Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Thirteenth Year - Number 27
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, September 4, 1902
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PASSED QUICKLY.
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Hon. R. C. DeGraffeureid (sic) Expires
Suddenly at Washington.
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Death Was Due to Apoplexv (sic)
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The Member from the Third Congressional
District of Texas Departs This Life
at the National Capital. (sic)
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Washington, Sept 1.--Representative Reese C. DeGraffenreid of Texas died of apoplexy at the Riggs house in this city shortly before 11 o'clock Friday night.
Mr. Degraffenreid had been suffering a bilious attack Friday, and it became worse in the evening. During a severe vomiting spell a blood vessel burst in his brain and he sank back on his bed dead. Only a newspaper correspondent and a bell boy were with him at the time. He leaves a widow, who is now at her in Longview, Texas.
Reese Calhoun DeGraffenreid of Longview was born in Franklin, Tenn., in the year 1853; attended the academic school of that place until 13 years of old, and then went to the University of Tennessee and graduated from the Lebanon Law school at the age of 20. A graduate of the Lebanon Law school having the right to practice law before majority, he commenced law practice immediately at Franklin, removed to Chattanooga, where he practiced law for one year, and then removed to Texas; helped to build the Texas and Pacific railway and afterward was assistant fuel agent and brakeman on that road; in 1883 resumed the practice of his profession at Longview, Texas; was elected county attorney and resigned two months afterward; in 1888 was elected on the Democratic ticket; made the race for congress in 1890 with Hon. C. B. Kilgore and ex-Gov. Hubbard as opponents and was defeated; was elected to the Fifty-fifth congress and Fifty-seventh congress. He was defeated in the Democratic primaries recently by Judge Gordon Russell of Tyler.
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