Fort Smith News Record - January 7, 1900
Almost everybody knows Frank Rounds. Up to within a short time ago, he was employed by M. C. Wallace. He has been in Fort Smith for over forty years and is intimate with all the old residents. It is expected that he will not live more than a few days longer. His condition is so precarious that Father Smyth felt called upon to administer extreme unction, and otherwise prepare him for death.
He has been ill for some time.
Fort Smith News Record - January 10, 1900
In the death of Frank Rounds, last Sunday, Fort Smith lost another of her old settlers and there was another vacancy created in the ranks of the ex-confederates. He was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, 54 years ago and at the age of 19 and at the close of the war located in this city. He was married here in 1868, to Miss Sarah Reeves, who, with four children survives him. For many years he was on the constabulary force, but finding the exposure to the weather too trying, he entered the employ of of Wallace & Son, and was with them the last few years. He was buried Monday afternoon, the Confederate Veterans and Hibernians to which orders he belonged, attending. The interment was in the Catholic cemetery, Rev. L. Smyth officiating.