Hopkins Co., TX - Obit - Henry Gillis 1924 ***************************************************** 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 GILLIS, HENRY - Cumby, Hopkins Co., Texas - Nov. 7, 1924 - Henry Gillis, one of the oldest citizens of this section, died at his residence three miles east of this place Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Gillis was born in Western Tennessee, March 18, 1846, of farmer parents. With his widowed mother, he moved to this (Hopkins) county in 1855 and located within a mile of where he died, having lived nearly 70 years in the same neighborhood. He served the last two years of the Civil War as a soldier in the Confederate Army. He is survived by three sons, O. D. and Carroll Gillis of Cumby, and Will Gillis of Winnewood, Okla. The funeral was held Thursday afternoon at the Pleasant Grove Schoolhouse and was conducted by the Rev. A. L. Stidham of Brashear. ( Dallas Morning News, Nov. 8, 1924)