Posted on: Bowie County Queries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Bowie/10538 Surname: Cabell ------------------------- I didn't know of the stores in Bowie County, but I am not surprised. My husband is the great great nephew of the founders of the Cabell Creamery. There were lots of corner stores in Dallas during the the mid century. The Southland Corpartion bought it and turned it into the famous 7-11 Corner Stores. I don't know if Southland still owns the stores or not. Lewis Rector Cabell was the orginial founder I think. They called him Uncle Rector. He had a brother Lawerence Duvall Cabell (Uncle Duvall) that may have been an owner also. The stores started out selling bread and dairy products and then progressed from there. The stores were 'open front' stores and folks would drive up to the curb, and assistant would come out and take the person's order and fill it. They also gave credit that was paid once a month or once a week according to how the person was paid. The Cabells originaly came to Texas after the Civil War. Gen. William Lewis Cabell and his brother John both set up business' in Dallas. The Gen. had 5 sons and 2 daughters, one of the sons and one of the daughters died in infancy. The reamaining children were: John Joseph, Katie Doswell, Benjamin Elias, Lawrence Duvall and Lewis Rector. I have failed in putting Duvall and Rectors wives in my data files. But Benjamin Elias was Mayor of Dallas, as was his father and his son. Charles Pearre Cabell, Benjamin's son was head of the Air Force Inteligence during the Cuban Crisis in 1961