THURSDAY--MAY 9, 1901
DIED ON THE TRAIN
The Body of J.F. Stovall Taken off here Monday Evening.
Monday evening, train No. 4, going east due here at 6:01, brought the remains of J.F. Stovall, who died between Fort Worth and Handley. There being no one at Handley to receive the corpse it was brought here and turned over to the officers, who took charge of same, and Tuesday morning shipped it to his home at Cabot, Arkansas.
From papers found on his person we got the following description which was previously prepared by himself. He was 5 feet 11 inches in height, brown hair, sandy mustache and April 15, 1900 weighed 145 lb. at the time of his death he weighed about 100 lb. On his person was found a gold filled watch, papers, his name and address and $22.00 in money.
He got on the train at Texline and came to Fort Worth, and had his trunk checked to Cabot, Ark. He requested the conductor in charge of the train on which he died, that if anything happened to him to let his people know.
A telegram was sent and a reply came from his brother to ship the remains to him.
The verdict at the inquest was that he came to his death from natural
causes.
DIED
Just on the eve of going to press we learn that
Mr. T.J. Foster died at his home
at Kit, Friday morning at 4 o'clock. His death was not unexpected. He had
been very low for some time. We will have more to say next week about this
good old man, who leaves a host of relatives and friends.--Grapevine Sun.
THURSDAY--MAY 23, 1901
DIED AT HANDLEY
Died at his home May 12th, Mr. Jim
Hart. He had been ill and unable to work for several months,
though his death was quite a surprise. No one realized the serious condition
in which he was. Jim has been living at Handley nearly fifteen years, and
is well known as an industrious, honest and straight forward man. The bereaved
family has the heart-felt sympathy of his many friends.
THURSDAY--MAY 30, 1901
THREE DEATHS
Mr. Lee, who has been confined to
his room for the past six or eight months died at his home on Abrams street
near the Christian church Tuesday morning, and was buried Wednesday.
The Past Week has been a Record Breaker in the
Mortality List.
The infant of George Sanders
died last Sunday.
THURSDAY--JUNE 6, 1901
JUDGE BURKE DEAD
Congressman from the Sixth District Passed Away Wednesday Morning.
Hon. Robert Emmet Burke died at his home in Dallas at 1:50 o'clock this morning. Yesterday he rallied, but his physicians held out no hope and notified the family the end was only a question of a few hours. During the afternoon yesterday Senator Culberson and Congressman Lanham were at the bedside of their stricken colleague and friend and messages came from men of prominence and of all political parties, in all sections of the country, expressing deep solicitude concerning the condition of the stricken Congressman.
During Feb. while he was attending the session of Congress he was taken severely ill with an attack of grip and was confined to his room for several days.
He suffered a stroke of paralysis last Sat. night and since that time has never rallied sufficiently to give hope for his recovery.
Robert Emmet Burke was born in Tallapoosa Co., Ala., Aug 1, 1847. He attended the common schools of Alabama and Georgia, until he was 16 years old. At that time he volunteered in the Confederate service, enlisting in Co. D, 10th Ga. cavalry. His regiment was assigned to Hampton's corps, Butler's division. He served until the close of the war and was at Greensborough, NC, at the time of the surrender. He sustained one wound in battle, a slight one in the arm.
In January, 1866, he removed to Tx. and located at Jefferson, where he began the study of law, teaching school in the meantime. He was admitted to the bar in 1870 and in the following year removed to Dallas, where he opened an office and began the practice of his profession.
He was a member of the city council in 1874-5: was elected county judge in 1878 and re-elected in 1880 and 1882; was elected district judge in 1888 and re-elected in 1892 without opposition. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress in 1896, re-elected to the fifty-sixth congress in 1898 and to the fifty-seventh congress in 1900.
He was married at Jefferson in 1870 to Miss
Mary L Henderson, daughter of
Judge J. B. Henderson. To them were born 3 children,
Robert Emmet, Jr.,
Albert C. and
Lucile--Dallas News, June 5.
