Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



The Hamilton Record & Rustler newspaper of Hamilton, Texas
April 17, 1913 edition

CARTER KIRVEN JR. DIES AT CORSICANA

Funeral of Lawyer and Mason Will Be Held This Morning

  Corsicana, Texas, April 16 - Carter Kirvin Jr. died Wednesday night, April 
2nd at his home in this city.  The funeral will take place from his residence 
tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.  He was born at Fairfield, Sept. 3, 1876, and 
attended school at Fairfield and at Austin College, Sherman.  He came to 
Corsicana in his youth and for about two years was District Clerk by appointment.  
He also served as Deputy County Clerk and for a while was bookkeeper for a
wholesale firm.  While performing official duties he read law and was admitted 
to practice.  Six years ago he managed Judge C. K. Bell's campaign in that
gentleman's candiacy for Governor.  The strenuous duties that fell upon him 
caused his health to give away and under the advice of the physician whom he 
consulted in New York he abandoned his law practice for a life of comparative
inactivity.  He was married to Miss Irene Bradley of Freestone County in June
1898, who, with three children, Carter, age 13; Bessie, 11, and George, 8, 
survives him.
  He was a son of Judge O. C. Kirven, chairman of the Board of Pardon Advisors.  
Judge Kirven, wife and daughter arrived this morning from Austin.
  Mr. Kirven was past exalted ruler of the lodge of Elks, and was also past 
district deputy of the grand lodge of Elks.  He was high up in Masonery, was an 
Odd Fellow and Knight of Pythias.  The pallbearers are: Active, Robert Johnson,
J.C. Cunningham, C.P. Pinkston, Lawson Coulson, A.H. Berry, Arthur Elliott, W. 
M. Peck and Rufus Caldwell; honorary, S.A. Pace, J.E. Whiteselle, R.E. Prince, 
J.J. McClellan, Judge L.B. Cobb, R.S. Neblett, Capt. W.T. Smith and Robert Stell.

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  Dallas Morning News
  May 11, 1924
  
  Judge O. C. Kirvin Will be Buried on Tuesday
  
  Special to the News
  
    CORSICANA, Texas, May 10 - Judge Oliver Carter Kirvin, who died at the home 
  of his son, William Kirvin, in Santa Anna, Cal., will be buried in Corsicana,
Tuesday, May 14, at 2 p.m., from the ...