Albert P. Wilson (1876-1902)

Mr. Albert P. Wilson, age 27, a brakeman on the Houston and Texas Central, met a terrible death yesterday in the yards of the company at Hempstead.  He was one of the crew of the local freight coming from Hearne to Houston.  There were some cars to be sidetracked at Hempstead and he threw the switch that was to let them on the siding.  As he did so, his foot was caught in the frog and try as he might he could not extricate himself.  The cars came down on him and crushed out his life.  One car and the forward wheels of another passed over him.  It was stated that death was instantaneous.

The remains were brought to Houston, his home, last night on the regular passenger train and were taken in charge by undertakers Wall & Stabe and prepared for burial.  Mr. Wilson resided at 27 Stanley Place.  He leaves a wife and child, several brothers and sisters, and parents Joseph B. and Eliza Wilson.  He was a member of the Texas Star Lodge No. 284, Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.  The funeral will be held this afternoon at 4 o'clock under the auspices of the brotherhood and the members are requested to meet at Union Labor Hall at 2 p.m.  The interment will be made in German Cemetery.

++ published in the Houston Daily Post, 2 March 1902.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family. 

Mary Norvell George (1837-1903)

A dispatch received this morning from St. Louis states that Mrs. George, widow of the late Dr. William George, one of the pioneer pastors of this city (Fort Worth), passed away in that city last night, aged 67 years.  The remains will arrive here Thursday, accompanied by members of the family.

Published in the Houston Daily Post, Houston Texas - 21 January 1903.
Note: Rev. William George (1828-1896) was a Presbyterian minister who served in Midway, Mount Horeb and Bethel. 

Mary Jane Tarver Scarbrough (1835-1903)

Mrs. M.J. Scarborough, aged 68 years, died yesterday afternoon at the family residence at 115 Haight Street in Gainesville, Texas.  The deceased has lived in the city for fifteen years and is of a prominent family.  Funeral services were held this afternoon at 4pm.
Published in the Houston Daily Post, 21 January 1903.

Note: Mary Jane Tarver was born in November 1835 in Georgia, according to census records, and was widowed by 1900.  She had a son named Newton.  We found two variations of the spelling of her married name, and Gainesville is located in Cooke County, TX.  We are not related to this family and have no further information.

Kinchen Collins, Jr. (1869-1903)

Kinch Collins, Jr., age 33, died in Hempstead, Waller County, Texas on 17 January 1903, at the home of his aunt Mrs. Emma Pier.  He had been suffering from a lingering illness of consumption, according to his obituary in the Houston Daily Post.  Kinch was the son of Mary and Kinchen Collins of Austin County, Texas.  His brothers and sisters were Milam, Linda, Lucien and Cochran Collins.

Jennie Biggers Nettle (1872-1954)

Mrs. Jennie Biggers Nettles, age 82, of Hampton, Arkansas, widow of John M. Nettles, died Thursday September 23, 1954 at the Hampton Clinic.  She was a daughter of Alexander J. Biggers and Harriet J. Means Biggers, and a member of the Church of Christ. 

Mrs. Nettles is survived by two sons, John Nettles and Ray Nettles, both of Hampton; three daughters, Mrs. L.B. Dilworth, Mrs. C.L. Daniel and Miss Jo Nettles.  She also leaves two brothers, Bob Means Biggers and A.J. Biggers, and one sister, Mrs. J.C. Strickland.  Twelve grandchildren also survive.

Funeral services will be held at the Church of Christ in Hampton at 3:30pm Friday.  Burial will be in Means Cemetery by Benton Funeral Home of Fordyce.  Bro. Earl Richardson of Shreveport, Louisiana will conduct the services.

=== based on an obituary in the Camden News, 23 Feb 1954.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding Mrs. Nettles or her family.

Paul Marshall (1801-1899)

One of the oldest citizens of Carroll County, Paul Marshall, departed this life April 20, 1899, at the residence of his son-in-law, Aaron A. Davis, in Polo Township.  The deceased was one of twin brothers born June 1, 1801, and would have been 99 years old if he had reached his next birthday.  The other brother, Saul Marshall, was still living at Kadesh, Virginia, when last heard from the second day of last March.

Paul Marshall had raised a large family, sixteen children in all, and of these five are still living, the youngest one being now fifty years of age.  During his long residence in this county he had made many friends.

