MORTUARY

J. E. Eberly.

Hockley, Harris Co., Tex., Jan. 11. — Last night between 9 and 10 o'clock Mr. J. E. Eberly died, after an illness of several months.  Mr. Eberly was a Mexican war soldier; also served in the late war.  He was 71 years old last October, has been a resident of Harris county for the past sixteen or seventeen years, having moved to this county from Grimes, Tex., where he raised a family of several children.

(John Elgin Eberly FindaGrave)

"J. E. Eberly Obituary.", The Galveston Daily News, Sunday, January 12, 1896, p. 2, col. 2.