 Denison  The Sunday Gazetteer Sunday, June 5, 1910 EARLY DAYS IN DENISON Week ending October 4, 1884 Another old citizen passed away Monday morning, Mr. Solomon Kaufman, who had suffered from cancer of the stomach for a number of weeks. Mr. Kaufman had been a resident of Denison about 5 years, most of that time engaged in the retail grocery business. He was laid away in the Jewish cemetery, Dr. I. Yeidel reading the service.  The Sunday Gazetteer Sunday, October 5, 1884 ANOTHER CITIZEN GONE Six weeks ago Mr. Solomon Kaufman, a prominent retail grocer on Main street, was taken sick with cancer of the stomach, and from the moment of his indisposition was confined to his bed until 12:30 Monday morning when the last struggle for life occurred and he fell asleep in the lugubrious silence of death and the wail of sorrow was heard in his household - 'twas the lamentation of a wife and 5 children weeping over the dead husband and father. Mr. Kaufman came here from Memphis, Tennessee, about 5 years ago and embarked in the retail grocery business and at the time of his death was doing a fine business and had the confidence of a large circle of friends and customers. The funeral of Mr. Kaufman took place from the family residence on Sears street at 10 a.m. Tuesday, and was attended by a large number of relatives and friends. The remains were conveyed to the Hebrew Cemetery and were interred according to the Jewish custome of burying their dead, I. Yeidel reading the service and opening prayer. As a man of shrewd business capacity he had in life prepared for death, consequently he left his sorrowing family with a sufficiency of this world's good to render life agreeable. Besides leaving a comfortable home and a good grocery business, he left life insurance policies to the amount of $8,500. Being a member of the Knights of Honor his family will receive $2,000 from that Order; he was also insured for the sum of $5,000 in the Mutual Benefit Association of New Jersey and $1,500 in the Jewish Association. In the hour of their saddest bereavement the Gazetteer tenders Mrs. Kaufman and her children its sincere sympathy.   OAKWOOD CEMETERY
Susan Hawkins
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