Obituaries
and Death Notices
in Pulaski County, Illinois Newspapers
The Mounds Independent and
The Pulaski Enterprise
1 Jan. - 31 Dec. 1937
Mound City, Pulaski County, Illinois
Transcribed and annotated by Darrel Dexter
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 1 Jan 1937:
Deaths of the Week
CHARLES D. TRAIN
Charles Durkee
Train, long a prominent resident of Pulaski County, died Saturday
evening at 6:20 o’clock at his home on
Delaware Avenue following an illness of one
week due to pneumonia.
His age was 81 years.
He was born in Kenosha, Wis., on
January 19, 1865, to Horatio Church
Train
and Maria Eunice
Bullen
Train.
On July 16, 1890, at Sarrplain, Mo., he
married Mahala E.
Fry,
who died on July 30, 1900.
To them were born Dorothy Mae
O’Neal, who before her death resided in
Denver, Colo.; Freddy C., who died in
infancy; Cyril of Chicago, Gladys
Hoffmeier of Mounds, and Mahala Ellen,
who died in childhood.
On July 17, 1905, in Cairo, he was
married to Pearl Bertha
Lackey and to that union were born
Harold D. of Los Angeles, Calif., Eunice
Pearl
Jenkins of Mounds, Carl Delbert
Train
of Jacksonville, Ill., and Charlene Mildred
Bullock of Mounds.
His wife, three sons and three
daughters also several grandchildren
survive.
Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon at the family residence at 2
o’clock, the Rev. P. R.
Glotfelty, pastor of the M. E. Church,
officiating.
Interment was made in the Ullin
Cemetery, directed by J. T.
Ryan.
His sons had been called here by his
illness and all six of his children were in
Mounds at the time of his death.
Mr.
Train’s life was a full and busy one.
An obituary will appear next week.
MRS. R. C. POOLE
Mrs. Florence
Poole, wife of Rannie C.
Poole of Centralia, died at the home of
her brother, James
Martin, north of Mounds Tuesday morning, December 29.
Mrs.
Poole
had not been well for some time, but was
able to come to Mounds to spend Christmas
with relatives and had seemed as well as
usual the evening before.
She was taken worse soon after
retiring and suffered a stroke during the
night.
Before moving to Centralia, Mr. and
Mrs.
Poole resided in Mounds.
Both were active workers in the M. E.
Church and had a large circle of friends who
are grieved because of the passing of Mrs.
Poole.
Surviving are her husband, one
sister, Mrs. Fred
Ra___
of Mounds; four brothers, James and Franklin
Martin of Mounds, Tom
Martin of Centralia and Claude
Martin of Cairo; also other relatives.
The body was taken to the
James
Funeral Home where it lay in state until
Wednesday morning when it was taken to the
Gardiner Funeral Home in Centralia.
Funeral services were held there
Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock with
interment in the Centralia cemetery.
LEONARD MILLER
Leonard, four-day-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Pearl
Miller of Olmstead, who was born Tuesday
morning at their home, was taken to St.
Mary’s Hospital in an endeavor to save his
life, but died there Thursday morning. He
was the first child of Mr. and Mrs.
Miller.
Funeral services were Saturday
afternoon at 2 o’clock by Rev.
Galen,
pastor of the Lutheran Church of Olmstead.
Burial was made in Concord Cemetery
with G. A.
James in charge.
(According to his death certificate,
Leonard
Miller was born 20 Dec 1936, in
Olmstead, Ill., the son of Pearl
Miller, a native of Union Co., Ill., and Lena
Richard, a native of Olmstead, Ill., died 24 Dec 1936, in Cairo,
Alexander Co., Ill., and was buried in
Concord Cemetery near Olmstead, Ill.
His marker there reads Leonard E.
Miller Dec. 22, 1936 Dec. 24,
1936.—Darrel
Dexter)
CARL A. MIKKIN
Carl A.
Mikkin, age 66, died at 5 o’clock Friday morning, Dec. 25, at his
home near Olmstead. He had been in poor
health for the past twenty years.
Funeral services were held at 2
o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Olmstead
Lutheran Church with Rev. W. A.
Galen
officiating.
Interment was at Concord Cemetery.
He leaves his wife, Bertha; one
sister, Mrs. Henry
Rust,
of Cairo; a daughter, Mrs. W. M.
Berry
of Murphysboro; three sons, Albert, William
and Harry Otto, all of Olmstead.
Mr.
Mikkin had been engaged in farming in
that community the past forty years.
Wilson Funeral Service directed the funeral.
MARIE RANNEY
Mrs. Marie
Ranney, age 76 years, died at her home in Grand Chain at 4:10
Thursday afternoon, Dec. 24, following an
illness of four weeks.
Funeral services were held at 2 o’clock
Sunday afternoon at the Congregational
church in Grand Chain, Rev. S. C.
Benninger officiating.
Interment was made in the Masonic
Cemetery.
Surviving are one son, Walter B.
Leidigh; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Ernest
Rich
of Granite City, Mrs. Fred
Watson of Medical Lake, Wash.; three
grandchildren, Woodrow
Leidigh of Arrow Head Springs, Calif.,
Virginia and Walter, Jr., of Grand Chain.
Mrs.
Ranney had been a resident of Grand Chain for the past thirty-eight
years and had a wide acquaintance throughout
Southern Illinois.
She was an active member of the
Eastern Star of Grand Chain.
Wilson Funeral Service was in charge.
Cyril
Train has returned to his home in
Chicago and Mr. and Mrs. Carl D.
Train
have returned to their home in Jacksonville,
Ill., after having been called here on
account of the illness and death of their
father, C. D.
Train.
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 1 Jan 1937:
Opal
Goodman Dillon, 26 years of age,
died at her home in Dongola, December 25,
following an attack of pneumonia.
Funeral services were held at the First
Baptist Church in Dongola Sunday at 2:30
o’clock, conducted by Rev. W. J.
Ward
and Rev. H. W.
Karraker.
Burial was made in the I. O. O. F.
Cemetery at Dongola.
E. J.
Ford was in charge of the funeral.
(The death certificate states that Julia Opal
Dillow, housewife at 13 S. 1 East,
Dongola, Ill., was born 2 Apr 1910, in
Dongola, Ill., the daughter of John H.
Goodman and Nellie Lee
Burris, natives of Illinois, died 25 Dec
1936, in Road District 3, Union Co., Ill.,
wife of Glenn
Dillow, and was buried in Dongola I. O.
O. F. Cemetery.
Her marker there reads:
Glenn
Dillow 1904-1979 Opal Dillow
1910-1936.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Nancy S.
Beggs, mother of Mrs. Bertha
Vines of this city, died at her home in
Dongola Sunday about noon.
Mrs.
Beggs,
who was 84 years of age, suffered a stroke
about two weeks ago which resulted in her
death.
Funeral services were held at the First
Baptist Church in Dongola Monday at 2
o’clock with the Rev. W. J.
Ward
officiating.
Burial was made in the I. O. O. F.
Cemetery.
Mrs.
Beggs is survived by three daughters,
Mrs. Loda
Keller and Mrs. Naomi
Hammond of Dongola and Mrs. Bertha
Vines
of this city besides many other relatives.
(Her death certificate states that Nancy S.
Beggs
was born 26 Sep 1852, in North Carolina,
daughter of Wilson
Davault and Nancy
Clifford, died 27 Dec 1936, in Dongola,
Union Co., Ill., wife of William S.
Beggs, and was buried in I. O. O. F. Cemetery in Dongola, Ill.
Her marker there reads:
Nancy S.
Beggs
1852-1935.—Darrel
Dexter)
Carl
Mikkin, 66 years of age, died at his
home near Olmstead last ___day at 5 o’clock
a.m.
He had been in poor health for the
past ___ty years.
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at
2 o’clock at the Lutheran church in Olmstead
with Rev. W. A.
Galen
officiating.
Interment was made in the Concord
Cemetery.
He is survived by his wife, Ber___; one
sister, Mrs. Henry
Rust,
of Cairo; one daughter, Mrs. W. M. ___y
of Murphysboro; three sons, ___rt, William
and Harry Otto, all of Olmstead.
___ Funeral Services directed the funeral.
(Henry William
Rust, 28, butcher at Cairo, Ill., born in Werder, Hanover, Germany,
son of William
Rust
and Magdalena
Stolte, married on 14 Jul 1895, in
Pulaski Co., Ill., Amelia
Mickin, 22, of Olmsted, born in
Augstegirren, Prussia, Germany, daughter of
Fred
Mickin and Wilhelmine
Radke.
His death certificate states that
Carl A.
Mikkin was born 22 Dec 1870, in Germany, the son of Frederick
Mikkin, a native of Germany, died 25 Dec
1936, in Road District 4, Pulaski Co., Ill.,
the husband of Bertha
Mikkin, and was buried in Concord
Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. R. C.
Poole of Centralia died at the home of her brother, James
Martin, in Mounds, Tuesday morning at
10:50 o'clock.
She leaves her husband, one sister, Mrs. Fred
Raub;
the following brothers, James and Frank
Martin and Claude
Martin of Cairo; and other relatives.
The body was taken to the G. A.
James
Funeral Home from where it was taken to the
Gardiner Funeral Home in Centralia,
Wednesday morning where funeral services
were held at 2 o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
(According to her death certificate, Florence
Poole
was born 22 Jul 1875, in Johnson Co., Ill.,
the daughter of Green
Martin and Miss
Davis,
natives of Illinois, died 29 Dec 1936, in
Road District 7, Pulaski Co., Ill., wife of
R. C.
Poole, and was buried in Hill Crest
Cemetery in Centralia, Marion Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Marie
Ranney, 76 years of age, died at her home in Grand Chain last
Thursday afternoon at 4:10 o’clock,
following an illness of four weeks.
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at
2 o’clock at the Congregational church in
Grand Chain with Rev. E. C.
Benninger officiating.
Interment was made in the Masonic
Cemetery.
Mrs.
Ranney is survived by one son, Walter;
two stepdaughters, Mrs. Ernest
Rich,
of Granite City, and Mrs. Fred
Watson of Medical Lake, Wash.; and three
grandchildren.
Pall bearers were Guy
Harris, Henry Weisenborn,
Edward
Weisenborn, Earl
Shaw,
George
Hollis, and Calvin Wilmoth.
Wilson Funeral Service had charge of the service.
(Her death certificate states that Maria
Ranney was born 14 Jun 1860, in Pulaski
Co., Ill., died 24 Dec 1936, in Grand Chain,
Ill., widow of W. R.
Ranney, and was buried in Masonic
Cemetery at Grand Chain.
Her marker there reads:
Maria
Ranney 1860-1936.—Darrel
Dexter)
Jennie L.
Bishop, 46, died at her home in Dongola, December 25, at 3:15 p.m.
Her death followed an illness or
about four weeks.
Her body was taken to the
Ford
Funeral Home where it remained until the
funeral.
She leaves her husband, Hess E.
Bishop, and the following children, Mrs.
Elmer
Meyer of Mt. Olive, Ill., Donald Leo
Bishop of Los Angeles, Calif., Dorothy,
Alfred, Paul, and Georgia all of Dongola.
She also leaves her father, James
Manning; and a brother, Arnie
Manning of Dongola.
(James M.
Manning, 23, farmer at Dongola, Ill., born in Union Co., Ill., son
of James
Manning and Mary
Davis,
married on 3 Dec 1887, in Dongola, Union
Co., Ill., Dovie
Fisher, 20, from Dongola, born in Union
Co., Ill., daughter of Charles
Fisher and Dora
Rhinehart. The death
certificate states that Jennie Letha
Bishop was born 7 Apr 1890, in Union
Co., Ill., the daughter of James
Manning and Dovie
Fisher, natives of Illinois, died 25 Dec 1936, in Dongola, Ill., the
wife of Hess E.
Bishop, and was buried in Dongola I. O.
O. F. Cemetery.
Her marker there reads:
Jennie L.
Bishop Apr. 7, 1890 Dec. 25, 1936 Hess
E.
Bishop Jan. 20, 1887 Mar. 12,
1955.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Roscoe
McCormick, formerly Hazel
Williams of this city, passed away in a
St. Louis hospital Sunday morning following
a long illness.
Mrs.
McCormick, who was 27 years of age, made
friends of everyone whom she chanced to
meet, by her ready smile and happy
disposition.
She is survived by her husband, Roscoe
McCormick; and two children, Willis
Hugh, 5, and Betty Jo, 2, of St. Louis; her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
Williams; two brothers, Curtis
Bowers and Russell
Williams; and two sisters, Miss Ruby
Williams and Mrs. Howard
Ridings of this city; and three aunts,
Mrs. Ray
Olmstead of East St. Louis, Mrs. Al
Ritchie of Belleville, and Mrs. James
Davage of Cairo, besides other
relatives.
The remains were brought to Cairo from St..
Louis Sunday evening by
Berbling Funeral Service and was later
taken to the home of her parents, where
funeral services were held Tuesday at 2 p.m.
Rev. H. F.
Gerecke, Lutheran minister of St. Louis,
officiated and burial was made in the family
lot in Thistlewood Cemetery.
Casket bearers were:
Paul
Baccus, Robert
Throgmorton, Kenneth
House,
George
Ashworth, Carlos Parker
and William
Dooms.
Berbling Funeral Service was in charge.
(Her marker in Spencer Heights Cemetery at
Mounds, Ill., reads:
Hazel
McCormick Aug. 21, 1909 Dec. 27,
1936.—Darrel
Dexter)
It was an exciting time in the graveyard near
Grand Chain last week when grave diggers
came up on 17 snakes matted together about
two feet under the ground while opening a
grave.
The account of just what happened is
not mentioned, for it was in the cemetery
for colored people and colored men were
opening the grave.
Probably some of them got out right
away.
Most folks would, anyhow.
There were 17 snakes, according to G. A.
James,
who visited the place and among them was a
copper head, an assortment of chicken and
black snakes and others.
They were all mixed together in a
sort of hollow space underground where they
would have spent the winter.
The snakes were not very lively and were
killed without difficulty.
This bears out the theory of snakes
in a graveyard and proves that snakes gather
together regardless of kind in den in the
winter in order that whatever body warmth
they have it is conserved.
(Her death certificate states that Callie Ann
Acuff
was born 26 Dec 1936, in Grand Chain,
Pulaski Co., Ill., the daughter of Paul
Acuff and Hazel Taylor,
natives of Illinois, died 26 Dec 1936, in
Grand Chain, Chain, Ill., and was buried in
Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Buncombe, Johnson
Co., Ill.
Her marker there reads:
Callie Ann dau. of Paul & Hazel
Acuff
1936-1936. —Darrel
Dexter)
George
Vickers, 66 years of age, a former
resident of this city, died at his home in
DuQuoin, Tuesday at 5:05 a.m.
Funeral services were held Thursday morning at
10 o'clock at the Leonard Street Pentecostal
Church in DuQuoin.
Following the services, the cortege left for
Thistlewood Cemetery near Mounds, arriving
there at 1:00 o'clock where interment was
made.
(His death certificate states that George W.
Vickers, service station worker, was
born 23 Apr 1870, in Bay City, Ill., the son
of George
Vickers and Lucretia Ann
Weeks, natives of Bay City, Ill., died 5
Jan 1937, in DuQuoin, Perry Co., Ill., the
husband of Margaret
Vickers, and was buried at Mounds, Pope
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
(The death certificate states that C. D.
Train,
a building mat manufacturer, was born 19 Jan
1855, in Keoashia, Wis., the son of Horatio
Train and Mariah Buleen,
natives of New York, died 26 Dec 1936, in
Mounds, Ill., the husband of Pearl
Train,
and was buried in Ullin Cemetery.
His marker there reads:
Charles D.
Train 1855-1936 Pearl B.
Train 1882-1958.—Darrel
Dexter)
Attorney Reed Green Dies Saturday Night,
January 2
Attorney Reed
Green of Cairo died suddenly Saturday night, January 2, at 11
o’clock at his home in Cairo.
His death was due to a heart attack.
He had suffered two previous attacks,
one on the Sunday before.
Saturday morning, Mr.
Green
had been in the First Bank & Trust Co., of
which organization he was president, and in
the afternoon he had been at his law office
attending to business.
He was of distinguished ancestry on
his father’s side the line going back to an
aunt of General George
Washington.
On his mother’s side he was also
descended from a pioneer family.
He taught school as a young man and
had served as a member of the school board
for years.
He was elected in 1888 and served two
terms. In 1892 was elected state senator and
served four years.
He was president of the Cairo Library
Board from 1921 until his death.
Surviving are his widow, a daughter,
Mrs. Emmett J.
Gillespie; and a stepdaughter, Mrs.
Robert
Halliday.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the home, the Rev.
W. P.
McVay of the M. E. Church officiating.
The board of directors of the First
Bank & Trust Co., served as pall bearers.
Burial was in Thistlewood Cemetery,
Mounds.
(His death certificate states that
Reed
Green, an attorney, was born 22 Sep
1865, in Illinois, the son of William H.
Green, died 2 Jan 1937, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., the husband
of Lula
Green, and was buried in Thistlewood Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
Former Mounds Resident Dies Suddenly at
Fulton
George V.
March, for many years manager of the local office of the Fruit
Dispatch Company, died very suddenly at his
office in Fulton, Ky., late Sunday
afternoon.
He had been suffering from angina
pectoris for some time, but continued about
his work until stricken by death.
Mr.
Marsh came to Mounds from New Orleans, La., as a young man.
He brought his bride here from that
southern city and his two children, Frank
and Ruth (Mickey), were born here.
He has many friends here who will
grieve at his passing.
His age was 49 years.
Mr. and Mrs. August
Crosson, Mrs. Lucy
Prindle, Mr. Otis T. Hudson
and Mrs. John
Travers went to Fulton Monday.
Brief services were held in a Fulton
Funeral Home that afternoon.
From there the body was taken to New
Orleans for burial.
Surviving are his widow and two
children, Frank, a student at St. Vincent’s
Nursing School, New York City, and Ruth, a
student at Murray State College, Murray,
Kentucky.
(His death certificate states that
George V.
Marsh
of 313 West Fourth St., Fulton, Fulton Co.,
Ky., manager of Fulton Fruit, was born 21
Jan 1887, in St. Mary Parish, La., the son
of William A.
Marsh and Elizabeth Heyl,
natives of Louisiana,
died 3 Jan 1937, of coronary thrombosis
rheumatism and was buried in
Louisiana.—Darrel
Dexter)
Broken Back Causes Death
Charles
Gunderson of Detroit, who has been confined in the Anna City
Hospital with a fractured vertebrae, as the
result of an automobile accident, which
occurred early on the morning of December
31, near Cobden when the car he was in was
overturned on the highway, died Sunday
night.
Five others were in the car, two of
whom were severely injured.
They were Charles
Shockley and Wayne
Houston, also of Detroit.
The young men had been to Texas to
take a convoy of new automobiles from a
Detroit factory and were on their way home.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 15 Jan 1937:
Deaths of the Week
MRS. ARTHUR BARTER
Mrs. Kate B.
Barter, age 68, wife of Arthur
Barter, died Tuesday evening, January 12
at her home in Spencer Heights.
Mrs.
Barter had not been well for some time
and only recently had suffered a fall.
Surviving her husband, a well-known
contractor; one daughter, Mrs. Idabelle
Comings, of this city; two brothers,
John
Watkins of Memphis, Tenn., and Tom
Watkins of Cairo; a niece, Mrs. Nick W.
Cox
of Cairo; four nephews, Robert and Corwin
Watkins of Cairo, Ralph
Watkins of Chicago and G. E.
Weldon of Little Rock, Ark.; many other
relatives and a large circle of friends.
Mrs.
Barter was a descendant of Peter
Watkins, a Revolutionary soldier and was
an active member of the Egyptian Chapter,
Daughters of the American Revolution.
She had lived in Cairo for more than
forty years, having moved to Pulaski County
only a few years ago.
Funeral services were held at the
Berbling Funeral Home in Cairo at 1:30
o’clock Thursday afternoon, the Rev. Robert
C. Dunlap officiating.
Burial was in Thistlewood Cemetery, Mounds.
(Her death certificate states that
Kate Beele
Barter was born 8 Mar 1868, in DuQuoin,
Ill., the daughter of Thomas Corwin
Watkins, a native of Zanesville, Ohio, and Lizzie
Williams, died 12 Jan 1937, in Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill., the wife of Arthur
Barter, and was buried at Mounds, Ill.
Her marker in Spencer Heights
Cemetery reads:
Kate B.
Barter 1868-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
OPAL LOUISE BUNKER
Opal Louise
Bunker, 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ward
Bunker of Karnak, died Friday morning, Jan. 8, at the family home.
She had been ill of pneumonia for
three weeks.
Surviving are her parents, a brother,
Everett; and two sisters, Adelaide and
Shirley Lee.
Funeral services were held at 2
o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Karnak
Pentecostal church with the Rev. Mr.
Ford
officiating.
Burial was in the Anderson Cemetery,
the
Wilson Funeral Service directing.
(Her death certificate states that
Opal Louise
Bunker was born 4 May 1923, in Karnak,
Ill., the daughter of Ward
Bunker and Ruby
Bunker, a native of Brookport, Ill.,
died 8 Jan 1937, in Karnak, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., and was buried in Massac Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
DANIEL SHEFFER
Daniel
Sheffer, of Elco, Ill., died Thursday, Jan. 7, at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Tony
Leipert of Granite City.
Funeral services were held at the
Pentecostal church in Elco Sunday morning at
11 o’clock, the Rev. Ford
Johnson, pastor, officiating.
Mr.
Sheffer was the grandfather of Mrs.
George
Brown
of this city.
(Daniel
Sheffer married Loney T.
Jordan on 23 Aug 1887, in Union Co.,
Ill.
According to his death certificate,
Daniel
Sheffer, farmer, was born
22 Aug 1866, in Dongola, Ill., the son of
Andrew
Sheffer and Nancy Aulbrite,
died 10 Jan 1937, in Madison Co., Ill.,
husband of Leona
Sheffer, and was buried at Mill Creek, Ill.
His marker in Free Trinity Pentecost
Church Hill Cemetery in Elco, Alexander Co.,
Ill., reads:
Father Daniel
Sheffer Oct. 22, 1866 Jan. 7, 1937 Mother Leona T.
Sheffer Nov. 15, 1871 Gone But Not
Forgotten.—Darrel
Dexter)
Joe Lyons, Pioneer Farm Bureau Builder
Joseph P.
Lyons, former charter member of the Livingston County Farm Bureau
and for seven years a membership solicitor
for the Illinois Agricultural Association,
died at his home at Pontiac, Illinois,
January 6.
He was 73 years old.
Mr.
Lyons
was known throughout the state for his
interests in agriculture and the promotion
of the Farm Bureau throughout the county.
(Joseph P.
Lyons married Margaret
McGinnis on 7 Feb 1888, in Livingston
Co., Ill.
His death certificate states that
Joseph P.
Lyons, retired hardware merchant, was born 19 Sep 1863, in
Platville, Ill., the son of Bernard
Lyons
and Mary
McKanna, natives of Ireland, died 6 Jan
1937, in Pontiac, Livingston Co., Ill.,
husband of Margaret
McGinnis, and was buried in Odell, Livingston Co., Ill.
His marker in Saint Paul Cemetery in
Odell, Ill., reads:
J. P.
Lyons and his wife Margaret
McGinnis Lyons Born July 26, 1862 Died
July 12, 1900 Joseph Patrick
Lyons
1863-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
88-YEAR-OLD TWIN SUCCUMBS
We learn, as we go to press, that
Miss Geraldine
Hatton, 88-year-old twin sister of Mrs.
Creptine
Burks,
died at the home of another sister, Mrs.
Abbie
Burnett, in Golconda yesterday
afternoon.
Miss
Hatton had been critically ill for
several weeks.
She and Mrs.
Burks had been constant companions, living in the same house in Bay
City all their lives until moving to
Golconda recently.
They were the oldest twins in Pope
County and possibly, in the state of
Illinois. Both were much interested in all
that went on about them and remarkably
active for their age, making frequent trips
to Golconda.
Funeral arrangements have not been
made at this time.—Golconda
(Her death certificate states that
Geraldine
Hatton was born 1 Feb 1847, in Indiana,
the daughter of Robert
Hatton, a native of Indiana,
and Sarah
Boyed,
a native of Kentucky,
died 6 Jan 1937, in Golconda, Pope Co.,
Ill., and was buried at Rosebud, Pope Co.,
Ill.
Her marker in Independence Cemetery
in Rosebud, Ill., reads:
Geraldine
Hatton 1849-1937 Sarah
Hatton 1809-1896 Mollie
Hatton 1843-1924.—Darrel
Dexter)
CLOCK IN FAMILY 123 YEARS
One of the oldest clocks in Illinois
reposes in the home of Mrs. Louella
McCracken in Roodhouse.
The timepiece has been in the family
123 years and was purchased in 1812 at a
public auction of the personal property of
Robert
Clark
of Dunkirk, Pa.
During the War in 1812, William
Branyan was wounded and discharged.
He went to his home in 1813 and that
same year he and his mother attended the
sale of Robert
Clark
in Dunkirk.
There he bought the clock.
In 1834, the timepiece came to
Illinois in a wagon.
At the death of William
Branyan, the clock was willed to his
son, Eleazer
Branyan, who lived in Christian County.
At the latter’s death, the clock was
willed to Samuel P.
McCracken, a nephew, who died at his
home March 19, 1926, in Roodhouse.
The clock was made in Birmingham,
England, and besides the hours and minutes,
it is built to show the changes of the moon,
the day of the month and the day of the
week.
Several years ago, a minor part was
broken during the moving of the clock and
the jeweler making the repairs, reported the
works to be only slightly worn.
(A marker in Sanders-Allen Cemetery
in White Hall, Greene Co., Ill., reads:
William
Branyan Born 1781 Died 1860 Rebecca
Branyan Born 1796 Died 1870.
Another marker there reads:
Eleazer
Branyan Born 1840 Died 1895.
S. P.
McCracken married Luella M.
Vandaveer on 12 Sep 1875, in Greene Co.,
Ill.
According to his death certificate,
Samuel Perry
McCracken was born 4 Aug 1853, in White
Hall Township, Greene Co., Ill., the son of
Samuel
McCracken and Mary
Branyan, natives of Pennsylvania,
and died 10 Mar 1926, in Roodhouse,
Greene Co., Ill.
His marker in Union Cemetery in
Greene Co., Ill., reads:
Samuel P.
McCracken 1853-1926 Luella M.
McCracken his wife 1855-1943.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. George
Brown
were called to Elco by the death of Mrs.
Brown’s
grandfather, Daniel
Sheffer, who died at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Tony
Leipert of Granite City, on Thursday morning.
Funeral services were held at Elco
Sunday.
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 15 Jan 1937:
Funeral services for William
Ramage, 89, who died at 12:30 a.m.
Monday, were held at 2 o'clock at the First
Christian Church in Brookport. Mr.
Ramage was a member of the church and
was Brookport's last remaining Civil War
veteran. His death was attributed to
natural causes.
His wife, Minnie
Ramage, and three children, Will
Ramage and Charles Ramage,
Brookport, and Mrs. A. G.
Endgerson of Humble, Texas, survive.
In addition, he is survived by nineteen
grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.
After a military funeral conducted by the
Brookport American Legion interment was made
at Pell Cemetery.
(The death certificate states that William
Ramage, barber, was born 6 Jun 1846, in
Kentucky, the son of Jess
Ramage, a native of Tennessee, and Lucy
Brazell, a native of Kentucky, died 4
Jan 1937, in Brookport, Massac Co., Ill.,
the husband of Minnie
Ramage, and was buried in Road District
7, Massac Co., Ill.
The application for a military
headstone stated William
Ramage enlisted 18 Feb 1865, as a
private in Co. L, 17th Kentucky
Cavalry, was honorably discharged 20 Sep
1865, and died 4 Jan 1937.
His marker in Pell Cemetery in
Brookport, Ill., reads:
William Ramage Co. L 17 KY
CAV.—Darrel
Dexter).
Frank
Travelstead, a pioneer resident of near
Pomona, died suddenly at the home of his
brother, Jeff
Travelstead, on Cedar Creek near Pomona.
He had been in poor health for some
time.
A coroner’s inquest was held to
determine the cause of his death.
The body was taken to Marion Sunday
where funeral and burial services were held.
His wife died about a year ago.
William
McCormick, 41, a former resident of this
city, passed away at St. Mary’s Infirmary in
Cairo Sunday morning at 3 a.m. following a
ten days’ illness with pneumonia.
Mr.
McCormick had been employed for the past
ten year at the
Bucher Brothers Bakery in Cairo.
He leaves a daughter, Mrs. Violet
Settles of Dearborn, Mich.; a stepson,
Leslie
Poole
of Miami, Fla.; one sister and two brothers.
Services were held Wednesday morning
at 9 o’clock at his home on Sycamore Street
with Rev. H. M.
Cady
of the Tigert Memorial Church officiating.
Following the service the funeral
cortege motored to Metropolis where
interment was made in the family lot in the
Odd Fellows Cemetery.
(His death certificate states that
William David
McCormick, a baker, was born 3 Feb 1895, in Wickliffe, Ky., died 17
Jan 1937, in Cairo, Ill., and was buried in
Odd Fellows Cemetery in Metropolis, Ill.
His marker there reads:
Father William D.
McCormick 1896-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Dr. Orval
Dickerson, 55, a prominent Cairo
physician, died Monday night about 11:15 of
heart attack.
He had gone into a restaurant across
the street from his office on Commercial and
was eating a dish of ice cream before
retiring a custom of his for many years,
when he was stricken and was dead before he
could get medical attention.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Lulu
Dickerson.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
at 10 a.m. with Rev. W. P.
MacVey of the Methodist Church officiating.
Following the services the body was
taken to Mount Vernon where interment was
made in the Salem Cemetery.
(His death certificate states that
Orvil Melcher
Dickerson, physician, was born 3 Oct 1881, in Mt. Vernon, Ill., the
son of George W.
Dickerson, a native of Tennessee, and
Celeste
Melcher, a native of Mt. Vernon, Ill.,
died 18 Jan 1937, at 613 Comb Ave., Cairo,
Ill., the husband of Lula
Dickerson, and was buried in Salem
Cemetery in Mt. Vernon, Ill.
His World War I draft registration
stated that he was a medical doctor at
Miller City, Ill., and his nearest relative
was Lulu
Bond
Dickerson.
He also had a shattered arm of long
duration.—Darrel
Dexter)
S. BARTLETT KERR, OF METROPOLIS, DIES
S. Bartlett
Kerr,
73, passed away Saturday, January 9, in
Paducah, Ky., from a combination of
influenza and injuries suffered from a fall
at his home in Metropolis.
Kerr,
an attorney and master in chancery of Massac
County for the past 29 years, was also a
captain in the Illinois National Guard.
He was well known in this county
being a frequent business caller at the
court house.
He is survived by his wife, two
children, and two brothers.
Funeral services were held in the
Methodist church at Metropolis Tuesday,
January 12, at 3 p.m.
Interment was made in the Odd Fellows
Cemetery.
(According to his death certificate,
S. Bartlett
Kerr,
a lawyer, was born 18 Oct 1863, in
Pullsfield, Maine, the son of Daniel B.
Kerr
and Addie
Green, natives of Maine, died 9 Jan 1937, in Paducah, McCracken Co.,
Ky., of a fractured skull—fell against rim
of bath tub, and meningitis, and was buried
in Metropolis, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Emma Hack
Barnett, 66 years of age, died at her home in this city on Main
Street, last Friday evening at 7:30.
She was a resident of this city most of her
life.
She is survived by her husband, George
Barnett.
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at
2 o'clock at the G. A.
James
Funeral Home, conducted by Rev. Walter
Van
Meter. Interment was made in the
Thistlewood Cemetery with G. A.
James
in charge.
(Her death certificate states that
Emma Hack
Barnett was born in 1870, died 15 Jan
1937, in Mound City, Ill., the wife of
George
Barnett, and was buried at Mounds,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
George Washington
Brooks, a Negro, who was born in slavery
83 years ago and who died last week at the
home of Mrs. Herman A.
Jensen, 4130 Lafayette Avenue, St.
Louis, great-granddaughter of his first
owner, the late Capt. James
Brooks of Jefferson County, was buried
at French Village, St. Francois County,
where he was freed at the start of the Civil
War.
When he was 7 years old,
Brooks was given as a wedding present to
Mrs. Luella
Brooks
Au
Buchon of French Village.
After she freed him, he remained as a
paid servant.
He helped rear her six children and
became known in the community as “the
shepherd of the flock.”
On one occasion during the war,
George
Brooks, then 9 years old, rode a horse
from French Village to
Brooks Place in Jefferson County,
through the woods in which guerillas were
reported, with $1,000 in gold hidden in his
boots.
Later, when troops were approaching
French Village, he buried family valuables
in the orchard and helped Mrs.
Au
Buchon to conceal her personal jewelry
in a ball of yarn.
Soldiers ransacked the house and
threw the ball of yarn across a room,
cracking a pin, now an heirloom.
George had been at the
Jensen home four years.
FRANCIS MARION KARRAKER
F. Marion
Karraker, age 67, died Friday morning, Jan. 15, at his home in
Dongola, following a stroke of paralysis on
the Monday preceding.
He had never regained consciousness.
Mr.
Karraker had been an employee of the
Illinois Central Railroad for more than 48
years and for 44 years had been agent and
operator for that system at Dongola.
He was the oldest agent in years of
service on the Cairo to St. Louis division,
and was known for his efficient service.
He was a member of the Order of
Railroad Telegraphers and held membership in
the Friendship Baptist Church near Dongola.
He is survived by his wife, Ida A.
Karraker; three brothers, T. N.
Karraker of St. Louis, formerly of
Mounds, Albert and John
Karraker, both of Dongola; two sisters,
Mrs. Laura
Keller and Mrs. Emma
Cope,
both of Dongola.
Funeral services were held at the
First Baptist Church of Dongola Sunday
afternoon.
Burial was in the Dongola I. O. O. F.
Cemetery.
(Francis M.
Karraker married Ida A. Graham
on 23 Aug 1891, in Union Co., Ill.
Nathan
Karraker married Sarah J.
Knight on 25 May 1854, in Union Co.,
Ill.
His death certificate states that
Francis Marion
Karraker, telegraph operator, was born 1
Jul 1869, in Dongola, Ill., the son of
Nathan
Karraker, a native of North Carolina,
and Sarah
Knight, died 15 Jan 1937, in Dongola,
Ill., the husband of Ida A.
Karraker,
and was buried at Dongola.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. H. H.
Karraker attended the funeral of Mr.
Karraker’s uncle, F. Marion
Karraker, of Dongola, Sunday.
ROMUALD PATUREAUX
Ramuald
Patureaux, of Baton Rouge, La., died in the Veterans’ Hospital in
Alexandria, La., Saturday, January 16.
He had been ill for several months.
At one time Mr.
Patureaux had been employed by a lumber firm in Cairo.
He leaves his wife, formerly Mrs.
Etta
Reese Barnett of Pulaski County and
later of Cairo, whom he married in 1930; a
stepson, Frank
Barnett of Baton Rouge; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Margaret
Barnett Hagebush of Ashley, Ill.; a
brother, and seven sisters.
Burial was made in the Plaquemine
Cemetery, Plaquemine, La.
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 29 Jan 1937:
Five colored men, all of Mound City, perished
Wednesday night about 8:30 o'clock, when a
power boat bringing them from the Cache
levee to land in Mounds struck an ice cake,
rammed a hole in her hull and sank.
The five who perished are: Leslie
Treadwell, Sherman
Smith, Roosevelt Simms,
Philip
Burroughs, and Almore
Donaldson. Two white men and one
colored man escaped.
This is the only fatalities reported and while
there were still other to be brought from
Mound City, unless very bad weather should
come, there is no needy why any lives should
have been lost. The power boat that
sank was running a risk in traveling at
night as there was floating cakes of ice.
(The death certificate of Leslie Wence
Treadwell, W. P. A. laborer, states he
was born 9 Mar 1903, in New Madrid, Mo., the
son of Thomas
Treadwell and Martha Walder,
natives of New Madrid, Mo., died 27 Jan
1937, in Mounds, Ill., and was buried in
Mounds, Ill.
His World War I draft registration
states that he was born in 1900 and his
nearest relative was Martha
Crise,
of Mound City, Ill.
The death certificate of Sherman
Smith,
P. W. A. laborer, states he was born in 1913
in Missouri, the son of Frank
Smith,
a native of Missouri, died 27 Jan 1937, in
Mound City, Ill., husband of Lucille
Smith,
and was buried in Mounds, Ill.
The death certificate of Roosevelt
Simms,
farmer, stated he was born 7 Sep 1912, in
Carolton, Miss., the son of John
Simms,
a native of Elcorn, Miss., and Fannie
Goodson, a native of Black Hawk, Miss.,
died 7 Feb 1937, in Pulaski Co., Ill., and
was buried at Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Of the 21 persons killed in the Carbondale
district during the month of December, three
were killed as the result of head-on
collisions.
In each case, one car was on the
wrong side of the black line and in the
ensuing wrecks six cars were damaged badly,
three persons were killed and several
injured.
It is such a simple thing to keep on the right
side of the centerline, and such a
disastrous thing to be on the wrong side at
the wrong time that it would seem that these
accidents would never happen—yet they
do—through carelessness and recklessness.
Of the 21 killed on highways in this district
during the months of December, six were
pedestrians.
In no case could evidence be found that could
hold the driver of the car responsible. Some
of these pedestrians walked into the side of
moving cars, others darted into the roadway
from behind parked cars and stepped directly
in front of a moving one.
All were adults.
The practice of safety is incumbent upon all
users of the highway.
Do what we tell the children—look before you
start across a highway.
SISTER PASSED AWAY
Mrs. Nannie
Schaubert of Energy, sister of Will
Underwood of this city, passed away
Friday. Funeral services were held at
Energy Sunday afternoon. Burial in Herrin
City Cemetery.
(Daniel
Underwood married Elizabeth
Bradley on 15 Oct 1871, in Williamson
Co., Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Nannie
Schaubert, housewife at Energy, Ill.,
was born 18 Jun 1882, in Williamson Co.,
Ill., the daughter of Daniel
Underwood and Elizabeth
Bradley, natives of Tennessee, died 29
Jan 1937, in Herrin, Williamson Co., Ill.,
the wife of Charles
Schaubert, and was buried in Herrin,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 12 Feb 1937, Flood Edition No. 3:
MOUNDS MAN PASSES AWAY
Edward A.
Hartman, of Mounds, passed away
Thursday, January 28, at the Holden Hospital
in Carbondale following a brief illness of
pneumonia.
Mr.
Hartman was a highly respected citizen
of Mounds, having lived there several years
and being a well-known I. C. engineer. He
was prominent in lodge work, being a member
of Trinity Lodge A. F. & A. M., Queen of
Egypt Chapter No. 509 O. E. S. and Zion
Shrine No. 58 of the White Shrine of
Jerusalem, all of Mound City.
He leaves his widow, Mrs. Carrie
Hartman, other relatives and a wide
circle of friends.
Funeral services were held at the
First Baptist Church in Dongola on Saturday
January 30, at 2 p.m. with Rev.
Phillips of Herrin officiating. His
body was placed in a vault at the
Ford
Funeral Home where it will remain until
burial can be made in the Thistlewood
Cemetery at Mounds.
(According to his death certificate,
Edward August
Hartman was born 11 Apr 1880, in
Centralia, Ill., the son of Fred
Hartman, a native of Germany, and Louisa
Ulrich, a native of France, died 28 Jan 1937, in Holden Hospital in
Carbondale, Jackson Co., Ill., the husband
of Carrie
Hartman, and was buried in Beech Grove Cemetery.
His World War I draft registration
states he was born in 1879 and was an
Illinois Central Railroad locomotive
engineer.
His marker in Beechwood Cemetery in
Mounds, Ill., reads:
Edward A.
Hartman April 11, 1879 Jan. 28, 1937
Carrie
Hartman Aug. 11, 1881 Aug. 25,
1956.—Darrel
Dexter)
OLD RESIDENT OF MOUNDS DIES
Frederick
Bandy,
56 years of age, died at Ullin last Friday
morning after a long illness of dropsy.
His home was in Mounds where he and
his wife had lived for 27 years.
The body was taken to the
Ford
Funeral Home in Dongola, where it was
prepared for burial and taken to Chaffee,
Mo., for burial.
Services were held Saturday in the Catholic
church at Chaffee, after which burial was
made in the local cemetery.
Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Ina
Bandy;
one sister, Mrs. Lester
Hunt,
of Salem, Ill.; and 3 nephews and 3 nieces.
(The death certificate states that
Fredrick Jackson
Bandy was born 6 Mar 1880, in Clinton, Ky., the son of John
Bandy,
a native of Tennessee, and Ellen
Hudson, a native of Kentucky, died 29
Jan 1937, in Ullin, Pulaski Co., Ill., the
husband of Ina
Bandy,
and was buried in Chaffee, Scott Co., Mo.
He was buried in Union Park Cemetery
in Chaffee, Mo.—Darrel
Dexter)
VIENNA WOMAN DIES
Word has been received in Dongola of
the death of Mrs. Elizabeth
Whiteaker, mother of Dr. W. J.
Whiteaker, who passed away Thursday
morning at her home in Vienna. Mrs.
Whiteaker was 97 years of age, was the
mother of the late Dr. Hall
Whiteaker, who was a practicing physician in Mound City for a number
of years.
(Her death certificate states that
Elizabeth
Whiteaker was born 5 Oct 1839, in
Alabama, the daughter of William
Denton and Martha J. Hard,
natives of North Carolina, died 4 Feb 1937,
in Vienna, Ill., the widow of Mark
Whiteaker, and was buried in Road
District 5, Johnson Co., Ill.
She was buried in Vienna Fraternal
Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
Arthur Clifford,
71, colored, of Cairo, died of pneumonia
fever at the Herrin hospital Tuesday night.
(His death certificate states that
Arthur
Clifford, laborer at Cairo, Ill., was
born about 1874, in Tennessee, died 9 Feb
1937, in Herrin, Williamson Co., Ill., the
husband of Emma
Clifford, and was buried in Lincoln Cemetery at Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Henry Quick,
71, colored, of Cairo R. 1, one of the flood
refugees in Herrin, died at the city
hospital in Herrin Friday morning. He
suffered ill health for more than a year.
He had been a patient in the emergency
hospital in Herrin since Jan. 20. When his
condition grew worse at 2 o'clock Friday
morning he was transferred to the hospital
proper where he died at 6 o'clock. Red
Cross officials had charge of the funeral
arrangements. His wife, 70 years old,
survives him.
(His death certificate states that
Henry
Quick, laborer at Cairo, Ill., was born
about 1866, died 5 Feb 1937, in Herrin,
Ill., the husband of Harriett
Quick,
and was buried in Lincoln Cemetery at
Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
ROBERT PORTERFIELD DEAD
Robert
Porterfield, well known and highly
respected citizen of Pulaski County, died on
Wednesday of last week from heart failure.
The report was that he had been out to help
get up some hay before flood waters damaged
it and the exertion brought on a heart
attack.
Funeral services were on Saturday of
last week.
(B. F.
Porterfield married Mrs. Sarah M.
Porterfield on 5 Jun 1870, in Pulaski
Co., Ill.
His death certificate states that
Robert H.
Porterfield, a timber piling buyer, was
born 10 Nov 1874, in Pulaski Co., Ill., the
son of Ben Franklin
Porterfield, a native of Kettaning, Pa.,
and Sarah
Hunter, a native of Leroy, Ill., died 2
Feb 1937, in Pulaski, Ill., the husband of
Katie
Lackey Porterfield, and was buried at
Pulaski, Ill.
His marker in Rose Hill Cemetery at
Pulaski reads:
Robert H.
Porterfield 1874-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 19 Feb 1937, Flood Edition No. 4:
RESIDENT OF MOUNDS DIES
E. A.
Young,
68, of Mounds, passed away last Saturday
evening at 11 p.m. at the I. C. hospital in
Chicago. Mr.
Young
had been in failing health for several
months.
He leaves his wife and two sons,
James and Harold of Mounds; and a number of
other relatives.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock at the
McCarthy Funeral Home at Anna with Rev.
Hunsaker of Cobden officiating.
The body was removed to the J. T.
Ryan
Funeral Home at Thebes and placed in a vault
until the water had receded when burial will
be made in a cemetery at Metropolis.
J. T.
Ryan
had charge of the funeral.
VILLA RIDGE WOMAN DIES
Martha S.
Campbell, aged 77 years, wife of Samuel
M.
Campbell of Villa Ridge, passed away
Sunday night at 11:30 p.m.
She is survived by her husband, four
sons and two daughters, three sisters and
four brothers.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at the Delta Church at Tamms.
Burial was made in the Delta Cemetery with
George C.
Crain in charge.
(Samuel M.
Campbell married Martha S.
Vick
on 20 Jul 1879, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Martha S.
Campbell was born 17 Oct 1859, in Tamms,
Ill., the daughter of Isaiah V.
Vick, a native of Tennessee, and Rachel
Hargis, a native of Kentucky, died 14 Feb 1937, in Villa Ridge,
Ill., wife of Samuel
Campbell, and was buried in Alexander
Co., Ill.
Her marker in Delta Cemetery reads:
Martha S.
Campbell Oct. 17, 1859 Feb. 14, 1937
Samuel M.
Campbell Sept. 15, 1859 Sept. 16,
1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
John Kemp Jr.,
5 years ___ed, son of Mr. and Mrs. ___
Kemp
of Mound City, died at the Marion refugee
camp ____ was due to pneumonia.
He is survived by his _____ one
brother.
Funeral services were held ____
afternoon at the ____ in charge of Rev. K.
_____Mound City.
(According to his death certificate,
John
Kemp, Jr., black, was born 20 Aug 1936,
in Mound City, Ill., the son of John E.
Kemp,
a native of Kentucky, and Elizabeth
Cason,
a native of Illinois, and died 13 Feb 1937,
in Road District 9-3 in Williamson Co, Ill.,
and was buried in Maplewood Cemetery in
Marion, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 26 Feb 1937, Flood Edition No. 5:
THOMAS F. WOOD
Thomas F.
Wood,
___ was found dead in bed ___ about five
miles east of ____ Sunday morning about ____
inquest was held by Coroner __ T.
Hudson of Mounds, ____ determined that
death was due to valvular heart disease.
Arrangements for ___ been made
awaiting the ____ his daughter from New
____.
G. A.
James
will be in charge.
(His death certificate states that
Thomas F.
Wood,
of America, Ill., was born in April 1861 in
Illinois, the son of William
Wood
and Amanda
Smith, died 20 Feb 1937, in Pulaski Co., Ill., and was buried in
Road District 4, Pulaski Co., Ill., the
divorced husband of Lora
Wood.—Darrel
Dexter)
PULASKI WOMAN PASSES AWAY
Mrs. Laura
McClelland of Pulaski passed away Monday
at 5:45 at her home ____ after an illness of
one ___.
She leaves her ____
King
of Pulaski and ___ a nephew and niece, ___
made their home with ___
McClelland.
Funeral services were ___day
afternoon at 2 o'clock at Pleasant Baptist
Church ___ Rev.
Smith
officiating. Interment was made in Rosehill
Cemetery at Pulaski. George C.
Crain had charge of the services.
(Henry
King
married Mary A.
Ledbetter on 26 Dec 1869, in Pulaski
Co., Ill.
James T.
McClelland, 25, farmer of Pulaski, Ill., born in Pulaski Co., Ill.,
the son of Jefferson
McClelland and Sarah
Bettis, married on 13 Oct 1895, in
Pulaski Co., Ill., Anna L.
Aldred, 21, of Pulaski, Ill., born in
Pulaski Co., Ill., the daughter of Hampleton
Aldred and Jane
Lackey. Her death
certificate states that Laura
McClellan was born 6 Apr 1874, in
Pulaski Co., Ill., the son of Henry
King,
a native of Germany, and Mary
Ledbetter, a native of Tennessee, died
22 Feb 1937, in Pulaski Co., Ill., wife of
James
McClellan, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Pulaski, Ill.
Her marker in that cemetery reads:
Annie Laura
McClellan Apr. 6, 1875 Feb. 22, 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Mollie Terrel
of Mounds passed away in Marion Feb. 17.
Death is attributed to old age and the
shock of the flood disaster.
(According to her death certificate,
Mollie
Terrell, black, was born about 1862 in
Kentucky, died 16 Feb 1937, in Road District
9-3 Williamson Co., Ill., the wife of John
Terrell, and was buried in
Terrell Cemetery in La Center, Ballard
Co., Ky.—Darrel
Dexter)
OLD RESIDENT OF VILLA RIDGE DIES
Elmer J.
Koontz, 63 years of age, passed away at
his home two and one half miles east of
Villa Ridge at 3:30 a.m. He was born and
reared on this farm and had spent his entire
life there.
He is survived by four sons, Clarence
and Elmer, Jr., of Villa Ridge, Harry of
Fulton, Ky., and Edward of Cairo; two
daughters, Vera
Lewis of Cape Girardeau, Mo., and Marie
Dickerson of Cairo, and two sisters.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Union Church
at Villa Ridge with Rev. Ellsworth
Lyons
officiating. Interment was made in the
Thistlewood Cemetery with G. A.
James
in charge.
(According to his death certificate,
Elmer J.
Koonce, farmer, was born 24 Mar 1872, in
Villa Ridge, Ill., the son of N. N.
Koonce, a native of Harper’s Ferry, Va.,
and Margaret
Phillips, a native of Pennsylvania, died
23 Feb 1937, in Road District 6, Pulaski
Co., Ill., the husband of Lova
Koonce, and was buried in Thistlewood
Cemetery at Mounds, Ill.
His marker in Beechwood Cemetery at
Mounds reads:
Elmer J.
Koonce 1872-1937 Lora Dell
Koonce 1882-1927.—Darrel
Dexter)
ANDREW J. CUNNINGHAM
Andrew J.
Cunningham, 74 years of age, passed away
at his home at Valley Recluse Friday morning
at 8:30. He was a member of the Pilgrim
Congregational Church of Mound City and of
the Modern Woodmen of America.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary
Cunningham; one son, Jesse of Mound
City; and a grandson, Carl
Cunningham of Rock Island, Illinois.
Funeral services were held at the
home of Mrs. Walter
Leidigh Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock with Rev. Ellsworth
Lyon
officiating. Interment was made in the
Thistlewood Cemetery.
G. A.
James
conducted the funeral.
(His death certificate states that
Andrew Jackson
Cunningham, farmer, was born 27 Dec 1862, in Shawneetown, Ill., died
19 Feb 1937, in Road District 6, Pulaski
Co., Ill., husband of Mary
Cunningham, and was buried in
Thistlewood cemetery at Mounds, Ill.
His marker in Beechwood Cemetery at
Mounds reads:
Father Andrew
Cunningham 1862-1937 Mother Mary
Cunningham 1865-1962.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 5 Mar 1937, Flood Edition No. 6:
WELL KNOWN MOUND CITY WOMAN DIED MONDAY
Mrs. Adelia
Fray,
of Mound City, died Monday morning at 5
o'clock at the home of Mrs. Warren
Anglin in Mounds, at the age of 89 years.
Mrs.
Fray
was born in Pulaski County and had spent
practically all her life in the county,
having lived in Mound City many years. She
is survived by a granddaughter, Miss Mildred
Jaccard of Mound City; a grandson, W. N.
Jaccard of Glendale, Calif.; three
great-grandchildren. The body was moved to
the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. M.
Throgmorton, where funeral services were
held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock
conducted by Rev.
Lyons,
pastor of the Congregational Church at Mound
City. Burial was held at the Thistlewood
Cemetery with George C.
Crain
of Pulaski in charge.
(Henry H.
Fray
married Delia
Kirk
on 15 Feb 1869, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Adelia
Fray
was born 12 Sep 1847, in Pulaski Co., Ill.,
died 1 Mar 1937, in Mounds, Ill., and was
buried in Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
FORMER MOUND CITY MAN DIES IN EXPLOSION
Charles
Reese,
who formerly resided in Mound City and who
operated a garage in Little Rock,
Ark., was killed last Thursday in an
explosion of alcohol.
He is survived by his wife and two
children, a sister, Mrs.
Alden of Anna; a brother, Ernest of Little Rock; and his father, who
resides in Mounds.
(The Arkansas Death Index states
Charles F.
Reese
died 25 Feb 1937, in Garland Co., Ark.
His marker in Greenwood Cemetery in
Hot Springs, Garland Co., Ark., reads:
Charles F.
Reese Dec. 12, 1902 Feb. 25, 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 5 Mar 1937:
Deaths Which Occurred During the Flood
Period
EDWARD A. HARTMAN
Edward A.
Hartman of Mounds died at Holden Hospital in Carbondale Thursday,
January 28, shortly after having been taken
there from his home.
Mr.
Hartman was an Illinois Central employee for many years.
He was a member of the M. E. Church,
the Masonic Lodge, Eastern Star Chapter and
White Shrine, the Royal Arch and Knights
Templar, the latter at Cairo and the Shrine
at East St. Louis.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Carrie
Hartman.
Funeral services were held January
20, at Dongola and the body was placed in a
vault at the
Ford Funeral Home at that place where it remained until the water
had receded from Mounds.
Burial services were held Sunday,
February 28, at Thistlewood Cemetery at two
o’clock with the Masons in charge.
EDWIN A. YOUNG
Edwin A.
Young, age 68 years Illinois Central engineer for forty
years—working in the Mounds yards until
recently, when he was transferred to Cairo
Junction—died Saturday night, Feb. 6, at the
Illinois Central Hospital in Chicago, where
he had been a patient for almost two weeks.
Mrs.
Young
and son, James, were at his bedside when
death came as the result of cancer.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Carrie
Fulkerson Young; and two sons, Harold E.
Young,
local postmaster, and James, an Illinois
Central clerk.
The body was met at Carbondale
Monday, Feb. 10, and taken to the
McCarty Funeral Home at Anna, where
funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon, conducted by the Rev. W. W.
Hunsaker of Cobden.
Following the service, the body was
taken to the
Ryan
Funeral Home at Thebes, where it was held
until the flood water had receded and it
could be taken to Metropolis, where Mr.
Young
had requested that he be buried.
Burial was made Wednesday, February
17, by the side of his mother in the
Metropolis Cemetery
(His death certificate states that
Edwin Andrew
Young,
engineer, of 209 S. Blanche, Mounds, Ill.,
was born 21 Oct 1868, in Paducah, Ky., the
son of Thomas
Young,
a native of Kentucky, and Latitria
House,
died 6 Feb 1937, in Chicago, Cook Co., Ill.,
the husband of Carrie
Young, and was buried at Carbondale, Jackson Co., Ill.
His marker in I. O. O. F. Chosen
Friends Cemetery in Metropolis, Massac Co.,
Ill., reads:
Edwin A.
Young
Father 1868-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
JOHN F. WELSON
John F.
Welson, a longtime resident of Villa Ridge, who had been a sufferer
from rheumatism for many years, passed away
Tuesday, February 9, at his home in that
place.
Mr.
Welson was born October 19, 1861, and had reached the age of 75
years and almost four months.
He was preceded in death by his wife
and later his sister, Miss Flo
Welson.
Surviving is one sister, Miss Emma
Welson, who lives at the old home place.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon, Feb. 11, at the family residence
with interment in Villa Ridge cemetery.
(His death certificate states that
John F.
Welson was born 19 Oct 1861, in
Missouri, the son of Robert
Welson and Margaret
Vogel,
natives of Germany,
died 9 Feb 1937, in Villa Ridge, Pulaski
Co., Ill., the widower of Flora
Spencer Welson, and was buried at Villa
Ridge.
His marker in Cairo City Cemetery at
Villa Ridge reads:
John F.
Welson 1861-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
ELMER J. KOONCE
Elmer J.
Koonce, age 64 years, died at his farm home 2 ½ miles east of Villa
Ridge at 3:30 o’clock Tuesday morning,
February 23, following an illness of two
days.
He was born and reared on this farm
and had spent his entire life there.
He is survived by four sons, Clarence
and Elmer W. of Villa Ridge, Harry of
Fulton, Ky., and Edward of Cairo; two
daughters, Mrs. Vera
Lewis
of Cape Girardeau, Mo., and Mrs. Marie
Dickerson of Cairo; two sisters, Mrs.
Ida
Helman of Villa Ridge and Mrs. Allie
Thomason of Mounds; also nine
grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Union Church
at Villa Ridge with Rev. Ellsworth
Lyon
officiating.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery with G. A.
James
conducting.
MRS. H. J. HILEMAN
Mrs. Henry J.
Hileman, aged 83, passed away at her home two miles west of Olmstead
at eight o’clock, Friday morning, Feb. 25,
after an illness of about three months.
She had been a resident of that
community for about 75 years.
The deceased is survived by her
husband, Henry J.
Hileman; two daughters, Mrs. Charles
Walker of Pulaski and Mrs. Florence
House
of Mound City; two sons, Wayne J.
Hileman of Olmstead and Forest L.
Hileman, who is in a veterans’ hospital;
two grandchildren; two sisters, Miss Lottie
Chittick of Mound City and Miss Edith
Chittick of Olmstead; and a brother,
Hiram
Chittick, of Olmstead.
Funeral services were held at the
residence at 2 p.m. Saturday with interment
in Concord Cemetery.
G. A.
James was in charge.
(Continued next week)
(Henry J.
Hileman married Alice Bagby
on 16 Apr 1876, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
According to her death certificate,
Alice Jane
Hileman was born 18 Mar 1864, in Maysville, Ky., the daughter of
Richard
Bagby
and Emily
Horsley, natives of Kentucky, died 25
Feb 1937, in Pulaski Co., Ill., wife of
Henry J.
Hileman, and was buried in Road District 4, Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker in Concord Cemetery near
Olmsted, Ill., reads:
Alice J.
Hileman 1854-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 12 Mar 1937:
Publisher of
Jonesboro Gazette Dies Saturday
Albert S.
Tibbetts, age 71 years, owner and publisher of the
Jonesboro Gazette, a weekly newspaper
established in 1848, died at his home in
Jonesboro Saturday, March 6.
Mr.
Tibbetts was born in Auburn, Ill., going to Jonesboro in 1868.
He learned the printer’s trade in the
office of the
Gazette of which paper he eventually
became owner and publisher.
He had preserved a complete file of
the issues of this newspaper which are kept
in the vault of the Jonesboro Bank.
These date back to the Lincoln and
Douglas debates.
Funeral services were held Monday at
the Jonesboro Baptist Church at 2 o’clock
with burial in the Jonesboro Cemetery.
He is survived by a daughter and a
son, also a granddaughter.
(Albert S.
Tibbets married Hester S.
Bouton on 1 Jun 1881, in Union Co., Ill.
His death certificate states that
Albert Stacy
Tibbets, printer, was born 10 Jan 1858,
in Auburn, Ill., the son of Hiram
Tibbets, a native of Shenandoah Co.,
Va., and Martha
Wilson, a native of Hardy Co., Va., died
6 Mar 1937, in Jonesboro, Union Co., Ill.,
the widower of Esther
Tibbets, and was buried in Jonesboro
Cemetery.
His marker in Jonesboro Cemetery
reads:
Albert Stacy
Tibbets 1858-1937 Esther
Bouton Tibbets, 1860-1923.—Darrel
Dexter)
Miss Mary Crosson Dies in Evansville
Hospital
Miss Mary
Crosson, a former resident of Mounds, died Sunday afternoon, March
7, at St. ___ Hospital, Evansville, Ind., at
the age of 77 years.
Miss
Crosson, aunt of August ____, made her home here for a number of
years with her
____, Mr.
Crosson’s father, the late W. A.
Crosson.
After his death she returned to
Evansville, her former home.
Her body was brought
via
the ____ R. R. to Mound City from which
place it was brought____ T.
Ryan.
Funeral services were held at
Ryan’s
Funeral Home at 9 o’clock Wednesday morning
with burial in St. Mary’s Cemetery where her
brother is also buried.
Daniel H. Weldy
Daniel H.
Weldy, pioneer resident of Pulaski County, died Tuesday, March 9, at
his home northwest of Mounds.
His age was 86 years.
He had been in failing health for
some time.
He leaves four children, Mrs. William
Minton of Mounds, Mrs. Robert
Galbraith of Mound City, Albert of
Muncie, Ind., and Claude of Oak Park, Ill.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at two o’clock at Shiloh Baptist
Church.
Burial was at Shiloh Cemetery, with
Hartwell Funeral Service in charge.
(Daniel H.
Weldy married Julia A.
Bumgard on 6 Aug 1876, in Alexander Co.,
Ill.
According to his death certificate,
D. H.
Weldy, retired farmer, was born 12 Dec 1851, in Decatin, Ind., died
9 Mar 1937, in Road District 7, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., widower of Julia
Weldy, and was buried in Shiloh Cemetery near Villa Ridge, Pulaski Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Deaths Which Occurred During the Flood
Period
(Continued from last week)
ROBERT M. PORTERFIELD
Robert M.
Porterfield, age 62 years, died at his home in Pulaski, February 2,
his death coming suddenly.
He was born in Pulaski, November 10,
1874, the son of Benjamin F. and Sara M.
Porterfield.
In 1903 he was married to Katie
Lackey who with a son, John Albert
Porterfield, survives.
He is survived also by a brother,
John Franklin
Porterfield; a sister, Pearl
Porterfield; and three grandchildren.
Mr.
Porterfield was a member of Caledonia Lodge No. 47, A. F. & A. M.,
the Royal Arch at Cairo, the Consistory at
Chicago, the Shrine and Knights Templar of
Chicago.
He and his family lived in Chicago
from 1917 until 1932.
He was a veteran of the
Spanish-American War.
MRS. ELLA FITZPATRICK
Mrs. Ella
Fitzpatrick of Glendale, Calif., died of pneumonia early in February
at her home there.
Mrs.
Fitzpatrick was a former resident of Mounds and Pulaski, but had
lived in California for many years.
She is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. William M.
Crain of Centralia and Miss Olga
Fitzpatrick of Glendale; also two grandchildren, Attorney Robert M.
Crain
of St. Louis and Miss Aileen
Crain
of Centralia; and one great-granddaughter of
St. Louis.
Mrs.
Crain and Miss Aileen have spent the winter in Glendale helping care
for Mrs.
Fitzpatrick who had been confined to a
wheel chair as the result of a fall in which
she suffered a broken hip.
MARTHA S. CAMPBELL
Mrs. Martha S.
Campbell, wife of Samuel
Campbell, died Sunday night, Feb. 14, at
11:30 o’clock at her home in Villa Ridge.
Besides her husband, she is survived by five
sons, John, Oscar, Edward, Clyde and Sidney;
two daughters, Mrs. Earl
Walker and Mrs. Grace
Gannon; also several grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon, Feb. 16, at the Delta Church,
with Rev. A. M.
Troutman officiating.
Burial was made in Delta Cemetery.
MRS. LAURA McCLELLAND
Mrs. Laura
McClelland, 62, passed away at 5:45 Monday evening , Feb. 22, at her
home east of Pulaski after an illness of one
week.
The deceased is survived by a
brother, Harry T.
McClelland of Pulaski; three sisters,
Mrs. Etta
Ozment, Mrs. Ilora
Helmanpoler of Peoria, and Mrs. Lucy
King
of Cape Girardeau, Mo.; a nephew, John
King;
and a niece, Mary
King,
both of whom made their home with Mrs.
McClelland.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at 2:00 o’clock at the Mounds
Baptist Church with the Rev.
Smith
officiating.
Interment was made in Rosehill
Cemetery at Pulaski.
JAMES L. DILLE
James L.
Dille,
long a prominent resident of Villa Ridge
community, passed away Sunday, January 24,
at his home, following a long illness.
He is survived by two daughters, Mrs.
T. P.
Conant and Miss Rowena
Dille
of Villa Ridge; and son, Dr. Charles E.
Dille
of Cairo.
Funeral services were held at Villa
Ridge Tuesday, January 26, with interment at
Villa Ridge cemetery.
(His death certificate states that
James Washington
Dille
was born 8 May 1856, in Montgomery Co.,
Ohio, the son of Samuel
Dille, a native of Pennsylvania, and Esther
Price, a native of Ohio, died 23 Jan 1937, in Villa Ridge, Pulaski
Co., Ill., widower of Elizabeth
Dille,
and was buried at Villa Ridge.
His marker in Cairo City Cemetery in
Villa Ridge, Ill., reads:
James W.
Dille
May 8, 1850 Jan. 23, 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
FREDERICK BANDY
Fred
Bandy, age 56 years, a resident of Mounds for 27 years, died at
Ullin February 5, after a long illness of
dropsy.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ina
Bandy;
a sister, Mrs. Lester
Hunt
of Salem, Ill.; three nieces and three
nephews.
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 12 Mar 1937, Flood Edition No. 7:
MISS WILLINGHAM DEAD
Miss Anna Frances
Willingham, 19, of Cairo, passed away
last Sunday morning at St. Mary's Hospital
after a four weeks illness with meningitis.
Miss
Willingham was a popular young girl of
both Alexander and Pulaski counties. She
was active in church and school affairs
ranking high in scholarship in the local
schools in college.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at 1:30 at the Christian church
with Reverend
Walker of Bloomington, Illinois,
officiating. Interment was made at
Bardwell, Ky.
(Her death certificate states that
Anna Frances
Willingham was born 14 Apr 1917, in
Bardwell, Ky., the daughter of Merritt C.
Willingham and Clara
Watson, natives of Bardwell, Ky., died 7
Mar 1937, in Cairo, Ill., and was buried in
Bardwell Cemetery in Bardwell, Ky.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 19 Mar 1937:
WELL KNOWN HISTORIAN DIES AT MAKANDA
John Mulcaster, 62 years of age, of
Makanda, died Monday, February 1, at Hines
Hospital in Chicago.
He is survived by his wife and two
sisters.
Funeral services were held on
Thursday, February 4, at the home of his
sister-in-law, Mrs. Julia
Dowell of Marion.
Mr.
Mulcaster, a prominent historian of
Southern Illinois and a well-known
Republican leader of Makanda, was a former
employee of the Illinois Central railroad
and author of several historical stories,
songs and verses.
(The death certificate states that
John G.
Mulcaster, Illinois Central Railroad
agent, was born 1 Oct 1876, in Monroe City,
Ill., the son of Richard
Mulcaster, a native of England, and Mary
Hickman, a native of Missouri, died 1
Feb 1937, in Hines Hospital, Proviso
Township, Cook Co., Ill., the husband of
Ella
Mulcaster, and was buried in Marion,
Ill.
His application for a military
headstone states that John G.
Mulcaster was a private 1st class in the 7th
US. Signal Corps during the Spanish American
War.
He was buried in Tower Grove Cemetery
in Murphysboro, Jackson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
CHARLES E. MINTON OF MOUNDS PASSES AWAY
Charles Edgar
Minton, 66 years of age, passed away at
his home in Mounds last Thursday afternoon
at 3 o'clock, following an illness of about
three months.
He is survived by his wife and one
son, Edgar, of Washington, D.C., and two
grandchildren, also four brothers and three
sisters.
Mr.
Minton had spent his entire life in
Mounds and for 20 years had been employed by
the Illinois Central Railroad. He was a
member of the First Baptist Church of
Mounds.
Funeral services were held Sunday at
2 p.m. at the church with Rev. W. A.
Gardner and H. C.
Croslin officiating. Interment was made in the Shiloh Cemetery. J.
F.
Ryan was in charge.
(Charles
Minton, 26, farmer of Villa Ridge, born
in Pulaski Co., Ill., the son of B.
Minton and Julia
Graddy, married on 17 Nov 1895, in
Pulaski Co., Ill., Kate
Vanida, 19, of Villa Ridge, Ill., born
in Pulaski Co., Ill., daughter of John
Vanida and Sarah
Little. The death certificate of Charles Edgar
Minton, a car oiler, states that he was born 1 Apr 1870, in Mounds,
Ill., the son of Bird
Minton, a native of Alabama, and Julia
Grady,
a native of Georgia, died 11 Mar 1937, in
Villa Ridge, Ill., the husband of Katie
Minton, and was buried in Shiloh
Cemetery.
His marker there reads:
Charles E.
Minton 1870-1937 Katie M.
Minton 1876-1964.—Darrel
Dexter)
HENRY D. HILEMAN DIED SUDDENLY AT OLMSTEAD
Henry D.
Hileman, 64 years of age, a prominent
farmer living near Olmstead, died at his
home Wednesday afternoon at 5:45 o'clock of
apoplexy. He became ill the morning of the
day before and grew worse rapidly.
Mr.
Hileman was born on the farm on which he
died. He was a man most highly respected in
that community, and while he had no
immediate family save his aged mother, now
87 years of age, he is mourned by numerous
neighbors and friends. A cousin, Harry
Walker, lived with him. Mrs. Florence
House
of Mound City is a cousin.
Funeral services will be held this
(Friday) afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home,
conducted by Rev. C. Robert
Dunlap, pastor of the Lutheran Church at
Cairo and of which Mr.
Hileman was a member.
Interment will be in the Concord Cemetery. G. A.
James
is in charge.
(Thomas
Hileman married Jane
Cline
on 14 Jan 1872, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
His death certificate states that
Henry Daniel
Hileman, farmer, was born 24 Feb 1873,
in Olmstead, Ill., the son of Thomas B.
Hileman, a native of Jonesboro, and Margaret Jane
Cline,
a native of Thebes, Ill., died 17 Mar 1937,
in Road District 4, Pulaski Co., Ill., and
was buried in Concord Cemetery near
Olmstead, Ill.
His marker there reads:
Son Henry D.
Hileman 1873-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 19 Mar 1937:
FLOOD REFUGEE FINDS HAVEN
Among the residents ordered out of
Mound City when the raging waters of the
Ohio threatened their lives was Magnolia
Royall, age 92 years and an ex-slave of
the mother of the late Dr. B. A.
Royall of Villa Ridge.
She was taken to Villa Ridge where she was
one of the number booked to board a box car
headed north to some unknown point of
refuge.
Her small box of belongings was piled
in with the rest of the baggage, but
Magnolia slyly kept out of sight of the
guardsmen and was left behind.
She persuaded a new-found friend to
assist her up the long steep hill to the
home of Mrs. M. Lilly
Rife,
daughter of Dr.
Royall.
There she found Mrs.
Royall, who makes her home with her
daughter.
Magnolia was made welcome and cared
for in the house of a maid on the place.
She was quite ill for a day and a
night.
Only one year older than Dr.
Royall, Magnolia and he were playmates
in childhood.
Her resting place at night was at the
feet of her mistress, Dr.
Royall’s mother.
When she found his widow and
daughter, she felt that she had reached a
safe haven.
(W. C.
Rife married M. Lilley Royall
on 10 Sep 1895, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
B. A.
Royal
married on 26 Nov 1871, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill., S. J.
Bankston, the daughter of George W. and
Sarah Jane (Kennedy)
Bankson.
The mother of Berry A.
Royall was Mary Tinsley
Arnold Royall, who was born 16 Oct 1807
in Prince Edward Co., Va., and died in 1860
in Clarksburg, Carroll Co., Tenn.—Darrel
Dexter)
Charles Edgar Minton
Charles Edgar
Minton died at his home on North Oak
Street, Thursday afternoon, March 11,
following a lingering illness.
His age was 66 years.
OBITUARY
Charles Edgar
Minton, son of Bird and Julia Ann
Minton, was born April 1, 1870, at Villa Ridge, Illinois, and
departed this life at his home in Mounds,
Ill., March 11, 1937.
He was united in marriage to Miss
Katie
VonNida, Nov. 17, 1895, to which union
one son, Edgar, was born.
He leaves to mourn his departure, his
wife, and son, four brothers, James, John,
Frank and Will
Minton; and three sisters, Mrs. Fannie
Parker, Mrs. Walter
Harper and Mrs. Charles
Nugent.
He was united with the Shiloh Church
at the age of 22 and was an earnest worker
in the service of his master in that
community.
He later transferred his membership
to the First Baptist Church at Mounds, Ill.,
and was a member of that church at the time
of his death.
For the past 24 years of his life, he
was employed by the Illinois Central
Railroad and leaves a host of friends in
their service.
He had a cheerful disposition, which
endeared him to all his friends and will be
sadly missed by all who knew him.
Services were held Sunday afternoon
at 2 o’clock at the First Baptist Church
with Rev. W. A.
Gardner, pastor, and Rev. H. C.
Croslin, former pastor, officiating.
Interment was made in Shiloh
Cemetery, J. T.
Ryan
directing.
Mr. and Mrs. O. E.
Pawlish had as their guests over the
weekend Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Minton of Illmo, Mo., and John
Minton of Campbell, Mo.
They were here (Villa Ridge) to
attend the funeral of the latter’s brother,
Charlie
Minton, of Mounds.
CARD OF THANKS
We want to express our heartfelt
thanks to the many friends who were so kind
and sympathetic to us during the recent
illness and at the death of our husband and
father.
Especially do we thank Rev. W. A.
Gardiner, Rev. H. C.
Croslin, those who sang, those who gave
flowers, and those who gave the use of their
cars.—Mrs. Charles
Minton, Edgar
Minton
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 26 Mar 1937:
Deaths That Have Occurred During the Week
CLAUDE E. MORROW
Claude E.
Morrow, age 68, died in a hospital in Fort Smith, Ark., Sunday
night, March 14, at 4 o’clock.
He was a Spanish American War
veteran.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Cora
B.
Kennedy of this city, Mrs. L. L.
Pace
of Dyersburg, Tenn.; and one brother, John
Morrow, of Kansas City, Mo.
Funeral services were held and burial
was made Friday, March 19, at Fort Smith
National Cemetery, the Rev. Dr. Elbert
Hefner, pastor of the Presbyterian
Church officiating.
The Fort Smith Post of the Spanish
American War veterans had charge of the
interment.
(Claude E.
Morrow enlisted 31 May 1899, as a private in Co. E, 12th
U.S. Infantry during the Spanish American
War and was honorably discharged 30 May
1902.
The Arkansas Death Index states that
Claude E.
Morrow died 14 Mar 1937, in Sebastian
Co., Ark.
He was buried in Fort Smith National
Cemetery in Fort Smith, Sebastian Co.,
Ark.—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. P. W. SCOTT
Mrs. Matilda E.
Scott,
age 71 years, wife of P. W.
Scott,
died Monday morning, March 22, at her home
on North Front Street, after a three weeks
illness due to influenza and pneumonia.
Mrs.
Scott, whose maiden name was Matilda E.
McClellan, was the descendant of Revolutionary ancestry, the records
of which the editor had in her desk which
went with the flood.
This Revolutionary soldier was an
aide to
Washington at the surrender of
Cornwallis.
He was a Virginian.
Surviving are her husband, two
sisters, Mrs. Sarah
Aldred and Mrs. Laura
Lackey of Pulaski; one brother, Frank
McClellan, of Zama, Miss.; also three
nieces and two nephews.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at Rose Hill Church
in Pulaski, the Rev. W. A.
Gardner of the First Baptist Church of
this city officiating.
Burial was in Rose Hill Cemetery, J.
T.
Ryan directing.
(According to her death certificate,
Matilda E.
Scott
was born 12 Oct 1865, in Pulaski Co., Ill.,
the daughter of Thomas J.
McClellan and Sarah
Bettis, a native of Tennessee, died 22
Mar 1937, in Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill., wife
of P. W.
Scott, and was buried in
Rose Hill Cemetery in Pulaski, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. E. E. BUTLER
Mrs. Louie E.
Butler, widow of the late E. E.
Butler, died Saturday morning, March 20, at her home in this city,
following a protracted illness.
During the flood she had been a
patient in Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, but
was brought to her home about two weeks
before her death.
Mr. and Mrs.
Butler made their home at Villa Ridge for a number of years.
About twenty years ago they came to
Mounds where they had since resided.
Mrs.
Butler took an active interest in community affairs.
She was a member of the M. E. Church,
a former president of the Mounds Woman’s
Club and at her death was a member of the
Mounds Library Board.
She was also active in lodge work and
had a wide acquaintance both in club and
lodge circles in Southern Illinois.
She leaves two sons, Glenn
Butler of New York City and Edward
Butler of Mounds; one daughter, Mrs.
Daisy (Paul)
Powell of Vienna, Ill.; one
granddaughter, Winifred
Butler of East St. Louis; also one
brother, Allen
Meisenheimer of Spokane, Wash.
Her husband died May 11, 1936.
JOHN C. HOLDERFIELD
John Calvin
Holderfield died Thursday, March 18, at the home of his
brother-in-law, Sherman
Pruitt of Gale, where he and his wife
had been for two weeks.
Mr.
Holderfield was born in Canaville, Ill., Feb. 15, 1881.
He was married in 1900 to Viola Ellen
Pruitt.
For some time he had been farming
near Cache, Ill., but he had been living in
Mounds for a number of months.
He is survived by his wife, eight
children, Arlie of Indianapolis, Ind.,
Clarence of Oran, Mo., Earl and John Jr. of
Mounds, Raymond of Cobden, Herman of Marion,
George of Thompsonville and Maude also of
Thompsonville; also one brother and four
sisters, and 18 grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at Sandy Creek Church
in Diswood.
Interment was made in
McCrite Cemetery.
(John
Holderfield married Ellen
Prewitt on 3 Sep 1900, in Union Co.,
Ill.
His World War I draft registration in
1918 gives his birth as 15 Feb 1880, and his
address as McClure, Alexander Co., Ill.
His death certificate states that
John C.
Holderfield, retired farmer,
was born 15 Feb 1881, in Creal Springs,
Williamson Co., Ill., the son of Richard T.
Holderfield, a native of Tennessee, and Mary
Fulcher, died 19 Mar 1937, in Gale, Alexander Co., Ill., husband of
Ellen
Holderfield,
and was buried in McCrite Cemetery near
Diswood, Alexander Co., Ill.
His marker there reads:
John C.
Holderfield 1881-1937 Ellen
Holderfield 1883-1971.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 26 Mar 1937:
PULASKI CHILD PNEUMONIA VICTIM
Barry Joe
Brown,
7 years of age, died at St. Mary's Hospital
Monday morning following several weeks’
illness of pneumonia.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs.
Ora
White, of Pulaski; two sisters, Mrs.
Floyd
Lingle of Chicago and Mrs. H. A.
Brewer of Thompson, Ill.; two brothers
Rowley
Brown
of Pulaski and Arden
Brown
of Olmstead.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Christian
church in Pulaski with Rev. Charles
Day
officiating. Interment was made in Rosehill
Cemetery with George C.
Crain
directing the funeral.
(His death certificate states that
Berry Joe
Brown
was born 10 Jan 1930, in Pulaski Co., Ill.,
the son of Franklin R.
Brown
and Ora
Aldred, natives of Pulaski Co., Ill., died 22 Mar 1937, in Cairo,
Ill., and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery
at Pulaski, Ill.
His marker there reads:
Berry J.
Brown
Jan. 10, 1930 Mar. 22, 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
SCOTT DIXON MET ACCIDENTAL DEATH
Scott J.
Dixon,
51, local motor dealer, was found in his
garage office Monday shortly before noon.
On his desk was a shotgun with
cleaning equipment.
The coroner’s jury met and returned
the verdict that he had come to his death by
an accidental discharge of the shotgun, an
automatic while it was being cleaned. The
shot had entered his body just below the
heart and death was in all probability
instantaneous.
Scott
Dixon
was one of the better known residents of
Metropolis, having been born in Massac
County and spent all his life here. For
years he was associated with George
Korte in the Dry Goods business and then was engaged in the motor
business, having the Ford agency for a
number of years. About five years ago he
relinquished that agency and more recently
has been the local dealer for Dodge.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Lydia
Dixon; and one daughter, Miss Lois
Evelyn
Dixon.
Also one sister, Mrs. Eva
Yancey of Dallas, Texas; and one
half-sister, Mrs. John
Borman.—Metropolis Ex.
(Jacob
Dixon
married Permelia M.
Leek
Copland on 4 Nov 1881, in Massac Co., Ill.
B. F.
Copland married Margaret P.
Leek
on 1 Jan 1865, in Massac Co., Ill.
His death certificate states that
Scott J.
Dixon,
auto dealer in Metropolis, Ill., was born 15
Apr 1885, in Massac Co., Ill., the son of
Jacob
Dixon, a native of Virginia, and
Margarett
Leek,
a native of Massac Co., Ill., died 15 Mar
1937, in Metropolis, Massac Co., Ill., the
husband of Lydia
Dixon,
and was buried in Masonic Cemetery in
Metropolis.—Darrel
Dexter)
MOUNDS WOMAN PASSES AWAY
Mrs. Louise
Butler, of Mounds, passed away at her
home last Saturday morning at 4:40 o'clock,
following an illness of several weeks.
She is survived by the following children:
Mrs. Daisy
Powell of Vienna, Edward
Butler of Mounds, Glenn
Butler of New York City; and a brother,
Allen
Meisenheimer of Spokane, Wash.
Funeral services were held for Mrs.
Butler at the family residence Monday
afternoon at two o'clock with Rev.
Glotfelty officiating.
Interment was made in Villa Ridge
cemetery with J.
Ryan
in charge.
(E. E.
Butler married Louise E.
Meisenheimer on 30 May 1891, in Pulaski
Co., Ill.
According to her death certificate,
Louie Elizabeth
Butler was born 11 Dec 1873, in Dongola,
Union Co., Ill., the daughter of Allen
Meisenheimer, died 20 Mar 1937, in
Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill., the wife of E. E.
Butler, and was buried at Villa Ridge.
Her marker in Cairo City Cemetery at
Villa Ridge, Ill., reads Louise E.
Butler 1873-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 2 Apr 1937:
MRS. IDA HICKMAN DIES OF PNEUMONIA
Mrs. Ida
Hickman passed away at her home on North
Oak Street in Mounds, Wednesday night. She
was ill of pneumonia just one week.
Mrs.
Hickman is survived by two sisters, Mrs.
Van
Anderson of Murphysboro and Mrs. Ada
Woods
of Mounds.
The funeral will be held at the home at 1:30
p.m. Saturday with the Rev.
Glotfelty officiating. The cortege will
leave Mounds after the funeral for
Carbondale, where interment will be made in
the Oakland Cemetery. G. A.
James
will be in charge.
S. A. STEERS DIES SATURDAY AT HOME AT AGE OF
76 YEARS
Stephen A.
Steers, widely known farmer of this county, passed away at his home
at America Saturday night at the age of 76
years. Pneumonia was the cause of death.
Mr.
Steers was a lifelong resident of this
county and took active interest in many
things. He was a member of the Christian
Church at America and a charter member of
the Masonic Lodge of this city and a Royal
Arch Mason of Cairo. For several years he
was a director in the First National Bank of
this city and in the Farm Bureau he has
always been active.
His wife, Mary
Mason Steers; and one daughter, the home advisor of Jersey County;
survive. There are two brothers, Earnest of
America and Tom of Mound City; and two
sisters, Mrs. W. C.
Mason
and Miss Sylvia
Steers, both of America. Besides these,
there are many other relatives and friends
who regret and mourn his passing.
Funeral services were held at the Christian
church at America with the Masonic Lodge
officiating.
Interment was made in the Thistlewood
Cemetery. G. A.
James
was in charge.
(Stephen A.
Steers, 35, of America, born in Pulaski Co., Ill., the son of Samuel
Steers and Mary A.
McClelland, married on 10 Mar 1897, in
Pulaski Co., Ill., Mary E.
Mason,
25, born in America, Ill., the daughter of
B. F.
Mason and Elizabeth Campbell.
His
death certificate states that Stephen Albert
Steers, farmer,
was born 5 Jan 1861, in Olmstead, Ill.,
the son of Samuel
Steers and Mary
McClelland, died 27 Mar 1937, in Road
District 4, Pulaski Co., Ill., the husband
of Mary
Mason Steers, and was buried in Thistlewood Cemetery at Mounds.
His marker in Beechwood Cemetery at
Mounds reads:
Stephen A.
Steers 1861-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 2 Apr 1937:
Steven A. Steers
Stephen A.
Steers, age 76 years, died at his home near America Saturday night,
March 27, following a brief illness of
pneumonia.
Mr.
Steers was born at Olmstead and later moved to America, where he has
lived the past 40 years.
He was a successful farmer, well
known throughout the county, a member of the
Christian Church of America and a charter
member of Trinity Lodge 562 A. F. A. M. of
Mound City, a member of the Royal Arch
Masons of Cairo.
He was a director of the First
National Bank of Mound City, and an active
member of the Pulaski-Alexander Farm Bureau,
having served on numerous committees for
that organization.
He leaves his wife, Mary Marion
Steers, and daughter, Miss Helen
Steers, who is Home Supervisor of the
Farm Bureau of Jersey County, who was at his
bedside at the time of his death; two
brothers, Thomas
Steers of Mound City and Ernest
Steers of America; two sisters, Mrs. William
Mason and Miss Sylvia Steers
of America.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon
at 2:30 o’clock at the home, conducted by
Rev. S. J.
Burgess, pastor of the First Christian
Church of Carbondale.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery, with Masonic rites conducted at
the grave by Trinity Lodge.
G. A.
James
directed the funeral.
Miss Ida Hickam Dies Suddenly Wednesday
Night
Friends of Miss Ida
Hickam were shocked Thursday morning to
hear of her passing, which occurred at 11:45
o’clock Wednesday night at the home of her
sister, Mrs. Ada
Wood,
with whom she had resided since 1916.
A case of flue developed into
pneumonia and her heart was too weak to
stand the strain.
Miss
Hickam was born in Carbondale, the daughter of Curtis and Sarah
Hickam.
She was educated in the public
schools and Carbondale Normal University.
Following the death of her parents
she came to Mounds to make her home with her
sister to whom she was devoted.
She was a member of the Christian
Church of Carbondale.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Mary
E.
Anderson of Murphysboro and Mrs. Ada
Wood
of Mounds; three nieces, Mrs. Blanche
Miller of Johnston City, Mrs. V. M.
Barlow of Little Rock, Ark., and Miss
Pauline
Anderson of Murphysboro; two nephews,
Joe and Dan
Anderson of Murphysboro.
Funeral services will be held
Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the
Wood
residence on North Oak Street, the Rev. P.
R. Glotfelty officiating.
Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery,
Carbondale, with a short service at the
grave conducted by Rev. S. J.
Burgess, pastor of the Carbondale
Christian Church.
G. A.
James
will direct the funeral.
(The death certificate of Ida May
Hickam states she was born 6 Jan 1878,
in Carbondale, Ill., the daughter of Curtis
Hickam and Sarah Swaar, a
native of Tennessee,
died 31 Mar 1937, in Mounds, Pulaski
Co., Ill., and was buried in Oakland
Cemetery in Carbondale.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Earl
Smoot
and daughter were called to East Prairie,
Mo., Wednesday, by the death of Louis
Chunn, an uncle of the former.
(His World War I draft registration
in Mississippi Co., Mo., states Louis
Chunn
of East Prairie, Mo., was born 11 Mar 1879,
and his nearest relative was Addie May
Chunn
of East Prairie.
He was buried in Memorial Park
Cemetery in East Prairie, Mo.—Darrel
Dexter)
Word has been received of the death of
Walter (Pete)
Pollick, his death occurring while on a
visit with relatives in Tennessee.
Mr.
Pollick for many years lived at Villa
Ridge and his many friends will deeply
regret his going.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 9 Apr 1937:
Mrs. Sarah Thistlewood Dies at Advanced Age
of 88 Years
Mrs. Sarah
Thistlewood, longtime resident of Mounds, died Monday night, April
5, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Flint
Bondurant of Cairo, where she had been
taken the previous Thursday after developing
a severe cold.
Bronchial pneumonia developed and her
frail body could not resist the disease.
She had reached the age of 88 years.
She leaves one daughter, Mrs. Blanche
(Flint)
Bondurant, of Cairo; two sisters, Mrs.
N. B.
Wright, age 93, of Beaumont, Texas, and
Mrs. D. M.
Goddard of Mt. Vernon, Ill.
A daughter passed away at the age of
eight years, a son, Ben, died in 1910 and
her husband in 1919.
Mrs.
Thistlewood was born in Coshocton, Ohio, the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Seth
Taylor.
At the age of 11 she moved with her
parents to Mason, Ill., where in 18_6 she
was married to Captain N. B.
Thistlewood, who had served with
distinction in the Union Army during the
Civil War.
They settled in Cairo, but when her
health became impaired, they built a large
home on their farm near here and since that
time Mrs.
Thistlewood has lived in this location.
The Illinois Central built their
yards here and Captain and Mrs.
Thistlewood platted their farm into town
lots which they sold and which developed
into the town of Mounds.
The main residence street they named
“Blanche” in honor of their daughter.
Mrs.
Thistlewood donated the ground for the
school building which is named “Thistlewood” in her honor.
She was a devout Christian, a devoted
member of the Mounds M. E. Church and for
many years held high offices in the Woman’s
Foreign Missionary Society of the M. E.
Church.
She had an active life all her years,
drove her own car until quite recently, and
managed her business affairs intelligently
and competently.
Captain
Thistlewood retained his interests in Cairo and was twice mayor of
that city.
In 1907 he was elected United States
Congressman from this District, to fill an
unexpired term, was reelected in 1908 and
again in 1910.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at the Cairo M. E. Church, the
Rev. Philip R.
Glotfelty, pastor of the Mounds church
officiating, as stated by the Rev. W. P.
McVay
of the Cairo church.
Burial was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery, Mounds.
Mrs. Minnie
Lingle
Jordan, mother of Doyle
Jordan of this city, died at her home in
Mill Creek Monday night at the age of 50
years,
Death was caused by a stroke of
apoplexy.
(Henry M.
Lingle married Sarah Cook
on 3 Sep 1885, in Union Co., Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Minnie Izora
Lingle Jordan of Mill Creek was born 8
Nov 1886, in Union Co., Ill., the daughter
of Henry
Lingle and Sarah
Cook,
natives of Illinois, died 5 Apr 1937, in
Mill Creek, Union Co., Ill., wife of Henry
Jordan, and was buried in Sims Cemetery in Alexander Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Funeral Services Held for Samuel Van Dyke
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at the A. M. E. Church for Samuel
Van
Dyke, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. R.
L.
Van Dyke.
The boy died at midnight Wednesday
night after an illness of seven months.
The Rev. Mr.
Tabor conducted the funeral and burial was in Spencer Heights
Cemetery.
(His death certificate states that
Samuel Lawrence
Vandyke was born 1 Jan 1927, in Mounds,
Ill., the son of Richard Lee
Vandyke and Nellie Hastings,
natives of Paris, Tenn., died 31 Mar 1937,
in Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill., and was buried
in Spencer Heights Cemetery in Mounds,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Husband of Former Mounds Girl Killed
Edward
Sutherland, Jr., of Gilbertsville, Ky., was accidentally killed
Friday morning, April 2, when he fell from a
tree which he was pruning.
Mrs.
Sutherland is the former Wanda
Scruggs, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Scruggs of this place.
(His death certificate states that
Edward Chester
Sutherland, Jr., I. C. Railroad
bridgeman, was born 29 May 1914, in
Missouri, the son of Edward Chester
Sutherland,
Sr., and Geryte
Jones, died 2 Apr 1937,
in Gilbertsville, Marshall Co., Ky., of
injuries when he fell from tree while
trimming it, and was buried in Calvert City
Cemetery in Calvert City, Ky.—Darrel
Dexter)
Sudden Death of Joe Braden Shocks Community
Joe
Braden, age 23 years, died suddenly at 7 o’clock Thursday morning at
the home of his sister, Mrs. Maude
Lackey, near Pulaski.
He had gone to work as usual
Wednesday morning at the Western Sugar
Refinery in Cairo, but grew ill after
working a few hours and went to the home of
his sister.
The cause of his death was recorded
as cerebro meningitis.
Joe
Braden was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Braden. He was a
graduate of Mounds Township High School,
class of 1933.
During his school days he was a star
athlete.
He was a popular young man and had
many friends who deplore his untimely
passing.
He is survived by his parents, his
young wife, the former Juanita
Plott
of Anna and a sister, Mrs. Maude
Lackey of Pulaski.
Since the flood, he and his wife had
been living in Anna.
Private funeral services will be held
this morning at 10:30 at the
Lackey home with Rev. W. A.
Gardner of the Baptist Church
officiating.
Burial will be made in Spencer
Heights Cemetery.
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 9 Apr 1937:
JOE BRADEN OF MOUNDS DEAD OF CEREBRAL
MENINGITIS
Joe
Braden, of Mounds, 23 years of age, an
employee of Western Sugar Refinery at Cairo,
died early Thursday morning of cerebral
meningitis or spotted fever after an illness
of less than 24 hours.
He went to work Wednesday morning and about
noon had a chill and fever began to rise.
At 5 o'clock a physician was called to the
home of his sister, Mrs. Ed
Lackey, at Pulaski, where he was staying
and his fever was up to 105 ½. At 2 o'clock
Thursday morning, the physician was again
summoned and the fever was raging and spots
had begun to appear. Death came not many
hours later.
Funeral services were held this (Friday)
morning at the
Lackey home. They were private. Rev.
Gardner from Mounds officiated.
The sudden death of Mr.
Braden is a shock to his friends and his relatives. He leaves,
besides his wife, his mother and one sister,
Mrs.
Lackey.
(His death certificate states that Joe E.
Braden was born 31 Jul 1914, in
Broughton, Ill., the son of Ray
Braden, a native of Long Branch, Ill.,
and Ana Mable
Call, a native of Metropolis, Ill., died 8 Apr 1937, in Pulaski,
Ill., the husband of Juanita
Braden, and was buried in Spencer
Heights Cemetery at Mounds, Ill.
A marker in Green Lawn Memorial
Cemetery near Villa Ridge, Ill., reads:
Son Joe E.
Braden July 31, 1914 April 8,
1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
STILLBORN BABIES FOUND
Twin stillborn babies were found Thursday
morning near Mounds under the viaduct. They
were white and two boys, apparently about in
the second month. They were in a glass jar.
A child must be 5 months before legal
questions arise to the point of murder or
manslaughter. No inquest was held.
MARY LOUISE KING
Mary Louise
King, 15 years old, of Pulaski, died at the home of her aunt in Cape
Girardeau, Mo., on Tuesday of blood poison
brought about by an infected tooth. She was
sick a very short time and desperately ill
but a few hours.
Funeral services were held at the Mt. Pleasant
Church Thursday afternoon conducted by Rev.
Thomas of Pulaski, who was called in the last moment. Interment was
in Rose Hill.
She is survived by four brothers, William,
Buster, Weldon, Paul; and by her mother,
Mrs. Lucy
King. She had made her home for years with her aunt, Mr. Laura
McClelland, of Pulaski, who died about
six weeks ago.
(Her marker in Rose Hill Cemetery near Pulaski
reads:
Mary L.
King
Jan. 1, 1922 April 6, 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
OBITUARY
Mrs. Zilpha
Bittle Stearns was born March 29, 1846, two miles east of Alto Pass,
Ill., and died at her home in Alto Pass
March 29, 1937, aged 91 years. She was a
daughter of James and Charlotte
Tweedy.
She was the last member of a large family of children.
She was united in marriage with William F.
Bittle April 10, 1862, to which union
six children were born; three are still
living, Joshua Allen, William Edward and
James Herbert. Her husband preceded her in
death more than 30 years ago, he having died
on their 42nd wedding
anniversary, April 10, 1904. She later
married Adam
Stearns of Pomona, Ill., who died
November 14, 1918. There are 29
grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren, and
two great-great grandchildren, a total of 69
living descendants. She accepted Christ as
her Savior at an early age. She was loved
and honored by all.
Funeral services were conducted from the
Baptist church by Rev. Albert
Hunner. Burial was in Alto Pass
Cemetery.
(William F.
Bittle married on 10 Apr 1862, in Union Co., Ill., Zilphah
Tweedy, with the consent of James M.
Tweedy.
James M.
Twiddy married Charlotte
Craig
on 30 Aug 1838, in Union Co., Ill.
The death certificate states that
Zelpha
Stearns was born 29 Mar 1846, in Cobden,
Ill., the daughter of James and Lottie Tweedy, died
29 Mar 1937, in Alto Pass, Ill., the widow
of Adam
Stearns, and was buried in Alto Pass Cemetery.
Her marker there reads:
Zilpha
Bittle March 29, 1846 March 29, 1937
William F.
Bittle Nov. 23, 1833 April 10,
1904.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 16 Apr 1937:
LONG LIFE
The death last week, of Mrs. Sarah
Thistlewood, at the age of 88, brought
to a close a long and useful life. The name
was connected with many things in this
southern tip of the state and the family is
one of distinction. Public enterprise,
civic responsibility, and individual effort
have marked them. The name is well stamped
on Mounds and Cairo—and with honor.
(Her death certificate states that Sarah A.
Thistlewood, of Mounds, Ill., was born
19 Feb 1849, in Coshocton Co., Ohio, the
daughter of Seth
Taylor, a native of New York State, and Miss
Carson, a native of Whiting, W. Va., died 5 Apr 1937, in Cairo, Ill., the widow of N. B.
Thistlewood, and was buried in
Thistlewood Cemetery.
Her marker there reads:
Sarah A.
Thistlewood 1849-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 16 Apr 1937:
Carbondale Normal Student Killed in Auto
Accident
Mrs. Betty
Rhodes, 19, of Springfield, Mo., a student at the Carbondale Normal,
was killed early Saturday, April 10, when an
automobile in which she and five other
students were riding, collided with another
car driven by a Mr.
Underwood of East Alton.
Two other students, Marion
Mitchell and William
McGinnis, suffered serious injuries.
Mr. and Mrs.
Underwood were treated at the Holden
Hospital for minor injuries received in the
collision.
(Her death certificate states that
Bettie Leanna
Rhodes, student, was born 11 Jun 1915,
in Springfield, Mo., the daughter of
Clarence J.
Rhodes, a native of Zinc, Arkansas, and
Stella
Sanders, a native of Billings, Mo., died
10 Apr 1937, in Carbondale, Jackson Co.,
Ill., and was buried in Maple Park Cemetery,
Springfield, Mo.
Her marker there reads:
Bettie Leanna
Rhodes June 11, 1915 Apr. 10,
1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
John W. Campbell
John Weston
Campbell of Ullin, age 66 years, died Tuesday night, April 6, at the
Anna hospital where he had gone for
treatment during the flood.
His death was caused by Bright’s
disease.
Surviving are his wife, a son, Oscar;
and two grandchildren.
Another son, Ralph, died in 1918.
Funeral services were held at the
Ullin Baptist Church of which he was a
member, Friday afternoon, April 9, at two
o’clock, the Rev. Mr.
Penrod of Dongola officiating.
Burial was made in Ullin Cemetery.
(According to his death
certificate, John W.
Campbell, carpenter,
was born 10 Dec 1870, in Anna, Ill., the
son of Mary
Winchester Campbell, died 6 Apr 1937, in
Road District 5, Union Co., Ill., husband of
Josephine
Campbell, and was buried in Ullin
Cemetery.
His marker there reads:
John
Campbell 1870-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Arlene Hagler
Mrs. Arlene
Cunningham Hagler, age 21 years, died at her home in Unity,
Thursday, April 8.
Surviving are her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert
Cunningham of Mounds; two children, her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A.
Cunningham; three brothers, Lloyd and Jesse of Cape Girardeau, Mo.,
and Robert Jr., of Mounds; and two sisters,
Louise of California and Alice of
Murphysboro.
Funeral services were held at 2
o’clock Sunday afternoon at the home of her
parents, near here, with the Rev. W. A.
Gardner, pastor of the First Baptist
Church, officiating.
Burial was in Beech Grove Cemetery.
W. A.
Jones, father of Mayor J. B.
Jones,
suffered a stroke at his home in Harris
Grove, Ky., on Monday night, the 5th.
At this time, he is still living,
though there is no hope for his permanent
recovery.
He was 79 years old on the 10th.
Mayor
Jones
returned Monday after having spent several
days there.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 23 Apr 1937:
Father of Mayor Jones Dies Friday Night
Mayor J. B.
Jones was called to Harris Grove, Ky., Saturday morning by the death
of his father, W. A.
Jones,
age 79 years, who suffered a stroke of
paralysis on Monday night, April 5.
Funeral services were held Monday,
Mayor
Jones, returning home Monday night.
(His death certificate states that
William Aus
Jones,
farmer, of Rt. 4, Murray, Ky., was born 10
Apr 1858, in Graves Co., Ky., the son of Dr.
Thomas
Jones,
a native of Virginia, and Jane
Brown,
a native of Tennessee, died 18 Apr 1937, of
apoplexy, husband of Ada
Jones,
and was buried in Story Chapel, Calloway
Co., Ky.
His marker there reads:
Laura Ada
Jones Aug. 6, 1858 Nov. 22, 1954 William A.
Jones Apr. 10, 1858 Apr. 18, 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Brother of E. C. Buchanan Killed in Indiana
E. C.
Buchanan was called Sunday to his old home at Linnesburg, Ind., by
the death of his brother, George
Buchanan, of that place, who was killed
Saturday night in a train wreck at
Crawfordsville, Ind.
The deceased was a bachelor.
Surviving also are two sisters, Mrs.
Amanda
Newkirk and Miss Joan
Buchanan, both of Linnesburg.
Another brother died five months ago.
(A marker in Mace Cemetery in
Montgomery Co., Ind., reads:
George W.
Buchanan 1881-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Well Known Negro of Mound City Dies
John
Steele, an aged Mound City negro and a former coroner of Pulaski
County, died Friday, April 16, at his home
there.
At the time of his death he was
serving as a member of the Board of
Education.
Only two months ago, his daughter,
Bertha, passed away.
He leaves his wife, Lucy
Steele.
(His death certificate states that
John Carr
Steele, retired, of Mound City, Pulaski
Co., Ill.,
was born in December 1862 in Tennessee,
died 17 Apr 1937, and was buried in
Thistlewood Cemetery in Mounds, Pulaski Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Henry Kupfer Fatally Injured in Auto
Collision
Eight Others Hurt When Car and Bus Come
Together
Henry
Kupfer, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Kupfer, was fatally injured between 12
and one o’clock early Saturday morning when
the car in which he was riding with Fred
Wehrenberg, driver and also occupied by
Charles
Wehrenberg, Jr., a brother, all three of
Mounds, and John
Hill of Cairo, collided with a Tri-City bus driven by Dewey
King
and loaded with 33 negro school children of
Cairo who with their teachers were starting
on a pilgrimage to The Lincoln Tomb at
Springfield.
All occupants of the car were taken
to St. Mary’s Hospital, where young
Kupfer died at 7:30 o'clock the same
morning.
Five in the bus were bruised and cut
and required the services of a doctor.
The accident occurred on Sycamore
Street in Cairo between the Big Four subway
and the Illinois Central subway of the
bridge approach.
The car was going south and the bus
was headed north.
Occupants of the bus, including the
driver, are reported as saying that the car,
for some unknown reason, was swerving back
and forth across the street as it
approached.
The young men in the car later stated
that a rear tire blew out which caused the
car to swerve.
The two
Wehrenberg boys and Hill
were severely bruised, especially Fred
Wehrenberg, who was crushed about the
ribs.
The death of Henry
Kupfer brings sadness to all in the
community.
He had been reared here and was a
graduate of M. T. H. S. Class of ’36.
Surviving him are his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Arthur
Kupfer, living on the old Villa Ridge Road north of town; an older
brother, Herman, of Marion; and three
sisters Nelle of Evansville, Ind., Mrs. O.
J.
Heston of South Bend, Ind., and Mrs. T.
J.
Albright, whose home is near Anna; also
a grandmother, Mrs. Jennie
Crain; and an uncle, Henry
Crain, of Mounds.
Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon at the Methodist church, the Rev.
C. Robert
Dunlap, pastor of the Lutheran Church of Cairo, officiating and the
Rev. P. R.
Glotfelty assisting.
Burial was in Liberty Cemetery with
J. T.
Ryan conducting.
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 23 Apr 1937:
HENRY KUPFER KILLED WHEN CAR CRASHES BUS
Henry
Kupfer, about 22 years of age of Mounds,
was killed last Friday about midnight near
the office of the cotton seed plant
immediately inside the levee at Cairo when
the car in which he was riding and driven by
Fred
Wehrenberg crashed into the Tri City bus driven by Dewey
King.
King was driving north out of Cairo with a load of
colored high school students headed for a
trip to Springfield. The car of
Wehrenberg's was coming south and it was
weaving from side to side. The car actually
came across the road, hit the curb to the
right of the bus and then went into the side
of the bus. Kupfer
was injured about the head, most of his
teeth being knocked out, and he suffered
internal injuries, dying next morning.
Charles
Wehrenberg and a man by the name of
Hill
from Cairo were also in the car at the time.
They were injured, but not seriously.
Findings of the inquest were an open verdict,
charging no one with the responsibility for
his death.
Those in the bus escaped injury, save two, who have small
cuts. Had the car struck a little farther
forward, it would have killed others.
Henry
Kupfer was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur
Kupfer who reside northwest of Mounds.
In addition to his parents, Henry is
survived by an elder brother, Herman, of
Mounds; and three sisters, Nellie of
Evansville, Ind., Mrs. T. J.
Albright, who resides east of Anna, and
Mrs. A. J.
Eston
of South Bend, Indiana. A grandmother, Mrs.
Jennie
Crain, who resides near Mounds, also survives.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at
the Methodist church in Mounds with Rev.
Dunlap of Cairo in charge. The special music was by the Methodist
quartet and floral offerings were beautiful.
Interment was made in the Liberty
Cemetery near Pulaski. J.
Rhyan
was in charge.
(His death certificate states that Henry H.
Kupfer, a warehouse man, was born 26 Dec
1916, in Mounds, Ill., the son of Arthur
Kupfer, a native of Saxony, Germany, and Nora Franki
Crain,
a native of Villa Ridge, Ill., died 17 Apr
1937, in Cairo, Ill., and was buried in
Liberty Cemetery near Pulaski, Ill.
His marker there reads:
Henry
Kupfer Dec. 26, 1916 April 17, 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
KARNAK STUDENT DROPS DEAD AT CARBONDALE AT
SCHOOL
Gordon
Lee, 19 years of age, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry
Lee
of Karnak, dropped death Tuesday at
Carbondale while
en route to his rooming house. Two other students came upon him
where he had fallen and first thought he had
been stuck by a car. They summoned aid, but
the lad died
en
route to the hospital. He had suffered
a heart attack, it is thought, for there
were no marks of any kind to show he had
been injured or hurt.
He was a junior in the college.
Funeral services were held yesterday at Anna.
(His death certificate states that Gordon
Manuel
Lee,
student, was born 5 May 1917, in Elco, Ill.,
the son of Harry
Lee
and Ethel
Hall,
a native of Anna, Ill., died 20 Apr 1937, in
Carbondale, Ill., and was buried in Anna
Cemetery.
His marker there reads:
Gordon M.
Lee 1917-1937.—Darrel Dexter)
CAPT. C. F. NELLIS MEETS DEATH IN FALL FROM
LADDER
Capt. C. F.
Nellis, old time river pilot and captain, met a tragic death Monday
evening. He was engaged in fixing a clothes
line and fell from the stepladder he was
standing on. He struck a fence post as he
fell, the blow being directly over his
heart, causing almost instant death.
Coroner
Baynes held an inquest with the
following jury: F. E.
Scott, K. Elliott Grace,
C. W.
Long, Louis
Thane,
H. C.
Elliott, and Howard A. Marrow.
The verdict was accidental death.
Capt.
Nellis was one of the best known pilots
on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. He once
piloted the mail boat
Kate
Adams and was half owner with the late
Capt.
Brown of the steamer
Fred
Nellis." –Republican
Herald.
(C. Ford
Nellis, of Cairo, Ill., married Dollie
D.
Kennedy, of Metropolis, Ill., on 23 Mar
1907, in Arkansas.
According to his death certificate,
Charles Ford
Nellis, steamboat pilot at Metropolis,
Ill., was born 19 Apr 1874, in Illinois, the
son of Charles F.
Nellis and Ann
Kaha, natives of Pennsylvania, died 12 Apr 1937, in Metropolis,
Ill., the husband of Dollie
Nellis, and was buried in Miller
Cemetery in Massac Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mayor and J. B.
Jones were called to Kentucky the past
week on account of the illness and death of
the former's father. (Mounds)
Charles Wehrenberg,
Jr., who was hurt in a car wreck Friday
night and was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital
in Cairo, was able to return to his home in
Mounds Sunday. (Mounds)
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 30 Apr 1937:
ULLIN MAN DIES
John
Rowe of Ullin passed away at St. John's
Hospital in Springfield Monday afternoon
from injuries received in an automobile
accident.
He leaves a wife at Ullin, a brother and
sister in Ohio and another sister in
Pennsylvania. He was a brother-in-law of
William and Ira
Robinson of Mounds.
(The death certificate states that John Jacob
Rowe,
proprietor of the charcoal company, was born
23 Aug 1883, in Defiance, Ohio, the son of
John
Rowe, a native of Studenville, Ohio, and
Matilda
Reusch, a native of Germany, died 27 Apr
1937, in Springfield, Ill., the husband of
Myrtle
Rowe,
and was buried in Riverside Cemetery in
Defiance, Ohio.—Darrel
Dexter)
FIRST LIFE IN BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION AT CAIRO
The first life lost in the construction of a
bridge from Cairo to Kentucky happened last
week when on Wednesday Henry
Witzman, 60, a night watchman, drowned
on the Kentucky side.
The verdict of the coroner's jury was
accidental drowning, although no one saw the
accident.
Witzman is married but was living apart from his wife, it
is said. She lives at Metropolis. Three
daughters, two brothers, Otto and Ernest,
live in this county, and three sisters, one,
Mrs. John
Welch,
lives in Mound City.
MRS. LAMBERT DEAD
Word received at the County Relief Office by
Mrs. Carrie
Thomas this week of the death of Mrs.
Rebecca
Lambert on March 19 at Seattle, Wash.
Few details were given, other than that her
death followed an operation. She has been
living with her daughter, Mrs.
Malone. The
Malone boy spent a winter here and attended school in Mound City.
Mrs.
Lambert was case aid supervisor in the
county for more than a year. She lived at
the St. Charles Hotel while here.
(Her death record states that Rebecca K.
Lambert was born about 1873, the
daughter of Josiah
Kempthorne and Rebecca
Harris, and died 19 Mar 1937, in
Seattle, King Co., Wash., the wife of Fred
E. Lambert.—Darrel Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 30 Apr 1937:
John Rowe of Ullin Fatally Injured
John J.
Rowe of Ullin, age 54, died Tuesday morning in St. John’s Hospital,
Springfield, where he had been taken Monday
afternoon following a collision on the
highway.
Mr.
Rowe was returning from a business trip to Peoria and was riding in
a truck driven by Truman
Sowers of Ullin, when the truck and a
car driven by a hitchhiker, Claude
Bell,
who said he was from Jefferson Barracks,
collided, the truck turning over and
crushing
Rowe. The car driven by
Bell
was the property of William R.
Osborn, a Wausaw salesman who with his
wife was found at a hotel in
Springfield and who claimed that
Bell
had offered to park his car after their
arrival in Springfield.
Mr.
Rowe is survived by his wife, two brothers and two sisters.
He is a brother-in-law of Will and
Ira
Robinson of this city.
Miss Adelia Rendleman
Miss Adelia
Rendleman, age 75, died Monday morning, April 26, at the home of her
sister, Mrs. Fred
Leidigh of Cairo.
Miss
Rendleman is survived by her aged mother, Mrs. Agnes
Rendleman.
These two lived at the tip of Bald
Knob in Union County for many years and will
be remembered by the many visitors to that
Ozark Mountain to whom they invariably
extended every courtesy.
Also surviving her are three
brothers, Julius and Henry
Rendleman of Alto Pass and Crawford
Rendleman of Anna; three sisters, Mrs.
Fred
Leidigh of Cairo, Mrs. Nellie
Donovan of Mounds and Mrs. G. W.
Gunn
of Villa Ridge.
Her father died many years ago.
Born near Alto Pass, she was a member
of the Alto Pass Congregational Church,
where funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, with burial in
Alto Pass Cemetery.
(Her marker in Alto Pass Cemetery
reads:
Adelia
Rendleman 1861-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 7 May 1937:
Mrs. Nannie Burnson
Mrs. Nannie
Burnson, age 80 years, died Monday, May 3, at 1:30 p.m. at the home
of her sister, Mrs. Lizzie
Silver, three miles east of Pulaski,
following a long illness.
She had made her home with Mrs.
Silver for 47 years.
She leaves two sisters, Mrs.
Silver, and Mrs. Delia
Powers of Villa Ridge; two nieces, Mrs.
Paul
Pavey of Cairo and Mrs. George
Sitter of Mounds.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at the residence, the Rev. Mr.
Thomas, pastor of the Pulaski M. E. Church, South, officiating.
Burial was made in Villa Ridge cemetery, G.
A. James conducting.
Mrs. David D. Harris Dies at Home of Her
Daughter
Mrs. David D.
Harris, a resident of Mound City for many years, died Friday
afternoon, April 30, at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Harry
Blanckertz, on Spencer Heights following
an illness of three years duration.
She and Mr.
Harris had been making their home with
their daughter since the flood.
Surviving are her husband, D. D.
Harris; three daughters, Mrs. Mary
Blanckertz of Mounds, Mrs. E. R.
Carroll of Springfield, Ill., and Mrs.
W. C.
Monaghan of Bluford, Ill.; one son,
Fletcher
Harris of Mound City; three
grandchildren, Frances
Blanckertz, Robert Eugene and Margaret
Ann
Monaghan; four brothers, James
Jones
of Anna, Marshall, Tell and Jake
Jones
of Dongola; one sister, Mrs. Sarah
Verble of Anna; two half-brothers,
Sidney
Drake
of Cairo and Artie
Jones
of East St. Louis; one half-sister, Mrs.
Jane
Toler of Cypress.
Funeral services were held at 2
o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Baptist
church, Rev.
Knight of Mound City officiating.
Burial was in Beech Grove Cemetery,
G. A.
James directing.
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 7 May 1937:
MRS. D. D. HARRIS DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Mrs. Ella
Harris, wife of D. D. Harris,
of Mound City, age 61 years, died Friday
afternoon at 2:45 at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Harry
Blanckertz on Spencer Heights at Mounds,
following an illness of three years.
She leaves besides her husband, three
daughters Mrs. Mary
Blankertz of Mounds, Mrs. Margaret
Carroll of Springfield, and Mrs.
Genevieve
Monaghan of Bluford; one son, Fletcher
of Mounds City; three grandchildren, France
Blankertz, Robert Eugene and Margaret
Anna
Monaghan; four brothers, James
Jones
of Anna, Marshall, Tell and Jake
Jones
of Dongola; one sister, Mrs. Sarah
Verble of Anna; two half-brothers,
Sidney
Drake
of Cairo, and Artie
Jones
of East St. Louis; one half-sister, Mrs.
Jane
Toler of Cypress, and other relatives
and friends.
Funeral services were held at the Baptist
church in Mounds at 2:00 Sunday afternoon,
conducted by Rev. R. E.
Knight of Mound City, who was assisted
by Rev.
Gardner of Mounds. Music was furnished
by the choir of the Mounds Baptist Church.
Interment was made in Beech Grove Cemetery.
The casket bearers were James
Finley, John
Edwards, Ray
Varner, L. J. Beiswingert,
George R.
Martin and Frank
Finley. G. A.
James
was in charge of the funeral arrangements.
(David D.
Harris, Jr., 35, of Mound City, Ill., married on 26 Jan 1898, in
Pulaski Co., Ill., Ellen A.
Jones,
22, of Dongola, Ill.
Her
death certificate states that Ella
Harris was born 2 Nov 1875, in Union
Co., Ill., the daughter of Thomas
Jones,
died 30 Apr 1937, in Road District 1,
Pulaski Co., Ill., the wife of David D.
Harris, and was buried in Beech Grove Cemetery at Mounds, Ill.
Her marker there reads:
Ellen A.
Harris Nov. 2, 1875 April 30,
1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. NANNIE BURNSON DIES NEAR PULASKI
Mrs. Nannie
Burnson passed away Monday at 1:30 p.m. at the home of her sister,
Mrs. Lizzie
Silvers three miles east of Pulaski,
where she had made her home for the last 47
years. She leaves two sisters, Mrs.
Silvers and Mrs. Delia
Powers of Villa Ridge; two nieces, Mrs.
Paul
Pavey of Cairo and Mrs. George
Sitter of Mounds.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon
at 2 o'clock at the home of Mrs.
Silvers. Rev.
Thomas of the M. E. Church South of
Pulaski conducted the services. Interment
was made in the Villa Ridge cemetery. G. A.
James
had charge of the funeral arrangements.
(According to her death certificate, Nannie
Burnson was born 15 Mar 1857, in Villa
Ridge, Ill., the daughter of Richard Burton
Wallace, a native of Raleigh, N.C., and Mary A.
Robinson, a native of North Carolina,
died 3 May 1937, in Pulaski Co., Ill., the
widow of Benjamin
Burnson, and was buried at Villa Ridge,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
AGED FARMER PLANS TO PREACH HIS OWN FUNERAL
Farmers for miles around ringed Sunday, May 16th,
on their calendar today, planning to attend
the funeral services for Wade
Millman, 88-year-old farmer of Danville,
Ill., on that day.
"I'm going to preach the sermon myself,"
Millman said as he invited his friends
and neighbors to his last rites.
"But it won't be a sermon and I don't aim to
preach. I'm just going to talk and I'll
have things to say that may teach you
something.
"I don't want any preaching or singing at my
funeral, so I just decided to take care of
things myself and get it over with."
Millman said he had selected his six pallbearers and
has paid them five dollars each for their
services.
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 14 May 1937:
OBITUARY
Mrs. Elizabeth
Holman, age 74 years, died at her home in Olmstead Sunday, May 9th,
at 10 a.m. She had been in failing health
for some time. About four weeks ago she
fell and broke her hip and was confined to
her bed until death. She leaves one
daughter, Mrs. Jewell
Davis
of Olmsted; four sons, George and Percy of
Olmsted and Edward and Ewing of East St.
Louis; two brothers, John
Green
of Oscar, Ky., and George
Green
of Herrin, Ill.; one sister, Mrs. Hallie
Butcher of East St. Louis and ten
grandchildren. She had made her home in
Olmsted for the past 19 years and was an
active member of the M. E. Church South.
Funeral services were held at the M.E.
church Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock. Rev.
D. B.
Kazee officiated. Burial was made in
the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery at Bandana, Ky.
G. A.
James
directed the funeral.
The pallbearers at Olmstead were members of
the American Legion, Mrs.
Holman having been a Gold Star mother.
At LaCenter the pallbearers were selected
from old friends of the deceased.
(Her death certificate states that Elizabeth
Holman was born 3 Apr 1863, in Kentucky,
the daughter of William
Green
and Sallie
Ezelle, died 9 May 1937, in Olmstead,
Ill., the widow of George
Holman, and was buried in Oscar, Ballard
Co., Ky., and was buried in Mt. Pleasant
Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. LIBBY MAY RABEY DIED AT MOUNDS
Mrs. Libby May
Rabey, age 43 years, died at her home in Mounds at 7:15 o'clock May
10. She had been ill for the past five
weeks. She leaves her husband and five
children, four daughters, Mrs. Iota
King, Louise Ravey
of Martin, Tenn., Mabel and Laura May
Rabey
of Mounds; one son, Carnell
Ravey
of Mounds.
J. T.
Ryan had charge of the funeral
arrangements.
(Her death certificate states that Libby May
Rabey
was born 28 Sep 1895, in Clinton, Ky., the
daughter of Sid
Moore,
a native of Clinton, Ky., and Laura May
Daniel, a native of Fulton, Ky., died 10
May 1937, in Mounds, Ill., the wife of
Melvin
Rabey,
and was buried in Thistlewood Cemetery at
Mounds.
Her marker in Beechwood Cemetery at
Mounds reads:
Libbye M.
Rabey
Sept. 28, 1895 May 10 1937 M. Balter
Rabey
June 26, 1888 June 11, 1963.—Darrel
Dexter)
RESIDENT OF NEAR MOUNDS DIES AT OUTWOOD, KY.
Fred
Parker, 41 years of age, died Thursday,
May 6, at 1:20 p.m. at the Veterans
Hospital, Outwood, Ky., where he had been
ill for the past 10 months. He and his
family resided 3 miles west of Mounds. He
is survived by his mother, Mrs. Laura
Parker of Mounds, four brothers, Clyde,
Carmon and Ralph of Mounds, and Ray of
Union, Mo.; three sisters, Letha
Echols and Mrs. Etta
Varner of Mounds, and Mrs. Mattie
Essex
of Villa Ridge; and three children, Freda,
Vivian, and Ruby, who are making their home
with their Grandmother
Parker.
Rev.
Hall conducted the services Sunday at
2:00 p.m. at the Anderson Church near Boaz,
Ill. As Mr.
Parker was a World War veteran, members
of the American Legion served as pallbearers
and honorary pallbearers.
He was laid to rest at Anderson Cemetery. The
funeral arrangements were made by G. A.
James.
(His death certificate states that Fred
Parker of Mounds, Ill., farmer, was born
20 Nov 1895, in Illinois, the son of W. C.
and Laura M.
Parker, natives of Illinois, died 6 May
1937, at the Veterans’ Administration
Facility 6 in Outwood, Macedonia Precinct,
Christian Co., Ky., of far advanced
tuberculosis pulmonary, and was buried at
Mound City, Ill.
Leatha M.
Echols’ application for a veteran’s
headstone states Fred
Parker, bugler in Battery A, 325th
Field Artillery, 84th Division,
enlisted 22 Feb 1918, and was honorably
discharged 28 Feb 1919.
He died 6 May 1937 and was buried in
Anderson Cemetery in Boaz, Massac Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. ELIZABETH HOLMAN DIES
Mrs. Elizabeth
Holman, age 74 years, died at her home in Olmstead, Sunday morning
at 10 o'clock. She had resided in Olmstead
for the past 19 years and was an active
member of the M. E. Church South, where
funeral services were held Tuesday morning
at 10 o'clock, with Rev.
Kazee
officiating.
Burial was made in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery at
Bandana, Ky. G. A.
James
directed the funeral.
She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Jewell
Davis
of Olmstead; four sons, Percy and George of
Olmsted, Bedford and Ewing of East St.
Louis; two brothers, John
Green
of Oscar, Ky., and George
Green
of Herrin, Ill.; and one sister, Mrs. Hallie
Butcher, of East St. Louis.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 14 May 1937:
Prominent Cairo Citizen Dies Sunday Morning
Egbert Alfred
Smith,
age 80 years, long a prominent citizen of
Cairo, died Sunday morning at 1 o’clock at
St. Mary’s Hospital, where he had been a
patient for two weeks.
Mr.
Smith was born in Dundas, Ontario, Canada, June 1, 1856, and came to
Cairo with his parents at the age of three
years.
He entered the business world at the
early age of 16 years, first as a merchant,
later becoming a farmer and banker, as well.
Among his cherished dream for this
section were good roads and river bridges.
He fathered the “Y” bridge idea.
He organized the Cairo & Thebes
railroad—now the Missouri Pacific and was
president of that organization during the
period of construction which involved the
filling of some 24 city blocks in Cairo,
including the present site of the station on
Washington Avenue and Sixteenth Street.
The building of the railroad was held
up for a time because of an injunction, the
excuse for which was that the railroad would
kill all the children in Cairo.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Phyllis
Howard Smith; and five children, Egbert
A.
Smith, Mrs. Vernet
Rees,
Miss Carolyn
Smith,
Mrs. Phyllis
Midkiff, now in England, and Mrs.
Charles S.
Eytinge, of New York City.
Funeral services were held at the
Church of the Redeemer Tuesday morning.
Burial followed in Villa Ridge
cemetery.
(Egbert
Smith married Phyllis May
Howard on 19 May 1886, in Alexander Co.,
Ill.
His death certificate states that
Egbert Alfred
Smith, Sr., retired, was born 18 Jun 1856, in Dundas, Ontario, the
son of James
Smith,
a native of England, and Catherine
Turner, a native of Canada, died 9 May
1937, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., husband
of Phyllis
Smith,
and was buried at Villa Ridge, Pulaski Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. W. B. Rabey
Mrs. Libby Mae
Rabey, age 43, died at her home on South Oak Street Monday morning,
May 10, after a long illness.
Surviving her are her husband, W. B.
Rabey;
and five children, Mrs. Iota
King
and Louise
Rabey
of Martin, Tenn., Mabel, Laura May and
Carnell
Rabey,
all of Mounds; two brothers, Orvin
Moore
of Fulton, Ky., and Jesse
Moore
of Crutcherfield, Ky.; four sisters, Mrs.
Ruby
Phillips, Misses Gertrude, Delma and Riva
Moore of Crutchfield; also a stepmother, Mrs. Ruby
Moore,
of Crutchfield.
Funeral services were held at the
Baptist church Wednesday afternoon at 1:30
o’clock, the Rev. W. A.
Gardner, pastor, officiating.
Burial was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery, J. T.
Ryan
officiating.
Mrs. Elizabeth Holman
Mrs. Elizabeth
Holman, age 74, died at her home in Olmstead Sunday morning, May 9,
at 10 o’clock.
She had made her home in Olmstead for
19 years.
Surviving are one daughter, Mrs.
Jewel
Davis of Olmstead; four sons, Percy and
George of Olmstead, Bedford and Ewing of
East St. Louis; two brothers, John
Green
of Oscar, Ky., and George
Green
of Herrin; one sister, Mrs. Hallie
Butcher of East St. Louis.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
morning at the Olmstead M. E. Church South,
of which she had long been an active member.
The Rev. Mr.
Kazee
officiated.
Burial was in Mount Pleasant
Cemetery, LaCenter, Ky., G. A.
James
directing.
Mrs.
Holman was a Gold Star mother and members of the American Legion
served as pallbearers for her at Olmstead
and friends of the deceased were her casket
bearers at LaCenter.
Fred Parker
Fred
Parker, age 41 years, died at the Veterans Hospital at Outwood, Ky.,
Thursday at 1:30 p.m.
He had been in this hospital for the
past ten months.
He is survived by three children,
Freda, Vivian and Ruby, who made their home
with their Grandmother
Parker; mother, Mrs. Laura
Parker, of Mounds; three sisters, Mrs.
Letha
Echols and Mrs. Etta
Varner of Mounds and Mrs. Mattie
Essex
of Villa Ridge; four brothers, Clyde, Carman
and Ralph of Mounds and Ray of Union, Mo.
Funeral services were conducted at
Anderson Church near Boaz, Sunday at 2 p.m.
by Rev.
Hall and interment was made in the Anderson Cemetery.
The active and honorary pallbearers
were members of the American Legion.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 21 May 1937:
Mother of Henry Karraker Dies at Home in
Dongola
Mrs. Anna
Karraker, widow of J. F.
Karraker, passed away at her home in
Dongola Friday, May 14, at the age of 73
years, 11 months and 15 days.
She was the mother of Henry H.
Karraker of this city.
Born in Natchez, Miss., May 29, 1863,
Mrs.
Karraker was the daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. Charles
Montgomery.
Surviving are seven children, three
sons, Earle
Karraker of DuQuoin, Henry of Mounds and
Roy of Flora; four daughters, Mrs. Viola
Beggs
of Cypress, Mrs. Orpha
Keller of Dongola, Mrs. Minnie
Sullards of Mt. Carmel and Mrs. Clara
Ford
of Evansville, Ind.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, at the Baptist
church of Dongola, with the Rev. W. J.
Ward
officiating, assisted by the Rev. Mr.
Wilson.
Burial was in the I. O. O. F.
Cemetery, E. J.
Ford
directing.
Infant Dies
Ellen Rose
Walter, infant daughter of Mr. and Mr. Clellan
Walter of near Grand Chain, died Thursday morning, May 13.
The babe was buried Thursday
afternoon, the Rev. S. C.
Benninger officiating, and interment in
Anderson Cemetery with the
Wilson Funeral Service in charge.
(Her death certificate states that
Ellen Rose
Walter was stillborn 13 May 1937, in
Massac Co., Ill., the daughter of Clellan
Walter, a native of Massac Co., Ill., and Helen A.
Conant, a native of Pulaski Co., Ill.,
and was buried in Anderson
Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
Husband of Former Mounds Girl Dies
Thomas Warren
Wallace of Cairo, age 27 years, husband of the former Geneva
Mahoney, of this city, died Thursday,
May 13, at St. Mary’s Hospital, Cairo, after
a three weeks’ illness. He was an employee
of the Coca Cola Bottling Company.
He is survived by his wife, his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. James W.
Wallace of Cairo; two sisters, Mrs.
Kathryn
John
and Doris Ann
Wallace, both of Cairo; his grandmother,
Mrs. Cora
Wallace of Vienna, and other relatives.
He was the son-in-law of Mrs. John
Sadler of this place.
Funeral services were held Saturday
afternoon at two o’clock at
Karcher Brothers Funeral Home with Rev.
W. P.
MacVey, pastor of the First M. E. Church
of Cairo officiating, assisted by Rev. R. R.
Glotfelty, pastor of the Mounds M. E.
Church.
Burial was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery.
(His death certificate states that
Thomas Warren
Wallace was born 31 Mar 1910, in Vienna,
Johnson Co., Ill., the son of James W.
Wallace, a native of Massac Co., Ill.,
and Kate
Holcombe, a native of Vienna, Ill.,
died 13 May 1937, in Cairo, Alexander
Co., Ill., the husband of Geneva
Mahoney, and was buried
in Spencer Heights Cemetery in Mounds, Ill.
His marker there reads:
Thos. Warren
Wallace 1910-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Charles McAdoo Killed, Wife Injured in Auto
Accident
Charles
McAdoo, of Fulton, Ky., a former Mounds
resident, was fatally injured Monday evening
when his car which he was driving crashed
into a telegraph pole near Brownville, Tenn.
Mrs.
McAdoo, formerly Miss Nora
Ryan
of this city, was seriously injured.
Bobby, their five-year-old son, was
only slightly hurt and was able to identify
the family and to tell other motorists who
came to their assistance where to locate
relatives.
Mr.
McAdoo was taken to a nearby hospital, but lived only a short time.
The
McAdoo family was returning home after a trip to Memphis, Tenn.
In attempting to pass a car, a
collision with another car approaching from
the opposite direction seemed inevitable and
Mr.
McAdoo turned to the left of the road,
crashing into the pole.
Mrs.
McAdoo and Bobby and the body of her husband were brought to Mounds
Tuesday evening and taken to the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Ryan.
Surviving Mr.
McAdoo, besides his wife and son, are three sisters, Mrs. B. R.
Wilson, Reeves, Tenn., Mrs. J. P.
