Navarro County Texas Archives Obituaries.....Champion, W. A. 1919 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Virginia Crilley http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00003.html#0000642 September 12, 2008, 3:40 pm Ennis Weekly Local July 25, 1919 W.A. Champion, for more than twenty eyars a resident of Corsicana, died at his home here last night. He is survived by his wife and one son. He was born in Georgia in 1841 and came to Texas in 1872, settling in Houston county, where he taught school, first at Dalys and then at Grapeland, after which he moved to Crockett, where he resided for a number of years, holding the offices of justice of the peace and district clerk for a toal of 23 years. After coming to Corsicana he engaged in the family grocery business for a short time, but at the time of his death was manager of the circulation dept of the Daily Sun. He will be buried from his residence this evening at 4 o'clock Additional Comments: The Ennis Weekly Local Thursday, July 31, 1919 Vol XXXV No 31 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/navarro/obits/c/champion547gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/txfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb