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Note: N4691 Daily Express (San Antonio, Texas), 28 December 1898
Died—In San Antonio, Dec. 27, 1898
W.T. Meriwether, aged 55 years. Funeral will take place from residence, 223 Oakland street, today at 4 o'clock p.m. Friends and acquaintances are invited to attend interment in Confederate cemetery.
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Note: N4692 Daily Express (San Antonio, Texas), 28 December 1898
Meriwether's Death Sudden
End Came Unexpectedly Yesterday Afternoon
Seized With a Fainting Spell Down Town He Was Removed Home and Soon Expired
Useful Career Ended
The death of Gen. W. T. Meriwether which took place at 3:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon very suddenly was a great surprise to his many friends here. Gen. Meriwether was one of the best known members of the community. He had been ill for some time with an affliction of the stomach, but had sufficiently recovered to be down town at his office.
Yesterday afternoon he was suddenly seized with a fainting spell and fell to the sidewalk. It is supposed that the injury he then sustained was concussion of the brain. This occurred at 2 o'clock in the afternoon on Soledad street near his office. He was taken home in a carriage by his son, W. T. Meriwether, and was able to walk from the carriage into his residence at N. 223 Oakland street.
He was 55 years of age and was a native of Obion county, Tennessee. He came to Texas in 1854 and located first on the San Marcos river in Guadeloupe county. In 1874 he began the practice of law, first at Frio, afterward at Uvalde and Pearsall. He came here in 1892 and engaged in the practice of that profession in which he was very successful.
In the year 1888 he was elected to the Legislature from the Frio district and served one term in the House. During the late war he was a Major in the Fourth Texas Confederate Infantry and at the close married in 1866 married Miss Lucy Hill at Goliad. He was a member of the Home Forum order and prominent in the Confederate Veterans, having been a member of Albert Sidney Johnson Camp here at the death of the late Gen. Sayers was elected to succeed the latter as the Major General commanding the Southwestern division of the organization of Confederate Veterans of Texas. He held the position until August last when he was succeeded by Gen. W. C. Kroeger who was elected to fill his stead at Galveston.
He leaves a wife and an only son, the latter named W.T. Meriwether also. The funeral which will occur this afternoon will take place from his late residence and interment will be in the Confederate cemetery. The funeral will be under the auspices of Albert Sidney Johnson Camp of Confederate Veterans and the religious rites will be conducted by the Rev. W. E. Moore, pastor of the Travis Park Methodist Church.
The honorary pall bearers will be Judge Robert B. Green, Judge J.F. Camp, Hon. Carlos Bee, Jay Minter, [illegible] Bell, G.B. Talliferro. The active pall bearers will be selected today from members of the Albert Sidney Johnson Camp of Confederate Veterans.
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