Flanagan, Troy, Miss., and Mrs. Ruth
Higgs,
Martin, Tenn.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at the
Ryan
residence at 2 o’clock, the Rev. Father
Gilmartin officiating.
Burial was in St. Mary’s Cemetery.
Dies in New York
William
Wiedner, father of Mrs. Otto
Witzman of Olmstead, died Friday, May
14, at his home in New York.
His wife, now deceased, was the
former Miss Molly
Mikken of Olmstead.
Surviving, besides Mrs.
Witzman, are two other daughters, Mrs.
Everett
Bever
of Cairo and Mrs. Helen
Jones
of Cassadaga, Fla.
Burial was made in New York.
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 21 May 1937:
MRS. ANNA KARRAKER DIES AT HER HOME IN
DONGOLA
Mrs. Anna
Karraker, 73, died at her home in Dongola Friday at 11:30 p.m.
Death came suddenly although she had been
in poor health for some time.
Her husband, J.
Karraker, died in 1934. She is survived by the following children:
Earl
Karraker, of DuQuoin, formerly of this
city, Henry
Karraker of Mounds, Mrs. Viola
Beggs
and Mrs. Orpha
Keller both of Dongola, Roy
Karraker of Flora, Mrs. Minnie
Sullards of Mt. Carmel and Mrs. Clara
Fard
of Evansville, Ill.
Funeral services were held at the First
Baptist Church in Dongola Sunday at 2:30.
She was laid to rest in the Dongola I. O.
O. F. Cemetery under the direction of E. J.
Ford.
(Joseph F.
Karraker, 20, a farmer from Dongola, Ill., born in Union Co., Ill.,
son of Pathen
Karraker and Sarah J.
Knight, married on 26 Feb 1880, in Union
Co., Ill., George Anna
Montgomery 16, from Dongola, Ill., born
in St. Helena, La., daughter of E. L.
Montgomery and E. T.
Longacre.
The death certificate states that
Anna
Montgomery Karraker was born 29 May
1863, in Mississippi, the daughter of E. L.
Montgomery, a native of Mississippi, died 16 May 1937, in Dongola,
Union Co., Ill., the widow of J. F.
Karraker,
and was buried in I. O. O. F. Cemetery
in Dongola, Ill.
Her marker there reads:
J. Frank
Karraker 1859-1934 Anna M.
Karraker 1863-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
FORMER MOUNDS MAN KILLED IN AUTO CRASH
Charles
McAdoo was killed and his wife seriously
injured in an auto crash Monday evening.
Their 5-year-old son, Bobby, was uninjured.
Mr.
McAdoo and family were returning to
their home in Fulton, Ky., when their
machine crashed into a telephone pole after
passing another car 40 miles south of
Jackson.
Although Mrs.
McAdoo was in a critical condition, she was moved to Mounds with the
body of her husband.
The
McAdoos are well known in Mounds, having
lived there for some time after their
marriage.
Mrs.
McAdoo is a sister of Jimmie
Ryan
of Mounds and has other relatives in that
vicinity.
(His death certificate states that Charles
Austin
McAdoo, an Illinois Central conductor of
Fulton, Ky., was born about 1890, in
Tennessee, the son of William T.
McAdoo and Margarete
Austin, natives of Tennessee, and died
17 May 1937, at Haywood County Memorial
Hospital in Brownsville, Haywood Co., Tenn.,
of a fractured skull caused by an auto
accident, the husband of Nora
Ryan
McAdoo.
His marker in St. Mary’s Catholic
Cemetery at Mounds, Ill., reads:
Charles A.
McAdoo 1889-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
TWO PROMINENT MEN OF CAIRO DEAD IN LAST WEEK
Two prominent men of Cairo died within the
past week, Edward
Hill,
insurance man, and Hal
Aisthorpe, former cashier of the First
Bank & Trust Co. Hill died last Saturday at the age of 44 years while
Aisthorpe died Monday at the age of 56
years.
Hill was identified with numerous lodges and
associations as a mixer and pusher while
Aisthorpe was long associated with
financial circles. He was a cool-headed and
careful banker and the survival of the First
Bank & Trust Co. through the era of bank
collapses is due some to his hard work and
careful planning. The worries of those days
may have had something to do with his early
death.
(His death certificate states that Edward
Scofield
Hill,
an insurance agent, of 2818 Park Ave.,
Cairo, Ill., was born 25 Jan 1893, in Cairo,
Ill., the son of Richard C.
Hill,
a native of Richmond, Va., and Louise
Harriette
Scofield, a native of Cairo, Ill., died
15 May 1937, in Cairo, Ill., and was buried
in Villa Ridge.
His marker in Cairo City Cemetery at
Villa Ridge, Ill., reads:
Edward S.
Hill
1893-1937.
The death certificate of Haliday
Remington
Aisthorpe, a banker, of 2907 Washington
St., Cairo, Ill.,
states that he was born 15 Jul 1881, in
Cairo, Ill., the son of John S.
Aisthorpe, a native of England, and Ada
C.
Halliday, died 17 May 1937, in Cairo,
Ill., the husband of Bess
Winslow Aisthorpe, and was buried in
Thistlewood Cemetery at Mounds, Ill.
His marker in Beechwood Cemetery at
Mounds reads:
Halliday R.
Aisthorpe 1881-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 28 May 1937:
FORMER MOUND CITY RESIDENT DIES IN OKALHOMA
Mrs. Kate
Finley Sneed died Thursday, May 18, at the Eastern Star Home in
Oklahoma, where she had been ill for the
past three years.
At the age of seven, she came to Mound City,
received her education and began teaching in
different schools throughout the county at
the age of 17.
After her marriage, she moved to Oklahoma,
where she became quite prominent. She was a
Past Worthy Matron of the Order of the
Eastern Star and a member of the Rebekahs.
She is survived by one son, Dabney M.
Sneed
of Durant, Okla.; and three brothers, James
and Frank
Finley of Mound City and Ira
Finley of N. S. Pittsburgh, Pa.
The funeral service was held at All Saints
Episcopal Church. Interment was made in Oak
Hill Cemetery at McAllister, Okla.
(Joseph H.
Sneed, 40, of Milburn, Dyer Co., Tenn., married on 17 Feb 1896, in
Pulaski Co., Ill., Kate
Finley, 17, of Cairo, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 28 May 1937:
Mrs. Emma K. Smith
Mrs. Emma K.
Smith, aged mother of Attorney J. Kelley
Smith, died Thursday morning about 11:30 o’clock after an illness of
a week or two.
Although in her eighties, Mrs.
Smith’s
mentality was very strong and she was a
voluminous reader.
She had been able to get about until
her last illness.
Brief funeral services will be held
this afternoon at the grave with burial in
Clinton, Ky., her former home.
Mrs. Bessie
Webb
of Arlington, Ky., was among those who
attended the funeral of Charles
McAdoo last Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Parham and Mrs. Kate
Hagan
of Fulton, Ky., were called here last week
by the death of Charles
McAdoo.
Mrs. Nora
Ryan
McAdoo is slowly improving following
injuries received in an auto accident last
week.
Billy
Travers has returned to his work at the
U. of I. after having been called here by
the death of his uncle, Charles
McAdoo.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 4 Jun 1937:
To Unveil Marker to Soldier of 1812
The Egyptian Chapter Daughters of the
American Revolution will unveil a Government
marker Sunday afternoon, June 20, at 2:30
p.m. at Marion Cemetery near West Salem,
Edwards County, in memory of Marvin Powers
Blood,
member of the Vermont State Militia in the
War of 1812, whose certified service was in
Captain
Phelps’ Company, Col. Jonathon
Williams’ Regiment.
He was the son of John
Blood, a soldier of the Revolution.
The American Legion Post of West
Salem will assist in the unveiling
ceremonies.
The public is invited to attend.
Marvin
Blood is the grandfather of Mrs. William L.
Toler, historian of Egyptian Chapter, and is the great-grandfather
of Mrs. William L.
Williams of Grayville, a member of the
Wabash Chapter, Carmi.
A boulder in memory of his wife,
Martha
Cabot
Blood, daughter of Francis
Cabot,
Revolutionary soldiers, was unveiled October
13, 1936.
Former Tri-City Bus Driver Was Killed in
Accident
A. L.
Hines of Memphis, Tenn., a former Mound
City man, was killed and seven passengers in
the Missouri Pacific bus he was driving were
injured in a wreck eighteen miles south of
Poplar Bluff, Mo.
The place of the accident was at a curve on
highway 67 just north of the
Missouri-Arkansas line.
Hines
lost control of the bus, according to
report, and the vehicle slipped off the
shoulder of the blacktop surface, and
overturned in a ditch, pinning the driver
under the bus.
Four of the seven passengers injured were in
a critical condition in a Poplar Bluff
hospital.
Former Pulaski County Man Buried Here
Tuesday
Lorenzo D.
Reese, a former resident of this section and well known in the
county, died Sunday night, May 30, at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. ___ett
Alden
of Anna.
Another daughter is the former Mrs.
Etta ___ett
of Mounds and Cairo, who ___ married a New
Orleans man.
Funeral services were held at Anna
___day with burial in Beech Grove Cemetery
Mounds.
Death Calls Miss Opal Shaffer after Long
Illness
Miss Edith Opal
Shaffer, age 35 years, died at the home
of her mother, Mrs. Mary
Shaffer, at 5:35 Sunday morning, May 30,
after a lingering illness.
She had resided in Mounds 17 years
and had been a teacher in Mounds Thistlewood
grade school for 15 years.
Miss
Shaffer, from childhood a devout Christian, had served as pastor of
the Assembly of God Church for a number of
years.
Surviving her are her mother, one
sister, Mrs. Virginia
Egner
of Mounds; four brothers, Rev. T. A.
Shaffer of Crossville, H. L.
Shaffer of Mounds, Edgar
Shaffer of Joppa and Artie
Shaffer of Chicago.
Funeral services were held at the
Assembly of God church Tuesday afternoon at
2 o’clock, the Rev. Samuel
Skyles of Murphysboro officiating,
assisted by Rev. P. R.
Glotfelty of the Mounds Methodist
Church.
Interment was made in Grand Chain
cemetery, G. A.
James
directing. Casket
bearers were Richard
Copeland, James
Gamble, Henry Gunn, Earl
Sitton, George
Parrot, and Robert Foss.
Billie Martin
Billie
Martin, age 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Martin, died at Jefferson Barracks Hospital Monday morning, May 31,
at 1:10 o’clock.
He had been ill for some time.
Surviving are his parents, a sister,
Pauline; and other relatives, among them an
aunt, Mrs. Fred
Raub
of this city, who went to St. Louis to
attend the funeral services.
He was buried in the vicinity of St.
Louis.
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 4 Jun 1937:
BUS DRIVER KILLED; SEVEN OTHERS INJURED
A. L.
Hines, of Memphis, Tenn., driver of a
Missouri Pacific bus, was killed and seven
passengers injured in a wreck on Highway 67,
eighteen miles south of Poplar Bluff, Mo.
The injured, whom were taken to hospitals at
Poplar Bluff, were Mrs. E. C.
Johnson of Jonesboro, Ark., Mrs. W. S.
Walker of Jonesboro, Leslie
Ingram, Moro, Ark., Albert
Robinson, Memphis, Tenn., Tallie
Sartin, St. Louis, Susie
Hill,
negro, of Memphis; and Ed
Love,
negro, of Parkin, Ark.
It seems that the driver lost control of the
bus and it slipped off the black top
surfaced shoulder of the highway and
overturned in a ditch. The driver was
pinned underneath the wreckage.
Hines was a driver with several years’ experience.
He had been driving for Tri-City
Transportation Co., Greyhound Lines, Mohawk
Stages, and Missouri Pacific.
He was well known in Mounds and Mound City.
FORMER MOUND CITY TEACHER DIES
Opal Edith
Shaffer, 35 years old, died at the home of her mother, in Mounds
Sunday morning at 5:35 o'clock. Miss
Shaffer had been a resident of Mounds
for 17 years and taught at the Thistlewood
School for 15 years. She was also a pastor
of the Assembly of God Church for a number
of years.
Those most grieved by her death are her
mother, Mrs. Mary
Shaffer of Mounds; one sister, Mrs.
Virginia
Egner;
four brothers, T. A.
Shaffer of Crossville, H. L.
Shaffer of Mounds, Edgar
Shaffer of Joppa and Artie
Shaffer of Chicago, besides other
relatives and many friends.
The funeral services held at the Assembly of
God church in Mounds, were conducted by Rev.
Samuel
Skyles of Murphysboro, assisted by Rev. P. R.
Glotfelty of Mounds.
She was buried at the Grand Chain cemetery
with 12 of her pupils of the Thistlewood
School as flower bearers. The pallbearers
were James
Gamble, George
Parrot, Earl
Sitton, Robert
Foss, Henry Gunn, and
Richard
Copeland.
The funeral was under the direction of G. A.
James.
(Her death certificate states that Opal Edith
Shaffer, a public school teacher, was
born 26 Sep 1901, in Grand Chain, Ill., the
daughter of E. Z.
Shaffer, and Mary
Jaynes, natives of Illinois, died 30 May 1937, in Mounds, Ill., and
was buried at Grand Chain, Ill.
Her marker in Grand Chain Masonic
Cemetery reads:
Opal Edith
Shaffer 1901-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
CAIRO PIONEER DIES
Harry A.
Eichoff, a resident of Cairo for more
than fifty years, died at his home on Fifth
Street, Sunday morning. He had been ill
since last January.
Mr.
Eichoff came to Cairo in 1886 when the
Illinois Central Bridge was being built,
found employment on the bridge job and
remained in Cairo. He has been employed by
many concerns in Cairo and at the time of
his death was custodian to the Masonic
Temple. He has become a prominent Mason in
Southern Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri,
having been taken 32 degrees in the Order.
He is survived by his wife and son, William
F.; two daughters, Mrs. Floyd
Sanford and Mrs. Howard
Kendall; and one brother, Frank, all
living in Chicago.
The funeral services were at the Masonic
Temple, with Rev. C. R.
Dunlap, pastor of the Lutheran Church,
officiating.
Interment was made in the Thistlewood
Cemetery, the Masonic Lodge having charge of
the rites at the grave.
The pallbearers were members of Cairo Lodge
237, A. F. & A. M. of which Bro.
Eichoff was a member.
(Harry H.
Eichoff, a native of Muscatine, Iowa, the son of William
Eichoff and Ellen
Brown, married on 23 Dec 1885, in Muscatine, Iowa, Flora M.
Phelps, a native of Muscatine, Iowa, the
daughter of Charles F.
Phelps and Mary
Bunely.
His death certificate states
that Harry August
Eichoff, engineer, was born 15 Feb 1864,
in Muscatine, Iowa, the son of William F.
Eichoff, a native of Hamburg, Germany,
and Mary Ellen
Brown,
a native of England, died 30 May 1937, in
Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., husband of
Kathyrn
Eichoff, and was buried in Thistlewood
Cemetery at Mounds, Ill.
His marker in Beechwood Cemetery at
Mounds reads:
Katie
Eichoff 1877-1956 Harry A.
Eichoff 1864-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. EMMA K. SMITH DIES
Mrs. Emma K.
Smith died at Mounds Thursday morning at 11:30. She was the widow
of the late Dr. Lee
Smith,
formerly of Clinton, Ky. Her two sons, J.
Kelly
Smith, a prominent lawyer of Mounds, and Dr. M. L.
Smith
of Owensboro, Ky., survive her.
Rev. W. A.
Gardner of Mounds and Rev. O. A.
Carmean of Cairo, officiated at the services in Clinton, Ky.
James H.
Davis
of Owensboro and J. T.
Ryan
of Mounds directed the funeral.
(Her death certificate states that Emma Kelly
Smith,
of Mace, Ky., was born 16 Oct 1850, in
Davies Co., Ky., the daughter of Joseph
Kelly and Harriett C. Jones,
a native of Kentucky, died 27 Feb 1937, in
Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill., wife of Lee M.
Smith, died 28 May 1937, in Clinton, Hickman Co., Ky., and was buried in
Clinton Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
DEATH OF LORENZO D. REESE
Lorenzo D.
Reese, prominent in Mounds and Pulaski County, died at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Everett
Alden
of Anna, Sunday night. Services were
conducted at 3 o'clock and burial was at
Beech Grove Cemetery at Mounds.
(His death certificate states that Lorenzo Dow
Reese,
engine fireman, was born 21 Nov 1861, in
Mountain Grove, Missouri, died 30 May 1937,
in Anna, Ill., widower of Friedona
Reese,
and was buried in Beech Grove Cemetery
at Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
BOY'S NECK IS BROKE WHEN TEAM RUNS AWAY
(Golconda
Herald-Enterprise)
Elsberry Wilson, 4 ½ year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Elsberry
Hancock of Oak, was instantly killed
Friday morning when a team, hitched to a
wagon in which the boy and his father and
younger brother were riding, ran away,
throwing him under a wheel. Death caused by
a broken neck, was instantaneous.
Mr. Hancock was
hauling a load of manure from the barn,
holding the reins with one hand and his
younger son on his knee with the other. The
family had been cleaning house and a rug,
hanging from a clothesline, was flapping
about in the wind. It frightened the horses
and in a moment they were out of control.
Mr.
Hancock, in his testimony before the
coroner’s jury, said that he realized he
could do nothing with the team and so he
decided to jump with the child he was
holding. Wilson,
he thought, could manage by himself. When
he hit the ground, he fell on the little
boy. Thinking he was hurt, the father
picked him up and looked for
Wilson. His sister had already reached
the scene of the tragedy and was holding the
lifeless body of the child in her arms.
(His death certificate states that
Elsberry Wilson
Hancock was born 7 Oct 1932, in Oak, Ill., the son of Elsberry
Hancock, a native of Oak, Ill., and Mary
Ruth
Frick, a native of Carlinville, Ill.,
died 21 May 1937, in Road District 2, Pope
Co., Ill., and was buried in Gossage
Cemetery in Pope Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 11 Jun 1937:
BIG FOUR R. R. BRAKEMAN KILLED AT KARNAK
TUESDAY
Death came swiftly and without warning to B.
H.
Wiggs, 54, brakeman on a Big Four local
Tuesday morning about 10:30 o'clock at
Karnak. Wiggs, whose home is in Mt. Carmel, is survived by his widow and two
sons.
According to reports,
Wiggs was coupling two baggage cars to his train. It is said that
the cars were about eighteen inches apart
and he signaled for the engineer to back the
train. The engineer compiled with the
signal and
Wiggs
stepped between the cars to couple the draw
bars. He did not reappear and after some
time another brakeman, Everett
West,
went to see what was detaining
Wiggs.
He found him lying on his face under the
cars. Wiggs' chest and one arm were said to have been badly crushed. In
backing up the train, he was probably caught
between the draw bars for marks in the rock
on the track indicated that his feet had
dragged the ground for a few feet.
Wiggs had been a brakeman on the Big Four railroad
for 35 years. –Vienna
Times
(This is likely David Harrison
Wiggs,
who was born 4 Jul 1884, died 1 Jun 1937,
and was buried in Highland Memorial Cemetery
in Mount Carmel, Wabash Co., Ill.
His World War I draft registration in
September 1918, states he lived at 1006 Pear
St., Mt. Carmel, Wabash Co., Ill., and was a
railway conductor for C. C. C. & St. Louis
Railway Co. at Mt. Carmel.—Darrel
Dexter)
FORMER DUQUOIN BANKER DEAD
H. C.
Miller, former president of the First
National Bank of DuQuoin, died Saturday,
June 5, at John Hopkins Hospital in
Baltimore, Md.
Mr.
Miller had been in ill health for the
past year and had been under observation of
physicians and specialists of Southern
Illinois and was taken to Maryland the ___
day before his death.
He was a member of the Illinois Banker's
Association and an associate of the Illinois
Chambers of Commerce.
He is survived by his wife and two sons, Mark
and Harry; his mother, Mrs. Emma
Miller; and brother, Ike
Miller, of St. Louis.
The funeral services were conducted by Rev.
Vernon G. ___ Cameron, Tex., formerly of
DuQuoin. Burial was made in the I. O. O. F.
cemetery at DuQuoin.
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 18 Jun 1937:
YOUNG MOTHER SACRIFICES LIFE FOR DAUGHTER
At Cave-in-Rock Friday morning occurred a
shocking tragedy that snuffed out the life
of Mrs. Thomas
Partain, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
Joyner, of Herod, Ill.
Attracted by the screams of her 4-year-old
daughter, Mrs.
Partain ran to her to find the little
one had taken hold of an aerial, which had
come in contract with an electrically
charged wire. When she attempted to release
the child, Mrs.
Partain was instantly killed, failing
across the body of the child.
A strange circumstance is that the little one's hands were
burned before the mother reached her, yet
she survived the shock that was instantly
fatal to her mother. The child was taken to
a hospital, where her injured hands are
being treated.
Mrs.
Partain was 32 years old. She is
survived by her husband, a 13-year-old son,
Deneen, and Marjorie Ruth, the daughter for
whom she gave her life.
The funeral was held at Karber's Ridge Sunday
afternoon, the Rev. Charles
Durfee officiating.—Golconda
Herald-Enterprise.
(The death certificate states that Bessie Jane
Partain was born 20 Apr 1903, in Herod,
Ill., died 4 Jun 1937, in Cave-in-Rock,
Hardin Co., Ill., and was buried in Road
District 2, Hardin Co., Ill.
Her marker in Mount Zion Cemetery in
Rock Creek, Hardin Co., Ill., reads:
Bessie
Partain 1904-1937 Thomas
Partain 1902-1974.—Darrel
Dexter)
FORMER MOUND CITY GIRL'S HUSBAND DIES
R. L.
Carrollton of Baton Rouge, La., died in
a hospital there, Saturday evening,
following an automobile accident in which he
was injured about two weeks ago. He never
regained consciousness after the accident.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Helen
Carrollton; a young son, Tommy; his
mother and a brother, all of Baton Rouge.
The day before the accident, Mr.
Carrollton had received a promotion to
the highest professorship at the Louisiana
State University.
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon in
Baton Rouge and interment was made there.
Mrs.
Carrollton before her marriage was Miss
Helen
Parker of Mound City, sister of Miss
Gladys
Parker of Wood River, Ill., Albert and
Carlos
Parker of Mound City. Her sister was
with her at the time of Mr.
Carrollton's death.
(The Louisiana Death Index states that
Roderick L.
Carleton was born about 1903 and died 12
Jun 1937, in East Baton Rouge Parish, La.
He was buried in Roselawn Memorial
Park Cemetery in Baton, Rouge, La.—Darrel
Dexter)
INFANT DIES
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin
Lance
of Pulaski was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery
last Friday, having died at birth. Mrs.
Lance
was before her marriage Miss Elaine
Palmer of Pulaski.
(His death certificate states that Billy
Lance
was
stillborn 10 Jun 1937, in Road District 2,
Pulaski Co., Ill., the son of Alvin
Lance
and Elaine
Palmer, natives of Pulaski Co., Ill.,
and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery at
Pulaski.
His marker there reads:
Billy son of Alvin & Elaine
Lance.—Darrel
Dexter)
OLIVE BRANCH BOY KILLED BY HIT AND RUN
DRIVER
Gerald W.
Light, 19-year-old youth of Olive Branch, was killed by a
hit-and-run driver two miles north of Olive
Branch Saturday night. The youth was on his
way to Olive Branch.
According to witnesses, the car was traveling
at a high rate of speed when it hit the boy.
The car slowed down only slightly and then
sped on. The license number was not
obtained. The young victim was killed
instantly.
(His death certificate states that Gerald W.
Light,
farmer, was born 18 Mar 1918, in Olive
Branch, Ill., the son of Walter
Light,
a native of Olive Branch, Ill., and Clara
Holshouser, a native of Union Co., Ill.,
and died 12 Jun 1937, in Alexander Co.,
Ill., and was buried in Twentee Cemetery in
Road District 4, Alexander Co., Ill.
His marker in Twentee Crossing
Cemetery reads:
Gerald W.
Light Mar. 18, 1918 June 12, 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
WOMAN WHO NOMINATED BRYAN PASSES AWAY
The last remains of Mrs. Lucille
Taylor, wife of Capt.
Taylor of Elizabethtown, were taken to
St. Louis Sunday, June 6, by Mr. G. T.
Lee,
for burial in Bellefontaine Cemetery.
Mrs.
Taylor was a member of the
Spanish-American Auxiliary. In years past
she was named by a prominent American figure
to impersonate the Goddess of Liberty in a
nation-wide pageant. It was she who placed
William Jennings
Bryan's
name for president the first time. When he
was nominated she led the parade around the
convention hall. When the cheers for Mr.
Bryan
died way, another cheer rose, this time for
Mrs.
Taylor. She was hoisted to willing shoulders and carried
triumphantly down the hall. But in her
triumph there was tragedy. In their
enthusiasm the men who lifted her had
injured the slight figure, and Mrs.
Taylor was thereafter a cripple.—Golconda
Herald-Enterprise
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 18 Jun 1937:
Mrs. Harry
Dishinger and daughter, Jeanette, have
returned from Mobile, Ala., where they were
called by the illness of Captain M. D.
Cogswell, uncle of Mr.
Dishinger, who passed away a week ago.
(The Alabama Death Index records that
Mason Daniel
Cogswell was born about 1860, the son of
Daniel
Cogswell and Cynthia
Cleveland, and died 6 Jun 1937, in
Springhill, Mobile Co., Ala., the husband of
Viola
Simpson.
His marker in Magnolia Cemetery in
Mobile, Ala., reads:
Capt. M. D.
Cogswell 1860-1937 Viola G.
Cogswell 1875-1926.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 25 Jun 1937:
Farm Hand Drops Dead
Robert
Glover, a negro farm hand on the D. H.
Leidigh farm, dropped dead in the field while operating a walking
cultivator, Monday afternoon.
His death grip on the reins of the
horses he was driving brought the team to a
stop.
Glover, who had been working for
Leidigh since 1910, was 62 years of age.
Former Ullin Man Dies at Home in McClure
Ben H.
Anderson, age 73 years, died Saturday morning, June 19, at his home
in McClure following a ___g illness.
Four years ago he suffered a stroke
of paralysis and a second stroke caused his
death.
For many years Mr.
Anderson lived on a farm south of Ullin
and at one time headed a movement that
resulted in prospecting for ___ in that
section.
Coincidentally, his death was the
death only a week or so ago of George
Porter, a prospector who had charge of
the sinking of the well.
Mr.
Porter, a native of Bone Gap, died at
Mt. Carmel where he had made his home for
many years.
Mr.
Anderson is survived by his wife; a son, Ralph
Anderson of McClure; a brother, Tom of Anna; and a sister, whose
home is in California.
Another sister, Mrs. __. H.
Goddard of Carbondale, died last fall.
Funeral services were held at the
family home Monday morning at __ o’clock.
Burial was made in Dongola cemetery.
(Benjamin Harden
Anderson, 24, clerk in dry goods and
grocery store in Dongola, Ill., born in
Anna, Ill., son of Harrison
Anderson and Rose
Worley, married on 3 Apr
1890, in Dongola, Union Co., Ill., Lydia
Cora
Henley, 20, born in Dongola, Ill., daughter of Thomas
Henley and Mary
Hurt. William H.
Goddard, 21, farmer, born in Anna, Ill.,
the son of Timothy H. and Susan (Summers)
Goddard, married on 20 May 1883, in Union Co., Ill., Alice L.
Anderson, 21, born in Anna, Ill.,
daughter of James H. and Rose (Worley)
Anderson.
James H.
Anderson married Rosannah
Worley on 28 Nov 1858, in Union Co.,
Ill.
His death certificate states that
Benjamin H.
Anderson, farmer, was born 10 Feb 1865,
in Anna, Union Co., Ill., the son of
Harrison
Anderson and Rose
Worley, natives of Illinois, died 19 Jun 1937, in Alexander Co.,
Ill., and was buried in I. O. O. F. Cemetery
in Dongola, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Father of Mrs. Henri Cowles Dies Suddenly
Wednesday
J. F.
Hoffman, age 62, of Mound City died suddenly of a heart attack
Wednesday afternoon, June 23, at the house
of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Mason
of Cairo, where he had been living since the
flood.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs.
Bernard
Miller of Cairo, Mrs. Albert
Parker of Mound City and Mrs. C. L.
Cowles of this place; two grandsons of
Cairo and a sister, Mrs. Josephine
Hargan of Miller City.
Funeral services will be held this
(Friday) afternoon at 2 o’clock at the home
of his daughter in Mound City.
Burial will be made in Beech Grove
Cemetery with G. A.
James
in charge.
Marker for Soldier of 1812 Unveiled Sunday
Afternoon
An impressive ceremony conducted by
the Egyptian Chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution, Cairo, marked the
unveiling and dedication of a Government
marker to the memory of Marvin P.
Blood,
a soldier in the War of 1812, at Marion
church yard in Edwards County Sunday
afternoon, June 20, 100 years from the time
this soldier and his family came as pioneers
to Illinois.
Although the day was warm, there was
a large attendance of his descendants and
their friends who had gathered under the
shade of the trees surrounding the beautiful
church and grounds adjoining the well-kept
cemetery.
Mrs. Clyde
Hornbuckle, regent of the chapter, presided.
Following the presentation of the
colors by the McCormack Post of the American
Legion of West Salem, Charles
Hornbuckle, a young member of the Sons
of the Revolution, led the pledge of the
allegiance to the flag.
The invocation was given by the
presiding regent and a biography of the
veteran by his granddaughter, Mrs. Grace
Cabot
Toler of Mounds.
The stone was unveiled by Misses
Helene
Jenner of Parkersburg and Mabel
Gunther of West Salem,
great-great-granddaughter of Marvin
Blood.
A beautiful wreath, the gift of the
Chapter, was placed by another
granddaughter, Mrs. Cora
Blood Badgley, of Olney, the oldest living descendant.
Taking for his subject “One’s
Intangible Assets,” U. R.
Dusch
of West Salem, Post Commander of the
McCormack Post of the American Legion, made
an appropriate patriotic talk.
One verse of America, with bugle
accompaniment by Clyde
Kaericher of West Salem, was sung.
Mr.
Kaercher also sounded Taps.
The benediction by the regent closed
the ceremony.
This marker to Marvin
Blood
stands near a boulder dedicated to the
memory of his wife, Martha Cabot
Blood,
on October 13, 1936, by the Wabash and
Egyptian chapters of the Daughters of the
American Revolution.
Biographical Sketch of Marvin P. Blood
Marvin Powers
Blood was born Jan. 8, 1793 at Windsor, Windsor County, Vermont, and
died October 1860, at Bennington, Edwards
County, Illinois.
He was the son of John
Blood, a soldier of the Revolution, who endured the hardships of
Valley Forge during the winter of 1777 and
fought in the battles of Monmouth and Rhode
Island.
Marvin was of the seventh generation
from James
Blood,
brother of Col. Thomas
Blood
of whom we have recently read so much.
Most of the newspapers failed to
state the connection between Col. Thomas
Blood
and his King, Charles II, who knighted him
and restored his estates in Ireland
following the supposed attempt to “steal”
the crown jewels.
James
Blood
came to Concord, Mass., from England in
1639.
Marvin’s mother was Asenath
Powers, daughter of Joseph
Powers, Jr., and Abigail
Benjamin, and herself of the fifth
generation descended from Walter
Power
(La
Poer) of England who landed at Salem,
Mass., in 1664.
The
La
Poer family is as old as William the
Conqueror, one of whose officers bore that
name at the Battle of Hastings, as appears
on the roll of survivors in Battle Abbey.
In 1812 Marvin
Blood enlisted in the Vermont detached militia, U.S. Service.
Family history records that he
reached the rank of major in the Vermont
State Militia and his son, Sylvester Henry
Blood,
my father, often told me that he and the
other children played with their father’s
epaulettes until they wore them out.
He was addressed as Major
Blood
by all who knew him.
I never heard my mother call his name
in any other way.
I have the following letter written
by the Adjutant General of Vermont:
Montpelier, Vt., July 9, 1932
Dear Mrs.
Toler:
Replying to your letter of July 4, I
take pleasure in sending you herewith a
transcript of the service of Marvin
Blood
as it appears on our records of the War of
1812.
I am unable to find any record that
would prove the service of Marvin
Blood
in the Militia following the War of 1812,
for the reason that from 1814 to 1888 there
are practically no records in this office on
the Militia that existed at that time.
I think the facts stated in your
letter are excellent evidence that he did
serve in the State Militia and reached the
grade of Major.
I am sorry to say there are no
records that would absolutely prove this.
Very truly,
Herbert T.
Johnson
The Adjutant General
Following is the transcript of
service:
“I hereby certify that the following
is a current transcript from the records on
file in this office, regarding soldiers who
served in the War of 1812-1814. Extract:
MARVIN
BLOOD (private) served in Captain
Phelps’ Company, Col. Jonathan
Williams’ Regiment, Detached Militia.
U.S. Service, 1812.
H. T.
Johnson, Adjutant General
When this marker was inscribed the
Government officials, Veterans Department,
from the evidence presented, omitted the
word, “Private” from the inscription.
Marvin
Blood was married in Vermont in 1815 to Martha
Cabot, daughter of Francis
Cabot, a Revolutionary War soldier and
Patriot.
They were the parents of nine
children.
Their first child was born in
Vermont; all the others in New York State.
In the summer of 1637, just one
hundred years ago, Marvin
Blood
and his friend, Samuel
Hix,
built at Olean Point, N.Y., two flatboats.
That fall with each in command of a
boat they and their families with a number
of their neighbors and their families,
wended their way from Olean Point down the
Alleghany River to Pittsburgh, Pa. where the
Alleghany and the Monongahela meet to form
the Ohio, then on down the Ohio, through the
Locks at Cincinnati, and on to Mt. Vernon,
Ind., where they landed.
Marvin and his family crossed the Big
Wabash at or near New Harmony and moved into
Illinois, settling on the Little Wabash and
naming the place Bennington for Bennington,
Vt.
Here he lived the trying life of a
pioneer for the remaining twenty-two years
of his life.
The old homestead is still in
possession of his descendants.
Grace Cabot (Blood)
Toler
Young Man Drowned Sunday Afternoon at Dam 53
Leon Leonard
Test, of Vienna, age 30, was drowned Sunday afternoon at Dam 53
while swimming near the locks with a party
of friends.
He was considered a good swimmer.
The accident occurred about 4:45
o’clock and
Test’s
body was recovered at 6:32.
Coroner Otis T.
Hudson conducted an inquest, the jury
returning a verdict of accidental drowning.
Among those who testified were Archie
___, Ray
Sanders and Lawrence Sanders.
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 25 Jun 1937:
FORMER SLAVE FILES SUIT FOR DIVORCE
(Golconda Herald
Enterprise)
According to a dispatch from
Elizabethtown, Ill., Harry
Whitehead, 97, former slave and veteran of the Civil War, has
applied for divorce from his wife, Anna, 84,
another former slave.
The pair was married September 11,
1907.
Mrs.
Whitehead, who, like her husband, had
been married once before, left Elizabethtown
in June, 1936, to live with her son,
Willard, in Anderson, Ind.
Harry
Whitehead was born on a plantation in
Virginia, May 29, 1840.
He served his master, James
Whitehead, until he was 20.
Then he ran away and joined the Union
Army at Chattanooga, Tenn.
He served two years and ten months in
the army.
Eight months before the end of the
war, he was captured by
Hood’s Army at Dalton, Ga., and held a prisoner.
He mustered out of the Union army at
Nashville, Tenn., in 1865.
In 1868,
Whitehead arrived at Elizabethtown, and
a year later he married Melia
Austin. They had 11
children, three of whom are living.
The marriage license was issued to
“Uncle Harry” and “Melia” by James
McFarland, first county clerk of Hardin
County.
(His death certificate states that
Harry
Whitehead was born 29 May 1839, in
Georgia, died 21 Jul 1937, in Elizabethtown,
Hardin Co., Ill., divorced, and was buried
in I. O. O. F. Cemetery in Elizabethtown,
Hardin Co., Ill.
He filed for a pension in 1889 for
service in Co. F, 44th U.S.
Colored Infantry.
His military record states he was
taken a prisoner of war on 13 Oct 1864 and
remained a prisoner in May 1865.
His application for a military
headstone states he was born in Virginia,
enlisted 13 Jul 1864 in Tennessee and was
honorably discharged 30 Apr 1866.—Darrel
Dexter)
INFANT MARY ANN MEYER DIES
Mary Ann
Meyer,
infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Meyer,
of Karnak, died at their home Wednesday
night.
Her death is mourned by her parents,
two sisters, Margaret
Jabonsky and Pauline Meyer;
and two brothers, Herman and Carl
Meyer,
all of Karnak.
The funeral services were held at the
home June 18, and burial was in the Ohio
Cemetery east of Grand Chain.
Wilson Funeral Service was in charge.
PROMINENT MOUND CITY MAN DIES
John Frederick
Hoffman, more popularly known as “Fred”
Hoffman, died at the home of Mrs. Pete
Mason
in Cairo, Wednesday evening.
He has been living with the
Masons
since the flood.
Mr.
Hoffman, who was 62 years old, was born
in Mound City and has lived here all his
life.
Until Prohibition he was a saloon
keeper; then he opened a dry goods store and
was in business until a few years ago, when
he retired.
His health has been failing, due to a
weak heart, for quite some time and he has
been confined to his home for the past two
weeks.
He leaves three daughters:
Mrs. Albert
Parker and Mrs. Bernard
Miller of Mound City, and Mrs. Charles
Cowles of Mounds and a sister, Mrs.
Hargan of Miller City.
The services will be held at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Albert
Parker, Friday, June 25, at 2 o’clock.
Rev.
Klose of the Church of the Redeemer at Cairo will officiate.
Burial will be at Beech Grove
Cemetery, where Mrs.
Hoffman was laid to rest a few years
ago.
G.
A. James has charge of the arrangements.
(Henry C.
Hoffman married Lucy J.
Cockrum on 23 Jan 1859, in Perry Co.,
Ill.
His death certificate states that
John Frederick
Hoffman was born about 1875, the son of Henry
Hoffman and Lucy Jane Cochran,
died 23 Jun 1937, in Cairo, Alexander
Co., Ill., the husband of Elizabeth M.
Hoffman.
His marker in Beech Grove Cemetery at
Mounds, Ill., reads:
John F.
Hoffman 1874-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
REGRETS LOSING HER THIRD SET OF TEETH
The only regret that Aunt Mary
Stewart, living near Greencastle, Ind.,
had as she headed toward her 104th
birthday was that about all of her third set
of teeth have been pulled.
“I don’t care about the looks, but it
is just the discomfort of trying to eat
three square meals a day without teeth,” she
said.
She lost her second set of teeth
twenty years ago.
“I guess hard work and living a
simple life have helped me to live so long,”
she declared.
“You’ll think I’m lying, but I never
had a cent in my hand until I was 30 years
old, and then a man gave me a two-cent
piece.
Sometime before that I won $10 in a
contest, but my dad took charge of that
money.
Aunt Mary, who will be 104 September
17th, lives alone and does all
her own work.—Golconda
Herald Enterprise
ANOTHER DROWNING AT DAM 53
Leon L.
Test,
30 years of age, drowned at Dam 53 last
Sunday afternoon while swimming near the
locks.
Apparently he was caught in an eddy
which sucked him under and held him, for the
victim was considered an excellent swimmer.
Test
had been in the water only about ten minutes
when he was taken under.
A lady standing nearby, saw him go
down and when he failed to come up, called
the attention of others to that fact.
Thinking that
Test
was only trying his ability to stay under
the water, little alarm was felt at first.
However, when the time passed that he
could possibly stay down, and he failed to
show up, a search was begun.
About two hours later his body was
found.
Efforts to revive him were futile.
The coroner’s jury, which returned a
verdict of accidental drowning, was composed
of C. D.
Vaughn, George F.
Hollis, John
Ledbetter, Charles
Burkstaller and W. E.
Shaw.
(His marker in Vienna Fraternal
Cemetery reads: Leon Leonard son of Hattie &
Benjamin
Test
1906-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
ELCO MAN DIES
George
Savage, of Elco, died Sunday afternoon
at St. Mary's Infirmary after a long
illness.
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon
at 2 o'clock at the
Stainforth's Funeral Home. Burial was
at Thistlewood Cemetery.
(His death certificate states that George
Savage was born about 1875 and died 20
Jun 1937, in Cairo, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
PLOWS FURROW AS STRAIGHT AS REST
Robert
Glover, a colored hired hand on the farm
of Dee H.
Leidigh of Villa Ridge, plowed his last
furrow before he dropped dead Monday as
straight as any he had ever plowed.
Apparently, death struck instantly and he
merely toppled back, jerking the lines
slightly as he dropped, which halted the
team.
Glover was 62 years of age and had been working on
the
Leidigh farm off and on since 1910.
MRS. MYRTLE MATHENY PASSES AWAY
Mrs. Myrtle
Matheny, 44, formerly of Karnak and Belknap, died at Wood River
Tuesday June 15, as the result of
complications from the extraction of a
tooth.
The services officiated by Rev. Earl
Throgmorton, of Karnak, were held
Friday, June 18, at the home of Mrs.
Miller at Belknap. Interment as made in
the Masonic Cemetery.
Mrs.
Matheny is survived by her husband, Oda;
her mother, Mrs.
Linsey of New Columbia; and two children, Robert and Dana.
Wilson Funeral Service was in charge.
(Her marker in Belknap Masonic Cemetery reads:
Myrtle E.
Matheny 1892-1937 Oda L.
Matheny 1896-1951.—Darrel
Dexter)
C. F. Kendall
was called to Saginaw, Mich., by the death
of his nephew, Henry
Counselman. (Olmsted)
(He was allegedly struck by a
sheriff’s auto.
A marker in Forest Lawn Cemetery in
Saginaw, Mich., reads:
Henry W.
Counselman Jan. 10, 1914 June 18,
1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 2 Jul 1937:
James Gordon, 7-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
James T.
Malley of Mounds, died at the home of
his parents Saturday afternoon.
Those mourning his death, besides his parents,
are his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Woodney, of Unity and Mr. and Mrs. John
Malley of Mounds and many other relatives.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at
the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Malley, with Rev. Smith
of Olive Branch officiating.
He was laid to rest in Spencer
Heights Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Edward
Traves, Billy Brown,
Billy
Denham and Ernest
Denham.
(His marker in Spencer Heights Cemetery at
Mounds, Ill., reads:
James Gordon
Malley Dec. 5, 1936 June 26,
1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Clyde Eugene
Carvel, 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Carvel of Metropolis, died in the I. C. hospital in Paducah Tuesday
morning from injuries received Sunday
afternoon when he was hit on the head by a
baseball, when a ball pitched by one of the
players hit a post and glanced, hitting the
youth.—Brookport
Independent
(His death certificate states that Clyde
Eugene
Carvel of Metropolis, Ill., was born 27
Apr 1921, in Illinois, the son of Thomas
Carvel and Dena Elliott,
natives of Illinois,
and died 22 Jun 1937, at the Illinois
Central Hospital in Paducah, McCracken Co.,
Ky., of a skull fracture after being struck
by a thrown baseball in a public place at
Metropolis, Ill., and was buried in Rose
Hill Cemetery in Marion, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 2 Jul 1937:
Mrs. G. W. Jones
Mrs. Frances
Wiggin Jones, age 78 years, widow of the late G. W.
Jones,
died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ella
Walker, near Goreville Saturday night,
June 26, at eleven o’clock after a brief
illness.
Surviving are two children, G. Harry
Jones
of Carbondale and Mrs. Ella
Walker, who lives on the old home place
near Goreville; three grandchildren, Dean
Jones, Mrs. Trecil Jones
Kraus of Murphysboro and Mrs. Mary Vera
Jones Brown of West Vienna; two great-grandchildren, and one
brother, M. C.
