(Obituary - Mrs. G. G. Herman of Birthright, passed away Nov. 19, 1935, at the Long 
Hospital where she underwent a serious operation Friday. She had taken ill while 
visiting relatives in Florence, Alabama, and had insisted on coming home. She was 56 
years old and a native of Alabama, moving to Texas when a young lady. Before her 
marriage to G. G. Herman, soon after coming to Texas, she was Miss Lee Thomas. The 
remains were carried to the family home at Birthright and then were brought to Sulphur 
Springs Methodist Church where the funeral services were conducted by Pastor Clark A. 
Russell, personal friend of the family. Interment in the Old Tarrant cemetery. 
Surviving are her husband, four sons and one daughter, O. E., Guy, Noble, Herman, and 
Mrs. Willie Weir of Birthright, and Ulysess Herman, member of the school faculty at 
Miller Grove; also two brothers, Will and John Thomas, Bowie County, Texas. Georgia 
Leona Thomas was born March 12, 1876, in Giles County, Tennessee. In 1896, she moved 
with her parents to Sulphur Springs, Texas, where she married G. G. Herman on October 
12 of the same year. ( The Sulphur Springs Echo)