Polk County Texas Obituaries

GATTLIN
"The News", Houston, Tex., April 1.
Sheriff Stanley of Polk county is in the city to-day, returning home from Wharton, whither he went recently on important official business. He brings news of the killing of a man named Bill Gattlin. It seems that Sheriff Rich of Wharton county had information that Gattlin was wanted at Little Rock, Ark. In attempting to make the arrest, or, rather, as soon as Gattlin was asked what his name was, he began to draw his pistol. Two shots were immediately fired and Gattlin fell to the ground dead. He leaves a young wife and a son by a former wife. The Galveston Daily News, (Houston, TX) Friday, April 02, 1897 - submitted by Janice Rice

RAMSEY
Death of an Old Settler.
Easterly, Robertson Co., Tex., Feb. 19.—Dr. W. M. Ramsey, aged 79 years, died here last night. He was born in South Carolina in 1818. He came to Polk county in the the 50's, at which place he married. In the early days he was a successful teacher of youth. He afterward adopted the profession of medicine, which he followed for thirty years. He was a lieutenant in the confederate army during the late war and was well and widely known. The Galveston Daily News, (Houston, TX) Monday, February 22, 1897 - submitted by Janice Rice