Hunt Co., TX - Obituaries - Mrs. N. T. Lawler
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Pioneer Woman Falls Asleep
    While on a visit to her daughter, Mrs. E. V. Hufstedler in Dallas,
Mrs. N. T. Lawler of Lone Oak, fell ill and on Sunday, September 29,
1929, died in the Methodist Hospital in that city.  The remains were
removed to Lone Oak Monday, September 30, 1929, and following funeral
services held in the Methodist Church were laid to rest in the
cemetery at Hall, two miles, north by the side of Captain N. T. Lawler,
who preceded his good wife to the beyond about twelve years ago.
    For the funeral exercises, the church was packed with friends and
neighbors, many from Greenville and other towns in the county attending
out of respect to the family, one of the largest ever reared in Hunt
County.  Services at the church were directed by Rev. J.T. Brown, pastor,
with an eloquent oration by Rev. M. L. Hamilton of Greenville.  A select
choir rendered a number of familiar selections and there were also a
couple of appropriate solos.  As an opening scripture lesson, Rev. Brown
read Psalm 90, which was followed by the Resurrection chapter of the New
Testament, read by Rev. Hamilton.  A fervent and touching prayer was
delivered by Rev. J. F. Murrell of Greenville.
    Deceased was born a Morris, pioneer family of that vicinity, the
parent home at the time being in Georgia.  The date of her birth
was April 17, 1853, and came with her parents to Texas when a child of
only one year.  Soon after the War Between the States, she and Captain
Lawler were married at Gilmer, Texas.  Turning their faces west, they
moved on a tract of land close by the spot where their bodies repose in
the soil of beloved Hunt County.  A few years later they built and
established another home a short distance away and that is still the farm.
In more than sixty years, they lived and wrought in that community; they
reared a large family of seven sons and five daughters, one son having
died in infancy.  The sons are all sturdy and manly mean and daughters
cultured and refined women, an honor to their parents and the community
in which they were reared.  
    Captain Lawler taught school in the home community in an early day
and was greatly encouraged in his work by the counsel and advice of his
wife, a young woman of splendid intellectual attainments, as well as
learning and training.  The impress of parents touched in pleasing effect
the minds of their children and these reached happy results in the field
of knowledge.  The ambitions and hopes cherished by parents followed the
lifeline of their children and all have grown to sterling manhood and
esteemed womanhood, to grace the homes presided over by the daughters and
ennoble the avocations and professions in which the sons are engaged.
Not only in size but in perpetuation of the sterling traits of character
or parents, the Lawler name will doubtless bless and ennoble
generations yet unborn.
    The religion of the Bible was given right-of-way in the home and life
of the deceased mother and she has only passed on to the joys and realities
of the World Beyond, to find additional joy when the children one by one
shall join her in that land of the Leal.  Her heaven will be heaven to
each of these, so these can take comfort from the thought and belief that
they too shall gather at the river, when time is no more for them.
    Surviving are the following children:  Dr. E. L. Lawler, New Orleans;
Dr. Mrs. S. L. Barnes, Dallas; A. A. Lawler, Dallas; W. A. Lawler, Houston;
Mrs. W. B. Reeves, Greenville; Mr. L. J. Bratton, Rochelle; N. M. Lawler,
Panhandle; Mrs. E. V. Hufstedler,Dallas; N. T. Lawler, Lone Oak; T. M.
Lawler, Winslow, Arkansas; Q. C. Lawler, Memphis, Tennessee; Mrs. A. C.
Traweek, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.  Also, twenty-five grandchildren and one
sister, Mrs.. T. P. Faulk of Kings..
(October 3, 1929, The Greenville Messenger)