both 19 years old. They lived with Bob's parents for a time after their marriage and their only child, Roy Stanley McCammon, was born in an upstairs bedroom in late 1927. Bob worked a while in a vegetable packing shed in Sinton, where the locally picked vegetables were sorted and packed in boxes to be shipped to other locations. After the packing shed business, Bob worked for the Gulf Coast Music Company out of Corpus Christi, Texas, where he was responsible for placing Wurlitzer jukeboxes in cafes and dancehalls, keeping the music updated and collecting nickels from the money boxes. Bob had a Plymouth Coupe and he liked to speed down the road in it. He used his car on the job to deliver and pick up jukeboxes.
After Bob and Ruby divorced, he married Aileen Skipper who was a waitress at the Steak House, a cafe in Sinton. It was while sitting in his Plymouth outside the cafe waiting for Aileen to get off work that he shot himself with a pistol that had recently been given to him to repay a debt. We do not know if it was an accident or intentional, but he died at the very young age of 32. He is buried in the Sinton Cemetery.
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