Descendants of John R. Balch - Howard Stone Baulch Family

More About JAMES WILKERSON and DICIA BRAZZEL:
Marriage: 31 Dec 1890, Van Zandt, Texas, USA
Children of DICIA BRAZZEL and JAMES WILKERSON are:
i. AUDREY E. 5 WILKERSON, b. Jul 1897, Van Zandt, Texas, USA.
ii. EURA F. WILKERSON, b. Apr 1898, Van Zandt, Texas, USA.
11. L. WYLIE 4 BRAZZEL, JR. (MARY CATHERINE 3 BAULCH, JOHN R. 2 BALCH, ? 1 ) was born Feb 1870 in Sumner,
Tennessee, USA, and died 05 Jan 1917 in 600 North Madison, Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA. He married
ANNA LULA COLEMAN 1893, daughter of HENRY COLEMAN and LOUISA DAUGHERTY. She was born 27 Nov 1874
in McLennan, Texas, USA, and died 31 Mar 1969 in Dallas, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Notes for L. WYLIE BRAZZEL, JR.:
From The Dallas Morning News, January, 6, 1917, page 5:
"SHOOTS AND WOUNDS WOMAN; KILLS SELF
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L. W. BRAZZEL DEAD -- MRS. CHAS. BISHOP HIT TWICE.
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Shooting Takes Place in Bishop's Home in Oak Cliff -- Woman Will Recover.
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After shooting Mrs. Charles Bishop twice last night, L. W. Brazzel, a laundry employee, turned his
pistol on himself and sent a bullet through the brain. The shooting took place in a bedroom at Mrs.
Bishop's residence, 600 North Madison Avenue, in the North Loop section of Oak Cliff.
Brazzel died almost instantly. Mrs. Bishop was shot though the left breast and left arm. She was taken
to St. Paul's Sanitarium. She is expected to recover.
Brazzel met Mrs. Bishop when she got off the car one block from her home as she was coming from
work at the Union Station, where she is employed by the Union News Company. He shot her almost
immediately after they entered the house.
Mrs. Bishop's 14-year-old daughter, Daisy, and Dutch Carroll of New Orleans, LA., an old friend of the
family, were in the house at the time of the shooting. Daisy met her mother and Brazzel as they entered
the door.
"Who is here with you?" Brazzel is said to have asked her.
"Dutch is here. He is in the kitchen reading the paper." she replied, according to her husband.
After walking into the bedroom adjoining the reception room, Brazzel opened fire. Mrs. Bishop ran to
the back bedroom, where Carroll went to her assistance. The last bullet entered the right side of Brazzel's
head.
Charles Bishop is a waiter at the Adolpus. He said last night that until two years ago he and his wife were
friends of Mr. and Mrs. Brazzel and they frequently called at each other's homes. At that time, Brazzel
threatened to kill Mrs. Bishop unless she went with him, he said.
Bishop said that his wife told him Thursday that Brazzel was bothering her again. He said that Brazzel
had phoned Daisy, Mrs. Bishop's daughter, several days ago that he had a box of candy for her downtown,
but when she got to the place where he said he would leave it, there was none.
Held Pistol on Her.
Mrs. Bishop said that she and Brazzel passed several men after getting off the car before they reached
her home, but that Brazzel held a gun on her and told her that if she opened her mouth he would kill her.
She said that Davis street, along which they were walking, was very dark and no one else could see the
revolver.
Dutch Carroll lived in Dallas until about three months ago, rooming at the Bishop home. He returned
to Dallas Thursday. Bishop told him yesterday to get something to eat and go on out to the house, he
said.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Bishop are 33 years of age. They have been married four years. Daisy was her child
by her first marriage.
Funeral arrangements for Brazzel had not been made last night. He was 47 years old and is survived
by his wife, a son, Victor Brazzel; two daughters, Thelma and Blanche Brazzel, and a brother, Bennie
Brazzel of Elmo."