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The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Death of a member of Congress. Hon. John Hemphill, of Texas, a member of the Provisional Congress of the Confederates States, died at the Ballard House in this city, on Saturday morning last, of typhoid pneumonia. Judge Hemphill was formerly a member of the United States Senate, to which he was elected, if we remember rightly, as the successor of Gen. Houston. Suitable eulogies to his memory will be pronounced in the Provisional Congress, where his virtues and his talents were properly aed at the Ballard House in this city, on Saturday morning last, of typhoid pneumonia. Judge Hemphill was formerly a member of the United States Senate, to which he was elected, if we remember rightly, as the successor of Gen. Houston. Suitable eulogies to his memory will be pronounced in the Provisional Congress, where his virtues and his talents were properly appreciated. Congress adjourned on the announcement of his death, and the flags on the public buildings were displayed at half mast.