Wiggins of Goreville.
Following the death of her husband,
Mrs.
Jones made her home alternately with her
son and daughter.
Funeral services were held Monday
with burial in Friendship Cemetery, the
Wilson Funeral Service directing.
(Her marker in Friendship Cemetery
near Dongola, Union Co., Ill., reads:
G. W.
Jones
1857-1929 Frances
Jones
1859-1937 We Will Meet In Heaven.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Lucinda Lackey Aldred Dies in Her 90th
Year
Mrs. Lucinda Ellen
Lackey Aldred of Pulaski died at her
home early Tuesday morning, June 29th,
at the age of 89 years, 5 months and 13
days.
She was the daughter of Alfred
Lackey and was born January 11, 1848.
Mrs.
Lackey had been ill for about four
months. She
was known as “Aunt Cindy” to her relatives
and many friends.
Surviving are five children, A. W.
Aldred of Pulaski, Mrs. Abbie L.
Costley of Cairo, C. E.
Aldred of Raymondville, Texas, E. J.
Aldred of Cairo and Mrs. Laura
Nolan
of St. Louis; also many grandchildren and
seven great-grandchildren.
Her husband, James
Aldred, died 27 years ago.
Mrs.
Aldred came from a pioneer family.
Her grandfather, Thomas
Lackey, came to Illinois with his family
from North Carolina by ox team in 1822.
His son Joel
Lackey was born in North Carolina and came with his father to
Illinois.
Somewhere between 1834 and 1850 Joel
built a house east of Pulaski, which is
still standing.
Family tradition has it that Abraham
Lincoln was a visitor in that house as
he rode on horseback either from Shawneetown
or Old Caledonia, county set of Pulaski
County, from 1843 to 1861.
The road traveled at that time went
past the
Lackey homestead.
On February 28, 1936, Mrs. J. P.
Schuh
and Mrs. O. L.
Herbert of Cairo and Mrs. William L.
Toler,
members of the historical research committee
of the Egyptian Chapter of D. A. R., visited
Mrs.
Aldred who told them of her memories of
the
Lincoln visit to her Uncle Joel’s home.
She said that
Lincoln addressed a crowd that had
gathered there and that her father held her
in his arms that she might the better see
the man who afterward became President
Lincoln. She could not
remember her exact age at the time.
She said that later her Uncle Joel
accompanied
Lincoln on horseback away from the
Lackey home to some point on his journey
westward.
Funeral services for Mrs.
Aldred were held Wednesday afternoon at
2 o’clock at Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church
with the Rev. Mr.
Thomas officiating.
Burial was made in Rosehill Cemetery.
Infant Dies
James Gordon
Malley, seven months old son of Mr. and
Mrs. James T.
Malley, died Saturday, June 26, at the
home of his parents.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 9 Jul 1937:
Mrs. J. C. Mench Dies in Childress, Texas
Mrs. J. C.
Mench, long a resident of Mounds before going to Texas to reside,
passed away Saturday, July 3, at her home in
Childress, Texas, following an extended
illness.
She is survived by her husband, for
many years secretary of the Mounds Railroad
Y. M. C. A., two sons, Logan of Mounds and
Charles of Roswell, New Mexico; one
daughter, Mrs. Percy
Hunt
of Mounds; also three grandchildren.
During Mrs.
Mench’s service as Y. M. C. A. secretary, Mrs.
Mench devoted much of her time to the work in the office and in many
religious services using her musical talent
as accompanist for the singers.
Both were noted for their devotion to
the sick and afflicted.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at Alton, Ill., her
old home.
Former First Lady of Illinois Called by
Death
Mrs. Florence
Pullman Lowden, wife of the former Governor Frank O.
Lowden, was found dead early Monday
morning at the
Lowden Sinisippi farm home near Oregon,
Ill.
The
Lowdens had returned May 20 from a trip
to Europe.
She was the daughter of George M.
Pullman of car fame and wealth.
She is survived by her husband and
four children.
(Her death certificate states that
Florence
Pullman Lowden was born 11 Aug
1868, in Chicago, Ill., the daughter of
George M.
Pullman, a native of Brockton, N.Y., and Hattie
Sawyer, a native of St. Louis, Mo., died
5 Jul 1937, in Nashua, Ogle Co., Ill., the
wife of Frank O.
Lowden, and was buried in Chicago, Cook
Co., Ill.
Her marker in Graceland Cemetery in
Chicago reads:
Florence
Pullman wife of Frank O.
Lowden Aug. 14, 1868 July 5,
1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Lucinda Fain
Mrs. Lucinda
Fain, age 78 years, of Karnak, widow of the late William Marshall
Fain,
died Friday, July 2.
Surviving are the following children:
Charles
Fain of Paducah, Mrs. Viola
Woody of St. Louis, Mrs. Sadie
Tucker of Karnak, Mrs. Bertha
Brown
of Buncombe, and Howard
Fain
of St. Louis; one sister, Mrs. Cynthia
Harrell of Piggott, Ark.
For the past year Mrs.
Fain
has resided in Karnak with her daughter,
Mrs. Sadie
Tucker.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church in Belknap at 2 o’clock
Sunday afternoon, with Rev.
Metcalf officiating.
Interment was made in Masonic
cemetery at Belknap.
Pallbearers were Leslie
Barnett, Ray
Hutton, Gilbert Hanle,
and Earl
Throgmorton.
Wilson Funeral Service directed the
funeral.
(William M.
Fain married Lucinda Penrod
on 29 Oct 1876, in Union Co., Ill.
David
Penrod married Tempie
Keller on 14 Oct 1832, in Union Co.,
Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Lucinda
Fain
was born 17 Oct 1858, in Union Co.,
Ill., the daughter of Allen
Penrod, a native of Georgia, and Tempie
Keller, died 2 Jul 1937, in Karnak,
Pulaski Co., Ill., the wife of William
Marshall
Fain,
and was buried at Belknap, Johnson Co., Ill.
Her marker in Belknap Masonic
Cemetery reads:
Lucinda
Fain
1859-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 9 Jul 1937:
Eugene Warren
Jackson, son of Dr. and Mrs. L. L.
Jackson, of Vienna found peace and rest after long suffering, Sunday
evening, July 4th.
He was born in Carrier Mills, Ill., March 18,
1911.
His parents moved from Marion, Ill.,
to Mound City when Eugene was in his
sophomore year in high school.
He was prominent in school activities
From there he was taken to New Mexico and
received the best of medical attention, but
to no avail.
Realizing the futileness of medical
care, and the seriousness of his condition
he requested to be brought
He leaves his parents, two brothers, Lowell of
Vienna, and Gale of New Mexico; one sister,
Miss Juanita of Vienna; his grandfather, C.
L.
Buchanan, of Bernie, Mo., and other
relatives and friends.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon
at 2:00 o'clock at the First Methodist
Church in Vienna.
Interment was made at the Vienna
Fraternal Cemetery.
Wilson Murrie Funeral Service was in charge of the funeral.
(His death certificate states that Eugene
Warren
Jackson, filing clerk, was born 18 Mar
1911, in Carrier Mills, Ill., the son of L.
L. Jackson, a native of Carrier Mills, Ill., and Mable
Buchanan, a native of Stonepark, Ill.,
died 4 Jul 1937, in Vienna, Johnson Co.,
Ill., and was buried in Vienna Fraternal
Cemetery.
His marker there reads:
Eugene Warren
Jackson 1911-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Juanita
Barksdale, 11 years of age, of DuQuoin,
drowned at Cairo Sunday about noon when the
canoe in which she was riding with others
turned over.
She fell into deep water and was
never seen.
John
Stucher, shoe repairman, who was operating the canoe, a sister,
Helen, 9, and a cousin, Virginia
Verble of Anna, 15, clung to
Stucker and the canoe until rivermen
reached them, and barely in time.
Stucker was trying to save both girls
and they had pulled him under once or twice
and he was going under again when reached by
the river men in a boat and hauled to the
surface by the hair of the head.
(Her death certificate states that Juanita
Lucille
Barksdale, of DuQuoin, Perry Co., Ill.,
was born 3 Nov 1925, in Anna, Ill., the
daughter of Curtis
Barksdale and Ollie
Carter, natives of Anna, Ill., died 4
Jul 1937, in Cairo, Ill., and was buried in
Casper Cemetery near Anna, Union Co., Ill.
Her marker there reads:
Juanita L.
Barksdale Nov 3, 1925 July 4, 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Lloyd
Galbraith, age 19 years, son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. F.
Galbraith, was killed in an automobile
accident Sunday, July 4, near Willow
Springs, Ill.
Mr. and Mrs.
Galbraith and family were residents of Mound City until the recent
flood when they moved to Cairo.
Lloyd was reared in Mound City and graduated
from the Mound City Community High School in
1934, after which he enlisted in the C. C.
C. and was at Camp in Willow Springs when
the accident occurred. While in camp he
travels a distance of some 20 miles to
pursue his studies at night school in
Chicago.
Besides his parents, he leaves two brothers,
Marion, of Washington, D.C. and Robert of
St. Jose, Calif.; one sister, Mrs. Evelyn
Soldere, of Sciotoville, Ohio; and many
other relatives and friends.
The pallbearers were selected from his
classmates at Mound City.
(His death certificate states that Lloyd
Galbraith, a chauffeur, of 436 W. 8th
St., Cairo, Ill., was born 31 Oct 1916, in
America, Ill., died 5 Jul 1937, in Justice
Park, Cook Co., Ill., and was buried in
Cairo Cemetery.
His marker in Beechwood Cemetery in
Mounds, Ill., reads:
Lloyd
Galbraith 1917-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. J. C.
Mench, wife of J. C. Mench,
formerly of Mounds, passed away at the home
of her son, Charles in Childress, Texas,
Saturday morning about 5 o'clock.
Mrs.
Mench's
death was not unexpected as she had been ill
for many months.
She was a beautiful Christian
character and had many friends in Mounds and
Pulaski County.
She leaves to mourn her passing her husband,
J. C.
Mench; daughter Mrs. Percy
Hunt,
of Mounds; and two sons, Logan of Mounds,
and Charles of Childress, Texas.
The body was taken to Alton for burial.
(Jacob C.
Mench married Mary Jeannette
Logan on 5 Jul 1899, in Madison Co.,
Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Mrs. Mary Jeanette
Mench,
of 507 Ave. A, Childress, Texas, was born 29
May 1864, in Illinois, the daughter of D. D.
Logan, a native of Alabama, and Suzan
Hendrick, a native of Kentucky, died 3 Jul 1937, in Childress,
Childress Co., Texas, of hypostatic
pneumonia, the wife of J. C.
Mench,
and was buried in Alton, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Jennie
Martin, wife of John L.
Martin of Olmsted, died Thursday at 8:00
o'clock a.m.
She leaves her husband, John L.
Martin, and one daughter, Mrs. Grace
Comstock, of Carbondale, Illinois.
Mrs.
Martin was a daughter of the late J. W.
Hood,
a pioneer merchant of Olmsted.
She was a sister of the late Judge Fred
Hood
of Mound City and the late Judge Harry
Hood
of Cairo.
(According to her death certificate, Virginia
Frances
Martin was born 9 Aug 1867, in Union
Co., Ill., the daughter of J. W.
Hood,
and died 15 Jul 1937, in Olmstead, Pulaski
Co., Ill., the wife of John W.
Martin, and was buried in Williamson
Co., Ill.
Her marker in Russell Cemetery in
Williamson Co., Ill., reads:
John L.
Martin 1862-1946 Virginia F.
Martin 1867-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Elizabeth
Cox, living near Tamms, died soon after being struck by a car driven
by Lester
Bean
of Mounds on Wednesday of last week.
She was 85 years old and stepped, the
testimony showed, into the road in the path
of the coming car just as another car moved
out.
(Her death certificate states that Elizabeth
Cox,
of Tamms, Ill., was born 22 Jun 1852, in
Wayne City, Ill., the daughter of Elizabeth
Harlen, died 7 Jul 1937, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., and was
buried in Delta Cemetery in Alexander Co.,
Ill.
She was the wife of Socratis H.
Cox,
who was born Nov. 19, 1855, and died Dec.
31, 1928.
Her marker there reads:
Elizebeth
Cox Jan. 22, 1855 July 7, 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Judith Ann
Bierbaum, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto
Bierbaum, of Olmsted, born Tuesday morning, died Tuesday night at 8
o'clock.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon
from the residence.
Interment was in the Masonic Cemetery at
Olmstead, with G. A.
James
in charge.
(Her death certificate states that Judith Ann
Bierbaum was born 13 Jul 1937, in
Olmstead, Ill., the son of Otto
Bierbaum, a native of Germany, and
Wilmont
Crippen, a native of Ullin, Ill., died
13 Jul 1937, in Olmstead, Ill., and was
buried in Olmstead, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Louis J.
Egner
died at his home near Dam 53 Tuesday morning
after an illness of several months.
Karcher Brothers were in charge.
(His death certificate states that Louis J.
Egner,
farmer, was born 11 Jul 1888, in Illinois,
the son of August
Egner
and Elizabeth
Huffman, a native of St. Louis, Mo.,
died 13 Jul 1937, in Olmstead, Ill., the
husband of Pearl
Egner,
and was buried at Olmstead.—Darrel
Dexter)
Louis J. Egner
Louis J.
Egner, 49, died Tuesday, July 13, at his home near Dam 53 after a
lingering illness.
Surviving are three daughters, Ethel
May, 17, Betty, 9, and Clara, 7; one son,
Louis Wayne, 15; three stepchildren, Robert
Greer
of Cairo, Mrs. Opal
Greer
and Miss Edna
Greer
of Junction City; his mother, Mrs. August
Egner
of Olmstead; one sister, Mrs. Lawrence
Harman of Ullin; and one brother, August
Egner
of Chicago.
Funeral services and burial were held
at Concord Cemetery Wednesday afternoon at 2
o’clock.
Tragic Drowning in Mississippi at Cairo
Frank Richard
Dresden, 38, a fisherman met death by drowning in the Mississippi
River Monday under unusual circumstances.
Dresden had been employed to stand by in
a boat beneath the Mississippi River bridge
for the rescue of painters working on the
bridge in case one should fall into the
river.
The high waves made by a passing
steamboat swept over his small boat and
Dresden was thrown into the water, the
accident occurring about 10:30 a.m. Monday.
The boat was anchored, but he
evidently drifted too far away from it to
regain it.
With an oar in each hand he buffeted
the waves and kept afloat for some time.
Miss Rosa
Willing, 18, daughter of Frank
Willing, another fisherman, jumped into
another boat and rowed within 30 yards of
Dresden, who was all the time being
carried downstream.
When he saw the girl he turned loose
of one oar and raised the free hand,
calling, “Hi.”
He must have been too exhausted to
recover the oar and unable to hold himself
afloat, as he soon sank and she never saw
him again.
With hands blistered and the hot sun
beaming down on her, the girl covered the
place where she had last seen him and
recovered one oar and finally the other, the
last one near Wickliffe, Ky.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 23 Jul 1937:
Mrs. Ira Wise
Mrs. Ada Belle
Wise, age 54, wife of Ira
Wise of Olmstead, died at her home
Tuesday morning, July 20, following a three
weeks’ illness.
She leaves her husband, three
daughters, Mrs. Myrtle
Rutherman, Mrs. Sybil
Copeland, Miss Mary __
Wise;
one son, Kenneth
Wise,
of Olmstead; three sisters, Mrs. __nie
Kendell of Vienna, Mrs. Ola ___ter
of Harrisburg and Mrs. Lulu __rkley
of Benton; also one brother, Robert
Wickam of Vienna.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the M. E. Church
South, of which she was a devout member.
The Rev. D. B. ___ce
officiated.
Burial was made in the Masonic
Cemetery at Olmstead, _ A.
James
directing.
Mother of Mrs. P. T. Langan Dies Suddenly
Tuesday Morning
Mrs. Frances
Chrest Rennie of Cairo, widow of the late James E.
Rennie, died Tuesday morning at nine
o’clock following a heart attack at her
home, 507 Twenty-eighth Street.
Mrs.
Rennie was born July 29, 1850, in Springfield, Ohio, removing to
Cairo at the time of her marriage.
Mr.
Rennie died a little more than a year
ago and Mrs.
Rennie had continued to reside at the
home in which they had spent so many years.
She was alert mentally and able to go
about until the day of her death.
She was an active member of the
Egyptian Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution and attended the last meeting of
the year, held on Flag Day, June 14.
She leaves one daughter, Mrs. P. T.
Langan of Cairo; one brother, George
Chrest of St. Paul, Minn.; seven
grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at the residence, the Rev. C.
Robert
Dunlap of the Lutheran Church officiating.
Interment was made in Villa Ridge
cemetery, her grandsons serving as casket
bearers.
(According to her death certificate,
Frances
Chrest Rennie was born 29 Jul 1850, in
Springfield, Ill., the daughter of
Jacob P.
Chrest, a native of Hagerstown, Md., and
Sarah Jane
Athen,
a native of Springfield, Ohio, died 20 Jul
1937, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., widow
of J. F.
Rennie, and was buried at Villa Ridge, Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker in Cairo City Cemetery at
Villa Ridge reads:
Frances
Rennie July 29, 1849 July 20,
1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Dr. William J. Whitaker
Dr. William J.
Whitaker, 65, died at his home in Dongola Saturday morning, July 17.
Dr.
Whitaker had been practicing medicine in Southern Illinois for 37
years and had been located at Dongola for
the past six years.
He leaves his wife; one son, Hall
Whitaker of Dongola; four sisters, Mrs.
Arleta
McElroy, Harrisburg, Mrs. Martha
Burris and Mrs. Geneva
Brown
of Vienna, Mrs. A. L.
Compton of Marion.
He was a prominent member of the
Masonic Lodge and of the M. E. Church at
Harrisburg.
Burial was made at Vienna Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. John L. Martin of Olmstead Dies July 15
Mrs. Virginia
Martin, wife of John L.
Martin of Olmstead, died at her home at
eight o’clock Thursday morning, July 15, at
the age of 69 years.
Her health had been failing for the
past five years.
Surviving are her husband and one
daughter, Mrs. Grace
Comstock of Carbondale.
Funeral services were held at the M.
E. church in Olmstead Sunday afternoon at
one o’clock, the Rev.
Kezee
officiating.
Mrs.
Martin had been active in the work of
this church.
Burial was in Russell Cemetery two
miles west of Carterville, the
Wilson Funeral Service directing.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Stern
and Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
Atherton attended the funeral of Dr. W.
J.
Whitaker of Dongola who was buried at
Vienna Sunday.
Mrs. L.
Hodge
and son Roy were called to Bay City Sunday
to attend the funeral of the former’s
nephew, Dewey
Weeks.
(His death certificate states that
Dewey
Weeks, Jr., was born 29 Jan 1932, in New
Liberty, Pope Co., Ill., the son of Dewey
Weeks and Mary Henretta
Johnson, natives of Illinois, died 16
Jul 1937, in Golconda, Pope Co., Ill.
His marker in Azotus Cemetery in Pope
Co., Ill., reads:
Dewey Jr.
Weeks
Jan. 29, 1937 July 16, 1937 He Was The
Sunshine Of Our Home.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 23 Jul 1937:
Mrs. Ada Belle
Wise, age 54, wife of Ira
Wise, died at her home in Olmstead
Tuesday morning, July 20, following an
illness of three weeks.
Besides her husband, she leaves three
daughters, Mrs. Myrtle Ruth___man,
Mrs. Sybil
Copeland, Miss Mary Lou
Wise;
one son, Kenneth
Wise,
all of Olmstead, and many other relatives.
Services were held Thursday at the M. E.
Church South of Olmsted by Rev. D. B.
Kazee
officiating.
Interment was made in the Masonic
Cemetery at Olmsted.
G. A.
James was in charge of the arrangements.
(James J.
Wickhaus married Amanda M.
Darter on 3 Dec 1874, in Johnson Co., Ill.
Her death certificate states that Ada
Belle
Wise was born 30 Jan 1883, in
Bloomfield, Ill., the daughter of James
Wickham and Amanda
Darter, native of Illinois, died 20 Jul
1937, in Olmstead, Pulaski Co., Ill., the
wife of Ira
Wise.
Her marker in Olmsted Masonic
Cemetery reads:
Ada Belle
Wise Jan. 30, 1883 Sept. 20, 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Miss Benita
Schneider, 18 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George
Schneider, of DuQuoin, was killed by a
bolt of lightning during an electrical
storm, Thursday, July 15.
Surviving, in addition to her parents, are two
brothers, Harold and Melvin; and two
sisters, Florine and Pauline; all of whom
reside at the home of their parents.
Funeral services were conducted Monday, July
19, from the Sacred Heart Church, with Fr.
C. N.
Haffner in charge.
Burial was made in Sacred Heart
Cemetery.
(According to her death certificate, Benita
Elizabeth
Schneider was born 10 Oct 1918, in
DuQuoin, Ill., the daughter of George Peter
Schneider and Viola Mann,
natives of DuQuoin, Ill., and died 15 Jul
1937, in Perry Co., Ill., and was buried in
DuQuoin, Perry Co., Ill.
She was buried in Section C-32, lot 1
in McElvain
Cemetery.—Darrel Dexter)
Dr. William J.
Whiteaker, 65, died at his home in Dongola, Saturday, July 17.
Although confined to his home a short
time he had been in ill health several
months.
Dr.
Whiteaker had practiced for 37 years
while living throughout Southern Illinois.
He resided in Pulaski for several
years and in Dongola the past six years.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Alice
Whitaker; and one son, Hall of Dongola;
and many other relatives and friends.
He was a brother of the late Dr. Hall
Whiteaker formerly of Mound City.
Dr.
Whiteaker was a member of the Caledonia
Lodge No. 47 A. F. & A.M. of Pulaski, Royal
Arch Masons of Cairo, Royal Neighbors and
Modern Woodmen, both of Dongola.
The funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at the M. E. church in Vienna,
conducted by the Rev. J. B.
Jones,
assisted by Rev. J. G.
Hurley.
Caledonia Lodge No. 47 A. F. & A.M. officiated
at the burial in Fraternal Cemetery at
Vienna.
(William J.
Whiteaker married Alice E.
Mathis on 21 Nov 1900, in Johnson Co.,
Ill.
His marker in Vienna Fraternal
Cemetery states Dr. William Joseph
Whiteaker was born 11 Jan 1872, and died
17 Jul 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Funeral services are to be held at St.
Raphael's Church for Joseph
Slaughter, 64, a farmer living northwest
of Mounds, who was killed Tuesday night when
his team ran away and he was thrown out on a
road northwest of Mounds.
The accident happened about 8:30
o'clock and he lived until 2 a.m.
A broken neck or fractured skull
brought death.
Residents along the road heard the team
running and the wagon clattering.
They also heard him alluding to the
team to quiet them.
A little later, Claude
Moore, and Bertha McClellan
found
Slaughter in the road unconscious and
injured.
They picked him up, placed him in
their small truck and hauled him to the
McClellan home where medical aid was summoned.
He was later moved to his own home.
He roused enough to talk, inquire
about his team and complain of a terrible
pain in his head.
Towards midnight he lapsed into
unconsciousness and passed away.
His wife, four daughters and three sons
survive.
The children are:
Mrs. Roy
Volner, Mrs. Paul
Essex,
and Mrs. Lee
Griffin, all of Alton, and Mrs. Ernest
Bowles, who lives near Mounds.
Two sons, Bernard and Robert, live at
Alton and Joseph, Jr., lives at Memphis.
A coroner’s inquest resulted in a
verdict of accidental death.
Testimony showed that the team of mules he
drove was fractious and that he had trouble
with them.
The wrecked wagon and the team were
evidence of what had happened.
(Joseph Henry
Slaughter, 24, mechanic, born in Mound City, Ill., son of William
Slaughter and Mary
Reed,
married on 27 Apr 1897, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill., Anna E.
Cheery
17, of Mound City, born in Bowling
Green, Ky., daughter of R. H.
Cherry
and Elisabeth
Reeves.
His death certificate states that
Joseph Henry
Slaughter, carpenter, was born 8 May 1873, in Mound City, Ill., the
son of William
Slaughter and Emma
Reed,
a native of Tennessee,
and died 28 Jul 1937, in Pulaski Co., Ill., the husband of Anna
Slaughter.—Darrel
Dexter)
(George W.
Thompson married Lucinda
Miller on 4 Jul 1867, in Union Co., Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Lucienda E.
Thompson was born 27 Jan 1852, in North
Carolina, the daughter of Daniel
Miller, died 24Jul 1937, in Tamms,
Alexander Co., Ill., the widow of George W.
Thompson, and was buried in Miller Cemetery near Elco, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
We wish to thank our friends and neighbors for the many
courtesies, the helpful and kind acts, for
the flowers and for their assistance during
the illness and death of our wife and
mother, Mrs. Ada Bell
Wise.
Former Carbondale Boy to Hang for Murder
Robert
Kenyon, a resident of Carbondale twelve years ago, was sentenced to
death by hanging Friday for the kidnapping
and murder of __. J. C. B.
Brown
of Willow Springs, ___.
When the verdict was heard,
Kenyon asked for a cigarette and lighted
it seemingly unconcerned.
Kenyon’s father was a mechanic in Carbondale for a period of five
years.
Mrs. Helen Post Wood
Mrs. Helen Post Wood, 75, died at her home east of Karnak Friday night, July 23, at
10:30 o’clock following a long illness. She
had been a widow for 13 years.
She leaves four children, Mrs. August
Inman,
Mrs. George
Walter and Otis
Wood of Karnak, and Estes
Wood of Grand Chain; one sister, Mrs.
Cora
Berry of Karnak and one brother, Willis
Anderson of Grand Chain.
Funeral services were held at the
Anderson Church Sunday afternoon at 2
o’clock, the Rev. Mr.
Isaacs of Crab Orchard officiating.
Interment was in Anderson Cemetery
with the
Wilson Funeral service directing.
(Napoleon
Wood married Helen Anderson
on 21 Mar 1880, in Massac Co., Ill.
Newt
Anderson married Nancy
Castleberry on 22 May 1851, in Union
Co., Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Helen Post
Woods
was born 22 Aug 1861, in Union Co., Ill.,
the daughter of Newt
Anderson and Nancy Castlebury,
died 23 Jul 1937, in Massac Co., Ill., widow
of Napoleon
Wood, and was buried in Massac Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Joseph Slaughter Fatally Injured by Runaway
Team
Joseph
Slaughter, a farmer living near here, was fatally injured Tuesday
night about 9:30 o’clock when a mule team he
was driving got out of control on the road
near the Clarence
Taylor farm.
Mr.
Slaughter was found lying in the road with his head badly injured by
Bertha
McClellan and Claud
Moore
who removed him to the
McClellan home nearby and made him as
comfortable as was possible while they sent
for a doctor.
Mrs. Ernest
Bowles, a daughter of Mr.
Slaughter, was called and he regained
consciousness for brief periods, during
which time he recognized his daughter.
Following the arrival of the doctor
and the administration of treatment, Mr.
Slaughter was removed to his home.
The seriousness of his condition was
not realized until his death which occurred
soon after midnight.
Mrs.
Slaughter was visiting three of her children who live in Alton and
Mrs.
Bowles was the only member of the
immediate family present at his death.
Coroner’s jury gave a verdict of
accidental death.
He leaves his wife and seven
children:
Mrs. Roy
Volner, Mrs. Paul Essex,
Mrs. Lee
Griffin, all of Alton, and Mrs. Ernest
Bowles of Mounds, Bernard and Robert
Slaughter of Alton and Joseph Jr., of
Memphis, Tenn.
One son died several years ago.
Also surviving are a sister, Mrs. Ed
Bergman of Cairo; and two brothers, William of Cairo and George of
Detroit; and nine grandchildren.
His age was 64 years.
Funeral services will be held today
(Friday) at 9 a.m. at St. Raphael’s Church
with Rev. Father
Gilmartin officiating.
The
Ryan
Funeral Service will direct.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 6 Aug 1937:
Sister of S. A. and M. M. Shifley Dies at
Home in Ullin
Mrs. Flora Belle
Adkins died at her home in Ullin
Saturday, July 31, at 2:30 a.m. after a
three-month illness.
Flora Belle
Shifley, daughter of Elizabeth
Davis
Shifley and Alfred
Shifley, was born near Dongola,
Illinois.
In 1898 she was married to J. T.
Adkins, who passed away 16 years ago.
To this union were born eight
children, six of whom survive, namely:
Robert of East St. Louis, Terrill of
Ullin, Blanche
Rhymer of Cape Girardeau, Mo., Ferban
Darett of East St. Louis, Beatrice
Ragsdale and Flora Belle
Brown
of Ullin.
Also surviving are twelve
grandchildren, three brothers, Henry
Shifley of Ullin, S. A. and M. M.
Shifley of Mounds; and two half
brothers, William
Shifley of Anna and Logan
Jones
of Peoria.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at three o’clock at the Ullin
Baptist Church, the Rev. Mr.
Peterson of Cape Girardeau officiating.
Burial was in Butteridge Cemetery,
the
Rhymer Funeral Service directing.
Memorial Service at Shiloh
A memorial service was held at Shiloh
Church Sunday, August 1st, in
memory of Edward
Haller, who died in the hospital at
Anna, Feb. 8, during the high water.
The body was buried by G. A.
James
undertaker without a funeral service, as it
was not convenient to have a service at that
time.
Mr.
Haller was born and reared at Kokomo, Indiana.
He was 74 years old.
He was married to Mrs. Sarah
Atherton, who preceded him in death
about 5 years ago.
There were no children.
He is survived by one sister, Mrs.
Josie
Beckum; and two nephews, William and
Fred
Beckum, of Kokomo, Ind.; a
step-daughter, Mrs. Homer
Beegle, of Mounds; a step-granddaughter,
Mrs. C. W.
Fuller, of Graterford, Pa.; and a step-grandson, Robert
Jones,
of Urbandale, Ill.
Mr.
Haller had been a Christian for 50 years and was a member of Shiloh
Baptist Church.
The service was conducted by Rev. W.
J.
Ward of Dongola, a friend of the family.
(His death certificate states that
Edward
Haller, common laborer,
was born 4 Mar 1863, in White Co., Ind.,
the daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth
Haller, died 8 Feb 1937, in Union Co.,
Ill., the widower of Elizabeth
Haller, and was buried in Pulaski Co., Ill.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 6 Aug 1937:
Flora Bell
Adkins, 57, died at her home in Ullin Saturday, July 31.
She had been ill for some time.
Her husband, J. T.
Adkins, died about sixteen years ago.
Surviving her are six children,
Robert and Ferban
Darett, of East St. Louis, Beatrice
Ragsdale, Flora Belle
Brown,
and Terrell of Ullin; and Blanche
Rhymer of Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Services were held at the First
Baptist Church of Ullin.
(John Thomas
Adkins, 42, of Ullin, Ill., farmer, born in Marion Co., Ala., son of
Robert
Adkins and Margaret
Andetond, married 3rd on 15
Aug 1897, in Pulaski Co., Ill., Flora Bell
Shively, 18, of Ullin, Ill., born in
Union Co., Ill., daughter of Alford R.
Shifley and Elisabeth
Davis.
Alfred C.
Shiffle, 40, from Dongola, Ill., married
Elizabeth
Davis,
33, from Mill Creek, Ill., on 28 Dec 1876,
in Union Co., Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Flora Bell
Adkins was born 15 Aug 1880, in Dongola,
Ill., the daughter of Alfred
Shifley, a native of Germany, and
Elizabeth
Davis,
a native of North Carolina, died 31 Jul
1937, in Ullin, Ill., the widow of J. T.
Adkins.
Her marker in Butter Ridge Cemetery
near Ullin reads:
Flora B.
Adkins Aug. 15, 1880 July 31,
1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Ernest
Simpson, an employee of the Ladoga
Canning Company, was called to Columbus,
Ky., Wednesday morning because of the
serious injuries inflicted upon his sister,
Mrs. W. J.
Morse,
by her husband.
Morse, infuriated and probably half insane because
of his wife, remonstrated about the
treatment of the children, slashed the
throats of three children aged one, three
and five, as they lay sleeping and
The boy ran from the house and was found dead
a short distance away.
He then attacked and stabbed his
wife, and she was reported in a critical
condition.
No word has been received here up
until noon
Morse is said to be an ex-soldier and to have been
gassed in the war.
This is not verified.
He was removed from Columbus for safe
keeping.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 13 Aug 1937:
Mrs. J. W.
Morse, of Columbus, Ky., sister of Ernest
Simpson of this city, is expected to die, the fifth victim of her
husband who suddenly seized a knife in a fit
of temper and stabbed and killed his four
Word is now that
Morse had threatened his wife about a week or so before, but at the
time this happened, no violent quarrel had
provoked it.
An empty bottle that had contained
liquor was found, and while
Morse
drank little or seldom, it is thought that
he was drinking when he seized a knife that
had been made in Mound City by Mr.
Simpson only a few weeks ago, and began
stabbing and cutting the children as they
lay sleeping.
The 8-year-old boy awakened to run to
his mother and was stabbed.
Later his father came upon him as he
lay some distance from the house and
brutally trampled him to death.
Nadine
Richards, six months old, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur
Richards of Olmsted, died Saturday night following an illness of
several weeks.
Funeral services were held at Cache Chapel
with Rev. E. A.
Thomas of Pulaski officiating.
Interment was made in Cache Chapel
cemetery.
She leaves two small sisters besides her
parents.
Wilson Funeral Service directed the funeral.
(Her death certificate states that Nadine
Richards was born 23 Jan 1937, in Ullin,
Ill., the daughter of Wilbur
Richards, a native of Ullin, Ill., and
Erma
Poole, a native of Mill Creek, Ill.,
died 7 Aug 1937, in Road District 5, Pulaski
Co., Ill., and was buried in Cache Chapel
Cemetery near Ullin, Ill.
Her marker there reads:
Nadine
Richards Jan. 23, 1937 Aug. 6,
1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 13 Aug 1937:
Brother and Sister Killed in Separate
Accidents
Rolla
Ferrill, of Unionville, was killed Friday morning when his loaded
coal truck rolled down grade at the home of
Fowler
Moseley near Unionville.
Ferrill had left the truck cab when the truck started to roll down
grade and
Ferrill ran in front of it to get into
the cab.
He was caught between the truck and a
fence and his head, arms and legs crushed.
Funeral services were conducted at
the Unionville Christian Church Sunday
afternoon by Rev. J. D.
Waters, followed by interment in the
Pell Cemetery here by Undertaker W. P.
Baynes.
An inquest was held by Coroner W. P.
Baynes and a verdict of accidental death
was returned.
A sister of Mr.
Ferrill, Mrs. Alda
Ferrill Devers, 54, wife of Charles
Devers of Hodgenville, Ky., was killed
en route to attend the funeral of her brother, when the car in which
she was riding overturned four times 12
miles east of Henderson.
Brookport Independent
(When he registered for the draft,
Rolla Rhyne
Ferrill, of Unionville, Massac Co.,
Ill., stated he was born 18 Feb 1884, and
was a blacksmith and a miller.
His death certificate states that
Rolla R.
Ferrill, truck driver, of Brookport,
Massac Co., Ill., was born 18 Feb 1885, in
Kentucky, the son of Betty B.
Gardner, a native of West Virginia, died
30 Jul 1937, in Road District 1, Massac Co.,
Ill., husband of Lucille
Ferrill, and was buried in Pell Cemetery in Massac Co., Ill.
Her marker in Red Hill Cemetery in
Hodgenville, Larue Co., Ky., reads:
Alda wife of C. W.
Dever
1877-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mother of Mrs. Ada Stone Dies at Home in
Kansas
Word has been received from Mrs. Ada
Stone
of the death of her mother, Mrs. Kathyrn
Lyerla of Chrestline, Kansas, who was
known in this vicinity, having visited her
daughter here at various times.
Mrs.
Stone
was called to Chrestline last week by her
mother’s serious illness.
(Her marker in Park Cemetery,
Columbus, Cherokee Co., Kan., reads:
Mother Kathyrn S.
Lyerla 1851-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 20 Aug 1937:
Mrs. W. O. Peeler
Mrs. Stella
Peeler, age 63 years, died Thursday morning, August 5, at her home
in Cypress following a long illness. She was
an active member of the M. E. Church.
She leaves her husband, W. O.
Peeler; three sons, Dr. William R.
Peeler of Dayton, Ohio, E. L.
Peeler of Karnak, Luther
Peeler of West Carrollton, Ohio; one
daughter, Mrs. O. D.
Hunter of Cypress; her mother, Malinda
Sowers of Ullin; three sisters, Mrs.
Garl
Hartman of Dongola, Mrs. Ray
Mowery of Ullin and Mrs. William
Shelton of Pontiac, Mich.; three
brothers Rev. T. B.
Sowers of Greenville, Roy
Sowers of Dix, and Seth
Sowers of St. Louis.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the M. E. church
in Cypress, with Rev. Lee
Darnell of West Frankfort officiating,
assisted by Rev. Earl
Meyer
of Cypress.
Burial was in the Masonic Cemetery at
Cypress.
Methodist ministers served as casket
bearers under the direction of the
Wilson Funeral Service.
(W. O. Peeler married on 28 May
1893, in Johnson Co., Ill., Flora S.
Sowers.
Her
death certificate states that Flora Estella
Peeler was born 17 Jun 1874, in Pulaski Co., Ill., the daughter of
Eli
Sowers, a native of Pulaski Co., Ill.,
and Malinda
Braddy, a native of Alexander Co., Ill.,
died 12 Aug 1937, in Cypress, Johnson Co.,
Ill., the wife of W. O.
Peeler, and was buried in Masonic
Cemetery at Cypress.
Her marker there reads:
At Rest Father William O.
Peeler 1873-1959 Mother Flora E.
Peeler 1874-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Virginia Bristol
Mrs. Virginia W.
Bristol, who died Sunday morning at the
Methodist Old Folks Home at Lawrenceville,
was brought to Mounds Tuesday morning and
taken to the
James
Funeral Home.
Funeral services were held at 1:30
o’clock that afternoon at Beech Grove
Cemetery, Rev. Robert
Morrin, superintendent of the Old Folks
Home, officiating, assisted by Rev. P. R.
Glotfelty, pastor of the local M. E.
Church.
Mrs.
Bristol was a former resident of Cairo.
(Her death certificate states that
Virginia W.
Bristol was born 24 Feb 1864, in
McClure, Ill., the daughter of John
Bracken, a native of South Carolina, and Isabelle
Wiseman, a native of Illinois, died 15
Aug 1937, at the M. E. Old Folks Home in
Lawrenceville, Lawrence Co., Ill., and was
buried in Beech Grove Cemetery in Mounds,
Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Mary E. Trott Dies at Home of Her
Daughter
Mrs. Mary E.
Trott, age 85, died Wednesday, August 4, at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Otto
Ohmart, following a long illness.
The immediate cause of her death was
a paralytic stroke.
She had made her home with her
daughter for the past eleven years.
A number of years ago she lost her
eyesight, but was able to get about the home
quite well.
She had been a member of the
Methodist church since childhood.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.
Ohmart of this city and Mrs. Elizabeth
Martin of Paris, Ill.; two sons, W. F.
Trott
of Evansville, Ind., and J. S.
Trott,
of Paris.
W. F. was with her at the time of her
death.
Also surviving are eighteen
grandchildren and seventeen
great-grandchildren.
Brief services were held Thursday
afternoon at the G. A.
James
Funeral Home with P. R.
Glotfelty, M. E. pastor, officiating,
after which the body was sent to Paris,
Ill.,
via the New York Central Railroad, Mr.
and Mrs.
Ohmart and family and W. F.
Trott
driving through by auto to Paris where
services were held and burial made on Friday
by the side of her husband, who died in
1918.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 20 Aug 1937:
John
Arms, policeman at Johnston City, shot
and killed last week, Curtis
Williams, 40 years of age, when he
resisted arrest, according to Johnston City
papers.
Arms
had gone to the house to serve a
(His death certificate states that Curtis M.
Williams, a barber at Johnston City,
Ill.,
was born 23 Jun 1902, in Karnak, Ill.,
the son of Monroe
Williams and Laura
Hays,
natives of Illinois, died 10 Aug 1937, in
Johnston City, Williamson Co., Ill., husband
of Ohio
Williams, and was buried in Inna,
Jefferson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Leonard Earl
Penrod, 16 years old, living southwest of Vienna, was fatally
injured on August 4, according to the
Vienna
Times, when he slid down the hay in a
barn, about eight feet and hit his spine.
He and his companion started to race
out of the barn to get a drink while
unloading hay, and
Penrod, when he did not show up, was
found on the floor.
In sliding down the hay, he had
turned and fallen in such a way that his
back was hurt and one side was paralyzed.
He died the day after the fall.
(The death certificate of Leonard Earl
Penrod states that he was born 13 Sep
1921, in Vienna, Johnson Co., Ill., the son
of Millie
Penrod and Veira Morgan,
natives of Vienna, Ill., and died 5 Aug
1937, in Johnson Co., Ill., and was buried
four miles west of Vienna in Bridges
Cemetery.
His marker there reads:
Leonard E.
Penrod Sept. 13, 1921 Aug. 5, 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Mary E.
Trott, aged 85 years, died Wednesday, August 11, at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Otto
Ohmart, in Mounds.
The cause of her death was apoplexy.
She leaves two daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth
Martin, Paris, Ill., and Mrs. Otto
Ohmart, Mounds, Ill.; two sons, W. F.
Trott,
Evansville, Ind., and J. S.
Trott,
Paris, Ill.; also 18 grandchildren and 17
great-grandchildren.
The services were Thursday afternoon at
James
Funeral Home in Mounds, with Rev. P. R.
Glotfelty officiating.
The body was taken to Paris,
Illinois, where interment was made in Edgar
Cemetery beside her husband who preceded her
in death in 1918.
G. A.
James was in charge of arrangements.
(According to her death certificate, Mary E
Trott
was born 19 Nov 1851, in Calvert Co., Md.,
the daughter of William
Dare,
a native of Maryland, died 11 Aug 1937, in
Mounds, Ill., the husband of John
Trott,
and was buried in Edgar Cemetery in Paris,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Miss Merel
Rawlins of LaCenter, Ky., who formerly taught the primary grade
here, in Mound City about 1930, died the
first of last week at LaCenter of heart
trouble.
Funeral services were Wednesday,
according to word received here.
Several relatives and friends attended the funeral of Mrs.
Flora
Peeler Sunday in Cypress.
She was formerly from this place.
Clement Felix
Melton, prominent businessman and school official of Mounds, for
many years passed away at his home Wednesday
morning.
He had been ill for several months,
but the last two months found him worse.
Mr.
Melton, aged 58, had lived in Mounds for
33 years and was associated with his
brother, Herbert, in the grocery business on
North Oak Street.
He was president of the Board of
Education of School District No. 6 and a
member and officer for more than 25 years.
He was re-elected last April for a
one-year term.
Mr.
Melton joined the Methodist Church when
he was quite young and was very attentive
until ill health kept him close to home.
A few weeks before his death, he was
able, with the assistance of his brother, to
attend church and receive communion.
Services will be held at 2:30 this afternoon
with Rev. P. R.
Glotfelty pastor of the M. E. church of
Mounds, officiating.
He will be laid to rest in Spencer
Heights Cemetery with G. A.
James
in charge.
He is survived by his wife, Marrie; a
daughter, Ruth of Effingham; four brothers,
two sisters, and many other relatives.
Mr.
Melton had many friends in Mounds who
will sympathize with the family and mourn
his death.
(His death certificate states that Clement
Felix
Melton, grocer, was born 16 Feb 1879, in
Sharon, Tenn., the son of Matthew
Melton, a native of Camden, Tenn., and Luella
Ethridge, born in Paris, Tenn., died 25 Aug 1937, in Mounds, Ill.,
the husband of Morie
Melton, and was buried in Spencer
Heights Cemetery in Mounds, Ill.
His marker there reads:
Clement F.
Melton 1879-1937 Morie E.
Melton 1880-1950.—Darrel
Dexter)
Lufkin
Moses, 18 years of age, son of Mr. and
Mrs. George
Moses, of Mounds, died Wednesday morning about 8 o'clock at St.
Mary's Infirmary in Cairo of injuries
received about midnight Sunday in an
automobile accident near Sikeston, Mo.
The car struck an object or dodged
and hit a small culvert.
With him at the time were his parents, his
sister, Miss Cassie, and Miss Geneva
Hamaway, of New York, and Miss Luefta
Boalby and Miss Hanna
Joe
of Cairo.
The youth, who was driving, suffered
a broken leg, crushed chest, concussion of
the brain and a broken jaw.
The chest injury contributed much
towards his death.
Miss
Boalby had a broken shoulder, Miss Joe
was cut about the head and Miss Cassie had a
broken rib.
The accident rolled the car over and smashed
it until it is little wonder that others
were not killed and more seriously hurt.
Lufkin was a senior this year in the high school.
His funeral will be this morning from
the Catholic church at Mounds.
Besides his parents, he is survived
by two sisters, Cassie and Nida, and four
brothers.
The family is widely known and they
have many friends to sympathize with them in
their loss.
(The death certificate states that George
Lufkin
Moses
was born 14 Aug 1919, in Mounds, Ill.,
the son of George W.
Moses,
a native of Bittegrena, Syria, and Mary
Hamaway, a native of Damascus, Syria,
died 25 Aug 1937, in Cairo, Ill., and was
buried in St. Mary’s Cemetery at Mounds,
Ill.
His marker there reads:
Son Lufkin
Moses
Aug. 14, 1919 Aug 25, 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 27 Aug 1937:
C. F. Melton Dies Early Wednesday Morning
Clement Felix
Melton died Wednesday morning, August 25, at 7:20 o’clock after a
long and valiant struggle to regain his
health.
He had been ill for many months and
had been confined to his home through the
summer.
His age at death was 58 years.
Mr.
Melton was born at Sharon, Tenn., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mathew
Melton.
He came from Tennessee 33 years ago
and opened a general store.
With the aid of his brother, Herbert,
he has operated this business through all
these years, gradually closing out most of
the lines save the grocery.
He united with the Methodist Church
at the age of 13 and helped to organize the
local M. E. Church, transferring his
membership here.
He was superintendent of the M. E.
Sunday school for many years, member of the
church choir and male quartette and
prominent in all church activities.
He was president of the Board of
Education of School District No. 6, having
served in that capacity for a number of
years and before then was a member, the
entire service covering a quarter of a
century.
He is survived by his wife, Morrie
McWherter Melton; a daughter Ruth,
member of the high school faculty at
Effingham; four brothers, Herbert of Mounds,
Leonard and Gilbert of Chicago and Harvey of
Trumann, Ark.; two sisters, Mrs. Lizzie
Taylor of Martin, Tenn., and Mrs. Clara
Chandler of Dresden, Tenn., and many
other relatives less near.
Funeral services will be held this
(Friday) afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the
Methodist church, the Rev. P. R.
Glotfelty, pastor, officiating.
Burial will be made in Spencer
Heights Cemetery, G. A.
James
directing.
Lufkin Moses Dies from Injuries in Motor
Accident
Six Others Less Seriously Hurt When Car
Strikes Bridge Abutment
Lufkin
Moses, 18, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. George
Moses, was fatally injured in an auto accident which occurred Monday
morning about 1 o’clock one and one-half
miles east of Sikeston, Mo., when the car he
was driving struck a bridge abutment and
overturned as the party of seven in the
Moses
car was returning from Steele, Mo.
Mr. and Mrs.
Moses were riding in the front seat with
Lufkin, their daughter, Cassie, a cousin, Geneva
Hamaway of New York, Lutefa
Boalby and Hannah
Joe of Cairo in the back seat.
All were injured more or less
seriously.
Lufkin passed away early Wednesday morning at St. Mary’s Hospital,
Cairo, where he and his sister, Cassie, were
patients.
The others had been able to return
home after receiving first aid.
He suffered a crushed lower jaw,
broken leg, chest injuries, brain concussion
and internal hemorrhage.
Miss Cassie suffered two broken ribs
and chest injuries.
Mr.
Moses
received a severe injury to his neck and
both he and Mrs.
Moses
were severely bruised.
Miss
Boalby received a fractured shoulder,
Miss
Joe and Miss
Hamaway less serious injuries.
Mr. and Mrs.
Moses, their son and daughter were thrown clear of the car.
The others remained in it.
According to reports an oil can had
been dropped on the highway and
Lufkin, in an effort to avoid the can,
struck the bridge abutment overturning the
car, a Ford V-8 which was badly bent and
damaged.
Viewing the wrecked car, it seems a
miracle that anyone in it escaped alive.
Lufkin was a senior in Mounds Township High school.
His early and tragic death will be
mourned by a large circle of relatives and
friends.
Funeral services will be held at St.
Raphael’s Catholic Church this morning at
9:39 o’clock, the Rev. Father
Gilmartin officiating.
Interment will be made in St. Mary’s
Cemetery, J. T.
Ryan
directing.
Fred
Gulley and family attended the funeral
of his sister, Miss Marie
Gulley, which was held in Marion.
A 14-year-old boy named
Nelson was found critically ill under a
tree in their yard at Grand Tower last
Friday.
His brother went home at noon and
found the boy lying on the grass.
The boy did not want any dinner and
complained of being sick and that his
stomach hurt.
The brother assisted him and they
started to go into the house, but the sick
boy’s strength gave out and he had to lie
down under another tree.
Taken into the house finally, he was
placed on a bed.
When a doctor arrived, the boy was
found unconscious on another bed, not the
one where he had previously been placed.
At St. Andrew’s Hospital in
Murphysboro that evening the boy died.
Death was due, it was said, to
hemorrhage of the brain.—Anna
Talk
(His death certificate states that
Ira Lee
Nelson was born 22 Nov 1922, in Grand
Tower, Jackson Co., Ill., the son of Dain
Nelson, a native of Jackson Co., Ill., and Clara
Jones,
a native of Ava, Jackson Co., Ill., died 13
Aug 1937, in Murphysboro, Jackson Co., Ill.,
and was buried in Walker Hill Cemetery at
Grand Tower.
His marker there reads:
Son Ira Lee
Nelson 1922-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Early in the week the daily papers contained
an account of the death of three Americans
by shells in the Chinese war zone, one of
those being Prof. Robert Karl
Reischauer, of Princeton University, who
was traveling with 11 professors and
students of things Oriental—a tour under the
University Travel Bureau.
He was a son of Rev. A. K.
Reischauer, a former missionary, and now
head of a Christian college in Tokio, Japan,
who is a brother of Ed
Reischauer of Jonesboro.
Prof.
Reischauer had made a study of Oriental problems and was the author
of several books on Japanese history.
His father has been in Japan for many
years.—Anna Democrat
(The Report of the Death of an
American Citizen Abroad states that Robert
Karl
Reischauer was born 14 May 1907, and died 14 Aug 1937, at 5 p.m. at
Shanghai General Hospital in Shanghai,
China.
“Death caused by an exploding bomb
from a bombing plane.”
The
death certificate lists primary cause of
death “shock” and secondary cause “shell
wounds legs compound fractures legs.” His
widow was Jean
Reischauer, J-3 Prospect Apartments,
Princeton, N.J.; his parents were Dr. and
Mrs. Robert
Reischauer, Presbyterian Mission Board,
Tokyo, Japan; and his brother was Mr. Edwin
Reischauer, 106 Tatemoto, Izumu, Kami, Kyu-Ku Kyoto.
He
was cremated and his ashes buried in Tama
Reien Cemetery, Fuchu City, Tokyo,
Japan.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 3 Sep 1937:
Well Known Colored Resident Dies August 25
Mrs. Fanny
Taylor Evans, wife of Josh
Evans, passed away at her home on North
Elm Street Wednesday, August 25, following a
few days’ illness.
Born in Mississippi, she moved to
Tennessee while quite young.
She taught school in Martin, Tenn.,
before her marriage.
She came to Mounds in 1895 and has
since been an active member of Pilgrim Rest
Baptist Church and a teacher in the Sunday
school.
She is survived by her husband, Josh
Evans.
Her last blood relative, a brother,
died within a year.
Funeral services were held Saturday,
August 28, at 12 o’clock noon at Pilgrim
Rest Church, the Rev. L.
Thompson, pastor, officiating.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery.
Mrs. Anna Ledbetter
Mrs. Anna
Ledbetter, age 59 years, died at her home at 3:30 o’clock, Wednesday
morning, September 1, following a long
illness.
She was the widow of A. W.
Ledbetter, for many years a special
agent for the Illinois Central Railroad.
Besides her husband, one daughter,
Nellie, preceded her in death.
Surviving are one sister, Mrs. Della
Clanton, of Cairo, and two brothers,
Mide
Waterman of Miller City and Pearl
Waterman of Mounds; one step-brother,
Marion
Waterman, of Alton, Ill.; other
relatives and friends.
Funeral services will be held this
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Baptist church
with the Rev. T.
Ury
of Jonesboro officiating.
Burial will be made in Beech Grove
Cemetery, G. A.
James
directing.
Superintendent of Prison Farm Dies
P. N.
Lewis, superintendent of the farm at the Southern Illinois
Penitentiary at Menard, died Sunday in a
Murphysboro hospital after a brief illness.
Mr.
Lewis, a cousin of Speaker of the House Louie E.
Lewis,
was a former resident of Herrin and a
prominent civic worker in that city.
Later he purchased a large farm near
Marion and removed his family there,
remaining until Governor
Horner appointed him superintendent of
the prison farm.
(His death certificate states that
Phillip Napoleon
Lewis,
state employee, of Menard, Ill.,
was born 29 Jan 1870, in Creal Springs,
Ill., the son of Daniel
Lewis and Harriett Cash,
a native of Kentucky, died 29 Aug 1937, in
Murphysboro, Jackson Co., Ill., husband of
Ethel G.
Lewis,
and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in
Chester, Randolph Co., Ill.
His marker there reads:
Philip N.
Lewis 1870-1937 Ethel G.
Lewis 1880-1971.—Darrel
Dexter)
Among those from out of town who attended
the funeral of C. F.
Melton last Friday afternoon were Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Eastman and family of Anna.
Harold
Melton, who was called here by the death
of his uncle, C. F.
Melton, has returned to his work in
Chicago.
Harold is making good as a successful
salesman.
Leonard and Gilbert
Melton of Chicago and Harvey
Melton of Trumann, Ark., who were called
here by the death of their brother, C. F.
Melton, have returned to their homes.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to take this means of
thanking our many friends who did what they
could to lessen our sorrow in the loss of
our son and brother.
Especially those who ministered to
him in his last illness, who contributed
flowers, the choir that furnished the music
and Father
Jantzen and Father
Gilmartin who conducted the services.
Mr. and Mrs. George
Moses
and family
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 3 Sep 1937:
MOUNDS PIONEER DIED
Mrs. Anna
Ledbetter, 59, died at her home in
Mounds on Wednesday morning.
She had resided in Mounds for the
past 43 years.
Surviving are:
one sister, Mrs. __la
Clanton of Cairo; two brothers, Mid
Waterman of Miller City and Paul
Waterman of Mounds; also one stepbrother, Marion
Waterman of Alton; and many other
relatives and friends.
Funeral will be held this afternoon
at 2 o’clock at the Baptist church in
Mounds.
She will be laid to rest beside her
husband, A. L.
Ledbetter, in Beech Grove Cemetery.
The funeral arrangements are in
charge of G. A.
James.
(John W.
Cantrell married Martha
Cauble on 30 Dec 1869, in Union Co.,
Ill.
Charles W.
Waterman married Mrs. Martha
Cantrell on 23 Jan 1877, in Alexander
Co., Ill.
A. W.
Ledbetter, 36, of Carbondale, Ill., a railroad laborer, married on
24 Feb 1899, in Pulaski Co., Ill., Anna
Waterman, 24, of Beechwood, Ill.
W. T.
Clanton, 23, of Beechwood, Ill.,
carpenter, born in Olmsted, Ill., the son of
Jackson
Clanton and Henrietta Spence,
married on 31 Dec 1896, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill., Estella E.
Waterman, 17, of Beechwood, Ill., born in Thebes, Ill., daughter of
Charles
Waterman and Martha
Cauble.
Her death certificate states that
Anna
Ledbetter was born 15 Dec 1877, in Illinois, the daughter of Mr.
Cantrell and Martha
Cauble, a native of Illinois, died 1 Sep
1937, in Mounds, Ill., the widow of A. W.
Ledbetter, and was buried at Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
KILLED BY AUTO
Billy
Cline
was killed at his new home in South
Carolina.
He was struck by an auto.
Billy was a nephew of Mrs. Will
Crite
of Ullin.
He was the son of the late Frank
Cline,
an ex-soldier of the World War, who passed
away a year ago last April.
The widow and her children lived in
Dongola until a few weeks ago when they
moved to her former home in South Carolina.
Billy was deaf and dumb and it is thought
that this probably contributed to the cause
of his death.
(Frank
Cline
was born in 1891 in Alexander Co., Ill., the
son of Daniel
Cline
and Anna
Cantrell.
William Noah “Bill”
Crite married on 29 May 1910, in Ullin, Pulaski Co., Ill., Essie
Viola
Cline, the daughter of Daniel
Cline
and Anna
Cantrell.—Darrel Dexter)
Fanny
Evans, a highly respected colored woman,
died at her home in Mounds, Thursday, from a
stroke of apoplexy. (Mounds)
(Joshua
Evans, 25, of Beechwood, Ill., common laborer, colored, born in
Bardwell, Ky., son of Joe and Diana
Evans,
married on 25 Jan 1898, Fannie H.
Taylor, 21, of Beechwood, Ill., colored,
born in Cayuga, Miss., daughter of Pleasant
and Charity
Taylor.
According to her death
certificate, Fanny
Evans
was born 7 Nov 1881, in Itica, Miss., the
daughter of Pleasant
Taylor, a native of Mississippi, died 25 Aug 1937, in Mounds, Ill.,
the wife of Joshua
Evans,
and was buried in Thistlewood Cemetery at
Mounds.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 10 Sep 1937:
SISTER OF MOUND CITY WOMAN DIED
Mrs. Florence
Hopper McGee, wife of Charlie
McGee,
died at her home in Kentucky, Tuesday
following a two-day illness.
Mrs.
McGee
had been in bad health for some time, but
her sudden death was a shock to her family
and friends.
She was a Christian woman of high
standing in that community.
She leaves her husband, Charlie
McGee;
one son, Armstead
McGee,
of Columbus; two daughters, Mrs. Alice
Grogan of Mound City and Mrs. Mott
Samuel of Columbus, Ky.; four brothers,
John, Bob, Earl, and Lige
Hopper; two half-brothers Johnnie and Monroe
Hopper; and many other relatives and friends.
She lost two sons during the World War; one
was killed in action and the other died from
sickness.
The pallbearers were Mrs.
McGee’s
nephews, Omer
McGee,
Bernard
McGee, Earl McGee, Jessie
Hopper, and Calvin
Webb.
The flower girls were her granddaughters and
nieces.
Burial was in Columbus Cemetery.
(Her death certificate states that
Florence
Hopper McGee was born 20 Dec 1875, in
Kentucky, the daughter of John
Hopper and Sallie Collier,
natives of Kentucky, died 31 Aug 1937, in
Columbus, Hickman Co., Ky., of cerebral
hemorrhage, with chronic nephritis and
hypertension, the wife of Charlie
McGee,
and was buried at Columbus, Ky.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 10 Sep 1937:
James E. Law
James E.
Law, 24, of Cairo, died Friday morning, September 2, at St. Mary’s
Hospital, where he had undergone an
operation the day before.
Surviving are his wife, Brema
Hogendobler Law; one son, James William,
age six months; his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
James A.
Law
of Cairo; and other relatives.
Mr.
Law was proprietor of Heine’s
Café, Cairo.
He was a member of the Lutheran
Church, the Masonic and Elk lodges of Cairo.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at the Lutheran church at 2:30
o’clock, the pastor, Rev. C. Robert
Dunlap, officiating.
Burial was made in Beech Grove
Cemetery, Mounds, the Masonic Lodge
conducting services at the grave.
(His death certificate states that
James E.
Law
was born about 1913, the son of James A.
Law
and Caherine
Eichoff, died 3 Sep 1937, in Illinois,
husband of Brema E.
Law.—Darrel
Dexter)
Our community (Villa Ridge) was shocked
Friday by the news of the sudden death of
James E.
Law
of Cairo after an operation at St. Mary’s
Hospital, Thursday afternoon.
Mr.
Law
was the husband of Brema
Hogendobler Law, who, with a six months
old son, father and mother are left to
mourn.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Hogendobler of Newark, Ohio, were called
here Saturday by the sudden death of the
former’s brother-in-law, Jimmie
Law,
of Cairo.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 17 Sep 1937:
Oldest Illinois D. A. R. Member Dies Sunday
in Cairo
Mrs. Sarah Catherine
McCormick, of Cairo, died Sunday,
September 12, at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. E. M.
McGruder, of 738 Center Street, following several months of illness.
Had she lived until December 22, she
would have celebrated her 99th
birthday.
Mrs.
McCormick was the daughter of Louis and Sarah
Harrod Bottorff and was born in Clark County, Indiana, on December
22, 1838.
She was a pioneer American, with
Revolutionary soldiers on both sides of her
family, her great-grandfather, Capt. William
Harrod, having served under George
Rodgers
Clark
in the conquest of the Northwest Territory.
She was a member of the Egyptian
Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, being the oldest D. A. R. in the
State of Illinois.
She was married on November 13, 1860,
to Dr. Joseph C.
McCormick, who was accidentally killed
in an earth slide while exploring an Indian
mound near Knoxville, Tenn., October 3,
1887.
Since that time she has made her home
with her daughter, Mrs. E. M.
McGruder, moving to Cairo with them in
1899 from Paducah.
She was a member of the Paducah
Presbyterian Church.
Surviving are her daughter, two
grandsons, Millard
McGruder of Louisville, Ky., and Joseph
McGruder of Cairo; two brothers, Louis
Bottorff of Speed, Ind., and Moses E.
Bottorff of Jeffersonville, Ind.
Funeral services were held in Cairo
at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, Rev. Joseph
W. Fix, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, officiating.
Burial was in Thistlewood Cemetery,
Mounds.
(Her death certificate states that
Sarah Catherine
McCormick was born about 1839, the
daughter of Louis
Botroff and Sarah
Harrod,
and died 11 Sep 1937, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., the widow of
Joseph C.
McCormick.
Her marker in Beechwood Cemetery at
Mounds states she was born 22 Dec 1838, and
died 12 Sep 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Father of Rev. H. C. Croslin Dies Last
Friday Night
Word has been received here of the
death of H. L.
Croslin which occurred at his home six
miles east of West Frankfort last Friday
evening.
Mr.
Croslin was the father of Rev. H. C.
Croslin of Carrier Mills, a former
pastor of the First Baptist Church of
Mounds.
(Lonnie
Crosslin married Ellenora
Gettings on 18 Jun 1882, in Franklin
Co., Ill.
According to a death certificate,
L. C.
Croslin, farmer, of West Frankfort,
Ill., was born 20 Nov 1858, in Parish, Ill.,
the son of Thomas
Croslin and Elvira
Carter, natives of Tennessee, died 10
Sep 1937, in Frankfort, Franklin Co., Ill.,
widower of Gertrude
Bolinger, and was buried in East Fork Cemetery in Frankfort, Ill.
His marker there reads:
Our Mother Ella
Croslin 1865-1900 Alonzo
Croslin 1858-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Dr. Masaryk Dies
Dr. Thomas
Masaryk, first president of the Czecho-Slovakian Republic, died
Sept. 14.
Dr.
Masaryk, who was 87, had been critically ill since September 2.
We had the pleasure of hearing Dr.
Masaryk speak in Chicago a good many
years ago and have since held him in warm
admiration.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 24 Sep 1937:
Dies in California
Mrs. Lena
Black received word recently of the death of her cousin, George
Anthony, of Portersville, Calif., which
occurred at his home September 11.
He is survived by his wife and one
sister, Mrs. Fred
Itzenhauser, both of Portersville.
Mr.
Anthony and his mother visited in Mounds in the spring of 1917 and
were here during the cyclone which caused so
much damage in South Mounds and on the south
end of Blanche, Delaware and McKinley.
His mother was a sister of the late
Mrs. Phillip
Stern.
(The California Death Index states
that George
Anthony was born in 1886 and died 10 Sep
1937, in San Joaquin, Calif.
He was buried in Vandalia Cemetery in
Porterville, Tulare Co., Calif.—Darrel
Dexter)
Head of Anna State Hospital Died There
Sunday
Dr. R. A.
Goodner, age 74, died Sunday, September 19, at the Anna State
Hospital, where he held the position of
superintendent.
He had been ill for several months.
He is survived by one son, Sidney,
living in Nashville, Illinois.
Burial was made Tuesday in Nashville,
his former home.
Dr.
Goodner had served as managing officer under two governors, having
been appointed first during the
administration of Governor Edward F.
Dunne
in 1913.
He was reappointed in 1933 by
Governor Henry
Horner.
He had also served as superintendent
of the hospital at Kankakee.
(Ralph A.
Goodner married Mary C.
Fitzgerrell on 6 Jun 1888, in Jefferson
Co., Ill.
Madison
Goodner married Marietta
Cone
on 25 Sep 1862, in St. Clair Co., Ill.
According to his death certificate,
Ralph A.
Goodner, physician,
was born 17 Dec 1864, in Chester, Ill.,
the son of Madison M.
Goodner and Marietta
Cone,
natives of Illinois, died 19 Sep 1937, in
Road District 5, Union Co., Ill., widower of
Mary C.
Goodner, and was buried in Greenwood
Cemetery in Nashville, Washington Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Bone Gap Flyer Dies in Plane Crash
A navy biplane bound from Squantum,
Mass., to Norfolk, Va., crashed into thick
woods on a long Island North Shore estate
near Brookville, N. Y., Monday, killing both
occupants.
They were identified as S. A.
Mackenzie, a lieutenant and R. A.
Schmidt, naval aviator.
Mackenzie was from Winchester, Mass.,
and R. A.
Schmidt from Bone Gap, Ill.
Schmidt had escaped death by crawling from an overturned plane in
the legion of the United States Flying
School at Pensacola, Fla., a few months ago.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip
Schmidt of Bone Gap, the youth graduated
from the University of Illinois in 1935 and
enrolled in the Pensacola school in August
of the same year.
He received his commission May 19,
1937, and was stationed aboard the
U. S.
S. Yorktown.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 24 Sep 1937:
GUY BEAUMAN SUPPOSED TO HAVE ACCIDENTALLY
KILLED SELF
Guy
Beauman, brother of the late Mrs. George
Trammell of this city, and widely known
as an orchardist, was found by his son near
a wire fence late Saturday in a dying
condition.
His shotgun was nearby.
It is presumed that in crawling
through the fence he discharged the gun.
Beauman
had an immense orchard, working more people
in apple season than any other industry in
Johnson County.
His home was not far from Tunnel Hill
and was high up in the hills.
Not long ago, Mr.
Beauman had a serious car wreck, driving
his car into an abutment that came near
killing him.
(Derick F.
Beauman married Cynthia Caroline
Corgan on 22 Dec 1861, in Union Co.,
Ill.
His death certificate states that Guy
Beauman, horticulturalist at Tunnel
Hill, Ill., was born 23 Feb 1869, in Lick
Creek, Ill., the son of D.
Beauman, a native of Three Rivers,
Canada, and Carrie
Corgan, a native of Aurora, Ill.,
died 18 Sep 1937, in Vienna, Johnson Co.,
Ill., and was buried in Fraternal Cemetery
at Vienna.—Darrel
Dexter)
Several from here (Beech Grove) attended
Pete
Britt’s funeral in Ullin Monday p.m.
(This is likely the same person as
Russell
Britt,
whose funeral was in Ullin on this
day.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Glen
Hunter was called to the bedside of her
sister in Kentucky, who is seriously ill,
last Wednesday and returned home Sunday
night to attend the funeral of her
brother-in-law Monday.
(Beech Grove)
(The funeral was likely that of Mrs.
Hunter’s mother-in-law, Addie
Williamson.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Addie
Williamson of Peoria, formerly of Beech
Grove neighborhood, passed away at the home
of her daughter, Madge
Pierce, in Herrin, Ill., Sunday morning,
Sept. 12, after a two months’ illness.
She was 62 years of age.
Mrs.
Williamson was brought to the home of
her son, Glen
Hunter, until burial, Tuesday afternoon.
Funeral services were held for her at Mt.
Pisgah by Rev. W. J.
Ward and interment was made at Mt. Pisgah by Elmer
Ford.
She leaves her children, Glen
Hunter near Dongola, Mrs. Madge
Pierce, of Herrin, Mrs. Mae
Miller of Olmstead, Mrs. Daniel
Britt,
Elco, Mrs. Muriel
Williamson of Madison, Wis., Earl and
Jack
Williamson of Peoria; her father, Eli
Mowery of Detroit, Mich.; two sisters,
Mrs. Clara
Lentz
of Detroit, Mich., Mrs. Cora
Winstead of California; a brother,
Harvey
Mowery of Olmstead and several
grandchildren.
(Addie Elmina
Mowery, daughter of Eli
Mowery and Amanda Jane
Cruse, married on 3 Sep 1893, in Union Co., Ill., Elvis I.
Hunter, the son of Jasper Newton
Hunter and Alinta
Lee. Addie married 2nd
on 12 Apr 1908, in Pulaski Co., Ill.,
Matthew
Williamson.
According
to her death certificate, Addie L.
Williamson, of 312 South 20th
St., Herrin, Ill., was born 5 Mar 1875, in
Wetaug, Ill., the daughter of Eli
Mowery and Amanda
Cruse, natives of Illinois, died 12 Sep 1937, in Herrin, Williamson
Co., Ill., the widow of Mathew
Williamson, and was buried in Mt. Pisgah
Cemetery in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
A number from this place (Mounds) attended
the funeral of Russell
Britt at the Ullin M. E. Church, Monday afternoon.
Rev. Elmer
Smith conducted the funeral and interment was made in Ullin
Cemetery.
(According to his death certificate,
Russell
Britt,
farmer at Ullin, Ill., was born in 1909 in
Illinois, the son of W. R. and Mary Eugene
Britt,
died 17 Sep 1937, in Road District 5, Union
Co., Ill., husband of Darnel
Britt, and was buried in Ullin Cemetery.
His marker there reads:
Russell son of W. R. & Mary
Britt
1909-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 1 Oct 1937:
MRS. W. M. JONES DIES
Mrs. Mary
Jones
died at her home in Mounds Sunday after a
lingering illness.
She is survived by her husband, W. M.
Jones;
two sons and one daughter of Chicago.
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon
at Bardwell, Ky.
(Her death certificate states that Mary
Jones
was born 3 Sep 1894, in Bardwell, Ky., the
daughter of Tom
Boswell and Iola Matt,
natives of Bardwell, Ky., died 26 Sep 1937,
in Mounds, Ill., the wife of William
Jones,
and was buried in Bardwell, Ky.
Her marker in Bardwell Cemetery
reads:
Mary
Jones
Sept. 3, 1894 Sept. 26, 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
FORMER MOUND CITY WOMAN DIES AT CHAMPAIGN
Mrs. Sarah E.
Sims,
a resident of Mound City for the past 54
years died at the Burnham Hospital at
Champaign, Thursday, Sept. 30, at __a.m.
She and her daughter, Ora, went to Champaign
during the flood to stay with another
daughter, Mrs. ___rence
Reid.
Mrs.
Sims
remained at her daughter’s home until her
illness five weeks ago, when she was taken
to the hospital.
She leaves two daughters, son John of Cairo,
five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
The funeral services will be conducted at
the
James Funeral Home Saturday at 2 p.m. by
Rev. A. L. ___.
Mrs.
Sims
had been a devout member of the Methodist
Church in Mound City.
Burial will be in Beech Grove Cemetery
beside her husband who died in 1918.
JACOB E. BRADDY DIES
Jacob
Braddy died at the home of his son, B.
A.
Braddy, in Mounds, Saturday morning, at
the age of 86 years.
His death was not unexpected as he
had been ill for some time.
He leaves two sons, B. A.
Braddy and George
Braddy; one sister, Mrs. E. Showers
of Ullin; and one daughter, Mrs. J. S.
Scott
of Livingston, Ill.; and five grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon
at the Lutheran church at Jonesboro.
Rev. J. S.
Powell officiated.
Interment was made in Jonesboro Cemetery.
G. A.
James had charge of the funeral
arrangements.
(Jacob
Braddy married on 3 Jun 1874, in Union
Co., Ill., Cornelia
Rendleman.
Jacob Eli
Braddy married on 14 Sep 1921, Mrs. Mary Ellen
Lewis Pelton.
Eli
Sowers, son of Catharine
Mowery,
married Malinda
Braddy on 27 Mar 1873, in Union Co., Ill.
His death certificate states that
Jacob Eli
Braddy, retired merchant, was born 29
Aug 1851, in Ullin, Ill., the son of
Benjamin A.
Braddy, a native of North Carolina, died 25 Sep 1937, in Mounds,
Pulaski Co., Ill., the husband of Mary Ellen
Braddy, and was buried in Jonesboro, Ill.
His marker there reads:
Mary E.
Braddy 1855-1927 Jacob E.
Braddy 1851-1937 Frances E.
Braddy 1852-1919.—Darrel
Dexter)
TWO DROWN IN OHIO RIVER AT GOLCONDA
Two young men, John
Rose,
19, and J. V.
Hilton, 15, of New Columbia, were
drowned in the Ohio River at Golconda, Sept.
18th.
They were in a small boat above Dam
51, when they approached too close and were
carried over the dam.
The boat overturned and both boys
were drowned.
One of the boys disappeared
immediately and the other swam 300 feet
before going down.
L.
Vanzant, lockmaster at the dam, said the
boys were apparently not familiar with the
dam and approached too close.
Both boys were well known throughout the
county.
(His death certificate states that John
Rose,
farmer,
was born 28 Oct 1917, in Grantsburg,
Ill., the son of John W.
Rose,
a native of Tennessee, and Martha J.
Rushing, a native of Illinois, died 19
Sep 1937, in Golconda Dam, Pope Co., Ill.,
and was buried in Road District 3, Massac
Co., Ill.
The death certificate of J. A.
Hilton, farm boy at Belknap, Ill.,
states he was born 14 Dec 1921, in Vienna,
Ill., the son of Ernest
Hilton, a native of Stonefort, Ill., and
Lura
Leverett, a native of Vienna, Ill., died
9 Oct 1937, in Golconda Dam, Pope Co., Ill.,
and was buried in Massac Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. HARRY COLESON DIES
Mrs. Amelia
Coleson, 55, died Monday night at her
home near Olmstead.
She had been ill several months.
She is survived by her husband, Harry
Coleson, seven children, one sister, and
one brother.
Rev. Earl
Throgmorton conducted the services in
the home Wednesday afternoon.
Burial was made in New Hope Cemetery.
Wilson
Funeral Service directed the funeral.
(According to her death certificate,
Amilia
Coleson was born 16 Oct 1880, in
Chicago, Ill., the son of Louis
Kisman, a native of Germany, died 27 Sep 1937, in Road District 4,
Pulaski Co., Ill., the wife of Harry
Coleson.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 1 Oct 1937:
J. E. Braddy Dies after Illness of Two
Months
(Writes Own Obituary)
Jacob Eli
Braddy, age 86 years, died Saturday morning, September 25, at 11:20
o’clock, at the home of his son, R. A.
Braddy, having taken ill July 20.
Until that time, he had had no
serious illness.
He had made his home with his son and
family in Mounds for the past twelve years.
Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Salem Lutheran
Church at Jonesboro, with the Rev. J. S.
Powell officiating.
Burial was made in the Jonesboro
Cemetery, G. A.
James
directing.
Mr.
Braddy had written his own obituary some time ago, leaving space for
the date of his death.
Below we publish the obituary as
written by him.
“Jacob E.
Braddy was born August 29th, 1851, and departed this life
September 25th, 1937 at 11:20
a.m.
“He was born and reared on a farm in
Alexander County near Ullin, Ill.
At the age of 23 he was married to
Frances C.
Rendleman of Jonesboro, Ill.
Of this union there were two born,
one daughter and one son, Mrs. J. F.
Scott, now living in Decatur, Ill., and B. A.
Braddy of Mounds, Ill.
In the fall of 1875 he moved to Jonesboro
where he engaged in farming for seven years.
In 1882 he moved in town where he engaged in
several different kinds of business in which
he was fairly successful.
Mrs.
Braddy having passed away on Oct. 28th,
1919, he was married to Mrs. Mary E.
Pelton of Chattanooga, Tenn., who also
preceded him in death on Sept. 26th,
1927.
Mr.
Braddy was a member of the Lutheran
Church of Jonesboro which he dearly loved.
He
leaves to mourn his loss one daughter, one
son, seven grandchildren and five
great-grandchildren, one half-sister and one
half-brother.”
Mrs. W. M. Jones Dies Following Lingering
Illness
Mrs. Mary
Jones, wife of W. M. Jones,
died at her home here Sunday afternoon at
2:15 o’clock following a long illness.
Her age at death was 43 years.
She leaves her husband, two sons,
Hazel and Fred; and a daughter, Mrs. Albert
Painter, of Chicago.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at the Bardwell, Ky., cemetery, at
2:30 o’clock, J. T.
Ryan
directing.
Those who attended the funeral of Mrs.
William
Jones
at Bardwell, Ky., Tuesday were Mrs. Fred
Boren,
Mrs. Arthur
Ellis,
Mrs. Myrtle
Matson, Mrs. Pearl
Martin and daughter Miss Sarah.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend our sincere thanks
to the friends and neighbors who so kindly
assisted us during the illness and following
the death of our Father and Grandfather, J.
E.
Braddy.
We also wish to extend our
appreciation to those who sent flowers and
offered cars, to those who sang and to the
minister for their comforting words.
Their deeds of thoughtfulness will
not be forgotten.
B. A.
Braddy and Family
Mrs. J. F.
Scott and Family
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 8 Oct 1937:
WILLARD MASON DIES
Word has been received of the death of
Willard
Mason,
who died at the Missouri Pacific Hospital in
St. Louis early Tuesday morning.
The body was brought to
Karcher Brothers Funeral Home in Cairo,
Wednesday morning where it remained until
the services Thursday afternoon.
Rev. C. Robert
Dunlap, pastor of the Lutheran Church officiated.
Burial was in Spencer Heights.
The pallbearers were Lee
Dorsett, P. R. Lee, Mark
Capoot, Tom
Burns, William Ryan, John
Bouchet, Sam
Abell,
and R. E.
Smith.
Mrs.
Mason was formerly Helen
Ford
of Mound City.
(His marker in Spencer Heights Cemetery in
Mounds, Ill., reads:
Helen
Mason
Oct. 26, 1896 Aug. 7, 1976 James W.
Mason
Dec. 27, 1884 Oct. 5, 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. M. W.
Winkler attended the funeral in St.
Louis of Mrs.
Winkler’s cousin, Mrs. Mary
Ellenberger,
of that city.
Mrs.
Ellenberger died after an operation Wednesday.
She was buried in Sunset Burial Park
in St. Louis.
Mr. and Mrs.
Winkler left Friday and returned home Saturday.
(Her marker in Sunset Memorial Park
in Affton, St. Louis Co., Mo., reads:
Mary B.
Eilenberger.
She was buried next to Charles
Eilenberger.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 15 Oct 1937:
MRS. NETTIE PERKS PASSED AWAY AT HOME OF
BROTHER
Mrs. Nettie B.
Perks,
wife of the late Leslie
Perks,
died Tuesday night at the home of her
brother, George
Schuler, in Mounds, at the age of 64.
She had been ill for several months
and very critically ill for some time and
death was not at all unexpected.
Heart trouble and hardening of the
arteries were given as immediate causes of
death.
Mrs.
Perks was Miss
Schuler and was born in Mound City and grew up here.
She was married to L. C.
Perks about 38 years ago and Mr.
Perks, who became one of the powers in finance and business, died
about 12 years ago.
Since that time and during the
division of the
Perks
&
Higgins affairs with its resulting
entanglements and lawsuits, she has devoted
much of her time in taking care of her
affairs.
Mrs.
Perks had a wide circle of friends.
She took active part in the Methodist
Church of Mound City and was held in high
esteem by those who came in contact with
her.
Funeral services were held yesterday
(Thursday) afternoon at the Methodist
church, Rev. Roy N.
Kean,
former pastor, returning from Granite City,
to conduct the services.
Pallbearers were C. E.
Richey, George
Eichhorn, James
Finley, Mike
Winkler, George W. Gunn,
and Mark
Capoot.
Interment was in Thistlewood
Cemetery.
There survives her one brother, George
Schuler, of Mounds; two sisters, Miss
Kate
Schuler of Mounds and Mrs. J.
Murphy of Mound City.
Other relatives had preceded her in
death.
There are many nieces and nephews.
(George
Schuler married Julia
Kennedy on 24 May 1866, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
The death certificate states that
Nettie B.
Perks,
real estate dealer in Mound City, Ill., was
born 9 Mar 1875, in Mound City, Ill., the
daughter of George
Schuler, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio,
and Julia
Kennedy, a native of Villa Ridge, Ill.,
died 12 Oct 1937, in Mounds, Ill., the widow
of Leslie C.
Perks,
and was buried in Mounds, Ill.
Her marker in Beechwood Cemetery at
Mounds, Ill., reads:
N. B.
Perks
1873-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
INFANT’S DEATH
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
File
will be sorry to hear of the sudden death of
their three-month old son, Dennis Marshall.
The baby died Wednesday morning at
8:00 o’clock.
Rev. J. L.
Wall
will conduct the services this afternoon
(Friday) at 2 o’clock at the Baptist church
in Mound City.
Interment will be in Thistlewood
Cemetery.
Mrs.
File was formerly Miss Ruth
Youngblood of this city and the young
people lived here for a time after their
marriage.
Later they moved to Urbandale where
they now reside.
(Dennis Marshall
File,
of Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., was born 7
Jul 1937, in Urbandale, Ill., the son of
Arthur
File,
a native of Cypress, Ill., and Ruth
Youngblood, a native of Mound City,
Ill., died 13 Oct 1937, in Alexander Co.,
Ill., and was buried in Thistlewood Cemetery
in Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. Elvis
Miller attended the funeral of
Grandmother
Anderson in Tamms last Wednesday. (Beech
Grove)
(Elvis Everett
Miller married on 27 Jul 1932, in Alwxander Co., Ill., Nellie Mae
Anderson.
Lewis
Gibson married Mary
Bailey on 17 Jun 1866, in Effingham Co.,
Ill.
A death certificate for Sarah Jane
Anderson Sharp states she was born 8 Oct
1869, in Newton, Ill., the daughter of Louis
Gibson and Mary
Bailey, died 4 Oct 1937, in Alexander
Co., Ill., the wife of William Arthur
Sharp,
and was buried in Cummins Cemetery in
Road District 6, Alexander Co., Ill.
Her marker in Cummins Cemetery reads:
Sarah Jane
Anderson Mother Oct. 8, 1868 Oct. 4,
1937.
Next to her grave is a marker for
William L.
Anderson Father July 6, 1862 Dec. 23,
1932.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. W. P.
Schnaare and Mrs. Walter
Jackson attended the funeral of John
Willard
Mason
at the Lutheran church at Cairo Thursday.
(America)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 15 Oct 1937:
Ex-Rep. Ray Carroll Dies in Auto Accident
Former State Representative Ray
Carroll, 52, of Marion, was found dead
near his overturned automobile five miles
west of Marion Wednesday night.
He was alone at the time of the
accident, which cost him his life.
Mr.
Carroll was an employee in the waterworks division of the State
Department of Public Works and Buildings and
was city treasurer of Marion at the time of
his death.
He is survived by his wife and two
daughters.
Mr.
Carroll had many friends in Mounds and was here on State business
only last week.
Mrs. Nettie B. Perks
Mrs. Nettie B.
Perks, widow of the late L. C.
Perks
of Mound City, died Tuesday night, October
12, at the home of her brother, George T.
Schuler in this city, after an illness
of several months.
Her age at death was 64 years.
Mrs.
Perks had been a lifelong resident of Mound City, but had been
living with her brother and family since the
flood.
She was married to L. C.
Perks thirty-eight years ago.
Mr.
Perks
died in 1925.
She had been a member of the Mound
City M. E. Church since her girlhood.
Surviving are two sisters, Miss Kate
Schuler of Mounds and Mrs. Jennie
Murphy of Mound City; one brother,
George T.
Schuler of Mounds, and other relatives
including nephews and nieces.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church in Mound City Thursday
afternoon at two o’clock with the pastor,
Rev. A. L.
Jones
officiating.
Burial was in Thistlewood Cemetery
with G. A.
James
directing.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 22 Oct 1937:
Among those from a distance attending the
funeral of Mrs. Nettie B.
Perks last Thursday were Dr. and Mrs. L.
Turney of Brownstown, Mrs. Minnie
Brown of St. Elmo, Jack and Robert
Murphy of Detroit, Mich., Dr. and Mrs. William
Turney and Mrs. Cora Frizzell
of Shelbyville, Mr. and Mrs. James
Smith,
Mrs. Lura
Margraves and Loren
Margraves of Herrin, Rev. and Mrs. Roy
Kean
of Granite City, Mrs. John
Armstrong of Carterville and May
Hawkins of Carbondale.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 22 Oct 1937:
EX-STATE REPRESENTATIVE KILLED IN CRASH
(Johnston
City Progress)
Former Democratic State Representative Ray
Carroll, 52, of Marion, was found dead
near his overturned automobile near the
Sneed highway route 13 intersection,
Wednesday afternoon at 5:45 o’clock.
Mr.
Carroll was returning from Herrin where
he had been to get an adjustment on his 1938
Buick car.
The car overturned just after it had
passed under the railroad on the Sneed
highway and Mr.
Carroll’s body was found 40 feet from the car.
He had died from a broken neck.
Carroll
was city treasurer of Marion and state
waterworks official in the state department
of public works and buildings.
He had served as president of the
Marion Lions Club for two consecutive years.
He is survived by his wife and two
daughters, Mrs. Dorothy
Schmidt and Miss Betty
Carroll.
(His death certificate states that
Ray C.
Carroll, inspector for the State
Department Water Works, of Marion, Ill., was
born 20 Apr 1887, in Spring Garden, Ill.,
the son of James H.
Carroll and Amanda
Taylor, died 13 Oct 1937, in Williamson
Co., Ill., the husband of Leota
Carroll, and was buried in Ina Township, Jefferson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
INFANT DIES AT OLMSTEAD
Junior Lee
Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pearl
Miller, of Olmsted, died Saturday
evening six hours after birth.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon
at the residence, with Rev. H. L.
Metcalf of Karnak officiating.
Interment was made in Concord
Cemetery.
Wilson
Funeral Service was in charge.
(His death certificate states that
Junior Lee
Miller was born 16 Oct 1937, in
Olmstead, Ill., the son of Pearl
Miller and Minnie
Baldwin, natives of Union Co., Ill., and
died 16 Oct 1937, in Cairo, Alexander Co.,
Ill., and was buried in Concord Cemetery.
