 West Hill Cemetery Sherman, Texas Sherman Daily Register Friday September 14, 1900 Pg 2 ANOTHER DEADLY CHILL . . . . R. W. Finlay, the old man whose sudden death is noted elsewhere in this issue, told his daughter just before he laid down on the bed from which he was lefted a corpse, that he felt like he was going to have a chill. A well-known physician who has studied the situation and is alarmed at so many fatal terminations, said to a Register reporter today: "For the sake of humanity warn the people to look out for congestion on the second day after they have had a chill in an algied or mild form." This is a matter worth being careful about. Four of the five deahts within the last month have been little girls. AN OLD MAN ____ Worked in His Field Until Noon and Then Died Very Suddenly. ____ R. W. Finlay, a tenant farmer, aged 60 years, a widower with four children, one son and a daughter grown but single and residing with him on the Jno. Estes place southeast of Sherman, died very suddenly yesterday under the following circumstances: Mr. Finlay had been at work in the cotton field all the morning. About noon he came to the house and told his daughter he felt like he was going to have a chill. He laid down across the bed, and Miss Finlay thinking he was sozing did not say anything to him until about 2 o'clock when she called him and then shook him and found he was dead. The deceased was a native of Tennessee. He came to Texas four years ago with his wife and family. About a year ago his wife died. West Hill Cemetery Elaine Nall Bay ©2013 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |