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McKinney Daily Courier Gazette, McKinney, Texas, Monday, November 25, 1918, Page 1, Col. 3: Sudden Death of J. Weldon Aycock At Rice Institute. Nineteen Year Old McKinney Boy was Lieutenant in S. A. T. C. at Houston. Our city was shocked this morning when the news of the sudden death of "Tuck" Aycock, a young McKinney 19 year old student at the Rice Institute at Houston was announced. The young man had been suffering from a severe cold or attack of neuralgia as he thought for a few days. He was last in his classes Thursday and only went into the school infirmary Saturday morning. His eye was swollen and the school physician phone to his father, A. J. Aycock of McKinney, that an operation was necessary and to come to his son's beside.

The father left immediately on the six o'clock car Saturday evening, reaching Houston early Sunday morning. But when he arrived his boy was unconscious. The infection had reached the brain and the young man passed away in death at 2:43 p.m. Sunday Nov. 24.

HIs classmates were informed of it at Sunday school when he failed to attend on the morning of the day of his death by their teacher who is the wife of the institution's physician. The classmates were shocked at the fatal ending of the brief illness of their fellow student who was universally popular with them. Two of the number Edwin Burton of McKinney and Paul Bobb of Livingston, Texas accompanied the heart-broken father with the remains of his son back to McKinney for interment. The J. P. Crouch & Co. undertakers received the body which arrived via of the inter urban at 11:37 a.m. today. Many friends of the family from McKinney, Princeton, Farmersville and Blue Ridge were at the station when the remains arrived. The body was conveyed to the family home in West McKinney were they will repose until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning when they will be taken to the First Methodist church in McKinney where funeral services will be conducted by Dr. Pierce the pastor, after which the body will be conveyed to Farmersville for interment in the family burying grounds there.

Joseph Weldon ("Tuck") Aycock was born at Princeton November 11, 1899. He was therefore 19 years and 13 days old at the time of his premature death. His mother, who was formerly Miss Mary Eliza Grisham, half-sister to the late Hon. J. N. Grisham, died July 21, 1913. The deceased graduated from the Princeton High school; then attended the McKinney High school; attended Texas Military College one yar at Terrell and was in his second year at the Rice Institute when his untimely death cut short his young and promising career. He expected to graduate from that great school at the age of 20. He was an industrious young man, of exemplary life, member of the Methodist church and possessed of unusual energy and ambition. His death falls with crushing effect on his grief-stricken father, sisters, and little brothers. Besides the father, the deceased is survived by two sisters, Misses Velma and Minnie Aycock and two brothers, Choice and Leon all young than the deceased. Tuck never brought naught but pride and joy to his father, sisters and brothers. He was intensely patriotic and responded to the patriots call by enlisting in the Students Army Training corps in which he was a lieutenant.

Inscription: Texas Pvt. SATC Rice Inst. Unit.

Birth	11 Nov 1899	Princeton, Collin Co., Texas
Death	24 Nov 1918	McKinney, Collin Co., Texas
Burial		Farmersville IOOF Cemetery, Farmersville, Collin Co., Texas

Father	Amos Jackson Aycock (1870 - 1927)
Mother	Mary Elizabeth Grisham (1875 - 1913)
Sibling	Velma Elzie Aycock (1901 - 1975)
Sibling	Minnie Enid Aycock (1904 - 2003)
Sibling	Carl Spencer "Choyce" Aycock (1910 - 1997)
Sibling	James Leon Aycock (1912 - 1991)