Hopkins Co., TX - Obit - John Spurgeon Bagwell 1940 ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: June E. Tuck USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** From the files of June Tuck BAGWELL, JOHN SPURGEON - Prominent newspaper publisher, died at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota following a major operation there on June 14th. John Spurgeon Bagwell was born on a farm near Auburn, Georgia, May 7, 1871, where he grew to manhood. He attended a country school and after graduated from Mercer University at Macon, Georgia, with a degree in law, being licensed to practice law in the State of Georgia. In 1896 he came to Texas and taught school at Mt. Vernon. He was married to Miss Bessie Dupree of Mount Vernon, May 25, 1898. Later he was principal of the high school at Wills Point, resigning his position there to accept a professorship in Burleson College in Greenville. He was elected principal of the Terrell High School, which place he held for nine years. Mr. Bagwell left the school room to enter the newspaper field in Terrell and later owned and published newspapers in Forney, Mt. Pleasant, Paris and Sweetwater, before moving to Sulphur Springs in 1917, where he has resided since being familiarly known as "The Echo Man" of the Hopkins County Echo and The Daily News-Telegram. Being the son of a Baptist minister, Rev. George Larkin Bagwell, he joined that church early in life. He was "An Old-line, Bone-Dry, Deep-Water Democrat." Surviving are his wife and four children: Mrs. Tom Huddleston, Dr. John S. Bagwell, Jr., Rochester, Minnesota; Jerome Bagwell and Eric Bagwell, Sulphur Springs. A fifth child, Mary Bess, died in infancy while the family resided in Terrell. He is also survived by three brothers and four sisters: G. N. Bagwell, Winder, Georgia; W. N. Bagwell, Atlanta, Georgia; W. H. Bagwell, Memphis, Tennessee; Mrs. Alva Loveless, Winder, Georgia; Mrs. Emory Cooper, Lithonia, Georgia; Mrs. Otha Giles, Barnesville, Georgia, and Mrs. W. H. Maxwell, Winder, Georiga. Also two half-sister, who lives in Georgia. (Loose obituary dated 1940)