The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-11-08
THE STATESMAN.
Denth of Capt. JesseIYm.
AUSTIN. TEXAS.

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Capt. .Josselvn. one of the best
known men o. i;.o state Of Texas
died in this city Sunday night. after Il
brief illness. lie was born in Penn
broke, Plymouth county, Vt, Deem
Der 16, a. ID. 1910. At the age of four
years he removed to Woodstock, VT,
;AiSil remained there until nineteen
" RS of age, when he went to Viz
ginia. At the age of twenty-one he
was licensed to practice law at Win
chester in that state, by Judges
Tucker, Scott and Field Went to
Mississippi in 1886 and settled at Ok
ford; was a member of the legislature
from Lafayette county in 1855;
was appointed district attorney by
Gov. McNutt; moved to Holly
Springs, Miss, in 1910; represented
Marshall county in 1S43 A; .voiun-
teered as a private in Je1f DAVIS, reg
lment in the Mexican war. After
the battle of Monterey was coln-llS-
stoned by President Polk as assistant
commissary of subsistence, with the
rank of captain in the regular army;
resigned after the regim Mt returned
home; in 1850 was appointed state
commissioner by Gov. Quitman, and
AAClh IllC OilICO JNetASS go
held clerkship in the treasury de-
partment at Washington city; resigned
when Mississippi seeded and went
home; was appointed private secretary
of President Davis, and held that pO-
sition for the first year Of the war,
when he resigned and was appointed
secretary of Arizona territory, as
organized by the confederate gov
eminent. In attempting to come
to Texas after the surrender he was
taken prisoner by a federal gun-boat
was released and sent to Alexandria,
La, with a portion of Gen. Ross
brigade practiced law at Shreveport,
La, about year then came to Aus
tin. Texas, and took editorial charge
of the old State Gazette during the
military occupation. when that paper
was broken up by the Radicals; edited
the Dallas Herald for about year
then returned to Austin and edited
the Statesman until Gov. Coke was
elected, when he resigned, and has not
been engaged on the press since. He
was seventy-two years of age in De
cember last. This is the career in
brief of this remarkable man.
Capt. Josselyn published Il volume
of poems at Boston in 1913, a satire on
the Times, published at st. Louis, and
the Coquette, drama, published at
Austin, both since the war; and be-
sides these, various short poems for
the press, North and South, many of
which have been set to music. "The
Faded Flower" "The Last Tear
She'd" "The Young Widow" and
"My Girl with the Calico Dress" have
kept their place in the newspapers
ever since their publication, thirty or
forty years ago.
The funeral occurred yesterday af-
ternoon, and was largely attended.
Quite large procession followed the
remains to the cemetery. He will be
greatly missed from the familiar
places that have known him SO long.
One by one the old landmarks are
fading away; one by one the Old faces
are being missed from the active
scenes of life, and the men who have
helped to make the history of the past
eventful years are one by one going to
The silent city.
Sunday six boys were seen loaing
round in the Bolton pasture and on
Evergreen ridge. In the evening
they came to Commercial Jones and
j. j. Walkers, asking for something
to eat, as they had had nothing to |
eat since the day before, and said they |
were from Hearne. After dark they !
came again to j. j. Walkers, wanting
a wash basin to wash the blood off |
ones head. Mr.. Walker asked what
was the matter and they said that in
trying to get over the freight train
one of them had fallen off and a rock
had split his head. Mr.. Walker found |
his scalp torn but not serious, and |
washed and dressed his wound and
they went off again. Something is
wrong doubtless about them. They !
told Mr.. Walker that they were going |
to San Antonio and that they were |
from Galveston. Two of them gave |
their names as Martin and Johnson.