Hopins Co TX - Obit for John Calhoun McDonald (1934) 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 submitter, 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/ *********************************************************************** McDonald, John Calhoun - Age 57 yrs., died at his home on Van Sickle street Monday night after a lingering illness of several months of heart trouble. Funeral services were held at the First Presbyterian Church, conducted by Pastor C. P. Owens. Interment in the City Cemetery. He was born two miles southeast of Reily Springs on Dec. 8, 1875, being the son of Mr. & Mrs. Neil Archibald McDonald, natives of Mississippi, his grandparents having come to that State from North Carolina. As a boy, he attended the rural school at Reily Springs, later attending school at Calvert, Texas, and Henry College at Campbell. For a number of years he taught in the rural schools of Hopkins County, until he accepted a position in the City National Bank of Sulphur Springs, more than 30 years ago, being assistant cashier of the bank at the time of his death. On Nov. 7, 1906, he married Miss Lizzie Lou Askew, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. John Askew of Sulphur Springs, and to this union one daughter was born, Miss Elizabeth McDonald, who, together with her mother, survive. He also leaves one brother, R. E. McDonald of Amarillo. For a number of years he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the city schools. For more than 25 years he was an elder in the Presbyterian Church. He was also a member of the Masonic and K. of P. lodges (Editor wrote of him) J. C. McDonald was the outstanding historian of Hopkins County. There has not been a special edition of any paper published in Sulphur Springs for the past forty years that he was not the feature writer of most historical events. At the time of his death he was at work on a history of Northeast Texas to be published later. He had accumulated much valuable information along that line, and had prepared much of the manuscript for the history, which will probably be used by those who may take up this important work where he left off. (Hopkins County Echo, Nov. 23, 1934)