Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


Fairfield Recorder, Fairfield Texas
Friday, March 20, 1925

[Note - Born 1850 according to his tombstone]

TRIBUTE TO MEMORY OF J. C. LEE

On the afternoon of the 5th day of March a large and sorrowful croud follow
the hearse to the Wortham Cemetery where the remains of J. C. Lee were
laid to rest. The announcement that morning of his death on the evening
before had been a great shock to his friends. For on the evening before
he had gone to the Post Office and other places in town and in his cordial
way had greeted the friends he met. But while we were startled with his
sudden going we could also see that there was in one sence a kindness in
him. He was thus speared a living death bed with all its anxiety and suffering
He went to bed with the family in apparent health, then a few moments when
everything was still the death angel gently whispered Come and he closed
his eyes and went into that sleep that knows no wakening here.
The writer first meet Mr. Lee away back in the 70s. Our friendship grew
as the years went by. We both came to Wortham where we began our lifes
work and through the long years that have followed. We were close neighbors
and saw each other nearly every day. As a friend and neighbor he had few
superiors. He was always obilging, always cordial, always sincere. He was
alway clean in speech. He left his bible and the lessons that it taught.
The hopes that it inspirated in his last years he was sometimes seen on
the streets with the bible in his hand. He loved his church and Sunday
School. He was a tirless sincere church worker and always urging some friend
to attend and join the services but he is gone. We can wonder down to the
grave where his body rest and somebody will plant flowers there and they
will grow and bloom and be sweet and pure as the life he tried to live.

A friend in Wortham Journal