EEDS, R. C., Beeville Bee, Friday, 3 April 1903:

All that was mortal R. C. EEDS, that sterling man and Christian gentleman was 
consigned to the grave in the new cemetery at noon last Saturday, according 
to the rites of the Masonic fraternity, of which he had been a most consistent 
and exemplary member. His death occurred on the evening previous at his home 
at Cadiz where he had resided for the past five or six years.

The deceased was a native of Alabama and 64 years of age, thirty-three of which 
had been spent in Texas.