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Ranger submitted by Jim Draper Name: Asa Draper Rank: Private Age: 37 where born: Palo Pinto Co., Texas Occupation: Ranchman Height: 5ft 8inches Hair: Brown Eyes: Blue Complexion: Fair Enlisted Where: Austin Texas Enlisted When: 30 April 1918 Enlisted by Whom: Adjutant General
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Asa Draper's father, John Jasper Draper was a large Texas
Cattle Operator, born in Pontotoc County Mississippi in 1848.
Around 1862 at a very young age he entered into the Civil-War in Pike
County Arkansas, after the Civil-War sometime around 1869 he took
advantage of a very large chunk of land in Wilson County Texas. This
land was sold in 1870 and he purchased land in Palo-Pinto county Texas.
This is where Asa Lee Draper was born, but he also owned a large ranch
in Wilson County and lived in Sutherland Springs.
According to family, he won a very large ranch in a poker game, and gave it to his sons, John
Coats Draper and Asa Lee Draper. Both sons became Special Texas Rangers in
1918. The name of the ranch was the Santa Rita Ranch and it is located
in Jim Hogg County. More about these Drapers can be gleamed from a book
at the Hebbronville library called the 50th Anniversary of Jim Hogg
County. It is possible the reason John Jasper Draper sold the Ranch
in
Winkler County, Texas was it had been a very dangerous place, being
Apache and Commache stomping ground.
A great grandson of Asa told Jim Draper that John Jasper Draper loved to play poker and even gambled with Doc Holiday and won the Sutherland Springs ranch in a poker game.
Asa Lee Draper
Granddad on a horse. It has stamped; BORDER Fox Tune- copyright
1927- San Antonio Texas, on the back.
Asa Lee Draper and Wife Myrtle Holman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Draper" <jimmie040@webtv.net>
To: "donna brand" <dbrand@htcomp.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: Asa Draper- Special Texas Ranger
Hello: Donna, Yes to publishing that article, and there is an old
article I located in Midland Texas library, that was written by the
daughter of Arminta Draper Estes, which was one of the daughters of John
Jasper Draper and the sister to Asa and John Coats Draper, it gives a
very nice story about that family, I will forward you a picture of Asa
Lee Draper, I have only recently acquired.
sincerely Jimmie L Draper
July 2010
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