This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McKinney, Davis Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5671 Message Board Post: Cameron Herald – Thur., 20 March 1902 Death - Cameron - J. B. McKinney, age 58, died last Wednesday at 6 p.m. at his home in this city from an overdose of morphine, which was not taken with suicidal intent. He had been sick for several weeks but was able to be up and walk about the place a little. His wife had been in the habit of measuring doses of morphine for him, the constant use of which he seems to have been addicted. On this occasion, Mrs. McKinney was working in the garden and when she returned home, he told her he had taken a dose of the drug and felt drowsy. The Drs. Cass was sent for and they worked with him for some time without being able to resuscitate him. Burial was the following afternoon at 4 p.m. at Oak Hill cemetery. He came to Cameron from Grimes county some years ago and worked repairing watches, clocks and jewelry. About 12-years ago, he married a sister of Mrs. J. W. Davis, his wife surviving him. He was an ex-Confederate soldier, having served through the way as a member of the 18th Geo! rgia regiment, Hood’s brigade. He was a frail, delicate man. [lengthy article]