Grayson County TXGenWeb

Dallas (TX) Herald
Saturday, January 11, 1873
pg. 2

Hon. James A. Abbott, formerly a member of the Idaho Legislature, and for 5 years Probate Judge in Oregon, committed suicide, recently, at Denison. The Journal says:
"The Judge has been for some time laboring under a mental delusion, the cause of which has never been made known. He was a good husband and a kind father, and was well provided with this world's goods; but since he came from the mountains he has been subject to fits of despondency, and while laboring under one of these hallucinations, he took a pistol and deliberately shot himself through the forehead, the ball passing through the front part of the head, lodged in the interim of the cerrebellem, from the effects of which death put an end to his exictence 8 days after."

THE FIRST KNOWN BURIAL IN DENISON'S FIRST CEMETERY

The Daily Phoenix (Columbia, South Carolina)
February 6, 1873
pg. 2

Inaugurating a Cemetery - A resident of Denison, Texas, writes as follows:
"This is the liveliest town in these parts. Only 6 months old, it has been built up by the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway, which has its terminus here. The Ho uston and Texas Central will be along soon, and t hen there will be rail comm unication from St. Louis to Galveston. We have 5,000 inhabitants and w e have hotels, stores, churches, grog shops, and a town hall.
We have been wanting a grave-yard. Yesterday a man mied , and this afternoon everybody will turn out to inaugurate the new cemetery. We thought we should have to import a c orpse to start it, but this fellow happend to d ie and save us the expense. Another one is sick of a disease he bro ught from Missouri, and the doctor says we had better hold over the other chap a day or so, and make one job of it. Don't think we'll do it, though, as we want the grave-yard started anyhow."