This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith, Ellis Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8450 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 16 Oct 1899, p.9 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Negro Shot and Killed Cameron, Tex., 15 Oct – Will Smith, colored was shot and killed near the Sap depot late this afternoon and Hec Ellis and his son Tom gave themselves up to the officers. From what can be learned the negro young Ellis a cursing yesterday and while he and his father were out walking this afternoon they saw the negro and were about to cane him for his insolence of yesterday when he struck Mr. Ellis upon the head with a board, producing a serious wound, when young Ellis shot and killed him.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rankin Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8449 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 04 Oct 1899, p.10 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Lon Rankin Killed He Met Death as the Result of an Explosion at Little River Cameron, Tex., 3 Oct – Lou Rankin of Brownwood met a tragic death this afternoon at Little River, near here. He was on his way home traveling in a wagon and stopped for the night. He went to the river’s edge with a can in which there was an explosive substance and tried to light the can. It exploded and threw Mr. Rankin into the river, causing instant death. Deceased was the son of Editor Rankin of the Brenham Banner and leaves a wife and child at Brownwood. Brenham, Tex., 3 Oct – Mr. John G. Rankin of this city has just received the sad news by telephone of the death of his eldest son, Alonzo G. Rankin, in a most horrible manner near Cameron today. He has been traveling giving entertainments with a stereopticon. He was here on the first and had an electric generator attached to this machine and went north. In experimenting with the generator it exploded and literally tore the unfortunate man into shreds.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sampson Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8448 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 09 Sept 1899, p.6 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Miss Sampson Killed A Pistol Fell from Her Hand and Fired with Fatal Effect Cameron, Tex., 6 Sept. – Last Monday morning at 10 a.m. Miss Mattie Sampson accidentally shot and killed herself. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Sampson, prominent citizens of Cameron and was also one of the most accomplished and popular young ladies in the city, where she was born and had spent her life. Miss Mattie was preparing to entertain for the week a couple of young lady friends and had gone to her room to dress for their reception. On the dresser lay her father’s pistol and she attempted to place it in the drawer. In doing so it is supposed that she let it fall and it was discharged, the ball striking her in the forehead, death being instantaneous, which caused profound shock to the citizens of Cameron where she was universally popular.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Little Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8447 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 24 Aug 1899, p.4 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Cameron, Tex., 23 Aug – Howard Little was run over by a Santa Fe freight train last night at Ricker, Lee & Co.’s camp, near Cameron, and died about 11 0’clock from the wounds. He was trying to mount a moving train and fell under it. Deceased was 17 years old and was a son of a widow of Milano.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Connelly, Williams Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8446 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 19 Aug 1899, p.1 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Child Fatally Burned Rockdale, Tex., 18 Aug – A small dwelling in the northern part of the city belonging to Joe Williams and occupied by Alice Connelly, burned this afternoon at 6 o’clock. Total loss. A little girl 5 years old was horribly burned and can not live.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McCord, Remson Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8445 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 16 Aug 1899, p.1 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Dave Remson Dead Wounds Received at Cameron Proved Fatal – McCord Is Restless and His Condition Is Serious Cameron, Tex., 15 Aug – Dave Remson, who was wounded Sunday night, s reported in yesterday’s News, died this morning at the Milam county hospital from peritonitis and his remains were shipped to Temple for interment. Ross McCord, who was wounded at the same time, spent a restless night and is considered dangerously wounded. = = = = = Dallas Morning News, 17 Aug 1899, p.1 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Both Parties Dead Ross McCord and Dave Remson, Principals in the Cameron Street Duel, Succumb to Wounds Cameron, Tex., 16 Aug – Ross McCord died here this evening at 7:30 o’clock from the effects of wounds received in the Sunday night fight with Dave Remson of Temple. Remson died early Tuesday morning as reported in today’s News.