The Paris Morning News, January 13, 1917
Died Penniless and Almost Friendless
Thos. Williams, a stranger, sixty-nine years old, who was admitted to the Aikin hospital as a charity patient on the 11th of December, died at that institution at 7:30 o'clock yesterday morning and was buried by the county. He had no family at all, he having outlived them all. He was a native of Wales and was a man of marvelous intelligence and education. He had traveled a great deal and seemed to be posted on everything. He came here from Arkansas, where he had worked in coal mines. When he first came to America he went to work in the coal mines in Pennsylvania and had spent most of his life in the mines of that state.
When Miss Thomas, the superintendent of the hospital, asked him about his family and his friends he had told her he had no family and that he possessed only one friend in the wide world. She asked him to give her the name of his friend and got permission to write to him and tell him of his condition. He said his friend was Mr. Moore, the railroad agent at Call, Texas. Miss Thomas wrote to him and he sent the old man a nice pipe and some tobacco for old times sake and wrote him one or two letters, but he was too sick to answer them. The unfortunate old man was entirely without means.
(Birth date was estimated)
Died Penniless and Almost Friendless
Thos. Williams, a stranger, sixty-nine years old, who was admitted to the Aikin hospital as a charity patient on the 11th of December, died at that institution at 7:30 o'clock yesterday morning and was buried by the county. He had no family at all, he having outlived them all. He was a native of Wales and was a man of marvelous intelligence and education. He had traveled a great deal and seemed to be posted on everything. He came here from Arkansas, where he had worked in coal mines. When he first came to America he went to work in the coal mines in Pennsylvania and had spent most of his life in the mines of that state.
When Miss Thomas, the superintendent of the hospital, asked him about his family and his friends he had told her he had no family and that he possessed only one friend in the wide world. She asked him to give her the name of his friend and got permission to write to him and tell him of his condition. He said his friend was Mr. Moore, the railroad agent at Call, Texas. Miss Thomas wrote to him and he sent the old man a nice pipe and some tobacco for old times sake and wrote him one or two letters, but he was too sick to answer them. The unfortunate old man was entirely without means.
(Birth date was estimated)
The Paris Morning News, January 13, 1917
Died Penniless and Almost Friendless
Thos. Williams, a stranger, sixty-nine years old, who was admitted to the Aikin hospital as a charity patient on the 11th of December, died at that institution at 7:30 o'clock yesterday morning and was buried by the county. He had no family at all, he having outlived them all. He was a native of Wales and was a man of marvelous intelligence and education. He had traveled a great deal and seemed to be posted on everything. He came here from Arkansas, where he had worked in coal mines. When he first came to America he went to work in the coal mines in Pennsylvania and had spent most of his life in the mines of that state.
When Miss Thomas, the superintendent of the hospital, asked him about his family and his friends he had told her he had no family and that he possessed only one friend in the wide world. She asked him to give her the name of his friend and got permission to write to him and tell him of his condition. He said his friend was Mr. Moore, the railroad agent at Call, Texas. Miss Thomas wrote to him and he sent the old man a nice pipe and some tobacco for old times sake and wrote him one or two letters, but he was too sick to answer them. The unfortunate old man was entirely without means.
(Birth date was estimated)
Died Penniless and Almost Friendless
Thos. Williams, a stranger, sixty-nine years old, who was admitted to the Aikin hospital as a charity patient on the 11th of December, died at that institution at 7:30 o'clock yesterday morning and was buried by the county. He had no family at all, he having outlived them all. He was a native of Wales and was a man of marvelous intelligence and education. He had traveled a great deal and seemed to be posted on everything. He came here from Arkansas, where he had worked in coal mines. When he first came to America he went to work in the coal mines in Pennsylvania and had spent most of his life in the mines of that state.
When Miss Thomas, the superintendent of the hospital, asked him about his family and his friends he had told her he had no family and that he possessed only one friend in the wide world. She asked him to give her the name of his friend and got permission to write to him and tell him of his condition. He said his friend was Mr. Moore, the railroad agent at Call, Texas. Miss Thomas wrote to him and he sent the old man a nice pipe and some tobacco for old times sake and wrote him one or two letters, but he was too sick to answer them. The unfortunate old man was entirely without means.
(Birth date was estimated)
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