THE CHICKASAW ENTERPRISE published this article on Thursday, August 29, 1901, Nr. 52 - JAMES RENNIE, DECEASED
(from the newspaper section - Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, OK
After an illness of several months on last Friday, August 23, 1901 at 12:30 the spirit of JAMES RENNIE was released from its earthly tenement and took its flight to the house not made by hands for which a noble Christian life of over half a century had so well prepared it. Of robust and perfect health until last spring Mr. Rennie had an attack of la grippe which merged into Bright's Disease. He tried various remedies and spent several weeks at Mineral Wells, Texas where he thought he had been cured of his disease, but to which he succumbed in about a week after his return. The funeral ceremonies were conducted from the beautiful home which he had with much pride and care filled and beautified during his many years of residence in it. The impressive service of the Episcopal Church were conducted by Bishop F. K. Brook of Guthrie, Oklahoma, assisted by Rev. J. E. McGarvey of this Parish, after which the remains were taken in charge by the Masonic and Odd Fellows Fraternities of which he was an honored and leading member. Interment was in the new cemetery two miles southwest of town, recently set apart by the government. At the grave the beautiful Masonic burial services were rendered. The funeral procession was the largest ever known in Pauls Valley or the Chickasaw Nation and was in charge of H.D. Long of Wynnewood, District Deputy Grand Master of the Masonic Fraternity, Acting as Marshal. Old friends and neighbors were here for many lines around. JAMES RENNIE was born Nov. 3, 1846 at Toronto, Canada. His father, Alex Rennie, was a Scotchman and his mother, formerly Miss Catherine Graham, was Scotch-Irish. When yet a boy his parents moved to Hamilton, Canada and here his father handed him $1500.00 with which he engaged in grocery business in his home town. He succeeded fairly well but not accumulating fast enough to suit him he sold out and returned the $1500.00 to his father and with a few hundred in his pocket went to New York City. Here he had a good position in the big store of A.T. Stewart for several months, giving it up to accept a better salary offered by the New York Central Railway Company. After three years in the City he came West and worked in the Big Store at Tishomingo, owned by his older brother Alex Rennie, who died several months since, at the age of 73. Sometime after, in 1875 he came up to Whitebead Hill and opened a small store of his own, getting a post office estabiished with himself as the first postmaster, and naming it Whitebead, after an old Caddo Indian Woman, a band of whom had a camp in the neighborhood. Here he prospered for many years and grew wealthy. When the Railroad pushed through in 1887 Sam Paul gave him a good business site and the land on which his present home is located and moved his business to this place. Here, in addition to his store he took contracts for freightling and furnished supplies to the government at Fort Sill and Fort Reno and was a very busy man. He also engaged quite extensively in the cattle business. Cattle went down with a crash and carried away his fortune, but to his credit be it said, that he paid his local creditors in full and settled with all his creditors in a very satisfactory manner. He has later built up a splended business in a fire insurance agency and was controlling stockholder and manager of the Pauls Valley and Ada Telephone Co. He was active and energetic in business and had a very fine ability in that direction. He was prompt and exact in every transaction and always reliable. He has been public spirited and has done much to make a city of Pauls Valley. He was a sturdy oak in the forest whom none expected so soon to fall. He was generous to a fault no one being turned away empty-handed who applied to him for help. He was a thorough-going Christian Gentleman and one of the original organizer and promoters of the Episcopal Parish at this place. He was beloved of all who knew him, of high or low degree, and no man cound go hence and leave more sincere and geniune mourners.
Mr. Rennie had an insurance policy aggregating about $6000.00 in the Equitable and Mutual Reserve Fund of New York.
He was married April 11, 1887 to Miss Nannie Hutchins of Lawrence, Kansas, who was teaching at the time in Pierce Institute of Whitebead.
Surviving him are his widow, a son George, and a daughter Hazel by a former marriage. His brothers: Albert Rennie a lawyer at Pauls Valley, John Rennie of Lehigh, I.T., D. M. Rennie just returned from Bueonis Aires, South America, where he had a position as a Commerical Agent of the Canadian Governent, Alfred H. Rennie a wealthy merchant of Hong Kong, China, Ernest A. Rennie, Minister of St. Pauls Episcopal Church, New Orleans, George S. Rennie, Physician and Surgeon of Hamilton, Canada.
(from the newspaper section - Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, OK
After an illness of several months on last Friday, August 23, 1901 at 12:30 the spirit of JAMES RENNIE was released from its earthly tenement and took its flight to the house not made by hands for which a noble Christian life of over half a century had so well prepared it. Of robust and perfect health until last spring Mr. Rennie had an attack of la grippe which merged into Bright's Disease. He tried various remedies and spent several weeks at Mineral Wells, Texas where he thought he had been cured of his disease, but to which he succumbed in about a week after his return. The funeral ceremonies were conducted from the beautiful home which he had with much pride and care filled and beautified during his many years of residence in it. The impressive service of the Episcopal Church were conducted by Bishop F. K. Brook of Guthrie, Oklahoma, assisted by Rev. J. E. McGarvey of this Parish, after which the remains were taken in charge by the Masonic and Odd Fellows Fraternities of which he was an honored and leading member. Interment was in the new cemetery two miles southwest of town, recently set apart by the government. At the grave the beautiful Masonic burial services were rendered. The funeral procession was the largest ever known in Pauls Valley or the Chickasaw Nation and was in charge of H.D. Long of Wynnewood, District Deputy Grand Master of the Masonic Fraternity, Acting as Marshal. Old friends and neighbors were here for many lines around. JAMES RENNIE was born Nov. 3, 1846 at Toronto, Canada. His father, Alex Rennie, was a Scotchman and his mother, formerly Miss Catherine Graham, was Scotch-Irish. When yet a boy his parents moved to Hamilton, Canada and here his father handed him $1500.00 with which he engaged in grocery business in his home town. He succeeded fairly well but not accumulating fast enough to suit him he sold out and returned the $1500.00 to his father and with a few hundred in his pocket went to New York City. Here he had a good position in the big store of A.T. Stewart for several months, giving it up to accept a better salary offered by the New York Central Railway Company. After three years in the City he came West and worked in the Big Store at Tishomingo, owned by his older brother Alex Rennie, who died several months since, at the age of 73. Sometime after, in 1875 he came up to Whitebead Hill and opened a small store of his own, getting a post office estabiished with himself as the first postmaster, and naming it Whitebead, after an old Caddo Indian Woman, a band of whom had a camp in the neighborhood. Here he prospered for many years and grew wealthy. When the Railroad pushed through in 1887 Sam Paul gave him a good business site and the land on which his present home is located and moved his business to this place. Here, in addition to his store he took contracts for freightling and furnished supplies to the government at Fort Sill and Fort Reno and was a very busy man. He also engaged quite extensively in the cattle business. Cattle went down with a crash and carried away his fortune, but to his credit be it said, that he paid his local creditors in full and settled with all his creditors in a very satisfactory manner. He has later built up a splended business in a fire insurance agency and was controlling stockholder and manager of the Pauls Valley and Ada Telephone Co. He was active and energetic in business and had a very fine ability in that direction. He was prompt and exact in every transaction and always reliable. He has been public spirited and has done much to make a city of Pauls Valley. He was a sturdy oak in the forest whom none expected so soon to fall. He was generous to a fault no one being turned away empty-handed who applied to him for help. He was a thorough-going Christian Gentleman and one of the original organizer and promoters of the Episcopal Parish at this place. He was beloved of all who knew him, of high or low degree, and no man cound go hence and leave more sincere and geniune mourners.
Mr. Rennie had an insurance policy aggregating about $6000.00 in the Equitable and Mutual Reserve Fund of New York.
He was married April 11, 1887 to Miss Nannie Hutchins of Lawrence, Kansas, who was teaching at the time in Pierce Institute of Whitebead.
Surviving him are his widow, a son George, and a daughter Hazel by a former marriage. His brothers: Albert Rennie a lawyer at Pauls Valley, John Rennie of Lehigh, I.T., D. M. Rennie just returned from Bueonis Aires, South America, where he had a position as a Commerical Agent of the Canadian Governent, Alfred H. Rennie a wealthy merchant of Hong Kong, China, Ernest A. Rennie, Minister of St. Pauls Episcopal Church, New Orleans, George S. Rennie, Physician and Surgeon of Hamilton, Canada.
