The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-03-25
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/ In wasahaehie earl, Sunday morn
! Ing that Capt Charles II, Sammons
| had died suddenly In Dallas late
Saturday night This news came ss
| q great shock 10 hts many friends in
this clty where he has resided for
several years
| Capt, ssmmons left Waxahachie
Saturday night. March 10. for Dali
las to spend the week attending the
! reunion Of the Scottish Rite Masons
aud a session OF the Mystic Shrine
which was to follow He was mem
Der of the reception committee for
the Masonic reunion,
According to information received
here Capt. Sammons and number
OF friends dined at cafe In Dallas
| Saturday night, He parted from his
| friends about 8 O'Clock ard little
after II o'clock, when preparations
were being made TO close the place
/ iST tHt night, isiS IstSiS'S T'%e ''"'N
found in the toilet room Apparently
the end had come suddenly and with
| out struggle. The death OF capt.
Sammons is attributed TO an attack
| of heart disease. Soon after death oc-
CURED the body was viewed by
coroner
Capt. Sammons was native OF
| New York and was 5S years old. In
| early years he came to Texas and for
a long time was a resident of Dallas.
He was prominent architect and
contractor. and some OF the most
prominent buildings in Dallas were
erected under his supervision.
He came to Waxahachie about six
teen years ago and has since been
resident of this city. He continued
to follow the occupation OF con-
tractor and his last work OF import
ance in that line was the erection OF
a compress in West Texas last sum
mer.
/ Cant. Sammons was Scottisi
lRite Mason OF the thirty-aecond g
txree, . Kni9ht OF the Mystic cnrtns
{ IAN Elk an Odd Fellow and q kni&f
of Pythias. His membership IN th
order of Elks was held with the Iodg
lin this city He assisted In the OF
ganfzation of the lodge here and wa
Its second past exalted ruler. He wa
also a member of the grand lodge
He took quite a prominent part IN
1.-The Masonic meetings at Dallas last
week. and when he left Waxahach1e
for that place he was seemingly IN
the best of health,
Aside from his work as contrac-
tor Capt Sammons owned STOCK IN
1.-Two or three business enterprises IN
the city.
It has not yet been decided where
the body will be inferred, but 1t Will
probably be shipped to Wichita FANS
where the wife and child of the de-
ceased are buried Arrangements for
the burial will not be made until the
,arrival in Dallas "Wednesday night
OF Thomas Sammons, a brother OF
1.-The deceased. from New YORK. Ihe
undertaken has been instructed by
telegram to hold the body unui
then. Thomas Sammons Is United
States consul in China, but has been
visiting the old home in New YORK
several months.
\ funeral service was held in the
Elks' hall at Dallas last night. be
ginning at II O'Clock with the rites
of the knights kadosh. Masons. me
ceremony was a very solemn ana
impressive one and was attended Nv
"A large number of persons who hhu
known Capt Sammons, or VINO were
either members of his fraternity or
In IN. family of members. The large
han was filled when the midnight
hour arrived.
AT the stroke of e the procession
of the Officers performing the rites
entered In single fiie the darkeued
lchamb.r. Each carried U lighted
tcandlc and all formed a square about
the caskct The ceremony was one
that told ~ the love and care the or
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