OBITUARY

PIONEER TEXAS DIES AT HOME YESTERDAY

Captain James Henry Mathis, 75 years old, died yesterday at his home, 4825 Reiger Avenue, after a long illness. Funeral service will be held at the residence at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, the Rev. Sam R. Ray, assisted by other Methodist ministers, officiating. The burial will be in Oakland Cemetery. Details of the funeral will be announced today.

Captain Mathis was born in Michigan on Jan. 14, 1841 and came to Texas in 1856. At the beginning of the Civil War he enlisted in Granbury's Brigade and served throughout the war. Of that brigade at the present time there are only three survivors. His promotion was rapid and at the end of the war he had been successively promoted to Captain.

At the close of the war Captain Mathis returned to Dallas County and taught school for a time near the present town of Carrollton. Afterward, he became a traveling salesman and traveled for many years for an implement house in Dallas. Later he was made Deputy Tax Collector of Dallas County. He was then money order clerk at the Dallas post office for several years until he retired a few years ago.

Captain Mathis has been active in recent years among the Confederate veterans. He was Captain of the Confederate Guards and Lieutenant Colonel under General Van Zandt of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the United Confederate Veterans. He is well known throughout Texas and the south among the Confederate veterans for the prominent part he has taken in their activities.

Captain Mathis married Miss Susan Jackson, a member of the pioneer Jackson family, who were among the early settlers of Dallas County. They were married near Carrollton on Dec. 29, 1865 and celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last December. Four children were born of this union, three of whom are still living -- Miss Flora Mathis and Miss Martha Mathis and Arthur S. Mathis, all of Dallas. A second son, John M. Mathis is dead.

The Dallas Morning News - June 3, 1916
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams