The Covington Leader
January 21, 1898
It is our sad duty to record the death of Dr. James W. Roane, formerly of this county, but for the past several years a citizen of Wilmar, Arkansas. Dr. Roane died Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock at the home of his mother, Mrs Mary Roane, in the vicinity of Mount Carmel. He came to his old home on the 13th from Memphis, where he had been under the care of some eminent physicians of that city since the 4th of the present month, but failed to receive any relief. He had Bright's disease, from which he had been suffering about eighteen month, and for the past three months his health had failed rapidly and his suffering was most intense since his arrival at his old home. The funeral took place yesterday morning and the remains were buried at Clopton. Dr. Roane's wife was sent for when the family realized that death was approaching, but she sis not arrive until Wednesday evening. Dr. Roane was the eldest son of the late Dr. T. W. Roane and was thirty-three years old last June. He was educated at the Mount Carmel academy and after completing his literary course studied medicine. After graduating at the Memphis Medical College he practiced for a year or more in this county. Dr. Roane moved five years or more ago to Wilmar Ark., where he afterward married. He had succeeded in building up a good practice and a useful and prosperous life seemed to be before him. It had been decreed otherwise and he was cut off in the prime of life and in the midst of his usefulness. Dr. Roane was a genial, sociable man and easily made friends who were drawn to him by his open hearted generous nature, He joined the Presbyterian church at Mount Carmel about ten years ago, but when he moved to Arkansas connected himself with the Methodist church, in which he was an active worker and the president of the local Epworth League of his church at the time of his death. His wife, child and relatives will receive the sympathy of many friends in their sad bereavement.