 West Hill Cemetery Sherman, Texas  C.G. Farmer 1836 - 1914
Sherman Daily Democrat
Friday Evening, March 23, 1917 pg. 1 BURT FARMER FOUND DEAD IN HIS SHOP BEFORE NOON Was Lying on a Couch with the Gas Turned on Full Tilt One Of Sherman's Best Known Citizens Not Known Whether Death was Accident or Suicide - Dead Man is Survived by Wife and Four Children Burt K. Farmer, 55 years of age, one of the best known tailors in North Texas, who has resided in Sherman for the past 30 years, was found dead in his shop in the Caruthers building upstairs on the west side of the square just before noon today. He was laying on a couch with his head covered with a large quilt and a gas jet turned on. The body was still warm, but life was extinct. Bob Caruthers found him, and at once notified Justice of the Peace R.A. McCrary, who, after making a thorough investigation, stated that he would find that death was caused from asphyxiation. Whether or not it was done purposely or was an accident may never be known. Mr. Farmer had been drinking several days, and had not been at home. An iron was at the head of the couch, on a chair, and the rubber tube barely would reach to the tube of the iron. It is possible that he left the gas on and lay down to rest and the rubber tube pulled away from the iron and rebounded to the couch. Or it is possible that he lay down and turned the gas on full tilt, being tired of life with its many vicissitudes. The body was taken in charge by the John C. Dannel Undertaking company. Mr. Caruthers stated this morning that some of Mr. Farmer's folks had been to the shop to see him, but as the doors were fastened, they could not get in. He then tried the doors and found the entrance door locked, but later gained entrance to the room through another door. He smelled the gas and hastened to turn it off, but Mr. Farmer was dead. He notified Mr. McCrary at once. Besides his wife, Mrs. Maggie E. Farmer, he is survived by 4 children. They are Mrs. John Burton, Mrs. Leo Miller, Miss Pearl Farmer and Jim Farmer. His aged mother, Mrs. A.E. Farmer, who lives in California, also survives him, as does also a brother, Will Farmer, a well known barber of Sapulpa. West Hill Cemetery Elaine Nall Bay ©2016 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |
