Julia Cauble Smith

Julia Frank Cauble was born 25 September 1938 at Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas, to Donnie Mae Loving and Frank E. Cauble. She grew up in Fisher and Scurry counties of Texas. After graduating from high school she married an immature young man and had two sons before her husband abandoned his family. She struggled economically for several years to attain undergraduate and graduate degrees in history. She has now been married for almost thirty years to Al H. Smith, who devoted himself to the raising of her sons, Dan and Allen Chick.

Julia spent several years teaching world and Texas history in high school in the 1970s and 1980s and teaching U. S. History at the local university in the 1990s. She worked as a staff writer for The New Handbook of Texas for a decade in the 1980s and 1990s, publishing approximately 450 articles about the Permian Basin of West Texas. She has also published numerous history articles in regional journals and histories.

In 1985 Julia began the research the Cauble family in Texas with only the name of her grandfather, James Andrew Cauble. Almost ten years ago, she began editing a family newsletter that has grown into a prize-winning genealogical publication that ends up in the most prestigious libraries of the nation, as well as in the homes of hundreds of Cauble descendants.

She was one of the co-organizers of The Texas Cauble Family Association and wrote its bylaws. Julia plans to publish a history of the Cauble family in Texas at the end of 1999. Her husband describes her as "a professional Cauble," meaning she devotes her professional life to researching, writing, and communicating with and about the Cauble family.

Contact:   Julia@Cauble-Rotan.org