== published in the Arkansas Gazette, April 1899.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Elizabeth Bacchus Cranford (1834-1935)

Mrs. Elizabeth Bacchus Cranford, Ouachita County's oldest white woman, who recently celebrated her 101st birthday, died at the home of her daughter Mrs. C.D. Tutt, eight miles south of Camden on the Stephens Highway.  Her death, on Sunday, October 3rd, 1935, was sudden, as the former schoolteacher was in good health on Saturday.

She was born in Henry County, near Paris, Tennessee, on April 25, 1834.  She came with her parents to Ouachita County in 1840 and taught school continuously from 1859 to 1870.  She later taught at intervals for many years.  On April 25, 1934, Mrs. Cranford celebrated her 100th birthday with a party at her home and more than fifty of her friends and neighbors and many of her former students honored her that day. She received a message of congratulations from President Roosevelt.

Her father was Judge Asa W. Bacchus, Ouachita County's first county judge after Arkansas was admitted as a state.  Although she was a busy teacher during the Civil War, she found time to do much for Confederate soldiers.  Four of her brothers fought for the South, and three of them were killed.  She was married in 1870 to the Rev. H.G. Cranford, a minister of the Christian Church.  He also served in the Confederate Army.  He died at Stephens on December 11, 1911.

She is survived by three daughters; Mrs. Tutt, Mrs. G.T. Criner of Little Rock, and Mrs. Lula Brown, one sister, Mrs. Susan Criner of Stephens; ten grandchildren and ten great grandchildren.  Funeral services were held at Whitefield Church on Monday.  Proctor Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

== published in the Camden News, 4 Oct 1935, Camden, Arkansas.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

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Charles A. Westfall (1874-1951)

Charles A. Westfall, 77, retired Baptist minister of Dierks, Arkansas, died in a Little Rock hospital on Friday following a long illness.  He was born March 4, 1874 in Davidson County, North Carolina to Andrew H. Westfall and Elizabeth Cornish Westfall.  He had been pastor for churches in Howard, Hempstead, Pike and Sevier counties for the last 47 years.  He had been hospitalized for the last three months.

Survivors include his wife, Mattie Keeling Westfall, two sons, O'Neal Westfall, now in the Army, and Charles S. Westfall of Hot Springs, two daughters, Myrtle Westfall of Nashville Tennessee, and Mrs. Jewel (Herbert) Cates of Texarkana; two brothers, two sisters, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. 

Services will be conducted at 2:30pm today in the First Baptist Church by the Rev. W.E. Perry and burial will be in Ozan Cemetery in Bingen.

=== published in the Arkansas Democrat, 18 March 1951.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or the career of Rev. Westfall.

Thomas Edward Barron (1872-1951)

Thomas Edward Barron, 79, of 1921 North Spruce St. in Little Rock, died at his residence on March 17, 1951.  He was born on May 14, 1872 in South Carolina to James S. and Alice Legg Barron.  He retired in 1936 from Little Rock Laundry after fifty years of employment there.  He was a member of the First Methodist Church and an honorary member of its Board of Stewards.

Mr. Barron is survived by three daughters; Mrs. William Bohle, Mrs. Harvey (Helen) Brown, and Miss Lalla Lee Barron, all of Little Rock.  Also four sons; Robert A. Barron and Dr. Edwin N. Barron of Little Rock, Rev. William W. Barron of Carthage, Arkansas and James O. Barron of Tulsa.

Also surviving are two brothers and four sisters; Claude Barron and J.W. Barron, Mrs. Harry Hermann, Mrs. Paul C. (Annie) Lang, Mrs. Gertrude Buzbee and Mrs. Lee (Sallye) Reinhardt, all of Little Rock.

Funeral arrangements will be announced by Griffin-Leggett.

== obituary published in the Arkansas Democrat, 18 March 18, 1951.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or the career of the deceased. 

Louisa Malnati (1865-1950)

Mrs. Louisa Malnati, 85, of 25 South Federal Boulevard in Denver, widow of stonecutter Henry Malnati, who helped build the state capitol and other public buildings here, died in the General Rose Memorial Hospital at 2am Monday after an eight-week illness.

She was born in Milan, Italy, on September 29, 1865, and came to Denver 62 years ago with her husband, who was brought here to assist in carving blocks of granite which went into the statehouse.  For many years she ran a boardinghouse in a rambling frame structure near the capitol building.

Her husband was employed in building the Denver Mint and other structural work.  He died fifteen years ago.  Mrs. Malnati was active in affairs of the Presentation Catholic Church and until her death was a devout communicant. 

