McLennan Co. TX - Obits from April 1908 Submitted: Carol Couch ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** Waco Daily Times Herald Friday April 03, 1908 MRS. HARRIET MARTIN DEAD Pioneer Women of West Passes Away at Age of 75 Times Herald Special West, April 2- Mrs. Harriet Martin, aged 75 years, died at the home of her son, W.B. Martin in West of Tuesday afternoon. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. R.A. Gay of Itasca and Rev. T.H. Head of this city Wednesday at the residence and interment was made in the family lot in Bold Springs cemetery in the presence of a large gathering of friends. Mrs. Martin and husband P.P. Martin, who died several years ago, were among the first settlers of this community. They raised a family of ten children, nine of whom survive her. There were present at the funeral the four sons, J.G. of Hamilton, P.P. of Rule, and W.B. and A.L. of this city, also one daughter, Mrs. J.D. Singleton of Amarillo. The other four daughters, who live in Western Texas, were unable to be present. Mrs. Martin was a devoted Christian and one of the charter members of the what was then Cumberland Presbyterian church of West. SATURDAY APRIL 04, 1908 NEGRO BALL PLAYER DEAD Will E. Warner, a former first baseman for the Yellow Jackets, aged 32 years, died at his home on South Seventh Street yesterday. The funeral will take place this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Warner was regarded by the negroes as one of their finest players and his death is deeply regretted by them. SUNDAY APRIL 05, 1908 CAPT. JENNINGS DIED YESTERDAY Captain Charles A. Jennings, aged 71 years, died at 4 o'clock yesterday, at his residence, 713 North Twelfth Street, after an illness of fifteen months. Captain Jennings leaves a wife and two daughters, Misses Cora Lee and Bessie Jennings, and a sister Mrs. Overstreet of Fort Worth. He has had the graduation of illness usual in protracted cases, and at times seemed somewhat better, but it has been feared for some time that he would not recover. He had the tenderest ministrations and most faithful attention during his long sickness, and was patient and resigned through it all, these ministrations and the loyalty of his friends doing much to soothe his suffering. He came to Waco in about 1867 from Mississippi, and in 1876 went to Enterprise, Miss. where he was on April 10, married to Miss Lida Tolson, daughter of a prominent Mississippian. They came back to Waco and remained here until the 80's when they moved to Colorado City. They came back to Waco about 1890 and have been here since. Captain Jennings was a man who claimed as a friend all those who knew him, by reason of his truly altruistic spirit, loyalty to his friends, his absolute integrity and high order of citizenship. He was always ready to do his duty, always cheerful and courtly, and ever ready to do a kind and generous deed. He was quiet and unassuming in manner, but a man of positive and well grounded opinions, ready to defend those views logically and consistently. Few men had truer or more devoted friends, and this feeling was reciprocated by Captain Jennings. During his illness of fifteen months he was visited often by friends- much oftener than is usually the case where a man is retired from the activities of life by a sickness for a long period-and this was because he had formed attachments which were stronger than those of the ordinary character. He was a high-toned and refined citizen; an able and well prepared attorney, kind and loving husband and father, a man of loftiest patriotism. He served his country in the great strife of the civil war, and marched under the Stars and Bars in many a combat proving himself brave and true to the principles for which he was contending. He was a captain in this war. During his professional career in Waco, Captain Jennings has been associated with Hon. Walter S. Baker, Judge George Clark, John Dyer, Judge A.C. Prendergast and other eminent attorneys. The funeral takes place some time Monday morning from the residence, but the exact hour has not been determined last night. Rev. C.T. Caldwell will officiate and interment will be at Oakwood Cemetery. The following members of the bar are appointed pall-bearers at the funeral of our late associate, Captain Charles A. Jennings. These gentlemen are named upon suggestion of the family. The funeral will take place on Monday, but the hour has not yet been determined: Waller S. Baker, Allan D. Samford, W.M. Sleeper, A.C. Prendergast, Lewellyn Aubrey, J.R. Downs, Richard I. Munroe, and J.W. Davis. As there will be no newspaper through which further notice can be extended, the attorneys above-named will please inform themselves today of the hour at which services will be held. There will be a meeting of the Bar Association Tuesday Morning at 9:30 o'clock for appropriate action in memory of our deceased friend. MONDAY APRIL 06, 1908 FUNERAL THIS MORNING The funeral of Captain Charles A. Jennings, who died on Saturday afternoon, took place at 10 o'clock this morning from the residence on North Twelfth Street, Rev. O.T. Caldwell, pastor of the First Street Presbyterian church officiating. After the service, the casket was borne to Oakwood and there deposited and the earth covered with flowers. A very large number of friends attended, and among them was many representatives of Pat Cleburne camp. THURSDAY APRIL 09, 1908 DR. P.H. BRUEYER DEAD Dr. Peter Henry Brueyer, aged 83 years, died at the home of his son, H.A. Brueyer, corner Seventeenth and West Avenue, this morning at 8 o'clock. Mr. Brueyer has lived in Waco for about fourteen years, coming here from Virginia. He was a graduate of Princeton Medical College and was a practicing physician. The deceased leaves four children. All but one are here and are well known. Three sons, E.H., W.T., and H.A. and his married daughter, Mrs. Endora L. Works, are now living in Virginia. The funeral service will be held at the above residence tomorrow at 10 o'clock, Rev. J.J. Grier officiating, assisted by Rev. E. Hightower, interment at Oakwood. The pallbearers are G.B. Adams, R.G. Ard, W.W. Dudley, John W. Davis, E.M. Ewing, and Y.E. Lee. AY APRIL 09, 1908 MRS. L.A. FISHER PASSES AWAY Mrs. L.A. Fisher, who has been sick for the pas three months, died at the residence of the family, on Cumberland Street, yesterday morning at 4 o'clock. The deceased was a staunch Christian woman and widely known on account of noble deeds. Four sons and a daughter survive to mourn her loss. Funeral services will take place at 10:30 this morning from Trinity M.E. Church. THURSDAY