Retired Barber.

The following article was published in the Big Spring Weekly Herald on Friday, July 11, 1952:

Death Claims
Samuel Eason,
Civic Leader

Samuel Thomas Eason, 80, pioneer civic leader of Big Spring, died suddenly at his home, 404 Goliad, at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Shortly after lunch, he suffered a heart attack and sank rapidly.
Services will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday at the First Methodist Church with Dr. Alsie Carleton, his pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the city cemetery beside the grave of his wife, who died in 1947. Arrangements are in charge of Nalley Funeral Home.
Mr. Eason, who had enjoyed good health for a man of his age, had recovered from a slight illness recently and had remarked on how well he had felt.
Tuesday, as was his custom, he was at the Rotary Club, where he had been a member for approximately a score of years. Tuesday evening he took in a ball game and Wednesday morning spent an easy time working in his yard.
Born in Tennessee on May 7, 1872, he had spent his adult life in Texas. On Sept. 18, 1893 he and Mrs. Eason were married in Abilene and spent 54 happy years that union.
They had a common interest in church and civic affairs, and even in recreation this congeniality in tastes prevailed, for both were avid fishermen. Until her death, there was hardly a place to which they wouldn't go if fish were biting.
In 1902 he moved his family to Big Spring from Merkel. After a time here, they lived on a ranch in southern Howard County for about a year.
"It wasn't much of a ranch," he used to recall. In all it must not have exceeded greatly a section, but the long triangular piece proved to be in the heart of the Howard-Gasscock oil field. Eventually upward of a score of oil wells was drilled on the tract.
Through the years Mr. Eason operated a barber shop here and hung on to his property. When it became productive, he retired. In the meantime, he had served as a member of the Big Spring School Board (for which he was presented with a certificate at special ceremonies here in February on the occasion of the district's 50th anniversary). Mr. Eason also had served as a member of the Chamber of Commerce board of directors and was interested in civic affairs even after his retirement. He and Mrs. Eason long had been faithful members of the First Methodist church.
Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Kathryn Gilmour, Big Spring, Mrs. Lois Herring, Long Beach, Calif., and Mrs. Maude Waters, Big Spring; two sons, Wyatt Eason, Big Spring, and Howard Eason, Burlingame, Calif. He leaves three brothers, three sisters, seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers are to be Chester O'Brien, Joe Pickle, Steve Baker, S. P. Jones, Ira Thurman, Lee Porter, Dave Duncan, and Otto Peters Sr.