CURTIS, L. A.
IN MEMORY OF L. A. CURTIS
Newspaper, February 1906
Who Died in Plano Tuesday, February 13 – An Old Settler
Mr. Lew A. Curtis of Plano, Texas, has obeyed the call of death and passed into the great beyond, to answer to God for the life he lived here on earth.
Mr. Curtis was an uncle of the writer, and to J. W. O’Gwin of Fort Worth. He was born in Tennessee Dec. 13, 1824, moved to Kentucky at an early age, and later to Texas, where he spent a long life, and died at his home in Plano February 13, 1906, being 81 years and 2 months old. He served in the war between the States, and it is said by those who knew that he made a valiant soldier. He came home from the army in 1863 in company with Col. Weaver, and he and Col. Weaver joined the Christian church and were baptized in the dead of winter, having to cut the ice.
From that time one he lived a life of devotion to the church and his God. A life of rugged honesty, characterized by a pure consecrated Christian spirit, made him one of the bet men in the county. He served God and the church about 43 years, and when he was stricken with his last illness, he expressed his willingness to go, and told those who stood around his bedside, “that all was well with him.” and that he thought there could be no better time than now to die. He suffered a great deal from Wednesday to the following Tuesday, but bore it without a murmur until his life flickered like a candle, and finally went out, and his soul went home to God.
Bless God for such a life, and for such death.
W. D. O’Gwin, McKinney Tues, Feb. 16, 1906
Newspaper, February 1906
Who Died in Plano Tuesday, February 13 – An Old Settler
Mr. Lew A. Curtis of Plano, Texas, has obeyed the call of death and passed into the great beyond, to answer to God for the life he lived here on earth.
Mr. Curtis was an uncle of the writer, and to J. W. O’Gwin of Fort Worth. He was born in Tennessee Dec. 13, 1824, moved to Kentucky at an early age, and later to Texas, where he spent a long life, and died at his home in Plano February 13, 1906, being 81 years and 2 months old. He served in the war between the States, and it is said by those who knew that he made a valiant soldier. He came home from the army in 1863 in company with Col. Weaver, and he and Col. Weaver joined the Christian church and were baptized in the dead of winter, having to cut the ice.
From that time one he lived a life of devotion to the church and his God. A life of rugged honesty, characterized by a pure consecrated Christian spirit, made him one of the bet men in the county. He served God and the church about 43 years, and when he was stricken with his last illness, he expressed his willingness to go, and told those who stood around his bedside, “that all was well with him.” and that he thought there could be no better time than now to die. He suffered a great deal from Wednesday to the following Tuesday, but bore it without a murmur until his life flickered like a candle, and finally went out, and his soul went home to God.
Bless God for such a life, and for such death.
W. D. O’Gwin, McKinney Tues, Feb. 16, 1906
