Obituaries of the Past:
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Death of Dr. J.L. Adams
Pioneer Citizen of Dallas County Dies at His Home on Race Street.Dr. J. L. Adams, for more than forty years a citizen of Dallas County, died last night at his home, 115 Race street. Dr. Adams was born in Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 4, 1832, and in that city he spent his young manhood. Later, he removed to Polk County, Arkansas, where he was at the outbreak of the Civil War. He enlisted and served for a large part of the period of hostilities under Gen. W.L. Cabell, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He was married at Dover, in Polk County, Arkansas, June 1, 1865, to Miss Amanda Hogins, who, with seven children, he leaves.
More than forty years ago he came to Texas and settled at Hutchins. For some twenty-eight years he has resided in the city of Dallas.
He has been a faithful member of Sterling Price Camp, United Confederate Veterans, and his burial on Monday morning will be attended by that organization and the medical profession.
Of the living children of Dr. Adams all were present at the time of his death. They are: W.R. Adams of Waxahachie, Mesdames M.A. Copeland, L.A. Belt and T.B. McConnell. Miss Sue Adams and George and J.D. Adams, all of Dallas.
Funeral arrangements will be made later.
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Died. ADAMS - Dr. J.L. Adams, aged 73 years, died April 30. Funeral Monday morning at 10 o'clock at his residence, 115 Race st. Interment in Greenwood Cemetery.
Source: Dallas Morning News. May 1, 1904
Mortuary Matters
R.Q. Anderson, 36 years old, died yesterday at his residence on Wood street of endocarditis. The body was embalmed by Undertaker Loudermilk and sent to Memphis, Tenn. for interment.
Source: Dallas Morning News, August 22, 1898
Major W.L. Anderson of Memphis died of dropsy at the residence of his sister, Mrs. M.E. Irvin, six miles east of Columbus, Miss. His remains were taken to Memphis for burial. Major Anderson has been connected for a number of years with the cotton firm of Hill, Fontaine & Co. He was born at Pontotoc, Miss. His record as a confederate soldier was most creditable, and as a citizen no one stood higher.
Source: Dallas Morning News, Sept. 3, 1889
BREWER - At Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis Tenn., Wednesday morning, April 14, 1943 at 4:30 o'clock. Mrs. Emma A. Brewer, aged 59 years; wife of L.M. Brewer, Brickeys, Ark., daughter of J.H. Storey Sr of Brickeys, Ark; sister of Fred, W.R. and J.H. Storey Jr., all of Memphis, Tenn.
Funeral services conducted by the Rev. Mr. Pickler, will be held Thursday, April 15, 1943, at 1 p.m. at Citizens Funeral Home, West Memphis, Ark. Friends invited. Interment in Memphis Memorial Park.
Source: Commercial Appeal, April 15, 1943, page 27.
Death of Robert K. Carr.
Houston, Tex., Nov. 18 - Robert K. Carr, a well known newspaper man of this city, died this morning at 2 o'clock at St. Joseph's infirmary. He had been desperately ill for the past three weeks and his death had been hourly expected almost since his first illness, but his remarkable vitality and splendid constitution had enabled him to live many days after the doctors had predicted his death. He had lived in this city about thirteen years and was a man of splendid talents and ability as a newspaper man. He had worked on the best newspapers in the east, west, and in the south, and wherever his pen touched he had left the imprint of his genius. He was a thorough Bohemian. He was a man of education and refinement, and in disposition as gentle as a woman.
He was taken suddenly ill a little more than two weeks ago and was at once taken to St. Joseph's infirmary. Almost immediately upon reaching the infirmary he lapsed into a state of unconsciousness and although he has had the best of medical skill and nursing he never regained consciousness.Mr. Carr leaves no relatives in this city, but a mother, brother and sister in Memphis, Tenn., who are prominent people socially and financially, his brother being a well known commission merchant of that city. He had been living in Houston about thirteen years. He was about 44 years of age and was born in Pittsburg, Pa., but his parents moved to Memphis when he was quite young and he was raised and educated in that city. He worked on the Avalanche and Appeal and leading papers of Memphis at that time and after that worked on the daily newspapers in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and New York.
Source: Dallas (Tx) Morning News, November 20, 1898
Judge Clapp Dead.
Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 6 - Judge J.W. Clapp, who was in charge of the confederate cotton and a member of the confederate congress during the late civil war, died at Red Sulphur Springs, Tenn., yesterday, age 84.
Judge Clapp was an old-time whig and later a democrat. He was a presidential elector on the Breckinridge and Lane ticket and in 1876 made a vigorous canvass for the Tilden-Hendricks ticket.
Source: Dallas Morning News, Sept. 7, 1898
Mrs. Emma Crutcher
Paralytic Stroke Is Fatal to Life-long Memphis ResidentMrs. Emma Bernice Crutcher, a lifelong resident of Memphis, died yesterday morning at 3:35 o'clock at John Gaston Hospital of a paralytic stroke. She was 55 years of age.