She is survived by four daughters; Mrs. Kate Ferretti, prominent milliner of 4235 Tejon Street, Mrs. Charles Boggs of 3877 Newton Street, Mrs. Eda Eisch of 25 South Federal Boulevard, and Mrs. Josephine Ward of 1360 Otis Street.  She is also survived by four sons; Art of 376 Dahlia Street, Edward of 1317 South Garfield Street, Charles C. of 4609 Alcott Street, and Lewis of Chicago, Illinois.

Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Boulevard mortuary.

== published in an unidentified and undated newspaper.  Clipping discovered and transcribed by researcher who has no further knowledge of this family. 

John S. Reynolds, D.D.S. (1847-1887)

Dr. J.S. Reynolds died in Monroe, (Green County) Wisconsin on September 11, 1887.  He was a native of Pennsylvania who arrived in our fair state before the age of thirty.  He was well-known throughout the West as an energetic and progressive dentist.  He was an active and useful member of the Wisconsin State Dental Society, and often materially contributed to the proceedings of other similar organizations.  In his own community he was beloved and respected.  He is survived by his wife Katie and son Frank.

=== based on an obituary published in Volume 1 of the Dental Review, October 1887.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or the career of Dr. Reynolds.

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David W. Perkins, M.D. (1816-1884)

Dr. David W. Perkins died at Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 18, 1884, of cancer of the stomach at the age of 68 years.  He will be best remembered among the dental profession as the inventor of the Perkins Chair, which form many years was the best dental chair known.  He began life as a civil engineer, and was employed by the State of New York for some three years and engaged in the construction of the Black River Canal.  He afterwards studied medicine, taking the degree of M.D. at the Castleton Medical College of Castleton, Vermont.  His studies in dentistry were pursued under the preceptorship of the late Dr. Foster of Utica, NY and in the year 1843 he removed to Milwaukee, where he resided during the remainder of his life.

Dr. Perkins was an excellent and conscientious operator, a man just in all in all his dealings, enjoying a high reputation among all his acquaintances, and his loss will be deeply felt among all of them. 

== Published in the Dental Advertiser, Volume 15, 1884.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or the career of Dr. Perkins.

Edwin Waldamar Edahl, M.D. (1893-1955)

Dr. Edwin Waldamar Edahl died on June 8, 1955 in El Paso, Texas, of an acute myocardial infarction.  He was a resident of Van Horn.  He was born February 14, 1893 in Chicago, Illinois to O.J. and Marta Edahl.  He attended the Crane Technical High School in Chicago and the University of Illinois.  He received his doctor of medicine degree from the University of Illinois Medical School on April 1, 1930.  After an internship at the Wesley Memorial Hospital in Chicago, he began his practice in that city. 

In 1941, Dr. Edahl moved to New Mexico, where he was associated with the New Mexico Department of Health.  From 1943-1946 he served as a major in the Army Medical Corps, stationed in England, France and Belgium.  He had been a bacteriologist during World War I.  He then spent one year in practice at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Amarillo, Texas.  Moving to Van Horn in 1947, he remained there and was in active practice at the time of his death. 

A member of the El Paso County Medical Society, he was also a member of the Texas Medical Association, the American Medical Association, and Alpha Omega Alpha medical fraternity.  He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and Shrine, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Nu Sigma Nu fraternity, and the Lutheran Church.  He also was past alderman of the city of Van Horn and a past president of Rotary International.  For many years Dr. Edahl had studied the history of healing and he left many notes on his research.

Miss Olive Gethin-Davies and the doctor were married in 1946.  Mrs. Edahl and two children, Hannah Marta and Anna Bertina, survive, as does his father, O.J. Edahl of Voss, Norway.  A son, Edwin Waldamar Edahl, Jr. preceded his father in death.

=== published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or the career of the physician. 

William Lawson Allen, M.D. (1880-1955)

Dr. William Lawson Allen died on June 9, 1955, in Rising Star, Texas, of coronary thrombosis.  He had been a practicing physician in Rising Star for 25 years, and was in the process of retiring and moving to Sweetwater at the time of his death.

The son of Celia Elizabeth and Samuel Bevel Allen, he was born September 19, 1880, at May, in Brown County, Texas.  He attended Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College in College Station, and completed his medical education at the Texas Christian University Medical School in Fort Worth in 1915.  After practicing three years in Ranger, Dr. Allen moved to Rotan, where he continued his practice from 1918-1938.  From there he went to Brownwood, where he remained until 1942, when he began his practice in Rising Star.  He was city health officer for several years, and was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations consecutively through the Eastland, Fisher-Stonewall, Nolan-Fisher-Mitchell, and Brown-Comanche-Mills-San Saba Counties Medical Societies.

