Jack Co., TX - Obituaries - Thomas Jefferson Glakler *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************** The Jacksboro Gazette Jacksboro, Jack County, Texas Thursday, January 18, 1917 Thomas J.[Jefferson] Glakler passed away 4 January 1917, and was laid to rest in Oakwood cemetery. Thomas J. Glakler was born 25 January 1848 and came to Jacksboro in 1872. He opened a shop as gunsmith. Brother Glakler was a genius and could form out of metal almost anything useful for his fellowman. On 13 November 1877, he united in marriage with Miss Cornelia [O.] Lee [not in Jack County records, she was 15 years old], and became a member of the Presbyterian church in 1879 and lived a true follower of the Master. To Mr. And Rms. Glakler were born three children, two girls and one boy, surviving are the wife [Cornelia O. Glakler] and two children Ð Thomas [L.] Glakler of Dallas and Miss Marion [L.] Glakler of Jacksboro. In the early 1890s Brother Glakler, on account of his health moved with his family to Washington (then Territory). After several years they returned to their home; after a short stay they tried the climate of Southern Texas, but the grim destroyer had marked the husband and father for his own and in a few short years the end came. A good citizen and a true man has gone. I. Stoddard, M.G. Nelms, committee [Paul SmithÕs on-line cemetery records show his name as Glakeler which is in correct with census; his first wife was Alice A. [Hill] Glakeler, married 3 February 1876, died at the age of 20 years on 20 March 1877 buried in that same area] [1880 census shows that he was 32 years, and parents born in South Carolina as well] [1900 census shows he was born in AR, father in Germany, mother in SC] [Jack County Marriage records, Volume 2 shows Glakeler] [Cornelia filed forConfederate pension for T.J. Glakeler but was rejected] [1910 census shows those living with him were Marion L., daughter, 14 years, born WA; Thomas L., son, 23 years, born TX; Ella, daughter-in-law, 22 years, born OK; granddaughter, Hazel, 0 years] [Paul SmithÕs records show that CorneliaÕs tombstone records: 1867-1924 which would have made her 10 years old at her marriage, stone should have read 1862 and sheÕs still alive in the 1930 census[ [Marion Glakeler married Ernest Glen Fawks, on 12 July 1934 they had a son born, Glen Ernest Fawks, Jr. in Jack County; Cornelia had a sister, Mrs. Bell of Strawn who visited in 1910; 1896 T.J. Glakler and wife left for Port Townsend, Washington Territory to make their home; 1910 Ð Miss Pearl OÕNeal visited her sister, Mrs. Tom Glakler; Thomas L. Glakeler is living in Dallas County by 1910] 1920 Dallas County census Tom L. Glakeler, head, married, 33 years, born TX, mechanic in garage Ella, wife, 31 years, TX Robert, son, 7 years, TX Hellon, daughter, 6 years, TX Dorothy F., daughter, 4 years, TX 1930 census Ð Dallas County Thomas L. Glakeler, 43 years, married 23 years old at marriage, TX, Holland, TX, implement machinist Georgia E.[Ella], wife, 31 years, 21- OK, TX, TX Robert, son, 18 years, OK, laborer, odd jobs Helen, daughter, 16, TX Dorothy, daughter, 15 years, TX 1930 Jack County census Cornelia A. Glakeler, head, 67 years, widowed, 16 years old at first marriage, TX, TN, TX]