Bokoshe Enterprise
Volume 4, Number 1
Friday, May 22, 1914
Page 1

In Memory to Mrs. S. P. Statham

Louise C. wife of S. P. Statham, age 46, passed away at 6 o'clock Friday evening.

The funeral services were held Saturday at 1 o'clock at the Bokoshe Baptist church of which Mrs. Statham was a member, Rev. G. W. Evans presiding.

Enterment (sic) was made at the Old Bokoshe cemetery at 2 o'clock. All the business houses in town were closed from 1 to 2 o'clock to show the sympathy and sorrow for the loss of one of our good citizens and church workers.

She was a true wife, a loving mother and a faithful friend.

She leaves three children, Grace, Ora May and Ruth ages 15, 10 and 4 respectively, a faithful husband and a host of friends to mourn her death.

Notes:

Louise was born Louise Choate on April 22, 1868 in Tennessee. She married George Lindsey Cagle on September 01, 1892 in Sebastian County, Arkansas. She married Samuel Paul Statham on October 06, 1901 in Spiro.

The date of May 22 on the newspaper has been crossed out and May 29 has been written in. May 29 would be the correct date of the paper in order for it to include an obituary for someone who died the evening of May 22.

According to her Death Certificate, Louise Choate Cagle Statham died May 22, 1914 at 6:00 p.m., in Bokoshe of nerve prostration and complications of menopause. She had been ill for 90 days.

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