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JAMES MURRAY RODDY

STANDARD MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION

Jim Roddy, a Texan came from Williamson county with his parents when a small boy and was reared at Shive, an outlying township of Hamilton.

His father, Joseph Berry Roddy, was born in 1832, when Texas was a Republic under Mexico, was active in the development of the affairs of his community. His mother, Elizabeth Jane Murray, was a member of a prominent family of South Carolina and was a leader in the social life of her home town.

Jim Roddy married Miss Maud Ragsdale, a daughter of E. M. Ragsdale and Catherine Worker Ragsdale.

Jim Roddy’s first venture in business what the Drug business at Shive. After a few years, he moved to Hamilton and was engaged in the lumber interests for some time. He served as bookkeeper for the McKinley Bros. Mercantile Co., for several years. He has been in the mutual insurance business for seven years and is now the Standard Mutual Life Association. The local firm being composed of Jim Roddy and John Cameron.

John Cameron, secretary of the Standard Mutual Life Association was born at Flynn Ranch near Fairy in Hamilton County. After finishing school he worked for number of years in the Hamilton National Bank and the Perry National Bank. He also worked some time with a mutual life insurance company in Victoria before organizing the association in Hamilton.

He married Miss Wallace Hunt, daughter of J. W. Hunt, a pioneer of Hamilton County.

During the World War he served in the 36th Div. and spent 12 months in France.

The Standard Mutual Life Insurance Association was organized four years ago, and is owned entirely by home people. Every penny paid into this organization remains here. Thousands of dollars each year is paid to beneficiaries--last year $11,000 being paid to policy holders in a radius of twenty miles of Hamilton.

The association is under the supervision of the State Insurance Department. You can protect your family at a minimum cost by taking a policy with this company. During the four years of its existence, the total cost per $1,000 policy has been an average of $8.00 per year.

Every person should carry insurance. If you are not in good financial circumstances it is all the more the reason that you should have insurance. Considering the small cost of a Standard Mutual Life Association policy you cannot afford to do without one. See either John Cameron or Jim Roddy at once and let them explain to you the easy plan of carrying insurance.

The Hamilton County News, Vol. IV, Number 11--Section One

Historical and Trading Expansion Issue

W. F. Billingslea, Editor-Publisher

Subscription Price ONE YEAR ..$1.00

June 29, 1934

James Murray Roddy married Maude Ragsdale on 28 February, 1898, Hamilton County Marriage Record Bk. 3, p. 35.

John Cameron married Frances Wallace Hunt on 25 December, 1919, Hamilton County Marriage Record Bk. 8, p. 45.

 
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