KP Cemetery - Peck Section 24 and 25

WALTER BEVERLY PECK AND HENRY AUGUSTUS PECK

Tombstone reads:

Walter Beverly Peck

Dec. 1, 1860

Nov. 2, 1935

Tombstone reads:

Henry Augustus Peck

Nov, 2, 1862

Dec. 1, 1938

 

WALTER BEVERLY PECK was the fourth child and

HENRY AUGUSTUS PECK was the fifth child of Joseph Addison and

Ellen Baker Peck. Both more born in Giles County, Virginia. They never

married and were referred by our family as "The Uncles." They had a store

in Heath in the early 1900's and were considered the most prosperous

 members of the family. They were very good to their numerous nieces

and nephews (25 by my count) and provided trips to Dallas to the opera,

to Galveston to the beach, and  lots of other "extras." My sisters Ellen

Beverly Hanby Matthews (b. 06-13-23) and Augusta Lee Hanby Key

 (02-28-25)  remember that the Uncles had Sunday dinner each week with

their sisters, Emma Cannon Peck Hanby, and Elizabeth Josephine

Peck Hanby,  but each went to a different sister on a rotating basis.

 

A partial copy of the obituary of Henry A. Peck reads:

"After a cruel illness of some three years, Henry A.

 Peck passed away last Thursday evening, and was

 laid to rest in the Peck Cemetery Friday after, John T. Price

of Rockwall, officiant. Pallbearers were his old friends,

Dowd of Dallas; M. H. McKoy, Homer Wallace,

Milton Evans, George Adams and L. L. Darr, Rockwall.

 Mr. Peck was born in Giles County, Virginia,

November 2, 1862. He changed residence to Dallas

County in 1876, and five years later removed to Rockwall

where he had since lived. He always felt a deep and                               

kindly interest in Rockwell and its citizenship, and was

always glad to serve in any way. For example, for some years he served

ably and willing in the capacities of bank president and chairman of the

Red Cross Committee. The per. falters in confusion when one tries to

apend a line to the page he himself has written in the hearts of his friends.

His character was of full value; honesty, pride, fairness and clean thinking had eminence. He possessed a fine mind, and a wide range of knowledge to which he continually added. This man never coalesced with a church, yet a bit of the Kingdom must have flourished within his soul, for he had a quick sympathy and a ready, generous purse for a neighbor, friend, or community in distress; a lively interest in the teachings of scripture; a self-imposed precept to speak ill of no man; and a love of spiritual depth, for children. This good man's most conspicuous trait of character was his abiding moral integrity. And in the last analysis, is there  a finer virtue? May he rest in peace."  (Cont’d)

 

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