Mrs. Crutcher, the widow of Henry Crutcher, a contractor who died two years ago, suffered a stroke three months ago, but had apparently recovered. Saturday night she was stricken again.
A member of Parkway Baptist Church, Mrs. Crutcher had been active in church affairs before her illness in June. She lived at 1333 Emmason. Funeral services, conducted by the Rev. J.H. Wright and the Rev. J.W. Kerley, will be held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at Cole-Wilson Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Pleasant Ridge, Tenn. Cemetery.
She leaves her stepmother, Mrs. Alice Sanders; six daughters, Mrs. J.L. Spencer, Mrs. L.C. Roberson, Mrs. W.T. Jackson, Mrs. J.E. Hartz, Mrs. Marguerite Blackburn, all of Memphis, and Mrs. B.T. Newman of Chicago; a son, Woodrow Crutcher; a stepson and daughter, Joe W. Crutcher and Mrs. J.R. Collins, of Memphis; six brothers, J.E., Robert, T.W., Booker, Mark Sanders of Memphis, and W.R. Sanders of Eudora, Miss., and two sisters, Mrs. Lizzie Hartz and Mrs. Sallie Blalock, of New Orleans.
Source: Commercial Appeal, September 6, 1937, page 15
Notes:
Emma Bernice Sanders (b. Oct. 1881) was the child of John Washington Sanders and his first wife, Martha Ellen West. Her grandparents were George Washington Sanders and his first wife, Elizabeth Frances Yancey
"Death of Mr. L.E. Curtis"
Galveston NewsElsewhere in THE NEWS this morning in a special from Dallas is mentioned the death by suicide at that place yesterday of Mr. L.E. Curtis, who left this city about six or seven years ago. There are not a few in the city at present who may remember Mr. Curtis as at one time the genial [sic] manager of the Western Union Telegraph Company, which position he held for several years. He was also the party who turned in the first fire alarm in Galveston. During the storm of 1875 he displayed considerable energy and enterprise in managing the messenger service of the telegraph office, sometimes sending a message to its address through great difficulties. While here he formed many friends, who admired him for his dauntless and upright character. It is not known definitely where he was born, but the greater part of his life was spent in Memphis, Tenn., from which place he came to this city and subsequently left for Dallas, where he was engaged in the jewelry business at the time of his death.
Source: Dallas Morning News, June 11, 1886, Page 5Notes:L.E. Curtis, age 26, white, male, born in Alabama, Telegraph Manager, appears in the 1870 US Federal Census, Galveston TX. Roll: M593_1586, page 190.
DAVIS - At residence, 1549 Mississippi St., Monday evening, Feb 3, 1941 at 11:10 o'clock. Mrs. Carrie Sanders Davis, aged 67 years. Wife of Henry C. Davis, mother of Mrs. G.W. Hankins, sister of Mrs. Della Hartz, all of this city, Mrs. Nannie Winfield of Miami, Fla., and Mrs. Jimmy Daley of Mt. Pleasant, Texas..."
Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis), Feb. 4, 1941Funeral services for Mrs. Carrie Sanders Davis, who died Monday night at 11:10 o'clock at the home at 1549 Mississippi, will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock at National Funeral Home. Burial will be in Memorial Park. Mrs. Davis, who was 67, was the wife of Henry C. Davis, foreman for Jordan Lumber Co. She had been ill several weeks."
Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis), Feb. 5, 1941Notes:
Caroline E. (Carrie) Sanders Davis (born March 18, 1872) was the daughter of George Washington Sanders and his second wife, Caroline E. Thorton
Squire Ira Douglass of Lucy, near Memphis, was badly assualted Tuesday night and fatally hurt by Horace Moore, a brutal negro. Squire Douglass had been in Memphis and was returning home on the evening train. In one of the coaches was Moore, who was drunk and making himself disagreeable to all of the passengers. He soon addressed himself to Douglass, calling up an old dispute. Mr. Douglass tried to avoid trouble with the negro, but was finally assaulted. The two were seperated and Squire Douglass went on home. Shortly after dark Moore went to Squire Douglass' house, about one and a half miles from Lucy, and calling him to the door knocked him down with a heavy club and then rained blow after blow upon the prostrate body, literally beating his head to a jelly. The negro then escaped.
Source: Dallas Morning News, December 31, 1889
Motorcycle Rider Loses His Life.
Memphis, Tenn., Oct. 6 - Thomas J. Dupree, a member of Broadway & Co., local jewelers, and one of the most prominent business men of this city, while riding a motorcycle, collided with a street car here today, sustaining injuries which later resulted in his death.
Source: Dallas Morning News, Oct. 7, 1907
DUPUY - Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 29 - Gen. John D. Dupuy, a prominent ex-confederate soldier, died in Memphis to-day. Gen. Dupuy was in the battles of the army of Tennessee and was wounded four times.
Source: Dallas Morning News, December 1, 1898