THE CHICKASAW ENTERPRISE published this article on Thursday, August 29, 1901, Nr. 52 - JAMES RENNIE, DECEASED
(from the newspaper section - Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, OK
After an illness of several months on last Friday, August 23, 1901 at 12:30 the spirit of JAMES RENNIE was released from its earthly tenement and took its flight to the house not made by hands for which a noble Christian life of over half a century had so well prepared it. Of robust and perfect health until last spring Mr. Rennie had an attack of la grippe which merged into Bright's Disease. He tried various remedies and spent several weeks at Mineral Wells, Texas where he thought he had been cured of his disease, but to which he succumbed in about a week after his return. The funeral ceremonies were conducted from the beautiful home which he had with much pride and care filled and beautified during his many years of residence in it. The impressive service of the Episcopal Church were conducted by Bishop F. K. Brook of Guthrie, Oklahoma, assisted by Rev. J. E. McGarvey of this Parish, after which the remains were taken in charge by the Masonic and Odd Fellows Fraternities of which he was an honored and leading member. Interment was in the new cemetery two miles southwest of town, recently set apart by the government. At the grave the beautiful Masonic burial services were rendered. The funeral procession was the largest ever known in Pauls Valley or the Chickasaw Nation and was in charge of H.D. Long of Wynnewood, District Deputy Grand Master of the Masonic Fraternity, Acting as Marshal. Old friends and neighbors were here for many lines around. JAMES RENNIE was born Nov. 3, 1846 at Toronto, Canada. His father, Alex Rennie, was a Scotchman and his mother, formerly Miss Catherine Graham, was Scotch-Irish. When yet a boy his parents moved to Hamilton, Canada and here his father handed him $1500.00 with which he engaged in grocery business in his home town. He succeeded fairly well but not accumulating fast enough to suit him he sold out and returned the $1500.00 to his father and with a few hundred in his pocket went to New York City. Here he had a good position in the big store of A.T. Stewart for several months, giving it up to accept a better salary offered by the New York Central Railway Company. After three years in the City he came West and worked in the Big Store at Tishomingo, owned by his older brother Alex Rennie, who died several months since, at the age of 73. Sometime after, in 1875 he came up to Whitebead Hill and opened a small store of his own, getting a post office estabiished with himself as the first postmaster, and naming it Whitebead, after an old Caddo Indian Woman, a band of whom had a camp in the neighborhood. Here he prospered for many years and grew wealthy. When the Railroad pushed through in 1887 Sam Paul gave him a good business site and the land on which his present home is located and moved his business to this place. Here, in addition to his store he took contracts for freightling and furnished supplies to the government at Fort Sill and Fort Reno and was a very busy man. He also engaged quite extensively in the cattle business. Cattle went down with a crash and carried away his fortune, but to his credit be it said, that he paid his local creditors in full and settled with all his creditors in a very satisfactory manner. He has later built up a splended business in a fire insurance agency and was controlling stockholder and manager of the Pauls Valley and Ada Telephone Co. He was active and energetic in business and had a very fine ability in that direction. He was prompt and exact in every transaction and always reliable. He has been public spirited and has done much to make a city of Pauls Valley. He was a sturdy oak in the forest whom none expected so soon to fall. He was generous to a fault no one being turned away empty-handed who applied to him for help. He was a thorough-going Christian Gentleman and one of the original organizer and promoters of the Episcopal Parish at this place. He was beloved of all who knew him, of high or low degree, and no man cound go hence and leave more sincere and geniune mourners.
Mr. Rennie had an insurance policy aggregating about $6000.00 in the Equitable and Mutual Reserve Fund of New York.
He was married April 11, 1887 to Miss Nannie Hutchins of Lawrence, Kansas, who was teaching at the time in Pierce Institute of Whitebead.
Surviving him are his widow, a son George, and a daughter Hazel by a former marriage. His brothers: Albert Rennie a lawyer at Pauls Valley, John Rennie of Lehigh, I.T., D. M. Rennie just returned from Bueonis Aires, South America, where he had a position as a Commerical Agent of the Canadian Governent, Alfred H. Rennie a wealthy merchant of Hong Kong, China, Ernest A. Rennie, Minister of St. Pauls Episcopal Church, New Orleans, George S. Rennie, Physician and Surgeon of Hamilton, Canada.
(from the newspaper section - Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, OK
After an illness of several months on last Friday, August 23, 1901 at 12:30 the spirit of JAMES RENNIE was released from its earthly tenement and took its flight to the house not made by hands for which a noble Christian life of over half a century had so well prepared it. Of robust and perfect health until last spring Mr. Rennie had an attack of la grippe which merged into Bright's Disease. He tried various remedies and spent several weeks at Mineral Wells, Texas where he thought he had been cured of his disease, but to which he succumbed in about a week after his return. The funeral ceremonies were conducted from the beautiful home which he had with much pride and care filled and beautified during his many years of residence in it. The impressive service of the Episcopal Church were conducted by Bishop F. K. Brook of Guthrie, Oklahoma, assisted by Rev. J. E. McGarvey of this Parish, after which the remains were taken in charge by the Masonic and Odd Fellows Fraternities of which he was an honored and leading member. Interment was in the new cemetery two miles southwest of town, recently set apart by the government. At the grave the beautiful Masonic burial services were rendered. The funeral procession was the largest ever known in Pauls Valley or the Chickasaw Nation and was in charge of H.D. Long of Wynnewood, District Deputy Grand Master of the Masonic Fraternity, Acting as Marshal. Old friends and neighbors were here for many lines around. JAMES RENNIE was born Nov. 3, 1846 at Toronto, Canada. His father, Alex Rennie, was a Scotchman and his mother, formerly Miss Catherine Graham, was Scotch-Irish. When yet a boy his parents moved to Hamilton, Canada and here his father handed him $1500.00 with which he engaged in grocery business in his home town. He succeeded fairly well but not accumulating fast enough to suit him he sold out and returned the $1500.00 to his father and with a few hundred in his pocket went to New York City. Here he had a good position in the big store of A.T. Stewart for several months, giving it up to accept a better salary offered by the New York Central Railway Company. After three years in the City he came West and worked in the Big Store at Tishomingo, owned by his older brother Alex Rennie, who died several months since, at the age of 73. Sometime after, in 1875 he came up to Whitebead Hill and opened a small store of his own, getting a post office estabiished with himself as the first postmaster, and naming it Whitebead, after an old Caddo Indian Woman, a band of whom had a camp in the neighborhood. Here he prospered for many years and grew wealthy. When the Railroad pushed through in 1887 Sam Paul gave him a good business site and the land on which his present home is located and moved his business to this place. Here, in addition to his store he took contracts for freightling and furnished supplies to the government at Fort Sill and Fort Reno and was a very busy man. He also engaged quite extensively in the cattle business. Cattle went down with a crash and carried away his fortune, but to his credit be it said, that he paid his local creditors in full and settled with all his creditors in a very satisfactory manner. He has later built up a splended business in a fire insurance agency and was controlling stockholder and manager of the Pauls Valley and Ada Telephone Co. He was active and energetic in business and had a very fine ability in that direction. He was prompt and exact in every transaction and always reliable. He has been public spirited and has done much to make a city of Pauls Valley. He was a sturdy oak in the forest whom none expected so soon to fall. He was generous to a fault no one being turned away empty-handed who applied to him for help. He was a thorough-going Christian Gentleman and one of the original organizer and promoters of the Episcopal Parish at this place. He was beloved of all who knew him, of high or low degree, and no man cound go hence and leave more sincere and geniune mourners.
Mr. Rennie had an insurance policy aggregating about $6000.00 in the Equitable and Mutual Reserve Fund of New York.
He was married April 11, 1887 to Miss Nannie Hutchins of Lawrence, Kansas, who was teaching at the time in Pierce Institute of Whitebead.
Surviving him are his widow, a son George, and a daughter Hazel by a former marriage. His brothers: Albert Rennie a lawyer at Pauls Valley, John Rennie of Lehigh, I.T., D. M. Rennie just returned from Bueonis Aires, South America, where he had a position as a Commerical Agent of the Canadian Governent, Alfred H. Rennie a wealthy merchant of Hong Kong, China, Ernest A. Rennie, Minister of St. Pauls Episcopal Church, New Orleans, George S. Rennie, Physician and Surgeon of Hamilton, Canada.
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