This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jones, Merchant, Moore Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/1320.1 Message Board Post: James T. Merchant James Thomas Merchant, 65, died last night at a local hospital following an illness of a few days. No funeral arrangements have been made. Mr. Merchant was a native Texan, born at Bowie county, Texas and educated in the Whitesboro college at Whiteboro, Texas. He taught school for twenty-one years in texas and Oklahoma. He was a writer of note in his native state and collaborated with Frank Doby in writing Texas history. For a number of years he was with the Humble Oil Company as a geologist. He was married in 1902 to Mrs. Ore Olive Moore and she and three children survive: Thomas Clyde Merchant; Lineus B. (Jack) Merchant and Mary Alice Merchant all living in Hutchinson. A brother, M. D. Merchant of Crockett, Tex., and Mrs. R. H. Jones of De Kalb, Texas also survives. Since coming to Hutchinson in 1930 Mr. Merchant has been working for the Shurtz Produce company. Mr. Merchant was an active Mason and was a member of the Breckinridge, Texas lodge. He was also affiliated with the Baptist church. The Hutchinson Kansas News Friday, April 15, 1932 page – 8 column – 6 ---------------------------------- Cemetery Records for Reno County Kansas 1865 – 1978 (book) Memorial Park Cemetery Reno Twsp. west of Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas James Thomas Merchant died: 15 April 1932 64 yrs *** Hutchinson Eastside Cemetery Clay Twsp. Hutchinson, Reno County, Kansas Infant Merchant born & died: 22 Dec 1892 parents: S.P. & E.R. Infant Merchant born & died 4 May 1897 parents: S.P. & E.R.