From Matagorda County History & Genealogy page
Zipprian’s Corner was the site of a general merchandise store at the crossroads of Texas 60 and the road leading from Gulf to the old iron bridge crossing the Colorado River (now Selkirk Island road).
The store was in operations from about 1927 until the 1950s.
Named for the owner of the store, Charles Wellington Zipprian, and his wife, Fannie, the Corner was a meeting place for families and young people living in the area.
It was “the place” to go for cold drinks, gum, cookies, and the like, as the Zipprians were so wonderful to the younger generation.
Having no children of their own, they looked forward to the children and especially to the end of each school year.
Travis “Shorty” Thompson, for many years the school bus driver from Wadsworth, would stop and buy all the kids soda water to celebrate, and the Zipprians would join in with homemade cookies.
The Zipprians married April 14, 1926.
She had been previously married to a Mr. Tinney.
Charles Zipprian, born September 20, 1875, died November 8, 1955, at the age of eighty.
He was the son of William Marie Louisa Greezley Zipprian and is buried at the Matagorda Cemetery.
After Zipprian’s death, Fannie moved to Corpus Christi, where she remarried her first husband.