Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1916 — John Carr Dies in Texas, Following an Operation. [ARTICLE]

John Carr Dies in Texas, Following an Operation.

Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Carr received a telegram Wednesday morning stating that their son John, who had been living down in Texas for several years, had died in Dallas at 8 o’clock Tuesday evening. No particulars were given, but it was believed his death followed an operation for appendicitis. His age was about 40 years.

It was expected that the body would be brought here for burial, but a second telegram was received Thursday morning stating that burial would be made there Thursday. John left Rensselaer some 15 years ago and had been engaged in the building and contracting business in Dallas for the past few years. He had never been back home since going to the Southwest, and news of his death was a great shock to his relatives and friends, especially to his mother, who is prostrated over his death. He leaves, besides his parents and one sister, Mrs. John Copsey, of Lafayette, a wife, who was formerly Miss Elizabeth Scheurich, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Scheurich oL-Jasper county, and three children, two sons, aged 11 and 6 years, and one daughter, aged 14. The Democrat is informed that the Scheurich family had received a letter Saturday saying that John had been operated on for appendicitis and that pneumonia had set in, so it is supposed that his death was caused from the latter trouble.