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I am Anna Robertson Kellett writing about my Grandparents. They Came to Bryan
in 1912 living on College Road in Bryan. In 1920 they moved further south on
College Road and my grandfather W. H. Robertson built a new two-story house on
the comer of College Road and Harris Street (Dellwood St. now) which was called
the Dellwood Park and was out of the Bryan city limits at the time. It is across
from the Country Club Lake. My grandfather was a Building Contractor and built
many houses in Bryan and College Station. Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Robertson went to
the First Baptist Church in College Station where Rev. R. L. Brown was the Pastor.
My Grandfather was a Deacon in the church and my Grandmother taught Sunday
School and Vacation Bible school. The Parsonage was a bungalow type moved to
418 College Main and remodeled into a two-story Colonial home by W. H.
Robertson, Contractor.
Rev. Brown married my father and mother, Callie Crowson and James Lynn
Robertson my two uncles and their wives William R. Robertson and Adele
McClain and Marvin E. Robertson and Audrey Schumaker, my two aunts and
their husbands, Myrtle A. Robertson and Ben E. Christian (Aggie) and Susan
Neleen Robertson and Alfred O. Nicholson (Aggie).
William and Marvin worked for A&M after WWII. Lynn worked at the A&M
Creamery in 1927 when he was 17. William, Marvin and Lynn worked for their
father building houses in Bryan and College Station before the war.
In 1949 the Student Education Building was built where the Parsonage once stood.
The architect was my uncle, Ben E. Christian. I was in the 9`s grade and was lucky
enough to help my uncle build the model of the building. We were living in Corpus
Christi, Texas at the time.
MY grandparents, William H. Robertson & Bessie Smith Robertson, my patents,
James Lynn Robertson and Callie Crowson Robertson and my aunt, Susan
Neleen Robertson Nicholson are buried in the College Station City cemetery.