Obituary J. J. McQuatters Is Laid to Rest on Wednesday Oct. 11, 1944   Funeral services for Joseph Judson McQuatters, pioneer ditizen who died Tuesday morning, were held at 3 p. m. today at Saxon - Boze - Mitchell Funeral Chapel with Dr. Joseph P. Boone, pastor of First Baptist Church, officiating. Burial followed in Waxahachie City Cemetery. Music was presented by Mrs. J. E. Jones and Mrs. John W. Herndon, who sang two requested compositions, "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and "Some Day, It Won't Be Long.," accompanied by Mrs. Richard Chapman, organist. Pallbearers were J. Scott Rutherford, Forrester Hancock, L. M. Stickney, John Arden, Roy McCartney and Oliver E. Clift. Honorary pallbearers were E. B. Prince, C. L. Kennedy, Will Farley, T. W. Burleson, Howard Hambleton, P. J. Herndon, J. Lea Gammon, Ross Moss, Dr. William C. Tenery, W. D. Anderson, J. C. Lumpkins, F. C. Rogers, Will Moore, Lynn D. Lasswell, O. H. Chapman, A. F. Wallace, W. E. Hipp, A. Cannon, L. L. Shackelford, Mark Smith, Will Hancock, W. C. Biggers, Dr. M. E. Hastings, J. M. Davis, M. S. Middleton and W. G. McClain. Mr. McQuatters would have been 93 years old on his birthday anniversary, Nov. 1. He was born in 1851 at Ridgeway, Fairfield County, S. C., the son of the late James McQuatters and Martha Matilda McQuatters. He had two brothers and two sisters, all of whom preceded him in death. He attended schools in Texas and Louisiana, these institutions including the University of Louisiana at Baton Rouge. He came to Texas from Louisiana in 1857 and to Waxahachie in 1876. For four years he was in the employ of the late Capt. J. F. Ross, in the grocery business here. In 1893 and 1894 he was in the grocery business with Eugene Steinback and then for four years he served as bookkeeper at the First National Bank of Waxahachie. After that Mr. McQuatters was in the horse and mule and real estate business for a number of years. From 1913 to 1925 he was a grain and coal merchant and since that time he was retired from active business. Mr. McQuatters was a member and secretary of the Waxahachie Public School Board for twenty-three years, 1893 to 1916. He had been a member of the First Baptist Church of Waxahachie ever since he moved here sixty-eight years ago and was active in church work, serving as a deacon until the latter years of his life. Surviving him are nine children, Misses Emma and Eula McQuatters, home address; Joe H. McQuatters and Frank A. McQuatters, Waxahachie; Roy McQuatters, Dacus, Texas; Mrs. Sadie Callaghan, Temple; Mrs. C. A. Dalinke, Belton; Osco McQuatters, San Antonio, and Mrs. Edna Miller, Dallas, and nine grandchildren.   Copyright © 2006-2016, Ellis County TXGenWeb. All Rights Reserved. This page was last modified: Thursday, 01-Jul-2021 13:20:52 MDT