“The History of Cattlemen’s as I remember It”
By Mozelle Roach
Widow of Jesse E. Roach, Founder
“In 1945 Jesse and I were living in Austin, Texas. He was practicing law and we had an Insurance Agency writing insurance on long haul trucks. On one of Jesse’s trips to Fort Worth to represent some truckers before a Texas Railroad commission hearing he drove out by the Stockyards and was amazed by the number of trucks coming into Fort Worth. He came home with the idea that we should have a branch office for our Insurance Agency in Fort Worth. He had noticed a vacant lot on North Main Street that he thought would be the ideal spot. We later bought this lot and constructed a building on it. Then in 1946 we decided to move our main insurance office to Fort Worth and use the Austin office as a branch office. We moved and bought a new home near TCU in Fort Worth.