Dr. Allen was a past president of the Fisher-Stonewall Counties Society, and a member of Phi Chi medical fraternity.  He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and Delta Chi social fraternity.  He owned several pecan orchards and was a member of the Pecan Growers Association.  He married Miss Lydia Evatt on June 10, 1910, at May.  Mrs. Allen survives, as do two children, Tyrus Allen and Mrs. Jimmy Maddox of Sweetwater.  He is also survived by three brothers; Dr. H.B. Allen of Brownwood, E. Otis Allen of Norten, and O.C. Allen of Sydney, and two sisters; Mrs. Maggie Wagnon of Temple and Mrs. V. Earl Earp of Monahans.

=== published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding the family or Dr. Allen's career.

Jesse Mark Hill, M.D. (1880-1955)

Dr. Jesse Mark Hill, who had practiced medicine in Crowell, Texas, for fifty years, died on April 23, 1955 after an automobile accident near his home.  He was born on April 13, 1880 in Calhoun County, Georgia to Horace Hill and Nancy Fite Hill.  He moved with his parents to Texas, where he attended public schools in Crowell.  He attended the University of Tennessee in Nashville, and then completed his medical education at the Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons (now known as Emory University School of Medicine) in 1902.  Dr. Hill practiced briefly in New York, San Francisco and Chicago before settling in Crowell.  The past few years he had devoted primarily to his ranch interests.

Dr. Hill was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Hardeman-Cottle-Foard-Motley Counties Medical Society, and of the Third District Medical Society.  He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and was president of the local school board for many years. 

In 1904 he was married to Miss Edna M. Thacker of Crowell.  Mrs. Hill survives, as do three children; J.M. Hill Jr. and Mrs. Helen Norman, both of Crowell, and Mrs. Frances McCombs of Las Cruces, New Mexico.  Other survivors include a half sister, Mrs. Mable Burns of California, and three half-brothers, Fite Crowell and Grover Crowell, both of Crowell, and Cliff Crowell of California.

= = = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or Dr. Hill's career.

George W. Southers (1866-1890)

George W. Southers, a young man who was badly injured yesterday in a wreck three miles east of Santo, Texas, (Palo Pinto County) died January 28th, 1890 in Weatherford.  He had been taken there for medical attention and his leg was amputated. 

Mr. Southers was scheduled to have been married to Miss May Emmitt of Bloomington, Illinois and had made arrangements for a home in Fort Worth.  After he was hurt he told his conductor, Mr. Smith, to write and tell Miss Emmitt he was badly hurt and could not recover, and that he was over with all his trials and troubles in this world.

He was a man of about 24 years of age, a sober and industrious young person, and his untimely death is deeply deplored by all who knew him.  He will be buried at Gouldsboro, Louisiana, where his parents reside.

= = based on an obituary in the Galveston Daily News, 30 Jan 1890.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.

Walter Bassel Jackson, M.D. (1879-1955)

Dr. Walter Bassel Jackson of Waxahachie, Texas, died at his home on June 29th, 1955 of a kidney ailment.  He was born February 5th, 1879 in Ozro, Texas, to John and Susan Jackson.  After receiving his early education in Maypearl, he attended Northern Indiana Normal School and was a graduate in pharmacy from Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, Indiana in 1906.  He took his medical training at the University of the South in Nashville, Tennessee, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Dallas, from which he received his doctor of medicine degree in 1907.

After practicing briefly in Alvarado, Texas, Dr. Jackson settled in Waxahachie, where he practiced from 1915 until his death.  He was past president of the Ellis County Medical Society, and was a member of the Texas Medical Association and the American Medical Association.  He served as city health officer in both Alvarado and Waxahachie and as a medical examiner during both World Wars.  He was a member of the Christian Church, the Odd Fellows Lodge and the Knights of Pythias.

Dr. Jackson and Miss Alice Mansfield were married on September 21, 1900 in Tullahoma, Tennessee.  Survivors include Mrs. Jackson, one daughter, Mrs. A.W. Simpson of Dallas; three sons, Buford Jackson, Hayden Jackson and Dick Jackson, all of Waxahachie; and two brothers, Calvin Jackson and Jack Jackson, both of Maypearl.

= = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or the doctor's career. 

