Death Strikes Tillman Smith
Judge Tillman Smith, who was suddenly stricken with paralysis about 10 o'clock Sunday night, after lying in a semi-conscious condition and unable to speak a word since that time, died at 11:20 last night at his residence, 802 Taylor Street, surrounded by his family and friends.
The news of Judge Smith's sudden death will be a shock to the host of friends in and out of the city. While in poor health since last August, still there had been nothing to indicate that dissolution was so near at hand until he was stricken with dread paralysis without a note of warning.
A man of high integrity, a lawyer of recognized standing and ability, a Mason of thirty years standing, an executive officer of the Knights of Honor and a member of R. E. Lee camp, U.C.V., there is hardly a class or clan in Ft. Worth not sorrowed by the death of this good citizen. Representatives of the orders to which he belonged were in attendance at his deathbed.
Judge Smith was born in Lilesville, Anson County, North Carolina, September 8, 1844, and was educated as a boy at the University of North Carolina. He left college to shoulder a musket in the civil war, and after the trouble was over caught the prevalent "Texas fever," and immigrated to the Lone Star state, first locating in Grimes County. Shortly afterward he entered the law offices of John D. McAdoo in Washington County and was licensed to practice Law at Brenham in April 1866, removing soon afterward to Hillsboro. While making his home in Hillsboro he paid a short visit to his old home in North Carolina, and upon his return again moved his headquarters to Navasota, where he was actively engaged in his professional duties and built up a large and lucrative practice.
It was while a resident of Grimes County that Judge Smith was elected to the Texas legislature of 1874-5. He was elected state senator in 1876 for the Fifteenth district as a Democrat, his district comprising the counties of Grimes, Madison, Walker, and Trinity. While State Senator Judge Smith formed a law partnership with Hon. A. W.; DeBerry, then secretary of state, with offices at Cleburne.
Judge Smith resigned from the legislature to take up the practice of law at Cleburne. In 1892 he moved to Ft. Worth because of the broader field offered his energies and ambitions, and from that time became an honored member of the Fort Worth bar. His first practice in this city was with the firm of Field, West & Smith, and at the time of his death was associated with his eldest son, William C. Smith.
His wife was Miss Emma DeMaret of Grimes County whom he married in 1876, and who survives him, together with four sons and one daughter, William C., DeMaret, Selwyn, Felix C. and Ellen P. Smith, all of Fort Worth. He leaves two sisters, Mrs. John W. McGregor of Lilesvuille, N.C., and Mrs. Ida Willingham of Cleburne. Mrs. Willingham and her son Smith, were present when the end came.
It is the wish of the family that the body be taken to Cleburne and interred in the family lot there, and arrangements made last night were that services conducted by Rev. B. B. Ramage would be held at the residence at 3 o'clock this afternoon and the body shipped on the 5:454 p.m. Santa Fe train to Cleburne for burial. The Masonic order will conduct the funeral from the house to the depot. Pall bearers will be chosen and announced at an early hour this morning
Judge Tillman Smith, who was suddenly stricken with paralysis about 10 o'clock Sunday night, after lying in a semi-conscious condition and unable to speak a word since that time, died at 11:20 last night at his residence, 802 Taylor Street, surrounded by his family and friends.
The news of Judge Smith's sudden death will be a shock to the host of friends in and out of the city. While in poor health since last August, still there had been nothing to indicate that dissolution was so near at hand until he was stricken with dread paralysis without a note of warning.
A man of high integrity, a lawyer of recognized standing and ability, a Mason of thirty years standing, an executive officer of the Knights of Honor and a member of R. E. Lee camp, U.C.V., there is hardly a class or clan in Ft. Worth not sorrowed by the death of this good citizen. Representatives of the orders to which he belonged were in attendance at his deathbed.
Judge Smith was born in Lilesville, Anson County, North Carolina, September 8, 1844, and was educated as a boy at the University of North Carolina. He left college to shoulder a musket in the civil war, and after the trouble was over caught the prevalent "Texas fever," and immigrated to the Lone Star state, first locating in Grimes County. Shortly afterward he entered the law offices of John D. McAdoo in Washington County and was licensed to practice Law at Brenham in April 1866, removing soon afterward to Hillsboro. While making his home in Hillsboro he paid a short visit to his old home in North Carolina, and upon his return again moved his headquarters to Navasota, where he was actively engaged in his professional duties and built up a large and lucrative practice.
It was while a resident of Grimes County that Judge Smith was elected to the Texas legislature of 1874-5. He was elected state senator in 1876 for the Fifteenth district as a Democrat, his district comprising the counties of Grimes, Madison, Walker, and Trinity. While State Senator Judge Smith formed a law partnership with Hon. A. W.; DeBerry, then secretary of state, with offices at Cleburne.
Judge Smith resigned from the legislature to take up the practice of law at Cleburne. In 1892 he moved to Ft. Worth because of the broader field offered his energies and ambitions, and from that time became an honored member of the Fort Worth bar. His first practice in this city was with the firm of Field, West & Smith, and at the time of his death was associated with his eldest son, William C. Smith.
His wife was Miss Emma DeMaret of Grimes County whom he married in 1876, and who survives him, together with four sons and one daughter, William C., DeMaret, Selwyn, Felix C. and Ellen P. Smith, all of Fort Worth. He leaves two sisters, Mrs. John W. McGregor of Lilesvuille, N.C., and Mrs. Ida Willingham of Cleburne. Mrs. Willingham and her son Smith, were present when the end came.
It is the wish of the family that the body be taken to Cleburne and interred in the family lot there, and arrangements made last night were that services conducted by Rev. B. B. Ramage would be held at the residence at 3 o'clock this afternoon and the body shipped on the 5:454 p.m. Santa Fe train to Cleburne for burial. The Masonic order will conduct the funeral from the house to the depot. Pall bearers will be chosen and announced at an early hour this morning
Death Strikes Tillman Smith
Judge Tillman Smith, who was suddenly stricken with paralysis about 10 o'clock Sunday night, after lying in a semi-conscious condition and unable to speak a word since that time, died at 11:20 last night at his residence, 802 Taylor Street, surrounded by his family and friends.
The news of Judge Smith's sudden death will be a shock to the host of friends in and out of the city. While in poor health since last August, still there had been nothing to indicate that dissolution was so near at hand until he was stricken with dread paralysis without a note of warning.
A man of high integrity, a lawyer of recognized standing and ability, a Mason of thirty years standing, an executive officer of the Knights of Honor and a member of R. E. Lee camp, U.C.V., there is hardly a class or clan in Ft. Worth not sorrowed by the death of this good citizen. Representatives of the orders to which he belonged were in attendance at his deathbed.
Judge Smith was born in Lilesville, Anson County, North Carolina, September 8, 1844, and was educated as a boy at the University of North Carolina. He left college to shoulder a musket in the civil war, and after the trouble was over caught the prevalent "Texas fever," and immigrated to the Lone Star state, first locating in Grimes County. Shortly afterward he entered the law offices of John D. McAdoo in Washington County and was licensed to practice Law at Brenham in April 1866, removing soon afterward to Hillsboro. While making his home in Hillsboro he paid a short visit to his old home in North Carolina, and upon his return again moved his headquarters to Navasota, where he was actively engaged in his professional duties and built up a large and lucrative practice.
It was while a resident of Grimes County that Judge Smith was elected to the Texas legislature of 1874-5. He was elected state senator in 1876 for the Fifteenth district as a Democrat, his district comprising the counties of Grimes, Madison, Walker, and Trinity. While State Senator Judge Smith formed a law partnership with Hon. A. W.; DeBerry, then secretary of state, with offices at Cleburne.
Judge Smith resigned from the legislature to take up the practice of law at Cleburne. In 1892 he moved to Ft. Worth because of the broader field offered his energies and ambitions, and from that time became an honored member of the Fort Worth bar. His first practice in this city was with the firm of Field, West & Smith, and at the time of his death was associated with his eldest son, William C. Smith.
His wife was Miss Emma DeMaret of Grimes County whom he married in 1876, and who survives him, together with four sons and one daughter, William C., DeMaret, Selwyn, Felix C. and Ellen P. Smith, all of Fort Worth. He leaves two sisters, Mrs. John W. McGregor of Lilesvuille, N.C., and Mrs. Ida Willingham of Cleburne. Mrs. Willingham and her son Smith, were present when the end came.
It is the wish of the family that the body be taken to Cleburne and interred in the family lot there, and arrangements made last night were that services conducted by Rev. B. B. Ramage would be held at the residence at 3 o'clock this afternoon and the body shipped on the 5:454 p.m. Santa Fe train to Cleburne for burial. The Masonic order will conduct the funeral from the house to the depot. Pall bearers will be chosen and announced at an early hour this morning
Judge Tillman Smith, who was suddenly stricken with paralysis about 10 o'clock Sunday night, after lying in a semi-conscious condition and unable to speak a word since that time, died at 11:20 last night at his residence, 802 Taylor Street, surrounded by his family and friends.
The news of Judge Smith's sudden death will be a shock to the host of friends in and out of the city. While in poor health since last August, still there had been nothing to indicate that dissolution was so near at hand until he was stricken with dread paralysis without a note of warning.
A man of high integrity, a lawyer of recognized standing and ability, a Mason of thirty years standing, an executive officer of the Knights of Honor and a member of R. E. Lee camp, U.C.V., there is hardly a class or clan in Ft. Worth not sorrowed by the death of this good citizen. Representatives of the orders to which he belonged were in attendance at his deathbed.
Judge Smith was born in Lilesville, Anson County, North Carolina, September 8, 1844, and was educated as a boy at the University of North Carolina. He left college to shoulder a musket in the civil war, and after the trouble was over caught the prevalent "Texas fever," and immigrated to the Lone Star state, first locating in Grimes County. Shortly afterward he entered the law offices of John D. McAdoo in Washington County and was licensed to practice Law at Brenham in April 1866, removing soon afterward to Hillsboro. While making his home in Hillsboro he paid a short visit to his old home in North Carolina, and upon his return again moved his headquarters to Navasota, where he was actively engaged in his professional duties and built up a large and lucrative practice.
It was while a resident of Grimes County that Judge Smith was elected to the Texas legislature of 1874-5. He was elected state senator in 1876 for the Fifteenth district as a Democrat, his district comprising the counties of Grimes, Madison, Walker, and Trinity. While State Senator Judge Smith formed a law partnership with Hon. A. W.; DeBerry, then secretary of state, with offices at Cleburne.
Judge Smith resigned from the legislature to take up the practice of law at Cleburne. In 1892 he moved to Ft. Worth because of the broader field offered his energies and ambitions, and from that time became an honored member of the Fort Worth bar. His first practice in this city was with the firm of Field, West & Smith, and at the time of his death was associated with his eldest son, William C. Smith.
His wife was Miss Emma DeMaret of Grimes County whom he married in 1876, and who survives him, together with four sons and one daughter, William C., DeMaret, Selwyn, Felix C. and Ellen P. Smith, all of Fort Worth. He leaves two sisters, Mrs. John W. McGregor of Lilesvuille, N.C., and Mrs. Ida Willingham of Cleburne. Mrs. Willingham and her son Smith, were present when the end came.
It is the wish of the family that the body be taken to Cleburne and interred in the family lot there, and arrangements made last night were that services conducted by Rev. B. B. Ramage would be held at the residence at 3 o'clock this afternoon and the body shipped on the 5:454 p.m. Santa Fe train to Cleburne for burial. The Masonic order will conduct the funeral from the house to the depot. Pall bearers will be chosen and announced at an early hour this morning
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