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The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, June 12, 1898

DEATH OF MRS. GEORGE
Mrs. Nancey S. George died Sunday at her home, No. 129 West Gandy street. The deceased was 74 years of age.
Mrs. George was one of the pioneer residents in Denison, casting her lot here with her husband, Dr. George, over 25 years ago.
For a number of years the old lady had been almost forgotten by the outside world, she seldom, if ever, passing the confines of the old homestead on Gandy street.
The nearest to her, the children and the neighbors, were very kind and attentive, and left nothing undone to make her declining years as happy and pleasant as possible.
In the ceaseless drift and changes of things the pioneers must take a back seat for the younger generation, and but very few people in Denison realized that one who had lived in their midst for over 25 years, was dead.
The immediate relatives remaining are two sons and three daughters, the letter being Mrs. F.E. Smith of Hallville, Texas, mother of Sydney Smith of the Denison Light and Power company; Mrs. M.N. Wright of Houston; and Miss Carrie George of this city.
Colonel James A. George, their son, is at present a resident of Washington, D.C. Colonel George has a national reputation. He is a many sided man, lawyer, politician, public speaker, lecturer and newspaper correspondent. He has played a brilliant part in all these avocations.
He was one of the first persons to do business in Denison. He was a correspondent in the Turko-Russian war, and when he returned gave his experience in a lecture at Nolan hall. The other son is Newton A. George, now judge of Little River county, Arkansas. Dr. George who survives his wife, is a helpless invalid from rheumatism. The funeral of Mrs. George took place Monday afternoon, a large number of pioneers and citizens paying their last respects. The interment was at Oakwood cemetery, the last resting place for so many pioneers.