His marker there reads:
Junior Lee
Miller Oct. 22, 1937-Oct 29, 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
COLORED YOUTH OF VIENNA BURNS TO DEATH
Melvin
Thomas, age 21, son of Ernie and Minnie
Thomas, was burned to death Tuesday
afternoon, Oct. 12, when he was trapped in
the home of his brother, Louie
Thomas, with whom he had been living.
From reports and testimonial the inquest it
is thought that
Thomas had tried to light an oil stove
in order to prepare his lunch and the stove
had exploded or got out of control and
fighting the fire he had been overcome with
the fumes.
Another theory offered was that he
ahd lain down with a lighted cigarette
caught the bed on fire.
His charred body was found in the
part of the house that had been the kitchen.
Louie
Thomas is employed in Chicago and his
wife too was working at the time in a tavern
in Vienna.
(His death certificate states that
Melvin Levi
Thomas was born 13 Oct 1915, in Vienna,
Ill., the son of Ernie
Thomas and Minnie
Reece,
died 12 Oct 1937, in Vienna, Ill., and was
buried in Rose Hill Cemetery at Vienna, Ill.
There is no marker for him in the
cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
HELD FOR GRAND JURY ON MURDER CHARGE
At the inquest held Oct. 10 at Marion, the
coroner’s jury bound Henry
Moore,
75, farmer living near Pittsburg, over to
the grand jury on a charge of beating his
blind wife to death.
Moore
testified that his wife had fallen on a
stone step as she was leaving the back of
their house and he founded her lying in the
yard.
He had been prying off some laths
from the side of the barn when he heard her
call, so he said, but a bloodstained board,
like those
Moore said he had been working with was found underneath the porch.
A bloodstained crowbar was also
produced as evidence.
About thirty days before her death, Mrs.
Moore
had told Deputy Sheriff
Sanders that her husband had threatened
her, but
Moore
denounced this statement.
The verdict was based upon circumstantial
evidence and
Moore now awaits a verdict of the grand jury.
(Henry
Moore married Aliza J. Harris
on 18 Aug 1881, in Williamson Co., Ill.
Calvin
Harris married Julia
Morris on 15 Nov 1855, in Williamson
Co., Ill.
A death certificate for Eliza Jane
Moore,
of Rock Creek Township, Williamson Co.,
Ill., states she was born 3 Dec 1863, in
Corinth Township, Williamson Co., Ill., the
daughter of Calvin
Harris, a native of Tennessee, and Julia
Morris, died 8 Oct 1937, in Creal Springs, Williamson Co., Ill., and
was buried in Corinth Township, Williamson
Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 29 Oct 1937:
MRS. CARRIE DANIELS PASSES AWAY IN MOUNDS
Mrs. Carrie May
Daniels, 53, died suddenly from a heart
attack at her home on North Oak Street in
Mounds, Monday evening.
She is the mother of Bonnie and Ollie
Daniels of Mounds, and leaves other
relatives throughout the state.
Funeral services by Rev.
Ward
of Dongola were held Wednesday afternoon at
Shiloh Church.
Interment was in Shiloh cemetery.
James
Ryan was in charge of arrangements.
(Carrie May
Daniels was born 5 Oct 1884, in Anna,
Ill., the daughter of Eley
Gray,
died 25 Oct 1937, in Mounds, Ill., the wife
of Gussie
Daniels, and was buried in Villa Ridge, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Death Comes to Aunt Mag Wilkins at 94
Aunt Mag
Wilkins, respected by both her own race
and the white people, passed away last
Sunday at the home of her son, Frank, in
Springfield at the age of 94 years.
The feebleness of age, which
gradually wore her down, brought this
venerable woman to her grave.
Three generations knew her.
They knew her as the midwife who
ushered them into this world.
They knew her as a kind old colored
lady, who had a high sense of courage and
honor and who worked and toiled.
They knew her as a useful woman until
age finally brought her to a helpless state.
Aunt Mag was born in Scott County, Missouri,
and came to Cairo when a small child.
She recalled the slave days, the days
of the war and then later days with keen
interest.
A vast experience was hers and the
last experience was the flood days when she
left this town, among the last, on a
stretcher, unable to walk.
Had she been able bodied, it is to be
doubted if she would have left until the
water came in.
In the rush and hurry of the flood and the
days that followed, little was heard of her.
She was at Springfield, Ill., with
her son.
Her home here had been repaired, and
possibly, in another week or so if her
health had permitted, she would have
returned here.
But death cut this short.
Her funeral was Tuesday in
Springfield.
JACOB KNUPP DIES AT HIS HOME NEAR OLSMTEAD
Jacob Sylvester
Knupp,
age 40 years, died at his home in Olmstead,
Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock.
He had resided in Olmsted for the
past 13 years.
He is survived by his wife, Lucy
Knupp;
three sons, Robert, Jacob Jr., and Charles,
all at home; his father, Daniel
Knupp
of Villa Ridge; three brothers Jesse and
Jonas of Villa Ridge and J. T of Mounds;
four sisters, Mrs. Jennie
Reese,
of Hot Springs, Ark., Mrs. Josie
Burd
of Olmstead, Mrs. Joyce
Bagby
of Olmsted and Mrs. Jacoba
Edwards of Villa Ridge.
Funeral services were conducted from the M.
E. Church South at Olmsted, of which he was
a member, at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon by
Rev.
Kazee and interment was made in Concord Cemetery with G. A.
James
in charge.
(Daniel
Knupp,
21, of Wetaug Precinct, Pulaski Co., Ill.,
married on 17 Jan 1875, at the house of
Moses
Casper in Union Co., Ill., Catherine
Hoffner, 23, from Dongola Precinct,
Union Co., Ill.
His
death certificate states that Jacob
Sylvester
Knupp,
laborer in Olmstead, Ill., was born 20 May
1897, in Wetaug, Ill., the son of Daniel
Knupp
and Katherine
Hoffner, died 26 Oct 1937, in Olmstead,
Ill., the husband of Lucy
Knupp,
and was buried at Olmstead, Ill.
His marker in Concord Cemetery near
Olmsted reads:
Jacob S.
Knupp
1897-1937 Lucy A.
Knupp
1903-1943.—Darrel
Dexter)
Henry
Harris (colored) died Tuesday evening at
4 p.m. (Grand Chain)
(His death certificate states that
Henry
Harris, a cook, was born 5 Aug 1888, in
Puscalosia, Ala., died 19 Oct 1937, in Grand
Chain, Ill., the husband of Lucille
Harris, and was buried in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr.
Huebotter and daughter, Ruth, were
called to Peoria, on the account of the
death of Mrs.
Huebotter’s sister.
(Grand Chain)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 29 Oct 1937:
Mrs. Carrie Daniels Found Dead Monday
Evening
Mrs. Carrie May
Daniels, age 53, was found dead Monday
evening, Oct. 25, about 5 o’clock at her
home on North Oak Street.
She had gone shortly before to the
rear of the yard to get some kindling and a
few minutes later when a neighbor stepped in
the kitchen she found Mrs.
Daniels on the floor dead.
Surviving are two sons, Bonnie and
Ollie
Daniels of this city; three sisters,
Mrs. Bessie
Adams,
Mrs. Rosa
Westerman of Springfield, and Mrs. Ora
Hodglin of Odin; one brother, Elmer
Gray
of Salem; and five grandchildren.
Her husband, Gus
Daniels, died a number of years ago.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at Shiloh Church with
Rev. W. J.
Ward
of Dongola officiating.
Burial was in Shiloh Cemetery with J.
T.
Ryan directing.
In Memoriam
In memory of my dear daughter, Fanny
Griffin, who departed this life Oct. 26,
1936.
Rest in Peace my dearest daughter
Years may go but memories stay,
You are gone but not forgotten
And I’ll meet you some sweet day,
Kate
Blue, mother
Rev. O.
Morrison, brother
Jacob Sylvester Knupp
Jacob Sylvester
Knupp,
age 40 years, died at his home in Olmstead
Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock.
He had resided in Olmstead for the
past 13 years.
He is survived by his wife, Lucy
Knupp;
three sons, Robert, Jacob Junior and
Charles, all at home; his father, Daniel
Knupp of Villa Ridge; three brothers, Jesse
Knupp and Jonas Knupp of
Villa Ridge and J. T.
Knupp
of Mounds; four sisters, Mrs. Jennie
Reese
of Hot Springs, Ark., Mrs. Josie
Burd
of
Olmstead, Mrs. Joyce
Bagby of Olmstead, Mrs. Jacoba
Edwards of Villa Ridge.
Funeral services were conducted from
the M. E. Church South at Olmstead, of which
he was a member, at 2 o’clock Thursday
afternoon by Rev.
Kazee
and interment made in Concord Cemetery, G.
A.
James directing.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 5 Nov 1937:
Mr. and Mrs. Mid
Britt
of Mounds and Mr. and Mrs. Garrett
Britt
of Cairo left Sunday for California, where
they have gone partly on a vacation to
appear before the parole board of that state
in behalf of a cousin who, some ten years
ago, while with a party of men, were
involved in a gun fight in which a man was
killed.
He is eligible for parole at this
time.
They will return about Thanksgiving.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 12 Nov 1937:
The March 2, 1876, issue of the Mound City
newspaper,
The
Patriot,
stated that the body of John C.
Vogle,
who left home without the knowledge of
anyone, was found “at the end of the slough
near the old mud bridge.”
Squire John W.
Carter presided at the inquest.
Accidental was the verdict.
The March 2, 1876, issue of the Mound City
newspaper,
The
Patriot,
contained
“A little item tells of the death of
Grandmother
Cartwright at Pleasant Plains in
February.
Mrs.
Cartwright was the wife of Peter
Cartwright, who played a prominent part
in Methodism in the southern half of
Illinois and who was one of the founders of
the present University of Illinois.”
The inside of the 2 Mar 1876, issue of the
Mound City newspaper,
The Patriot, contains the
personals and news stories, most of which
have few heads.
One of the items is the death of
Shelton E.
Hunter, who was 24 years of age and was
city clerk.
A resolution of respect appears in
this issue.
This was a brother of Mrs.
Rhyan
and also of Mrs. J. T.
Armstrong, both of whom are quite well
known in this city and county.
(His marker in Beech Grove Cemetery
at Mounds reads:
Shelton Emery son of E. L. & S. A.
Hunter Died March 1, 1876 Aged 24 Years,
3 Months.—Darrel
Dexter)
SIMPLE BURIAL
One of the strange stories told
is the one now of an old man who died at the
county farm some time ago.
Instead of a burial, he was simply
carried out on the farm and interred in the
earth.
Cost was $3.
FORMER RESIDENT PASSES AWAY IN NEBRASKA
Word has been received here of
the death of F. G.
Fricke of Plattsmouth, Nebraska, on Oct.
24, at the age of 91 years.
Mr.
Fricke will be remembered as having
built the house now occupied by C. F.
Bode
and in which he was also engaged in the drug
business.
(The 1880 census of Mound City,
Pulaski Co., Ill., shows that F. G.
Fricke, a druggist,
was born about 1846 in Brunswick,
Germany.
His wife, Emma, was born about 1850
in Brunswick, Germany.
Children, all born in Illinois, were
Dora, born about 1873, Carl, born about
1876, and Albert born about 1878.
The 1900 census of Ward 1,
Plattsmouth, Cass Co., Neb., states F. G.
was born in April 1848 and Emma in February
1848.
Children, all born in Nebraska,
Fritz, born in June 1880, Lena, born in
January 1884, and Edwin, born in March 1890,
were added to the family since the 1880
census.
The 1930 census of Plattsmouth gives
his name as Ferdrick G.
Fricke.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 19 Nov 1937:
JOHN FISHER DEAD
John
Fisher, editor of the
Cairo
Evening Citizen, died yesterday after an
illness of three years or more.
A paralytic stroke crippled him at
___ time and gradually he grew ___.
Much of the management of the
newspaper has been carried on by his wife
during his illness.
(His death certificate states that
John Copeland
Fisher, publisher,
was born 11 Apr 1870, in Cairo, Ill.,
the daughter of George
Fisher and Susan
Copeland, natives of Middleburg,
Vermont, died 17 Nov 1937, in Cairo, Ill.,
husband of Bess
Brown
Fisher, and was buried in Thebes Cemetery in Thebes, Alexander Co., Ill.
His marker there reads:
John Copeland
Fisher Apr. 11, 1870 Nov. 17, 1937 Bessie
Brown Fisher Dec. 17, 1886 Feb. 6, 1968.—Darrel
Dexter)
KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT
___
Cross,
son of Susie
Williams, died in an automobile accident
in Centralia last Sunday.
The funeral and burial was held in
____s Thursday afternoon.
Mrs.
Williams, a highly respected old lady, was a probation officer in
___ County and was quite prominent in
politics.
(John
Cross, 36, of Beechwood, Ill., married Susie
Coile, 20, of Beechwood, Ill., on 26 Nov 1900, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
His
death certificate states that Thomas N.
Cross,
a box packer, of Centralia, Marion Co.,
Ill., was born 16 Mar 1896, in
Mounds, Ill., the son of John
Cross,
a native of Villa Ridge, Ill., and Susie
Coyle,
a native of Mounds, Ill., died 14 Nov 1937,
in Carlyle, Clinton Co., Ill., the divorced
husband of Fern
Bailey Cross,
and was buried in Spencer Heights
Cemetery, Mounds, Ill.
His marker there reads:
Thomas W.
Cross Mar. 16, 1896 Nov. 14, 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
OTTO JOHNSON PASSES AWAY
Otto
Johnson, age 58, died at the
Hale-Willard Hospital in Anna, Sunday, Nov.
14.
Saturday, while at work, he had a
stroke and was taken to the hospital at
Anna.
Services were held at the Christian
Chapel Church near Dongola at 2 o’clock
Tuesday afternoon, conducted by Rev. Wiley
Mathis of Vienna.
He was buried in the Chapel cemetery.
Funeral arrangements were made by
Elmer J.
Ford.
Surviving are his wife, Izora
Johnson, three children and other
relatives, including grandchildren, brothers
and sisters.
(William F.
Johnson married Sarah Corzine
on 26 Oct 1869, in Union Co., Ill.
According to the death certificate,
Henry Otto
Johnson, a common laborer, of Dongola, Ill., was born 1 Mar 1879, in
Dongola, Ill., the son of William
Johnson, a native of North Carolina, and
Sarah
Corzine, a native of Illinois,
died 14 Nov 1937, in Anna, Ill., the
husband of Izora
Johnson, and was buried in Chapel
Cemetery in Road District 3, Union Co., Ill.
His marker in Christian Chapel
Cemetery near Dongola reads:
Otto H.
Johnson Mar. 1, 1879 Nov. 14, 1937 Izora
L.
Johnson Jan. 18, 1880 Dec. 5,
1948.—Darrel
Dexter)
CATCH MAN WANTED FOR MURDER IN ANOTHER STATE
Walter
Kirby,
colored, wanted in Indianapolis, was picked
up Monday night at Cairo as he was preparing
to catch the ferry for Kentucky through the
efforts of the office of the sheriff of this
county and the police of Cairo.
The telegram here to Sheriff
McIntire sent Jim
Wilson to Ullin to set a trap with Jesse
Meals.
Kirby walked into it and officers followed his trail and picked him
up in Cairo.
He is held in this county awaiting
arrival of Indianapolis police.
SALESMAN KILLED WHEN CAR CRASHES INTO PIPE
TRUCK
Gerald
Wallick, 39, salesman for the
McKinley Importing Co., of Chicago, but
a resident of Sterling was instantly killed
Tuesday afternoon on the highway near Grand
Chain when his car crashed into a big truck
carrying oil well pipes, driven by W. E.
Hicks, of Shreveport, La.
Wallick had his head crushed, being thrown through his windshield.
His car was wrecked while the truck
suffered some damage.
The coroner’s jury placed the blame
upon
Wallick, who was driving at a rapid rate
of speed and who was over the black line.
(The death certificate states that
Gerald R.
Wallick, traveling salesman, of 505 W.
Eleventh St., Sterling, Ill., was born 8 Jun
1898, in Willisville, Ill., the son of Jacob
Milo
Wallick and Ellen
Jones,
natives of Knoxville, Ill., died 16 Nov
1937, in Pulaski Co., Ill., the husband of
Edith
Wallick, and was buried in Riverside
Cemetery in Sterling, Whiteside Co., Ill.
His marker there reads:
Gerald R.
Wallick 1898-1937 Edith M.
Wallick 1887-1957.—Darrel
Dexter)
FALL PROVES FATAL TO AGED BLIND LADY
Mrs. Clarinda
Sheffer of Dongola, age 83, passed away
Friday night.
Mrs.
Sheffer, a widow, had been a resident of Dongola practically all her
life.
She had been blind for a number of
years.
Friday, while going to the back porch
of her home, she fell off the porch and
suffered internal injuries, which caused her
death.
Wilson Funeral Service had charge of the funeral which was held
Sunday at the Baptist church at Dongola.
Interment was made in Friendship
Cemetery.
(George W.
Sheffer, 23, from Dongola Precinct, Union Co., Ill., married on 24
Dec 1874, at the house of Adaline
Penrod, in Union Co., Ill., Clarinda
Penrod, 20, from Dongola Precinct. James
A.
Penrod married Adaline
Ballard on 9 May 1852, in Union Co.,
Ill.
Her
death certificate states that Clarinda
Sheffer was born 2 Aug 1854, in Union
Co., Ill., the daughter of James
Penrod and Adaline
Ballard, natives of Union Co., Ill.,
died 12 Nov 1937, in Dongola, Ill., the
widow of George W.
Sheffer, and was buried in Road District
3, Union Co., Ill.
Her marker in Friendship Cemetery
near Dongola reads:
Clarenda
Sheffer 1854-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Susie
Williams, highly respected colored
citizen of Mounds, was called to Centralia
Monday a.m. by the death of her son, Tom
Cross,
who was killed.
(Mounds)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 19 Nov 1937:
William Riley Graves
William Riley
Graves, age 79, died early Saturday morning, November 13, at his
home in Belknap, following a two weeks’
illness.
Surviving are one son, Irvin, and one
daughter, Mrs. D.
Murphy of East St. Louis.
His wife preceded him in death.
Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon at the Belknap M. E. Church, the
Rev. H. L.
Metcalf officiating.
Burial was made in the Masonic Cemetery with
the
Wilson Funeral Service in charge.
(His marker in Masonic Cemetery in
Belknap, Johnson Co., Ill., reads:
William Riley
Graves 1858-1937 Eda Matilda
Graves 1865-1936.—Darrel
Dexter)
Killed in Auto Accident
Mrs. Susie
Williams received word Monday morning that her son, Tom
Cross,
a former Mounds resident, had been killed
that morning in an automobile accident near
Centralia where he resided.
The car driven by
Cross
was also occupied by several other men, the
party having started early on a hunting
trip.
In rounding a curve he lost control
of the car.
He was the only one killed.
Word has been received in Mounds of the
death of Mrs. W. L.
Blancett’s mother, Mrs. Jones
at her home in Milan, Tenn.
Father of Mrs. Clarence Beedle Dies in
Boskydell
Sylvester
O’Daniel, father of Mrs. Clarence
Beedle of this city, passed away Sunday morning, November 14, at 4
o’clock at his home in Boskydell, following
a lingering illness.
Surviving are his wife, one daughter,
Mrs. Beulah
Beedle, two sons, John of Chester and
Ernest of Boskydell; also a number of
grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at the Baptist church in Boskydell
the Rev. Mr.
Stokes officiating.
Interment was made in the Sterns Cemetery.
(His death certificate states that
Sylvester
O’Daniel, section foreman, was born 6
Jan 1862, in Makanda, Ill., the son of John
O’Daniel, a native of Georgia, and Elizabeth
Hagler, a native of Makanda, Ill., died 14 Nov 1937, in Makanda,
Jackson Co., Ill., the husband of Emma
Stearns, and was buried in Stearns
Cemetery in Makanda, Ill.
His marker there reads:
Sylvester
O’Daniel 1862-1937 Emma I.
O’Daniel 1869-1947.—Darrel
Dexter)
Editor John C. Fisher Dies at His Cairo Home
In sad undertones the news was passed
from person to person yesterday morning that
John C.
Fisher, editor and publisher of the
Cairo
Citizen had passed peacefully away, the
evening before at his home in Cairo.
His friends knew that he had suffered
a paralytic stroke in 1934 while on a
business trip to St. Louis.
Friends and business associates in
Cairo have missed his community activities
since that day and have felt the loss of
personal touch with his pleasing
personality.
A native of Cairo he has been a part
of its life for more than three score years.
For 52 years the name
Fisher has been connected with the
Cairo Citizen, his father before him having founded the weekly paper
by that name.
Mr.
Fisher bore his illness patiently
although he often yearned to get back to his
desk in the office and take up its
activities once more, for these had become
life to him.
All that is mortal of him will rest
in the Thebes Cemetery, but there are many
forward movements which will go farther
because of his having been a part of them.
Called to Sikeston
Mr. and Mrs. Glen
Whiteside and little daughter Joyce were
called to Sikeston, Mo., Friday by the death
of Mr.
Whiteside’s mother, Mrs. O. L.
Whiteside, which occurred Thursday at
Barnes Hospital, St. Louis.
Funeral services will be held
Saturday at Sikeston.
(Oscar L.
Whiteside and Ella Whiteside,
born about 1875 in Illinois, are in the 1930
census of Lilbourn, New Madrid Co., Mo.
Her marker in Sikeston City Cemetery
reads:
Oscar L.
Whiteside Oct. 19, 1875 July 2, 1951
Ella
Whiteside July 9, 1874 Nov. 18,
1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Immediately after the three
Garr
brothers were acquitted of murdering Brig.
Gen. Henry
Denhardt at Shelbyville, Kentucky, the
three brothers were invited to dine as
guests of honor of the local Methodist
Ladies Aid.
(Denhardt was tried for the murder of his girlfiend, Vera
Garr
Taylor, in November 1936, but the result
was a hung jury.
Awaiting a second trial, he was
gunned down in front of the Amrstrong Hotel
in Shelbyville, Ky., by E. S.
Garr,
Jack
Garr, and Roy
Garr.
They were cleared of all charges,
alleging self-defense and mental illness.
According to his death certificate,
H. H.
Denhardt, attorney at law, of 1034
Laurel Ave., Bowling Green, Ky., the son of
William
Denhardt and Margaret
Geyger, natives of Germany,
was born 8 Mar 1876, in Bowling Green,
Ky., died 20 Sep 1937, “murdered 2 bullets
through body and one through skull,”
divorced husband of Elizabeth
Glaze
Denhardt, and was buried in Fairview
Cemetery in Bowling Green, Warren Co., Ky.
His marker there reads:
Brigadier General Henry H.
Denhardt Commander 75th Inf.
Brigade U. S. N. C. U. S. A. Maj. 3rd
Ky. Inf. Mexican Border Service 1916-17
Overseas World War June 1918 to Mar. 1919
Cited for Bravery in Argonne-Meuse Offensive
1918 Mar. 8, 1876 Sept. 20, 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 26 Nov 1937:
Death of Lewis H. Frizzell Saddens Entire
Community
Lewis H.
Frizzell, a Mounds druggist for the past 25 years, died Saturday
morning, November 20, at nine o’clock at
Barnes Hospital, St. Louis at the age of 48
years.
While his death was not unexpected,
his passing casts gloom over Mounds where he
had so long been a very part of the
community life.
At the age of 23, Mr.
Frizzell came as pharmacist to the
Wood’s Drug Store, the first drug store
established here.
He arrived in June 1912, one month
after the death of Mr. George
Wood,
assisting Mrs.
Wood
in the management of the drug store and
later taking it over, changing the name to
Frizzell’s Drug Store.
At the time of his coming he became a member
of the
Wood household and that has since been his home.
Following a critical illness in 1922,
he was tenderly nursed to returning health
by the members of this household.
He was welcomed as one of the family
and, having a deep fondness for music and
good literature, he spent the small amount
of leisure time he had at the piano and
among his books.
Quiet, unassuming, intelligent,
alert, his fair-mindedness made and kept him
friends.
Mr.
Frizzell was made a director in the First State Bank of Mounds in
its early years and 16 years ago was made
vice president, which office he held at the
time of his death.
His surviving relatives and the
organizations to which he belonged are
mentioned in the obituary written by a
Vienna friend and published below.
Brought from St. Louis by Funeral
Director G. A.
James,
his earthly remains were taken to the
Wood
residence, which had been his only home so
many years.
All day long Sunday, his friends
called to pay their respects to his memory.
Funeral services were held there
Monday morning at 10 o’clock Rev. P. R.
Glotfelty, assisted by the Rev. Mr.
Hurley of Vienna, officiating.
Burial was made in the Vienna
Cemetery amidst a profusion of the flowers
he loved so well.
Casket bearers were H. C.
Moore,
Sam House, J. W. Broman, J.
Hobart
Jenkins, Joe (Baker)
Graves and Ralph
Eastwood.
Others going to Vienna Cemetery were
Mrs. Ada M.
Wood,
Dr. and Mrs. H. J.
Elkins, Rev. P. R.
Glotfelty, J. E.
Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. George
Sitter, W. L.
Toler,
Mr. and Mrs. G. M.
Quarles, R. E.
Smoot, J. B. Henson, H.
H.
Melton, Mrs. Virginia
Webb,
Mrs. O.
Crawford, and daughter, Miss Mary, Misses Pauline
Nicolaides, Marguerite
Alexander, and Sarah
Struckmeyer, Mr. and Mrs. John
Ryan,
all of Mounds, Mrs. Mary
Anderson and daughter, Miss Pauline of
Murphysboro.
OBITUARY
The writer of this brief sketch or
tribute to the life of Lewis H.
Frizzell, whose earthly career has ended
so early and for whom we mourn today, must
say that another tragedy has come to us.
We lived close to this fellow as a
babe when he was born.
His parents were near and dear
friends to us if we ever had any friends.
We have known Lewis
since his babyhood.
He grew up with our boy.
The two were in kindergarten, grade
and high school together.
We have watched him during his days
in college and during the years that have
followed in his business career. Can you
blame us for saying that his early going is
a tragedy?
Born in Vienna, Ill., April 27, 1889,
his parents were Lewis H. and Sidney
Poor
Frizzell.
The father was Sheriff of Johnson
County at the time Lewis was born, and it
may truly be said of him that he was of two
pioneer families of Johnson County.
After completing his high school
course in Vienna, he entered Northwestern
University at Chicago and graduated as a
pharmacist.
After completing his school work he
went to Berlin, Wis., where he held a
responsible position as a pharmacist for
three years.
In the year 1912 he settled in
Mounds, where he has made his home since
that time.
He first began as clerk in the Drug
Store, which later became his own.
Those of you who are here know more
of his life and the sacrifice and service he
has rendered to his community than the
writer could possibly know.
It has however often come to our ears
that his strict attention to business—the
long hours at the task and too few hours at
pleasure and recreation were for his own
physical hurt.
Fifteen years ago he underwent an
operation for a stomach disorder.
After his recovery from that, he was
himself again physically until after the
Great Flood which came last January.
His store with others was flooded and
in the work at the time and in the mental
strain and the hardships that followed in
getting started after the cleanup that had
to be, his health began to fail.
He went to Hot Springs for a stay;
then to St. Mary’s Hospital in Cairo; then
he spent five weeks in the home of his
sister, Mrs. T. D.
Johnson, and husband in Cairo.
Four weeks ago he was taken to Barnes
Hospital in St. Louis, where his ailment was
pronounced incurable—with nothing to do but
minister to his suffering and await the
moment for the last farewell.
The end came at nine o’clock Saturday
morning.
His sister, Mrs. T. D.
Johnson, and husband of Cairo, and his
brother, Herman P.
Frizzell, have been with him all or part
of the time since he had been in St. Louis,
and they have the consolation of knowing
that everything that medical skill and
tender nursing was done to have his life
spared, and when that failed to have the end
come as painlessly and peacefully as was
possible.
Another sister, Mrs. Arista
Moore,
now in Virginia, survives.
He was not a member of any church
body, but had expressed to his minister that
he was prepared and ready to go.
He was a World War veteran, a member
of the American Legion and had received the
degrees of Masonry from the Blue Lodge to
the Consistory.
Peace to his memory.
Henry C. Lawler
Henry Clay
Lawler, age 67, better known as Harry
Lawler, died at his home in Cairo Sunday afternoon, November 21,
following a short illness.
Surviving are one son, Bud
Lawler, of Mound City, a former manager
of Roxy Theatre in this city; one daughter,
Mrs. Clarence
Hearon, of Urbandale; his aged mother, Mrs. Ann
Carson; and a sister, Mrs. Lula
Skelton of Tyler, Texas; two brothers,
Perry
Carson, also of Tyler, Texas, and Ed
Carson of Memphis, Tenn.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon in Cairo at the
Berbling Funeral Home with the Rev.
Wesley
Pearce officiating.
Burial was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery, Mounds.
Father of Mark Talley Dies in Urbandale
James Wesley
Talley, age 85 years, died at the home of his granddaughter, Mrs.
Horace
Herndon of Urbandale Sunday night,
November 21, having resided there since the
flood in January.
Prior to that time he had resided in
Mound City for thirty-one years.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.
Myrtle
Hall
of Mound City and Mrs. Minnie
Mohundro of Urbandale; six sons, Dolph
Talley of Hickman, Ky., Noah, Gilbert
and Ernest of Mound City; Mark of Mounds and
Charles of Urbandale; one sister, Mrs.
Hannah
Moorehead of Mound City; one
half-brother, Will
Talley of Grand Chain; twenty-two
grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at two o’clock at the
James
Funeral Home in Mound City with burial here.
Card of Thanks
Since it is not possible for me to
thank each one personally, I am using this
means of expressing my appreciation to the
friends and neighbors for their sympathy and
help during the illness and following the
death of L. H.
Frizzell, to the minister for his words
of consolation, to those who sent the
beautiful flowers, to those who offered the
use of their cars; to the American Legion
and to the Masonic Lodge, orders in which he
held membership.
All kindnesses are here gratefully
acknowledged.
(Mrs.) Ada M.
Wood
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 26 Nov 1937:
INFANT DIES
The 10-month-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Louis
Rose
died Thursday at the home of her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
VanMeter, in Mound City.
She had been ill with pneumonia.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday at
the Pentecost church in Mound City.
Burial was in Spencer Heights.
(Her death certificate states that
Dorris Ann
Rose
was born 18 Jan 1937, in Mound City, Ill.,
the daughter of Louis
Rose, a native of Arkansas, and Hattie
Van Meter, a native of Cairo, Ill., died 18 Nov 1937, in Mound City,
Ill., and was buried in Spencer Heights
Cemetery in Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
KILLS TWO IN ROW
Raymond
Washington, colored, of Cairo, killed
two other negroes on last Friday night, in
Cairo, as the result of a row over the union
at the Federal Barge Line.
He killed William
Daniels and John Tyler
and wounded a third.
The cause of the killing is said to
have been over the assessment of dues on him
as a nonunion worker, double that of the
union man, the refusal to let him join the
union and other things.
Washington testified that he had been waylaid and threatened.
“Heavy”
Foster, who was an intended victim, fell
to the floor at the first shot and thus
escaped.
(The death certificate states that
John
Tyler was born 6 Oct 1902, in Cairo,
Ill., the son of John Wasly
Tyler
and Mammi
Green,
natives of Cairo, Ill., died 20 Nov 1937, in
Cairo, Ill., and was buried in Cairo City
Cemetery in Villa Ridge, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
L. H. FRIZZELL PASSES AWAY AT BARNES
HOSPITAL
Louis H.
Frizzell, who operated the Rexall Drug
Store in Mounds, died at the Barnes Hospital
in St. Louis Saturday morning.
His body was brought to the home of
Mrs. Ada
Wood
in Mounds and the funeral services were
conducted Monday by Rev. P. R.
Glotfelty, assisted by Rev.
Hurley of Vienna, where interment was
made.
He leaves two sisters, Mrs. T. D.
Johnson, Cairo, and Mrs. Arista
Moore,
of Virginia; also one brother, Herman
Frizzell, of Vienna.
He was a member of the American
Legion and of the Masonic Order and has been
vice president of the First State Bank of
Mounds.
The pallbearers were H. C.
Moore,
Joe Graves, J. W. Brohamn,
Hobert
Jenkins, Sam
House,
and Ralph
Eastwood.
Mr.
Frizzell had been a resident of Mounds since 1913 and had many
friends who will mourn his death.
The stores were closed from 9-11
Monday morning in his honor.
(His marker in Vienna Fraternal
Cemetery reads:
Lewis H.
Frizzell, Jr., 1889-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
J. W. TALLEY DIES AT HOME OF GRANDDAUGHTER
IN URBANDALE
James Wesley
Talley died at the home of his
granddaughter, Mrs. Horace
Herndon, in Urbandale, Sunday night.
Mr.
Talley had been a resident of Mound City for 31 years and was well
known here, but at the time of the flood
last winter, he went to live with his
granddaughter.
He leaves two daughters, Mrs. Minnie
Mohundro of Urbandale and Mrs. Myrtle
Hall
of Mound City; six sons, Dolphys
Talley of Hickman, Ky., Mark of Mounds,
Charles of Urbandale, and Noah, Gilbert, and
Ernest of Mound City; also many other
relatives and friends.
The body was taken to the G. A.
James
Funeral Home in Mound City where the
services were held Wednesday afternoon with
Rev.
Overby, former pastor of the Baptist Church of Mound City
officiating.
Burial was made in Mounds.
The pallbearers were J. G.
Trampert, John
McNeil, J. R. Read, J. M.
Monan,
Mark
Capoot, and Dan Hurley.
(James W.
Talley married Mary E. Folks
on 3 Dec 1882, in Massac Co., Ill.
His death certificate states that
James Wesley
Talley, retired farmer, was born 8 Aug
1855, in Dallas, Texas, the son of Allen
Talley, died 21 Nov 1937, in Alexander
Co., Ill., the husband of Elizabeth
Talley, and was buried in Spencer
Heights Cemetery at Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
HENRY CLAY LAWLER DIES IN CAIRO
Henry Clay
Lawler, better known as Harry
Lawler, passed away at his home in Cairo
Sunday afternoon.
He had only been ill a few days.
He is survived by his aged mother,
Mrs. Ann
Carson; one daughter, Mrs. Clarence
Hearon of Urbandale; and one son, Von “Bud”
Lawler of Mound City, also brothers and sister living outside of the
state.
The funeral services were conducted Tuesday
afternoon at the
Berbling Funeral Home where the body lay in state, Rev. Wesley
Pearce officiating.
Burial was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery.
Mrs.
Lawler was a former resident of Mound
City.
(Harry C.
Lawler, 28, of Mound City, Ill., married Anna E.
Martin, 26, of Mound City, Ill., on 4
Nov 1898, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
F. M.
Carson married Ann H.
Lawler on 17 Oct 1875, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
His death certificate states that Henry
Clay
Lawler, ship carpenter, of Cairo, Ill.,
was born 20 Nov 1870, in Olmstead, Ill.,
died 21 Nov 1937, in Cairo, Ill., divorced
husband of Nan
Lawler, and was buried in Spencer Heights Cemetery in Mounds,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis
McIntosh and son, Lariel Dean, attended
the funeral of Uncle Alex
Smoot
at Christian Chapel Friday.
(Swan Pond)
(Alexander
Smoot married Rachel C. Jones
on 25 Sep 1870, in Union Co., Ill.
His death certificate states that
Alexander
Smoot
was born 28 Jul 1851, in Wetaug, Ill., the
son of John
Smoot and Sally Peeler,
natives of Wetaug, Ill., died 17 Nov 1937,
in Jonesboro, Ill., the husband of Rachael
Smoot,
and was buried in Christian Chapel Cemetery
in Dongola, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 3 Dec 1937:
FIRE AT CYPRESS FATAL; WOMAN KNOWN HERE
A fire on Tuesday night of last week
at Cypress was fatal to the ____ of Mrs.
James
Wildy, who ___ years in Mound City and ___ is now at Cairo.
She was Mrs. ___ward
Harlan, and frequently ___d in Mound City.
At one time ___ with Mr. and Mrs.
Willis ____.
She was about 50 years of age.
A small boy, Ury
Sheffer, 4 years old, also perished as
the result of the fire.
___ the garage, owned by Har___
Carter, were five apartments.
___ was a rear and a front en___.
The fire started in one of ___
apartments and was well under ___ when
discovered.
The man who saw the smoke coming from
the apartment and opened the door was nearly
overcomes by the heat ___ make that burst
out.
Probable ___ door cut off one avenue
___ for some.
___ were accounted for as the fire
___, save these two.
It was ___ then to get back up to the
apartments and a hole was cut ___ the garage
below through the ___ and the bodies thus
removed.
Though fire had not reached them, ___
had been suffocated by smoke and heat.
The boy revived under artificial
respiration treatment to die about ___ hours
later.
It is presumed that the boy ran to the
apartment of Mrs.
Harlan and they could not escape.
Some ___ seeing the woman at the
window ___.
Since it was only two stories, __ the
body could probably have ___ had he been
lowered and ___ from the window.
(William H.
Shourd married Sarah P. Dunn
on 19 Dec 1880, in Johnson Co., Ill.
According to her death certificate,
Lou Harlan, of Cache, Ill.,
was born 21 Jul 1882, in Mt. Pisgah, Ill.,
the daughter of William
Shourd and Sarah
Dunn, natives of Tennessee, died 23 Nov 1937, in Cypress, Ill., the
widow of Elijah
Harlan, and was buried in Beech Ridge
Cemetery in Mounds, Ill.
Her marker in Beechwood Cemetery at
Mounds reads:
Lou
Harlan July 21, 1882 Nov. 23, 1937.
The death certificate of Donald Ury
Shaffer states that he was born 4 Nov
1932, in Cypress, Johnson Co., Ill., the son
of Thomas Ury
Shaffer, a native of Cypress, Ill., and
Mildred
Templeton, a native of Illinois, died 24
Nov 1937, in Cypress, Ill., and was buried
in Cypress Cemetery.
His marker in Cypress Masonic
Cemetery reads:
Donald Urie
Sheffer 1932-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
BROTHER OF MRS. MERTZ DIES
___
Gray,
brother of Mrs. ___
Mertz,
formerly of this city, died at his home in
Beardstown, ___ this morning.
He is the son of the late James ___
of Cairo, and leaves his wife __ daughters,
Mrs. Ralph ___
nier of Waukegan, Ill., Mrs. ___
Beaty of Monmouth, Ill., Mrs. ___
Rebman of Frederick, Ill., and ___ and Ruth; also two sons, Jack and
James all of Beardstown.
Funeral services were held Monday
morning at St. Alexis Catholic Church.
(This may be the same person as James
T.
Gray who married Estella C.
Eisenhauer on 26 Oct 1900, in Alexander
Co., Ill.
According to his death certificate,
James T.
Gray,
a miller, was born 9 Feb 1870, in Cairo,
Ill., the son of James
Gray,
a native of New York, and Susan
Vincent, a native of Tennessee, died 26
Nov 1937, in Beardstown, Cass Co., Ill., the
husband of Cora
Gray, and was buried in St. Alexius Cemetery in Beardstown.—Darrel
Dexter)
DEATHS
___ June
Palmer, age 12, died at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Palmer in Pulaski.
She had been ill only a short time.
Besides her parents, she leaves one
brother, Vaughn; and three sisters, Evelyn
Mize,
Mrs. Elaine
Lentz,
and Betty Jo
Palmer; and other relatives and friends
who will ___ her death.
The funeral services were conducted
by Rev. Charles A.
Day
at the Christian church in Pulaski ___day
afternoon.
Burial was in Rose Hill Cemetery
under the direction of George C.
Crain.
(Her death certificate states that
Letty June
Palmer was born 17 Jun 1925, in Pulaski,
Ill., the daughter of Arthur
Palmer, a native of Pulaski, Ill., and Nellie
Gillespie, a native of Harvell, Ill., died 26 Nov 1937, in Pulaski
Co., Ill., and was buried in Rose Hill
Cemetery at Pulaski, Ill.
Her marker there reads:
Letty J.
Palmer 1925-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
___Baker
of Dongola passed away at his home Saturday
after an illness of pneumonia, which lasted
about ten days.
He was born and reared near Dongola.
___Baker spent his entire life in that community except for a period of
about six months, which time he was overseas
as a soldier during the World War.
He is survived by this wife, Velva;
__ children, Bernice, Louise and ___; also
three brothers and four sisters.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at the Christian Chapel Cemetery
near Dongola with Rev. S. ___ of Mt. Vernon
officiating.
Interment was made in Chapel
Cemetery.
Elmer J.
Ford
was in charge.
(The death certificate states that
Edward
Baker,
farmer, was born 29 Sep 1889, in Dongola,
Ill., the son of John P.
Baker, a native of Germany, and Lilly
Drumgool, a native of Indiana, died 27 Nov 1937, in Dongola, Ill.,
the husband of Velva
Baker,
and was buried in Chapel Cemetery in Road
District 3, Union Co., Ill.
His marker in Christian Chapel
Cemetery near Dongola reads:
Edward
Baker
1889-1937 Velva
Baker
1897-1987.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 3 Dec 1937:
Union County Pioneer Woman Dies in Cairo
Mrs. Agnes
Rendleman, age 96 years, died Saturday, November 27, at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Fred
Leidigh, of Cairo.
She was the grandmother of Henry
Gunn
of this city and her body was brought to his
home to rest in state until Sunday afternoon
when funeral services were held at the Alto
Pass Congregational church.
Mrs.
Rendleman was born in Scott County, Mo., in 1841 and was married to
Henry
Rendleman of Union County, Ill., in
1861.
She is survived by six children, two
children and her husband having preceded her
in death.
Those surviving are Mrs. Eugenia
Gunn
of Villa Ridge, Mrs. Fred
Leidigh of Cairo, Mrs. Nellie
Donovan of Mounds, Julius and Harry
Rendleman of Alto Pass and Crawford
Rendleman of Anna; thirty-six
grandchildren, forty-two great-grandchildren
and one great-great grandchild.
The
Rendleman home was on the crest of Bald Knob Mountain near Alto
Pass.
Visitors were kindly permitted to
visit the observatory on the roof where a
large telescope permitted a fine view over
the surrounding country.
There, even after the death of Mr.
Rendleman, Mrs.
Rendleman and one daughter continued to
live for many years.
(According to her death certificate,
Agnes
Rendleman of Cairo, Ill.,
was born 26 Jul 1841, in Scott Co., Mo.,
died 27 Nov 1937, in Cairo, Alexander Co.,
Ill., widow of Henry
Rendleman, and was buried in Alto Pass Cemetery.
Her marker there reads:
Henry
Rendleman 1840-1914 Agnes
Rendleman his wife 1841-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 10 Dec 1937:
A. C. Auld Dies Suddenly Early Sunday
Morning
The community was shocked Sunday
morning to hear of the sudden death of
Alonzo Conn
Auld, age 62 years.
While he had been afflicted with heart
trouble for the past ten years or more
years, he was looking well and able to be
out among his friends each day.
Friday evening he was suddenly taken
seriously ill.
Suffering intensely he lived only
until Sunday morning at 4 o’clock.
Born at Denison, Ohio, he moved to
Mounds many years ago.
He had been in the employ of the
Illinois Central, retiring in February 1926
after twenty-nine years of service.
He was a member of the B. of L. F. &
T. at Carbondale.
He leaves three sisters, Miss Jessie
Auld,
with whom he made his home, Mrs. Alex
Deeslie and Mrs. A. S.
Calhoun.
His mother and two brothers had
preceded him in death since the coming of
the
Auld family to Mounds from Ohio.
Also surviving are a number of nieces
and nephews.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the home with
Rev. S. C.
Benninger, pastor of the Congregational Church, officiating.
Burial was made in the family lot in
Thistlewood Cemetery, G. A.
James
directing.
Brother of A. S. Calhoun Dies Suddenly in
Iowa
A.
S.
Calhoun was called to Waterloo, Iowa,
the first of last week by the death of his
brother, A. W.
Calhoun, which occurred Monday, November
29.
Mr.
Calhoun, a conductor on the Illinois Central between Fort Dodge and
Waterloo, was on his home run and was only
about six miles from Waterloo when he was
suddenly stricken and died.
Funeral services were held at
Waterloo Thursday, December 2.
(His marker in Calvary Cemetery in Waterloo,
Black Hawk Co., Iowa reads:
Albert W.
Calhoun 1875-1937 Katherine S.
Calhoun 1875-1949.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Marguerite Delahunt
Mrs. Marguerite
Delahunt, age 87, died at the home of
her sister, Mrs. L. D.
Smith,
in Villa Ridge Sunday morning, December 5.
Her husband died a number of years
ago.
Mrs.
Delahunt was born in St. Louis, Mo., on January 1, 1851.
She was a graduate nurse and
practiced that profession in her younger
days.
Surviving are one brother, James W.
Donnel, of Eureka, Calif.; one sister,
Mrs.
Smith, with who she made her home; also
several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held at St.
Raphael’s Church in this city Tuesday
morning at eight o’clock.
Burial was made in the Villa Ridge
cemetery, G. A.
James
directing.
Brother of Mrs. W. L. Toler Dies Early
Tuesday Morning
Stephen Alpheus
Blood,
brother of Mrs. W. L.
Toler,
died early Tuesday morning, December 7, at
his home in Owensville, Ind., following a
long illness.
Surviving are his wife, Jessie
McClure Blood, of Owensville; one son,
S. A.
Blood, Jr., of Owensville; one daughter,
Mrs. Bess
Williams, of Grayville, Ill.; two
sisters, Mrs. Ada
Whitney of Mt. Carmel, Ill., and Mrs.
Grace Cabot
Toler,
of Mounds; two grandchildren, William
Alpheus
Williams and Wanda Ruth Blood;
also a number of nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at Owensville,
with interment at Grayville, his former
home.
(Sephen Alpheus
Bood
was born 4 Jul 1860, in Grayville,
Edwards Co., Ill., and died 7 Dec 1937, the
son of Sylvester Henry
Blood
and Prudence Jane
Hicks.
He was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery
in Grayville, Edwards Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter).
Dongola Man Dies
Rufus Edward
Bishop, age 59 years, died at his home near Dongola Sunday night,
December 5, following a two-year illness of
heart trouble.
Formerly he had been a railroad
employee.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Flora
Cagle
of Marion and Mrs. Mary
Yost
of Anna; four brothers, James, Jonah, Oscar
and George.
The five bachelor brothers had lived
together at their home in Union County for
many years.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
morning at 10:30 o’clock at Pleasant Grove
Church, the Rev. Earl
Throgmorton of this city officiating.
Burial was made in McGinnis Cemetery,
the Wilson Funeral Service directing.
(Abram
Bishop married Sarah M. W.
Brown on 10 Dec 1865, in Union Co., Ill.
According to his death certificate,
Rufus Edward
Bishop, engineer,
was born
11 Mar 1878, in Union Co., Ill., the son
of Abram
Bishop, a native of Union Co., Ill., and
Sarah
Brown, a native of Tennessee, died 5 Dec
1937, in Road District 2, Union Co., Ill.,
and was buried in McGinnis Cemetery in Union
Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Adel
Burke
of St. Louis arrived Monday to attend the
funeral of her aunt, Mrs. Margaret
Dale, who passed away at the home of her sister, Mrs. Kate
Smith, Sunday morning. Mrs.
Smith
is slowly improving from a serious illness.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 10 Dec 1937:
KISSED THE LADIES
The death of “Patience
Worth” or Mrs. H. H. Rodgers,
formerly Miss Pearl
Pollard, recalls to many the story of
her uncle, George
Cordingly, who grew up here and who went
to Chicago where as a spiritualist he
attained some prominence and considerable
wealth.
He returned here to the funeral of a
relative at one time, dressed in a high hat
and cut away coat.
His mustache and arched eyebrows gave
him an unusual appearance, and he was quite
gallant.
Among other things, he kissed nearly
every woman he knew.
There seems to have been few who
escaped his caress and greeting.
Even the married ladies who went to
the funeral and hung back in the corner of
the church did not.
He spied them, and they were warmly
saluted—and went home to explain to their
husbands.
Cordingly is dead now, but a lot of the women he kissed that day are
still living here and around in these parts.
Cordingly attended public school here, and he used to send the
school into a panic when he went into a
trance, grasping his seat and staring like a
fixed image.
Later he held séances here, as many
people will recall.
In fact, here and other places over
the county has had and may still have a
considerable following of spiritualism which
Cordingly, the man who kissed the ladies, helped along.
MYSTERY STILL SURROUNDS DEATH OF MAN AT
PULASKI
Mystery still surrounds the death of Doc
Thompson, colored, found dead on the
pavement early Sunday morning in Pulaski.
He had been run over by a truck but
may have been dead or unconscious when run
over.
Two women saw him lying on the pavement,
stopped their car and tried to flag a truck
which was coming south.
The truck ran over
Thompson as he lay prostrate and
authorities investigating could not decide
if
Thompson was dead before the truck ran
over him or was unconscious.
There were some marks on him that the
truck did not make.
He was known to have been drinking
during the night.
MRS. MARGUERITE DELAHUNT DIES AT VILLA RIDGE
Mrs. Marguerite
Delahunt, age 87, died at the home of
her sister, Mrs. L. D.
Smith,
at Villa Ridge Sunday morning at 1 o’clock.
She leaves one brother, James W.
Donnell, of Eureka, Calif.; and the
sister at whose home she died, also many
nieces and nephews.
Services were held at St. Raphael’s Church
in Mounds Tuesday, with Father
Gilmartin officiating.
Interment was in Villa Ridge
Cemetery.
(Her death certificate states that
Marguerite
Delahunt, retired nurse, was born 1 Jan
1851, in St. Louis, Mo., the daughter of
James
Donnell, a native of Pennsylvania, and
Marguerite
Gander, died 5 Dec 1937, in Villa Ridge,
Ill., and was buried in Villa Ridge.—Darrel
Dexter)
FOREST L. HILEMAN PASSES AWAY AFTER LONG
ILLNESS
Forest L.
Hileman, died at the age of 40, at the
Veteran’s Hospital at Jacksonville, Ill., on
Saturday, Dec. 4.
He leaves his wife and one son, Donald; two
sisters, Mrs. Florence
House,
of Mound City, and Mrs. Daisy
Walker of Pulaski; a brother, Wayne of
Olmsted; and his father, Henry
Hileman; Mrs. Lottie
Chittick of Mound City, and Edith
Chittick, his aunts; and one uncle,
Hiram
Chittick, of Olmstead.
(The death certificate states that Forrest
Hileman, farmer at Olmstead, Ill., was
born 3 Jun 1897, in Illinois, died 4 Dec
1937, in Jacksonville, Morgan Co., Ill.,
husband of Nettie Pearl
Hileman, and was buried
in Concord Cemetery at Olmstead, Ill.
His marker there reads:
Forest L.
Hileman Nov 1897- Dec 1937.
The application for a military
headstone states Forest Lawson
Hileman enlisted 18 Dec 1917, as a
private in 1st Co., Air Service,
and was honorably discharged 31 Dec 1918.
He last served with 501 Squadron, Air
Service Division.—Darrel
Dexter)
B. B. CAUBLE DIES
Funeral services were held Friday afternoon
at the Center Church for B. B.
Cauble,
who died at his home near Olmsted, Wednesday
of last week.
Rev.
Thomas of Pulaski officiated.
Burial was made in the Concord
Cemetery.
(His marker in Concord Cemetery near
Olmsted, Ill., reads:
Benjamin
Caudle 1863-1937 S. Matilda
Caudle 1861-1922.—Darrel
Dexter)
ALONZO CONN AULD PASSES AWAY AT MOUNDS
Alonzo Conn
Auld,
age 62, died at his home in Mounds Sunday
morning after a brief illness of three days.
A resident of Mounds for the past 42
years,
Auld
was employed by the Illinois Central until
his retirement in 1926, after serving the
railroad for 29 years.
His three sisters, Mrs. Alex
Deeslie, Miss Jessie
Auld,
and Mrs. A. S.
Calhoun, all of Mounds, survive to mourn
his passing.
Funeral services by Rev. S. C.
Benninger, Congregational minister, of
Grand Chain were conducted at the home on
Tuesday afternoon.
The casket bearers were of the Brotherhood
of Local Fireman and Engineers of which
Auld
was a member.
Burial was in Thistlewood Cemetery.
(His death certificate states that Alonzo
Conn
Auld, retired railroad engineer, was
born 10 Mar 1875, in Dennison, Ohio, the son
of Samuel A.
Auld
and Alwilda
Holmes, natives of Harrison Co., Ohio,
died 5 Dec 1937, in Mounds, Ill., and was
buried in Thistlewood Cemetery in Mounds.
His marker in Beechwood Cemetery at
Mounds reads:
Alonzo Conn
Auld
Mar. 10, 1875 Dec. 5, 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Medium of Literary Note Was Born Here
Mrs. H. H.
Rodgers, who wrote many poems and books
thru the guidance of “Patience
Worth,”
died in Santa Monica, Calif., last Friday.
She was the daughter of Mrs. Molly
Pollard, formerly Molly
Cordingly, of Mound City, and was born
here in 1883.
They lived in a little three-room
house where the Mound City High School now
stands and quite a few of the “ole timers”
will remember Mrs.
Pollard and her daughter, Pearl.
The family lived in St. Louis at the time of
Pearl’s marriage to John H.
Curran, former State Immigration
Commissioner, Mr.
Curran died in 1921 and in 1936 she
married Dr. Horace Henry
Rodgers, a retired physician of California.
Dr.
Rodgers is a brother of Mrs. Fred
Butler, late of Cairo.
Patience
Worth
came to Mrs.
Rodgers, who was then Mrs. John
Curran, on a July evening in 1913.
Mrs.
Rogers and Mrs. Emily
Grant
Hutchins, wife of the Secretary of Tower
Grove Park Board in St. Louis, were sitting
at an Ouija board when the pointer on the
board wrote this statements, “Many moons ago
I lived.
Again I come.
Patience
Worth
is my name.”
From that night on, “Patience
Worth”
directed the mind of Mrs.
Rodgers.
She did not claim to be a medium or a
spiritualist, but did claim to have a
religious vision.
She would gaze into space and see
things that had happened many years, even
centuries ago, and when scientist and
professors would do research work on these
“visions,” they found that she had seen them
correctly to the minutest detail.
Yet she could not foretell the
future.
She was called a psychic wonder and this
power that she possessed would give her the
ability to say what was in her mind.
She never attempted to write any of
her visions, but would dictate word for word
what she saw and what “Patience
Worth”
directed.
She had only an average education, but
dictated a 600-page book in Old English that
a prominent English professor declared was
the most perfect copy since
Chaucer.
Her most prominent books are
“Patience Worth,” “The Pot upon the Wheel,”
“Hope Trueblood,” and “The Sorry Tale.”
All of her works are of a religious
nature and most of them are above the
intelligence of the average person.
Psychologists who have examined her
state that she must have a “power” as she
does not have the faculties to originate the
material used in her prose and verse.
She is survived by a stepdaughter of her
former marriage, Miss Julia
Curran, and an adopted daughter who she
called Patience Worth.
She is now Mrs. Patrician W.
Peters, of Santa Monica.
George
Cordingly, an uncle, did practice
spiritualism and had a cult in Chicago.
Word of his death was received here
this past summer.
Mrs.
Rodgers who married three or four times
during her life, visited Mound City a number
of times.
She had a charming personality.
She sang at the funeral of her
mother.
(George G.
Pollard married Mary E.
Cordingley on 6 May 1882, in Pulaski
Co., Ill.
John H.
Curran, of St. Louis, Mo., married on 27 Jan 1907, in Bismark, St.
Francois Co., Mo., Mo., Pearl
Pollard of Bismark, Mo.—Darrel
Dexter)
Funeral services for Forest
Hileman were held at the Olmsted
Methodist Church Monday afternoon, Rev.
Thomas officiating.
Burial was in the Concord Cemetery.
G. A.
James
in charge.
(Olmstead)
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 17 Dec 1937:
FORMER MOUNDS EDITOR DIES IN BEAUMONT, TEXAS
Word has been received here of
the death of Norman M.
Harris at one time the editor of the
Mounds paper about 20 years ago and a
writer, while running that paper that
aroused the wrath of many and diverse
persons.
Harris
ran a jewelry store in the office now
occupied by the Building & Loan and almost
across from
The
Enterprise.
He owned a number of pieces of
property and engaged in a number of
ventures, finally winding up by becoming an
editor.
He married the widow of his brother, the
former Miss Bertha
Boekenkamp, a half-sister of Albert
Boekenkamp of this city.
He was quite active in Spanish American War
Veterans and, at the time of his death, was
in a government hospital.
(His marker in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in
Beaumont, Texas, reads:
Norman M.
Harris West Virginia Pvt. 6 Cav December 9, 1937.
The application for a military
headstone states that Norman M.
Harris enlisted 25 Aug 1896, at Ft.
Leavenworth, Kansas, as a private in Troop
L, 6th U.S. Cavalry, and was
honorably discharged 24 Aug 1899.
He died 9 Dec 1937, in Ouachita
Parish, La.—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. AMELIA EDWARDS PASSES AWAY NEAR
OLMSTEAD
Mrs. Amelia Elizabeth
Edwards, 64, of Olmsted, died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Nettie
Hileman, Tuesday morning, after a week’s illness of pneumonia.
She is the wife of the late Warren E.
Edwards.
She leaves four sons, Jim of Villa Ridge,
Owen, Ernest and Roy of Olmsted; and five
daughters Mrs. Cledia
Modglin, and Mrs. J. P.
Caudle, of Ullin, Mrs. Nettie
Hileman and Mrs. Willis
Richards of Olmsted, and Mrs. Jennie
Thurston of Pulaski; two half-sisters,
Mrs. John
Dick
of Olmsted and Mrs. Lula
Nelson of McClure; two half-brothers,
John and Joe
Atherton of Olmsted and sixteen
grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at the Methodist Church South in
Olmstead with Rev.
Thomas of Pulaski officiating.
Her nephews served as pallbearers.
Burial was in Liberty Cemetery near Pulaski
with
Wilson Funeral Service in charge.
(Warren E.
Edwards married Amelia E.
Atherton on 24 Mar 1889, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
Amelia Elizabeth
Edwards was born 21 Jul 1873, in Pulaski
Co., Ill., the daughter of James H.
Atherton, a native of Georgia, and Susan
E.
McClellan, a native of Pulaski Co.,
Ill., died 14 Dec 1937, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill., the widow of Warren
Edwards, and was buried in Liberty
Cemetery.
Her marker there reads:
Amelia E.
Edwards 1873-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
J. R. SNEED DIED SATURDAY AT HIS HOME IN
PULASKI
J. R.
Sneed, mayor of Pulaski, merchant and
businessman, died at his home Saturday
shortly after noon, from a heart attack.
He was 70 years of age.
Mr.
Sneed was well known over the county.
He was county commissioner for one
term and he served in various offices in and
around Pulaski for years.
His keen business ability was but
little ahead of his ability to do things
politically.
He was born near Nashville, Tenn., and came
to his county about 33 years ago.
He worked for the Illinois Central as
carpenter and then foreman of a gang of
carpenters.
From this he went into the making of
concrete walks and blocks and in general
construction work at which he was quite
successful.
He later opened a general store and
at this, he was successful.
At the time of his death, he still
conducted his store and was interested in
numerous business ventures which included
farming, lending money and in merchandising.
He married to Miss Katherine
Butler in Feb. 1914, and to them were
born three children, all dying in infancy.
His wife, his mother-in-law, two
nieces, Mrs. Rex
Taft
of Memphis and Mrs. Ocean
McKenzie of Mounds; and one nephew,
Joyce
Prather of Cairo, survive.
Funeral services were held Tuesday at the
Baptist church at Pulaski.
Stores in town closed for the
services.
Pallbearers of friends and honorary
pallbearers of older friends carried and
followed him to his grave in the Rose Hill
Cemetery.
(His death certificate states that Joseph
Rutland
Sneed, merchant, was born
3 Sep 1867, in Nashville, Tenn., died 11 Dec
1937, in Pulaski, Ill., husband of Katie
Sneed,
and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery
near Pulaski.
His marker there reads:
Katherine
Sneed 1882-1956 Joseph R.
Sneed 1867-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Dick and Lawrence
Schneider attended the funeral of a
relative in Waterloo, Ill., Friday.
(Mounds)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 17 Dec 1937:
J. R. Sneed, Mayor of Pulaski, Dies Saturday
J. R.
Sneed, age 70 years, well known merchant and mayor of Pulaski, died
suddenly Saturday, December 11, at 12:30
p.m. at his home.
Mr.
Sneed was born near Nashville, Tenn., September 3, 1867.
He came to Illinois 33 years ago and
settled at Pulaski.
For a time he worked for the Illinois
Central Railroad Company as carpenter and
carpenter foreman.
Later he entered the contracting and
concrete business at Pulaski where he built
a number of the best buildings and most of
the concrete sidewalks in the town.
He invented the concrete railroad tie
which was tried out by the Illinois Central
Railroad.
Some of the ties are still in the
tracks near Dongola.
Entering business in 1915, he
established a large general store and was
still operating the same at the time of his
death.
He was county commissioner for one
term and has been mayor of Pulaski and clerk
of the school board for the last 20 years.
On February 14, 1904, he was united
in marriage to Miss Katherine
Butler, who has been his able assistant
in business.
Three children, born to their union,
died in infancy.
Surviving are his wife, his
mother-in-law, Mrs. Frances
Butler; and two nieces by marriage, Mrs.
Rex
Taft of Memphis, Tenn., and Mrs. Leslie
McKenzie of Mounds; also one nephew by
marriage, Joyce
Prather of Cairo.
He was a member of Caledonia Lodge
No. 47 A. F. & A. M. and had served as
worshipful Master in 1916.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at the Baptist church of Pulaski,
Rev. A. E.
Thomas officiating.
Burial was in Rose Hill Cemetery, George C.
Crain
directing.
Deaths of the Week
FORMER MOUNDS MAN DIES
Norman M.
Harris, a former resident of Mounds and Mound City, died Thursday,
December 9, after a long illness.
A Spanish-American War veteran, he
had been in a government hospital in Texas
at various intervals and it is presumed he
died in the hospital.
Burial was in Texas, at his request.
The deceased at one time edited a
newspaper in Mounds and he and his family
made their home here for a number of years.
Surviving are his wife, Bertha
Bokenkamp Harris, whose first husband
was Charles
Harris, a brother of Norman; one son,
Ted
Harris, of Monroe, La.; one stepson, who
was also his nephew, Charlie
Harris, of West Frankfort, Ill.; one sister, Mrs. Charles
Boren
of America.
His brother-in-law, Albert
Bokenkamp still lives in Mound City.
MRS JULIA PENNELL
Mrs. Julia
Pennell, age 89 years, died Tuesday morning, December 14, at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Ollie
Crowe,
where she had ill for some weeks.
Surviving are five daughters, Mrs.
Jane
Bowles, Mrs. Mollie
Hale,
Mrs. Laura
Peterson and Mrs. Ollie Crowe,
all of Mounds, and Mrs. Kate
Meehan of Cairo; thirty-six
grandchildren, forty-eight
great-grandchildren, and fourteen
great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at Shiloh Church,
Rev. Earl
Throgmorton, pastor of the First Baptist
Church, officiating.
Burial was made in Shiloh Cemetery,
James T.
Ryan
directing.
(Her marker in Shiloh Cemetery reads:
Julian
Pennell 1848-1937. She
is buried next to Spencer
Pennell, who was born 25 Dec 1846 and
died 19 May 1924.
—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. AMELIA EDWARDS
Mrs. Amelia Elizabeth
Edwards, 64, of Olmstead, widow of the
late W. E.
Edwards, died Tuesday morning, December
14, of pneumonia.
She is survived by nine children, Jim
of Villa Ridge, Mrs. Cledia
Modglin, Mrs. J. P.
Caudle of Ullin, Owen, Roy, Ernest, Mrs.
Neita
Hileman, Mrs. Willis
Richards, all of Olmstead, Mrs. Fannie
Thurston of Pulaski; two half-sisters,
Mrs. John
Dick
of Olmsted and Mrs. Lula
Nelson of McClure; two half brothers,
John and Joe
Atherton of Olmstead; and sixteen
grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at 1 o’clock at the Baptist church
of Olmstead, Rev.
Thomas of Pulaski officiating.
Interment was made in Liberty
Cemetery near Pulaski, the
Wilson Funeral Service directing.
FOREST L. HILEMAN
Forest L.
Hileman, age 40, of near Olmstead, died December 4th at
the Veterans’ hospital, Jacksonville, Ill.
He was a son of Henry
Hileman and the late Alice
Hileman and was born and reared in the
vicinity of Olmstead.
He enlisted as a volunteer in the
World War at Seattle, Wash., and served for
more than a year.
He had been ill for the last three
years in the Veterans’ Hospital.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Nettie
Hileman and one small son; his father,
two sisters, Mrs. Florence
House
of Mound City and Mrs. Daisy
Walker of Pulaski; one brother, Wayne,
living at the old home; two aunts, Miss
Lottie
Chittick of Mound City and Miss Edith
Chittick of Anna; one uncle, Hiram
Chittick of Olmstead, and many other
relatives.
He was a member of the Louis Phares
Post of the American Legion in this county.
Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon Dec. 6, at 2 o’clock at the
Methodist church in Olmstead, with Rev.
Thomas officiating.
Burial was in the Concord Cemetery.
Services by the American Legion were
held at the grave.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 24 Dec 1937:
Mrs. Martha Higgins
Mrs. Martha
Higgins, age 48 years, wife of R. A.
Higgins, died Thursday morning, December 16, at 5 o’clock at her
home near Ullin.
Burial was made Saturday morning at
Cache Chapel Cemetery with the
Wilson Funeral Service conducting.
(Her death certificate states that
Martha
Higgins was born 12 Feb 1889, in
Olmstead, Ill., daughter of Tilda
Thurston,
died 16 Dec 1937, in Pulaski Co., Ill.,
wife of Ira
Higgins,
and was buried in Cache Chapel Cemetery
in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker there reads:
Martha
Higgins 1889-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Josephine Eastwood Dies at Age of 93
Years
Mrs. Josephine
Eastwood, age 93 years, died Wednesday night, December 15, at the
home of her son, Henry
Eastwood, near Olmstead, following a ten
months’ illness.
Surviving are her son, nine
grandchildren, among them H. M.
Britt,
Jr., of Mounds; two stepchildren, Lee
Eastwood of Olmstead and A. A.
Calvin of Pulaski.
Funeral services were held at the
Eastwood Cemetery at two o’clock Friday
afternoon, Rev. Mr.
Henderson, of Ullin, officiating.
Wilson Funeral Service was in charge.
(Her death certificate states that
Josephine
Eastwood was born 5 Mar 1845, in
Olmstead, Ill., daughter of John
Rigby,
died 15 Dec 1937, in Pulaski Co., Ill.,
widow of Joshua
Eastwood, and was buried in Eastwood
Cemetery in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Pulaski Man Killed on U. S. Highway 51
Pleasant
Roach, age 58, school janitor of the Pulaski schools and long a
farmer in that community, was almost
instantly killed about 6:30 o’clock Saturday
evening, Dec. 18, when hit by an automobile
as he started to cross U. S. highway 51 in
front of his home which faces the highway.
John
Cox, an eye witness of the tragedy, testified at a coroner’s inquest
that the car stopped and four negroes got
out, after asking
Cox
for a flashlight, looking at the body they
then reentered the car and drove away.
He described the car as a Model A
_____ window glass out and cardboard
substituted.
Joeffre
Ghant,
a second witness, gave about the same
testimony, according to report.
The victim was badly crushed and must
have died almost instantly.
Mr.
Roach, Pleas as he was familiarly known, leaves three daughters,
Mrs. Mamie
Dean,
Mrs. Emma
Skyles of Aurora and Mrs. Edith
Irvin
of Pulaski; one son, Charles
Roach;
and a stepson, Alvie
Elliston, both of Moline, Mich.; two
brothers, John and Bud
Roach
of Delan, Fla.; one sister, Mrs. Dolly
Fender of Edgewood; seventeen
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Pulaski
Christian Church, with Rev. A. E.
Thomas officiating.
Burial was in Rose Hill cemetery.
Frank
Miller of New Ross, Ind., brother-in-law
of E. C.
Buchanan, died Sunday, Dec. 11, at his
home.
Since the death of his wife he had
lived alone and was found dead.
Mrs. William L.
Toler
received word Thursday of the death of her
friend, Miss Chattie
Wilcox of Princeton, Ind., on Wednesday.
Funeral services will be held in Mt.
Carmel today.
Miss
Wilcox has been a visitor in the
Toler
home and will be remembered by acquaintances
she made while here.
(Her marker in Rose Hill Cemetery in
Mt. Carmel, Ill., reads:
Charity E.
Wilcox 1864-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 24 Dec 1937:
GEORGE MONTGOMERY DIES
Word has been received of the recent death
of George
Montgomery, son of Mr. and Mrs. Vivian
Montgomery, former residents of this city.
Mr.
Montgomery died at his home in Los
Angeles, Calif., but further details have
not been learned.
MRS. EVA COY DIES AT HOME IN MOUND CITY
Mrs. Eva
Coy,
born August 29, 1863, died December 20,
1937, at the age of 74 years, 3 months, and
20 days.
She was the former Eva
Burkett.
She married William
Smith, who preceded her in death several years ago.
To this union two daughters were
born, Mrs. Maggie
Costello of Mound City and Mrs. Cora
Freeman of Augusta, Ark.
Later she married John
Coy
who also preceded her in death.
She leaves the two daughters, two sisters,
Mrs. Fannie
Kimbell of Mound City and Mrs. Mollie
Newton of Hornersville, Mo., and several grandchildren and
great-grandchildren and a host of friends to
mourn her loss for truly she was a friend to
all.
She professed faith in Christ in early youth
and has been a devout Christian until her
Lord called her to rest in the arms of her
Love.
During her illness her pleasure was in the
songs of His Love and the prayers of God’s
children that gathered to comfort and cheer
her in her last hours with us.
“Mother, you are gone to meet with Jesus and
your toil on earth is done;
May we meet to dwell together in glorious
home of love.”
Family
Funeral services were conducted at the
Baptist church in Mound City, Monday at 2:30
by Rev. H. E.
Lockard.
Interment was in the Mounds cemetery.
G. A.
James was in charge of arrangements.
(John
Coy married Mrs. Evaline
Burkett Webb on 11 Nov 1899, in Wabash
Co., Ill.
Joseph
Kimbrell married Fannie
Burket on 30 Mar 1889, in Edwards Co.,
Ill.
Her death certificate states that Eva
Coy
was born 29 Aug 1863, in Albion, Ill., the
daughter of Charles
Burkett and Frances
Shores, natives of Illinois, died 19 Dec
1937, in Mound City, Ill., the wife of John
Coy,
and was buried in Spencer Heights Cemetery
in Mounds, Ill.
Her marker there reads:
Evalina (Eva)
Coy
Beloved Mother of Maggie
Costellia Died July 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
MOTHER OF MOUND CITY WOMAN DIES AT ELDORADO
Mrs. Elizabeth Agnes
Bennett Latimer, mother of Mrs. N. J.
Harris, died Thursday, Dec, 18, at her
home at Eldorado.
She has been ill for several weeks, but
contracted pneumonia which is thought to
have caused her death.
She was 66 years of age.
Surviving her are her mother, Mrs. A. D.
Lavon,
aged 90; seven children, Mrs. Neva
Erwood, and Mrs. Herman
Barnes of Eldorado, Mrs. N. J.
Harris of Mound City, Morris and Trench
Latimer of Denver, Colo., Murray
Latimer of St. Louis and Clyde
Latimer of Glasgow, Ky.
Also surviving are a brother, Marion
Bennett of Bonnie, Ill., and a sister
Mrs. N. D.
Bryant of Scottsville, Ky.
Funeral services were held Friday at the
Methodist church of which she was a member.
Rev. W. C.
Bruce officiated.
Burial was made at Wolf Lake Cemetery.
(S. R.
Latimer married Lizzie
Bennett on 30 Sep 1886, in Gallatin Co.,
Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Lizzie B.
Latimer was born 14 Jul 1871, in Omaha, Ill., the daughter of J. H.
Bennett and Matilda
Carr,
natives of Tennessee, died 16 Dec 1937, in
Eldorado, Saline Co., Ill., widow of R. A.
Latimer, and was buried
in Wolf Creek Cemetery in Eldorado.—Darrel
Dexter)
FORMER RHODES-BURFORD MANAGER AT MOUNDS DIES
R. F.
Hillerick, former manager of the
Rhodes-Burford store at Mounds and later of
Mayfield, Ky., was found dead Sunday
morning, December 16.
The body was found by Myrtle
Legg
at whose home he resided.
At the inquest, it was stated that
Hillerick had died of heart attack and
had been dead only a few hours when found.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Blanche
Hillerick of Hopkinsville and son, Ward,
of Mayfield.
At the time of his death he was employed by
the Majestic Stove Co., with headquarters at
Mayfield.
(His death certificate states that Rudd F.
Hillerich, salesman for Majestic Store &
Range, of 228 N. 8th Street,
Mayfield, Graves Co., Ky., was born 30 Jul
1891, in Louisville, Ky., the son of Hy.
Hillerich, a native of Germany, and
Margaret
Gumm,
a native of Indiana, died 16 Dec 1937, of
angina pectoris, husband of Blanche
Hillerich, and was buried in Maplewood
Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
PLEASANT ROACH KILLED; OFFICERS SEEK CAR
OWNERS
Pleasant
Roach,
58 years of age, janitor of the Pulaski
schools, was hit and killed about 6:30
o’clock Saturday evening by a hit and run
driver as he crossed the state road in
Pulaski.
He was knocked about 15 feet or more
by the car and then run over.
The car, said to be a Model A Ford with
cardboard patch on the windshield, was
driven by negroes who stopped, got out,
called for a flashlight, and looked at
Roach,
who was dead.
They then got back in the car, turned
around and drove away.
There were four of them.
Two eye witnesses, John
Cox
and Joffre
Ghant,
testified at the inquest held Saturday
night.
One of the men who got out of the car
wore a CCC uniform.
The verdict of the coroner’s jury was that
the driver of the car was responsible for
the death of
Roach,
and recommended that he be found and held or
the grand jury.
Roach
is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Mamie
Dean,
Mrs. Emma
Skyles of Aurora, Mrs. Edith
Irvin
of Pulaski; and son, Charles
Roach;
and stepson, Alvie
Elliston, of Moline, Mich.; two
brothers, John and Dolly
Fender of Edgewood.
There are other relatives and about
17 grandchildren.
Funeral services were Wednesday at the
Christian church with Rev.
Thomas officiating.
(Pleasant
Roach married Callie Prater
on 26 May 1894, in Effingham Co., Ill.
James S.
Roach
married Mahulda
Lilly
on 29 Apr 1865, in Union Co., Ill.
James S.
Roach
married Laura
Lilly
on 14 Mar 1861, in Union Co., Ill.
David
Fender, 40, born in Owen Co., Ind., son of Absolem
Fender and Martha E.
Powell, married 3rd on 7 Apr
1901, in Pulaski Co., Ill., Mrs. Mattie
Fox,
born in Union Co., Ill., daughter of James
Roach
and Hulda
Lilly.
John Jackson
Roach, 26, of Pulaski, Ill., born in Effingham, Ill., son of James
Roach
and Mahulda
Lilley, married on 27 Apr 1899, in Pulaski Co., Ill., Emma J.
Callahan, 18, of Pulaski, Ill., born in
Indian Territory, daughter of Aaron M.
Callahan and Barbery D.
Nazworthy.
His
death certificate states that Pleasant
Roach,
school janitor, was born 22 May 1868, in
Effingham, Ill., the son of James and Matilda
Roach,
died 18 Dec 1937, in Pulaski, Ill., the
husband of Clara
Prather Roach,
and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery.
His marker there reads:
Father Pleasant
Roach May 22, 1869 Dec. 18, 1937 Mother Clara
Roach Sept. 11, 1869 Feb. 10, 1932.—Darrel
Dexter)
INFANT BOY DIES
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Steve
Lampley died at birth Tuesday morning at
their home near Villa Ridge.
Burial was made the same afternoon in
Thistlewood Cemetery with G. A.
James
in charge.
(His death certificate states that Steve
Lampley was stillborn 21 Dec 1937, in
Road District 6, Pulaski Co., Ill., the son
of Steve
Lampley, a native of Pulaski Co., Ill.,
and Dot
Adams,
a native of Wickliffe, Ky.,
and was buried in Thistlewood Cemetery
in Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker in Beechwood Cemetery at
Mounds, Ill., reads:
Steve H.
Lampley, Jr. son of Steve & Dot
Lampley Dec. 21, 1937—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise, Friday, 31 Dec 1937:
MRS. ALFIE FARLOW DIES
Mrs. Alfie Blanche
Farlow died late Thursday evening, Dec.
23, at the home of her mother, Mrs. Mary
Britton in Mound City.
She had been ill about four months.
Mrs.
Farlow, who was 37 years of age at the
time of her death, was a registered nurse
and had spent most of her time in the west.
Surviving are her husband, F. A.
Farlow, of the state of Washington; her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. A.
Benton; four brothers, Roy, Guy and William of Mound City and Ray of
Missouri; and one sister, Mrs. Anna
March
of LaGrange, Ore.
Funeral services, conducted by Rev. J. L.
Wall,
were held Friday afternoon at the residence.
Interment was in Thistlewood
Cemetery.
G. A.
James was in charge of arrangements.
(Her death certificate states that
Alfie Blanche
Farlow, a nurse in Los Angeles, Calif.,
was born 8 Dec 1900, in Mound City, Ill.,
the daughter of F. A.
Benton, a native of Massac Co., Ill.,
and Mary
Alliston, a native of Arkansas, died 23
Dec 1937, in Mound City, Ill., the wife of
F. A.
Farlow, and was buried in Thistlewood
Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
PROMINENT MOUNDS JEWELER PASSES AWAY
Chris
Bauer, who has been in the jewelry
business in Mounds for a good number of
years, died at his home on N. Delaware
Wednesday morning. He had been ill
with asthma for quite a few months. He
and Mrs.
Bauer
had made many trips to Paducah for
treatments, but to no avail.
He leaves his wife, a daughter, Eleanor, and a
son, Harry. He was a member of the
Methodist Church and the Masonic Lodge at
Mound City.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2
p.m. at the First Methodist Church in Mounds
with Rev.
Glotfelty officiating.
Masonic rites will be conducted at the grave.
G. A.
James is in charge of the arrangements.
(The World War I draft registration in 1917 of
Harry Christian
Bauer
states he was a jeweler and watch
inspector for the Illinois Central Railroad
Co. at Mounds, Ill.
Philip
Bauer married Madie Walter
on 24 Feb 1885, in Pope Co., Ill.
His death certificate states that
Harry Christian
Bauer,
jeweler, was born 28 Apr 1887, in Hall
Station, Tenn., the son of Philip
Bauer
and Madie
Walter, a native of Illinois, died 29 Dec 1937, in Mounds, Pulaski
Co., Ill., the husband of Dollie
Bauer,
and was buried in Thistlewood Cemetery at
Mounds.
His marker in Beechwood Cemetery at
Mounds reads:
Harry Christian
Bauer
Apr. 28, 1887 Dec. 29, 1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
JUDGE WHITE DEAD
Judge George B. White, of this
judicial circuit and an attorney at Marion
for many years, died at his home there
Sunday after an illness of more than two
years of heart trouble and Bright's disease.
He was associated for years with the late
Judge
Hartwell and, upon his death, was
appointed by Gov.
Horner to fill the unexpired term.
He then ran and was elected. Ill
health has kept him from the circuit for the
past two years and John
Reid, city judge of Marion, has performed many of his duties.
White
was also a partner of L. A.
Colp,
who took part in Republican politics.
The funeral was at Marion Tuesday and
attorneys and those in politics from over
the district attended.
(George B.
White married Laura Ferrell
on 22 Dec 1889, in Williamson Co., Ill.
His death certificate states that
George B.
White,
attorney, was born 27 Sep 1864, in Golconda,
Ill., the son of Nathan S.
White
and Sarah Jane
Bell,
natives of Kentucky, died 26 Dec 1937, in
Marion, Williamson Co., Ill., the husband of
Laura
White, and was buried in Rose Hill
Cemetery in Marion, Ill.
His marker there reads:
George B.
White
1864-1937 Judge of Circuit Court
1933-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
BOY DIES OF AUTO CRASH INJURIES; GIFTS
UNOPENED
(Chicago Tribune,
Dec. 25)
Robert
Porterfield, 7 years old, will open no
packages from Santa Claus today in his home
at 9861 Prospect Avenue. He died
yesterday in the Little Company of Mary
Hospital of injuries received when he was
struck by an automobile Thursday night in
front of 9763 Beverly Avenue. There
have been twenty-two other auto accident
deaths this week.
"For the sake of Bobbie's sisters, Margaret, 5
years old, and Mary, who is 4, there will be
Christmas at our home," said the father,
John A.
Porterfield, an Illinois Central
railroad clerk, "but his presents will never
be opened."
Robert was on his way home from a movie with
some playmates when he was struck down.
He was the grandson of Mrs. Kate
Porterfield of Pulaski, at which place
the burial was held on Monday.
(The death certificate states that Robert E.
Porterfield, student, was born 14 Mar
1930, in Chicago, Ill., the son of John
Porterfield, a native of Pulaski, Ill.,
and Alice
Compton, a native of Stuart, Iowa, died
24 Dec 1937, in Evergreen Park, Chicago,
Ill., and was buried in Pulaski Cemetery in
Pulaski, Ill.
His marker in Rose Hill Cemetery near
Pulaski reads:
Robert Elliott son of John A. & Alice
C.
Porterfield, 1930-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
HORNER HOTEL OWNER DIES
Mrs. Hattie Horner, owner of the
Horner Hotel, on N. Oak St., in Mounds,
died at her home Tuesday morning. She
was 64 years of age and had been a resident
of Mounds for the past 19 years. Her
husband, D. J.
Horner, preceded her in death in May
1926.
Mrs.
Horner was a member of the Mt. Pisgah
Lutheran Church at Wetaug, where services
were held Thursday afternoon. A short
service was held at the home.
Interment was in the cemetery at
Wetaug, with G. A.
James
in charge.
She leaves two daughters, Mrs.
Mildred
Jones
and Mrs. Inez Cockrum,
both of Mounds; three sons, T. D.
Horner, C. M.
Horner and Joe
Horner, all of Mounds; five
grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. Maggie
Houston of Kalamazoo, Mich., and Mrs. D.
H.
Hurley of St. Louis; and one brother, C.
W.
Lentz, of Carbondale; also many friends
will mourn her death.
(Daniel
Horner married Hettie
Lentz
on 1 Jan 1889, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Henry C.
Lentz married Barbara E.
Heddinger, daughter of Margaret
Rymer,
on 19 Mar 1872, in Union Co., Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Hattie Parilee
Horner was born 5 Jul 1873, in Wetaug,
Ill., the daughter of Henry
Lentz, a native of South Carolina, and Barbara
Heddinger, a native of Texas,
died 28 Dec 1937, in Mounds, Ill., the
widow of D. J.
Horner, and was buried in Mt. Pisgah
Cemetery near Wetaug.
Her marker there reads:
Daniel J.
Horner 1867-1926 Hattie P.
Horner his wife 1873-1937.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 31 Dec 1937:
Mrs. Hattie Horner Dies Tuesday Morning
Mrs. Hattie
Horner, age 54 years, passed away at her home, the Horner Hotel on
N. Oak Street, after a lingering illness.
For the past year or more she has
been a patient at Barnes Hospital in St.
Louis at various times and everything
possible had been done to stay the disease
that claimed her.
With her husband, the late D. J.
Horner, and her family she came to
Mounds from Wetaug nineteen years ago and
has since made this her home.
She was a member of the Mount Pisgah
Lutheran Church at Wetaug.
Mr.
Horner died in May 1926.
Surviving are three sons, T. D.
Horner and Joe
Horner of this city, C. M.
Horner of Carbondale; two daughters,
Mrs. Mildred
Jones
and Mrs. Inez
Cockrum of Mounds; five grandchildren;
two sisters, Mrs. Maggie
Houston of Kalamazoo, Mich., and Mrs. J. D.
Hurley of St. Louis, both of whom were with her at her death; one
brother, Charles
Lentz
of Carbondale.
A brief song and prayer service was
held at the residence at 1 o’clock Thursday
afternoon, after which the funeral cortege
let for Wetaug where services were held at
Mount Pisgah Church at 2 o’clock, Rev. T. C.
Ury
of Jonesboro, a former Mounds pastor,
officiating.
Burial was in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery in
charge of G. A.
James.
Casket bearers were Walter
Adams,
B. A.
Stalcup, E. M. Baker, Lee
Ewing,
Clarence
Taylor and Sam
Evers.
Circuit Judge G. W. White Dies Sunday at
Marion
Judge George W.
White,
73, of Marion, circuit judge in this
district, died Sunday at his home after an
illness of more than two years.
He was born in Williamson County and
was a successful lawyer when Gov.
Horner appointed him to the bench to
succeed the late Judge D. T.
Hartwell. He then became
the first Democratic judge on tis circuit
since 1879.
In June 1903, he was elected along
with other Democrats who were successful in
the Democratic landslide of that year.
Funeral services were held from the
residence Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Prominent Business Man Dies Suddenly
Wednesday
Harry Christian
Bauer,
known to everyone as “Chris,” died suddenly
Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. at his home on
Delaware Avenue, his heart having failed him
following a severe attack of the asthma from
which he had suffered since the flood last
January.
Perhaps no business man in Mounds was
better or more favorably known that Chris
Bauer, the jeweler. He
and Mrs.
Bauer
came here from Golconda 26 years ago and
have since made this their home, both
entering into the life of the community in
helpful ways.
Their two children were born and
reared here.
Mr.
Bauer,
during the days when the Illinois Central
yards in Mounds were teeming with business,
was the official watch inspector for the
railroad’s employees.
Greeting everyone with a smile, he
soon made each a friend.
Mr.
Bauer was born in Tennessee April 26, 1887, and had reached the age
of 50 years, eight months and one day. He
was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Phillip
Bauer.
The family soon afterward moved to
Paducah, Ky., where the mother died when
Chris was four years old.
He was taken to the home of his
grandparents near Golconda where he was
reared and where he married Miss Dollie
Jenkins, also of Golconda.
He was a member of the Mounds
Methodist Episcopal Church and of the
Masonic Order, Trinity Lodge 562 of Mound
City.
He was a member of the city council
for a number of years.
He leaves his wife, a daughter,
Eleanor; and a son, Harry; two brothers,
Walter of Elizabeth City, N.C., and Alsey of
Paducah, Ky.
Funeral services will be held at the
Methodist church Saturday afternoon at 2
o’clock, the Rev. P. R.
Glotfelty, pastor, officiating.
Burial will be made in Mounds with
the Masons conducting services at the grave.
Killed by Auto Robert Porterfield, age 7, son of John A. Porterfield, Illinois Central clerk in Chicago, died Dec. 24, from injuries received when he was struck by an automobile. Burial was held Monday in Pulaski where his grandmother, Mrs. Kate Porterfield, resides. |