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Travis County Obituaries
CALLAWAY, Dr. Morgan
SERVICES TODAY FOR INSTRUCTOR AT UNIVERSITY
Austin. Tex., April 3.—AP—Funeral services for Dr. Morgan Callaway, widely known authority on English literature and member of the University of Texas faculty, will be held tomorrow. Dr. Callaway died today after a long illness.
He became a professor in the university in 1890 after teaching at Emory College. Gs., and Southwestern University at Georgetown. He received his bachelor and master degrees at Emory College and doctor of philosophy degree at Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Callaway was recognized as an expert on nyntax and wrote several books on the history and development of the English language. He held an honorary doctor of laws degree from Southern Methodist University, was a Phi Beta Kappa, and member of the Linguistic Society, of America, the Modern Language Association and the Modern Humanities Research Association.
From 1909 to 1923, he served as literary editor of "The Library of Southern Literature."
[The Galveston Daily News Saturday April 4 1936 - submitted by B. Z.]
CLARKE, Horace C.
Dr. Horace C. Clarke Dead At Austin, Tex.
Word has been received here that Dr. Horace Casteline Clarke passed away at 1:30 last Friday afternoon at the residence of Miss E.T. Folsom, 1802 Colorado Street, Austin, Tex. He died from effects resulting from injuries received while on duty as surgeon in the army. During his illness he was attended by Mrs. Virginia Doppe and friends. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
[Jan. 2, 1920 Deming Headlight, Deming New Mexico - Submitted by Shauna L Williams]
GLESON, August
August Gleson Dead
Austin Tex., July 14 - August Gleson for years one of the most prominent business men in the community, died today in a santarium in Milwaukee, Wisc. where he had gone to have an operation performed. August Glesen was born in Germany in 1864. for twenty-nine years he had been connected with the firm of Walter Tips in responsible positions. He is survived by his widow, two sons, Hillmar Gleson of thw Mechanics National Bank of St. Louis and Walter Gleson, a civil engineer of El Paso, and a daughter, Miss Margaret Gleson, who is now visiting relatives in germany, and a brother, William Gleson, resprensative in the Thirty-first Legislature from haynes County.
[Galveston Daily News 1909-07-15 submitted by B. Z.]
HOUSTON, TempleTemple Houston, youngest son of General Sam Houston, who may be called the creator of the republic of Texas, has recently died in Oklahoma. Temple Houston was one of the strange, abnormal characters that achieve notoriety on the frontier. He did not like to be referred to as the son of Sam Houston, preferring to have a reputation of his own, and he won it. He was abnormal in his physical proportions, in his mental traits and in his notions of becoming attire. He had talent, a considerable acquaintance with books, a love for liquor and for Tabasco sauce, and was a compound of feminine sensitiveness and brawling habits. By profession he was a lawyer, and a successful one in the courts of the Southwest. He had been a Senator in Texas, and was a fervid, imaginative orator. His courage was unquestioned, and he had killed his man in a saloon fight. He was one of those the true tale of whose lives seems stranger than fiction. He died when 45 years old of a stomach trouble caused by intemperance.
[The Morning Oregonian (Portland, OR), Tuesday, September 12, 1905 - Contributed by, Jim Dezotell]
SHEPARD, James E.
Death of Judge Shepard
Austin, TX July 16 Judge James E. Shepard of Austin died suddenly late this afternoon at the residence of George L. Robertson at the advanced age of 77. He was a native of Virginia, having been born in Matthews County, that state, in 1817. He was educated at Miami University at Oxford, O. and was admitted to the bar at Flemingsburg KY in 1833. In November 1846, he removed to Texas and located at Brenham, where he resided until 1873 when he moved to this city. At Brenham he was the law partner of his brother, Hon Chauncey B. Shepard, father of Hon Seth Shepard of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia. Judge Shepard was a member of the Texas legislature in 1850 and again just prior to the civil war in 1861 he was a member of the convention which severed the relations of Texas with the union and being an ardent southerner in his views promptly enlisted in the service of the confederacy and was made colonel of the sixteenth Texas. While in the army he was elected judge of the then third judicial district, was a member of the reconstruction convention in 1866, and was during that year re-elected district judge which place he held until removed by the military authorities in 1867. Subsequently he was dean of the law facility of Baylor University. In 1873, when he removed to Austin, he formed a partnership with J. G. Searcy and Seth Shepard which lasted five years. Judge Shepard then moved back to Brenham and remained until some eight or then years ago when he returned to Austin. He has not been in the practice for some years, but in his prime was regarded one of the best lawyers of the state. His remains will be taken to Brenham for interment. [Dallas Morning News Dated 7-17-1894]
SMITH, John T.
Austin Texas, Sept 25 -- News has reached here of the death at his home in Junction City of John T. Smith, formerly of Austin. He was a graduate of the State University and had many friends. He followed the profession of civil engineer and was a prominent Mason. [Dallas Morning News 1900-09-27- submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer]
WHITEHEAD, Mary
Austin, Texas Sept 25 -- The death of Mrs. Mary Whitehead, wife of Carl Whitehead occurred at her home here yesterday evening. The funeral took place this morning. [Dallas Morning News 1900-09-27 - submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer]
YRAYNHAM, Mrs. John H.
Austin, Texas April 2 -- Mrs. John H. Yraynham died today suddenly of heart disease and the remains were shipped to Chappell Hill for interment. Only two weeks ago she last her husband and shortly before that her only daughter. [Dallas Morning News 1900-04-03 submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer]
AUSTIN, Texas Colonel Louis Knox, professor and head of the Department of Chemistry at The Citadel, Charleston, S. C, died Sunday.
[Atlanta Journal, 16 Apr 1945 - transcribed by K. T.]
Joe Kerbey Is Dead In Austin
One of the Owners of Big Alexander Addition Is Victim of PneumoniaThe death at Austin, Tex., of Joe C. Kerbey, Jr., of pneumonia on Thursday, was reported Friday morning to Lee H. Orndorff by Arthur Smelley, of Austin. Mr. Kerbey was well known in this city, being one of the family owning the 640 acre Alexander addition to the city, which extends from its southeast corner at the intersection of East Rio Grande and Kansas streets, at Hotel Dieu, northward and westward to Kern Place addition, taking in all of what is known as the mesa. With D. Storms, local lawyer, Mr. Kerbey practically controlled the addition for many years.Mr. Kerbey was here about four months ago. He was born and reared in Austin.
El Paso Herald
El Paso, Texas
October 18, 1918
The Funeral of James S. Hogg
The Body Will Be Laid Beside That Of His Beloved Wife In Austin CemeteryAustin, Texas, March 4 The remains of ex-Governor Hogg lie tonight in the reception room of the governor at the state capitol. They reached here this evening at 5:15 o clock on the Houston and Texas Central, coming by regular train from Houston.
There was a large concourse of people numbering several hundred, many of them old friends and associates of the distinguished dead at the depot when the train arrived.
Attached to the train was the private car of T. Fay, which carried members of the bereaved family and a few of their friends. These included Miss Ima Hogg, Will Hogg, Mrs. F. B. King, Mrs. Dr. Hogg, Dr. Hogg, Frank C. Jones and Edgar Watkins. The delegation of Houston people who escorted the body to Austin embraced a number of members of the bar and several business men of prominence. On the bar there were Frank Andrews, Chester Bryan, O. T. Holt, H. F. Ring, George H. Pendarvis and J. F. Walters.
The business interests were represented by W. T. Campbell, Walter Sharp, J. S. Cullinan, George W. Burkitt, Sr., Mr. Barnes and Max Andrew.
E. M. House, R. W. Finley and J. H. Robertson of this city, who have active charge of the funeral arrangements, were present when the train arrived, as was all of the active and several of the honorary pall-bearers. The remains were taken in charge by V. O. Weed and placed in the hearse and the cortege moved up Congress avenue to the capitol. The active pall-bearers preceded and walked alongside the hearse. They were: George W. Littlefield, James Littlefield, James H. Robertson, R. W. Finley, John Lovejoy, W. R. Hamby, Jno. W. Robbins, John D. McCall, N. W. Finlay, E. M. House, E. R. Kone, W. T. Campbell, Joseph Nalle and Jeff Johnson.
Governor Lanham, ex-Governor Sayers, Associate Justice Brown, O. T. Holt, Thomas M. Campbell, Associate Justice Williams and other honorary pall-bearers followed the hearse in carriages. There was quite a procession of citizens in vehicles and on foot back of these. Arriving at the east end of the capitol the building was entered and the body was conveyed to the reception room on the second floor. The casket was placed on the east side of the room. Directly above it are two Texas flags intertwined and below the flags is an oil painting of the distinguished dead. The granite pillars of the capitol and the interior of the reception room were festooned with crepe.
The services for the dead were of a very simple nature. No military or other guard surrounds the bier. Tonight Cleveland Morris and Leonard Robbins kept silent watch over the dead. The only persons admitted to the reception room this evening after the casket been placed in repose were the pall-bearers. The lid was opened and those present were permitted to look upon the features of the man who was their friend when in life.
Many friends were attracted to the capitol under the belief that the body would lie in state this evening, but those who had charge of the funeral arrangements decided that it would be best to defer admitting the public until tomorrow morning.
The remains will be removed to the senate chamber tomorrow morning and the doors thrown open to the public at 10:30 o clock, when the funeral services will be held there and the remains will then be taken to the city cemetery and buried by the side of his wife.Palestine Daily Herald
Palestine, Texas
March 5, 1906
REYNOLDS, Charles Glenn
Former Uvalde resident Charles Glenn Reynolds, 78, husband of SWTGS Charter Member Ruth Reynolds, died in Austin on Friday, December 18, 1987. He was born Jan. 30, 1909, in St. Paul, Minn. Reynolds was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Uvalde: was a 50-year member of the Garrettsville Masonic Lodge No. 246 in Garrettsville, Ohio, was a Royal Arch Mason, and served in the U.S. Navy during WWII. He is survived by his widow, Ruth Reynolds, Austin: two daughters and sons-in-law, Suzanne and Byron Wenzel of Ohio and Linda and Lon Brown of Austin: son and daughter-in-law, Richard and Dianne Reynolds of Conroe: sister and brother-in-law, Florence and Kenneth Wood of Grand Rapids, Mich: sister-in-law, Marjorie Reynolds, Grand Rapids: eight grandchildren, one great-grandchild; and numerous nieces and nephews. His widow Ruth, is a Charter Member of SWTGS and, as long as her husband’s health permitted, was a frequent volunteer for whatever job there was to be done.
[Source: “Branches and Acorns” SWTGS Quarterly Vol. III, No. 3, p. 89 – March 1988]
Mrs. Lucinda Raymond, daughter of Johanan and Jane Rigs, born on August 29, 1816, died and was buried at Austin, Texas, August 19. She moved to Texas in 1839.
[Source: St. Charles Journal, Jan. 1882. Submitted by Joanne Scobee Morgan]
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