Obituary

Father of Professional Men in Plainview Dies in Son?s Home
Saturday morning about eight o?clock Jos. H. Wayland fell dead in the home of his son, Dr. J.H. Wayland. Heart failure is the cause of death, as filed by the physician?s certificate.
Mr. Wayland has lived in Plainview for the past fifteen years. He is the father of Dr. J.H. Wayland, Dr. L.C. Wayland and Jo W. Wayland, prominent in business and professional circles in Plainview.
The funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon, at the Methodist Church, Rev. J.W. Story, pastor, preaching the funeral sermon, and Rev. I.E. Gates, pastor of the Baptist Church, assisting. Interment was made at the Plainview Cemetery under the direction of W.F. Garner. Pall bearers were: J.H. Buntin, S.S. Sloneker, Lee Shropshire, D.E. Ansley, F.M. Wells, J.L. Harris, R.B. C. Howell, J.W. Winn, R. Holland and R.M. Irick.
Mr. Wayland was born in Albemarle County, Virginia, March 9, 1832, bein eight-four years, six months and twleve days of age when he died. At the age of six years he moved with the family to Randolph County, Missouir. He was one of a family of nine children. A brother, who survives him, lives at Temple, Texas. His only sister lives at Marsaline, Missouri. He professed religion at the age of eleven years and joined the Methodist Church, of which he was a member seventy-four years. He was married to Katerine Gates on January 15, 1857. She and five sons are yet living. The sons are Dr. J.H. Wayland, Dr. L.C. Wayland and Jo Wayland, of Plainview; J.C. Wayland, of Kansas City Mo., and OF. Wayland, of West Plains, Mo. (Plainview Evening Herald, October 24, 1916)