Obituaries
and Death Notices
in Pulaski County, Illinois Newspapers
The Mounds Independent and
The Pulaski Enterprise
3 Jan. - 26 Dec. 1941
Mound City, Pulaski County, Illinois
Transcribed and annotated by Darrel Dexter
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 3 Jan 1941:
Widow of Former Anna Editor Dies Sunday
Mrs. Martha
Hammond died at her home in Anna Sunday morning, December 29,
following a heart attack and stroke several
days previous.
Mrs.
Hammond was the widow of the late J. L.
Hammond editor and owner of the
Union
County Democrat (now the
Gazette Democrat) of Anna until his
death on Dec. 30, two years ago.
She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Mary
Hammond Kent; and a son, Joe
Hammond; three grandchildren, Betty
Hammond, whom she reared, and Barbara
and John Gaylon
Kent.
(Jackson L.
Hammond, Jr., 28, a bookkeeper from Anna, Union Co., Ill.,
born in Washington Co., Md., the son of
J. L.
Hammond and Mary
Sumner, married on 11 Sep 1894, in Anna, Union Co., Ill., Martha E.
Aden,
21, born in Dongola, Union Co., Ill., the
daughter of Simon
Aden
and Julia
Thompson.
According to her death certificate,
Martha E.
Hammond was born 13 Feb 1870, in
Dongola, Ill., the daughter of Simon
Aden,
a native of Germany, and Julia
Thompson,
a native of New York, died 29 Dec 1940,
in Anna, Union Co., Ill., the widow of J. L.
Hammond, and was buried
in Anna Cemetery.
Her marker there reads:
Jackson L.
Hammond Nov. 30, 1865 Dec. 30, 1937 Martha E.
Hammond Feb. 19, 1873 Dec. 29, 1940.—Darrel
Dexter)
James Richard Clayton
James Richard
Clayton, age 89, died at the home of his son, Bert, east of Karnak,
Monday morning, December 30, 1940.
Surviving him are three sons, Robert,
James, Jr., and Bert, of Karnak; and four
daughters, Mrs. Oma
Jones
of Chicago, Audrey of Karnak, Mrs. Hattie
Brown
of Karnak and Mrs. Ruth
Trumbo of Rayville, ___.
Funeral services were held at Salem
Church Wednesday afternoon at 1 o’clock with
Rev. Robert
Smith officiating.
Burial was made in the I. O. O. F. Cemetery
at Joppa with
Wilson Funeral Service in charge of arrangements.
(James R.
Clayton married Nancy V.
Briley on 17 Dec 1871, in Massac Co.,
Ill.
Richard
Clayton married Mary J.
Crider on 4 Mar 1873, in Massac Co.,
Ill.
The death certificate of James
Clayton, farmer and widower, states he
was born 30 Sep 1851, in Tennessee, died 30
Dec 1940, in Massac Co., Ill., and was
buried in I. O. O. F. Cemetery in Road
District 5, Massac Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Warren E. Crain Dies Following Short Illness
Warren E.
Crain, life-long resident of Valley Recluse community between Mounds
and Villa Ridge, died Saturday, December 28,
at six o’clock in the evening, at St. Mary’s
Hospital, Cairo, following a short illness.
Had Mr.
Crain
lived until January 5, 1941, he would have
reached the age of 72 years, having been
born Jan. 5, 1869, on a farm only one mile
from the one on which he spent most of his
life.
He was a member of a pioneer family.
On March 25, 1896, he was married to
Miss Adelaide Rebeccah
Hawkins of the Mounds community.
Five children were born of this
union, all of whom are living.
Surviving are his wife, two daughters, Mrs.
Lottie
Chebnine of Centralia and Mrs. Alice
Mahoney of Valley Recluse; three sons,
John L.
Crain
at home, Judge Joe
Crain
of Mound City and George C.
Crain
of Pulaski; eight grandchildren; two
sisters, Mrs. R. B.
Goe and Miss Alma Crain
of Gulfport, Miss.; two brothers, Dr. L. F.
Crain of Deep River, Iowa, and W. R.
Crain of Hanford, Calif.; also many other relatives.
His was the first death in his
immediate family.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the family
residence with Rev. Hubert A.
Bahr
of Villa Ridge officiating.
Casket bearers were John
Barnett, Robert Sullivan,
Lee
Stenzil, Henry
Hendricks, Dewey
Mahoney and Roy Stout.
Burial was in Villa Ridge cemetery
with J. T.
Ryan
of this city and Elmer E.
Ford
of Dongola, funeral directors, conducting.
(Warren E.
Crain, 27, farmer, born in Villa Ridge, Ill., son of W. R.
Crain
and Mary A.
Spence, married on 25 Mar 1896, in Pulaski Co., Ill., Addie R.
Hawkins, 22, born in Beechwood, Pulaski
Co., Ill., daughter of Lewis A.
Hawkins and Sally E.
Walbridge.
William R.
Crain married Mary A. Spence
on 2 Mar 1862, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
The death certificate of Warren E.
Crain,
farmer, of Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill., states
that he was born 5 Jan 1869, in Villa Ridge,
Ill., the son of William Richard
Crain, a native of Springfield, Ohio, and Mary Ann
Spencer, a native of Olmsted, Ill., died
28 Dec 1940, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill.,
husband of Addie R.
Crain,
and was buried at Villa Ridge cemetery.
His marker in Cairo City Cemetery at
Villa Ridge reads:
Warren E.
Crain
1869-1940.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 3 Jan 1941:
KARNAK RESIDENT DIES
James Richard
Clayton, age 89, died at the home of his son, Bert, east of Karnak
Monday morning.
Surviving him are three sons, Robert,
James Jr., and Bert, of Karnak; and four
daughters, Mrs. Ona
Jones
of Chicago, Audrey of Karnak, Mrs. Hettie
Brown
of Karnak and Mrs. Ruth
Trumbo of Rayville, La.
Funeral services were held at Salem
Church Wednesday afternoon at 1 o’clock with
Rev. Robert
Smith officiating.
Burial was made in the I. O. O. F. Cemetery
at Joppa.
Wilson Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
FRANK BECK OF KARNAK DIES IN PADUCAH
HOSPITAL
Frank
Beck of Karnak passed away at the Illinois Central Hospital in
Paducah, Ky., Friday morning.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church in Karnak Sunday afternoon
at 2 o’clock with Rev. W. L.
Cummins officiating.
Burial was made in Anderson Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Paul
Jones,
Otis
Canada, Milford Hitchcock,
Woodrow
Wilson, Lee
Wilson and Joe
Kean.
(A birth certificate for Charles
Franklin
Beck
states he was born 3 Jan 1878, in
Chicago, Cook Co., Ill., the son of Charles
Beck and Martha Weidner.
His death certificate states that
Frank
Beck, barber, of Karnak, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., died 27 Dec 1940, at I. C. Hospital in
Paducah, McCracken Co., Ky., of congestive
heart failure, and was buried in Anderson
Cemetery at Karnak, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
FORMER RESIDENT OF MOUND CITY DIES
Word has been received here of the
death November 23, of Dr. Alex
Von
Aichlburg who practiced dentistry in
Mound City and Cairo about 40 years ago.
Dr.
Von Aichlburg married
Miss Mabel
Jocelyn, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. C.
Jocelyn, in 1889.
Dr.
Jocelyn was a dentist in Cairo for many years.
Dr.
Von Aichlburg was ill nine days with septicemia and pneumonia.
Oxygen and blood transfusions failed
to help and he passed away November 23.
He is survived by his wife and three
children, Eric, Jocelyn and Mrs. Iris
Cook,
all of California.
(His marker in Mountain View Cemetery
in San Bernardino, Calif., reads:
Alex
Von
Aichlburg 1873-1940.—Darrel
Dexter)
PROMINENT RESIDENT OF PULASKI COUNTY DIES
Warren E.
Crain passed away Saturday, Dec. 28, at 6 p.m. at St. Mary’s
Hospital in Cairo following a brief illness.
Mr.
Crain was born January 5, 1869, on a farm near Villa Ridge, about
one mile from the present home where he has
spent his entire life.
He was married March 25, 1895, to
Miss Adelaide Rebeccah
Hawkins of Mounds to which union five
children were born, all of whom survive.
Mr.
Crain, a highly respected and well known farmer, was a community
man, a member of a pioneer family and a
prosperous farmer.
Surviving Mr.
Crain is his widow, Adelaide
Crain; two daughters, Mrs. Lottie
Cheniae of Centralia, Mrs. Alice
Mahoney of Mounds; three sons, John L.
Crain
of Mounds, Judge Joe
Crain
of Mound City, and George C.
Crain
of Pulaski; and eight grandchildren; two
sisters, Mrs. Mary
Goe and Miss Alma Crain
of Gulfport, Miss.; two brothers, Dr. L. F.
Crain of Deep River, Iowa, and W. R.
Crain of Hunford, California.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the home with Rev.
Hubert A.
Bahr of Villa Ridge officiating.
John
Barnett, Robert
Sullivan, Lee
Stenzel, Henry Hendricks,
Dewey
Mahoney, and Roy
Stout
served as casket bearers.
Interment was made in Villa Ridge
cemetery with J. T.
Ryan
of Mounds and Elmer J.
Ford
of Dongola in charge of arrangements.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 10 Jan 1941:
Former Resident of County Dies at Home near
Joppa
Mrs. Rose
Odle Jones, wife of Edwin
Jones, died Monday morning, January 6,
at her home near Joppa. She had been in
failing health but her death came
unexpectedly.
She leaves besides her husband, a
daughter, Mrs. Elmer
Kerley of Chicago; a son, Francis Edwin,
who is stationed with the Coast Guard at
Panama; also a son at home, Everett; four
sisters, Mrs. Martha
Youngblood of Mound City, Mrs. Esta
Atherton and Mrs. Annie
Mangold of near Olmsted, Mrs. Howard
Nealy
of Poplar Bluff, Mo.; also two brothers,
James
Odle of Ullin and Thomas Odle
of Olmsted; and many other relatives and
friends.
She was a great-aunt of Mrs. Arthur
File
of this city.
Most of her life was spent near
Olmsted and Grand Chain in this country.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at two o’clock at the
Congregational church in Grand Chain with
Rev. S. C.
Benninger officiating.
Burial was in Grand Chain cemetery.
Mother of Sam Green Dies at Age of 82 Years
Mrs. Emma Ellen
Green,
mother of Sam
Green
of this city, died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Charles D.
Foster, 2115 Pine St., Cairo, Tuesday
morning, Jan. 7, at the age of 82.
She loves two daughters, Mrs.
Porter and Mrs. Clara
Rodgers of Alton; and six sons, S. T.
Jackson of Indianapolis, Ind., Ernest
Jackson of Columbus, Ky., Ozel
Jackson of Charleston, Mo., Roy
Green
of Lebanon, Ky., Sam
Green
of Mounds, and Elbert
Green
of Clinton, Ky.; 13 grandchildren; and one
sister, Mrs. Mollie
Rayburn of Bardwell, Ky.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at 1:30 at the First Methodist
Church in Cairo, of which Mrs.
Green
was a devoted member.
The Rev. L. E.
McKown, pastor, conducted the services.
Burial was made in the family lot in
the Clinton, Ky., cemetery.
(The death certificate of Emma Eliza
Green
of Cairo, Ill., states that she was born 13
Sep 1858, in Carlisle Co., Ky., the daughter
of Joseph Henry
Read
and Elizabeth
Ramsey, a native of Kentucky, died 7 Jan
1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., widow
of William C.
Green, and was buried in Clinton Cemetery in Clinton, Ky.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mother of Homer Martin Dies in Detroit
Recently
Mrs. ___ey
Martin, formerly of Goreville, who was living with a daughter in El
Paso, Texas, died in Detroit one day last
year where she had gone to attend the
wedding of her son, Homer
Martin of C. L. O. office, who had
divorced his first wife and was marrying his
secretary.
Mrs.
Martin leaves five sons and a daughter.
The daughter at one time taught
school in Mounds.
Funeral services were held in
Goreville Saturday with burial in Busby
Cemetery nearby.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 10 Jan 1941:
SON OF FORMER MOUND CITY RESIDENT DIES
Word has been received here of the
death of Don Paul
Johnson, year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard
Johnson of Urbana, who died of pneumonia
at the home of his parents Wednesday,
January 1st.
He is survived by his parents, Mr.
and Mrs.
Johnson.
Mrs.
Johnson was formerly Miss Dorothy
Devore of Mound City; and his maternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles A.
Devore of this city; and paternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Johnson of Urbana, Ill.; and many other
relatives.
Funeral services were held Friday at
10 o’clock at Webster Groves Presbyterian
Church.
(The death certificate of Don
Johnson states he was born 11 Jan 1940
in Urbana, Ill., the son of Leonard
Johnson, a native of Urbana, Ill., and
Dorthy
DeVore, a native of Mound City, Ill.,
died 1 Jan 1941, in Urbana, Champaign Co.,
Ill., and was buried at Urbana.
His marker in East Lawn Cemetery at
Urbana reads:
Don Paul
Johnson Jan. 11, 1940 Jan. 1,
1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
INFANT SON DIES
Jerry Ray
Winter, five weeks old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Winter of Dongola, died at the home of
his parents Monday morning at 2 o’clock.
He is survived by his parents; one
sister, Phefin Jean; one brother, Bobby Joe;
his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Gulley and Charles
Winter; one great-grandfather, Andy
Goodman; and a cousin, Edah Belle
McMahan, all of Dongola.
Funeral services were held at the
home Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock with
Rev. Hobart
Peterson officiating.
Burial was made in the Dongola I. O. O. F.
Cemetery with Elmer J.
Ford in charge of arrangements.
(The death certificate of Jerry Ray
Winter states he was born 27 Nov. 1940,
in Dongola, Ill., the son of Robert
Winter, a native of Dongola, Ill., and
Helen
Gulley, a native of Ullin, Ill., died 6
Jan 1941, in Dongola, Union Co., Ill., and
was buried in Dongola I. O. O. F. Cemetery.
His marker there reads:
Jerry R.
Winter Nov. 27, 1940 Jan. 6,
1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. Charles A.
Devore and son, Gale, attended the
funeral Friday of Don Paul
Johnson, year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard
Johnson in Urbana. Mrs.
Johnson was formerly Miss Dorothy
Devore of Mound City.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 17 Jan 1941:
Well-Known Railroad Man Dies January Ninth
A. Robert
DeCrow, who had been a patient in the Illinois Central Hospital for
two or more weeks, died Thursday last at
12:45 p.m.
He had been ill for two months of
pernicious anemia.
Mr.
DeCrow, familiarly known as “Al,” was of a jovial disposition and
always had a smile for everyone.
He was born in Cairo on January 3,
1881, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
DeCrow. His death came
on January 9, 1941, just one day after his
60th birthday.
Mr.
DeCrow was twice married, first to Miss Myrtle
McGill of Marion, the mother of his daughter, Mrs. Mabel
Carson of this city.
On June 21, 1923, he was married to
Mrs. Minnie (Bour)
Struckmeyer, who also survives as does
his stepdaughter, Miss Sara
Struckmeyer.
He also leaves one brother, Jock
DeCrow, of Shreveport, La.; and an
uncle, James V.
DeCrow, of Cairo; besides many other
relatives.
Mr.
DeCrow had been employed as switchman for the Illinois Central
Railroad for many years and had friends all
along the division line.
He was a member of the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainman.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the First
Methodist Church with the pastor, Rev. J.
Rue
Reid, officiating.
Members of the B. R. T. served as
casket bearers.
Friends gathered from far and near to
pay their last respects to his memory.
Burial was in Thistlewood Cemetery,
J. T.
Ryan Funeral Service directing.
(He signed his name as Allen Robert
De
Crow when he registered for the 1918
draft and was yardmaster for the Illinois
Central at Mounds.
A. R.
Decrow, 41, of Mounds, Ill., married
Minnie
Struckmeyer, 38, of Mounds, Ill., in
1923 in Mississippi Co., Mo.
His application for Social
Security states he was born in Cairo,
Alexander Co., Ill., the son of Robert P.
Decrow and Anna M. Rinehart.
The
death certificate of Allie R.
De
Crow, switchman, of Mounds, Ill., states
he was born 9 Jan 1881, died 9 Jan 1941, of
pernicious anemia at the Illinois Central
Hospital in Paducah, McCracken Co., Ky.,
where he had been a patient for 20 days,
husband of Minnie
DeCrow, and was buried at Mounds, Ill.
His marker in Beechwood Cemetery at
Mounds reads:
Albert R.
DeCrow 1881-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Thomas M. Roach
Thomas M.
Roach died at his home in the
Scruggs-Chapman
addition Saturday night, January 11, at
11:30 o’clock, following a long illness.
His age at death was 40 years.
Previous to his illness, Mr.
Roach
had been employed for 18 years as flagman
for the Illinois Central Railroad.
He was a member of the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen.
He leaves his wife, Myrtle; one
daughter, Aileen; his mother, Mrs. Edith
Roach;
two sisters, Mrs. James T.
Ryan
and Mrs. Thomas
Pyle,
all of Mounds; three aunts, Mrs. May
Roach
of Chicago, Mrs. A. C.
Reichert of Grand Chain and Mrs. H. B.
Bartleson of Ozark, Ark.; two uncles, T.
J.
Billingsley of Cairo and Dallas
Roach
of Maywood.
Funeral services were held at the
Congregational-Christian church Tuesday
afternoon at 1:30 o’clock, with Rev. S. C.
Benninger, pastor, officiating.
Burial was in Grand Chain cemetery
with George C.
Crain,
Walter
Gates
and Harry
Windland conducting.
(L. M.
Roach, 23, of Grand Chain, Pulaski Co., Ill., married on 4 Mar 1894,
in Pulaski Co., Ill., Edith
Billingsley, 18, of Grand Chain, Ill.
According to the death certificate of
Thomas
Roach,
flagman, he was born 18 Feb 1900, in Grand
Chain, Ill., son of L. M.
Roach,
a native of Grand Chain, Ill., and Edith
Billingsley, a native of Levings, Ill.,
died 11 Jan 1941, in Mounds, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., and was buried in Grand Chain
cemetery.
His marker in Grand Chain Masonic
Cemetery reads:
Thomas M.
Roach
Feb. 18, 1900 Jan. 11, 1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 17 Jan 1941:
Lindell
Miller, Charleston, Mo., truck driver,
was released by the grand jury and
discharged.
He was driving the truck which struck
and killed Hanson
St.
John on Main Street in Mound City three
days before Christmas.
FORMER RESIDENT OF THIS CITY DIES IN CHICAGO
Word has been received that Mrs. Cora
Porterfield passed away at her home in
Chicago, Saturday, January 4th.
She is survived by her husband, John,
who is a retired superintendent of general
transportation of the Illinois Central R. R.
system and a granddaughter of Chicago; also
a brother, Ollie
Stuart, of Pulaski.
Mrs.
Porterfield was formerly Miss Cora
Stuart of Pulaski.
(J. F.
Porterfield married Cora B.
Stewart on 27 Jan 1892, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Cora Belle
Porterfield was born 14 May 1871, in Pulaski Co., Ill., the daughter
of Jesse
Stewart,
died 4 Jan 1941, in Chicago, Cook Co.,
Ill., the wife of John Franklin
Porterfield, and was buried in Oakwoods
Cemetery in Chicago.—Darrel
Dexter)
INFANT SON DIES
Terry David, one-month-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Alvin
Lance,
passed away Thursday morning at the home of
his parents near Pulaski following a brief
illness of pneumonia.
Short funeral services were held at
the residence Thursday afternoon at 2
o’clock.
Rev. Charles A.
Day of Metropolis, pastor of the Christian Church at Pulaski,
officiated.
Interment was made in Rose Hill
Cemetery.
(The death certificate states that
Terry
Lance was born 11 Dec 1940, in Pulaski
Co., Ill., son of Alvin
Lance
and Elaine
Palmer, natives of Pulaski Co., Ill.,
died 9 Jan 1941, in Pulaski Co., Ill., and
was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in Pulaski,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
A. R. DAVIS DeCROW DIES AT ILLINOIS CENTRAL
HOSPITAL
A. R.
DeCrow, 60, of Mounds, died Thursday at 12:45 p.m. at the Illinois
Central Hospital at Paducah, following an
illness of two months of pernicious anemia.
Mr.
DeCrow known to everyone as “Al,” was a popular man with a friendly
disposition.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Minnie
DeCrow; a daughter, Mrs. Mabel
Carson; a stepdaughter, Miss Sarah
Struckmeyer, all of Mounds; a brother,
Jack
DeCrow of Shreveport, La.; an uncle,
James V.
DeCrow, of Cairo; and other relatives.
Mr.
DeCrow had been employed as switchman for the Illinois Central
Railroad in Cairo since 1916.
He was a member of the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the First
Methodist Church at Mounds, with Rev. J. Rue
Reid
officiating.
Members of the B. R. T. served as
casket bearers.
T. M. ROACH DIES AT HOME IN MOUNDS SATURDAY
Thomas M.
Roach, age 40, passed away at his home in Mounds Saturday night at
11:30 o’clock following a long illness.
He is survived by his wife Myrtle;
one daughter, Aileen; his mother, Mrs. Edith
Roach; two sisters, Mrs. James
Ryan
and Mrs. Thomas
Pyle
of Mounds; three aunts, Mrs. May
Roach
of Chicago, Mrs. A. C.
Reichert of Grand Chain and Mrs. H. B.
Bartleson of Ozark, Ark., and two
uncles, T. J.
Billingsley of Cairo and Dallas
Roach
of Maywood, Ill., besides many other
relatives.
Mr.
Roach had been employed by the Illinois Central Railroad Company for
18 years as flagman and was a member of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
Funeral services were held at the
Mounds Congregational church Tuesday
afternoon at 1:30 o’clock with Rev. S. C.
Benninger officiating.
Burial was made in Grand Chain
cemetery.
DONGOLA RESIDENT DIES
Nole L.
Taylor, age 70, passed away on his farm near Dongola Thursday
afternoon.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Minnie
Taylor and three sisters, Mrs. Rosie
Wagner and Miss Nancy
Taylor, both of Alton, and Mrs. Dennis
Gray
of Dorchester.
Elmer J.
Ford of Dongola was in charge of the funeral arrangements.
Funeral services were held in
Gillespie at
Weiss
Funeral Home at 1 o’clock Saturday
afternoon.
Burial was made in Morrison Cemetery
near Gillespie.
(His death certificate states that
Noel L.
Taylor, farmer in Union Co., Ill., was
born 13 Sep 1870, in Carlinville, Ill., the
son of John
Taylor, a native of North Carolina, and
Susan
Newell, a native of Kentucky, died 9 Jan
1941, in Union Co., Ill., husband of Minnie
E. Taylor, and was buried in
Morrison Cemetery in Macoupin Co., Ill.
His marker there reads:
Minnie E.
Taylor 1878-1961 Noel L.
Taylor 1870-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 24 Jan 1941:
Mrs. Matilda Caldwell
Mrs. Matilda
Caldwell, age 90, passed away at her home near Ullin Friday morning,
January 17, at 10 o’clock.
She is survived by the following
children:
John
Wilson and William Wilson
of Mounds, Mrs. Mary E.
Calvin, Marvin and G. E.
Wilson of Ullin.
She is also survived by 35
grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and
eight great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at New
Concord Church Sunday morning at 11 o’clock
with Rev. W. J.
Weiss
officiating.
Burial was in New Hope Cemetery.
Pallbearers were John A.
Wilson, James Wilson,
Clinton
Wilson, Neval
Calvin, Charles
Calvin and Clifford Calvin.
Wilson Funeral Service conducted the
funeral.
(Solomon C.
Wilson married Matilda
Sichling on 21 May 1868, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
Charles A.
Calvin, 24, farmer, born in Pulaski Co.,
Ill., the son of Andrew
Calvin and Miss Sturd,
married on 19 Apr 1897, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill., Mary Ellen
Wilson, 19, born in Ullin, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., daughter of Sam and Mebil
Wilson.
According to her death certificate,
Matilda
Caldwell was born 29 Jan 1850, in Henderson Co., Ky., the daughter
of Adam
Sichling, a native of Germany, died 17
Jan 1941, in Pulaski Co., Ill., and was
buried in New Hope Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. James Hancock
Mrs. Malinda
Hancock, age 77, wife of James
Hancock, passed away at her home near
Pulaski Friday morning, Jan. 17, following a
prolonged illness.
She is survived by her husband, three
daughters, Mrs. Theo
Sharp
of Carbondale, Mrs. Ruth
Witzman of Pulaski, and Mrs. Hazel
Britt
of Olmsted; one son, Earl
Myhre
of Elgin, Ill.; a sister, Mrs. Bertie
Higgins of St. Louis; two grandchildren
and a number of nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at New Concord Church with the
pastor, Rev. W. J.
Weiss,
officiating.
Burial was in Concord Cemetery.
(According to her death certificate,
Malinda
Hancock was born 15 Feb 1863, in Pulaski
Co., Ill., the daughter of William
Shumaker, a native of Germany, and Mary
Ozmant, died 17 Jan 1941, in Road
District 4, Pulaski Co., Ill., wife of James
Hancock, and was buried
in Concord Cemetery.
Her marker there reads:
Matilda wife of James
Hancock 1863-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Stella
Bartleson and daughter, Miss Mildred,
who were called here by the death of Mrs.
Bartleson’s nephew, Thomas M.
Roach, returned the latter part of the
week to their home in Ozark, Ark.
Joseph Bodkin Dies after Long Illness
Joseph
Bodkin, long-time resident of this place, died Monday morning, Jan.
30, at his home on East First Street.
His age was 73 years.
He leaves his wife, Sina; one
daughter, Mrs. Fred
McChesney of Cairo; one son, Lloyd
Bodkin of Mounds; a sister, Mrs. Thomas
Pate
of Charleston; and other relatives.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the J. T.
Ryan Funeral Home with Rev. S. C.
Benninger, pastor of the Congregational-Christian church
officiating.
Burial was made in the Bardwell
Cemetery at Bardwell, Ky.
(His death certificate states that
Joseph
Bodkin, retired laborer, was born 5 Sep
1870, in Bardwell, Ky., the son of Frank and
Martha
Bodkin, natives of Kentucky, died 20 Jan
1941, in Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill., husband
of Sina
Bodkin, and was buried in
Bardwell Cemetery in Carlisle Co.,
Ky.—Darrel
Dexter)
Those who attended the burial of Joseph
Bodkin at the Bardwell Cemetery were:
Frank
Ebbs,
W. Harper, J. T. Thompson,
L.
Schaeffer, R.
Sanders, Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Childers, Rev. C. S.
Benninger, Miss Anna
Esbey,
Mrs. L.
Shaeffer and Mrs. H. A.
Hamlett.
Fred Penrod Loses Brother
Millie
Penrod, farmer and teacher of the Vienna community and brother of
Fred
Penrod of this city, died last week in
the Fisher
hospital at Metropolis.
The
Vienna Times says of him, “He had taught school for thirty-five
years in the various school districts of the
county. . . . He lived a busy, energetic
life, more in the interest of others than
himself.
His memory will be cherished by
many.”
What better could be said of a man?
(When Eugene Millington
Penrod registered for the draft in 1918,
he stated he was born 9 Mar 1881, and was a
farmer at Vienna, Ill.
His death certificate states that
Millie
Penrod, farmer, of Vienna, Ill., was
born 3 Mar 1882, in Vienna,
Ill., the son of Barney
Penrod, a native of Dongola, Ill., and
Lavina
Morgan, a native of Vienna, Ill., died
13 Jan 1941, in Metropolis, Massac Co.,
Ill., husband of Ella
Penrod, and was buried in Road District
3, Johnson Co., Ill.
His marker in Bridges Cemetery reads:
Millie E.
Penrod Mar. 9, 1881 Jan. 13, 1941 Ella
L.
Penrod Feb. 18, 1892 Aug. 16,
1974.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 24 Jan 1941:
HANGS SELF IN CAIRO CITY JAIL HOLDOVER
Wilson A.
McCrite of Cairo, a World War veteran, hung himself in the holdover
cell of the Cairo city jail early Friday
morning.
McCrite was well known in Pulaski and Alexander counties, having
been a salesman for the Woodward Hardware
Company for 20 years.
He was born and reared in Alexander
County, living there all his life.
McCrite had been taken to jail after a state car he was driving
struck a car driven in Cairo by William E.
Brooks of Urbandale.
McCrite had just talked to his wife before committing suicide, and
witnesses said at the inquest that
McCrite had accomplished the hanging in
three minutes, from the time his wife left
the cell, went to the officer’s desk there,
and returned to the cell to find her husband
hanging.
(Robert W.
McCrite married Mary A.
Phillips on 16 Mar 1879, in Alexander
Co., Ill.
His 1918 draft registration states
that Wilson A.
McCrite was born 28 Dec 1890, in Delta Ill., and was deputy
county clerk for County Clerk Jacob
Heid.
The application for a military headstone
states Wilson A.
McCrite enlisted as a private 26 Jun
1918, in 35th Company 9th
Battalion, 159th Depot Brigade,
and was honorably discharged 3 Jan 1919.
His death certificate states that
Wilson A.
McCrite, engineer, was born 28 Dec 1896,
in Delta, Alexander Co., Ill., the son of
Robert W.
McCrite and Alice Phillips,
natives of Alexander Co., Ill., died 17 Jan
1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., husband
of Catherine
McCrite,
and was buried in Spencer Heights
Cemetery at Mounds, Ill.
His marker there reads:
Catherine A.
McCrite 1903-1946 Wilson A.
McCrite 1889-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. JAMES HANCOCK DIES AT HER HOME IN
PULASKI
Mrs. Malinda
Hancock, age 77, wife of James
Hancock, passed away at her home near
Pulaski Friday morning, following a
prolonged illness.
She is survived by her husband, three
daughters, Mrs. Theo
Sharp
of Carbondale, Mrs. Ruth
Witzman of Pulaski and Mrs. Hazel
Britt
of Olmsted; one son, Earl
Myhre
of Elgin, Ill.; a sister, Mrs. Bernice
Higgins of St. Louis; two grandchildren
and a number of nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at the New Concord Church with the
pastor, Rev. W. J.
Weiss,
officiating.
Burial was made in Concord Cemetery.
AGED RESIDENT DIES AT HOME NEAR ULLIN
Mrs. Matilda
Caldwell, age 90, passed away at her home near Ullin Friday morning
at 10 o’clock.
She is survived by the following
children:
John
Wilson and William Wilson
of Mounds, Mrs. Mary E.
Calvin, Marvin and G. E.
Wilson of Ullin.
She is also survived by 35
grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and
eight great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the New
Concord Church Sunday morning at 11 o’clock
with Rev. W. J.
Weiss
officiating.
Burial was in New Hope Cemetery.
INFANT SON DIES
Donald Ray, month-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Oval
Roper of Mound City passed away Monday
morning at 8 o’clock after a brief illness.
Besides his parents, he is survived
by one brother, Stanley; his paternal
grandmother, Mrs. Lucy
Ralph;
and his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Lula
Minner, all of Mound City.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the home of Mrs.
Ralph.
Interment was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery. G. A.
James
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
(His death certificate states that
Donald
Roper
was born 9 Dec 1940, in Mound City, Ill.,
the son of Oral
Roper,
a native of Morehouse, Mo., and Gladys
Minner, a native of Mound City, Ill.,
died
20 Jan 1941, in Mound City, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., and was buried in Spencer Heights
Cemetery at Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
JOSEPH BODKIN OF MOUNDS DIES AT HIS HOME
MONDAY
Joseph
Bodkin, age 73, passed away at his home in Mounds Monday morning
following a lingering illness.
Besides his wife, Sina, he is survived by
one daughter, Mrs. Fred
McChesney of Cairo; one son, Lloyd of Mounds; a sister, Mrs. Thomas
Pate
of Charleston, Mo.; and several other
relatives.
Funeral services were held at the J.
T.
Ryan Funeral Home in Mounds Wednesday
afternoon at 1:30 o’clock with Rev. S. C.
Benninger officiating.
Burial was made in the Bardwell
Cemetery at Bardwell, Ky.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 31 Jan 1941:
Mrs. W. S. Hale
Mrs. Susan Elizabeth
Hale,
age 67, died at her home in Ullin Friday
morning, Jan. 24, at 5 o’clock following a
long illness.
She had been a resident of Ullin for
the past 29 years.
Surviving are her husband, W. S.
Hale;
two daughters, Mrs. Mary E.
Dale
of Dongola and Mrs. Bessie
Hill
of Wetaug; two sisters, Mrs. Lucy
Yokley of Tomkinsville, Ky., and Mrs.
Sally
Norman of Indianola, Ill.; eight
grandchildren and many other relatives.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church in Ullin Sunday afternoon
at 2 o’clock with Rev. R. J.
Weiss
officiating.
Interment was made in Ullin Cemetery
with W. J.
Rhymer Funeral Service in charge of
arrangements.
(Her death certificate states that
Susan
Hale, of Ullin, Ill.,
was born 17 Jul 1872, in Kentucky,
the daughter of Thomas
Hood,
a native of Kentucky, died 24 Jan 1941, in
Ullin, Pulaski Co., Ill., wife of W. S.
Hale, and was buried in Ullin Cemetery.
Her marker there reads:
S. Elizabeth
Hale
July 17, 1872 Jan
24, 1941 1889 William
Sherman Hale Oct. 8, 1868 April 26, 1961.—Darrel
Dexter)
Thomas
Griffith, 71, prominent Union County
farmer living near Cobden, died Jan. 23.
Funeral services were held Saturday
afternoon from the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Arrilla
Spiller, past president of the Rebekah
State Assembly, who has many friends here.
He is also survived by two other
daughters and three sons.
(John
Griffith married Lucetta
Ferrill on 18 Dec 1864, in Union Co.,
Ill.
His death certificate states that
Thomas W.
Griffith, farmer, was born 1 May 1863 in
Union Co., Ill., the son of John
Griffith and Lucetta
Ferrill, natives of Tennessee,
died 23 Jan 1941, in Union Co., Ill.,
widower of Alice
Griffith, and was buried in Cobden
Cemetery.
His marker there reads:
Alice C.
Griffith 1871-1939 Thomas W.
Griffith 1869-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
DIED IN AUTOMOBILE
Mrs. G. B.
Newcome of Pewaukee, Wis., died suddenly Saturday morning while
sitting in a car in front of the Franklin
Hotel Carbondale waiting for her husband to
mail a postal card in a street mail box.
They had remained over night at the
Franklin and were ready to resume their
journey to Old Mexico.
After mailing the card,
Newcome returned to the car and found his wife slumped in the seat.
She was dead when a doctor arrived.
It was the third time,
Newcome said, that he and his wife had started to Mexico and twice
they had to give up the trip on account of
his wife’s illness, and return to Pewaukee.—Anna
Talk
(Her death certificate states that
Sarah
Booth Newcome was born 4 Apr 1871, in
Milwaukee, Wisc., daughter of George
Booth, a native of England,
died 18 Jan 1941, in Carbondale, Jackson
Co., Ill., wife of G. B.
Newcome, and was buried in Pewankee Cemetery in Pewankee, Wankesha Co.,
Wisc.
Her marker in Forest Hill Cemetery in
Pewankee, Wis., reads:
Sarah
Booth
Newcome 1871-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
FORMER SLAVE DIES AT CARRIER MILLS
William
Berry, 98, (Colored), who was no doubt the oldest person in the
county of his race, and was a slave at 24
years of age, at the end of the Civil War,
died Thursday at his home in Carrier Mills.
He would have been 99 years of age
had he lived until March 17.
He was born in Hickman, Tenn., in
1842.
His wife, Lucinda, who survives, was
born in 1862, and they had been married 57
years.—Marion
Post
AGED LADY FOUND DEAD IN CHAIR
Mary Jane
Grimes, 73, of Marion Route 1, north of Marion near Spillertown, was
found dead in her home Sunday morning.
She was seated in a chair in the
kitchen and a cup partly full of coffee was
frozen solid in the cup.
Mrs.
Grimes lived alone and always left her home unlocked.
She told neighbors that they would
probably find her dead one day and she
wanted to leave the house open so they could
get in.
David
Presley, a son-in-law of Mrs.
Grimes, found the body and notified the
coroner.—Johnston
City Progress
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 31 Jan 1941:
MRS. W. S. HALE OF ULLIN DIES AT HER HOME
FRIDAY
Mrs. Susan Elizabeth
Hale,
age 67, passed away at her home in Ullin
Friday morning at 5 o’clock, following a
long illness.
She had been a resident of Ullin for
the past 29 years.
Besides her husband, W. S.
Hale;
she is also survived by two daughters, Mrs.
May E.
Dale
of Dongola and Mrs. Bessie
Hill
of Wetaug;
two sisters, Mrs. Lucy
Yokley of Tomkinsville, Ky., and Mrs.
Sally
Norman of Indianoua, Ill.; eight
grandchildren and many other relatives.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church in Ullin Sunday afternoon
at 2 o’clock with Rev. R. J.
Weiss
officiating.
Interment was made in Ullin Cemetery.
KILLED BY TRAIN
Glenn “Bugs”
Lamer of Anna was killed early Saturday morning when his car stalled
on the Illinois Central tracks in Anna in
front of a fast freight train headed south.
The train struck the car on the side
away from the driver’s seat, completely
demolishing the car and knocking
Lamer
from the car, seriously injured.
He died two hours later in an Anna
hospital.
He suffered a punctured lung, broken
collar bone, broken leg and internal head
and chest injuries.
He was the Ford dealer in Anna and
was well known in Pulaski and Union
counties.
His wife, formerly Vivian
Culp
of Mound City, and numerous other relatives
survive.
Lamer was a nephew of Judge Hal A.
Spann of Anna, circuit judge of this territory.
(Hewitt Hugh
Lamer, 21, farmer from Cobden, Union Co., Ill., born in Success,
Ill., son of Willis
Lamer
and Frances
Lovelace,
married on 2 Nov 1897, in Cobden, Union
Co., Ill., Laura May
Hardin, 19, born in Cobden, Ill.,
daughter of Lewis Thomas
Harding and Eliz. Ferrill.
The death certificate of Glenn R.
Lamer,
automobile dealer, states he was born 17 Feb
1913, in Anna, Union Co., Ill., the son of
H. H.
Lamer and Laura
Hardin, natives of Cobden,
died 25 Jan 1941, in Anna, Union Co.,
Ill., husband of Vivian
Lamer,
and was buried in Cobden Cemetery. His
marker there reads:
Glenn R.
Lamer
(Bugs) 1903-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 7 Feb 1941:
FORMER RESIDENT OF MOUND CITY DIES
J. S.
Miller passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lawrence
Livesay, in Toledo, Ohio, Thursday
night, January 30.
Mr.
Miller a former resident of Mound City,
served as station agent for the Big Four at
Mound City for many years.
Mr.
Miller was making his home in Pittsburgh, but sometime before
Christmas had gone to Toledo to visit his
daughter, and while there was stricken.
He is survived by one son, James;
four daughters, Misses Edna and Merle of
Pittsburgh, Mrs. Helen Hickox of Cairo, and
Mrs. Lawrence
Livesay of Toledo; nine grandchildren
and one great-grandchild.
Funeral services were held at the
James
Funeral Home in Mound City Monday morning at
10:30 o’clock.
Rev. Charles
Montgomery, pastor of the First
Methodist Church of Mound City, officiated.
Burial was made in the Mounds
cemetery.
Among those who attended the funeral of J.
S.
Miller Monday were Mrs. Clara
Wilson of Mt. Carmel, Mrs. Harry
Wilson of Harrisburg, James
Miller of Houston, Tex., Miss Edna
Miller of Pittsburg, Pa., and M. M.
Maddox of Beaumont, Tex.
Miss Edna
Miller of Pittsburg, Pa., who is
remaining here for a few days after the
death of her father, J. S.
Miller, was the guest Monday of Mrs.
Agnes
Meyer.
Draftee in Jail
Marion
Swain, Jr., colored, of Mounds, is in jail over stabbing a youth
named George
Hodge,
also colored, at a dance Sunday night at
Memphis Place, the Egyptian Club at Mounds.
The fray is said to have involved a
girl.
Hodge is said to be in a serious condition in the hospital at Cairo.
Swain is a draftee and was taken by Sheriff
Hudson to Mounds for medical examination.
The stabbing fray, even if
Hodge
lives, might cause the government to reject
him.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 14 Feb 1941:
ELDORADO BOY, 11, KILLED BY BLOW
Charles E.
Boutwell, 11, Eldorado school boy, was killed last Thursday by a
blow from a club in the hands of Harold
Eugene
Hafford, 10 years old.
It was said the two boys were fighting in a
vacant lot when Harold swung a stout maple
club against the neck of his playmate.
He then fled.
A bystander picked up
Boutwell and found that the child’s neck
had been broken by the blow.
A coroners’ jury returned an open
verdict in the death.
The jury made no recommendations.
There is no indication that the
state’s attorney will take any action.
(According to the death certificate,
Charles Elbert
Boutwell, of Eldorado, Ill., was born 25
Dec 1928, in Eldorado, Ill., the son of
Elbert
Boutwell, a native of Gallatin Co.,
Ill., and Gladys
Woods,
a native of Texas City, Ill., died 30 Jan
1941, in Eldorado, Saline Co., Ill., and was
buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in North Fork
Township, Gallatin Co., Ill.
His marker there reads:
Charles E. son of Elbert & Gladys
Boutwell 1928-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 14 Feb 1941:
WETAUG MAN HELD FOR SHOOTING ULLIN NEGRO
Ray “Shorty”
Nix, about 19 years old, of Wetaug, was brought to the Pulaski
County jail Sunday night charged with an
attempted holdup at “Porky”
Johnson’s Place in Ullin.
He is charged also with the shooting
of Robert
Bell,
Negro of Ullin, after they quarreled over 15
cents.
Bell is in St. Mary’s Annex in a serious condition.
He was shot in the chest, the bullet
ranging downward, lodging in his stomach.
After he had shot
Bell,
Nix went to Johnson’s
tavern, brandishing his gun.
He ordered
Johnson to turn over his money, at the
same time telling some customers in the
place to get their money out and turn it
over to him.
While
Nix was occupied with Johnson,
Al
Peeler, of Wetaug, a deputy sheriff who
was present, turned his gun toward
Nix, ordering him to put his hands up.
When
Nix
did as ordered he was disarmed.
While
Peeler was preparing to put handcuffs on
Nix,
the youth made a lunge for
Peeler’s gun, which was then laying on
the bar.
Jack
Westfall and Peeler
prevented
Nix’s
reaching the gun.
When
Nix entered the tavern, he boasted of having killed two men on the
other side of town, witnesses reported.
After
Nix
was taken away to jail,
Westfall decided to investigate his
boast, finding
Bell
wounded but did not see anyone else.
Westfall rushed
Bell to the hospital.
Nix is said to have been drunk at the time of his alleged crimes.
He has been a resident of Pulaski
County for several months, living on the
Priest farm near Wetaug.
RESIDENT OF PULASKI DIED AT HIS HOME FRIDAY
George
Roods, age 79, passed away Friday night at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. William
Thomas, at Pulaski.
He is survived by two sons, John of
Pulaski and William of East Prairie; two
daughters, Mrs. Sara
Thomas and Mrs. Myrtle
Smith
of Pulaski.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at two o’clock at the Mt. Pleasant
Baptist Church in Pulaski with Rev. George
Leathers officiating.
Burial was made in Rose Hill
Cemetery.
(The death certificate states that
George
Rhoods, farmer, was born 10 Oct 1861, in
Procterville, Ohio, son of Henry
Rhoods and Sarah Day,
died 8 Feb 1941, in Road District 2,
Pulaski Co., Ill., and was buried at
Pulaski, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 21 Feb 1941:
ERNEST VAN DYKE
Ernest
Van Dyke, colored youth of about 20 years of age and son of R. L.
Van
Dyke of this city, died in a Chicago
hospital and was brought here for burial,
the funeral services having been held
Tuesday with the
Donaldson Funeral Service in charge.
Young
Van
Dyke formerly drove the grocery truck
for the
Gunn
Grocery.
(His death certificate states that
Ernest
Van
Dyke died 9 Feb 1941, in Chicago, Cook
Co., Ill., the son of R. H.
Van
Dyke.—Darrel
Dexter)
Frank Hickman of Ullin Dies Thursday Morning
Frank
Hickman of Ullin, age 68, died at his home at 10:20 o’clock Thursday
morning, Feb. 20.
Surviving are his wife and three
daughters, Mrs. Sam
McGee
of Dongola, Mrs. James
Curry
of Pulaski and Miss Frances
Hickman of Ullin; also three
grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held this
(Friday) afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Ullin
Methodist Church with Rev. R. J.
Weiss,
assisted by Rev. Wilbert
Snider, officiating.
Burial will be in Ullin Cemetery.
(His death certificate states that
Frank
Hickman, railroad employee, of Ullin,
Ill., was born 16 Mar 1872, in Boonville,
Ark., the son of Richard
Hickman and Elenora
Tingle, died 20 Feb 1941, in Ullin,
Pulaski Co., Ill., husband of Maggie
Hickman,
and was buried in Ullin Cemetery.
His marker there reads:
Frank
Hickman 1872-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Rev. Charles F. Kiest
Rev. Charles F.
Kiest,
age 84, died at his home in Dongola Saturday
night, Feb. 15, at 10 o’clock after a short
illness.
Except for two years residence in
Anna, Rev.
Kiest
had spent his entire life in Dongola.
The Rev. Mr.
Kiest was ordained in 1886 and served 10 churches as pastor during
his 45 years of active ministry.
At the age of 13 he joined the
Evangelical Church, but in 1926 joined the
Dongola Lutheran Church, of which he was a
member at the time of his death.
He was instrumental in promoting the
construction of five different churches and
was a member of the Village Board of Dongola
for a number of years.
He is survived by two daughters, Mrs.
C. R.
Laiser of Anna and Mrs. E. A.
Maze
of Fon due Lac, Wis.; one son, Clarence of
near Dongola; one brother, Alfred, of Oak
Park; nine grandchildren; and 11
great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the
Dongola Lutheran Church Tuesday morning at
10 o’clock with Dr. H. L.
McGill, assisted by Rev. William E.
Bridges and Rev. H. G.
Petterson officiating.
Burial was made in Anna Cemetery.
(Charles F.
Kiest, 22, born in Northfield, Cook Co., Ill., married on 20 Nov
1879, in North Northfield, Cook Co., Ill.,
Carrie
Fritch, 23, born in Deerfield, Lake Co., Ill. According to his death
certificate, Charles Franklin
Kiest,
retired minister, was born 8 Feb 1857, in
Shermerville, Illinois, the son of Frederick
Kiest
and Ann
Mulkey, natives of Germany, died 15 Feb
1941, in Anna, Union Co., Ill., and was
buried in Anna Cemetery.
His marker there reads:
Rev. C. F.
Kiest 1857-1941 Father.—Darrel
Dexter)
GOREVILLE MAN HELD IN DEATH OF NEWTON
Everett
Adams of Goreville was ordered held to await the action of a Johnson
County grand jury by a Williamson County
coroner’s jury Monday in the death of Gorge
Marion
Newton, 27, who died Monday morning in a
Herrin hospital.
Dr. C. F.
Murrah at an inquest stated that
Newton died of a knife wound in the head.
Other evidence at the inquest
disclosed that
Newton was wounded that night of
February 4, while in an automobile with a
party of friends from Goreville.
He received treatment at his home in
Goreville, but when his condition failed to
improve, he was taken to the Herrin hospital
last Friday.
Dr.
Murrah said an X-ray examination
revealed a knife blade imbedded in his head,
but an operation failed to locate the blade.
He underwent two blood transfusions
at the hospital before death, the surgeon
said.
AGE 101
Johnson County has a resident who is
101 years old.
His name is George
Herman and he lives near New Columbia in
the southeast part of the county, according
to the
Vienna Times. His mind
is alert, his memory of past events
remarkable and his conversation both
interesting and intelligent.
He lives alone, keeps house, does his
own cooking and is independent of any of his
neighbors.
He has been married four times and is
the father of 13 children.
His present wife, age 32, is in a
hospital suffering from a broken back due to
a fall.
He is a native of Edwards County
where he spent most of his life.
In an interview with the
Vienna
Times editor, Mr.
Herman said:
“I would like to go back to Edwards
County and visit among my old friends and
relatives.
It is quite a distance, but I could
make it in two or three days.
My horse needs a good work out.
It’s getting fat and if I drove it,
it would be good for the horse.”
Albion is about 100 miles north of
Vienna.
GEORGE GORE, JR., RELEASED FROM PRISON
George
Gore, Jr., son of Dr. George
Gore, Sr., a Benton surgeon now serving
an Illinois prison term for killing Carl
Choisser, a Benton attorney, was
released from the Missouri State
Penitentiary Thursday.
Gore, 32, was convicted of grand larceny in Cape Girardeau County in
January 1940, and sentenced to two years.
Prior to trial on the larceny charge
in Missouri,
Gore had been tried and acquitted on charges of killing his
stepmother, Mrs. Nancy
Gore.—Johnston
City Progress
Jake Eddleman
Jake
Eddleman, age 54, died at his home on a farm near Dongola Sunday
night, February 16, at 7:30 o’clock.
Mr.
Eddleman was injured a month ago when a
tree fell on him and broke an arm and leg.
It was thought that he was
recovering, but _____ set in and his passing
was expected.
He was a highly ____ farmer and had
lived his ____ in the Dongola community.
Surviving are his wife, ___
daughters, Mrs. Van
Lingle, Miss Mae
Eddleman; one ___mother, Mrs. Jake ____;
and a brother, Archie, ____.
Two sisters, Mrs. Eva ____
___sonville, and Mrs. Ann__ ___ Perks, also
survive him,
Funeral services were held at Mt.
Zion Church near Dongola ___day afternoon at
2 o’clock ___ Roy
Shelton, assisted by ____
Bernhart, officiating.
Burial was in Mt. Olive Cemetery.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 21 Feb 1941:
JAKE EDDLEMAN
Jake
Eddleman, age 54, died at his home on a farm near Dongola Sunday
night at 7:30 o’clock.
Mr.
Eddleman was injured a month ago when a
tree fell on him and broke an arm and leg.
He was well known, highly respected
and prosperous farmer and had lived his
entire life in the Dongola community.
He served as a member of the local
school board for several years.
He is survived by his wife, Norma;
two daughters, Mrs. Van
Lingle and Miss Mae
Eddleman; one son, Van; his mother, Mrs.
Jake
Eddleman, Sr.; and a brother, Archie,
all of Dongola.
Two sisters, Mrs. Eva
Keller of Jacksonville, Ill., and Mrs.
Anna
Casper of near Perks also survive him,
Funeral services were held at Mt.
Zion Church near Dongola Wednesday afternoon
at 2 o’clock with Rev. Roy
Shelton, assisted by Rev. J. A.
Bernhart, officiating.
Burial was in Mt. Olive Cemetery.
(Jacob M.
Eddleman, 25, a farmer from Dongola, born in Dongola, Union Co.,
Ill., the son of Jacob
Eddleman and Susan
Sowers, married 2nd on 26 Mar 1885, in Union Co., Ill., Mrs.
Amanda
Dillow, 27, from Anna, born in Union
Co., Ill., daughter of Peter
Dillow and Miss
Treese.
According to his death certificate,
Jacob Eli
Eddleman, farmer, was born 5 May 1886,
in Dongola, Union Co., Ill., the son of
Jacob
Eddleman and Amanda Dillow,
natives of Illinois,
died 16 Feb 1941, in Road District 3,
Union Co., Ill., the husband of Norma
Eddleman, and was buried in Mt. Olive
Cemetery in Union Co., Ill.
His marker there reads: Jacob E.
Eddleman 1887-1941 Norma
Eddleman 1893-1972.—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. CORNELIA TROUTMAN PASSED AWAY LAST
FRIDAY
Mrs. Cornelia
Troutman, age 86, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Anita
Miles, near Dongola Friday evening.
She is survived by seven children,
Mrs. Margaret
Corzine of Cypress, Rev. A. M.
Troutman of Cypress, Fernando of
Bradley, Ill., Mrs. Lulu
Martin of Renshaw, Ill., Mrs. Anita
Miles
of Dongola, Eddie of Dongola and Mrs. Zetta
Jones of Dongola.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Friendship
Church with Rev. H. W.
Karraker officiating.
Burial was made in the Friendship
Cemetery.
The following grandchildren served as
casket bearers:
Dallas
Miles,
Leroy
Troutman, Elvis Corzine,
Festus
Martin, Dorvey
Troutman and Doyle
Troutman.
(Jacob
Troutman married on 2 Mar 1873, in Union Co., Ill., Nelly
Karraker. Her death certificate states that Cornelia
Troutman, widow, was born 15 Oct 1854, in Union Co., Ill., the
daughter of Dennis
Karraker and Nancy
Hinkle, died 14 Feb 1941, in Road
District 3, Union Co., Ill., and was buried
in Friendship Cemetery in Union Co., Ill.
Her marker there reads:
Cornelia
Troutman 1854-1941 Jacob A.
Troutman 1850-1915.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 28 Feb 1941:
Former Mounds Resident Dies at Home in
Arkansas
Mrs. J. W.
Morris, daughter of J. Logan
Taylor, died at her home in Weiner,
Ark., Sunday morning following a long
illness.
Mrs.
Morris is the former Stella
Taylor and served as an operator in the
local office of the Illinois Bell Telephone
Company for a number of years.
Surviving are her husband, J. W.
Morris; one son, Carl, who is in the
United States Navy; one daughter, Ladonn of
Weiner; her father, Logan
Taylor; and two sisters, Mrs. Frank
(Nellie)
Ebbs
and Mrs. Theo (Madge)
Endicott, all of Mounds.
Funeral services were held at Weiner
Tuesday afternoon.
Those attending the funeral from here
were J. Logan
Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Ebbs,
Mrs. Theo
Endicott, Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Melton.
(Her marker in Oaklawn Cemetery in
Jonesboro, Craighead Co., Ark., reads:
Stella
Morris 1896-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mother of Ullin Resident Dies Last Week in
Albion
Mrs. Elizabeth
Reeves of Albion, age 75, mother of Mrs. Philip
Echols of Ullin, died at her home in
Albion Tuesday evening, Feb. 18.
She had been bedfast the past year.
She is survived by one son, Luther
Reeves of Grayville; three daughters,
Mrs. Bessie
Halam
of Fairfield, Mrs. A. L.
Cox
of Carbondale, and Mrs.
Echols.
Funeral services were held at the
Albion Baptist Church Thursday afternoon
with interment in Graceland Cemetery.
Mrs.
Echols had been with her mother more
than a week before her passing.
Mr.
Echols and daughter Adra attended the
funeral.
(Alexander
Hughes married Eliza Jane
Stanley on 21 Oct 1841, in White Co.,
Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Elizabeth Cordelia
Reeves was born 27 Jul 1875, in Edwards
Co., Ill., the daughter of Alexander
Hughes and Miss
Stanley, natives of Illinois, died 18
Feb 1941, in Albion, Edwards Co., Ill.,
widow of Milton
Reeves, and was buried in Albion,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. B. A. Hoar of Anna Celebrates 90th
Birthday
Mrs. B. A.
Hoar, widow of the Rev. B. A.
Hoar, a former pastor of the Mounds
Methodist Church, celebrated her 90th
birthday February 22, having been born in
the year 1851 on the natal day of the
“Father of our country.”
She and her daughter, Katherine, make
their home in Anna where her husband settled
upon his retirement from the ministry.
Mrs.
Hoar’s maiden name was Lydia Ann
Sapp and she was born near St. Elmo, Ill., on a farm her father had
purchased from the Government for $2.00 per
acre.
Many years ago she sold her part of
this farm for $50.00.
It is now one of those rich oil farms
in the Louden pool and there are at least 17
oil wells on the original farm which
belonged to her father.
She was the sixth child in a family
of seven and so delicate that her parents
despaired of her life.
The others are long since gone.
Two of her brothers were ministers in
the United Brethren Church.
She and her husband were schoolmates
and were married Sept. 1, 1872.
They had been married ten years
before entering the life of minister and
minister’s wife.
Her disposition has always been
gentle and her voice soft and low; she was
never in the limelight, but, as one of her
children has said:
“She was the power behind the
throne.”
One of her treasures is a valentine
given her by the lover of her youth 70 years
ago—two years before their marriage.
This couple reared four sons and four
daughters, one daughter, Sadie, dying at the
age of 20 in the Anna parsonage.
Two of the sons are ministers.
There are 14 grandchildren and 10
great-grandchildren.
The Rev. Mr.
Hoar, after a life filled with kindliness, good deeds and devotion
to his ministerial work, died Nov. 30, 1928.
Many people called on Mrs.
Hoar
and she received numerous gifts, among them
a beautiful birthday cake.
WEBQ at Harrisburg dedicated a song
to her and greetings poured in from friends
of the present and of the long ago and even
from strangers, and are continuing to pour
in as the days come and go.
(A picture of Mrs.
Hoar
accompanies the article.
Benjamin A.
Hoar
married Lydia A.
Sapp
on 1 Sep 1872, in Fayette Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 28 Feb 1941:
KILLED IN AUTO WRECK
W. R.
Eberhardt, Jr., of New York and Cleveland, was killed Saturday night
when his car plunged off Route 3 just on the
other side of the Cairo Junction.
Eberhardt is said to have been driving fast
en route to Cairo when he lost control of the car.
Residents living near the scene of
the accident testified at the inquest they
heard the squealing of the tires as
Eberhardt attempted to stop the car or
either when the car slid sideways along the
road.
He died soon after being taken to the
hospital.
The young man was traveling to Milan,
Tenn., where he was to have taken charge of
a shell-loading plant.
(The death certificate of Walter R.
Eberhardt, civil engineer, of 317 W. 83rd
St., New York City, N.Y., states he was born
30 Dec 1916, in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of
Walter R.
Eberhardt, a native of Cleveland, Ohio,
and Catherine A.
Sellman, a native of Brookins Lake, Mich., died 22 Feb 1941, in
Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., and was buried
in Hillcrest Cemetery, Geneva, Ashtabula
Co., Ohio.—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. JAMES L. PALMER PASSED AWAY WEDNESDAY
Mrs. James L.
Palmer, age 66, passed away at her home in Karnak Wednesday morning
following an illness of six months.
Besides her husband, she is survived
by one son, Eugene, of Karnak; a sister,
Mrs. Anna
Durham, of Tamms; five brothers, Ben
Bass
of Cape Girardeau, Harrison of Peoria, Logan
of Chicago, and Sam and Isadore of Elco.
Funeral services will be held this
afternoon (Friday) at one o’clock with Rev.
Cummins of Karnak officiating.
Burial will be made in Delta
Cemetery.
Wilson Funeral Service will be in charge of arrangements.
(The death certificate of Ida
Palmer was born 31 Mar 1874, in Delta,
Ill., the daughter of Henry
Bess,
a native of Missouri, and Mary
Bass,
a native of Arkansas,
died 25 Feb 1941, in Karnak, Pulaski
Co., Ill., wife of James L.
Palmer, and was buried in
Delta Cemetery in Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
FORMER RESIDENT OF MOUNDS DIED SUNDAY
Mrs. J. W.
Morris passed away at her home in Weiner, Ark., Sunday morning at
3:30 o’clock following a lingering illness.
Besides her husband, she is survived
by a son, Carl, who is in the United States
Navy; a daughter, Ladonn of Weiner; two
sisters, Mrs. Frank
Ebbs
and Mrs. Theo
Endicott; and a brother, Ed
Taylor, all of Mounds.
Her father, Logan
Taylor, of Mounds, also survives her.
Mrs.
Morris will be remembered as Miss Stella
Taylor. She served as
operator for the Bell Telephone Company in
Mounds for a number of years.
Funeral services were held in Weiner,
Ark., Tuesday afternoon.
AGED RESIDENT OF ULLIN DIED AT HIS HOME
THURSDAY
Frank
Hickman, 68 year old pioneer citizen of Ullin, passed away at his
home in Ullin Thursday morning, February 20,
at 10:30 o’clock after an illness of two
weeks.
Besides his wife, Maggie; he is
survived by three daughters, Mrs. Sam
McGee
of Dongola, Mrs. James
Curry
of Pulaski and Miss Francis
Hickman of Ullin; and three
grandchildren.
DONGOLA RESIDENT DIES AT HOME SATURDAY
Mrs. Ruth Viola
Dillow, age 48, passed away at her home
on a farm near Dongola Saturday morning at
12:30 o’clock following an illness of five
months.
Mrs.
Dillow is survived by her husband, Ralph; three sons, Wayne, Ellis
and Leroy; and one daughter, June, all at
home; and two brothers, George and Ernest of
Jonesboro.
Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at St. John’s
Lutheran Church with Rev. William E.
Bridges, pastor, officiating.
Burial was made in St. John’s
Cemetery.
(According to her death certificate,
Ruth Viola
Dillow was born 14 Feb 1893, near
Jonesboro, Union Co., Ill., the daughter of
J. H.
Ury and Delia
Poole, natives of Illinois,
died 22 Feb 1941, in Road District 6,
Union Co., Ill., wife of Ralph
Dillow, and was buried in St. John’s Cemetery in Road District 6, Union
Co., Ill.
Her marker there reads:
Ralph H.
Dillow 1892-1965 Ruth V.
Dillow 1893-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 7 Mar 1941:
MRS. ANGA CURD
Mrs. Anga
Curd, colored, age 60 years, died Saturday morning, March 1, at her
home in North Mounds.
She had been sick for some time.
Surviving are her husband, Henry
Curd;
five children and several grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon.
(A marriage license for Henry
Curd
and Angeline
Barnhill was issued on 14 Jan 1891, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Angeline
Curd
was born 17 Nov 1875, in Huntington, Tenn.,
the daughter of Ned
Bornhill and Mingie
Broyhill, natives of Huntington, Tenn.,
died 1 Mar 1941, in Road District,
Pulaski Co., Ill., wife of Henry
Curd,
and was buried at Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Kate Vaughn Passes On
Mrs. Kate
Vaughn, age 71 years, a highly respected colored resident of this
place who resided across from the Douglass
High School building on Highway 51, was
fatally injured in a bus wreck which
occurred Sunday, February 23, and died
Wednesday, Feb. 26, at St. Elizabeth’s
Hospital in Belleville.
The bus, driven by Earl
Love
of Pulaski, colored, collided with an
automobile on the old St. Louis road near
Belleville, according to reports.
The body was brought to Mounds
Saturday and funeral services were held
Sunday with burial here.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.
Lula
Webb
and Mrs. Priscilla
Mailon.
“Kate” was a faithful servant and
friend.
May she rest in peace.
(Katie
Vaughn is in the 1920 census of Berlee
St., Clarksdale, Coahoma C., Miss.
Her death certificate states that
Katie
Vaughn, widow, of Belleville, Ill.,
was born 17 Mar 1870, in Alabama,
died 26 Feb 1941, in Belleville, St. Clair
Co., Ill., and was buried at Mounds, Ill.
–Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 7 Mar 1941:
WILLIAM BLASDEL DIED AT HOME IN GRAND CHAIN
William
Blasdel, age 69, of Grand Chain, passed away at the Fischer Hospital
in Metropolis Saturday afternoon at 3
o’clock.
He is survived by his wife, Clara;
three daughters, Mrs. Mabel
Metcalf of West Frankfort, Mrs. Blanch
Evers
of Rector, Ark., and Mrs. Carmen
Rhodes of Vienna; two sons, Guy and
Clarence, both of Grand Chain; and one
brother, Henry
Blasdel of Grand Chain.
Funeral services were held at the
Ohio Chapel Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock
with Rev. W. L.
Cummins of Karnak officiating.
Burial was made in Ohio Chapel
Cemetery.
(His death certificate states that
William
Blasdel, farmer, of Grand Chain, Pulaski
Co., Ill., was born 22 Jan 1871, in
Champaign Co., Ill., the son of John
Blasdel and Eliza A.
Thompson, natives of Indiana, died 1 Mar
1941, in Metropolis, Massac Co., Ill.,
husband of Clara
Blasdel, and was buried in Road District 12, Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker in Ohio Chapel Cemetery
reads:
Clara
Blasdel 1889-1956 William
Blasdel 1871-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
MOUNDS NEGRO WOMAN DIES IN BUS WRECK
Mrs. Katie
Vaughn, 65-year-old Mounds Negro, died Wednesday at a hospital in
Belleville, Ill., as a result of injuries
received February 23 in a bus wreck near
Belleville.
The bus, owned and driven by Earl
Love,
Negro of Pulaski, was
en
route to St. Louis when it collided with
an automobile.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 14 Mar 1941:
Dave Brown
Dave
Brown, age 69 years, died Friday, March 7, at his home in Mound
City, after a several weeks’ illness.
He had been a resident of Mound City
over 60 years.
Surviving is one brother, Ell
Brown
of Mound City; and one half-brother, James
Modglin of Unity.
Funeral services were held Sunday
morning at 10 o’clock at the Pentecostal
church in Mound City, the Rev. Earl
Harp
officiating.
Burial was made in Redden Cemetery
with G. A.
James
Funeral Service in charge of arrangements.
(His death certificate states that
Dave
Brown was born 8 Feb 1872, in Illinois,
son of Bill
Brown,
died 7 Mar 1941, in Mound City, Pulaski
Co., Ill., and was buried at Villa Ridge,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Two Negroes Dead after Fight in Grand Chain
Alvin
Thompson of Cypress and Johnnie
Washum of Joppa, both colored, are dead as result of a fight which
occurred Sunday afternoon at Grand Chain.
Thompson died at St. Mary’s Hospital in
Cairo Sunday evening shortly after he had
been taken there.
Washum died Monday night in the same
hospital.
Thompson was shot in the side and
Washum in the abdomen.
Washum, who was conscious Monday, is
said to have admitted that both he and
Thompson were shot with his gun and that
it was in his hands when the bullet that
struck him was fired, that this happened in
a close struggle and that he fired twice at
Thompson after having been wounded
himself.
The cause of the fight seems to be an
undetermined factor.
(The death certificate of John
Wardell
Washum, restaurant worker, of Joppa,
Massac Co., Ill., states that he was born 31
Aug 1907, in Mound City, Ill., son of Dick
Washum, a native of Paris, Tenn., and
Jennie
Curtis, a native of Columbus, Ky., died
10 Mar 1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill.,
husband of Catherina
Washum, and was buried in Grand Chain
cemetery.
The death certificate of Alvin
Thomas, laborer, of Vienna, Ill., states
that he was born 31 Jul 1911, in Vienna,
Ill., the son of Calvin
Thomas and Maggie
Chavis, natives of Illinois,
died 9 Mar 1941, in Cairo, Alexander
Co., Ill., and was buried in Vienna, Johnson
Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Sister of R. W. Wiedemann Dies in Fort
Meyers, Fla.
R. W.
Widemann received word Thursday morning of the death of his sister,
Mrs. Rue
Truberger, of Fort Meyers, Florida.
She had been seriously ill for
several weeks.
Mr. and Mrs.
Wiedemann had spent a part of the winter of 1939-40 at the
Truberger home in Fort Meyers.
Surviving are her husband and son,
her mother, Mrs. Rosalie
Wiedemann; three sisters, Mrs. Oliver
Kuebler of Golconda, Mrs. Fred
Jost
of East St. Louis, with whom the mother is
residing at present, and Mrs. B.
Kuebler of Shiloh, Fla.; one brother, R.
W.
Wiedemann of this city.
Mrs.
Truberger was the youngest member of the
family.
As this article is being written, no
news of the time or place of the funeral is
available.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 14 Mar 1941:
ACCIDENTALLY SHOT, DIES
Miss Margaret Josephine
McKinney, age 26, of Cairo, accidentally
shot herself when she knocked a gun from the
top of a steel cabinet in her home Sunday
night.
She died several hours later in the
hospital.
Miss
McKinney was a popular young lady, well
known in this county.
She was employed in Sheriff John E.
Miller’s office.
A coroner’s jury returned a verdict
of accidental death.
Evidence presented at the inquest
brought out that the young woman had been
reaching for a hat box when the gun was
knocked from the shelf, the gun being
discharged in an unknown manner.
(Her death certificate states that
Margaret Josephine
McKinney, deputy clerk,
of Cairo, Ill.,
was born 1 Mar 1914, in Cairo, Ill., the
daughter of Charlie O.
McKinney and Margaret
O’Donnell, natives of Cairo, Ill., died
9 Mar 1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill.,
and was buried in Calvary Cemetery at Villa
Ridge, Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker reads:
Daughter Margaret J.
McKinney Mar. 1, 1914 Mar. 9, 1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
J. S. TRAMMELL DIES AT HIS HOME IN THIS CITY
James S.
Trammell, age 55, passed away at his home in Mound City Tuesday
morning at 4 o’clock following a few weeks’
illness.
Mr.
Trammell had made his home in Mound City
for the past 15 years.
Besides his wife, he is survived by
seven daughters, Mrs. Bessie
Charles of McClure, Mrs. Nellie
Womack of Jonesboro and Mrs. Obnie
Wyatt,
Mrs. Pauline
Kowen,
Mrs. June
Magill, Mrs. Shirley
Bremen and Miss Billie
Trammell of Mound City; four sons,
Clifford of Caruthersville, Mo., and Donald,
Kenneth and Patrick of Mound City.
A sister, Mrs. Lula
Rendleman of Pomona, Ill., also survives
him.
Funeral services were held at the
First Baptist Church Thursday afternoon at 1
o’clock with Rev. H. E.
Lockard, pastor, officiating.
Burial was made in Lindsay Cemetery
at McClure.
(According to his death certificate,
James Sherman
Trammell, of Mound City, Ill.,
was born 28 Oct 1874, in Illinois, the
son of John
Trammell and Ellen
Lawson, natives of Illinois,
died
11 Mar 1941, in Mound City, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., husband of Bessie
Trammell,
and was buried at McClure, Alexander
Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
DAVE BROWN DIES
Dave
Brown, age 89, passed away at his home in Mound City Friday morning
at 7:20 o’clock after an illness of several
weeks.
Mr.
Brown had been a resident of Mound City for the past 60 years.
He is survived by one brother, Ell
Brown,
of Mound City; and a half brother, James
Modglin, of Unity.
Funeral services were held Sunday
morning at 10 o’clock at the Pentecostal
church in Mound City.
Rev. Earl
Harp officiated. Burial
was made in Redden Cemetery.
BOY BURNED IN PLAY
A report yesterday and not checked
was that a Negro boy, 16 years of age, was
so badly burned that he died Wednesday night
at Rago, between Karnak and Whitehill and at
the boundary of the county.
He and other boys, some white, were
playing in a brush arbor or tepee, when it
was fired.
He was unable to get out without
being so badly burned that he died.
TWO YEARS AND FINE GIVEN TO RAY NIX
Ray
Nix, 20 years of age, of Florence, Alabama, fell into a bad way on
the night of February 9, when he got drunk,
shot at and wounded Robert
Bell,
a Negro, and tried to hold up Porky
Johnson’s place at Ullin.
Yesterday in county court he pleaded
guilty to assault with a deadly weapon and
got one year and $1,000 fine, and to
carrying concealed weapons and got one year
and a $300 fine.
He will be at Vandalia for some time
before being at liberty.
The fines will delay him some time.
Nix did not know what he had done, so drunk was he or under the
influence of a drug.
He came into the county last fall and
was working on a farm chopping wood.
In town one night, he went on the
spree that brought him to plenty of trouble
and very easily could have caused someone to
lose a life.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 21 Mar 1941:
HARVEY WILLIAMS
Harvey
Williams, of Cairo, age 50, nephew of Homer
Williams of this city, died Sunday at St. Mary’s Annex following a
stroke.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon in Cairo with burial in Spencer
Heights.
(When he registered for the draft in
1918, he lived at 313 33rd St.,
Cairo, Ill., and was a laborer for Pioneer
Poles Co., in the Drainage District, Cairo,
Ill.
His wife was LeDora
Williams.
His death certificate states that
Harvey
Williams, common laborer, of Alexander
Co., Ill., was born 24 Apr 1884, in
Lexington, Tenn., the son of Berry
Williams and Patsy
Jones, natives of Lexington, Tenn., died 16 Mar 1941, in Cairo,
Alexander Co., Ill., the husband of Dora
Williams, and was buried in Spencer
Heights Cemetery at Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
MOTHER BURNED TO DEATH AFTER SAVING CHILDREN
After saving four children, Mrs.
Bernie
Sweet
was burned to death Saturday when she ran
back into her blazing home at Herrin.
Witnesses at the coroner’s inquest
testified that the blaze originated from an
explosion of an oil stove Mrs.
Sweet
was using to cook supper for her little
family.
When the flash occurred, the first
thing she thought about was to save the four
small children, the oldest of which is eight
years old.
She put the children out a north
window, witnesses said, with the oldest boy
helping to lift the baby out the window.
When she came out, witnesses said she
acted as if she had suddenly thought of
something important and rushed back in the
building again.
A second after she went into the
house a second explosion occurred and flames
spread throughout the building.—Johnston
City Progress
(Her death certificate states that
Eva
Sweet was born about 1909 in
Carterville, Ill., the daughter of William
Elden
and Annie
Watkins, natives of Illinois, died 8 Mar
1941, in Herrin, Williamson Co., Ill., wife
of Bernie
Sweet, and was buried at Herrin, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
TWO KILLED, ONE INJURED ON DEATH CURVE
Two men were killed and a third
injured at 2 a.m. Tuesday when an automobile
in which they were riding left the highway
at “death curve” between this city and
Herrin.
The dead are John
Sinks
and Blake
Wright. Elsworth
Gordon is in the Herrin hospital
suffering a fractured left collar bone, a
scalp wound and numerous cuts and bruises.
The car a 1937 Ford V-8, belonged to
Sinks,
who was driving.
All three men are from West Frankfort
where they were employed by the Sunrise
Bakery.
Gordon, the only survivor, says the three men went to Herrin and
were returning home after spending the
evening there.
All three were riding in the front
seat.
They were driving at high rate of
speed,
Gordon said, and when they reached the
curve,
Sinks
lost control of the car and the Ford left
the road completely.
It turned over many times.
(Thomas A.
Henson married Dora Etta
Henson on 7 Jun 1904, in Franklin Co.,
Ill.
The death certificate of John Henson
Sinks, bakery salesman, of West Frankfort, Ill., states that he was
born 1 Jan 1917, in Frankfort Heights, Ill.,
the son of Thomas A.
Sinks
and Etta
Henson, natives of Illinois,
died 11 Mar 1941, in Williamson Co.,
Ill., husband of Dorothy
McCloud Sinks, and was buried at West
Frankfort, Franklin Co., Ill.
His marker in Tower Heights Cemetery
reads:
In Loving Memory John H.
Sinks
Jan. 1, 1917 Mar. 11, 1941 Erected by Wife
and Daughter Dorotha M. and Joan
Sinks.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 21 Mar 1941:
CARL SICHLING DIED WEDNESDAY AT BELLEVILLE
Carl
Sichling, formerly of Ullin, died at Belleville Wednesday following
an operation, according to word received
here.
The funeral will probably be today,
but details were not learned.
Sichling was an insurance agent at Ullin, later going to Carbondale
and still later to Belleville or East St.
Louis.
He was an ex-service man and known to
Legion members of the county.
(Carl
Sichling, of 522 Market Ave., East St. Louis, Ill.,
registered for the draft in 1918 and
worked for the railroad in East St. Louis,
Ill.
His nearest relative was his mother,
Seddie
Sichling of Ullin, Ill.
The application for a military headstone
states that Carl Thomas
Sichling enlisted 28 Aug 1918, as a
private in Co. B, 330th Infantry,
and was honorably discharged 10 Feb 1919.
His death certificate states that
Carl
Sichling, insurance company manager, of
Belleville, St,. Clair Co., Ill., was born
22 May 1897, in Ullin, Ill., the son of
Joseph M.
Sichling, a native of Union Co., Ill.,
and Siddie
Stubblefield, a native of Tennessee,
died 19 Mar 1941, in Belleville, St. Clair
Co., Ill., husband of Maude
Sichling, and was buried at Carbondale,
Jackson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
DETAILS OF FIRE IN WHICH NEGRO YOUTH DIED
Clifford
Tuice, 16 years of age, colored, was burned to death at Rago on
Wednesday of last week when a shack in which
he and two others were playing caught fire
and burned.
Tuice
was pulled from the wreckage, his clothes
nearly burned off him and his flesh badly
cooked in places.
He died about 10 o’clock that night.
A rural school at Rago has 20 or 30
students, both white and colored.
It was taught by Cletus
Girley.
On the playground was a shack, built
pig pen style of small logs and poles, the
largest said to be about six inches in
diameter.
It was probably not over 8 to 10 feet
square and was about four feet high.
Across the top were laid poles and on
them was hay and straw.
Cracks were chinked with sacks.
Entrance was a hole near the ground
and across it was a sack to keep the wind
from blowing into the cabin.
A stove made of a lard can and with a
pipe out the roof furnished heat.
At noon that day, the cabin caught
fire, presumably when the sack over the
entrance blew over the stove.
The fire must have not been noticed
at first, possibly because there was already
smoke in the place, and it had spread before
it was seen.
The two white boys dived through the
hole and escaped, one being slightly singed
and one having to make two attempts.
The colored boy never did attempt to
come out and cried for help only for a brief
moment.
At the inquest, it was an opinion,
though not verified, that he must have
turned sick or had a heart attack.
The whole cabin was burning when a
teacher, Mr.
Girley, arrived and in pulling out
Tuice,
was burned about the hands and face.
The burned boy begged for water to be
poured on him to cool him.
His condition was most pitiful.
The playhouse had turned into a
funeral pyre.
(The death certificate states that
Clifford
Tyuse,
high school student, of Cypress, Johnson
Co., Ill.,
was born 5 Aug 1924, in Olmsted, Ill.,
the son of Robert
Tyuse, a native of Lima, Ohio, and Mary
Johnson Jones, a native of Columbus, Ky., died 12 Mar 1941, in Road
District 3, Johnson Co., Ill., and was
buried at Olmsted, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 28 Mar 1941:
Funeral Services Held for Carl Sichling
Saturday
Funeral services were held in
Carbondale Saturday afternoon for Carl
Sichling of Belleville, formerly of
Ullin, who died Wednesday evening, March 19,
in a Belleville hospital, where he had been
a patient for about two weeks.
Burial was made in Oakland Cemetery,
Carbondale, the local Elks lodge having
charge of the service.
Mr.
Sichling was the younger son of Mrs. Sid
Sichling of Ullin. He
left Ullin about ten years ago for
Carbondale to enter the employ of the Great
West Life Assurance Company.
Later he was transferred to
Belleville.
Surviving are his wife, the former
Mable
Williams; one daughter, Iva Lou; his
mother and a brother, Ralph of Ullin; also
other relatives.
Mr.
Sichling was a member of the American Legion and had served as
commander of the post at Carbondale.
Wife of Former Methodist Pastor Dies Last
Thursday
Mrs. H. B.
Shoaff, wife of Rev. H. B.
Shoaff of Vienna, died Thursday night of
last week in Holden Hospital, Carbondale,
where she had been a patient at intervals
for some time.
The Rev. Mr.
Shoaff and family formerly resided in the Methodist parsonage here
in Mounds during his pastorate of the First
Methodist Church and news of the passing of
Mrs.
Shoaff will be heard with regret.
Surviving are the husband, four sons,
Ray
Shoaff of Cincinnati, Ohio, Norman of
Chicago, George and Carl of Carbondale; also
an adopted daughter, Martha.
Mr. and Mrs.
Shoaff recently had purchased a home in
Carbondale to which they had intended to
move upon Mr.
Shoaff’s retirement from the ministry.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the First
Methodist Church of Carbondale with the Rev.
Mr.
Harvey, pastor, officiating.
Burial was in a Carbondale cemetery.
(Herman B.
Shoaff married Fannie
Zimmerman on 31 May 1899, in Wabash Co.,
Ill.
The death certificate of Fannie
Maybelle
Zimmerman Shoaff, of Vienna, Ill., states that she was born 8 Aug
1879, in Loogootee, Ind., the daughter of
George W.
Zimmerman and Antle Fannie,
natives of Kentucky, died 20 Mar 1941, in
Carbondale, Jackson Co., Ill., wife of H. B.
Shoaff, and was buried at Carbondale, Ill.
Her marker in Oakland Cemetery reads:
Fannie
M.
Shoaff 1879-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Andrew Poe
Andrew
Poe, resident of Mounds for many years, died Friday afternoon, March
21, at 12:35 o’clock at his home, following
a long illness.
His age was 50 years.
Surviving are his widow, Myrtle; four
children by a former marriage, Raymond,
Andrew Jr., and Mrs. Thelma
Miller of Benton Harbor, Mich., and
Mildred
Poe
at home; also one granddaughter; a brother,
Fred
Poe of Denver, Colo.; four stepchildren;
and other relatives.
For many years Mr.
Poe
was a distributor of Raleigh products in
this community, but for the past year he and
his wife have operated a confectionery on
Front Street.
Funeral services were held at the
Ryan
Funeral Home on First Street Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, the Rev. J. Rue
Reid, pastor of the Methodist church, officiating.
Burial was in Spencer Heights
Cemetery with the J. T.
Ryan
Funeral Service in charge of arrangements.
(When he registered for the draft in
1917, Andrew
Poe
resided in Woodward, Iowa, and was a
section laborer for the Interurban in Dallas
Co., Iowa. According to the death
certificate of Andrew Allen
Poe, confectionary owner, he was born 16 Feb 1891, in Brookport,
Ill., died 21 Mar 1941, in Mounds, Pulaski
Co., Ill., husband of Myrtle
Poe, and was buried at Mounds, Ill.
His marker in Spencer Heights
Cemetery in Mounds, Ill., reads:
Andrew
Poe
Feb. 16, 1891 Mar. 21, 1941.
His Social Security claim states that
he was the son of Dennis
Poe and Rachel Hall.—Darrel
Dexter)
FIND BODY OF WHITE INFANT BENEATH BRIDGE
The body of a prematurely born white
female infant was found in a bottle of
preserving fluid beneath the Big Muddy River
Bridge over Route 13 at Murphysboro on
Sunday.
The bottle was discovered by two
boys:
Dave
Wilson and Ed Crisp, and
reported to police.
Coroner Roy
Ruffman was notified and immediately
began an investigation.
The infant was judged to have been a
seven-month baby, but how long it had been
in the bottle was not determined.
Police stated that there was no mark
of violence on the small body.—Carbondale
Herald
Mother of Rep. Paul Powell Dies in Vienna
Mrs. Vinna D.
Powell, 68, widow of the late Thomas B.
Powell, died about 8:00 Saturday evening, March 15, of a paralytic
stroke.
She was the mother of Rep. Paul T.
Powell.
Death came rather swiftly after
suffering a stroke in the afternoon.
She had been in declining health for
many years.
Mrs.
Powell, her son and wife, made their home together.
The deceased was a patient sufferer
and her loved ones were ever mindful and did
everything possible for her comfort.
They shared their joys and sorrows
with each other and now that the mother has
departed from this life, the home will not
be the same.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at the First Christian Church in
Vienna, Rev. Charles A.
McGinnis of Pontiac, Ill., assisted by Rev. Robert
Furgeson, pastor of the church here,
officiating.
The
Fulkerson quartet sang and Mrs. Joe
Throgmorton sang a solo.
A large crowd attended the service and the
beautiful and profuse floral offering showed
the esteem in which Mrs.
Powell was held.
Interment was made in the Vienna
Fraternal Cemetery.—Vienna
Times
Mrs. Paul
Powell is the former Daisy
Butler of Mounds.
(Thomas B.
Powell married Vinna Duncan
on 23 Sep 1896, in Williamson Co., Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Vinna
Duncan
Powell was born 20 Jul 1872, in Marion,
Ill., the daughter of Hartwell
Duncan, a native of Marion, Ill., and
Rebecca
Simmons, a native of Tunnel Hill, Ill.,
died 15 Mar 1941, in Vienna, Johnson Co.,
Ill., the widow of Thomas B.
Powell, and was buried in District 5,
Johnson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Union County Veteran Dies in 105th
Year
Tillman
Manus, Civil War veteran of Anna, died Thursday night, March 20,
after an illness of two weeks.
Mr.
Manus
would have celebrated his 105th
birthday had he lived until April 9 of this
year.
Only a month or so ago a relative of
his was telling the writer how much Mr.
Manus
enjoyed life.
Born in Tennessee, he was disowned by
his family when he joined the Union Army, it
is said.
He moved to the Anna community at the
age of 21 years
Surviving are six children, five sons
and a daughter ranging in age from 70 to 82
years.
Funeral services were held at Anna
Sunday afternoon.
(Tilman
Manus married Nancy A. Morgan
on 10 Apr 1857, in Union Co., Ill.
His death certificate states that
Tilman
Manus, farmer, of Anna, Union Co., Ill., was born 9 Apr 1835, in
Woodbury, Tenn., the son of John
Manus,
a native of Tennessee, and Lavina
Middleton, a native of England,
died
20 Mar 1941, in Anna, Union Co., Ill.,
widower of Nancy
Manus,
and was buried in Road District 5, Union
Co., Ill.
His marker in Trinity Cemetery reads:
Tilman
Manus
Apr. 9, 1835 Mar. 20, 1941 Nancy E. His
Wife Jan. 18, 1840 June 14, 1911.—Darrel
Dexter)
Campfire Claims Life of Transient
Night creatures in the remote bluff
section north of Makanda were spectators to
a weird sight sometime Monday night as an
unknown transient fought a furious but
futile fight to extinguish the flames of his
heavy clothing that apparently had become
ignited by sparks as he slept in the popular
Hanging Rock bluff shelter near the Illinois
Central Railroad.
There were no witnesses to the
tragedy, but indications were that the man
had rolled and tumbled for more than a
hundred feet in his struggles from the
campfire to where the body, charred beyond
recognition, lay when found by workmen early
Tuesday morning.
He appeared to have been about 45
years old, 5 feet 8 inches tall, weight
about 140 pounds with light brown hair
turning gray. The body was removed to the
Huffman Funeral Home in Carbondale to be
buried in Oakland Cemetery there.—Wayman
Presley
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 28 Mar 1941:
CARL SICHLING DIES
Carl
Sichling, youngest son of Mrs. Sid
Sichling of Ullin, died in a hospital at Belleville, Ill., Wednesday
evening, March 19, at 7 o’clock following an
operation Tuesday. He had been ill for
several weeks.
Mr.
Sichling was born and reared in Ullin, leaving there about eight
years ago for Carbondale.
From
Carbondale he was sent to Belleville with
the Great West Life Insurance Company.
He is survived by his wife, Maude;
and one daughter, Iva Lou, both of
Belleville; his mother, Mrs. Sid
Sichling; and a brother, Ralph of Ullin;
two nieces, Mary Jo
Sichling and Anna Lou
Sichling of Ullin; and a number of other
relatives.
The body was taken to Carbondale
Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Services were held Saturday afternoon
at 2 o’clock.
Burial was made at Carbondale.
He was a member of the American
Legion.
HEARING TOMORROW ON CUSTODY OF CHILDREN
There will be a hearing tomorrow
before Judge
Crain
concerning the custody of two children,
Vivian and Ruby
Parker, daughters of a deceased veteran
and whose mother is also deceased.
An aunt, Mrs. Letha
Echols, has charge of them.
The Legion is bringing complaint
through one of its members charging neglect
and seeking to have the children sent to the
Home at Bloomington, where children of
veterans are well maintained and given full
high school education and two years of
college work.
INFANT SON DIES
Clay
Evans, 15 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Evans, of Urbandale, passed away at the home of his parents, Tuesday
evening, March 17, at 8 o’clock.
Besides his parents, he is survived
by one brother, Alflee
Evans;
three half-sisters, Mrs. Ruth
Long
of Evansville, Ind., Miss Mary
Evans
of Mound City and Miss Mary Helen
Johnson of Urbandale; and five
half-brothers, Homer Lee
Johnson and Bobby Johnson
of Urbandale, James
Evans,
Fred
Evans, Jr., of U. S. Army and Leon
Evans
of Mound City.
Funeral services were held at the
residence Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock
with Rev. Fred
Harp of Mound City officiating.
Burial was made in Mounds cemetery.
(His death certificate states that
Clay
Evans was born 13 Dec 1939, in Alexander
Co., Ill., the son of Fred
Evans,
a native of Tennessee, and Bessie M.
Liskey, a native of Morehouse, Mo., and
died 18 Mar 1941, in Road District 2,
Alexander Co., Ill., and was buried in
Spencer Heights Cemetery in Mounds,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
DEATH CLAIMS J. E. CHARLES
Word has been received by friends
here from Mrs. W. A.
Dougherty, formerly of this city now of
Metropolis, of the death of her
brother-in-law, J. E.
Charles, who passed away at his home in
Columbus, Ohio, Wednesday after a long
illness.
He is survived by his widow, the
former Miss Eva
Simpkins of Cairo.
Funeral services were held at
Columbus Friday.
(The Ohio Death Index states that
Edwin J.
Charles died in Columbus, Ohio, 19 Mar
1941.
J. Edwin
Charles was buried in Union Cemetery in
Columbus, Ohio.—Darrel
Dexter)
ANDREW POE DIES AT HIS HOME IN MOUNDS
Andrew
Poe, age 50, passed away at his home in Mounds Friday afternoon,
March 21, at 12:35 o’clock after an illness
of two months.
Besides his widow, Myrtle, he is
survived by four children, Raymond, Andrew
Jr., and Mrs. Thelma
Miller of Benton Harbor, Mich., and
Mildred
Poe
of Mounds; one granddaughter; a brother,
Fred
Poe of Denver, Colo.; four stepchildren;
and other relatives.
Mr.
Poe was employed for many years as distributor of Raleigh products,
but for the past year had been operating a
confectionery at Mounds.
Funeral services were held at the
Ryan
Funeral Home in Mounds Sunday afternoon at
2:30 o’clock, with Rev. J. Rue
Reid,
pastor of the First Methodist Church,
officiating.
Interment was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery.
MRS. G. E. RITTER DIES
Word has been received here of the
death of Mrs. G. E.
Ritter, who passed away at her home in
Richmond Hill, N.Y., Friday night at 9
o’clock following an illness of several
weeks.
Mrs.
Ritter was the mother of Mrs. Carolyn
Perks, formerly of Mound City and had made a number of friends in
this city during her frequent visits with
her daughter.
Burial was made in Richmond Hill.
(This may be the same person as
Carolina A.
Ritter, who was born about 1869 and died
21 Mar 1941, in Queens, New York.—Darrel
Dexter)
FORMER RESIDENT OF PULASKI COUNTY DIES
Word has been received of the death
of George W.
Kelley, age 72, who passed away at his
home in St. Louis Saturday.
Mr.
Kelley was born and raised in Pulaski County and was a half-brother
of the late James D.
Kelley who resided in Ullin.
Burial was made at Liberty Cemetery
near Pulaski Tuesday afternoon.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 4 Apr 1941:
Mrs. C. O. Kean
Mrs. Hattie
Kean, age 60, passed away Friday evening, March 28, at 8:15 o’clock
at her home in Karnak after an illness of
two months.
Besides her husband, C. O.
Kean,
she is survived by four sons, Owen, Joe and
John
Kean of Karnak and Vance
Wilson of Karnak; four daughters, Mrs.
Martha
Clark
of Grand Chain, Mrs. Louise
Eastwood of Karnak, and Misses Alice and
Kathleen
Kean
of Karnak; three sisters, Mrs. May
Prater of Manchester, Tenn., Mrs. Bertha
Patterson of Summitville, Tenn., and
Mrs. Kate
Keys
of Marion, Ill.; two brothers, Bill
Lowe
and Cecil
Lowe
of Manchester.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church in Karnak Sunday afternoon
at 2 o’clock with Rev. W. L.
Cummins officiating.
Interment was made in the Masonic
Cemetery at Belknap.
Pallbearers were Charles, Kenneth,
Junior and Wayne
Kean;
and James and Kenneth
Keys.
Wilson Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
(Her death certificates states that
Hattie E.
Kean
was born 12 Mar 1881, in Middle Tennessee,
the daughter of John
Lowe,
a native of Pennsylvania, died 28 Mar 1941,
in Karnak, Pulaski Co., Ill., wife of G. O.
Kean, and was buried at Belknap, Johnson Co., Ill.
Her marker in Belknap Masonic
Cemetery reads:
Mother Hattie E.
Kean 1881-1941.—Darrel Dexter)
Lillian Douglas
Lillian
Douglas, age 17, died at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Claude
Douglas, in Karnak Monday evening, March
31, at 6 o’clock.
Besides her parents she is survived
by one sister, Delphia, of Karnak; and four
brothers, Clyde, Clark and Wayne of Karnak
and Raymond of Aurora.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church in Karnak Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev. W. L.
Cummins officiating.
Interment was made in Salem Cemetery
with
Wilson Funeral Service in charge of
arrangements.
(The death certificate of Lillian
Viola
Douglas states she was born 4 Sep 1923,
in Massac Co., Ill., the daughter of Claude
Douglas and Bertis Bunch,
natives of Massac Co., Ill., died 31 Mar
1941, in Karnak, Pulaski Co., Ill., and was
buried in Road District 4, Massac Co., Ill.
Her marker in Lower Salem Baptist
Church Cemetery reads:
Lillian V.
Douglas 1923-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. R. W. England Dies Wednesday at Home
Here
Mrs. Sophia
England, age 57 years, passed away Wednesday morning, April 2, at
her home on North McKinley Avenue, after an
illness of two weeks.
Mrs.
England was the wife of R. W.
England, county commissioner of Pulaski
County for the past 27 years.
She is survived by her husband, two
daughters, Mrs. Gladys
McGee
of Mounds and Mrs. Violet
Stokes of St. Louis; two sons, Lois
England of Springfield and Wardell
England, a student at the Southern
Illinois Normal University, Carbondale.
Funeral services will be held this
(Friday) afternoon at 1 o’clock at the
Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church, this city, with
the
Donaldson Funeral Service in charge of
arrangements.
(Rome Wellington
England (col.) married on 11 Jan 1903,
by W. B.
Jones,
Baptist minister, in Henry Co., Tenn.,
Sophie
Brown
(col.).
P. A.
England was bondsman.
According to her death certificate,
Sophie Elizabeth
England was born 2 Mar 1884, in Corinth,
Tenn., the daughter of Alfred
Brown
and Asglee
Jones, a native of Curla, Tenn., died 2 Apr 1941, in Mounds, Pulaski
Co., Ill., wife of Rome
England, and was buried in Thistlewood
Cemetery in Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 4 Apr 1941:
MRS. E. W. ENGLAND DIES AT HER HOME IN
MOUNDS
Mrs. Sophia
England, age 57, passed away Wednesday morning at her home in Mounds
after an illness of two weeks.
Mrs.
England was the wife of E. W.
England, county commissioner of Pulaski
County for the past twenty-seven years.
Funeral services will be held this
(Friday) afternoon at 1:00 p.m. at the
Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church in Mounds.
Donaldson Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.
LILLIAN DOUGLAS DIES AT HOME IN KARNAK
Lillian
Douglas, age 17, passed away at the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Claude
Douglas, in Karnak Monday evening at 6
o’clock.
Besides her parents, she is survived
by one sister, Delphia of Karnak; and four
brothers, Clyde, Clark and Wayne of Karnak
and Raymond of Aurora.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church in Karnak, Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev. W. L.
Cummins officiating.
Interment was made in Salem Cemetery.
DEATH CLAIMS MRS. LULA PARKER
Mrs. Lula
Benson Parker, age 79, who has been making her home in this city
with her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Anna
Kreager, passed away at St. Mary’s
Hospital at 10:55 Tuesday night following an
illness of only a week.
She is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. John M.
Marshall of Cairo and Mrs. L. B.
Elliott of Baton Rouge, La.; two sons,
D. C.
Parker of Vicksburg, Miss., and Neill
Parker of St. Louis, Mo.; eight
grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Mrs.
Parker was a devoted member of the First Christian Church and a fine
Christian character.
Her husband preceded her in death
last June.
Funeral services were held at the
Berbling Funeral Home at 2 p.m.
Thursday, with Rev. O. L.
Angel
of Metropolis, former pastor of the First
Christian Church of Cairo, officiating.
Burial was made in the family lot in
Thistlewood Cemetery.
(Her death certificate states that
Lula
Benson Parker, retired, of Graves Co.,
Ky., was born 7 Dec 1861, in Graves Co.,
Ky., daughter of Martin C.
Benson and Mary Jane
Williams, natives of Robinson Co., Ky.,
died 1 Apr 1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co.,
Ill., widow of Dyas
Parker, and was buried at Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker in Beechwood Cemetery
reads:
Lula B.
Parker Dec. 7, 1861 Apr. 1, 1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
DONGOLA RESIDENT DIES
Charles F.
Schluder, lifetime resident of the Dongola community, passed away at
his farm home near Dongola at 2:30 o’clock
Friday morning, March 28, following a
critical illness of several days, although
he had been in failing health for several
years.
Mr.
Schluder was a prominent and highly
respected farmer, born and reared in Union
County, where he had spent all his life on
the farm on which he passed away.
He was 74 years old.
Mr.
Schluder is survived by his wife, Birdie; three sons, Ira of Oxford,
Ohio, and Clyde and Harold of Dongola; two
sisters, Mrs. Alice
Casper of Dongola and Mrs. Emma
Kegwin of Walnut, Illinois.
He also leaves nine grandchildren and
one great-grandchild.
Funeral services were conducted Sunday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Lutheran
church in Dongola, with the Rev. William E.
Bridges, pastor of the church,
officiating.
Interment was made in the Dongola I.
O. O. F. Cemetery.
(His death certificate states that
Charles Frank
Schluter, farmer, was born 9 Jun 1866,
in Dongola, Union Co., Ill., the son of
Frederick
Schluter and Mary Louise
Tate,
natives of Germany, died 28 Mar 1941, in
Union Co., Ill., husband of Birdie
Schluter, and was buried in Road District 6, Union Co., Ill.
His marker in the American Legion
Cemetery in Dongola reads:
Birdie J.
Schluter 1874-1956 Charles F.
Schluter 1866-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. S. E.
Dexter, Mrs. Cora
Miller, Mr. and Mrs. John
George attended the funeral of Charles
Schluter, Sr., in Dongola Sunday
afternoon.
(Beech Grove)
MRS. HATTIE KEAN DIES AT HER HOME IN KARNAK
Mrs. Hattie
Kean, age 60, passed away Friday evening, March 28, at 3:15 o’clock
at her home in Karnak after an illness of
two months.
Besides her husband, C. O.
Kean;
she is survived by four sons, Owen, Joe and
John
Kean of Karnak and Vance
Wilson of Karnak; four daughters, Mrs.
Martha
Clark
of Grand Chain, Mrs. Louise
Eastwood of Karnak and Misses Alice and
Kathleen
Kean
of Karnak; three sisters, Mrs. May
Prater of Manchester, Tenn., Mrs. Bertha
Patterson of Summitville, Tenn., and
Mrs. Kate
Keys
of Marion, Ill.; two brothers, Bill
Lowe
and Cecil
Lowe
of Manchester.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church in Karnak Sunday afternoon
at 2 o’clock with Rev. W. L.
Cummins officiating.
Interment was made in the Masonic
Cemetery at Belknap.
TILMAN MANUS DIES AT HIS HOME IN ANNA
Tilman
Manus, who would have observed his 106th birthday
anniversary April 9, died at his home in
Anna last Thursday night after an illness of
two weeks.
He was Union County’s last surviving
Civil War veteran, having served throughout
the war in the Union Army.
Born in Tennessee, he was disowned by
his family when he joined the army.
Manus came to Union County when he was 21 years old and spent the
rest of his life in this area.
He witnessed the debate between
Abraham
Lincoln and Stephen
Douglas at Jonesboro, shortly before the
former was elected President.—Cobden Review
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 11 Apr 1941:
Mound City Negro Found Dead in Baseball Park
Willie
McMurry (Billy Moon),
colored, World War veteran, was found dead
in the baseball park, South Mounds, early
Sunday morning.
He had been stabbed in the base of
the neck, the knife having severed the
jugular vein.
County officials stated that their
investigation led them to believe that Sally
Williams alias Sally
Young,
also colored, of Mound City, knew something
about the murder, as certain ones reported
having seen the two together late Saturday
night.
Within a few hours the girl went to
Mound City from the home of an uncle in
Cairo and gave herself up to Sheriff I. J.
Hudson, pleading self-defense as the
cause.
The coroner’s jury held the girl for
action by the grand jury.
(The death certificate states that
Willie Van
McCurry, railroad worker, was born in
November 1894, in Tennessee, the son of Will
McCurry and Addie Hooker,
natives of Tennessee, died 5 Apr 1941, in
Pulaski Co., Ill., husband of Inez
McCurry, and was buried in the National
Cemetery in Pulaski Co., Ill.
His interment record states that Will
McCurry enlisted on 1 Aug 1918, and was
honorably discharged 20 Jan 1919 as a
corporal in Co. A, Developmental Battalion
No. 2, 161st Depot Brigade at
Camp Grant, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 11 Apr 1941:
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Beaupre and daughter, Virginia, and son,
Everett, returned Tuesday to their home in
Detroit after being called here by the death
of Mr.
Beaupre’s mother, Mrs. Lillie
Beaupre.
MRS. LILLIE BEAUPRE DIES
Mrs. Lillie V.
Beaupre, 75 years old, died at 2 o’clock Saturday morning at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. George
Rutledge, on Poplar Street in this city.
She had been a resident of Mound City
for the past 55 years.
Her husband died 11 years ago.
She is survived by her daughter and
one son, Arthur
Beaupre, of Detroit; four grandchildren
and other relatives.
Funeral services were held at the
James
Funeral Home Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock
with Rev. S. L.
Hagen,
pastor of the Church of the Redeemer of
Cairo, officiating.
Burial was made in the Thistlewood
Cemetery.
(According to her death certificate,
Lillie V.
Beaupre, of Mound City, Ill.,
was born 22 Feb 1866, in St. Louis, Mo.,
the daughter of Isaac
Yost
and Rebecca
Mullen, natives of Ohio, died 5 Apr
1941, in Mound City, Pulaski Co., Ill.,
widow of Henry
Beaupre, and was buried in Thistlewood
Cemetery in Mounds, Ill.
Her marker in Beechwood Cemetery
reads:
Lillie V.
Beaupre 1866-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 18 Apr 1941:
Joe Rollins
Joe
Rollins, age 75, passed away at the
Keys’ home at Belknap Thursday morning, April 10, at 6 o’clock.
Mr.
Rollins had been ill for only a few days but had been in failing
health for the past year.
He had made his home in Belknap for
the past 60 years.
There are no close surviving
relatives.
Funeral services were held at the
Belknap Methodist Church Saturday morning at
10 o’clock with Rev. W. L.
Cummins of Karnak officiating.
Interment was made in the Masonic
Cemetery,
Wilson Funeral Service in charge.
Mrs. Sudie Mercer
Mrs. Sudie
Mercer, age 93, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Gus
Stern,
this city, Tuesday morning, April 15, at 5
o’clock.
Mrs.
Mercer was born in Graves County,
Kentucky, March 4, 1848.
Besides Mrs.
Stern she is survived by two other daughters, Mrs. John
Stern
of Pulaski and Mrs. Eva
Marble of Granite City; two sons, Jim
Reeves of Mounds and Otis
Reeves of Selma, Tenn.; 11
grandchildren, four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the
Assembly of God church Wednesday afternoon
at 1 o’clock with Rev.
Roberts officiating.
Interment was made in East Prairie,
Mo., with J. T.
Ryan
Funeral Service in charge.
Anita Sue Parker
Anita Sue
Parker, seven-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George
Parker, passed away at the home of her
parents in Mound City Saturday evening at
6:30 o’clock after an illness of several
weeks.
Besides her parents, she is survived
by five sisters, Mrs. Norma
Alley,
Mrs. Virginia
Clardie, Mrs. Florence
Harp,
Mrs. Rosemary
VanMeter and Miss Martha
Parker, all of Mound City; two
half-sisters, Mrs. Helen
Carrolton of Baton Rouge, La., Miss
Gladys
Parker of Woodriver, Ill.; four
brothers, William
Sisk,
John, Louis and Russell
Parker; two half-brothers, Carlos and
Albert of Mound City; and her maternal
grandfather, William
Buckle, of Mound City.
Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon at the Pentecostal church with
Rev. Fred
Harp officiating.
Interment was made in Beech Grove Cemetery
with G. A.
James Funeral Service in charge of arrangements.
(Anida Sue
Parker, according to her death certificate, was born 27 May 1933, in
Mound City, Ill., the son of George
Parker and Nora
Buckles, natives of Illinois, died 12
Apr 1941, in Mound City, Ill., and was
buried in Beech Grove Cemetery in Mounds,
Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Half-Sister of Mrs. E. G. Wildy Dies in
Cairo Monday Morning
Mrs. Virginia Ann
Walter, age 72, wife of John
Walter, passed away at her home 217
Ninth Street, Cairo, Monday, at 4 o’clock
a.m.
Mrs.
Walter had been in failing health for
several years.
She was a member of the First
Methodist Church of Cairo and had resided at
the home of Ninth Street for the past 40
years.
Besides her husband, she is survived
by two children, William G.
Walter of Detroit and Mrs. Ada
Osgood of Cairo; two half-brothers,
Priest
Thomas of America and J. H.
Thomas of Cairo; one half-sister, Mrs.
E. G.
Wildy of Mounds; two grandchildren and
three great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the
Cairo First Methodist Church Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock, with Rev. L. S.
McKown, pastor, officiating.
Burial was in Villa Ridge cemetery.
(Her death certificate states that
Virginia Ann
Walter was born 8 Sep 1868, in Camden,
Tenn., died 14 Apr 1941, in Cairo, Alexander
Co., Ill., wife of John
Walter, and was buried at Villa Ridge, Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker in Cairo City Cemetery
reads:
—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. August
Crosson received a message Thursday
afternoon telling them of the death of Mrs.
Tom
Guthrie of Blythe, Calif.
Mr. and Mrs.
Guthrie resided here a number of years ago and will be remembered by
many.
Mr.
Guthrie survives his wife.
They had no children.
(Mary Lucille
Guthrie was born 19 Sep 1893, in Ohio, the daughter of Miss
Fogarty, and died 17 Apr 1941, in
Riverside Co., Calif.
She is in the 1940 census of South
Broadway St., Palo Verde, Riverside Co.,
Calif., with her husband, Thomas F.
Guthrie, the owner of a billiard
hall.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 18 Apr 1941:
ANITA SUE PARKER DIES
Anita Sue
Parker, seven-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George
Parker, passed away at the home of her
parents in Mound City, Saturday evening at
6:30 o’clock after an illness of several
weeks.
Besides her parents, she is survived
by five sisters, Mrs. Norma
Alley,
Mrs. Virginia
Clardie, Mrs. Florence
Harp,
Mrs. Rosemary
Van
Meter and Miss Martha
Parker, all of Mound City; two
half-sisters, Mrs. Helen
Carollton of Baton Rouge, La., Miss
Gladys
Parker of Woodriver, Ill.; four
brothers, William
Sisk,
John, Louis and Russell
Parker; two half-brothers, Carlos and
Albert of Mound City; and her maternal
grandfather, William
Buckle, of this city.
Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon at the Pentecostal church with
Rev. Fred
Harp officiating.
Interment was made in Beech Grove Cemetery.
G. A.
James
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
DEATH CLAIMS MRS. SUDIE MERCER
Mrs. Sudie
Mercer, age 93, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Gus
Stern,
in Mounds Tuesday morning at 5 o’clock.
Mrs.
Mercer was born in Graves County, Ky., March 4, 1843.
Besides Mrs.
Stern, she is survived by two other daughters, Mrs. John
Stern
of Pulaski and Mrs. Eva
Marble of Granite City; two sons, Jim
Reeves of Mounds and Otis
Reeves of Selma, Tenn.; 11
grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and
one great-great-grandchild.
Funeral services were held at the
Assembly of God church in Mounds Wednesday
afternoon at one o’clock with Rev.
Roberts officiating.
Interment was made in East Prairie,
Mo.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 25 Apr 1941:
Miles Hoffner
Miles
Hoffner, 83-year-old resident of Perks, died at his home Saturday
morning, April 19.
He was a retired section foreman on
the C. & E. I. R. R.
He is survived by his wife, Mary; and
seven children:
Mrs. Margaret
Oliver of Toledo, Ohio, Mrs. Ollie
Wright of Centralia, Mrs. Mary
O’Neal of Marion, Mrs. Daisy
Langston of Evansville, Ind., Mrs. Della
Churchill of Dongola, John of Fornfelt,
Mo., and Mrs. Fannie
Howell of Alberta, Canada.
Funeral services were held at the
Pentecostal church in Perks Monday afternoon
at 2 o’clock with Rev. Monroe
Osborne of Cairo officiating.
Burial was in the Bridges Cemetery
near Perks with
Wilson Funeral Service in charge.
(H. D. M.
Hoffner married Mrs. Mary A.
Sutliff on 6 Apr 1884, in Johnson Co.,
Ill.
James H.
Sutliff married Mary A.
Turner on 22 Oct 1875, in Johnson Co.,
Ill.
The Social Security claim names the
parents of Henry Daniel Miles
Hoffner as Simeon J.
Hoffner and Margaret C.
Lyerly.
The death certificate states that
Henry Daniel Miles
Hoffner, retired railroad man, was born
26 Dec 1859, in Vienna, Johnson Co., Ill.,
the son of Simeon
Hoffner, a native of North Carolina, and
Margaret
Hoffner, died 19 Apr 1941, in Perks,
Pulaski Co., Ill., husband of Mary
Hoffner, and was buried
in Masonic Cemetery in Cypress, Johnson Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
F. E. Beggs
Frank E.
Beggs, age 60, passed away suddenly Friday morning, April 18, at his
home in Belknap.
He is survived by his wife, Olive;
five children, Ula
Burnham of Belknap, Alma
Neal
of Harrisburg, Eunice
Ledbetter of Harrisburg, and Wayne
Beggs
of Terre Haute, Ind.; also one sister,
Louise
Miller of Belknap.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church in Belknap Sunday afternoon
at 2 o’clock with Rev. W. L.
Cummins of Karnak officiating.
Interment was in the Masonic Cemetery
at Belknap.
Wilson Funeral Service was in charge of arrangements.
(George W.
Beggs married Ollie Dewase
on 28 Aug 1870, in Johnson Co., Ill.
His death certificate states that
Frank E.
Beggs,
barber, of Belknap, Cache Township, Johnson
Co., Ill., was born 5 Apr 1881, in Johnson
Co., Ill., the son of George E.
Beggs,
a native of Johnson Co., Ill., and Olive
Deweese, a native of Illinois, died 18
Apr 1941, in Belknap, Johnson Co., Ill.,
widower of Nellie
Adkins Beggs, and was buried in Masonic
Cemetery in Belknap, Ill.
His marker there reads:
Frank E.
Beggs
May 4, 1881 Apr. 18, 1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Sister of Mrs. Charles Guy Dies Saturday in
Ullin
Mrs. Ida Belle
Sichling died at her home in Ullin Saturday morning, April 19, at
7:15 o’clock.
She leaves her husband, Joseph
Sichling; four sons, Harry, Edward,
Lawrence and Ellis; two daughters, Mrs. Mary
Hoffmeier and Miss Edna
Sichling, both of Ullin; two sisters,
Mrs. Nora
Stull
of Ullin and Mrs. Julia
Guy
of this city; one brother, Wesley
Leadbetter of Ullin; also four
grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 2 o’clock in the Methodist
church of Ullin with burial in New Hope
Cemetery.
(Joseph
Sichling, 26, married Ida
Ledbetter, 19,
on 25 Dec 1892, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
William P.
Leadbetter married Aurelda
Diller on 18 Jan 1874, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
Her death certificate states that Ida
Bell
Sichling, housewife, of Ullin, Ill., was born 3 Nov 1874, in Ullin,
Ill., the daughter of Perry
Ledbetter and Armilda
Dillon, a native of Texas, died 19 Apr
1941, in Ullin, Pulaski Co., Ill., wife of
Joseph
Sichling, and was buried in New Hope
Cemetery in Pulaski Co., Ill.–Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Charles E. Koonce
Mrs. Linnie
Hooppaw Koonce, widow of the late Charles E.
Koonce died at her home west of town Friday evening, April 18,
following an illness of long duration.
Her age at death was 81 years and for
the last 34 years she had lived in and near
Mounds.
Her husband preceded her in death six
years ago.
While still active, this couple
conducted
Koonce Hotel on First Street for a
number of years and drew many people to
Mounds because of their excellent meals and
service.
Mrs.
Koonce leaves three daughters, Mrs.
Myrtle
Sheets of Route One, Mounds; Mrs. Nettie
Braswell of Carterville and Mrs. Hazel
Utley
of Omaha and McClure; one son, Edgar
Koonce, Mounds; two brothers, George
Hooppaw of Mound City and William
Hooppaw of Pulaski; 12 grandchildren and
eight great-grandchildren.
She had the untiring devotion of her
family during her illness.
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon
at 1:30 o’clock at the First Methodist
Church with Rev. J. Rue
Reid
in the pulpit.
Burial was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery with G. A.
James
Funeral Service in charge of arrangements.
Out-of-town persons, other than the
immediate relatives, who attended the
services were:
Mrs. Elizabeth
Utley,
Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Utley
and niece, Mrs. Amos
Edwards, Miss Murie
Armstrong, Mr. and Mrs. Warren
Meyer,
all of Omaha; Mrs. Ben
Davis
of Eldorado, Mr. and Mrs. George W.
Koonce and Mrs. Ralph
Koonce of Greenville, Mr. and Mrs.
Robert
Dowell, Mr. and Mrs. James
Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Talley, Mrs. J. W.
Hayton, Mrs. Jennie Phemister
and Mrs. Bess
Harris, all of Carterville.
(The death certificate of Malinda
Koonce states that she was born 6 Aug
1859, in Pulaski Co., Ill., the daughter of
Thomas
Hooppaw and Nillie Jones,
natives of Illinois, died 18 Apr 1941, in
Pulaski Co., Ill., widow of Charles E.
Koonce, and was buried in Thistlewood
Cemetery in Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Aged Colored Resident Dies Monday Morning
E. Henry (Son)
Gay, mail messenger for the Mounds Post Office for many years, died
at his home here at 12:10 a.m. Monday.
He had worked as usual the previous
Wednesday, but had been in failing health
for some time.
“Gay,”
as he was called, was a familiar character
on the streets, especially between the Post
Office and Illinois Central station.
He is survived by a niece, Mrs. Mamie
New
of Fulton, Ky., who reached his bedside
before his death.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at the A. M. E. church with the
Rev. Mr.
Taborn officiating.
(His death certificate state that Henry
Gay, common laborer, was born about 1870
in Gibson Co., Tenn., the son of Tom
Gay, a native of Livingston Co., Tenn., and Mary Ann
James,
a native of Gibson Co., Tenn., died 21 Apr
1941, in Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill., and was
buried in Lincoln Cemetery in Mounds,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our sincere thanks
and appreciation to all neighbors and
friends for their kindness during the
illness and following the death of our
beloved mother, Mrs. Linnie
Koonce.
The cards of sympathy, the beautiful
flowers, the offer of cars, the kindly words
and ministrations of all, especially the
minister and those who sang, will always be
gratefully remembered.
The Family
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 25 Apr 1941:
MRS. LINNIE KOONCE DIES
Mrs. Linnie
Koonce, age 81, passed away at her home west of Mounds Friday
evening at 6:40 o’clock after an illness of
many months.
She had resided in and near Mounds
for the past 34 years.
She was the wife of the late Charles
K.
Koonce, who preceded her in death six
years ago.
Surviving her are three daughters,
Mrs. Myrtle
Sheets of Mounds, Mrs. Nettie
Braswell of Carterville and Mrs. Hazel
Utley
of Omaha, Ill.; one son, Edgar
Koonce, of Mounds; two brothers, George
Hooppaw of Mound City and William
Hooppaw of Pulaski; 12 grandchildren and
eight great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church in Mounds Sunday afternoon
at 1:30 o’clock with Rev. J. Rue
Reid
officiating.
Burial was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery.
G. A.
James
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
MRS. IDA BELLE SICHLING
Mrs. Ida Belle
Sichling passed away at her home in Ullin Saturday morning at 7:15
o’clock.
She is survived by her husband,
Joseph
Sichling; four sons, Harry, Edward,
Lawrence, and Ellis; two daughters, Mrs.
Mary
Hoffmier and Miss Edna
Sichling all of Ullin; two sisters, Mrs.
Nora
Stull of Ullin and Mrs. Julia
Guy
of Mounds; one brother, Wesley
Ledbetter of Ullin; and four
grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church in Ullin Sunday afternoon
at 2 o’clock.
Interment was made in New Hope
Cemetery.
MRS. AMANDA J. LENTZ
Mrs. Amanda J.
Lentz, age 73, passed away at her home on a farm near Dongola
Wednesday, April 16, after an illness of
five weeks.
She is survived by four children, Cal
and Albert and Mrs. Birdie
Dillow and Mrs. Effie
Halterman; two brothers, Levi and
Sherman
Sivie;
one sister, Mrs. Sam
Burns;
six grandchildren and four
great-grandchildren, all of Dongola.
Funeral services were held at
Christian Chapel at 2 o’clock with Rev. W.
F. Mathis officiating.
Burial was made in Christian Chapel
Cemetery.
(Her death certificate states that
Amanda Jane
Lentz,
of Township 13 south, range 1 east, was born
16 Oct 1867, in Dongola, Ill., the daughter
of John
Sivia
and Susan
Verble, natives of Illinois, died 16 Apr
1941, in Union Co., Ill., the widow of Sandy
Lentz, and was buried in Christian Chapel Cemetery in Union Co.,
Ill.
Her marker there reads:
Amanda
Lentz
Oct. 16, 1878 Apr. 16, 1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
MILES HOFFNER DIES
Miles
Hoffner, 83 year old resident of Perks, passed away at his home
Saturday morning.
He is survived by his wife, Mary; and
seven children, Mrs. Margaret
Oliver of Toledo, Ohio, Mrs. Ollie
Wright of Centralia, Mrs. Mary
O’Neal of Marion, Mrs. Daisy
Langston of Evansville, Ind., Mrs. Della
Churchill of Dongola, John of
Fornfelt, Mo., and Mrs. Fannie
Howell of Alberta, Canada.
Funeral services were held at the
Pentecostal church in Perks Monday afternoon
at 2 o’clock with Rev. Monroe
Osborne of Cairo officiating.
Burial was made in the Bridges
Cemetery near Perks.
Wilson Funeral service was in charge of arrangements.
FORMER RESIDENT OF MOUNDS DIES
Mr. and Mrs. August
Crosson of Mounds have received a
message telling them of the death of Mrs.
Tom Guthrie of Blythe, Calif.
Mr. and Mrs.
Guthrie resided in Mounds a number of
years ago and will be remembered by many.
Mrs. Joe
Sichling of Ullin was buried Sunday
afternoon. (Beech Grove)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 2 May 1941:
One Killed, Six Injured When Cairo Building
Falls
A woman was killed and six others
were seriously hurt in Cairo at noon
Saturday when an old two-story brick
building at 515 Commercial Avenue, Cairo,
collapsed without warning.
Mrs. Olar
Reed, who, with her husband had only recently moved to Cairo from
Goreville, lived upstairs in the building
and was found dead in the debris after the
collapse.
The injured, taken from the wreck to
the hospital, were Mr.
Reed,
Mr. and Mrs.
Grimm,
who were visiting the
Reeds,
Mrs. O. S.
Braden, Joan
Braden, her seven-year-old daughter and Mrs. L.
Ramage, who was operating a laundry in
the downstairs portion of the building,
having recently purchased it from Mrs.
Braden.
Other occupants were either out of
the building or had what seemed miraculous
escapes.
The building was built before the
Civil War and during the war was used as the
post office.
This was during the time that General
U. S.
Grant and many Union troops were located
in Cairo.
(The death certificate of Ola
Reed,
of Cairo, Ill.,
states that she was born 18 Jul 1903, in
Goreville, Ill., daughter of Monroe
Kato,
a native of Goreville, Ill., and Minnie
Harris, a native of Pleasant Ridge,
Ill., died 26 Apr 1941, in Cairo, Alexander
Co., Ill., wife of George E.
Reed,
and was buried in Goreville, Ill.
Her marker in Cana Cemetery in
Goreville, Johnson Co., Ill., has a photo of
Ola and reads:
Ola
Cato Reed July 18, 1903 Apr. 26, 1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 2 May 1941:
CYPRESS GIRL DIES WHEN RUN OVER BY TRAIN
Mound City residents might have
wondered about the car which sped through
the town on Route 37 about 5 o’clock
Saturday afternoon.
It was an automobile in which Louida
Mouler, age 8, of Cypress, was being
taken to the Cairo hospital after being run
over by a train as she attempted to cross in
front of the moving locomotive.
She and three young companions had
been to the store and were returning to
their homes, having to cross the tracks.
Louida’s friends made it across the
tracks.
The engine’s bell was rung and the
whistle sounded, but Louida ran in front of
the train.
Both of her legs were cut off.
Verdict of accidental death was
returned.
She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Curtis
Moulder of Cypress.
(Her death certificate states that
Louida Elaine
Moulder, school girl, of Cypress, Ill.,
was born 1 Oct 1932, in Scotland, Ark., the
daughter of Curtis
Moulder and Ora Lee
Montgomery, natives of Scotland, Ark.,
died 27 Apr 1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co.,
Ill., and was buried at Cypress, Ill.
Her marker in Garden of Memories
Cemetery in Sikeston, Scott Co., Mo., reads:
Louida Elaine
Moulder Oct. 1, 1932 Apr. 27,
1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
ONE DIES; 6 RECOVERING AFTER BUILDING CRASH
Mrs. George
Reed, age 37, died as a result of injuries received when an old
two-story building at 515 Commercial Ave.,
in Cairo collapsed and crashed to the ground
about noon Saturday, and six persons injured
in the crash are recovering.
Mrs. Harold
Ramage, operator of a laundry in the building, is in the Cairo
hospital seriously injured.
Mr. and Mrs.
Grimm
were hurt by falling debris and Mrs.
Grimm
remains at the hospital for treatment.
Mr.
Grimm was released after receiving treatment, as was George
Reed,
husband of the woman who died.
Mrs. O. S.
Braden, formerly operator of the laundry known as Braden’s Laundry,
and her daughter, Joan, are also recovering.
Witnesses to the collapse state there
were no explosions before the building
buckled and that it fell in at the sides and
out toward the front.
All but Mrs.
Ramage were on the second floor of the building, eating lunch when
the structure fell.
Mrs.
Ramage was on the ground floor.
Fire started near Mrs.
Braden and her daughter, but firemen
were able to push a hose through a small
opening so Mrs.
Braden could direct a stream of water on the fire.
Mrs.
Braden, who was also near Mrs.
Reed,
said she talked in agony a few minutes, then
prayed and became silent.
She died on the way to the hospital.
Age has been advanced as cause for
the building collapse. The building was one
of the oldest in Cairo, having been used for
a post office during the Civil War.
Construction materials of that day
were decidedly inferior to those of today,
it was pointed out in advancing reasons for
the accident, and soft brick and loose
mortar in the walls weakened.
A Caterpillar tractor was used to
pull sections of the flooring from the pile
of debris so volunteer workers could search
for the injured.
Large crowds gathered while the men
were working, police and highway patrolmen
being kept busy pushing the crowd back.
Rumors of the shifting sands,
underground rivers, etc., were spreading
Saturday.
City officials could find no basis
for the truth of these rumors, age being
generally accepted as the real reason for
the building’s collapse.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 9 May 1941:
Mrs. James Meehan
Mrs. Mollie
Meehan, widow of the late James
Meehan, passed away suddenly Friday night, May 2, at the Loretta
Hospital in Chicago.
Mrs.
Meehan was born in Villa Ridge and had spent most of her life in
Cairo until moving to Chicago with her
family in 1916.
She is survived by three sons,
Clarence of Cleveland, Ohio, John and Robert
of Chicago; one daughter, Miss Inez
Meehan of Chicago; a sister, Mrs. G. P.
Crabtree of Cairo; and five
grandchildren.
Two nieces, Misses Ruth and Marine
Crabtree of Cairo; and a nephew, Dr. Joe
Crabtree of Villa Park, also survive
her.
Burial was made in Chicago.
(Her death certificate states that
Mollie
Meehan, of Chicago, Ill., was born 23
May 1869, in Villa Ridge, Ill., the daughter
of Timothy
Coyle
and Miss
Kelly, died 2 May 1941, in Chicago, Cook Co., Ill., widow of James
Meehan, and was buried in Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Proviso, Cook Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Thomas Stalcup
Word was received by friends in
Mounds Saturday morning of the death of Tom
Stalcup at his home in Grantsburg, Friday.
Mr.
Stalcup, a former resident of Mounds and brother of B. A.
Stalcup of Centralia, had been ill for
some time.
Funeral services were held at
Grantsburg Sunday afternoon.
(Thomas A.
Stalcup married Mary F. Keith
on 29 Dec 1889, in Johnson Co., Ill.
His 1918 draft registration states
Thomas William
Stalcup was a farmer at Grantsburg and his nearest relative was
Mable
Stalcup. His death certificate
states that Thomas William
Stalcup, farmer, was born 26 Feb 1898,
in Wynona Co., Miss., the son of Thomas A.
Stalcup and Mary I.
Keith,
natives of Johnson Co., Ill.,
died 2 May 1941, in Grantsburg,
Johnson Co., Ill., and was buried in
Wartrace Cemetery in Johnson Co., Ill.
His marker there reads:
Thomas W.
Stalcup 1898-1941 Mabel S.
Stalcup 1896-1974.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. J. B. Huckleberry
Mrs. Jessie Hunley
Huckleberry, age 71, passed away
Saturday morning at 2:50 o’clock at her home
in Mound City following a protracted
illness.
Mrs.
Huckleberry was born in Mound City in
the home in which she died and had spent her
entire life there.
She was the youngest daughter of
Captain William
Hamilton, who built and operated the
Marine Ways in Mound City during the Civil
War.
Besides her husband, Ira B.
Huckleberry, she is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Mary
Batson and Mrs. Geraldine
Batson of Tamaroa; one son, J. B.
Huckleberry of Mound City; a brother,
Alfred S.
Hamilton of Caruthersville, Mo.; one
niece, Miss Josephine L.
Barry of Memphis; and seven grandchildren.
Services were held at the First
Methodist Church in Mound City of which she
was a member, Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
Rev. Charles
Montgomery, pastor, officiated.
Interment was made in Beech Grove
Cemetery, with G. A.
James
Funeral Service in charge of arrangements.
(Ira
Huckelberry, 30, of Mound City, Pulaski Co., Ill.,
married Jessie
Hambleton, 24, of Mound City, Ill., on 30 Dec 1897, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Jessie Hunley
Huckleberry was born 31 Mar 1870, in
Mound City, Pulaski Co., Ill., the daughter
of William
Hambleton, a native of Maryland, and
Sarah E.
Kain,
a native of Ohio,
died 3 May 1941, in Mound City, Ill.,
and was buried at Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Pioneer Resident Dies Suddenly Monday
Morning
Alex
Deeslie, one of the first residents of what is now known as Mounds,
died very suddenly Monday morning, May 5, at
7 o’clock while working in the back yard of
his home place on South Reader Avenue, with
his son-in-law, Homer
McKenzie.
His age was 73 years.
Born in Harrison County, Ohio, near
Dennison, Mr.
Deeslie, when 13 years old, began
working for a railroad company in Ohio.
On December 22, 1887, he was married
to his childhood sweetheart, Miss Lorena
Auld
of Dennison, Ohio.
On June 25, 1891, he arrived here to
serve as boiler maker for the Illinois
Central Railroad, continuing in the
employment of this same company until his
retirement from service.
Mrs.
Deeslie joined him a month or more later
and they built one of the first temporary
houses in the place, located back of the
roundhouse. Through
all these years this couple lived in this
community.
On Dec. 22, 1937, Mr. and Mrs.
Deeslie celebrated their 50th
wedding anniversary.
Mrs.
Deeslie passed away August 27, 1940,
following a fall down the steps at her home.
Since that time their daughter, Mrs.
May Sweaney, has made her home with her father, who at his retirement
and for many years previous was an I. C.
engineer.
Surviving are five daughters, Mrs.
May
Sweaney, Mrs. Edna
McKenzie and Mrs. Wilda
McKenzie of Michigan City, Miss., Mrs.
Florence
Doughty of Webster Groves, Mo., and Mrs.
Helen
Hunt of Mound City; also ten
grandchildren and other relatives.
All five of his daughters were here
to attend his funeral.
Funeral services were held at 2
o’clock Wednesday afternoon at the
Congregational church, Rev. S. C.
Benninger officiating.
Masonic rites were conducted at the
graveside in Spencer Heights Cemetery by
Trinity Lodge No. 562, A. F. & A. M., of
which he was a member.
Ryan
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
(His Social Security application
states Alexander
Deeslie was born in Pittsburg, Alleghany
Co., Pa.
His death certificate states that
Alexander Samuel
Deeslie, retired Illinois Central
locomotive engineer, was born 19 Oct 1867,
in Alleghany Co., Pa., the son of Samuel
Deeslie, a native of Bhern, Switzerland,
and Barbra
Baker,
a native of Pennsylvania, died 5 May 1941,
in Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill., and was buried
at Mounds, Ill.
His marker in Spencer Heights
Memorial Cemetery in Mounds reads:
Father Alex
Deeslie 1867-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
Sweaney of St. Louis attended the
funeral services for Alex
Deeslie Wednesday at the Congregational
church.
Rev. and Mrs. J. Rue
Reid,
Mrs. William
Earle,
Mrs. Ray
Scott and Mrs. Frank Bour
were in Grantsburg Sunday afternoon in
attendance at the funeral of Tom
Stalcup.
Mrs. Jack
Hofer,
Miss Florence Irene
Calvert and James Howard
McKenzie of St. Louis, were here
Wednesday to attend the funeral of their
grandfather, Alex
Deeslie.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 9 May 1941:
DETAILS IN DEATH OF GIRL NEAR KARNAK
Miss Agnes
Daly, employee of the Massac County Relief Administration, was
fatally injured in an automobile accident at
the crest of a hill between Boaz and
Hillerman in Massac County, just east of
Karnak, last Wednesday, April 30.
Just as Miss
Daly drove over the rise, she met another car driven by Wayne
Doudy,
24, of Goreville, driver and piano player
for the
Wilson Funeral Home.
A head-on collision resulted.
Two other occupants of Miss
Daly’s
car, Mrs. O. E.
Davis
and granddaughter, Frances Dianne
Hogue,
were slightly injured.
Doudy was alone. He was
taken to a hospital where he received
treatment for minor injuries.
The other injured persons were taken
to Metropolis for treatment.
(The original Social Security
application gives her name as Agnes Estella
Daly, born 31 Jan 1892, in Metropolis, Ill. Her death certificate
states that Agnes E.
Daly,
divorced, social welfare relief
investigator, was born 30 Jan 1891, in
Metropolis, Ill., the daughter of Sam W.
Daly,
a native of Hamilton Co., Ind., and Mary
Ellen
Kennedy, a native of Massac Co., Ill., died 30 Apr 1941, in Road
District 5, Massac Co., Ill., and was buried
in Road District 6, Massac Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Among those from out-of-town who
attended the funeral of Mrs. Jessie
Huckleberry Sunday, May 4, were Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest
Eaton
and daughter of Carbondale, Ill.; Miss
Mildred
Batson and Mr. and Mrs. Dave
Church all of Anna; Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
Farril of Mounds; Mr. and Mrs. Theo
Endicott and family, also of Mounds;
Mrs. Dora
Armstrong and Miss Laverne
Armstrong of Carterville, Mrs. Birdie
Dougherty of Metropolis; Mrs. Ida
McCartney of Metropolis, Mrs. Josephine
Barry
of Memphis, Mrs. J. R.
Battson of Pinckneyville, Miss Nora
Marie
Hall of Carterville, Mrs. George
Cowles, Sr., and Mrs. Charles
Cowells of Mounds.
FORMER RESIDENT OF MOUND CITY DIES
Mrs. Jessie
Hunley Huckleberry, age 71, passed away Saturday morning at 2:50
o’clock at her home in this city following
an illness of several months.
Mrs.
Huckleberry was born in Mound City in
the home in which she died and had spent her
entire life in this city.
She was the youngest daughter of
Captain William
Hamilton, who built and operated the
Marine Ways in Mound City during the Civil
War.
Besides her husband, Ira B.
Huckleberry; she is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Mary
Batson and Mrs. Geraldine
Batson of Tamaroa; one son, J. B.
Huckleberry of Mound City; a brother,
Alfred S.
Hamilton of Caruthersville, Mo.; one
niece, Miss Josephine L.
Barry of Memphis; and seven grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the
First Methodist Church in Mound City Sunday
afternoon at 3 o’clock.
Rev. Charles
Montgomery, pastor, officiated.
Interment was made in Beech Grove
Cemetery.
G. A.
James
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
ALEX DEESLIE DIED MONDAY
Alex
Deeslie, age 73, passed away very suddenly Monday morning at 7
o’clock while working in the tool shed in
his back yard with his son-in-law, Homer
McKenzie.
Mr.
Deeslie, a retired Illinois Central engineer, had made his home in
Mounds since 1891.
He was well known and had many
friends in this vicinity.
His wife preceded him in death nine
months ago following a fall on their back
porch.
He is survived by five daughters,
Mrs. May
Sweaney, who made her home with her
father, Mrs. Homer
McKenzie and J. B.
McKenzie of Michigan City, Miss., Mrs.
H. W.
Doughty of Webster Groves, Mo., and Mrs.
M. C.
Hunt of Mound City.
Ten grandchildren and many other
relatives also survive him.
He was a member of Trinity Lodge A.
F. & A. M. of Mound City.
Funeral services were held at the
First Congregational Church at Mounds
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev.
S. C.
Benninger officiating.
Masonic rites were conducted at the
grave in Spencer Heights Cemetery by Trinity
Lodge A. F. & A. M.
DONGOLA RESIDENT DIES
John W.
Walker, age 81, passed away at his home in Dongola Sunday afternoon.
Mr.
Walker was one of Dongola’s oldest
business men, having been in the stove
repair business for 50 years.
He had been in failing health for the
past several months.
He is survived by two daughters, Mrs.
Elmer J.
Ford
and Mrs. Leo
Eddleman of Dongola; two sons, Daniel T.
and Russell T. of Chicago; one sister,
Margaret
Ballowe of Thopton, Calif.; 13 grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the
residence Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock
with Rev. H. G.
Peterson officiating.
Burial was made in the Dongola I. O. O. F.
Cemetery.
(His death certificate states that
John Wesley
Walker, tinner, of Dongola, Ill.,
was born 19 Mar 1860, in Johnson Co.,
Ill., the son of James C.
Walker, a native of Goreville, Ill., and
Mary E.
Simpson, a native of Illinois, died 4
May 1941, in Dongola, Union Co., Ill., the
wife of Frances
Walker, and was buried in Dongola I. O. O. F. Cemetery.
His marker there reads:
John W.
Walker Mar. 19, 1860 May 4, 1941
Margaret E.
Walker Sep. 1, 1878 May 3, 1934.—Darrel
Dexter)
NEGRO KILLED IN ACCIDENT NEAR WETAUG
Charles Edward
Madison, St. Louis Negro, was fatally injured early Monday morning
when the car he was driving plunged off the
road near Wetaug.
He was taken to the Cairo hospital
where he died.
Several companions of
Madison’s were injured in the accident,
cause of which was believed to be
Madison’s falling asleep.
A coroner’s jury returned a verdict
to that effect.
Four other occupants of the car
received only slight injuries.
Madison was unconscious when found
several feet from the car.
(According to his death certificate,
Charles Edward Eugene
Madison, common laborer, was born 14 Feb
1918, in Mounds, Ill., the son of Mitchel
Madison, a native of Mounds, Ill., and
Julia
Buren, died 5 May 1941, in Cairo,
Alexander Co., Ill., husband of Bell
Madison, and was buried in Washington Cemetery in St. Louis,
Mo.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 16 May 1941:
Mrs. James Mahoney Dies Following Six Weeks
Illness
Mrs. Cicely
Sexton Mahoney died Thursday afternoon, May 8, at 4:30 o’clock at
her home in Valley Recluse following an
illness of six weeks during which time her
family had tenderly nursed her with the hope
that she might rally.
Cicely
Secton was born May 23, 1863, in Valley Recluse community only one
mile from the home in which she died.
Had she lived until May 23 of this
year, her age would have been 78.
In 1890 she was married to James
Mahoney, member of a pioneer family, his
father, T. C.
Mahoney having come by flatboat down the
Ohio from Cincinnati with a group of
artisans brought by the Emporium Company to
Mound City in 1857.
Her husband passed away September 6,
1938.
Surviving are three sons, Ray and
Dewey of this city and William, who with his
wife, lived on the old home place in Valley
Recluse with his mother.
She also leaves three grandchildren,
Marianne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey
Mahoney; Daisy Ray and James Wilson,
children of Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Mahoney.
(James
Mahoney married Cicely Sexton
on 10 Jul 1890, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Patrick
Sexton married Mary Ann
Alleman on 28 Nov 1862, Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
The death certificate of Cecily
Mahoney states she was born 23 May 1863,
in Mounds, Ill., the daughter of Pat
Sexton, a native of Ireland, and Mary
Allen, a native of Switzerland,
died
8 May 1941, in Road District 6, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., widow of James
Mahoney, and was buried in Thistlewood
Cemetery at Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
John Patrick
John
Patrick died at the home of his brother, Moses, in Grand Chain
Sunday evening, May 11, at 5 o’clock at the
age of 78.
He is survived by his brother, also
several nephews and nieces.
Funeral services were held at Cache
Chapel Church near Ullin Tuesday afternoon
at 2 o’clock, Rev. Hal
Corzine officiating.
Interment was made in Cache Chapel
Cemetery,
Wilson Funeral Service in charge.
(According to the death certificate
of John
Patrick, farmer, of New Grand Chain,
Pulaski Co., Ill., he was born 22 Jan 1863,
in Grundy Co., Tenn., the son of B. L.
Patrick, a native of Grundy Co., Tenn.,
and Rebecca
Croft,
died 11 May 1941, in Grand Chain, Pulaski
Co., Ill., and was buried in Road District
3, Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Homer
McKenzie and family and Mrs. J. R.
McKenzie and family of Michigan City,
Miss., Mrs. H. W.
Doughty and daughter Joan of Webster
Groves, Mo., have returned to their homes
having been called here by the sudden death
of their father, Alex
Deeslie.
Robert Fisher
Robert
Fisher, age 64, died at his home in Karnak, Monday morning, May 12,
at 6 o’clock.
Mr.
Fisher had been in failing health for the past year.
He is survived by his wife, Retta;
three sons, Omer and Buell of Karnak and
Herschell of Mound City.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church at Belknap Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock, with Rev. W. L.
Cummins of Karnak officiating.
Burial was in the Masonic Cemetery at
Belknap, with
Wilson Funeral Service in charge of
arrangements.
(According to the death certificate,
Robert A.
Fisher, farmer, of Karnak, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., was born 28 Feb 1877, in Belknap,
Ill., the son of Thomas
Fisher, a native of Illinois, died 12
May 1941, in Karnak, Pulaski Co., Ill.,
husband of Retta
Fisher, and was buried in Belknap
Masonic Cemetery in Johnson Co., Ill.
His marker there reads:
Retta
Fisher 1877-1965 Robert
Fisher 1877-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Card of Thanks
We wish to extend our heartfelt
thanks and appreciation for the acts of
kindness, messages of sympathy and the
beautiful floral offerings received from our
many friends during our recent sad
bereavement in the loss of our beloved
father, Alex
Deeslie.
The Family
Card of Thanks
We wish to extend our heartfelt
thanks and appreciation for the acts of
kindness, messages of sympathy and beautiful
floral offerings received from our many
friends during our recent bereavement in the
loss of our beloved mother, Cicely
Mahoney.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Mahoney
Mr. and Mrs. William
Mahoney
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey
Mahoney
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 16 May 1941:
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend our heartfelt
thanks and appreciation for the acts of
kindness, messages of sympathy and beautiful
floral offerings received from our many
friends during our recent sad bereavement in
the loss of our beloved father, Alex
Deesle.
The Family
PROMINENT RESIDENT OF PULASKI COUNTY DIES
Miss Cicely
Mahoney, widow of the late James
Mahoney, a prominent resident of Pulaski County, died at her home in
Valley Recluse Thursday afternoon, May 8, at
4:30 o’clock, following an illness of six
weeks.
She is survived by three sons, Ray,
William and Dewey
Mahoney, all of Mounds; three
grandchildren, Marianne, Daisey Ray and
James Wilson
Mahoney; and three nieces.
Funeral services were held at the
residence Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock
with Rev. S. C.
Benninger officiating.
Interment was in Thistlewood
Cemetery.
GRAND CHAIN RESIDENT DIES
John
Patrick, known to many as “Uncle John,” died at the home of his
brother, Moses, in Grand Chain Sunday
evening at 5 o’clock at the age of 78.
Besides his brother, he is survived
by several nephews and nieces.
Funeral services were held at the
Cache Chapel Church near Ullin Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Rev. Hal
Corzine officiated.
Burial was made in Cache Chapel
Cemetery.
DEATH CLAIMS ROBERT FISHER
Robert
Fisher, age 64, died at his home in Karnak Monday morning at 6
o’clock.
Mr.
Fisher had been in failing health for the past year.
He is survived by his wife, Retta;
three sons, Omer and Buell and Karnak and
Herschell of Mound City.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church at Belknap Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev. W. L.
Cummins of Karnak officiating. Burial
was made in the Masonic Cemetery at Belknap.
FORMER RESIDENT OF MOUND CITY DIES
Mrs. Maude
Wimpey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Littlejohn, was born at America, Ill., Sept. 2, 1904, and died at
St. Mary’s Hospital, Centralia, Ill., May 3,
1941, at the age of 36 years and 6 months.
At the age of ten, with her mother,
they moved to Mound City, Ill., where she
completed her school work, graduating from
high school in 1923.
On December 28, 1925, she was united
in marriage to Leo
Watkins of Chicago, Ill.
To this union one daughter, Vivian
Elaine, was born.
In 1930 she was married to Mr. Edward
Wimpey; two daughters, Mavis Jean and
Shirley Nan were born.
In 1933 they moved to Centralia,
Ill., from Bluford, Ill., making their home
with her mother.
In 1938 Mrs.
Wimpey united with the First Methodist Church of Centralia.
Mr.
Wimpey preceded her in death.
Besides the above named, she leaves
one sister, Mrs. Nan
Durning of Detroit, Mich.; one brother,
Edwin
Littlejohn, of St. Louis; one aunt, Mrs.
A. C.
Beens of East St. Louis; two uncles,
Edwin S.
Snyder of Centralia, Ill., and Sam
Littlejohn of Jonesboro, Ill.
(The death certificate of Maude
Elaine
Wimpey states she was born 3 Sep 1904,
in America, Ill., the daughter of Frank
Littlejohn, a native of Ullin, Ill., and Flossie
Snyder, a native of America, Ill. died 2
May 1941, in Centralia, Marion Co., Ill.,
and was buried at Centralia, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 23 May 1941:
Cairo’s Oldest Native Citizen Dies Saturday
Funeral services were held at 2
o’clock Monday afternoon for Charles Filmore
Arter, 86, of Cairo, who died suddenly Saturday afternoon at 2:20
o’clock at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
William J.
Dean, 213 Third Street, with who he had lived for the past 13 years.
Although he had been in failing
health due to the infirmities of age and had
been blind for 11 years, he had been up and
about the house Saturday morning and his
death was unexpected.
He did not let his blindness handicap
him and had shaved himself Friday.
He was preparing to shave again
Saturday, but complained that he did not
feel very well and retired only a short time
before he died.
No one disputed Mr.
Arter’s
claim that he was the oldest native
Cairoite.
He was born in a house owned by his
parents just below the old St. Charles
Hotel, now the Halliday, on November 11,
1854.
His father was Charles Daniel
Arter
and his mother was the former Eliza M.
Harrell, who came to Cairo in 1844 at
the age of 10.
He was married 63 years ago to Miss
Nellie
Powers, who died in 1919.
They were the parents of 12 children,
only four of who now survive.
In his younger days, Mr.
Arter
spent a number of years as clown with the
big circuses.
He was always devising ways to
entertain children and liked to have them
gather around to listen to his stories.
He had a remarkable memory for names
and facts and knew everyone and everything
about the Cairo of a half century or more
ago.
In his later years, he recognized the
friends who came to call upon him by their
footsteps.
Surviving Mr.
Arter are his four children, B. H.
Arter and Everette Arter
of Chicago, Mrs. Dose
Kenton of Trenton, Tenn., and Mrs. Abbie
Dean,
with whom he made his home.
(The death certificate states that
Charles Fillmore
Arter,
retired nurse, of 213 3rd St.,
Cairo, Ill., was born 11 Nov 1854, in Cairo,
Ill., the son of Charles D.
Arter
and Eliza
Harrell, a native of Cleves, Ohio, died
17 May 1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill.,
widower of Nellie
Arter,
and was buried at Villa Ridge, Pulaski Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Former Representative Dies Last Week
Wallace Albert
Bandy died at his home in Marion, May 14, from a lingering illness.
He had recently been in Barnes Hospital in
St. Louis and was operated on for colitis.
Mr.
Bandy was born July 19, 1880, in Sandy Hook, Ky., to William and
Sarah
Hunter Bandy.
He was a Spanish-American War veteran
and a member of the U. F. & W.
Mr.
Bandy
had followed the occupation of miner, real
estate broker, salesman, and was at one time
a member of the Illinois General Assembly.
He was a member of the Methodist
Church.
(W. A.
Bandy, born about 1880 in Elliott, Ky., married on 11 Sep 1904, in
Barboursville, Cabell Co., W. Va., Dora B.
Johnson, born about 1883 in Kentucky.
The 1918 draft registration of
Wallace Albert
Bandy
states he resided at 105 N. Lear, Marion,
Ill., and was a traveling salesman for
American Mine Door Co., in Canton, Ohio.
His wife was Dora Belle
Bandy.
The
application for a military headstone states that Wallace A.
Bandy enlisted on 21 Jul 1898, as a
private in Co. H, 4th Kentucky
Infantry, and was honorably discharged on 12
Feb 1899.
According to his death certificate,
Wallace Albert
Bandy,
real estate dealer, was born 19 Jul 1880, in
Sandy Hook, Ky., the son of William
Bandy
and Sarah
Hunter, a native of Ohio, died 14 May
1941, in Marion, Williamson Co., Ill.,
husband of Dora
Bandy, and was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery in West Marion
Township, Williamson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 23 May 1941:
FORMER LEVEE FOREMAN HERE KILLED AT
BROOKPORT JOB
Cecil
Cusic of Harrisburg, foreman on one phase of the Mounds-Mound City
levee job, was killed Monday night while
working on the Brookport levee.
Cusic was driving a tractor towing one of the huge trailers loaded
with dirt when the tractor overturned on the
steep grade, pinning the driver beneath it.
Cusic died in the Metropolis hospital an hour later.
The machine which
Cusic
was driving is similar to those being used
on the job south of Mound City,
They rarely overturn because of their
tremendous low-slung weight, but
Cusic
had driven the machine about middle way up
the steep incline and had started driving
along the levee at an angle.
(Edward M.
Cusic married Anna Storey
on 24 Dec 1893, in White Co., Ill.
His death certificate states that
Cecil William
Cusic, Euclid Construction operator, of Harrisburg, Ill.,
was born 6 Jun 1905, in Illinois, the
son of Edward
Cusic
and Anna
Story,
natives of Illinois, died 19 May 1941, in
Metropolis, Massac Co., Ill., and was buried
in Hamilton Co., Ill.
His marker in Concord Cemetery in
McLeansboro, Hamilton Co., Ill., reads:
Cecil Wm.
Cusic
June 6, 1905 May 19, 1941 Ruth H.
Cusic
Dec. 12, 1905 Oct. 7, 1987.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Lair
of Metropolis attended the funeral Sunday of
Mrs. Adelia
Hayden.
DEATH CLAIMS MRS. ADELIA HAYDEN
Mrs. Adella B.
Hayden, age 76, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mable
Logan,
in Mound City Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock
following an illness of several weeks.
Mrs.
Hayden had been a resident of Mound City
for the past 16 years.
She is survived by three daughters,
Miss Elizabeth
Hayden of Beverly Hills, Calif., Miss
Dorothy
Hayden of St. Louis, and Mrs.
Logan
of Mound City; three sons, Ernest of Visida,
Calif., Fred of Hamburg, Ark., and Barney of
Dewitt, Ark.; one brother, Sam
Brown
of Greenville, Miss.; one sister, Tissue
Lovejoy of San Antonio, Texas; eight
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the
Pentecostal church in Mound City Sunday
afternoon at 2 o’clock with Mrs. E. L.
Mavis
officiating.
Burial was in Mounds cemetery.
(According to the death certificate
of Adella B.
Hayden, widow, of Mound City, Ill., she
was born 8 May 1865, in Brookport, Ill.,
died 16 May 1941, in Mound City, Pulaski
Co., Ill., and was buried in Mounds,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
FORMER RESIDENT OF PULASKI COUNTY DIES
Word has been received by Mrs. Lavina
Crippen of Ullin of the death of her
mother, Mrs. Annie
Cooper, a former resident of Pulaski
County.
Mrs.
Cooper, who celebrated her 90th birthday on the second of
his month, had been bedfast for a number of
months and passed away May 14, at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Martha
Spooner in Alton, Ill.
Mrs.
Cooper was reared in Pulaski County where she spent her entire life
until 16 years ago when she went to Alton to
make her home with her daughter, Mrs.
Spooner.
She leaves three other daughters
besides Mrs.
Spooner, being Mrs. Lavina
Crippen of Ullin, Mrs. Birdie
Miller of Wetaug and Mrs. Essie
Ragsdale of Effingham; and a nephew, Sam
Thompson, of Ullin.
Funeral services were held in Wetaug
Friday with Rev.
Crim
of Effingham officiating.
Burial was made in the Wetaug
cemetery.
(James M.
Cooper married Mrs. Annie L.
Daniels on 11 Jul 1872, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
John R.
Daniels married Anna E.
Chapman on 16 May 1869, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
She lived at 538 Lawton St., Alton,
Ill., on 1 May 1927, when she applied for a
military headstone for her husband, James
Monroe
Cooper, who was a corporal in Co. I, 81st
Illinois Infantry during the Civil War and
died 26 Sep 1924.
The death certificate of Annie E.
Cooper states he was born 2 May 1851, in
Pulaski Co., Ill., the daughter of George W.
Chapman and Lethie
Little, natives of Portland, Maine, died 14 May 1941, in Alton,
Madison Co., Ill., and was buried in Wetaug,
Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker in Sowers Cemetery at
Wetaug, Pulaski Co., Ill., reads:
Annie Eliza
Cooper May 2, 1851 May 14, 1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 30 May 1941:
George E. Park Dies Suddenly Tuesday Night
Funeral services were held here
Thursday afternoon at 2:30 at the Methodist
church for George E.
Park,
age 28, of Chicago, who died suddenly of
heart trouble Tuesday night in a hospital in
that city.
He was a son of Mrs. Millie
Park
and the late E. W.
Park,
who made their home in Spencer Heights for
many years.
Following the death of Mr.
Park
seven years ago, the family moved to
Chicago.
Surviving are the mother, one sister,
Mrs. Mildred
Park
Vaughn of Fall River, Mass.; three
brothers, William, Edward and Jack and many
other relatives less near.
Rev. J. Rue
Reid,
pastor, officiated at the funeral.
Burial was in Spencer Heights
Cemetery with
James
Funeral Service in charge of arrangements.
(The death certificate of George
Park,
dry goods salesman, of Chicago, Ill.,
states he was born about 1911 in Flora,
Ill., the son of Edward
Park,
a native of Cairo, Ill., and Mildred
Chanse, a native of Bedford, Ireland,
died 27 May 1941, in Mound City, Pulaski
Co., Ill., husband of Ethel
Park,
and was buried in a local cemetery near
Mound City, Ill.
His marker in Spencer Heights
Memorial Cemetery at Mounds reads:
George E.
Park
1910-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Member of Pioneer Family Dies at Villa Ridge
Home
Mrs. Emma Louise
Welson died Friday morning, May 23, at
her home in Villa Ridge at the age of 83
years.
She had been an invalid for almost
six years from the effects of a fall.
She was the last member of one of the
oldest pioneer families of Villa Ridge
community.
The closest surviving relatives are
cousins.
Her brother, John
Welson and wife and her sister, Miss Flo
Welson, all of whom lived in the
Welson home, preceded her in death.
All were prominent in the life of the
community.
Miss
Welson was born May 3, 1853, in Mound City, the daughter of Robert
and Margaret
Bogel
Welson, who emigrated from Germany.
“Miss Emma,” as she was familiarly
called, was librarian of the first library
in Villa Ridge more than a half century ago.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 3 o’clock at the
James
Funeral Home in this city, with the Rev.
Mr.
Tucker of Thebes, former pastor of the
Villa Ridge community church, officiating,
assisted by Rev. H. A.
Bahr,
present pastor.
Burial was made in Villa Ridge
cemetery.
Casket bearers were Harry
Green,
G. W.
Aldrich, Louis Graves,
Fred
Whelan, E. L.
Crain
and W. E.
Rife.
(The death certificate of Emma
Louise Welson states she was born 3 May 1858, in Mound City, Ill.,
the daughter of George
Welson and Margaret Vogel,
natives of Germany,
died 23 May 1941, in Villa Ridge,
Pulaski Co., Ill., and was buried at Villa
Ridge.
Her marker in Cairo City Cemetery at
Villa Ridge reads:
Emma
Welson 1850-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Former Rep. Dies
Former Representative Claude V.
Parsons of Golconda, District 24, was
found dead Saturday morning, May 24, in his
hotel room in Washington, D.C.
His age was 45 years.
He was a bachelor and a Democrat.
Parsons served from 1930 to 1940, but after his defeat last year, he
was appointed first assistant administrator
to the U. S. Housing Authority.
In his earlier days he was
superintendent of schools in Pope County and
also published a weekly newspaper.
Burial was held in Golconda.
(The 1917 draft registration of
Claude Van Cleve
Parsons, student, states that he was
born 7 Oct 1895, in McCormick, Pope Co.,
Ill., and claimed physical exemption from
service because of a bursted bladder and a
pelvis bone out of socket.
He was buried in New Zion Cemetery in
McCormick, Pope Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 30 May 1941:
MISS EMMA WELSON DIES AT HER HOME IN VILLA
RIDGE
Miss Emma Louise
Welson, age 83, passed away at her home
in Villa Ridge Friday morning at 4:15
o’clock after a prolonged illness.
Miss
Welson was the last of the oldest
pioneer family of the Villa Ridge community.
The closest surviving relatives are
cousins.
A sister, Miss Flo, and a brother,
John F., preceded her in death several years
ago.
“Miss Emma,” as she was familiarly
known, had been an invalid for about six
years.
More than half a century ago she was
librarian of the first library in Villa
Ridge.
Her brother, John, and sister, Flo,
who preceded her in death, were both active
in the social and business life of the
vicinity.
Miss
Welson was born May 3, 1853, in Mound City to Robert and Margaret
Vogel
Welson, who were emigrants from Germany.
Mr. and Mrs.
Welson came to Pulaski County in the early days.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 6 Jun 1941:
Miss Effie Lansden
Funeral services for Miss Effie A.
Lansden, librarian of Safford Memorial
Library, Cairo, who passed from this life
Thursday, May 30, at St. Mary’s Hospital,
were held Saturday afternoon at the Cairo
Presbyterian church of which she was a
devoted member.
The Rev. J. W.
Fix,
pastor, and the Venerable S. L.
Hagan
of the Church of the Redeemer officiated.
Burial was in the family lot in Villa
Ridge cemetery, where her father, the late
Judge John M.
Lansden, and her mother, Effie W.
Lansden rest.
Surviving are three sisters, Mrs.
Robert
Peck
Bates of Chicago, Misses Emma L. and
Margaret
Lansden of Cairo; two brothers, John M.
Lansden of New York City and Attorney
David S.
Lansden of Cairo.
Miss
Lansden was born August 22, 1872, in the family home at 315 Fifth
Street, where she and her sisters, Emma and
Margaret, have lived all their lives.
Educated in the public schools of
Cairo, she took special courses in library
work at the Universities of Illinois and
Wisconsin.
In 1903 she entered the Cairo Public
Library as assistant to Mrs. L. L.
Powell and held this position until the
death of Mrs.
Powell in 1922—19 years.
In June 1922, she was made librarian and
held this position until her death—19 years.
Thus, she had served the public in
Cairo 38 years and had become “Miss Effie”
to all with whom she came in contact.
Highly gifted, always cheerful, ever
ready with an answer no matter what the
question, endowed with a sense of humor and
an unusual gift of repartee, there were no
dull moments in her presence.
Many honors came to her.
They have been chronicled in the
Cairo
Evening Citizen, her home town paper.
We wish to add our tribute to her as
a dear friend whom we shall miss and who, we
know, will be missed by countless others as
the days come and go.
(Her death certificate states that
Effie Allan
Lansden, librarian, of Cairo, Ill., was
born 22 Aug 1872, in Cairo, Ill., the
daughter of John M.
Lansden, a native of Sangamon Co., Ill.,
and Effie W.
Smith,
a native of Jacksonville, Ill., died 29 May
1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., and was
buried in Villa Ridge cemetery in Pulaski
Co., Ill.
Her marker in Cairo City Cemetery at
Villa Ridge reads:
Effie A.
Lansden 1872-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II Dies Monday at
Eighty-Two
Ex-Kaiser, Wilhelm II, of Imperial
Germany, died in exile Wednesday, June 4, in
Doorn, the Dutch village that had been his
dwelling place since 1918.
His age was 82.
He will be buried at Doorn Monday
with military rites and the attendance
limited to the family, representatives of
Hitler’s regime and of the old imperial
army and navy group.
His temporary resting place will be a
small chapel on the estate of which he
lived.
Mrs. Oliver Wallace
Adena Felemna
Wallace, age 73, passed away at her home on mile east of Pulaski
Thursday evening, May 29, at 5 o’clock.
She was the widow of the late Oliver
Wallace. Surviving are
two daughters, Carrie and Louise of Pulaski;
three sons, Joe and Antone of Pulaski and
William of Cairo; four grandsons; one
brother, Frank
Bour of Mounds; and two cousins, Joe
Lutz and Mrs. William Bestgen
of Mound City.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the First
Christian Church in Pulaski with Rev.
Charles A.
Day
officiating.
Mrs.
Wallace was a member of this church.
Interment was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery this city with the G. A.
James
Funeral Service in charge.
Casket bearers were Ernest
Palmer, Frank
Reeves, Arthur Reeves,
George
Gillispie, Arthur
Palmer and Hess
Smoot.
(According to her death certificate,
Adena Felemena
Wallace was born 4 Jul 1867, in Pulaski
Co., Ill., the daughter of Allouice
Bour
and Caroline
Moses, natives of Germany, died 29 May 1941, in Road District 2,
Pulaski Co., Ill., and was buried at Mounds,
Ill.
His marker in Spencer Heights
Cemetery reads:
Adena F.
Wallace 1867-1941 William Oliver
Wallace 1862-1938.—Darrel
Dexter)
Card of Thanks
We desire to thank all our friends
for the kindness and sympathy shown us in
our recent bereavement.
The
Park Family
Mrs. Millie
Park,
Mrs. Harry
Vaughn and daughter, Suzanna, who were
called here from Trenton, Mich., by the
sudden death of their son and brother,
George
Park,
who passed away in a Chicago hospital
Tuesday, May 27, left Tuesday of this week
for Chicago, home of Mrs.
Park.
Mrs.
Vaughn and daughter will return to
Michigan and proceed from there to their new
home in Fall River, Mass.
Out-of-town relatives who attended the
funeral of George
Park held at the Methodist church Thursday last were his mother,
Mrs. Millie
Park,
his brothers, William
Park
and Edward
Park
and wife and Jack
Park,
all of Chicago; his sister, Mrs. Mildred
Park
Vaughn and daughter Suzanne, who are at
this time moving from Trenton, a suburb of
Detroit, Mich., to Fall River, Mass.;
Charles
Mann,
Mrs. Robert
Mann
and daughter of Flora; Mrs. Roy
Fox
of Carmi, Mrs. Dwight
York
of Decatur and Mr. and Mrs. T. D.
Richardson and children of Centralia.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 6 Jun 1941:
RESIDENT OF OLMSTED DIES
Charles G.
Schnaare, age 87, passed away at the home of his son, Warren, at
Olmsted, Saturday morning at 3 o’clock
following a stroke suffered earlier in the
week.
Besides his wife, Mr.
Schnaare is survived by the following
children, Rudolph of America, Warren, Edward
and Emil of Olmsted, Herbert of Grand Chain
and Mrs. Laura
Eddleman of Dongola.
Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Lutheran
church in Olmsted with Rev. A. W.
Galen
officiating.
Interment was made in the Grand Chain
cemetery.
Wilson Funeral Service was in charge of arrangements.
(His death certificate states that
Charles G.
Schnaare, farmer,
was born 5 Feb 1857, in Illinois, died
31 May 1941, in Road District 4, Pulaski
Co., Ill., and was buried at Grand Chain,
Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker in Grand Chain Masonic
Cemetery reads:
Charles
Schnaare Mar. 4, 1855 May 31,
1942.—Darrel
Dexter)
INFANT DAUGHTER DIES
Hoppie Nannie
Fitzgerald, the one-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Fitzgerald of Mound City, died at the
home of her parents in this city at 9:00
o’clock Monday morning.
She is survived by her parents, three
sisters, Helen Louise, Agnes and Joan; four
brothers, Charles Richard, William, Henry
and Kenneth.
Funeral services were held at 9
o’clock Tuesday at the
James
Funeral Home with Father Lawrence
Gilmartin officiating.
Burial was made in St. Mary’s
Cemetery at Mounds with G. A.
James
Funeral Service in charge of
arrangements.
(Her death certificate states that
Hoppe Nannie
Fitzgerald was born 14 May 1940, in
Mound City, Ill., the daughter of Richard
Fitzgerald, a native of Mound City, Ill., and Hoppie
Oliver, a native of Kentucky, and died 2
Jun 1941, in Mound City, Ill., and was
buried in St. Mary’s Cemetery at Mounds,
Ill.
Her marker there reads:
Hoppie N.
Fitzgerald May 14, 1940 June 2, 1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Youth Drowns as Row Boat Overturns
Melvin
Wright, 15-year-old son of Mrs. John
Bates of Mound City, was drowned late Tuesday night when a row boat
in which he and another youth, Carl
Clanahan of Mound City, were returning
from Kentucky, overturned.
The boat was loaded with scrap iron
which they hoped to sell in Cairo.
The water was rough because of high
winds and the boys were unable to right the
boat in the waves.
Carl was thrown from the boat and was
able to strike out for the Illinois shore.
Melvin, who his mother reported as
not being able to swim at all, was swept
down the river and soon became lost from
Carl.
The boat was about midway of the
river when it capsized.
An extensive search was made
Wednesday for the boy’s body, but efforts
had proved unsuccessful.
A professional diver searched for him
late Wednesday afternoon. The current where
the boy is said to have drowned is very
swift.
CAIRO LIBRARIAN DIES AFTER YEARS OF SERVICE
Mrs. Effie
Lansden, librarian of the Cairo Library for many years, died at the
Cairo hospital Thursday morning following an
illness of several weeks.
Mrs.
Lansden was one of the best loved and
respected citizens of Cairo.
Her interest in her work, her
willingness to help others, and her
community interest were unsurpassed.
Funeral services were held Saturday
afternoon, burial being made in the Villa
Ridge cemetery.
Rev. J. W.
Fix, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church and the Venerable S. L.
Hagan,
pastor of the Church of the Redeemer,
officiated.
OBITUARY
Adena Bour Wallace
Adena
Bour Wallace, daughter of Allouise and Caroline
Bour,
was born at Valley Recluse July 4th,
1867.
She was married to W. O.
Wallace Oct. 2, 1889.
To this union were born 4 sons and 2
daughters, namely:
Joe, Charlie, Antone, William, Louise
and Carrie.
Charlie passed away July 15th,
1924.
Her husband preceded her in death,
having died March 10, 1938.
Mrs.
Wallace and her husband located on a farm one and one-half miles
northeast of Pulaski during their early
married life, where she lived until her
death.
Death came to her peacefully about 5
p.m. of May 29, 1941, in the eventide of her
life, as she had passed the 73rd
birthday.
Her health failed about three years
ago, but she did not give her activities up
until about 2 ½ years later.
She suffered very much, but bore it
without murmuring.
She united with the Pulaski Christian
Church on Mother’s Day, May 13, 1924.
Her presence will be greatly missed
in the community.
She has been an angel of mercy in the
sick room and among the dying.
Mrs.
Wallace leaves besides her 3 sons and 2 daughters, one brother,
Frank
Bour of Mounds; two cousins, Joe
Lutz
and Mrs. William
Bestgen of Mound City.
Mrs.
Bestgen was by her bedside when death
came as were 4 of the children.
She is also survived by 4 grandsons,
Billie Joe, Carroll LaVon, Billie and
Charles Oliver
Wallace; 2 nieces and 4 nephews and other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were conducted at
the Pulaski Christian Church in Pulaski,
Sunday, June 1, 1941, at 2:30 p.m. by her
pastor, Rev. Charles A.
Day
of Metropolis.
Her casket bearers were Ernest
Parker, Frank
Reeves, Arthur
Reeves, George Gillespie,
Arthur
Palmer, and Hess
Smoot.
This community (Beech Grove) was sorry to
learn of the passing of their old friend,
Mrs.
Winstead, the widow of Dr. M. L.
Winstead, who preceded her in death in
1919.
(Marcus
Winstead, 22, from Cobden, Union Co., Ill., married on 22 Mar 1877,
in Union Co., Ill., Zilpha
Tweedy, 15, from Cobden, Ill., daughter
of Isaac
Tweedy.
The death certificate of Zilpha
Winstead states she was born 7 Jul 1862,
in Alto Pass, Union Co., Ill., the daughter
of Willis
Tweedy, a native of Illinois, died 27
May 1941, in Road District 10, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., and was buried in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery
near Wetaug, Pulaski Co., Ill., reads:
Zilpha
Winstead 1862-1941 Dr. M. L.
Winstead 1854-1919.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 13 Jun 1941:
Boy of Drowned Boy Found Near East Cairo
The body of Melvin
Wright, age 16, son of John
Bates
of Mound City, who drowned in the Ohio River
Tuesday afternoon, June 3, was found
Saturday afternoon, June 7, at East Cairo.
The boy was drowned when a row boat
loaded with scrap iron capsized near the
Kentucky shore as he and Joe
Cunningham, also of Mound City were
rowing toward the Illinois side of the
river.
Former Principal Dies at Advanced Age
Mrs. Rose E.
Cutting, for 52 years a teacher and principal at Metropolis
Community High School, died June 7,
following a two-year illness.
Mrs.
Cutting, the widow of Captain Thomas
Cutting, retired from teaching in 1928 and in 1937 the high school’s
$150,000 gymnasium was dedicated to her.
She never revealed her age and it is
not included in school records.
(The death certificate of Rose E.
Cutting, high school teacher, states she
was born 6 Nov 1862, in St. Louis, Mo., the
daughter of Jason
Skinner, a native of England, and
Elizabeth
Rudolph, a native of St. Louis, Mo.,
died 7 Jun 1941, in Metropolis, Massac Co.,
Ill., died 9 Jun 1941, in Metropolis, Massac
Co., Ill., widow of Thomas
Cutting, and was buried in Masonic Cemetery in Road District 6,
Massac Co., Ill.
She was buried in Masonic Cemetery in
Metropolis.—Darrel
Dexter)
Daughter of Former Resident Meets Death in
Accident
Mr. and Mrs. W. L.
Tobin
received a message Sunday morning telling
them of the death of Miss Marian
Carver, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas W.
Carver of San Antonio, Texas, who was
killed early that morning in an auto
accident.
Mr. (Tom)
Carver is a former Mounds man.
He and his family visited Mr. and
Mrs.
Tobin here in June of 1940.
Marian was a graduate of a San
Antonio high school, having finished the
course just two weeks before her untimely
death.
Surviving are her parents and one
brother, Thomas William, known as Billy.
Burial was in San Antonio.
(Her death certificate states that
Marion Glore
Carver, student, of 942 W. Mistletoe,
San Antonio, Bexar Co., Texas, was born 30
Sep 1923, in San Antonio, Texas, the
daughter of Thomas W.
Carver, a native of Missouri, and Agnes
M.
Houston, a native of San Antonio, Texas,
died 7 Jun 1941, of a broken neck, in an
auto accident at State Highway 81 near
Bandera, Texas, and was buried in Mission
Burial Park in Texas.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Frank Hardesty Dies Wednesday Morning
Mrs. Lola
Hardesty, wife of Rank
Hardesty, died at one o’clock Wednesday
morning, June 11, at her home on Delaware
Avenue.
She had been ill for several weeks
and had only recently been brought home from
St. Mary’s Hospital, Cairo.
Her age at death was 42 years.
Mrs.
Hardesty was born and reared in Pulaski County and had lived in this
county all her life.
Surviving are her husband; one son,
Harold; her mother, Mrs. Lucy
Beaver, all of Mounds; a half-brother,
George
Beaver of Mound City; also several
nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held this (Friday)
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the First
Methodist Church with Rev. J. Rue
Reid,
pastor, officiating.
Interment will be made in Thistlewood
Cemetery with the G. A.
James Funeral Service in charge of arrangements.
(George R.
Hood, 24, farmer from Dongola, Ill., born in Union Co., Ill., son of
Samuel
Hood
and Caroline
Jones, married on 16 Oct 1898, in Dongola, Union Co., Ill., Lucy E.
Woodward, 19, from Dongola, Ill., born
in Union Co., Ill., daughter of John P.
Woodward and Mary
Cummins.
Her death certificate states that
Lora
Hardesty was born 23 Feb 1899, in
Olmsted, Ill., the daughter of George
Hood,
a native of Johnson Co., Ill., and Lucy
Woodward, a native of Dongola, Ill.,
died 11 Jun 1941, in Mounds, Pulaski
Co., Ill., wife of Frank
Hardesty,
and was buried in Thistlewood Cemetery
at Mounds, Ill.
Her marker in Beechwood Cemetery at
Mounds reads:
Lora
Hardesty Feb. 23, 1899 Jun 11,
1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Card of Thanks
We sincerely thank our many friends
for their kindness and helpfulness during
the illness and after the death of Rev. W.
J.
Ward.
We greatly appreciate the expressions
of love and sympathy in our sorrow.
The Family
Rev. W. J. Ward
William James
Ward was born November 10, 1871, and passed away June 7, 1941, at
the age of 69 years, 6 months and 27 days.
He was the eldest child of James L.
and Adeline
Ward.
He was born near Charleston,
Missouri, where he spent the early part of
his life.
At twenty-one years of age he was
converted and united with the old Concord
Baptist Church near Charleston.
Sometime later Concord Church went
down and he united with the nearly organized
New Bethel Church, also near Charleston.
When he was twenty-eight years old
this church ordained him to preach the
gospel and he always loved and cherished her
as his mother church.
The first half of his ministry was
spent in Missouri.
His first active work was to serve as
district missionary of Charleston
Association.
He was then called to New Bethel
where he served ten years until he felt the
Lord’s call to larger fields.
Other pastorates he held in Missouri
were East Prairie, Oak Ridge, Chaffee,
Fredericktown and Portageville, in addition
to several rural churches.
He helped organize the Gravel Ridge
Church.
Twenty years ago Brother
Ward
followed God’s call to Illinois where he
became pastor of the First Baptist Church in
Mound City.
Two years later he became missionary
of Clear Creek Association.
Finding that this work was becoming
too strenuous, he gave it up for the
pastorates of Dongola and Shiloh.
Other churches he pastored were
Immanuel of Cairo, Tamms, Pleasant Grove,
New Hope, Effingham and Mount Olive.
His last pastorate was Shiloh near
Villa Ridge.
This was the second time he pastored
this church and he remained faithful and
active until his last illness forced him to
give up his active ministry for his Master.
Brother
Ward was united in marriage with Stella
Leet of Charleston, Mo., May 25, 1904, and they were happy together
until she preceded him in death some ten
months ago.
To this union were born four
children:
Joseph Moody and Frances Ellen who
died in infancy, and Russell and James, who
survive.
Other relatives who survive are:
three sisters, Mrs. Ben
Patrick of Bertrand, Mo., Mrs. Charles
Jackson of Diehlstadt, Mo., Mrs. Joe
Tate
of Sikeston, Mo.; two brothers, Charles W.
of Charleston, Mo., and John T. of St.
Louis, Mo.; one grandchild, Jean
Ward
of Mounds.
Brother
Ward was a true friend and father and was loved by all who knew him.
His radiant and inspiring personality
will be sadly missed by all.
Funeral services were held in the
First Baptist Church in Dongola Monday
afternoon, June 9.
They were conducted by Rev. E. W.
Reader, State Secretary of Missions,
Carbondale, assisted by Rev. Hobart
Peterson, pastor of Dongola, and Rev. H.
W.
Karraker of Dongola.
The music was handled beautifully by
the Dongola quartet composed of Mr. Charley
Dale, Mr. Robert Corzine,
Mr. Lester
Dale,
and Mr. Don
Corzine, accompanied by Cleta
Sowers; and Mrs. Dell
Boyd
accompanied by Mrs. Preller
Douglas.
Mrs.
Boyd
sang one of Brother
Ward’s
favorite songs, a beautiful solo, “Sunrise
Tomorrow.”
She had sung this song at his request
at Mrs.
Ward’s funeral.
The pallbearers were:
Troy
Beggs,
Harold
Benson, Tommy
Reeves, Lowell
Eddleman, Hobart Peterson,
and Melvin
Karraker, all of Dongola.
The Elmer J.
Ford Funeral Service of Dongola handled the funeral arrangements
very efficiently.
Brother
Ward’s fellow ministers in the cause of Christ paid their last
tribute of love and respect by attending the
funeral and sitting in a body.
There were over twenty preachers
present.
These included:
Rev. W. T.
Waring, pastor of Anna; Rev. Glenn
Verble, Dongola; Rev. H. B.
Atherton, Dongola; Rev. C. W.
Penrod, Dongola; Rev. S. F.
Reeves, Dongola; Rev. Fred
Propst, pastor at Jonesboro; Rev. Roy
Lockerby, Carbondale; Rev. H. E.
Lockard, pastor at Mound City; Rev. Earl
Taylor, Mounds; Rev. Charles
Green,
St. Louis, Mo.; Rev. Robert
Grant;
Rev. Clarence
Bridges, Elco; Rev. Lester
Kossler, Dongola; Rev. B. B.
Murphy, Paducah, Ky.; Rev. Kenneth
Hall,
pastor at Mounds; and Rev. A. M.
Troutman of Cypress.
In addition to these ministers, all
brothers and sisters and immediate relatives
were present, and there were many other
people from out of town.
They came from Southeast Missouri and
from all over Southern Illinois to join the
local people in paying the last tribute to
Brother
Ward whom they all knew and loved.
The profusion of beautiful flowers
banked on each side of the casket was a
testimony of love from his friends.
Brother
Ward will be sadly missed by a heartbroken family, by many
relatives, by hundreds of friends, but his
influence will live.
“He fought a good fight; he finished
the course; he kept the faith.”
In the words of his friends, “He
lived what he preached.”
A Saint of God has gone to his
eternal home to rest from his cares, pains,
burdens and sorrows.
We seem to hear God’s benediction,
“Well done.”—Contributed
(William J.
Ward married Stella Edith
Leet on 25 May 1904, in Mississippi Co.,
Mo.
According to his death certificate,
William James
Ward, Baptist minister, of Dongola, was born 10 Nov 1871, in
Charleston, Mo., the son of James L.
Ward
and Adeline
Frye,
natives of North Carolina, died 7 Jun 1941,
in Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill., widower of
Stella
Ward,
and was buried in Dongola I. O. O. F.
Cemetery.
His marker there reads:
Stella E.
Ward
Oct. 2, 1879 Aug. 2, 1940 William J.
Ward
Nov. 10, 1871 Jun 7, 1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 13 Jun 1941:
DROWNED YOUTH’S BODY RECOVERED SATURDAY
The body of Melvin
Wright, 16-year-old stepson of Walter
Wright of Mound City, was recovered near
East Cairo about 4:00 o’clock Saturday
afternoon.
Wright drowned last Tuesday night when
returning with another youth in a rowboat,
loaded with scrap iron from Kentucky.
A man and his wife were fishing a
short distance south of East Cairo when they
noticed what seemed to be a body floating
near the shore.
They notified authorities in Cairo
who contacted Pulaski County officials and
early Saturday evening the body was
identified.
Identity was difficult because of
decomposition.
The youth was buried at 9 o’clock
Sunday morning in Thistlewood Cemetery in
Mounds, G. A.
James Funeral service in charge of arrangements.
Short services were held at the
burial place by Rev. Earl
Harp
of the Mound City Pentecostal Church.
FORMER RESIDENT OF THIS COMMUNITY DIES
William
Broedelle, age 78, a former resident of this community, died at his
home in Mt. Carmel last Friday.
While living in this end of the
state, Mr.
Broedelle was a member of the Cairo
Woodmen of the World.
Roy D.
Short Funeral Service of Mt. Carmel, assisted by G. A.
James
of Mound City was in charge of arrangements.
Burial was made by the side of the
late Mrs. Louis
Broedelle, his wife, in Thistlewood
Cemetery, Mounds.
(William
Broedel married Louisa
Breivgel on 16 Jul 1882, in Wabash Co.,
Ill.
His death certificate states that
William
Broedel, retired railway employee, of
330 W. 1st St., Mt. Carmel, Ill.,
was born 17 Apr 1863, in Wabash Co., Ill.,
the son of Michael
Broedel and Catherine Schrodt,
natives of Germany, died 7 Jun 1941, in Mt.
Carmel, Wabash Co., Ill., widower of Louisa
Bruvogel,
and was buried in Beechwood Cemetery in
Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker there reads:
William
Broedelle 1863-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
REV. J. W. WARD
William James
Ward
was born November 10, 1871, and passed away
June 7, 1941, at the age of 69 years, 6
months and 27 days.
He was the eldest child of James L.
and Adeline
Ward.
He was born near Charleston,
Missouri, where he spent the early part of
his life.
At twenty-one years of age he was
converted and united with the old Concord
Baptist Church near Charleston.
Sometime later Concord Church went
down and he united with the nearly organized
New Bethel Church, also near Charleston.
When he was twenty-eight years old
this church ordained him to preach the
gospel and he always loved and cherished her
as his mother church.
The first half of his ministry was
spent in Missouri.
His first active work was to serve as
district missionary of Charleston
Association.
He was then called to New Bethel
where he served ten years until he felt the
Lord’s call to larger fields.
Other pastorates he held in Missouri
were East Prairie, Oak Ridge, Chaffee,
Fredericktown and Portageville, in addition
to several rural churches.
He helped organize the Gravel Ridge
Church.
Twenty years ago Brother
Ward
followed God’s call to Illinois where he
became pastor of the First Baptist Church in
Mound City.
Two years later he became missionary
of Clear Creek Association.
Finding that this work was becoming
too strenuous, he gave it up for the
pastorates of Dongola and Shiloh.
Other churches he pastored were
Immanuel of Cairo, Tamms, Pleasant Grove,
New Hope, Effingham and Mount Olive.
His last pastorate was Shiloh near
Villa Ridge.
This was the second time he pastored
this church and he remained faithful and
active until his last illness forced him to
give up his active ministry for his Master.
Brother
Ward was united in marriage with Stella
Leet of Charleston, Mo., May 25, 1904, and they were happy together
until she preceded him in death some 10
months ago.
To this union were born four
children:
Joseph Moody and Frances Ellen who
died in infancy, and Russell and James, who
survive.
Other relatives who survive are:
Three sisters, Mrs. Ben
Patrick of Bertrand, Mo., Mrs. Charles
Jackson of Diehlstadt, Mo., Mrs. Joe
Tate
of Sikeston, Mo.; two brothers, Charles W.
of Charleston, Mo., and John T. of St.
Louis, Mo.; one grandchild, Jean
Ward
of Mounds.
Brother
Ward was a true friend and father and was loved by all who knew him.
His radiant and inspiring personality
will be sadly missed by all.
Funeral services were held in the
First Baptist Church in Dongola Monday
afternoon, June 9.
They were conducted by Rev. E. W.
Reader, State Secretary of Missions,
Carbondale, assisted by Rev. Hobart
Peterson, pastor of Dongola, and Rev. H.
W.
Karraker of Dongola.
The music was handled beautifully by
the Dongola quartet composed of Mr. Charley
Dale, Mr. Robert Corzine,
Mr. Lester
Dale,
and Mr. Don
Corzine, accompanied by Cleta
Sowers; and Mrs. Dell
Boyd
accompanied by Mrs. Preller
Douglas.
Mrs.
Boyd
sang one of Brother
Ward’s
favorite songs, a beautiful solo, “Sunrise
Tomorrow.”
She had sung this song at his request
at Mrs.
Ward’s funeral.
The pallbearers were:
Troy
Beggs,
Harold
Benson, Tommy
Reeves, Lowell
Eddleman, Hobart Peterson,
and Melvin
Karraker, all of Dongola.
Brother
Ward’s fellow ministers in the cause of Christ paid their last
tribute of love and respect by attending the
funeral and sitting in a body.
There were over twenty preachers
present.
These included:
Rev. W. T.
Waring, pastor of Anna; Rev. Glenn
Verble, Dongola; Rev. H. B.
Atherton, Dongola; Rev. C. W.
Penrod, Dongola; Rev. S. F.
Reeves, Dongola; Rev. Fred
Propst, pastor at Jonesboro; Rev. Roy
Lockerby, Carbondale; Rev. H. E.
Lockard, pastor at Mound City; Rev. Earl
Taylor, Mounds; Rev. Charles
Green,
St. Louis, Mo.; Rev. Robert
Grant;
Rev. Clarence
Bridges, Elco; Rev. Lester
Kossler, Dongola; Rev. B. B.
Murphy, Paducah, Ky.; Rev. Kenneth
Hall,
pastor at Mounds; and Rev. A. M.
Troutman of Cypress.
Elmer J.
Ford Funeral Service was in charge of arrangements.
In addition to these ministers, all
brothers and sisters and immediate relatives
were present, and there were many other
people from out of town.
They came from Southeast Missouri and
from all over Southern Illinois to join the
local people in paying the last tribute to
Brother
Ward whom they all knew and loved.
The profusion of beautiful flowers
banked on each side of the casket was a
testimony of love from his friends.
Brother
Ward will be sadly missed by a heartbroken family, by many
relatives, by hundreds of friends, but his
influence will live.
“He fought a good fight; he finished
the course; he kept the faith.”
In the words of his friends, “He
lived what he preached.”
A Saint of God has gone to his
eternal home to rest from his cares, pains,
burdens and sorrows.
We seem to hear God’s benediction,
“Well done.”
FORMER RESIDENT OF MOUNDS KILLED IN AUTO
ACCIDENT
A message was received by Mr. and
Mrs. W. L.
Tobin
of Mounds Sunday morning notifying them of
the death of Miss Marian
Carber, 18-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. W.
Carver of San Antonio, Texas, who was
killed in an auto accident early Sunday
morning.
Mr.
Carver, who is familiarly known as Tom, formerly resided in Mounds
and in June of last year the family visited
Mr. and Mrs.
Tobin at their home in Mounds.
Marian was graduated from the San
Antonio High School just two weeks ago.
Besides her parents, she is survived
by one brother, Thomas William.
Funeral services were held Monday
morning.
MOUNDS RESIDENT DIES
Mrs. Lola
Hardesty, age 42, passed away at her home in Mounds Wednesday
morning at 1 o’clock following an illness of
several weeks.
Mrs.
Hardesty, the wife of Frank
Hardesty, was born and reared in Pulaski
County and had spent her entire life there.
Besides her husband, she is survived
by one son, Harold; her mother, Mrs. Lucy
Beaver, both of Mounds; a half-brother, George
Beaver of Mound City; several nieces and nephews and other
relatives.
Funeral services will be held this
afternoon (Friday) at 2 o’clock at the First
Methodist Church in Mounds with the pastor,
Rev. J. Rue
Reid,
officiating.
Burial will be in Thistlewood
Cemetery.
G. A.
James
Funeral service is in charge of
arrangements.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 27 Jun 1941:
R. M. Jerrell
Robert M.
Jerrell, age 80 years, died Saturday, June 21, at 12:15 p.m. at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. C. L.
Nicholson on North Blanche Ave., where
he and his wife have made their home for
several years.
He was seriously ill only a short
time.
Surviving are his wife, three
daughters, Mrs. W. E.
Brockman of Bandana, Ky., Mrs. Ralph
Henry
of Highland and Mrs.
Nicholson; three sons, M. P.
Jerrell of Jackson, Mich., L. G.
Jerrell of Pulaski and Roy
Jerrell of Cairo; five sisters, Mrs.
Otie
Randall and Mrs. Bernie
Yancy
of Oscar, Ky., Mrs. Lena Hall,
Indiana; Mrs. Maud Perkins and
Mrs. Mae
Newton of Kevil, Ky.; one brother, Jess
Jerrell of Kevil, Ky., and other
relatives.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 4:30 o’clock in the Baptist
church at Oscar, Ky., of which Mr.
Jerrell was a charter member.
The Rev. Mr.
Hogue of Oscar, assisted by Rev. K. G.
Hall of the Mounds Baptist Church, officiated.
Burial was made in the cemetery in
the churchyard with J. T.
Ryan
Funeral Service directing.
Those form out of town who attended
the funeral services were Mr. and Mrs. M. P.
Jerrell of Jackson, Mich., Mr. and Mrs. Landon
Roberson and Mr. and Mrs. Eduard
Pugh of Fulton, Ky., Mr. and Mrs. N.
Roberson and two children of Hurst, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Henry
and son of Highland, Mr. and Mrs. E.
Crice
Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Brockman and Mrs. Mae
Newton of Kevil, Ky., Mrs. Kate
Smith
of Alton and Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Jerrell of Cairo.
(According to his death certificate,
Robert M.
Jerrell, retired farmer, was born 19 May
1861, in Ballard Co., Ky., the son of R. Y.
Jerrell and Tamasia
Peyton, natives of Virginia, died 21 Jun
1941, in Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill., and was
buried in Oscar Cemetery in Oscar, Ballard
Co., Ky.—Darrel
Dexter)
Dies at 90
Mrs. John
Hartman of Mill Creek, Alexander County, died Monday morning, June
23, at the age of 90 years.
She and her husband, who survives,
had been married 70 years on January 8 of
this year.
Besides her husband, six children
survive, Mrs. Minnie
Fink,
Mrs. Mary
Boggs,
Mrs. Mina
Davis
of Mill Creek, Carl Craig
Hartman of Jonesboro, Garl of Mill Creek
and Mrs. Armanda
Dexter of Ullin.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at Elco Baptist Church with the
Rev. F. F.
Reeves of Dongola officiating.
Burial was in St. John’s Cemetery,
Wilson Funeral Service having charge of
arrangements.
(John C.
Hartman married Martha C.
Phillips on 8 Jan 1871, in Alexander
Co., Ill.
David C.
Fink
married Minnie V.
Hartman on 24 Dec 1899, in Alexander
Co., Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Martha C.
Hartman, of near Elco, Alexander Co.,
Ill., was born 21 Apr 1851, in Delta, Ill.,
daughter of Amos
Phillips, a native of Missouri, and Mary
Porterfield, a native of Nashville,
Tenn., died 22 Jun 1941, in Road District 6,
Alexander Co., Ill., wife of John C.
Hartman,
and was buried in St. John’s Cemetery in
Union Co., Ill.
Her marker there reads:
John C.
Hartman Apr. 28, 1846 Aug. 25, 1945 Mother Martha C.
Hartman Apr. 21, 1851 June 22,
1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Emma Marlman
Mrs. Emma
Marlman, age 71, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Erma
Wood,
near Karnak Sunday morning, June 22.
Her husband preceded her in death several
years ago.
She is survived by four children,
Mrs.
Wood, Mrs. Elsie
Mescher, of Belknap, Archie
Marlman of Villa Grove, and Walter of
Granite City; three brothers, Gus
Lippert of Karnak, Sam and Andrew of
Karnak.
Funeral services were held at the Anderson
Church Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock with
Rev. W. L.
Cummins of Karnak officiating.
Mrs.
Marlman has been a member of the Methodist Church for many years.
Burial was in Anderson Cemetery with
Wilson Funeral Service in charge of
arrangements.
(According to her death certificate,
Emma
Marlman, widow, of Road District 4,
Massac Co., Ill., was born 18 Dec 1869, in
Round Knob, Ill., the daughter of Henry
Lippert and Wilhelmina
Winstring, natives of Germany, died 22
Jun 1941, in Road District 4, Massac Co.,
Ill., and was buried in Anderson Cemetery in
Massac Co., Ill.
His marker there reads:
Mother Emma
Marlman 1869-1941 Father John
Marlman 1868-1936.—Darrel
Dexter)
Louis J. Stout
Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon at St. Raphael’s Catholic Church
for Louis J. “Sid”
Stout,
son of A. L.
Stout
of this city, who died at Hines Hospital in
Maywood, Ill., Friday morning, June 20, at
6:30 o’clock.
Father Laurence
Gilmartin officiated.
Burial was in Calvary Cemetery, Villa Ridge
with the J. T.
Ryan Funeral Service in charge of arrangements.
Surviving Mr. Stout are one son, Albert of Gearheart, Oregon; his father, A. L.
Stout; and a brother, E. R.
Stout
of Mounds; another brother, Morris of San
Antonio, Texas; one sister, Mrs. Jack
Rae of Chicago; two aunts, Mrs. Kate
Dunn and Mrs. M. S. Egan
of Cairo; and two uncles, C. M. and Tom
Stout,
also of Cairo.
This is the second son of A. L.
Stout
to be buried “under the U. S. flag.”
(Louis
Stout married Mary Daily
on 22 May 1888, in Alexander Co., Ill.
Records from the Home for Disabled
Volunteer Veterans at Danville, Ill., states
that Louis J.
Stout
enlisted on 3 Jul 1917, as a private and was
honorably discharged on 13 Apr 1919.
He enlisted on 15 Jan 1921, in
Springfield, Ill., and was honorably
discharged on 14 Jun 1921, at Scott Field,
Ill.
He suffered from chronic
conjunctivitis and chronic bronchitis.
He resided at the home from 16 May
1929, to 4 Jun 1929.
His application for Social Security
gives his name as Louis John
Stout.
The application for a military
headstone states he served as a private 1st
class in Co. K, 130th Infantry,
33rd Division.
His death certificate states that
Louis J.
Stout,
clerk, of Cairo, Ill., World War veteran,
was born 4 Oct 1896, in Cairo, Alexander
Co., Ill., the son of Aaron L.
Stout,
a native of Illinois,
and Mary
Daily, a native of Ireland, died 20 Jun 1941, in Proviso Township,
Cook Co., Ill., divorced husband of Clara
Stout,
and was buried in Calvary Cemetery in
Mounds, Ill.
His marker in Calvary Cemetery at
Villa Ridge reads:
Louis J.
Stout Illinois Pvt. 1 cl. 130 Inf. 33 Div. June 20, 1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
G. W. Childers
George W.
Childers, 72, died at his home here Tuesday morning, June 24,
following an illness of several months.
He and his family had lived here only
a few months, having formerly been residents
of Grand Chain.
Surviving, besides his wife, are
three daughters, Mrs. James
Bartleson of Elgin, Mrs. Avery
Clantet of Seattle, Washington, and Mrs.
Virgil
Lawrence, of Norfolk, Va.; two sons,
Woodrow of this city and George of Seattle;
a sister, Mrs. Nellie
Wood
of Seattle; a brother, J. A.
Childers of this city and two
half-brothers, F. and M.
Grey
of Seattle.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at two o’clock at the
Congregational church in Grand Chain with
the Rev. S. C.
Benninger officiating.
Burial was in Ohio Chapel Cemetery.
Casket bearers were Henry
Wiesenborn, Adam
Reichert, Guy Harris,
John
McIntire, Cab
Wilmouth, and A. S.
Reichert.
J. T.
Ryan
Funeral Service was in charge.
(John A.
Childers married Mary Jane
Elder on 7 Sep 1865, in Franklin Co.,
Ill.
According to his death certificate,
George W.
Childers, retired farmer,
was born 23 Sep 1868, in Herrin, Williamson
Co., Ill., son of John A.
Childers, a native of Herrin, Ill., and
Mary
Elder, a native of Nashville, Ill., and
died 24 Jun 1941, in Mounds, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., husband of Flora
Childers, and was buried in Ohio Chapel Cemetery in Grand Chain, Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
His marker there reads:
George W.
Childers 1868-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Pioneer Resident of Mounds Dies Suddenly
Friday Morn
Mrs. Annie
Heitz Blanckertz died suddenly at her home on North Blanche Avenue
at 12:25 a.m. Friday, June 20.
She had been in failing health for
several years, but had been able to be about
the house most of the time.
Mrs.
Blanckertz was born in Jefferson County, Mo., March 8, 1863, and her
age at death was 78 years, three months and
12 days.
She was married in St. Louis in 1885
to John William
Blanckertz and the family moved here in
1889.
Her husband died October 27, 1895,
when their youngest child was only three
months old, thus she was left to rear her
family.
Surviving are two daughters, Miss
Laura
Blanckertz and Mrs. Nellie
Ross;
two sons, William and Harry, all of Mounds;
two granddaughters, Mrs. H. E. (Elizabeth
Ross) Atherton, of Memphis, Tenn., and Miss
Frances
Blanckertz of Mounds; also one
half-sister, Mrs. August
Nollman of High Ridge, Mo., and several nieces and nephews.
One daughter, Flora, died June 15,
1905.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at two o’clock at the
Congregational church with the Rev. S.C.
Benninger officiating.
Burial was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery with J. T.
Ryan
Funeral Service directing.
Casket bearers were Fletcher
Harris, Laurence
Schneider, Lester Grandstaff,
Jr., L. B.
Armstrong, Fred
Carson and H. C.
Fellenstein.
Among those from out of town who
attended the funeral services were:
Mrs. August
Nollman, son Edwin
Nollman and wife and Miss Lillian
Nollman of High Ridge, Mo.; Dr. and Mrs.
H.E.
Atherton of Memphis, who were visiting
the
Blanckertz home at the time; Mrs. Edward
Zimmer and Mrs. George
Riemann of St. Louis, nieces of Mrs.
Blanckertz, and Mrs. J. L.
Marley of Chicago.
(Her death certificate states that
Annie
Blanckertz was born 8 Mar 1863, in
Jefferson Co., Ill., the daughter of Henry
Heitz, and M. Delbruegge,
natives of Germany, died 20 Jun 1941, in
Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill., widow of John
William
Blanckertz,
and was buried in Spencer Heights
Cemetery in Mounds, Ill.
His marker in Spencer Heights
Cemetery at Mounds reads:
Mother Annie
Heitz
Blanckertz Mar. 8, 1863 June 20,
1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Kate
Inman
was called to Cairo Tuesday evening by the
death of her niece’s husband, Joseph
Steger, which occurred suddenly Monday
and was attributed to the excessive heat.
(According to his death certificate,
Joseph
Steger, laborer for the City of Cairo,
Ill., of 1600 Locust St., Cairo, Ill., was
born 28 Jun 1879, in Cairo, Ill., the son of
John
Steger, a native of Germany, and Mary
Deere,
a native of St. Louis, Mo., husband of Mary
Alice
Steger, died 23 Jun 1941,
in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., and was
buried in Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge,
Ill.
His marker there reads:
Joseph
Steger 1877-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Card of Thanks
We desire to express our sincere
thanks to our neighbors and friends for
their thoughtfulness during the illness and
following the death of our dear mother, Mrs.
Annie
Blanckertz. We wish also
to thank the donors of the beautiful
flowers, those who offered their cars and
the minister for his words of consolation.
Your kindness will ever be remembered.
The
Blanckertz Family
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 4 Jul 1941:
KILLED BY TRAIN
Mathis
Woodson, age about 50, a colored man living in North Mounds, was
found dead on the Illinois Central tracks
early Monday morning.
The accident in which
Woodson, also known as Mathis
Crook, was horribly mangled, is thought
to have occurred about midnight Sunday
night.
William
Simpson reported the accident to Coroner O. T.
Hudson.
Woodson was a World War veteran and was a single man.
J. J. Kuykendall
James Jackson
Kuykendall, age 63, of 8014 Washington Avenue, Cairo, died Sunday
afternoon at 12:30 following an illness of
five years.
He had lived in Cairo for 50 years
and had been employed by the Illinois
Central and the New York Central for 30
years, having been yard conductor for the
New York Central when taken ill.
He was a Mason, an Elk and a member
of the Methodist Church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mayme
Dickerson Kuykendall; two children,
Dewitt of Springfield and Jo Katherine
Marchildon of Cairo; five grandchildren,
C. A., Peggy and Patsy
Marchildon of Cairo; Ann and Dewitt
Kuykendall of Springfield; two aunts, Mrs. J. C.
Dewitt and Mrs. John Shadrick of Anna.
Funeral services were held at the
First Methodist Church, Cairo, at 5 o’clock
Tuesday afternoon with burial in Thistlewood
Cemetery, Mounds.
The Rev. L. S.
McKown, pastor conducted the service.
Masonic rites were conducted at the
grave.
(When he registered for the draft in
1918, James Jackson
Kuykendall lived at 3300 Sycamore,
Cairo, Ill., and was a switchman for the Big
4 Railway in Cairo, Ill.
According to his death certificate,
James Jackson
Kuykendall, railroad yard conductor, of
Cairo, Ill., was born 31 Aug 1878, in
Belknap, Ill., the son of Joseph J.
Kuykendall, a native of Massac Co.,
Ill., and Cordelia
Shadrick, a native of Mt. Pisgah, Ill.,
died 29 Jun 1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co.,
Ill., husband of Mayme
Kuykendall, and was buried in
Thistlewood Cemetery in Mounds, Ill.
His marker in Beechwood Cemetery at
Mounds reads:
Mamie D.
Kuykendall Nov. 10, 1884 Dec. 10, 1973
James J.
Kuykendall Aug. 31, 1878 June 29,
1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Helen Mason Steers Dies Suddenly in Indiana
Hospital
Miss Helen Mason
Steers, daughter of Mrs. Mary
Mason
Steers of Villa Ridge neighborhood, died
at midnight Friday night, June 27, at St.
Elizabeth’s Hospital, Lafayette, Ind.
Miss
Steers, Home Bureau supervisor in Jerseyville for the past five
years, was attending a convention in
Lafayette when she was taken ill.
She underwent an emergency operation
for appendicitis and died before her mother
could reach her bedside.
Before going to Jerseyville, Miss
Steers had taught in the Metropolis
schools for 11 years.
She was a member of the Eastern Star
Lodge of Metropolis.
She was the only remaining child of
Mrs.
Steers, another daughter having died
years ago.
Funeral services were held at the
family residence on the Villa Ridge America
Road Tuesday afternoon at two o’clock with
Rev. Charles
Day
conducting the services.
