This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AiB.2ACE/1126 Message Board Post: >From the issue of Sept. 6, 1895 of THE FAIRFIELD RECORDER H.C. Nussbaum, the 5 year old son of Jos. Nussbaum of Mexia was run over by a carriage and killed in Galveston last week. ~~ Corsicana Democrat The little 18 month old child of Mr. and Mrs. M.T. Jackson died at the residence of its parents Saturday evening. ~~ Groesbeck New Era Rev. R. Oden, a local preacher in the M.E. Church, South, well known and universally respected, died at the home of Mr. G.M.D. Prichard, his son in law, Monday afternoon and was buried yesterday at Lewisville graveyard where his faithful wife was laid to rest only three weeks ago. ~~ Groesbeck New Era Quite a sad and fatal accident happened last Wednesday evening to Walter Jonston, one of Kosse’s best and noblest young men. While attempting to clean up his target rifle, not knowing that it was loaded, the gun fired, the ball penetrating the stomach, ranged upward and lodged in the lung. He lived through the night until 7 o’clock Thursday morning when death relieved him of his suffering. ~~ Wortham Vindicator At the residence of his father, near Wortham, last Friday evening, Thomas Allen Lee, quietly breathed his last after about a month with slow fever. ~~ Wortham Vindicator After an illness of some time, Mr. C.H. Prowel of the Nip and Tuck neighborhood died Friday night. He leaves a wife and several children to mourn his death. ~~ Mexia Eagle After an extended illness, Miss Florence Carpenter, daughter of Mr. E.L. Carpenter, of this city succumbed to the ravages of that dread disease consumption Monday night. ~~ Mexia Herald Echo Saturday night Henry Johnson and wife, colored, living on the Chas. Penner place, left their five children in the house went to church. When the services were over they returned they found their home a heap of ashes and three children among the ruins. The other two escaped.
Ann, Thank you so much for your posting of obits. I love reading about the happenings in and around Freestone Co. even if the folks are not my family. Sandy