ATTENDED FUNERAL AT DALLAS
Mr. P.B. McNatt and sisters,
Misses Lillie and
Nannie, went to Dallas Friday
and attended the funeral of Mrs. Francis
Fanning. She was the mother of
M.F. and
H.N. Fanning of Fort Worth, and
are held in high esteem by all who know them.
DIED LAST FRIDAY.
The 8 months old child of Mr. and Mrs. J.B.
Bynum died last Friday. They live on the Turch homestead. It
was buried at the King graveyard near there.
THURSDAY--JUNE 13, 1901
AN OLD CITIZEN GONE
Mr. L.L. Joplin, who has resided near
Johnson Station for many years; but who has been living, for the past few
months, with his son-in-law, Ed
Nichols, near here, died of heart failure Friday evening about
7 o'clock sitting in a chair. He was in the neighborhood of 90 years old
and had been in feeble health for some time. Mr. Joplin was well known by
almost every one in this end of the county. He was buried at Johnson Station
Saturday. --Mansfield Sun.
THURSDAY--JUNE 20, 1901
G. VAN GINKEL KILLED.
Garrett Van Ginkel was killed last night by one of the cars of the Dallas electric railroad system, which he sold about a week ago to parties in Cleveland, Ohio. The fatal accident followed a delightful evening spent with his family and friends at Exall's Lake. The car which was to bear the merry party home brought instead the mangled form of Mr. Van Ginkel, the horrified and grief-stricken wife and children and friends.
Mr. Van Ginkel returned to the city yesterday morning from Waco, where
he had been on a business mission. Last evening he went to Exall's Lake,
a resort about three miles north of Dallas, with
Mrs. Van Ginkel, their children,
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Maas,
Miss Annie Maas,
Mrs. Will Maas, all of Dallas,
and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph of New
Orleans. The party left the Windsor hotel at 6 o'clock equipped for a picnic.
They expected to return to the city on a car due to leave the lake at 10:30
o'clock, but the car did not show up on time and Mr. Van Ginkel, after waiting
for some time, walked down the track to a curve, about 200 yards distant
from the lake, to see if the delayed car was coming, expecting to stop it
and ride back to the lake. It is supposed that he went to sleep on the track,
for he was lying between the rails when the car, which came along about 11:15
o'clock, struck him. It tore a great hole in his side, exposing the
entrails.--The Dallas News, June 20.
THURSDAY--JULY 25, 1901
DIED DURING DISCUSSION
Fort Worth, Tx. ,July
19--Isaac
Foster, aged 85 years, died suddenly. He was sitting on the
veranda of the residence of W.B.
Garvey on Samuels avenue talking to
E.L. Huffman when he suddenly
expired of apoplexy. He was born in Kentucky and came to Fort Worth in 1882.
He was a deacon in the First Baptist church, and a few minutes before he
died was discussing passages in the Bible with Mr. Huffman, also a deacon
in this church.
THURSDAY--AUGUST 8, 1901
DEATH OF AN INFANT.
The journal extends sincere sympathy and condolence to Mr. and Mrs. G.E. Turner, of Grand Prairie, in the death of their infant son, who died last Thursday; and bids them fine consolation in the words of the Savior when He said: "Suffer little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven".
The remains were interred in the Grand Prairie cemetery last Friday.
THURSDAY--AUGUST 22, 1901
DIED IN OKLAHOMA
Mr. J.W. (Jim) Hutcheson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. I.L. Hutcheson of
Arlington, and a brother of W.T.
Hutcheson and Mesdames B.A.
Mathers and J.H.
Watson, also of this place, died at Woodward, Okla., last Thursday
night. The news of his death was received here Friday morning and came as
a great shock to his many relatives and friends here. Jim Hutcheson, as he
was familiarly known, was raised at Johnson Station, and for a long time
before he moved to Oklahoma was a resident of Arlington. He was a noble man,
a kind and devoted husband and a fond father, and numbered his friends by
the score. The interment took place at Woodward, Okla. To the grief-stricken
wife and children and all relatives and friends the journal extends profound
sympathy and condolence.
