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Will D. Suiter, 92dies here June 25Winnsboro mourns the passing! of one of its truly distinguished j citizens in the death Tuesday j morning, June 25, of William David Suiter, 92, in Winnsboro Hospital.Former mayor of Winnsboro, Wood County Judge and CountyCleric, and Senator from the 7th ISenatorial District of Texas covering Wood. Camp, Upshur, Smith, and Van Zandt counties, Judge Suiter was also the historian of Winnsboro,His “Winnsboro, Texas, Yesterday. Today and Tomorrow” was published in 1952 by the Gray ford Jones Press, A modest man. Judge Suiter commented in concluding the book as follows: “He wnhe authorr hopes thatthis feeble effort at writing some of the things which have happened in Winnsboro during its 100 years of existence may be of interest and benefit to his good neighbors and friends.**Horn in log house He was born Feb. 10. 1871, ina two-room log house on his great-grandfather Jackson’s farm, 60 miles east of St. Louis in Washington County, 111, His parents, James and Elizabeth Ad-line Suiter, and grandmother, Rachel Heath, told him the temperature that day was 24 below zero, the coldest ever experienced in that vicinity. He attributed part of his abiding dislike of cold weather to that event.His great-grandfather Jackson was 12 years old when the Declaration of Independence was signed. A Virginian, he was not old enough to serve as a Revolutionary soldier, but acted as a water carrier for troops and saw George Washington and other notables of that far gone time. He lived to be more than 112 years old and was present at a centennial celebration in July before he died in August, 1876.Came to Texas in 1882 Judge Suiter’s father and family came to Ennis, Texas, in September, 1882, and lived in the Walkers Creek community, nine miles east of Ennis, for five years. They then moved to Wood County and rented land in (he Pleasant Grove community for five years, after which they bought a home in the Forest Home community five miles west of Winnsboro,Judge Suiter began teaching school when he was 20 years old and taught for ten years in Wood, lt;See SUITER, Page 6)Stewart Jewelry to expand service in new locationWILMAM I), SUITKK 197MN3The whole Stewart family — Paul and wife Patsy and children j David, Steve, and Paula — were I pressed into service last week to j help move Stewart's Jewelry-llll \I AA aim I/i tli/
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Winnsboro News
Winnsboro, Texas, US
Thu, Jun 27, 1963
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