 Sherman Daily Democrat
Friday, September 6, 1912 Pg.1 CHILL CAUSES SUDDEN DEATH Beauregard Potts, Well Known Colored Preacher, Passed Away Last Night Father of Leonard Potts Sudden Death of the Father Recalls the Tragic Death of the Son Who Was Killed By a Posse in Red River Bottoms Near Detroit Rev. G. Beauregard Potts, a well known colored Baptist preacher, died very suddenly at his home on a farm about 5 miles north of Sherman, in the Iron Ore settlement about 8:30 o'clock last night. He was in his apparent good health up to within a very few minutes of his death. Yesterday he worked in his cotton field all day, not complaining in the least. Last night he was suddenly attacked with a congestive chill and although Dr. A.N. Prince was immediately summoned, Rev. Potts died before the physician could reach him. Rev. Beauregard Potts' sudden death recalls the tragic ending of the career of his son, Leonard Potts, who w as riddled with bullets by a posse in the Red river bottoms near Woodland, a little inland settlement north of Detroit, Red River county, on the afternoon of August 5, just one month to the day before his father's death. Leonard Potts, it will be remembered, killed Policeman Tedford in Dallas on July 22. He escaped and made his way to Clarksville where he killed Sheriff Charley Stephens. He again escaped and was being sought by the posse when he met his death. Rev. Beauregard Potts was an industrious, law-abiding citizen and the boy, Leonard, while he lived in Grayson county was looked on as a peaceable young negro. In fact, he never had any serious trouble until that which brought him to his death. Rev. Beauregard Potts was 50 years old, a native of Grayson County, having been born in Preston Bend March 12, 1862. While he was a hardworking farmer, he was also an ordained Baptist preacher and had held services for years in the old colored church house known as Honey Run in the vicinity of where he lived and where his death occurred. Only recently Rev. Potts had been preaching in the Iron Ore community and his sermons were listened to not only by the colored people but by many of the white people of that neighborhood. Rev. Potts' wife survives him as do all his children except Leonard, 6 boys and 1 girl. He was a member of Prince Star logde No. 196, colored Masons, and of Cuney Commandery, Knights Templar. These orders will have charge of the burial services which will take place at Iron Ore Cemetery tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. The funeral oration will be delivered by Rev. M.M. Milligan, a well known colored preacher of Sherman. Iron Ore Cemetery Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |