A  Shelbyville  Newspaper
Saturday, October 31, 1954
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               Since leaving here around 1930,  Rollin B. Wicker  has become widely recognized as a businessman in the southwest area of his adopted state, Texas; has become owner of a large ranch in New Mexico and for a while wore a particular cowboy hat which announced the he had been chosen as a "most important personality in El Paso."
            Rollin, son of the late  A. Blaine Wicker  and  Mrs. Elsie Wicker  of near Waldron, will be remembered by his former Shelbyville high school athletics, particularly basketball, and in other school affairs, with emphasis on class plays.  After graduating from S. . S. in 1927, he attended Miami University and in 934 accepted an office position with the B. F. Goodrich Tire Company in El Paso, Tex.  Later he was sent by the company to Pecos as a salesman and in 1936 became a manager for the concern in El Paso.
            In 1933 he married  Isabelle Fisher, a former resident of Denver.  They have one son, Tommy George, 15, who plays high school football in El Paso and plans to enter Southwestern University.
            In 1945 Rollin went in business for himself, opening a tire store which is listed as the R. B. Wicker Company.  It is considered the  largest independent tire distributorship in the southwest.  "Wick, as he is known to his associates, holds active membership in several civic organizations and has served as an alderman in El Paso.  One civic project in which he especially is interested in the Southern Children's Home, Inc., a character building institution.
            The ranch which he owns is called "Cornudas Ranch," after the mountains which are found on its acreage and on it he raises Hereford and Angus beef cattle and keeps a number of riding horses.
            Among Rollin's accomplishments is the reputation he has gained as a public speaker.  He frequently is called upon to deliver addresses not only in his home state but in the neighboring states of Arizona and New Mexico.  One such trip saw him as featured speaker for an annual bi-state convention of the New Mexico-Arizona Highway 70 Association in Safford, Ariz., as a delegate from the El Paso Chamber of Commerce.
Contributed by Anne Ruby


A  Shelbyville  Newspaper
August 13, 1908
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          Jasper Wicker  was in the city this morning from Union township.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming


The  Shelby  Democrat
 Thursday, November 16, 1905
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           Mrs. Cinderella Wicker  has sold five acres in Union township to  Ivan Wicker, consideration $750.  The sale was made through the Montgomery agency.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming


The  Shelby  Democrat
 Weekly,  January 24, 1889
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          David L. Wicker  has filed a claim against  Minerva J. Wicker  administratrix et al.
Contributed by Phyllis Miller Fleming

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