Jack County, TX - Obituary - Harry Hall McConnell ********************************************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ********************************************************************************** Jacksboro Gazette Jacksboro, Texas Thursday, September 2, 1909 Again death has visited the home of a former Jacksboro family in taking Harry Hall McConnell of Dalhart. Mr. and Mrs. McConnell had only left Jacksboro a few months ago for their new home, full of hope and enthusiasm for their future in that growing western town. Mr. McConnell was in the prime of his life and numbered among his friends, hundreds of Jacksboro people who had known him from boyhood. Survives: his wife and children, his mother and brother and a large number of more distant relatives. HIs mother and brother were with him in his last illness and they with his wife and children came in on the same train which brought the corpse Monday night. He was a Knight of Pythias and was buried by that order, the interment in Oakwood cemetery Tuesday at the close of the services at the home of his brother, B.R. McConnell. Rev. H.A.Howard, Mr. McConnell's former pastor officiated.