Obituaries, D

Contributed by June England Tuck

J. A. Daniels was afflicted with congestion of the brain and passed away last Friday morning. He leaves his companion, eight children, an aged father and a brother. His remains were laid to rest in the Stouts Creek cemetery. Sister Mattie Melton conducted the service)

Contributed by Gena Forsyth

Henry Allen Davis
Funeral services for Henry Allen Davis, 77, of Dike were held at 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 16, at West Oaks Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Cecil B. McLeod and Ronny Glossup officiating. Burial followed at Sulphur Bluff Cemetery with Andy Wright, PeeWee Bassham, Bruce Fielden, Don Patterson, Darrell Deaton, Bert Dorner, George Dorner and Ronny Glossup serving as pallbearers. Mr. Davis died on Sunday, June 13, at Hopkins County Memorial Hospital. He was born on March 3, 1927, in Sulphur Bluff, to Dennis Lee and Lillian Lucille Bassham Davis. He married Margie Lou Munden on Dec. 14, 1946, in Hopkins County. She survives. Mr. Davis was employed by Goldston Oil for 20 years, and retired from Kraft Foods after 21 years. He served as a school board member for Sulphur Bluff Independent School District from 1977-1986. He also was a volunteer fireman with the Sulphur Bluff Volunteer Fire Department. Other survivors include three daughters, Connie Lou Jones of Plano, and Debbie Anderson and Marla Kay Gaines, both of Dike; three sisters, Amar Sue Ramsie of Sulphur Bluff, Billie Sullivan of Dallas and Patsy Lax of Garland; five grandchildren, Kimberly Minor of Dallas, Greg Anderson and Brandon Anderson, both of Dike, Micah Mathis of Sulphur Bluff and Amy Chapin of Henderson. Mr. Davis was preceded in death by his parents; one grandchild, Kathrine Rebecca Jones; and one great-grandchild, Keynon Carpenter Jr. Memorials may be made to Sulphur Bluff Volunteer Fire Department or American Lung Association.

Contributed by June England Tuck

Wilford Davis died in Denver, Colorado, June 18, 1915, of tuberculosis. He had sought health in many places, the last few years spent at Adams Memorial Home in Denver. He contributed much to magazines and newspapers. The speech he wrote, which was read in Congress by a member of Kansas and entered on the Congressional record, was a marvel in subject and resulted in much good. His body was accompanied from Denver by his sisters, Misses Lottie and Ruby, and were met at Ft. Worth by his brothers, Henry and Sherwood. Four of his sisters were with him at his death, Misses Effie and Bessie, and Mrs. Austin of Vicksburg, Mississippi, and Mrs. Joe Lowe of Cumby. It was his desire to be laid to rest in his boy-hood home beside his mother. Burial was made in Cumby cemetery.
Cumby Rustler, June 25, 1915)

Contributed by June E. Tuck

Dan Dawson (d. Oct 22, 1925, Age 74)

Dan Dawson, pioneer citizen of the northeast part of Hopkins County, died Saturday at his home near Valley Springs, and the remains were buried at Sulphur Bluff. He leaves several children, among whom is Regan Dawson of Sulphur Springs and Dennis Dawson of Mount Vernon. He was a native of Hopkins County having been born 74 years ago near where he died. Several years ago his wife died. For the past few years he had been in very bad health and his death was not unexpected. He is survived by three sons, as follows: Dennis Dawson of Mount Vernon, Reggie (sic) Dawson of Sulphur Springs, and Raymond Dawson who lived with his father at the old homestead. Funeral services were conducted at Sulphur Bluff by Rev. A. E. Bradberry of Mt. Pleasant, after which burial took place at the cemetery in Sulphur Bluff.
Daily News-Telegram, Tues., Oct. 27, 1925)

Contributed by June England Tuck

DAY, J. N.
J. N. Day was in town Wednesday and told us of the death of his father, J. N. Day, which occurred Wednesday evening at the home of his son, J. S. Day, three miles southwest of town. Mr. Day was 75 years of age, and had been a consistent member of the Methodist church for more than forty years. The funeral was held at the Reily Springs cemetery.
Sulphur Springs Gazette, Fri., May 1, 1908
Later reported - J. N. Day was born April 21, 1834, in Troup, Ga. Removed to Texas in 1853, residing in Upshur county for several years; moved to Cooke county, living there several years; moved to Wood county, south of Winnsboro, settling a home; died at the home of his son, John S. Day, near Rockdale. He was an ex-confederate, and served under Gen. King of Sulphur Springs, whom he admired very much and was always glad to meet this old warrior in his last days. He was a member of the Methodist church. He left a wife and five children..

Contributed by June England Tuck

Mrs. R. A. "Dyke" Day, died July 18, 1917. Had she lived until next Christmas day she would have reached the 70th mile-post of life’s journey. Survived by husband, R. A. Day, two sons, Oscar and Charley Day. She and her husband and their two little boys located in Hopkins County quite a number of years ago and were for several years resident of the Greenpond community, after which they resided in and near Mt. Vernon for a time and then located at Winnsboro where they remained for some ten or twelve years. The boys in the meantime having become of age and married and settled on large farms, one near Winnsboro, and the other near Newsome where they still reside. Last October, she and her husband moved to Sulphur Springs where they were residing at the time of her death.

Contributed by Sharon Pierce

Marjorie Deaton 1919 - 2006
Funeral services for Marjorie Garner Deaton, 86, of Gilmer and formerly of Hopkins County, were held at 11 a.m. Monday, March 13, at the Gilmer Church of Christ with John Wheeler officiating.

Burial followed at Garden of Memories in Ben Franklin, Delta County, under the direction of West Oaks Funeral Home of Sulphur Springs.

Mrs. Deaton died Saturday, March 11, at Upshur Manor nursing center in Gilmer.

Contributed by June England Tuck

DEWBERRY, MOLLIE L, MRS. - Whose maiden name was Mollie L. Phillips, was born November 10, 1862, near Florence, Ala. Married to Jessie S. Dewberry, August 16, 1890, near Florence, Ala., removing to Texas in 1892, locating near Brinker. She was a member of the M.E. Church at Forest Academy. She past away May 15, 1908, at her home. She had been a sufferer of the dreaded malady, consumption. Her remains were buried at the Forest Academy cemetery. Her devoted step-father, H. B. Darby, of Florence, Ala., was in attendance at the funeral
Sulphur Springs Gazette,

Contributed by June England Tuck

Tribute of Dr. H. C. Dial
Dr. Henry C. Dial, whose death occurred Feb. 19, 1924, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. M. L. Richards, 417 South Winneka Street, Dallas, was born in the State of Mississippi, Aug. 29, 1855. At an early age his father removed to Texas where he spent the remainder of his life. He was married in 187(?) to Miss Martha Brown of Upshur County and to this union eight children were born, six of whom Mrs. Howard D. Campbell of Clearwater, Fla.; Raymond Dial of Gilmer, Mrs. M. L Richards, H. Dial and Drs. J. D. and R. G. Dial, all of Dallas, together with the widow, survive to mourn his death. Dr. Dial is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. Kate White? of Big Sandy and Mrs. Billie Dixon of Cumby, and by a brother, J. J. Dial of Sulphur Springs. Dr. H. C. Dial was a graduate of medicine from the Louisville Medical College and since his graduation, at intervals has had several post-graduate courses from the leading medical institutions of the United States. He practiced his profession in Hubbard, Big Sandy, Gilmer, Sulphur Springs and for about eight months in Dallas. Dr. Dial was a friend of education and was able to educate his children and to give them, as he expressed it, something that no man could take from them. Dr. Dial was a member of the Baptist church and an honored member of the Masonic fraternity. The writer was a frequent visitor in his home while he lived in Sulphur Springs, and it was here that he learned to know and appreciate him most. If I were called upon to draft the resolution on the death of Dr. H. C. Dial I would say that the medical profession has lost a valuable member, that the Baptist Church was not so strong as when he lived, that the fraternal ties that bind us together as Masons is made weaker by his death, that the State has lost a good citizen, one that ever stood for the best there is in government, that the wife has lost a devoted husband and the six surviving children have suffered an irreparable loss in the death of their father. J. L. Mothershed 927 West Twelfth Street, Dallas.
Dallas Morning News, Feb. 27, 1924)

Contributed by Teresa Stewart Sitz

John Joseph Dial
Sulphur Spring, Texas; University of Louisville (Ky.) Medical Department, 1879; president of the Hopkins County Medical Society; aged 71; died, April 5, [1924] of cerebral hemorrhage.

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1924, Volume 82, Number 17, page 1379.

NOTE: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 - date of birth unknown, son of John Dial, buried at City Cemetery. According to "Patillo, Pattillo, Pattullo and Pittillo families," by Melba C. Crosse - 1972, John Joseph Dial was born about 1850.

Contributed by June England Tuck

Mary Jo Dial - She was born in Gilmer, Texas, the daughter of Arthur & Leodie Johnson, and died at the Community Care Center Nursing Home in Garland. Burial in the Mel Haven Cemetery ( Sulphur Springs.) She married Bruce Dial, Jr., in 1964, in Sulphur Springs, later married Milton Shaw. Both survive. She is survived by sons Christopher Ray and Joe Don Dial, daughters Barbara Denis Williams and Carolyn Teresa Bozeman of Sulphur Springs)

Contributed by June England Tuck

DIAL, V. F, MRS. - Died on August 13, 1908, at Peerless, Texas, the wife of J. W. Dial, and the mother of John, Joe, Ben and Carrie Dial. She was in her 58th year of age. She was born in Pontotoc, Mississippi, Jan. 23, 1850. She was a member of the Protestant Methodist church at Peerless.
Sulphur Springs Gazette,

Contributed by Gena Forsyth

Leslie Delmar Dickens

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