Jack County, TX - Obituaries - Mrs. James W. Knox ************************************************************************************* 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 Thursday, January 23, 1919 The shadow of sorrow again passed over Jacksboro Tuesday when it was announced that Mrs. James W. Knox passed away Monday. Funeral held at the family home being conducted by Rev. J.A. Matthews. There were many beautiful flowers which were a fitting tribute to the beautiful woman who in life was a great lover of them. Among the out of town who attended the funeral were Mrs. C.C. Culton of Waco, sister of Mr. Knox, Mr. And Mrs. Chris L. Knox of Corsicana, Mrs. Maurice Johnson of Fort Worth, Mr. S.B. Hovey and Mrs. W.A. Durenger of Fort Worth. Mrs. Knox was a Pennsylvania by birth, but with her marriage to James W. Knox, Jacksboro, Texas, became her home. She loved her home and her friends as few women do, and especially was she strongly attached to her old friends. Her beautiful home was always open, and a welcome from her that was delightful and will always be remembered. Mrs. Knox had long been a member of the Presbyterian Church, and while she was not an active worker in JacksboroÕs church societies and the clubs organized to develop all the best interests of the town, she was a most enthusiastic and liberal patron of each of them. She was a woman who was loved best by those who knew her best, and her friends whom she loved will miss her more than words can express, and her husband, James W. Knox and sister, Miss Alice Connor. -- The Jacksboro Gazette Thursday, February 13, 1919 In memory of Mrs. Emma L. Knox, wife of Mr. James W. Knox, who passed into eternity on Monday, 20 January 1919. Mrs. Knox was a native of Pennsylvania, descended from one of the old and prominent families of Pennsylvania. Born at Mauch Chunck, she was reared in the beautiful city of Bethlehem, where the family removed in her early childhood. She first visited Texas in the spring of 1877, as Miss Emma Lane Conner, stopping at Jacksboro, where her sister, Mrs. H.H. McConnell, then resided, in the olden days of frontier life and civilization, when this little village had but recently been abandoned as a United States Army Post. Here she formed the acquaintance with her future husband, which was consummated in their marriage, some two years later, at the family home in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on 27 February 1879. Her married life, for a period of nearly 40 years was spent among the people of Jacksboro; a woman of rare attainments, queenly grace, and cultured manner, kind, gentle and generous in all the relations of life, considerate and always extremely thoughtful of the welfare and happiness of others, she attracted admiration so that Ònone knew her but to love her.Ó A member of the Presbyterian Church in Jacksboro, she was for many years one of its active and prominent workers. For many years, since the death of their mother, she and her sister Miss Alice Connor, had been constant and inseparable companions, and the constant thoughtful attention which characterized her life in other spheres was beautifully illustrated in the devotion to her only surviving sister, who thus shared in her home life, and who is now left to share with the bereaved husband, in mourning her loss. Miss Alice Connor is the last surviving member of her family, misses her most of all, and find the coming days the loneliest.