Kimble County, TX - Obituaries:  Pickett, Mrs. Kate, 1939
Thursday, August 2, 2000

Submitted by:  burtwyat@ctesc.net  (Frederica Wyatt)
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Found in the scrapbook belonging to the late Margaret Griffen Harrison, Junction, Texas
                                  (Name of paper not given)

                          Death Claims Mrs. Kate Pickett October 17th

                    Deceased Lacked Only Two Days Being Eighty-Six Years Of Age

  Mrs. Kate E. Pickett, daughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. D. R. Morrill, died at her
hoem here Tuesday afternoon following a series of paralytic strokes during the past 
weeks.  For two weeks she had been unable to leave her bed and for several days could 
not talk.  All her children except Carroll Pickett of Los Angeles, California, have 
visited her the past two weeks.  Carroll was here during the past Christmas holidays.  
She lacked only two days being 86 years old at the time of her death.
  The body was prepared for burial by the Schreiner-Hodges Company and interment was
made in the Junction Cemetery, Wednesday afternoon at four o'clock, the Rev. James J.
Kellam, pastor of the Junction Baptist Church, condudcted the funeral services.
  The following were pallbearers:
  E. O. Lowgren, Jim Carpenter, B. D. Williams, J. C. Graham, W. H. Baker, L. R. 
Hodges, C. A. Schraub, and J. L. Massie.
  Mrs. Kate E. Pickett was born in Huntsville, Texas, October 19, 1853, the daughter 
of a pioneer Baptist minsiter.  She lived in various sections of East and Central Texas,
coming to Kimble county in 1914.  She was a piano teacher in Baylor University before 
her marriage to R. J. Pickett in Waco on June 28, 1874.  The ceremony was performed by 
Dr. R. C. Burleson, president of Baylor University for nearly fifty years.  To this 
union were born 10 children.  Three sons and a daughter preceded her.  The husband
died March 17, 1925.
  Surviving children are Mrs. Lillie Hickerson, Junction; Mrs. Cleve Stephen, Junction;
Mrs. T. C. Dodson, Dallas; Mrs. R. G. Isbell, Rockwall; Lee H. Pickett, Boulder City,
Nevada; and Carroll Pickett, Los Angeles, California.  Four sisters, Mrs. Emma Johnson,
Waco; Mrs. E. E. Fitzhugh, Waco; Mrs. Mollie Johnson, Gordon; Mrs. Laura Spears, Paris,
and one brother, J. P. Morrill, Cooper, also survive.
  In addition to the above she is survived by 13 grandchildren and seven great grand-
children.
  When only 10 years old she was converted and united with the Baptist Church, of which 
she was a faithful and devoted memeber for 76 years.  She was truly a "Mother in Isreal".  
Mrs. Pickett was an every day Christian.  The beautifying influence of a pure religion 
were spread over a life and character as spotless and charming as was ever possessed by 
any of the noble women who have lived and died during the ages that are gone.  It is
difficult to pay a fitting tribute to the memory of a woman as noble--one whose every-
day life was embellished by the charming and lovable attributes of womanhood.
  Her life was gentle, but like still waters, was deep.  Her retiring nature led her to 
hide her best qualities from public gaze, but they were revealed to those who enjoyed her 
acquaintance.  In her home, in her community and in her church, she was recognized as a 
strong and lovable Christian character.  She is gone but her noble influence will continue 
to live in the lives of those with whom she lived these more than four score years.
Note from Frederica:  Mrs. Pickett died 17 october 1939.
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