January 1911 Coleman County, Texas Obituaries

Col. Crockett Boone, familiarly known to Santa Anna people as "Uncle" Crockett, died yesterday morning after a brief illness with pneumonia at Van Horn, Texas, where he had gone some months since to accept an editorial position with the Van Horn Chronicle. His last request was that he might be buried at Santa Anna.

Col. Boone was born in Davies County, Kentucky, in 1846. In his early youth his father moved to Franklin County, Arkansas, and here at the age of nine he began work on a paper published at Ozark.

He was only fifteen when the bloody struggle between the states began, but he immediately espoused the cause of the Confederacy and gallantly served through the war, being at Corinth, Iuka and the seige of Vicksburg. After the star of the Confederacy had set at Appomattox, Col. Boone went to Mexico to east his lot with Prince Maximillian. Later he returned to Texas and after taking up his residence at Jefferson, acquired half interest in the Jimplicute, on of the oldest papers in the state.

Since leaving Jefferson he has owned twelve different publications and has managed scores of others, his newspaper work taking him to eight different states and the Indian territory. At one time he was editor of the American side of "The Two Republics" published at Mexico City.

In point of service he was one of the oldest newspaper men in the state and his life was filled with rare and varied experiences from his youth. After the war he was made a U. C. V. colonel under General Ross. Three years ago he was editor of the Santa Anna News and was later connected with the Coleman Democrat and the Teague Chronicle.

Daniel G. Boone, of this place and Squire Boone, of San Angelo were his nephews and he was distantly related to the famous Daniel Boone of Kentucky.

All that is mortal of him will be laid to rest in the city cemetery at this place tomorrow at 3:30 p.m. --- Santa Anna News of Friday, January 6, 1911.

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The death angel visited the home of Mr. Lindsey Sewell and wife and claimed for its own their little baby, six weeks old. Its little body was laid to rest in the White Chapel cemetery January 12.

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Funeral services were conducted by Rev. J. R. Davis.

We note the death of Little John Calvin Sewell, age eighteen months, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Sewell. Funeral services to morrow at White Chapel. "The Heavenly Father had need of him."

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James Nugent for the past few years a resident of Coleman died last night at his present {residence} near Goldsboro. He haas been a sufferer from stomach trouble for several months and gradually grew worse until his death. He was a member of the Coleman lodge of Odd Fellow and of Knights of Pythias, under whose auspices he will be buried tomorrow at the Coleman Cemetery. He came to Coleman from Pauls Valley, Oklahoma.

January 20, 1911

Yesterday afternoon the little child of W. H. Stevens living in the west part of Coleman while playing in the yard where the week's washing was being done in some way fell into the kettle of boiling water and was fearfully scalded about the body, but her face escaped injury. Medical aid was quickly called and the little sufferer given all the medical attention possible and it is believed and hoped that she will recover. The little one and her parents have the sympathy of the entire town.

At three o'clock this morningthe death angel called at the home of W. H. Stevens and claimed for his own the little son of Mr. and Mrs. Stevens, who was severely burned last week by falling into a kettle of water. The remains will be taken to Ft. Worth this afternoon and laid to rest beside his grandmother in the Fort Worth cemetery. Rev. Berry, the Episcopal minister will accompany the parents on this the last sad duty they can perform to their child. The father, mother and other bereaved ones have the sympathy of the entire town.

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