Dr. R. B. Nall, 70, optometrist 42 years and resident of Sherman 49 years, died in a local hospital at 2:45 pm Monday after ten days illness followed by a stroke a week ago Friday.  He had been in the hospital three days. Funeral arrangements are to be made by Dannel-Scott Funeral home.
Dr. Nall was born in Durant, Mississippi, October 10, 1867.  He arrived in Sherman on his twenty-first birthday.  He received his primary education in the public school of Durant, and then took employment with the Southern Express company office in that city. He took up the study of optometry shortly after coming to Sherman. A professional in that line came here as special instructor to Dr. Nall and his brother, the late Dr. John Nall, father of the present Dr. John Nall.  After this Dr. Nall attended a school of optometry in Dallas, taking a graduate course, he was licensed to practice in 1893.

In 1894, Dr. Nall returned to Mississippi and there married Miss Nannie Bell at the home of her parents in Goodman, Mississippi, who survives him. Dr. Nall had been a member of the Baptist church since he was fifteen years of age and at the time of his death was a member of the First Baptist Church in Sherman. He was a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Shrine, Woodmen of the World and Woodmen Circle. He had also taken active part in many civic movements here. He was a member of the Texas Optometry Society and the American Optometry Society.