  Dallas Morning News June 1, 1939 Gunshot Wound Victim Buried in Whitesboro Special to The News - Sherman, Texas, May 31 - Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the Whitesboro Baptist Church for J. W. Bowers, 71, found dead near his home in Whitesboro with a gunshot wound through his heart. Burial was in the Dye Cemetery. Justice C. L. Simpson, Whitesboro, announced a coroner's verdict of death by self-inflicted gunshot wound. A pistol with an empty shell was found in the grass near the body. Born in Ohio, after his marriage in his native state, he came to Texas and lived in Grayson County since, most of the time in the Whitesboro community. After his first wife died, he married a Grayson County woman who died about three years ago. On July 31, 1938, he was married to Mrs. S. F. Aiken of Whitesboro and had lived in Whitesboro since.  Ben Dye Cemetery Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |
