Carter Co. - Obit for Louis Kendrick Geurin ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Submitted by: Nita Emberlin aeberlin@texhoma.net *********************************************************************** Louis Kendrick Geurin Pioneer St. Jo Citizen Passes Written for the benefit of relatives and friends of L. K. Geurin by W. A. N. Brown of Healdton Thursday, January 19, 1933 Healdton Herald It is with sadness that I am reporting the death of my good old friend, L. K. Geurin of St. Jo, Texas, whom I have known for 42 years. We laid him to rest in the little old cemetery at Mountain Creek five miles north of St. Jo where my mother sleeps in her tomb of 42 years ago, and where my wife’s father had been sleeping for 45 years. L. K. (or Ken) as he was commonly called was born in Cleveland, Tennessee, Mary 14, 1854. His father died while he was in his infancy. His mother with her children moved to Parker County, Texas in 1856. In 1860 she married the Rev. Mr. Tyler (John Tyler), a Primitive Baptist minister, and in 1863, they moved four miles northeast of St. Jo, Texas to the place which is so commonly known as Tyler Bluff (also called Tyler Ridge), in fact, the place derived its name from Mr. Tyler on this place, on this place Ken grew to manhood. At the age of 25, he was married to Miss Anna Morgan, of another pioneer family, who lived in the same community, near the head of Burcham branch. To this union was born 10 children, all of whom seven are living, and were all blessed with the privilege of being at the burial of their father. They are: Mrs. Ida Vaughn, Memphis, Tx., George of Nacona, Tx., Bill of Healdton, Lester of St. Jo, Mrs. Nina Grover of Bonita, Tx., Mrs. Augusta Youngblood of Okmulgee, Okla., Mrs. Bethena Rayner of St. Jo. The children who preceded their father and mother in death are: Andrew, the oldest of the children who died 7 or 8 years ago, James and Frank who died while in childhood (their mother died in November, 1930). Two brothers and one sister: the Rev. George Geurin who lives near Oil City, Okla., James of Berwyn, Okla., and Mrs. Lavina Wright, widow of the late George Wright, of the Creel community and is a twin sister to the deceased. Only one brother was able to be at the funeral on account of illness and other infirmatives which usually accompany people when they get old. Uncle George, though very weak and blind made the trip and stood the ordeal remarkably well and at the grave, he sang a song by himself. It was “Shall We Gather at the River.” It is an old song that has been sung many a time at Mountain Creek by loved ones who now lie sleeping in the cold, cold clay. A brother-in-law, who lived near County Line (Oklahoma), Mr. Garnce Morgan, and his family were privileged to be at the funeral to pay their last respects together with a host of grandchildren. A great throng of friends were gathered together to pay their last respects to the man who had lived a clean, upright, Christian life in his community for 70 years. He professed Christianity more than 50 years ago and was a member of the Protestant Methodist Church.