 West Hill Cemetery Sherman, Texas
The Sunday Gazetteer Sunday, April 20, 1884 pg. 6 This community was startled the first of the week by the news that Major J.A. Trumbul was dead. He died at his residence in Sherman last Sunday night about 12 o'clock after an illness of only a few days. The funeral took place Tuesday evening, at which Mr. O.E. O'Waley, and several other friends from this city were present, and others would have been had there not been a misunderstanding as to the hour. Major Trumbul was an old citizen of Sherman and well known to most of our citizens. He was a man possessed of a warm heart and was universally esteemed as a friend and citizen. Mr. Trumbul was a believer in modern spiritualism, and death in his opinion was but a transition to a higher life, freed from the temptations peculiar to an earthly existance, and where intellectual and moral progress is the destiny of every human being. We take the following appropriate tribute to his memory and short sketch of his life from the Sherman Courier: Major Trumbul has been a resident of Sherman for many years, has had a voice in the moulding of affairs of the city; as neighbor, citizen, and alderman, his dealings with his fellow-men have ever been marked with charity, fidelity and justice. For 20 years and more, reach..back into and ante dating the rise of the progressive era in Texas, he has been the trusted representative of the Houston & Texas Central railway company. The bare statement shows in what esteem and confidence he maintained himself down to the hour of his taking off with one of our greatest institutions. As a friend he had no suprerior; ever ready to counsel a friend in error without leaving the sting of reproach - with their joys he mingled his own. To the young man he attached himself as a father, his warm grasp of the hand always gaining the confidence and imparting the assurances of help and strength. The writer knew Major Trumbul; if ever noble, generous, just spirit winged its flight to a sorrowless world, where the rewards of usefulness in this life are everlasting peace and happiness, that spirit departed the body of James A. Trumbul on Sunday night. Our earnest sympathy is with the bereaved family.  Anna Trumbull Dyer 1875 - 1958 West Hill Cemetery Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |