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Remson, McCord Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8444 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 16 Aug 1899, p.1 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Dave Remson Dead Wounds Received at Cameron Proved Fatal – McCord Is Restless and His Condition Is Serious Cameron, Tex., 15 Aug – Dave Remson, who was wounded Sunday night, s reported in yesterday’s News, died this morning at the Milam county hospital from peritonitis and his remains were shipped to Temple for interment. Ross McCord, who was wounded at the same time, spent a restless night and is considered dangerously wounded. = = = = = Dallas Morning News, 17 Aug 1899, p.1 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Both Parties Dead Ross McCord and Dave Remson, Principals in the Cameron Street Duel, Succumb to Wounds Cameron, Tex., 16 Aug – Ross McCord died here this evening at 7:30 o’clock from the effects of wounds received in the Sunday night fight with Dave Remson of Temple. Remson died early Tuesday morning as reported in today’s News.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jones Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8443 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 08 Aug 1899, p.3 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Probably Fatal Cutting Ennis, Tex., 7 Aug – Lee Jones, a young white man just from Plano, was cut by a transient young man in the railroad yards tonight about 8 o’clock. The wound is in the region of the heart, penetrates to the hollow and is considered fatal. Two you men were in the attacking party. The have not been captured. Jones brother was with him when the difficulty occurred. Their father lives in Rockdale.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Davidson, James, Parker, Chapman, Childers, Thompson, Cullins, McLennan, Smith, Boys, Robertson, Neal, Hughes, Griffin, Taylor, Tyler, Sparks, Bird, Crouch, Hopson, Beal, Ickleberger, Allen, Craddock, Erath, Moorehouse, Chandler, Howlett, Flurey, Sullivan Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8442 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 06 Aug 1899, p. 13 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Early Days in Texas The following paper on early times in Texas, by W. T. Davidson, was read before the old settlers association at Belton, July 2: In 1833, Robt. Davidson with his family, accompanied by Isaac James, Daniel and Benjamin Parker with their families and George and Herman Chapman (a single man) emigrated from Illinois to the wilds of Texas, then a providence of Mexico. My recollection is that the Parkers stopped in the territory (what is now Houston county) and Davidson and the Chapman brothers continued their journey to the Brazos River. Davidson built a log cabin on Davidson’s creek near the present town of Caldwell, in Burleson county, his cabin being the first built on that stream and the creek was given the name of Davidson’s creek. About the same time there was a settlement on the Brazos, north of the present town of Caldwell, called Tenoxtitlan, where the settlers collected together for mutual protection against the Indians, who had possession of all that country between the Colorado and the Brazos rivers. My recollection is that in the fall of 1834, Goldsby Childers, W. D. Thompson, Robt. Davidson, Daniel Cullins, Neal McLennan, “Camel Back” Smith, Calvin Boys and others whose names are not recollected moved up the country and now settled on the Brazos river, where the town of Nashville was laid out by Major Sterling C. Robertson. Robertson was an impresario and had a contract under the Mexican government to introduce 200 families in the territory lying above the old San Antonio road. Nashville became a town of considerable importance, it being the county site of the municipality of Milam, which embraced all of the territory up to and including the Pan Handle. When the town was at its zenith there were probably 40 or 50 families living in it. The Indians would make frequent raids to and for 30 miles below Nashville. They would come into the town at night and steal horses. On one occasion they came right into the thickest settled portion of the town and took two horses out of a stable. Old Grand Daddy Neal, as he was called by his friends, went out one morning to drive up his calves and was murdered by the Indians. My mother heard him holloa when he was being scalped by the savages. On another occasion they killed a man by the name of Neal three or four miles about town. I recollect seeing him brought to town strapped across his horse. On another occasion they ran some men right into town, which caused some considerable consternation for a short time. There was a man by the name of Hughes teaching school and when the news got to the schoolhouse about the Indians being right in the edge of town, the children made a break for the door. The teacher planted himself in the place of exit and began to holloa, “go back, go back,” but we ran around and between his legs until the house was left with the teacher as its sole occupant. Each of the children, bare-headed and with disheveled hair, ran as only children could run, believing that a Comanche was right at their heels. In 1835 (in the spring), Goldsby Childers, Robert Davidson, Moses Griffin, John Taylor, O. T. Tyler and two or three other families whose names are now forgotten, with their families moved up the country and settled on Little river – Childers south of Rogers, Davidson and Griffin at Three Forks and Taylor just below Belton in what is now known as Taylor’s valley, and O.T. Tyler on the south side of Leon at the mouth of Nolan creek, just below the Belton. They had all of them previously filed on or located their head right certificates in what is now Bell county. Davidson and Griffin and Taylor each built their cabins in the bottom on the banks of the river and cleared and put in cultivation four acres each of bottom land. O. T. Tyler out his four acres in cultivation and lived with Taylor. They settled in the river bottom as a protection against the Indians for it is a well known fact by all the old timers that the Indians were never known to pursue and enemy or go into the timber to attack even unprotected women and children. They raised both corn and pumpkins in their fields. Childers and Taylor, I believe put in and cultivated considerable patches of corn. In the same year, Colonel William Sparks settled on his head right on the west side of the river just below Davidson’s cabin. Colonel Sparks did not have his family with him. He and a negro man came up the country to build a cabin before bringing his family. The rest of the above named all had their families with them. The Indians attacked Colonel Sparks and negro at night in their tent, but after being fired upon they left without doing any harm. The Indian was brave on the prairie, whenever he had all the advantage or could get the white man on the run, but an arrant coward under all other circumstances. The white man could whip ten to one, as did Captain Bird on the open prairie near Temple in 1838. In the winter of 1835, Davidson and Crouch (whom I had forgotten to mention above and who came to this country with my father) took their families down to Nashville and returned in the spring to make another crop. In the meantime, Santa Anna was invading the country and stormed the Alamo in March and put the entire command to the sword. It is said, “Thermopylae had her messenger of death, the Alamo had none.” The news of the fall of the Alamo having reached the town of Nashville, there were two men, Jack Hopson and John Beal sent up the country to inform the settlers of the fact in order that they might fall back with their families to Nashville. Childers with his family, Taylor and family, Judge O.T. Tyler, Robert Davidson, Jasper Crouch, Ickleberger and four or five others hastily got their effects together and got as far as the Walker springs or about what is now know as the Allen place, seven miles north of Cameron, the first night. The next morning they took up the line of march and had got about a mile on their journey when the Comanches pursued from the rear, passed the wagons and killed both Davidson and Crouch who were riding about 300 yards in advance of the wagons. While the Indians were killing and scalping Crouch and Davidson the party with the wagons left the road and drove a few hundred yards into a motte of timber, unhitched the oxen from the wagons and made their way into Little river bottom and from thence to Nashville the next day. It probably would not be out of the way to say that Beal and Hopson, the young men who came up the country to inform the settlers of the fall of the Alamo, reached Nashville that night. Of Goldsby Childer’s family who were present and saw the Indians kill Davidson and Crouch, I am pleased to say that Mrs. John R. Craddock and Mrs. O. T. Tyler, who is the mother of George W. Tyler, are still living and both look like they have taken a new lease on life. There were many stirring events taking place all the time. Joe Taylor, who took such an active part in what is known as the Taylor fight, just below town, was carrying the mail on horseback between Nashville and Independence and was returning with the mail after night and got about two miles of town when he discovered five or six Indians just above the road sitting on their horses. Taylor hailed them, and at the same time put the spurs to his horse with the Indians right at his heels. On and on they came like a whirlwind into town. One big stalwart fellow came right up to the side of Taylor and tried to grapple his bridle reins. Taylor who was carrying a rifle, but being so closely pursued was unable to use it up to this time, struck the Indian over the head and landed him on the ground. The people of the town soon collected all around Taylor and wanted to know what he was making all the noise about, holloaing “run here, boys! run here, boys!” He then related the chase and showed a wound he had received at the hands of the red devils. In order to locate the town of Nashville I will state it was built on the west side and right on the bank of the Brazos river, where the International railroad crosses that stream and as a bit of unwritten history, I will state that the commissioners appointed to locate the seat of government for the republic of Texas came to that place and examined the surroundings with a view of selecting that place, but unfortunately for that prospective city there had just fallen a heavy rain, which made the streets, which were black prairie, almost impassable. That sealed the fate of Nashville. Later on, in the early ‘40’s the town began to grow, as it was the rendezvous of nearly all the expeditions sent against the Indians. Captains George B. Erath, Moorehouse, Captain Bird, Eli Chandler and others all stopped at Nashville, it being on the extreme frontier, on their way up the country to hunt the red man. Almost every one in this part of the country is familiar with the details of the Bird fight that took place in this county in 1838. As to the relative strength of the contending parties, Captain Bird had about thirty men and the Indians at least five to one of the rangers. In that engagement Captain Bird and the Indian chief were both killed and the rangers lost three besides their captain. The Indian’s loss has been variously estimated from ten to twenty-five. There has been considerable contention between the old settlers as to where the remains of Captain Bird were buried. I have it from undoubted authority recently obtained that when Bird’s men were about to leave the battle ground his son, a boy of 16 years refused to leave his father’s remains and they were strapped across a horse and taken down to the fort or Fort Griffin near the Three Forks of Little river and there buried. Of the old settlers, including those above enumerated of Nashville I can only remember Captain Howlett, Barron, Flurey, McLaughlin, Tom and Will Roberts, McCluskey, C. M. Hubey, L. L. Stickney, Weavers, Gus Sullivan, James Shaw, N.C. Raymond, McGinnis, a shoemaker, Pool, Chance, Nibling, Ickleberger, Groce, Dave Farmer, McCanless, Daniel Monroe and McKay. One of the Weavers was stabbed to death with a bowie knife in a saloon by a man of the name of Hardin. There were no jails in those days, hence Hardin did not remain under guard long before he “got away” and left the country. Such are a few of the recollections of early times when I was young in this beautiful country.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: White Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8441 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 23 July 1899, p.2 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Row at Rockdale Rockdale, Tex., 21 Jul – A general row occurred at a negro public house in Rockdale last night in which Geo. White was seriously and two others slightly cut as a result, all colored.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cotton Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8440 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 21 July 1899, p.7 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Change of Venue Franklin, Tex., 20 July – The case of the state vs. J. M. Cotton, indicted by the grand jury of this county for criminal assault on a little girl, charged to have been committed in Milam county, was called for trial today. The defendant asked for a continuance and the court changed the venue of the case back to Milam county. The defendant then had a habeas corpus hearing for bail and Judge W.C. Talliaferro remanded him to jail without bail. The defendant appealed to the court of criminal appeals, but that court does not meet again until October.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stansfield Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8439 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 07 June 1899, p.9 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Death of a Veteran Houston, Tex., 3 June – John W. Stansfield, an old and highly esteemed citizen of this city died this morning at 2:10 o’clock at his residence, No. 1014 Travis street. The deceased was 74 years of age and had lived in this city many years. He was born in Leeds, England in 1825. He came to Texas in 1849, and when the war between the states broke out enlisted in Waul’s legion. For part of the time he was clerk under General Margruder. After the war he returned to Sheffield, and for a time engaged in the manufacture of cutlery. Having become attached to this country, he returned here and for years was with J.R. Morris and C.W. Ainsworth in the hardware business. He returned here in the year 1869. His uprightness and integrity of character placed him always high in the esteem of this people. His life was an exemplary one, and he was entitled to the regard that was given to him. John William Stanfield was a confederate soldier, who served in Captain Michael’s company and Colonel Timmin’s regiment of Texas infantry. He was also a charter member of United Confederate Veterans, but was not an active member at the time of his death, but a confederate soldier and entitled to all the honors due them.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Crow, White Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8438 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 02 June 1899, p.2 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Jim Bob Crow Trial Waco, Tex., 1 June – In the case of the state vs. Jim Bob Crow, charged with indictment with the murder of Miss Mollie White, argument began today and will close tomorrow morning, after which the jury will retire to deliberate. It is a trial of thrilling interest. Miss Molly White, after the death of her mother, took charge of the household and her devotion to her father and brothers won for her the esteem and respect of neighbors far and wide. On the night of July 10, 1892, at a late hour she suddenly left her room, fled swiftly thought that occupied by her father and brothers and passing out of the house fell on the portico. When her father reached her she was dead, a knife wound in the throat betraying the cause of death of the young lady. It was a warm night and the windows were open. Tracks beneath the window showed how the murderer entered and left the young lady’s bedroom. The grand jury returned a bill of indictment against Jim Bob Crow, and after three trials at Cameron, the case was moved here on an order changing the venue. The defendant’s witnesses are his neighbors from Milam county. The state relies upon circumstances to convict him with the murder of Miss White. The courtroom today was densely crowded. There are about fifty persons attending the trial from Milam county.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Parker Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8437 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 25 May 1899, p.3 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Found Death in a Tank Rockdale, Milam Co., Tex., 22 May – Yesterday afternoon the little four-year-old daughter of Mr. John Parker, who lives two miles west of Rockdale, was missed from their home. Search was instituted and she was found floating on the surface of a large tank near by dead, where she had evidently fallen in and drowned.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Arnold Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8436 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 24 April 1899, p.3 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Col. B. I. Arnold Cameron, Milam Co., Tex., 22 Apr. – News has reached Cameron of the death of Capt. B. I. Arnold at Salado yesterday afternoon, where he had gone a few days ago in hopes of recuperating. He had been in bad health for more than a year. Capt. Arnold came to Cameron during the Davis administration and was sheriff by appointment, of Milam county. By a proper regard, the maintenance of law and order and justice to his fellow man, notwithstanding his political persuasions, he was deservedly popular in Cameron, and for two terms was elected mayor, and accumulated a good fortune of this world’s goods. He was born in Illinois and served as an officer in the federal army, but with him there was no north and south and at his burial three confederate officers and soldiers will act as bail bearers. The remains will be shipped to Cameron tomorrow afternoon and funeral services will be conducted by Elder W.K. Homan of Dallas. The deceased leaves a wife and three daughters, Misses Myrtle, Mamie and Bennie all of whom were at his bedside at the time of his death except the latter, who is in school in Bloomington, Ill.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Orr Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8435 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 14 April 1899, p. 8 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Child Badly Hurt Rockdale, Milam Co., Tex., 11 Apr. – The little 2 ½ -year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Vallie Orr was kicked on the head by a horse last Saturday afternoon and dangerously hurt. The attending physician and the parents yesterday afternoon gave up all hope of his recovery and it is now thought there is some hope of his recovery.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hicks, Henry Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8434 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 03 April 1899, p.7 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Hicks Will Recover Waco, Tex., 2 April – Hon. R. L. Henry, representative of the seventh congressional district, is advised from the war department that Mr. Hicks, a gallant young soldier of Milam county, who was wounded on one of the recent battles on the island of Luzon, will recover. Mr. Hicks is a brother of Mr. R. H. Hicks, a prominent citizen of Rockdale. He is one of many young Texans who have shed their blood for the honor of the flag of their country in the war to suppress the operations of Aguinaldo and his Tagals. = = = = NOTE: This would be the Spanish American War

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Debouard, Ramsey, Cook Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8433 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 27 Mar 1899, p.2 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Whiskey Barrel Exploded One Man Wounded Seriously and Two Painfully Rockdale, Tex., 26 March – A whiskey barrel explosion at a saloon in this city late yesterday afternoon seriously wounded one many and burned and wounded two others. John Debourd was sitting on the head of the barrel. Ernest Ramsey and Will Cook were standing one of each side of him, leaning against the barrel. Ramsey lit a cigarette and threw the match into the hole in the barrel, igniting the gas in the barrel and caused a loud explosion. Debourd was blown several feet into the air and his skull fractured and his brains shaken. He bled at the ears and nose all night and was in terrible agony, taking several men to hold him on the bed. He is still unconscious and it is thought the chances of his recovery are very uncertain. Ramsey’s hand was burnt and he and Will Cook were both burned about the face, but not seriously.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Washburn, English Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8432 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 18 Mar 1899, p.8 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas A Battlefield Memento Cameron, Tex., 16 March – In 1864, Wiley A. Washburn was shot through the right arm at Franklin, Tenn. The arm was amputated at the shoulder. For several years he has resided in Milam county, and like thousands of other wounded confederate soldiers he has endured his loss without a murmur. Two years ago, F. English, Esq., of this place visited Franklin and on the ground where Washburn was shot he cut an ash stick and has just had mounted with silver with the following inscription: “Presented to Wiley A. Washburn by his comrade for gallantry on the battlefield at Franklin, Tenn., November 1864.” Mr. English saw Washburn fall when shot.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8431 Message Board Post: Dallas Morning News, 06 Mar 1899, p.8 Dallas, Dallas County, Texas Burned to a Cinder Gause, Milam Co., Tex., 3 Mar – Mrs. Pearl Smith living near Gause was burned to death this week. Her clothing caught fire and she was burned to a cinder and found lying in the yard when her husband came to her rescue.