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Sherman Daily Democrat
Friday, September 6, 1912
pg.5

The Day's Denison Doings
FUNERAL OF MRS. HAMILTON
Denison, Sept. 6 - The funeral of Mrs. Nina Matilda Hamilton, who died Wednesday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W.H. Bowlby, No. 221 West Chestnut street, was held yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. Williams of the Church of Christ conducted the services, which were largely attended. Interment was in Oakwood cemetery.

The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, May 27, 1900
Pg. 3

J.J. Hamilton, who was buried at Oakwood Cemetery last Saturday, leaves few of his generation in north Texas surviving him. He came to Texas in the early 40s, and settled in Lamar county, 5 miles east of Paris, on a farm, and brought into that county and established the first wool carding machine and the first steam engine ever brought into that county. The wool producers far and near brought their wool to ginner Hamilton's factory and their corn too, for he had in connection a corn mill, and he carded the woold into rolls and ground the corn into meal for the people for miles around. He was a typical Texan, honest, brave, charitable and hospitable. But for his carding machine and his mill, many a poor Confederate soldier and his family would have been hard pressed for raiment during the war between the States, and many a soldier's family would have been hungry. The writer of this had known J.J. Hamilton for nearly 50 years. For 5 years we were door neighbors, both having farms side by side, and a better neighbor never was. He was a Christian gentleman in the sense that constitutes the true Christian. Since the war he has been engaged in various business pursuits, farming, merchandising, and up to a few months ago, when his health gave way, he was connected with the Denison Bottling & Candy Works of this city.
Monday, week ago, he went to Paris, his old home to visit friends and in hopes of recoperating his health, but on the morning following, at 3 o'clock, his heart failed to perform its functions, and life's lamp went out. He devoted wife that had clung to him for 50 years, was with him to the end. He was 74 years old.
His remains were brought to this city, where his family resides, and last Saturday evening was interred in Oakwood Cemetery, a large concourse of sorrowing friends and relatives following his remains to their last resting place. - - - T.J.C.