Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1912-09-05
FRED |. WEIGH DEAD
Pioneer and Prominent Banker
Died Suddenly Of Heart
Failure Today

I anu liiNh'tt bailhtf, iltI SdultUiN
and Unexpectedly in a chair at his
home on West Filth and Talbot
streets this morning at G:i5
O'Clock. Mr. Welch had just arisen
and dressed himself when the at
tack slruck him. Asking his wife
to send for physician, he sat
down in a chair, and in moment
was dead. He had been complain
ing yesterday of pain il. his side,
but was apparently in the best of
health.
Fred l. Welch was pioneer
banker of Taylor, and was in the
SIND year of his age. He was
born in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, or
September 10 1859, and came to
Texas with his parents when he
was a boy, first residing at Jeffer-
son and later at Mckinney. He
came to Taylor in 1888 to take
position and an interest in the
firm of Womack x Sturgis. Later
he resigned that position to take
position as bookkeeper and as
assistant cashier in the First Nat
ional Bank of Taylor, with which
he has been identified ever since,
or for nearly thirty years, and of
which he has been president for
the past several years, rapidly
rising III position. The bank was
establis led by his brother, c. II.
WEIGH, now deceased, in 1892.
In addition to his banking inter
ests, Mr. Welch was largely inter
ested in the realty business being
one of the owners and members of
the the firm of Hoxie, Welch *
Allison, owners of the famous
HoXie San Gabriel ranch, one Of
the largest and last of the big
ranches of Williamson County to
be subdivided and cut up into farm
Mr. Wclch recently attended the
National Republican convention
in Chicago as member of the
eXas ueleSallOn.
Mr. Welch was married in 1855
to Miss Hattie Mumford Of Taylor
who survives him. Their only
child is Mrs Stephen &. Gernert of
of Brooklyn n. Y, formerly Miss
Mae Welch of Taylor. Mr. Welch
is also survived by one brother, A.
b. Welch merchant of Robstown
Tex, and one sister Mrs G W.
Brown of Jefferson Texas Fran
els II WEIGH of Taylor vice presi-
dent of First National Bank, is a
nephew of deccdent Mr. Welch
was a son of the late Horace Welch
who was a merchant of Jefferson.
Mr. Welch was known as a man
of exceptional business integrity
and acumen, AS his rapid rise in
the financial world fully attests,
To those who enjoyed his intimate
acquaintance his friendship was
valued to an exceptional degree.
as he was man Of kindly heart,
tina doer of many good and kindly
deeds, but a man retlcent by dis
position and whose charities were
not paraded for the world to see
and known only to those who
were nearest to him. HIS sudden
and unexpected demise is a sorrow
to them and a shock to the entire
community.
Mr. Welch was a member of the
First Presbyterian Church Of Tay-
lor- He was also a Mason of long
and high standing being thirty
second degree member a knight
Templar and Shriner.
No funeral arrangements have
been made pending the coming of
decendents daughter and other
relatives. The funeral will await
the arrival of Mrs Gernert, who
was notified this morning by tele-
graph of her fathers death, and
will leave her New York home at
once for Taylor arriving here prob
ably Monday. 80 Taylor DailyDem-
ocrat, Aug, 20.