Hopkins Co TX - Major B. D. Foscue Obit From: June E. Tuck ************************************************************************ 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 submitted, 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. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** FOSCUE, B. D.,Major - Major B. D. Foscue was born in Florida April 10, 1833, and died at his home in Sulphur Springs, Texas, January 28, 1898, after a painful illness of twenty-two days. He moved with his parent to Texas when a boy. He was happily married to Miss Mary Lyon of Alabama, in 1853. He lived near to and in the town of Jefferson, Texas, for more than thirty years. Three children were born to them, two of whom died in infancy, the other one is a prosperous business man in Sulphur Springs, Texas. Bro. Foscue moved to Sulphur Springs in 1884, where he was engaged in business a the time of his death. He professed religion and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1869, and was ever after a useful and honored member. He was chosen in his young manhood to represent his fellow-citizens in the Texas State Legislature. He was brave and patriotic, passing through the entire period of the late Civil War, receiving a very severe wound from which he never entirely recovered. In business he was energetic and systematic; began life as an humble farmer, was President of the First National Bank in Sulphur Springs at the time of his death. While he raised only one child of his own, he and his good wife raised eleven orphan children, who are all doing well in life. His sickness was long and painful. All was done possible to stay the ravages of death. A company of his friends, sixty-six in number, on board a special train, Sunday, January 30, carried his remains back to Jefferson and in the presence of a large company of sorrowing relatives and friends, in the soft sunlight of a cloudless sky, we tenderly laid his remains away among, the evergreens and flowers, to await the voice of the archangel and the trump of God. - J. M. Sweeton, P. C. Sulphur Springs, Texas. (Cumby Rustler reported - Col. Weaver died at Sulphur Springs Saturday night and was buried Monday. He was known all over this part of Texas as one of our best and wealthiest men and has been prominent in local affairs of both church and state for years. The people turned out from far and near to attend his funeral. It was the most largely attended of any like event ever in the county. A large line of descendants and friends by the hundred are in mourning but from his life they rest assured of his happy entrance into the abode of blest.)