both are dead, leaving no children; they were members of the Baptist Church.

Henry Lee Lewis died Apr. 16, 1895. I knew but little of this noble and good man when the first edition of History was published, and I cannot do better now than insert the following from the Texas Baptist and HeraldMay 2, 1895:

"Henry Lee Lewis came to Texas 1852, and lived at Wheelock. Educated first at Waco University under Dr. Burleson, thence 1862 to England to Norwich University, where in four years he graduated, and traveled over the Continent.

"Returning, he commenced banking and general merchandising with his father, first at Bryan, then at Hearne. Afterward devoting much time to farming in the Brazos bottoms; a good fortune was accumulated.

"He joined the Baptist Church 1876, and was baptized by Dr. Burleson. He lived and died a triumphant death.

"He represented the county in the twenty-first legislature, and was otherwise a faithful and trusted servant.

"His sister Mrs. Glass' orphan children, have been reared by him.

"His fortune in real estate, stock, and bonds, together with a heavy life insurance, is left in the hands of his executors, Lewis Carr and Charles Glass, his nephew, of Hearne; Thomas Dockery, of Waco; and Judge Finis Pendergast, of Marshall.

"His funeral was conducted from his residence by his pastor, Rev. S. E. Whipkey, and by his Masonic brethren, in which order he was a Knight Templar, conducted by Gen. Stoddard, of Bryan. After life's fitful fever, he rests at last.

"This sketch fails to tell of the public-spirited citizen, the born leader, the bold worker for his county, his country, his community; says nothing of the well-read and widely travelled gentleman and scholar; the wise counsellor and the financier; is silent on the devoted husband, obedient son, and loving father; raises no voice about the active Christian and generous church worker; tells nothing of the endowment of Baylor College, of which he was a trustee, of the numerous enterprises he inaugurated and pushed to completion, and with all of the patient, quiet, confining sickness and unfeared death, where, 'like a little child, according to the word of his Savior,

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