 West Hill Cemetery Sherman, Texas
 Hope O. Carson 27 July 1881 - 21 August 1959 Sherman Daily Democrat Thursday, May 13, 1915 pg. 2 In the passing of J.J. Carson, who died suddenly in this city Tuesday morning, Sherman lost a citizen she could illy spare. He was a highminded man, who was interested in the growth and development of Sherman as a city and of her people. He was always willing to do his part, In fact, it is well known that he has always done a little more than his part, and it was this willingness to do for others that sapped his strength and hastened his end. He was a member of the Masonic order, and nothing delighted him more than to have gathered about him in the lodge room a class of young men to be instructed in the tenents, principles and practices of that great order. Only the night before his death he worked with a class of young Masons until eleven o'clock, and had made dates with the class for the next two nights. So it was in all departments of his life. He did his part and did it well. As a railroad man he was successful, and stood well with his company, the Katy, and with the public. Those who worked with him loved him as children love their father. In all of the civic betterment of Sherman during the past ten years he has had a hand and done well his part. He was a man of strong convictions, and when once he decided a thing was right and proper, he pursued his course uninfluenced by others. He was the friend to every man, and always extended a helping hand to the unfortunate. More than once he has noted that a personal friend was doing things that injured manhood and were calculated to hurt and injure, not only the person, but reflect on his family and those dependent on his family and he would go and point out the error and point to the better way, and many times he has thus helped to put a fellow citizen on the right track. Yet, he was modest and unassuming, and it is only on reflection that those who knew him were daily associated, that the enormity of his loss is realized. All Sherman mourns on account of his untimely going away. Indeed, it is illy that he can be spared, but those who knew and loved him here know full well that he has been translated to a higher and more glorious life; that he is not dead, but lives, for he loved his Maker and believed in Christ, and his walk among men was characteristic of the true Christian. Therefore his family have much to be thankfor for - thankful that he was permitted to remain as long as he was, and that his influence has been for the betterment of humanity, and that he stood for the good and against the bad. Of course they are bowed down in sorrow, but they mourn not like those without hope. They have the sincere sympathy of every man, woman and child in Sherman, who are also deeply grieved. West Hill Cemetery Elaine Nall Bay ©2017 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |
