ODIE, James L., Beeville Weekly Picayune, Friday, 25 Jun 1897, pg 5, 
Obituaries:
James L. Odie
After an illness of only nine days duration, this community was shocked to learn, on June 2nd, 
of the death of Mr. James L. Odie, for six years a skilled machinist connected with the I. M. Ry. 
at this point. The cause was peritonitis, which attentive physicians could not arrest, and thus 
at man's best age of 35 years this one was called upon to lay aside his earthly obligations, so 
well discharged, to leave a wife, whom five years since he led to the altar, and two little boys, 
aged respectively one and four years, and to pass into the "great beyond", yet leaving with 
them a legacy of loving thoughtfulness, of noble deeds and faithful friendship, which could 
not be buried with him.

His funeral was one of the largest ever seen here, attesting to the esteem of those who knew 
him, and although he had severed his connection with the "shops" here, expecting to shortly 
remove to Texas, still several of the departments closed for the afternoon of burial, as a token 
of appreciation and respect.

"There is no flock, however watched or tended,
But one dead lamb is there;
There is no fireside, howso'er defended,
But hath one vacant chair."

A Friend. C. P. Diaz, Mexico.