Saturday, December 28, 2013

Henry Sullivan 107, High Island Dies in Hospital

The top has written, Oct 24, 19..... Grave stone in High Island states 1958.
The findagrave.com site has a good picture of the cemetary plot as well as parents, death cert., and children, click here.




Transcription:
Henry Edward Sullivan, 107, of High Island, died at 2:54 pm yesterday in Chambers County Hospital in Anahuac. A resident of High Island for the past 100 years, Mr. Sullivan was a native of Donaldsonville, La.
   Mr. Sullivan, or Capt. Sullivan, as many of his friends knew him, was a fisherman and boatman. In 1935, he recounted to the late Dean Tevis, former Enterprise reporter, his acquaintance with Charley Cronea, Jean Lafitte's cabin boy during the days of piracy along the Gulf coast.
  He is survived by his wife, Dora Sullivan of High Island; seven sons, Lewis, Bruce, and Maco, all of High Island, George of Rosenberg, Tex., Tom of Goose Creek, Tex., Frank of Houston and Lake of Lake Charles, La.; three daughters, Mrs. Lillian White, Mrs. Fannie Stone of Silsbee and Mrs. Addie Mae Harris of Carthage, Tex.; 42 grandchildren; 42 great-grandchildren, and 10 great-great-grandchildren.
  Funeral arrangements will be announced by Carroll-Wallace Funeral Home.

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