The Liberty Vindicator says . . . Christmas eve, when The Galveston News reached me, little did we expect to see the sad announcement that H. Clay Stone is dead. The deceased was expected here at noon, and had written to his friend Captain Cameron that he would be here and eat dinner with him on Christmas day. And this makes his death the sadder. But a few days ago, in the city of Austin, in the prime of life, being but 58 years old and in the vigor of manhood, he was taken ill, dies ere we learn of his illness, and is gathered unto his fathers.
The remains were sent to Liberty, his former home, for interment. They arrive here Christmas night by express, and all our best citizens are there to pay attention and respect to the remains of one whom they had learned to love and respect. The body was escorted to the residence of Captain B.F. Cameron, who, assisted by his most excellent lady, had made every arrangement necessary for the reception of the remains, and here in the parlor of his friend, with whom he expected to partake of his Christmas dinner, lay the cold, lifeless body of H.C. Stone.
Clay Stone was a man of many noble traits of character. He had a big heart -- was jovial, kind in disposition, and was devoted and attentive at all times to the aged and infirm.
Monday morning at 11 o'clock the remains were followed to the Branch family burying ground, one mile north of town, by a large concourse of sorrowing friends and acquaintances, and quietly put away. The remains of H.C. Stone were accompanied to Liberty from Galveston by Messrs. Geo. W. Davis, J.D. Skinner (his former partner in business), and Wharton Branch, brother in law, and of his immediate family -- the wife, Mrs. H.C. Stone, Mrs. George Bridge, sister in law, and Master Harry stone, son of the deceased. Galveston Daily News, January 3, 1888
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The remains were sent to Liberty, his former home, for interment. They arrive here Christmas night by express, and all our best citizens are there to pay attention and respect to the remains of one whom they had learned to love and respect. The body was escorted to the residence of Captain B.F. Cameron, who, assisted by his most excellent lady, had made every arrangement necessary for the reception of the remains, and here in the parlor of his friend, with whom he expected to partake of his Christmas dinner, lay the cold, lifeless body of H.C. Stone.
Clay Stone was a man of many noble traits of character. He had a big heart -- was jovial, kind in disposition, and was devoted and attentive at all times to the aged and infirm.
Monday morning at 11 o'clock the remains were followed to the Branch family burying ground, one mile north of town, by a large concourse of sorrowing friends and acquaintances, and quietly put away. The remains of H.C. Stone were accompanied to Liberty from Galveston by Messrs. Geo. W. Davis, J.D. Skinner (his former partner in business), and Wharton Branch, brother in law, and of his immediate family -- the wife, Mrs. H.C. Stone, Mrs. George Bridge, sister in law, and Master Harry stone, son of the deceased. Galveston Daily News, January 3, 1888
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The Liberty Vindicator says . . . Christmas eve, when The Galveston News reached me, little did we expect to see the sad announcement that H. Clay Stone is dead. The deceased was expected here at noon, and had written to his friend Captain Cameron that he would be here and eat dinner with him on Christmas day. And this makes his death the sadder. But a few days ago, in the city of Austin, in the prime of life, being but 58 years old and in the vigor of manhood, he was taken ill, dies ere we learn of his illness, and is gathered unto his fathers.
The remains were sent to Liberty, his former home, for interment. They arrive here Christmas night by express, and all our best citizens are there to pay attention and respect to the remains of one whom they had learned to love and respect. The body was escorted to the residence of Captain B.F. Cameron, who, assisted by his most excellent lady, had made every arrangement necessary for the reception of the remains, and here in the parlor of his friend, with whom he expected to partake of his Christmas dinner, lay the cold, lifeless body of H.C. Stone.
Clay Stone was a man of many noble traits of character. He had a big heart -- was jovial, kind in disposition, and was devoted and attentive at all times to the aged and infirm.
Monday morning at 11 o'clock the remains were followed to the Branch family burying ground, one mile north of town, by a large concourse of sorrowing friends and acquaintances, and quietly put away. The remains of H.C. Stone were accompanied to Liberty from Galveston by Messrs. Geo. W. Davis, J.D. Skinner (his former partner in business), and Wharton Branch, brother in law, and of his immediate family -- the wife, Mrs. H.C. Stone, Mrs. George Bridge, sister in law, and Master Harry stone, son of the deceased. Galveston Daily News, January 3, 1888
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The remains were sent to Liberty, his former home, for interment. They arrive here Christmas night by express, and all our best citizens are there to pay attention and respect to the remains of one whom they had learned to love and respect. The body was escorted to the residence of Captain B.F. Cameron, who, assisted by his most excellent lady, had made every arrangement necessary for the reception of the remains, and here in the parlor of his friend, with whom he expected to partake of his Christmas dinner, lay the cold, lifeless body of H.C. Stone.
Clay Stone was a man of many noble traits of character. He had a big heart -- was jovial, kind in disposition, and was devoted and attentive at all times to the aged and infirm.
Monday morning at 11 o'clock the remains were followed to the Branch family burying ground, one mile north of town, by a large concourse of sorrowing friends and acquaintances, and quietly put away. The remains of H.C. Stone were accompanied to Liberty from Galveston by Messrs. Geo. W. Davis, J.D. Skinner (his former partner in business), and Wharton Branch, brother in law, and of his immediate family -- the wife, Mrs. H.C. Stone, Mrs. George Bridge, sister in law, and Master Harry stone, son of the deceased. Galveston Daily News, January 3, 1888
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