Kimble County, TX - Obituaries:  Cowsert, Nat, 1948
Tuesday, August 1, 2000

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 Found in the scrapbook belonging to the late Margaret Griffen Harrison, Junction, Texas
                                  (Name of paper not given)

                            NAT COWSERT FUNERAL RITES HELD FRIDAY

  Funeral services for Robert N. (Nat) Cowsert, 82, who died Wednesday at 12:45 p.m. 
in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Cowsert, Rocksprings, were held Friday at 2 p.m. 
from the Junction Methodist Church with Dr. W. R. McPherson, minister, officiating,
assisted by the Rocksprings Methodist minister.
  The Hodges Funeral Home had charge of arrangements.  Burial was made in the Junction
cemetery beside Mrs. Cowsert who died in July 1938.
  Cowset, who was born January 30, 1865, in Millsview, Missouri, came to Kimble with
his parents in 1883.  Engaged in the ranching business, he was one of the pioneer
settlers who helped develop the Hill Country.  He was married to Miss Martha Jane
Bailey on Dec. 13, 1891.  In recent years he made his home with his children.
  He had been a member of the Junction Methodist Church since 1901 and served many
years as a member of the board of trustees.  He was serving in that capacity when
the present building was erected.
  Survivors include two sons--Tommy and Terry of Rocksprings; one daughter, Mrs. Ted
Tons, Clinton, Oklahoma; three sisters, Mrs. W. C. Bradshaw, Abilene, Mrs. S. P.
Bennett, and Mrs. Jennie Weldon; four grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
  Pall bearers were J. O. Wright, Joe Bissett, Robert Corder, Lee Craven, Lee Hyde,
Wilson Buster, Lafay Stapp and Bob Ragsdale.
  Among the out of town relatives and friends here for the services were Mr. and Mrs.
W. C. Bradshaw and Mrs. Harte Shoemaker, Abilene; Messrs. and Mmes. Tommy Cowsert, 
Terry Cowsert, Fred Ramsey, Bernard Ramsey, Orville Cowsert, Robert Corder and Lee
Hyde and Mrs. Will Ramsey, all of Rocksprings; Mrs. Ted Tons, Clinton, Okla; Mr. and
Mrs. John Fleming and family, Mason; Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Cowsert, Jr., Fredericksburg,
Mrs. Serena Reed, San Antonio; and a Mrs. Dunn of Albuquerque, New Mexico
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