Charles Edward Davis, M.D. (1926-1955)

Dr. Charles Edward Davis, anesthesiologist, died at his home in Austin, Texas, on his twenty-ninth birthday, June 4, 1955, of chronic glomerulonephritis.  He was the son of Charles P. and Nell May Davis, and was born on June 4, 1926 in Magnet, Nebraska.  He attended high school in North Platte, and when he was thirteen he began working after school in the local hospital.  He spent one year at the University of Nebraska, then went to the University of Idaho at Pocatello, where he graduated in 1945.

He received his medical education at the University of Michigan Medical School, from which he was graduated in 1949.  He then interned for one year at the Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas.  He began a general residency at Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, Texas, but was recalled to active duty with the Naval Medical Corps in October, 1950. 

He was commissioned as a lieutenant jg, and after several months in the United States, was sent to Korea where he maintained a battalion aid station for the Army with the Twenty-Fourth Division.  He was awarded a United Nations Citation for his service.  In 1951, he was transferred to the naval hospital in Oceanside, California, and shortly after this, he became ill and was hospitalized there until 1953, when he was retired by the Navy.  He returned to Austin and worked with the Austin Anesthesiology Group until January 1955, when he went to Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas as a resident in anesthesia.

Dr. Davis was a member of the Travis County Medical Society, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, and Alpha Kappa Kappa medical fraternity.  He was also a member of Phi Gamma Delta social fraternity and the Christian Church.  He enjoyed flying and sailing, and received his private pilot's license when he was seventeen. 

Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Davis, and two sisters, Miss Madelon Elaine Davis and Mrs. Florine Branch, all of Austin.

= = = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or Dr. Davis' career.

Rex Edward Van Duzen, M.D. (1893-1955)

Dr. Rex Edward Van Duzen of Dallas, Texas, urologist, died in a local hospital on May 24, 1955, following a brief illness.  He was a member of the Texas and American Medical Associations through the Dallas County Medical Society, and in 1954 served as chairman of the Urology Section of the American Medical Association.  He was an honorary member of the Mexico Society of Urology; his other medical affiliations included membership in the American Urology Association, the Pan American Medical Association, and Phi Chi medical fraternity and fellowship in the American College of Surgeons.  He was chairman of the Section on Urology of the Southwestern Medical Association.

Born in Breckenridge, Michigan on November 15, 1893, he was the son of Charles Van Duzen and Amy Taylor Van Duzen.  He was graduated from Alma College in Michigan in 1913 and received his medical education at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor.  In 1918, he served an internship at the New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, and two years later he served his residency in the University of Michigan Hospital.  He did postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.  He moved to Dallas in 1920 and had been in active practice here since that time.

He was a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner, belonged to the Dallas Country Club, and had served on the board of directors of the Dallas Athletic Club since 1949.  During World War I, he served in the medical corps as a first lieutenant and was stationed in France.

Dr. Van Duzen was married to the former Miss Barbara Shaw of Galveston on March 15, 1922.  She survives, as do three daughters; Mrs. Fred B. Freeman, Miss Yvonne Van Duzen and Miss Gail Van Duzen, all of Dallas; his mother Mrs. Amy Van Duzen of Ypsilanti, Michigan; two brothers, Dr. Verne L. Van Duzen of Ypsilanti, and Dr. Dale Van Duzen of Cleveland, Ohio.

= = published in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, August 1955.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family or the physician's career.

Thomas Owen Murray (1871-1953)

Thomas Owen Murray, 82, of 1211 McIlvaine Street in San Antonio, died in his home Friday August 14th.  A native Texan, he was born in Wilson County on July 10, 1871 to Robert Washington Murray and Margaret Frances James Murray.  Thomas moved to San Antonio in 1903 and had lived in the city for more than 50 years at the time of his death.  He was a carpenter and a member of the Los Angeles Heights Presbyterian Church. 

In 1909, Thomas married Miss Margaret Olivia Yeamans in San Antonio.  Mrs. Murray survives, as do a son Thomas Owen Murray, Jr.; a daughter Mrs. Ray T. Dixon, both of San Antonio; three brothers, J.G. Murray, Obed R. Murray and I.C. Murray, all of San Antonio; and two sisters, Mrs. H.L. Miller of San Antonio and Mrs. G.M. Warren of Lavernia, Texas.

Services will be held at 10am Monday at the Los Angeles Heights Presbyterian Church.  Interment will be at Roselawn Memorial Park.

== Obituary based on a notice in the San Antonio Express, 16 August 1953.  Transcriber is not a relative and has no further information regarding this family.