Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


[This is Dr. Thomas Lee Cyrus Means b 28 Feb 1825, m 1 Jul 1852 to Justina 
  Annette Wills, d 3 Jul 1903.]


Dallas Morning News - July 05, 1903 issue

Dr. T. L. C. Means


Dr. T. L. C. Means died at his home on Tenth street in Oak Cliff, Friday 
morning at 7 o'clock.

Dr. Means was 78 years old, having been born in February, 1825, in Green 
County, Alabama.

He moved to Freestone County, Texas, in 1850, and was married to Miss Armette
Wills, a daughter of Dr. J. S. Wills, one of the first settlers of Texas in
1852. For forty years he practiced medicine in Freestone and adjoining 
counties, building up a large and successful practice, most of which was done 
on horseback. He was held in highest confidence and veneration by a host of 
people in the territory covered by his practice.

Early in life he joined the Presbyterian Church, and when a young man was 
made a ruling elder in that church, and at the time of his death was probably
the oldest ruling elder in point of service in Texas.

He moved to Oak Cliff in 1894 and since that time has lived a life of 
retirement.
 
Three sons and four daughters survive him: Leroy R. Means, Denver, Colo.; Col. 
John L. Means, Shreveport, La.; Dr. E. A. Means, Oak Cliff; Mrs. Nora Simmons,
Kerens, Tex.; Mrs. Emma Reynolds and Mrs. Etta White, Mexia, Tex., and Misses 
Angie and Nettie Means, Oak Cliff.

His wife for more than a half a century died in Oak Cliff in January, 1902.

The pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Oak Cliff, Rev. W. L. Lowrance, 
has returned from San Saba to conduct the funeral services. Pallbearers have 
been announced as follows: John W. George, J. E. Turner, E. M. Browder, J. 
Farley and W. E. Ellison.