DIED
Mrs. Swim, wife of
Asbury Swim, died at the family
home about five miles south of Arlington last Sunday after an illness of
short duration. Besides a husband deceased leaves several small children
to mourn her untimely demise. The remains were interred in the Arlington
cemetery Monday afternoon and the funeral was largely attended. The journal
extends heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved husband and children.
THURSDAY--AUGUST 29, 1901
DIED
Mr. C.O. Walton, aged 26 years and
son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. T.
Walton, died at his home on Fish Creek, at 3 o'clock Monday
after an extended illness. Besides his father and mother deceased leaves
a wife and one child, a son 2 years old, to mourn his untimely demise. The
interment occurred at Rehobath churchyard Tuesday at 12 o'clock, the funeral
services being conducted under the auspices of the Woodmen and Knights of
Pythias of which orders deceased was a member. To the grief stricken wife
and other relatives the journal extends sincere sympathy and condolence.
THURSDAY--OCTOBER 10, 1901
GONE TO HIS REWARD
DEATH OF CAPT. M.J. BRINSON, AN OLD PIONEER OF THIS COUNTY.
One by one the old land marks are passing away--passing to that great beyond from whence no traveler ever returneth. This week we are called upon to chronicle the death of one of Tarrant county's oldest and most respected citizens, Capt. M.J. Brinson, aged 75 years, who laid down the habiliments of life and passed peacefully away last Tuesday night, death resulting from heart disease.
Captain Brinson, as he was known, was one of the oldest settlers in this
section of the state and was living in Tarrant county while Birdville was
the county site. He built the first business house in Fort Worth and has
been closely identified with the county's progress and advancement. The funeral
services were conducted at the Cumberland Presbyterian church this morning
at 10 o'clock, the same being conducted under the auspices of the local Masonic
order, of which he had long been a member, and, we are informed, was next
to the oldest Mason in Tarrant county. Besides a wife several grown children
survive to whom the journal extends sincere sympathy and condolence.
THURSDAY--OCTOBER 24, 1901
DEATH OF JAMES DITTO, SR.
Mr. Jas. Ditto, Sr., known by all our people as "Uncle Jimmie" Ditto, died in Arlington last Friday, October 18, death resulting from a stroke of paralysis.
Deceased was born in Madison county, Alabama, in 1823 and came to Texas in '73. He established the post office in Arlington and gave the town its name, served in the capacity of postmaster for 11 years, resigning on account of other business. The first business house built in Arlington was erected by Mr. Ditto, and stands next to The Journal office, where he carried on a general merchandise business from July, '76 up to the time of his death. His wife died in 1860. Three children survive him--a son, Webb Ditto, and two daughters, Mesdames J.P. Rose and Sallie Thomas. Mr. Ditto was a good old man and will be missed by all our people.
To the grief-stricken relatives and friends The Journal extends sincere
sympathy and condolence.
THURSDAY--DECEMBER 5, 1901
DIED.
The grand-daughter of D.C.
Rogers, of Euless, whose name we failed to learn died Saturday
and was buried Sunday. She has a host of friends who are sorry to hear of
her demise.
THURSDAY--DECEMBER 12, 1901
PASSED PEACEFULLY AWAY.
Died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Barb
Collins in Arlington last night, December 5, at 10:45 o'clock,
Mrs. Mary Ann Hood, aged 78 years,
3 months and 7 days. When the death summons came deceased was surrounded
by her two sons, J.C. and
Maj. F.A. Hood, and her daughter,
Mrs. Mollie Collins and other
relatives. Deceased was a consistent member of the Missionary Baptist church,
and was Baptised by Rev. Preston
Brown of Freedom church, Jackson county, Alabama, in 1871 or
'72. Her life was a Christian and model one. Funeral services were conducted
at the Baptist church in Arlington Friday afternoon, December 6, at 3 o'clock,
by Rev. A.P. Collins. The remains
were interred in the Arlington cemetery, the last sad rites being witnessed
by a large number of sorrowing relatives and friends. A husband, four sons
and two daughters preceded her to the grave. To the sorrowing relatives and
friends The Journal extends sincere sympathy.
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