OBITUARY: Cain, Caldwell, Daws, Dean, Garrett, Gibbs, Lipscomb, McDougal, Murphy, Paulson, Pabst, Patterson, Sneed, Swann - Smith County, TX Submitted by Vicki Betts 1 January 2003 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************** DEATH NOTICES, TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, 1886-1888 - Smith County, TX TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, December 9, 1886, p. 8, c. 3 A. M. Murphey, jewelry, an old citizen of Tyler, died Dec. 1. TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, December 30, 1886, p. 8, c. 1 A weekly newspaper, "The People's Sentinel," is soon to be published in Tyler. TYLER, Dec. 27.—Wm. Garrett, recently from Allegheny, Pa., was thrown from a wagon and killed TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, May 12, 1887, p. 8, c. 4 May 7—Julius Pabst, an old citizen, died at Tyler. TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, August 25, 1887, p. 8, c. 4 Aug. 19—S. G. Gibbs, an old and respected citizen, committed suicide at Tyler. He was an exemplary member of the church, and was independent financially. No cause can be assigned for his act except that bad health had affected his mind. TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, November 3, 1887, p. 8, c. 4 Oct. 26—Mr. Geo. Paulson, long a citizen of Smith county, died at Tyler TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, February 2, 1888, p. 8, c. 1 Obituary - H. N. Sneed, an old citizen, died at Tyler. TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, February 23, 1888, p. 8, c. 1 Sam Dean died at his residence, a few miles east of Tyler, after a brief illness from pneumonia. TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, March 29, 1888, p. 8, c. 1 Obituary. John Lipscomb at Tyler. TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, April 12, 1888, p. 8, c. 2 Obituary. Mr. John D. Caldwell, at Tyler. TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, June 28, 1888, p. 8, c. 1 Obituary. R. M. Cain, at Tyler TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, August 2, 1888, p. 8, c. 2 W. R. High, a railroad watchman at Tyler, shot, it is thought fatally, Louis McDougal. McDougal is a nephew of Attorney-General Hogg. TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, August 9, 1888, p. 8, c. 2 Obituary. J. F. Patterson, late a prominent merchant, at Tyler; he had just returned from a health-seeking tour, and died at the depot, his wife only arriving at his side just in time to see him alive. Texas Casualties. R. W. Daws, a clerk of Tyler, suicided with morphine. He had through drink lost his position. Jack Malone, a plasterer late from Tyler, but whose home was Shreveport, was found dead in Longview. TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, August 30, 1888, p. 5, c. 4 Obituary. DIED.—T. R. Swann, a highly esteemed citizen, at Tyler.