The Sherman Democrat
February 10, 1933

FLOY WHARTON DIES AT HOME
Daughter of Dr. & Mrs. Conway T. Wharton Is Pneumonia Victim

Floy Hurt Wharton, 11-year-old daughter of Dr. Conway T. Wharton, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Sherman and Mrs. Wharton, died Friday at 11 a.m. at the family home following a week's illness of bronchial pneumonia.
Funeral services were held at the residence, 703 N. Travis street, Saturday afternoon, conducted by Dr. Lawrence B. Wharton of Austin, uncle of the little girl.  Interment was at West Hill Cemetery with the Dannel-Scott Funeral home in charge.  Pallbearers were officers of the First Presbyterian church.  The family is requesting that no flowers be sent.
Born in the Belgian Congo, Central Africa, September 24, 1921, Floy Hurt Wharton came to Sherman with her parents 5 years ago.  She was a student of the high 6th grade at the Robert E. Lee school and a member of the junior department of First Presbyterian Sunday School, of which church she was also a member.  She was active in local Camp Fire work, being identified with the Manitou group, of which Mrs. Richard S. Watson, was guardian.  Because  of her death a Valentine party for Camp Fire girls, scheduled for Saturday eveining in the home of Mrs. W.H. Lucas, was postponed.
The little girl underwent last year a mastoid operation which left her in a generally weakened condition and utterly unable to fight the disease with which she was attacked last Friday at noon.  She was compelled to take weekly treatments for the mastoid wound which had never completely  healed.
Surviving the little girl in addition to her parents, are her grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. T.A. Wharton; 3 brothers, Conway, Jr., Lawrence and Jimmie Wharton; and a sister, Linda; and several uncles and aunts, including Miss Catherine Wharton.  She was one of 7 children born to Dr. and Mrs. Wharton during their 13 years missionary work in Africa.  Two other children are interred in Africa.


GRAVESIDE RITES SET FOR DR. C.T. WHARTON

Graveside services for Dr. Conway T. Wharton, Presbyterian minister and foreign missionary, were held Saturday morning at West Hill Cemetery, conducted by Dr. Eugene McLaurin of the faculty of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin, assisted by Dr. Egbert Lubbers, First Presbyterian pastor.
Dr. Wharton died in Ballinger where he was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church.  He was former pastor of First Presbyterian Church here, having succeeded his father, the late Rev. Turner Ashby Wharton.
Funeral services were held Friday morning in Ballinger.  The funeral party is due to arrive in Sherman Friday afternoon and the body will be at First Presbyterian Church, Saturday 9-10:30 a.m.

Sherman Democrat
September 3, 1953
pg. 1 & 3

FORMER PASTOR OF CHURCH IN SHERMAN DIES
A Presbyterian minister who served his church as pastor and foreign missionary for over 40 years, Dr. Conway Talliaferro Wharton, died early Thursday in Ballinger, where he was pastor of First Presbyterian Church.  He was 63.
Dr. Wharton spent most of his youth in Sherman, was graduated at Austin College, and succeeded his father, Rev. Thomas Ashby Wharton as pastor of First Presbyterian Church here.
Ill of a heart ailment several months, Dr. Wharton was stricken Wednesday and died at 2:30 a,m. Thursday in a Ballinger hospital.
Funeral services were held Friday morning in Ballinger First Presbyterian Church, with Dr. Eugene McLaurin of the Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Austin, officiating.
The body was brought to Sherman Friday afternoon and was in the First Presbyterian Church here Saturday 9-10:30 a.m.  Graveside services were held Saturday morning by Dr. McLaurin, assisted by Dr. Egbert Lubbers, interim pastor of the church.
A member of the Wharton family that has furnished several outstanding leaders for the Presbyterian ministry, Dr. Wharton's service as a foreign missionary attracted international attention.
Soon after his marriage to Miss Ethel Taylor in Sherman, he and his wife left for the Belgian Congo, where they remained 13 years.
They opened the hostile Bukuba kingdom to Presbyterian mission work.  Dr. Wharton learned 2 native languages and wrote and translated several books in the native tongues.  He helped build bridges and roads that opened the heart of the Congo for the first time to vehicular traffic.
Dr. Wharton was born June 26, 1890 in Steele Creek, North Carolina, son of the late Rev. Thomas Ashby and Lucy Taliaferro Wharton.  He came to Sherman with his parents in 1909 when his father became pastor of the First Presbyterian Church.  He was graduated from the Presbyterian Seminary, Austin, in 1913.
He was married to Miss Ethel Taylor of El Paso January 28, 1915.  Their 4 children were born in Africa.
Survivors besides his wife are a daughter, Mrs. Eugene C. McDanald of Galveston; and 3 sons, Lawrence H. Wharton, student at the University of Texas Medical College, Galveston; and Rev. James Allen Wharton, who is a student in Basle, Switzerland; and Rev. Conway T. Wharton, Jr. of Edinburg; 6 grandchildren; his step-mother, Mrs. Turner Ashby Wharton, 1211 W. Woods; 3 sisters, Mrs. Catherine W. Gray of Sherman; Mrs. Thomas Chalmers Vinson of San Antonio; and Mrs. Charles E. Allen of Newbern, Alabama; and 2 brothers, Dr. T.A. Wharton of Dallas and P.S. Wharton, Austin College faculty member.
Pallbearers were C.S. Roberts, Sr.; Dr. George Landolt; Dr. James B. Moorman; Frank G. Trau; Lee Agnew; Ches L. Rolison; J.H. Council and J.J. Scull.