Person:George Chapman (52)

Dallas County Pioneer Dies

G. F. Chapman, 20 Years Druggist at Mesquite, Passes Away.

Special to The News.

    MESQUITE, Dallas Co., Texas, Feb. 12.--George Frank Chapman, 67, in the drug business here for the last twenty years, died at his home in Mesquite Sunday morning at 8 o'clock, the fourth member of this pioneer family to die within the last two years. Born in this community on Aug. 7, 1861, Mr. Chapman had lived all his life here, where his family settled long before the war between the States.
    Funeral services will be held at the First Presbyterian Church here Monday at 2 p. m., conducted by the Rev. M. U. Conditt of Mesquite and the Rev. Glenn L. Sneed of Dallas. Active pallbearers will be six nephews of Mr. Chapman as follows: Vernon Thompson and J. Ollie Humphreys of Dallas, L. E. Gross, Robert Humphreys, C. C. Chapman and F. H. Whitehurst of Mesquite. Honorary pallbearers will include Joe Asberry, S. H. Cumby, D. W. Florence. J. E. Rugel, C. A. Tosch, J. F. McCullough, N. E. Shands, Hugh Lawrence and Ed Keefe, all of Mesquite, and R. S. Walker of Waxahachie.
    Mr. Chapman is survived by his wife, one brother and three sisters as follows: R. G. Chapman, Mr. Allen Thompson, Mrs. Nora Lynch and Mrs. M. M. Bennett, all of Dallas.
    The brother and sisters of Mr. Chapman who have died recently are Mrs. Mollie Gross, Mrs. W. M. Humphreys and J. C. Chapman.

- February 13, 1928, Dallas Morning News, p. 1, col. 5.