OBITUARY: Mrs. Helen Herndon, September 1890 - Smith County, TX Submitted by Vicki Betts 7 December 2002 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************************** TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, September 25, 1890, p. 8, c. 2 The residence of P. C. Withers, of Denton, was burned September 17. Mrs. Helen Herndon, aged eight-five, and mother of Hon. W. S. Herndon, of Tyler, was in a house near the burning one, and her excitement superinducing paralysis of the heart, she dropped dead.