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Note: N10505 Dallas Morning News (Dallas, Texas), 23 September 1909
George K. Meriwether Dead
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Old and Well-Known Citizen Expires At his Home in Dallas
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Came Here in 1873
George K. Meriwether, an old and well-known citizen, died at his home, 418 Ross avenue, at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Funeral services will be held at St. Matthew's Cathedral at 10:30 o'clock tomorrow morning. Dean Harry T. Moore officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
George Kimball Meriwether was born at La Grange, Tex., April 21, 1843. He served as a Confederate soldier in Green's Brigade. After the war he was in business in Galveston and Houston until 1873, when he removed to Dallas. He engaged in business here a few years and then went on the road, and was one of the most successful and best-known traveling men in the State. He was a member of the United Commercial Traveler's Association and of the Travelers' Protective Association.
In 1881 he was married to Miss Tullie Trotman of Dallas. He is survived by his widow and three children - Miss Harriet, Miss Sarah, and George Meriwether, and two sisters, Misses Mary and Louise Meriwether.
He was one of the oldest parishioners of St. Matthew's Cathedral, and was for many years a vestryman.
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Note: N10506 Dallas Morning News (Dallas, Texas), 24 September 1909
Funeral For Mr. Meriwether
Funeral services for George K. Meriwether, who died at his home, 418 Ross avenue Wednesday evening, will be held at St. Matthew's Cathedral at 10:30 o'clock this forenoon. Dean Harry T. Moore, officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
The active pallbearers will be George B. Dealey, Ben E. Cabell, J.J. Simmons, Porter, Farrell, Fritz Mitchell, J.M. Berry, Judge Nelson Phillips and Arthur Green. The honorary pallbearers will be Gen. W.L. Cabell, Alexander Sanger, C.H. Langdeau, John S. Witwer, Major Robert Gibson, W.A. Ponder and Leon Kahn.
A call has been issued to all the traveling men of the city to attend the funeral of this veteran travelling man. The drummers are requested to be at the residence at 418 Ross avenue at 10 o'clock to attend in a body the funeral service, marching from the residence to St. Matthew's Cathedral.
Mr. Meriwether was very popular with the travelling men of Dallas and North Texas, and it is expected that many of them will be present at the funeral.
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Note: N10507 Dallas Morning News (Dallas, Texas), 25 September 1909
The funeral of George K. Meriwether, who had been a citizen of Dallas since 1873 and a prominent travelling man for thirty-five years, occurred yesterday forenoon. A great number of people turned out to pay their last respects to the memory of one of the most popular men in the State. Several hundred travelling men made it a point to abandon their trips in order to attend the funeral. It was necessary for the undertakers Ed C. Smith & Brother to provide a separate wagon to convey the flowers from the house to the cemetery.
The funeral service of the Episcopal Church was said over the body at S. Matthew's Cathedral by Rev. Harry T. Moore, dean of the Cathedral, of which the deceased had been a member for almost forty years. The body was laid to rest in Greenwood cemetery.
The active pallbearers will be George B. Dealey, Ben E. Cabell, J.J. Simmons, Porter Farrell, Fritz Mitchell, J.M. Berry, Judge Nelson Phillips and Arthur Green. The honorary pallbearers will be Gen. W.L. Cabell, Alexander Sanger, C.H. Langdeau, John S. Witwer, Major Robert Gibson, W.A. Ponder and Leon Kahn
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Note: N10508 Arlington Journal (Texas), Friday October, 1909
George K. Meriwether, over thirty years a Texas commercial traveler is dead, dying in Dallas, his home.
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