CHITTIM, James Madison, Beeville Bee, 7 Apr 1911, page 5:

B. W. Klipstein was called to San Antonio, Sunday morning, by the news of the death 
of his old friend and erstwhile business associate, J. M. Chittim, which occurred on 
Sunday night and an account of which is given elsewhere. Mr. Chittim was well known 
here, in fact up to several years ago spent much of his time here, and consummated at 
this place many of the cattle deals he handled at the time. His heirs still own an interest 
in the First National Bank and the building it occupies, also the Beeville Drug Company 
building and the building occupied by Julio Wilson & Co. At one time Mr. Chittim and his 
nephew, W. E. Miller, now of Eagle Pass, owned the Dobbin ranch at Normanna and 
Tuleta, which they partially subdivided and converted to agricultural purposes. Ragley, 
the east Texas lumberman, to whom they sold out continued the work they had taken up. 

The town of Tuleta was named for Mr. Chittim's eldest daughter, now a young lady who 
made her debut in San Antonio society last winter. Mr. Chittim, while a native of Missouri, 
was connected with the celebrated Cheatham family of Tennessee, which furnished the 
famous Confederate general of that name. Mr. Chittim's father simplified the spelling of 
the name as it is pronounced. Mr. J. M. Chittim was a self-made man, losing his parents 
when fourteen years of age. The first work he did, so he once related to the writer, was 
on a farm and for small wages. That he became one of the richest men in Texas before 
he reached middle age is indicative of the rare business acumen with which he was by 
nature endowed.


Same issue, page 6:

WELL-KNOWN STOCKMAN DEAD
J. M. Chittim, One of Largest Live Stock Shippers in the World, Passes Away San Antonio Express, 2nd
James Madison Chittim, 53 years old, one of the most widely-known cattlemen of this section, died in the 
Physicians and Surgeons' Hospital last night at 8:40 o'clock. Death was sudden and rather unexpected, 
since Mr. Chittim's condition was thought to be very favorable Saturday morning by attending physicians. 
He had been in the hospital two weeks. Last Tuesday an operation to relieve a hemorrhage of the bowels 
was performed and the patient rallied and was on the way to recovery when some sort of complication 
seemed to affect the heart, say the physicians, and death was almost instantaneous.

Mr. Chittim was born in Gentry county, Missouri, and spent his early life on the farm and ranch. At the age 
Of 14 he was a full-fledged cowboy in Kansas and Oklahoma, then very wild states. While in partnership 
with A. J. Vick of San Antonio thirty years ago in Memphis, Tenn., the fact that cotton seed meal and hulls 
was a very fine food for fattening cattle was discovered by these men. At one time these men fattened as 
many as 30,000 head of cattle each year on this food. At the time of this death Mr. Chittim was one of the 
heaviest shippers of cattle in the entire country. He owned and operated extensive ranch properties in 
Menard, Dimmit, Zavala and Kinney counties, recently in conjunction with A. J. Vicks. Mr. Chittim purchased 
one and a half million acres of grazing land in Mexico.  Decedent was wide and favorably known in all portions 
of Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas as a cattle king without a peer. He worked his way from the bottom and 
numbered among his friends and business associates the most influential men of the land. 

There survive the widow, Mrs. Annie Elizabeth Chittim, two daughters, Miss Tuleta M. and Miss Marstella D. 
Chittim; two sons, Novel J. and J. M. Chittim Jr.; two brothers and six sisters. One of the brothers, Louis C. 
Chittim of Little Rock, Ark., is in San Antonio.  Decedent was a member of Anchor Lodge, Burleson Chapter, 
and the San Antonio Commandery, Knights Templars of the Masonic order.

The funeral of Mr. Chittim took place at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon. Attendant upon the last sad rites administered 
to the departed were persons from other parts of Texas, who were lifelong friends of Mr. Chittim, as well as many 
friends residing in San Antonio. Among those from out of town were Gus Black and daughter of Eagle Pass; W. E. 
Miller of Eagle Pass; Robert J. Kleberg, Miss Henrietta Kleberg and C. Kleberg of Corpus Christi; B. B. Klipstein 
and W. J. Stayton of Beeville and other ranchmen and friends.

The body was laid to rest in Anchor Lodge cemetery. Perhaps for the first time in many years in San Antonio, 
the remains of a citizen was buried beneath a monument completed long before the death of the one for whom 
it was intended. Several years ago Mr. Chittim caused to be built a life size monument of himself out of solid 
granite. The statue is a splendid specimen of the stone mason's art and is a good presentment of Mr. Chittim. 
It has adorned the family lot in the Anchor Lodge cemetery for some time.

The will of Mr. Chittim was filed for probate Wednesday. It names Mrs. Chittim as executrix and disposes of 
an estate valued at $750,000. One half of the estate belongs to Mrs. Chittim by reason of being community 
property. The other half is divided equally between the four children, to be turned over to them as each 
reaches the age of twenty-one.