Casket bearers were cousins, namely:
Ben
Mason,
Charles
Mason, Herbert Hayden,
Henry
Steers, Arthur and William
Full.
Burial was in Thistlewood Cemetery,
Mounds, with G. A.
James
Funeral Service in charge.
Larry Charles Endicott Died Tuesday Morning
Leroy Charles
Endicott, 14-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Theodore C.
Endicott, died Tuesday morning, July 1,
at 7:25 o’clock at St. Mary’s Hospital,
Cairo, following an attack of measles
resulting in complications.
Surviving are his grief-stricken
parents; one sister, Winifred Nadine; his
paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Endicott of Villa Ridge; his maternal
grandfather, J. Logan
Taylor of Mounds; two aunts, Mrs. Nellie
Ebbs
of Mounds and Mrs. Ruth
Brauer of Carbondale; two uncles, Harold
Endicott of Villa Ridge and Eddie
Taylor of Mounds; also other relatives.
Leroy graduated last spring from
Thistlewood Grade School.
He was a member of the Press Club,
the Library Council and the shop class.
He attended the Congregational Sunday
School and was a member of Mrs. Laurence
Schneider’s class.
Funeral services were held at the
Congregational church Thursday afternoon at
two o’clock, the pastor, Rev. S. C.
Benninger, officiating.
Burial was in Spencer Heights
Cemetery with the
Ryan
Funeral Service in charge of arrangements.
Honorary casket bearers were the
following schoolmates:
Victor
Bucher, George
Travers, David Titus,
Louis
Murphy, Ralph
Boren,
Robert
Lasley, Henry Lasley,
James
Toler, Bill
Ewing,
Bobby
Stout, Gene Meshew, and
John
Bruce.
Flower girls were Audrey
Egner,
Rosalie
Wilkerson, Barbara Thomasson,
Betty Catherine
Williamson, Aileen
Roach,
Betty
Sullivan, Glenda Jean Sitton,
Patricia
Rose
and Mary
Joyce Nicolaides.
(His death certificate states that Leroy C.
Endicott, school student, was born 14
Sep 1926, in Mounds, Ill., the son of
Theodore
Endicott, a native of Villa Ridge, Ill.,
and Madge
Taylor, a native of Creal Springs, Ill.,
died 1 Jul 1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co.,
Ill., and was buried in Spencer Heights
Cemetery, Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker there reads:
Leroy C.
Endicott Sept. 14, 1926 July 1,
1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Paderewiski Is Dead
Ignace Jan
Paderewski died Sunday night, June 29, in the apartment in New York
where he grieved away his final months for
his failing musical genius and his
war-crushed Poland.
He was the first president of the
Polish Republic.
He died in the presence of his
sister, Mme. Antonia
Wilkonska; his aide-de-camp, Sylvian
Strackacz, and his secretary, I.
Kollopallo, after a brief struggle
against pneumonia.
His death was believed hastened by
his patriotic fervor which since childhood
had taken much time and vital energy from
his music.
He had made a tiring trip in the heat
to Oak Ridge, N. J., recently to attend a
meeting of the association of Polish War
Veterans and had been ill ever since.
Paderwski was 80. He had
not played the piano publicly for two
years—since Germany’s attack on Poland
precipitated the war, but there was
considerable doubt that the war was the
reason for his musical retirement.
At his last major appearance, in New
York, Feb. 26, 1939, in a program broadcast
to a worldwide radio audience estimated at
50,000,000 it was all too apparent his
palsied hands had lost the musical genius.
He will be best remembered by his
Minuet which it is said he composed in
twenty minutes.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 4 Jul 1941:
HELEN MASON STEERS DIES
Miss Helen Mason
Steers, daughter of Mrs. Mary
Steers of near Villa Ridge, died at St.
Elizabeth’s Hospital in Lafayette, Ind., at
midnight Friday, June 27.
It was reported that Miss
Steers was stricken with an acute attack
of appendicitis while attending a convention
in Lafayette Friday and was removed to the
hospital where she died following an
emergency operation.
Her mother was called to her bedside.
Miss
Steers was employed as home supervisor in Jerseyville, Ill., for the
past five years and previously had taught
school in Metropolis for 11 years.
Miss
Mason is survived by her mother, Mrs. Mary M.
Steers, and a number of other relatives.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery with G. A.
James
in charge of arrangements.
LEROY ENDICOTT OF MOUNDS DIES
LeRoy
Endicott, age 14, passed away at St. Mary’s Hospital Tuesday morning
at 7:25 o’clock, following a week’s illness.
He is survived by his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Theodore
Endicott; one sister, Nadine of Mounds;
his paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles
Endicott of Villa Ridge; and his
maternal grandfather, Logan
Taylor of Mounds.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at 2:00 o’clock at the First
Congregational Church in Mounds with Rev.
Benninger officiating.
Burial was made at Spencer Heights.
J. T.
Ryan
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 11 Jul 1941:
Mother of Mrs. Eddie Taylor Dies in
Carbondale July 2
Mrs. Mary
Sanders, widow of the late Ben
Sanders, died in Carbondale Wednesday,
July 2, at the home of her son, Lindsey
Sanders.
Surviving are six children:
Mrs. Minnie
Larrison of Belknap, Mrs.
Nettie
Yow of Carbondale, Mrs. Shirley
Morford of Vienna, Mrs. Gladys
Taylor of Mounds, Roscoe
Sanders of Cypress and Lindsey
Sanders of Carbondale.
Mr. and Mrs.
Taylor and family and Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Melton attended the funeral services which were held Friday
afternoon at two o’clock at the Berea Church
with Rev. Wiley
Mathis officiating.
Burial was in Berea Cemetery.
(L. L.
Sanders married Mary M.
Mathis on 9 Aug 1883, in Johnson Co.,
Ill.
According to her death certificate,
Mary M.
Sanders was born 20 Jul 1864, in Vienna,
Johnson Co., Ill., the daughter of David
Mathis and Ellen
Shropshire, died 2 Jul
1941, in Carbondale, Jackson Co., Ill.,
widow of Lindsey Lincoln
Sanders, and was buried in Berea
Cemetery in Road District 6, Johnson Co.,
Ill.
His marker there reads:
Mary
Sanders 1864-1941 Lincoln
Sanders 1861-1930.—Darrel
Dexter)
George French Dewey
George French
Dewey,
city engineer of Cairo from 1907 until 1936,
died Saturday night, July 5, in his
apartment at the Halliday Hotel, the result
of a stroke earlier that day.
Mr.
Dewey not only did much general surveying in the southern end of
Illinois and in Southeast Missouri, but made
maps of Alexander and Pulaski counties and
also of Mississippi County in Missouri.
These maps are still used as the
official guides for engineering work in
these counties, it is said.
He was born in Irvington, Ill., Nov.
19, 1870, and moved with his parents to
Cairo in 1872.
Surviving are his wife, who is a
patient in St. Mary’s Hospital, Cairo at
present; one son, Edmund Dee
Dewey,
also an engineer and connected with the
Illinois Division of Waterways; two
brothers, Judge W. S.
Dewey
and Circuit Clerk John M.
Dewey
of Cairo; one sister, Miss Jennie
Dewey,
also of Cairo.
(According to his death certificate,
George French
Dewey,
of 2nd Ohio St., Cairo, Ill., was
born 19 Nov 1870, in Irvington, Ill., the
son of Edmund S.
Dewey,
a native of Lennox, Mass., and M. Jennie
French, a native of Goffstown, N. H.,
died 5 Jul 1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co.,
Ill., the husband of Margaret
Dewey,
and was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery in
Charleston, Mississippi Co., Mo.
His marker there reads:
George F.
Dewey 1870-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Freddie Richard Johnson
Freddie Richard
Johnson, eight-month-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Sam
Johnson of this city, died at St. Mary’s
Hospital Tuesday morning, July 8, following
a brief illness,
Besides his parents, he is survived
by his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred
Turner of Villa Ridge, and other relatives.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the grave in Beech
Grove Cemetery, with the Rev. Mr.
Roberts officiating.
G. A.
James
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
(His death certificate states that
Freddie Richard
Johnson was born 9 Nov 1940, in Mounds,
Ill., the son of Sam
Johnson, a native of Anna, Union Co.,
Ill., and Creton Della
Turner, a native of Villa Ridge, died 8 Jul 1941, in Cairo,
Alexander Co., Ill., and was buried in Beech
Grove Cemetery at Mounds, Pulaski Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. W. N. Madden
Loretta
Madden, age 73, wife of W. N.
Madden, passed away at her home in
Karnak Monday afternoon, July 7.
Besides her husband she is survived
by six children:
Mrs. Martha
McKinney of Karnak, Mrs. Alice
Rushing of Vienna, Mrs. Nellie
Weaver of Metropolis, Mrs. Nora
Ford
of South Haven, Mich., Irvin
East
of Karnak, and Wilbur
East
of Anna and one sister, Mrs.
Ida Weaver of Paducah.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at 1 o’clock at the Methodist
church in Karnak with Rev. W. L.
Cummins officiating.
Burial was in Chapel Hill Cemetery
with
Wilson Funeral Service in charge of
arrangements.
(The death certificate of Loretta
East
Madden states that she was born 5 Feb
1868, in Gallatin Co., Ill., the daughter of
John F.
Brentley and Nancy E. McKee,
natives of Crittenden Co., Ky., died 7 Jul
1941, in Karnak, Pulaski Co., Ill., the wife
of W. M.
Madden, and was buried in Temple Hill
Cemetery in Temple Hill, Pope Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
DONALD MASON DISHINGER
Donald Mason
Dishinger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mason
Dishinger of this city, died at birth at St. Mary’s Hospital, Cairo,
Wednesday afternoon, July 2, at two o’clock.
Burial was in Beech Grove Cemetery
with G. A.
James
in charge.
(His death certificate states that
Donald Mason
Dishinger was stillborn 2 Jul 1941, in
Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., the son of Harry
M.
Dishinger, a native of Mound City, and
Brenda
Corbitt, a native of Tennessee, and was
buried in Beech Grove Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. Rich
Moreland and children and Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur
File
attended the funeral of L. N.
Jones
at Pleasant Ridge Church between Dongola and
Vienna Saturday afternoon.
(Lewis N.
Jones, 21, farmer from Moscow, Ill., born in Cypress Creek, Ill.,
son of E. A.
Jones
and Mary E.
Jones, married on 15 Jul 1894, at E. A.
Jones’ in Union Co.,
Ill., Louella
Humes,
15, who lived at E. A.
Jones’
in Union Co., Ill., born in Moscow, Ill.,
daughter of Olive
Humes.
Elmer E.
Adams,
guardian of the bride, gave his consent.
Erasmus
A. Jones married Mary E. Arnett
on 17 May 1869, in Union Co., Ill.
The death certificate of Lewis N.
Jones,
farmer,
states he
was born 27 Aug 1872, in Union Co.,
Ill., the son of Erasmus
Jones
and Mary
Richardson, died 3 Jul 1941, in Anna,
Union Co., Ill., and was buried in Mt. Zion
Cemetery in Road District 3, in Union Co.,
Ill.
His marker there reads:
Lewis N.
Jones
1872-1941 Fannie L.
Jones
1878-1938.—Darrel
Dexter)
Those from out of town who attended the
funeral of Leroy
Endicott were:
Mrs. W. L.
Blancett, Memphis, Tenn.; Mr. and Mrs. V. J.
Batson, Tamaroa; Mr. and Mrs. Everet
Taylor and family, West Point, N.Y.; Mr. and Mrs. Pete
Brauer, Mrs. C. W.
Eddleman and Mrs. L. H. Brown,
Carbondale; Carson
Brown,
Vienna; Mr. and Mrs. James
Gamble, Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Curtis
Mathis, Houston, Texas; and Mrs. Leona
Sharp,
Elmhurst.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 11 Jul 1941:
CLAIMS INDICATE THAT ESTATE HAS EVAPORATED
The most noted estate in this county,
that of
Perks
&
Higgins, possibly worth a half million
15 or 20 years ago, has almost disappeared.
The estate of Mrs. Nannie
Higgins, widow of one of the partners,
indicates that not all claims will be paid.
The estate of Mrs. Nettie B.
Perks
still in litigation, is much better, but
when taxes are paid and claims it will be
dwindled down to a small sum.
Yesterday in county court, claims
were being filed, some of them small bills
of several years standing, and one of them
for a check that did not clear.
The Disaster Loan came in for about
$3,000 claim the largest of all save taxes,
perhaps.
The administrator, Loren
Boyd,
told creditors that some of the claims would
be “desperate.”
That term means that they would
probably not be paid, for the estate would
not show that much value.
The estate consisted of real estate
and notes, for the greater part.
Literally thousands of dollars in
notes were never paid and became outlawed.
The fall of real estate prices and
diverse other things, brought this estate in
two decades to small figures.
A claim of a colored woman for
housework running years back, a carpenter
for work done some time ago and for other
such things marked the winding up of
affairs.
The cycle of wealth had turned.
HUSBAND OF FORMER RESIDENT KILLS SELF
Cecil
Knight, husband of the former Gertrude
Jones of Mound City, committed suicide because of worry over the
thought of his having to serve in the army,
Mrs.
Knight said.
Knight was employed in Mound City last summer and was known to many
here.
He was employed at Charleston, Ind.,
on the construction of a powder plant.
Mrs.
Knight told how Knight
had been worried for several months about
the draft and how it would affect him and
had on another occasion disarmed him when he
threatened to take his life by firing a
bullet into his head.
About two o’clock Saturday morning at
the intersection of Route 3 and the Upper
Cut Road, Mrs.
Knight related, when she was driving and
had made a stop at the intersection,
Knight jumped from the car and fired a bullet into his brain.
He died instantly.
Knight had two children by a former marriage.
The couple had visited at Jonesboro
with
Knight’s parents and children and were
to visit in Mound City before they returned
to Charleston, Sunday.
(Cecil
Knight, 28, of Jonesboro, Ill.,
married on 6 Nov 1940, in Obion Co.,
Tenn., Gertrude
Jones, 33, of Mound City, Ill.
The death certificate states that
Isaac Cecil
Knight, road construction worker, of Road District 10, Jonesboro,
Union Co., Ill., was born 15 Feb 1912, in
Jonesboro, Ill., the son of Ike
Knight and Alice
Whitely, natives of Jonesboro, Ill., died 5 Jul 1941, in Road District 2, Alexander Co., Ill., husband
of Gertrude
Knight, and was buried in Casper
Cemetery in Road District 5, Union Co., Ill.
His marker there reads:
Husband Isaac Cecil
Knight 1912-1941 A Devoted Husband and Father.—Darrel
Dexter)
INFANT SON DIES
Freddie Richard
Johnson, eight-month-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Sam
Johnson of Mounds, passed away at St.
Mary’s Hospital Tuesday morning at four
o’clock following a brief illness.
Besides his parents he is survived by
his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Turner, of Villa Ridge; and other relatives.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon.
Brief services were conducted at the
grave in the Beech Grove Cemetery by Rev.
Roberts. G. A.
James
Funeral Service was in charge.
DONALD M. DISHINGER DIES
Donald Mason
Dishinger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mason
Dishinger of Mounds, died at birth at St. Mary’s Hospital Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Burial was made in Beech Grove
Cemetery
G. A.
James
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
MRS. LORETTA MADDEN DIES
Loretta
Madden, age 73, wife of W. N.
Madden, passed away at her home in
Karnak Monday afternoon.
Besides her husband, she is survived
by the following children:
Mrs. Martha
McKinney of Karnak, Mrs. Alice
Rushing of Vienna, Mrs. Nellie
Weaver of Metropolis, Mrs. Nora
Ford
of South Haven, Mich., Irvin
East
of Karnak and Wilber
East
of Anna; one sister, Mrs. Ida
Weaver of Paducah.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at one o’clock at the Methodist
church in Karnak with Rev. W. L.
Cummins officiating.
Interment was made in Chapel Hill
Cemetery.
Wilson Funeral Service was in charge of arrangements.
GEORGE DEWEY DIES AT HIS HOME IN CAIRO
George
Dewey died Saturday night at his home in the Halliday Hotel
following a stroke.
Mr.
Dewey
was city engineer of Cairo for 30 years and
since receiving his education has been
engaged in engineering work of some kind.
He was 71 years old.
He was well known to many Pulaski
County residents for his work in this
county.
He had mapped out Pulaski County, as
well as others and his work has been used
extensively along with that of later county
engineers here.
In addition to his wife, he is
survived by a son, Edmund D.
Dewey,
of Carbondale; a sister, Miss Jennie
Dewey,
of Cairo; two brothers, Judge W. S.
Dewey
and Circuit Clerk John M.
Dewey,
of Cairo; and numerous other relatives.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at the First Presbyterian Church
in Cairo.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 18 Jul 1941:
John Goodman
John
Goodman, age 92, a farmer of Dongola, died Thursday night July 10,
about 10 o’clock as the result of a fall
about a week ago in which he broke his hip.
Funeral services were held Friday
afternoon at three o’clock at the Christian
Chapel Church near Dongola, conducted by
Rev. W. O.
Corzine and burial was in the Mt. Zion
Cemetery.
He leaves two children, Mrs. Virgil
McIntosh and John W.
Goodman of Dongola.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Coleman and daughter, Sandra Lea, left
Sunday night for Bridgeport, Conn., having
been called there by the death of Mrs.
Coleman’s brother, W. S.
Murphy,
Mr.
Murphy and family visited her last week
and had returned home on Friday.
His death occurred Sunday morning at
9 o’clock, but no particulars are known.
Funeral services were held Wednesday.
He is survived by his wife; three
sons, Vernon, Earl and Lee; and one
daughter, Evelyn; his mother, whose home is
at Gorham; and his sister, Mrs.
Coleman.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 18 Jul 1941:
RESIDENT OF DONGOLA DIES
John
Goodman, age 92, a farmer, of Dongola, died last Thursday night,
about 10 o’clock as the result of a fall
about a week ago in which he broke his hip.
Funeral services were held Friday
afternoon at three o’clock at the Christian
Chapel Church near Dongola, conducted by
Rev. W. O.
Corzine and burial was in the Mt. Zion
Cemetery.
He leaves two children, Mrs. Virgil
McIntosh and John W.
Goodman, of Dongola.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 25 Jul 1941:
Mrs. Carlos Merideth
Mrs. Odessa
Merideth of Louisville, Ky., formerly of Mound City, age 27, died
Thursday afternoon, July 17, from injuries
received in an auto accident early in the
morning of May 11, when the car in which she
and her husband and infant son were
traveling from Louisville to Mound City
plunged off the highway in Ballard Co., Ky.
Mr.
Merideth evidently dozed at the wheel at
the time.
The five months old baby boy was not
injured, but the parents suffered serious
injuries and were taken to the Cairo
hospital.
Both seemed to recover, but later
Mrs.
Merideth grew worse and was returned to
the hospital July 10.
Surviving, beside her husband and
son, are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Smith;
four sisters, Mrs. Lena
Harrell, Mrs. Estelle
Harrell, Misses Thelma and Barbara
Smith,
all of Mound City; two brothers, Jamie of
Mound City and Gordon of Paducah, Ky.
Funeral services were held Saturday
with burial in Thistlewood Cemetery,
conducted by G. A.
James Funeral Service.
(Her death certificate states that
Odessa
Merideth was born 19 Apr 1914, in Salem,
Ky., the daughter of John
Smith,
a native of Marion, Ky., and Lula
Dickson, died 17 Jul 1941, in Cairo,
Alexander Co., Ill., wife of Carlos
Merideth, and was buried in Thistlewood Cemetery in Mounds, Ill.
Her marker in Beechwood Cemetery
reads:
Odessa Mae
Meridith Apr. 14, 1914 Jul. 6, 1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Adam Corzine
Adam
Corzine, age 48, passed away suddenly Friday morning, July 18, at
his home in Karnak.
Besides his wife, Hattie, he is
survived by three children, Ray, James and
Paul; two sisters, Mrs. May
Collins and Mrs. Fonzie
Crain
and a brother, Garvin
Corzine, all of Karnak.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church in Karnak Sunday afternoon
at 2 o’clock with Rev. William
Henry
officiating.
Burial was in West Eden Cemetery with
Wilson Funeral Service in charge of
arrangements.
(Adam D.
Corzine made his mark to the 1917 draft registration card, which
stated he was born 3 Dec 1892, in
Belknap, was a farmer for
Main
Brothers in Karnak, Ill., and had a wife
and child.
His Social Security death claim gives
his name as Adam Douglas
Corzine, born 28 Dec 1892, in Cypress,
Ill.
According to his death certificate,
Adam
Corzine, box factory laborer, of Karnak,
Pulaski Co., Ill., was born 28 Dec 1892, in
Johnson Co., Ill., the son of A. J.
Corzine and Anna
Hogan,
natives of Illinois, died 15 Jul 1941, in
Karnak, Pulaski Co., Ill., husband of Hattie
Corzine, and was buried in West Eden
Cemetery in Johnson Co., Ill.
His marker there reads:
Father Adam D.
Corzine 1891-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
LOSES BROTHER
Mrs. S. C.
Benninger, wife of the pastor of the Mounds and Grand Chain
Congregational churches, has returned from
Denver, Colo., where he was called by the
illness and death of a brother.
T. L. Pulley Dies at Home in California
T. L.
Pulley, a former resident of Cairo and well known in Mounds, died at
his home in Maywood, Calif., Friday morning,
July 18, following a lingering illness.
His sister, Mrs. Lydia
Jenkins of this city, was with him,
having made two trips to California within
the last few months.
Mr.
Pulley and his wife, the former Ella
Ferguson of Cairo, moved from Cairo to
Maywood in 1912.
He was a painter and decorator and
was an active member of the Cairo Methodist
Church, serving as superintendent of the
Sunday school at the time of his departure.
Surviving are two brothers, R. T.
Pulley, of Anna, Carol L.
Pulley of Cairo; two sisters, Mrs.
Jenkins and Mrs. A.
Minton of this city; also several nieces
and nephews.
His wife has been dead for several
years.
It was his practice to visit Southern
Illinois about once each year.
He was a native of Union County.
Burial was in Maywood Cemetery
Saturday at the side of Mrs.
Pulley.
(The California Death Index states
that Tobe Lorenzo
Pulley was born 25 Sep 1863, in
Illinois, died 18 Jul 1941, in Los Angeles
Co., Calif.—Darrel
Dexter)
Robert
Jenkins left Saturday night for Maywood,
Calif., for an indefinite stay.
His mother, Mrs. Lydia
Jenkins and his sister, Mrs. Henry
Wilkerson and family are already there,
called by the illness and death of Mrs.
Jenkins’ brother, T. L.
Pulley.
James Carson
James
Carson, age 72, passed away Thursday, July 17, at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Mary
Sisson, at Tamms.
Mr.
Carson is survived by four daughters, Mrs.
Sisson, Mrs. Nellie Kolleck
of Dongola, Mrs. Margaret
Lynn
of Ullin and Mrs. Mamie
Smith
of Hurst; three brothers, William of Armory,
Miss., Ed of Memphis, and Perry of Mound
City.
Funeral services were held at the
Ullin Baptist church Saturday afternoon at 2
o’clock with Rev. Earl
Throgmorton of Cypress officiating.
Burial was in Ullin with
Wilson Funeral Service in charge.
(James I.
Carson, 29, farmer, born in Olmsted, Pulaski Co., Ill., son of Frank
Carson and Susan
Smith, married on 3 Feb 1899, in Pulaski Co., Ill., Mrs. Clara
Moore,
34, of Ullin, Pulaski Co., Ill., born in
Scott Co., Mo., daughter of Matt
Harman and Mary
Bollinger.
According to the death certificate,
James
Carson, farmer, was born 21 Oct 1868, in
Olmstead, Ill., the son of Frank
Carson, a native of Illinois, died 17
Jul 1941, in Road District 7, Alexander Co.,
Ill., widower of Clara
Carson, and was buried at Ullin, Ill.
His marker in Ullin Cemetery reads:
James Irvin
Carson 1869-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Infant Dies
Laneer Jarret
Schaefer, 24-day-old son of Mr. and Mrs. L. J.
Schaefer, died at the home of his parents Tuesday evening after a
week’s illness.
Surviving are his parents, four
brothers, Elmer, Earl, Floyd and Lee; and
one sister, Marva June.
Funeral services were conducted at
the grave in Spencer Heights Cemetery
Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock with
Rev. J. Rue
Reid,
pastor of the First Methodist Church,
officiating.
Ryan
Funeral service was in charge of
arrangements.
(Her death certificate states that
Laneer Jarrot
Schaefer was born 28 Jun 1941, in
Mounds, Ill., the daughter of L. J.
Schaefer, a native of Ashmore, Illinois, and Cathaleen
Smith,
a native of Riverton, Ill., died 22 Jul
1941, in Mounds, and was buried in Spencer
Heights Cemetery in Mounds, Pulaski Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 25 Jul 1941:
FORMER RESIDENT DIES
Mrs. Myrtle Ann
Cook,
age 71, passed away at her home in Olmsted
Wednesday at 7:00 o’clock.
Mrs.
Cook was born in Mound City and lived here for thirty-seven years
when she moved from here to Kentucky and
then to Olmsted where she has resided for
the past thirty years.
She is survived by four daughters,
Mrs. Mary
Holcomb, Mrs. Della
Bellamy, Miss Alice
Cheek,
Mrs. Merle
Huddleston; and one step-daughter, Mrs. Madge
Kraatz, all of Olmsted; and eight grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at the
Methodist church in Olmsted Friday afternoon
at 2:00 o’clock.
Rev.
Beatty, pastor, will officiate.
Interment will be made at Spencer
Heights.
G. A.
James
Funeral Service will be in charge of
arrangements.
(Her death certificate states that
Myrtle Ann
Cook,
of Olmsted, Pulaski Co., Ill., was born 14
Jan 1870, in Mound City, Ill., the daughter
of Hugh
Scott
and Josephine Amanda
Clemens, died 23 Jul 1941, in Olmsted,
Pulaski Co., Ill., the widow of John W.
Cook.
and was buried in Spencer Heights Cemetery
in Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. CARLOS MERIDETH DIES
Mrs. Carlos
Merideth, 27, died at St. Mary’s Hospital early Thursday afternoon,
July 17, of injuries received when their
automobile, driven by her husband, and in
which early on the morning of May 11 they
were returning to Mound City from
Louisville, Ky., to visit relatives in Mound
City, where they had formerly lived, plunged
off the highway and overturned in Ballard
County, Ky., when he dozed at the wheel.
Both Mr. and Mrs.
Merideth were seriously injured and were
brought to St. Mary’s Hospital in Cairo.
The husband suffered a broken jaw and
other painful injuries.
The wife suffered a broken arm and
was hurt about the side and chest.
Their five months old boy, Wayne,
escaped injury.
Mrs.
Merideth is survived by her husband, Carlos; an infant son, Carlos
Wayne; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Smith;
and four sisters, Mrs. Lena
Harrell, Mrs. Estelle
Harrell, Miss Thelma
Smith
and Miss Barbara
Smith,
all of this city.
Two brothers, Jimmie of Mound City
and Gordan of Paducah, also survive her.
Funeral services were held at the
Gospel Tabernacle in Cairo, Saturday
afternoon at 1 o’clock, with Rev. D. M.
Osborne, pastor, officiating.
Burial was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery with G. A.
James
Funeral service in charge of arrangements.
Mack
Peyton, uncle of Peyton
Berbling of Cairo, and cousin of Mrs.
Elizabeth
Wickliffe of this city, died at Bridges,
Mo.
The funeral was yesterday and from
Cairo the
Berblings attended and from this city
Miss Fannie
Farley.
KARNAK RESIDENT DIES
Mrs. Luzina
Bond, age 73, passed away at the home of her son, Andy
Bond,
in Karnak Sunday evening after an illness of
several weeks.
Besides her son, she is survived by
one daughter, Mrs. Mary
Wheeler, of McLeansboro, Ill.
Funeral services were held at
McLeansboro Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock
with Rev. William
Henry
of Cypress officiating.
Interment was made in New Hope
Cemetery.
Wilson Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
(The death certificate of Louvina
Bond
states she was born 25 Feb 1863, in
McLeansboro, Hamilton Co., Ill., the
daughter of Jacob
Megess and Myra Patrick,
natives of Illinois, died 20 Jul 1941, in
Karnak, Pulaski Co., Ill., widow of William
Bond,
and was buried in New Hope Cemetery in
Hamilton Co., Ill.
Her marker there reads:
We Will Meet Again William D.
Bond
Feb. 7, 1873 Oct. 8, 1940 Louvina
Bond
Feb. 25, 1864 July 20, 1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 1 Aug 1941:
One of Mounds’ Best Known Citizens Passes to
Beyond
A feeling of sadness pervaded the
community when it was learned that J. C.
Mench
had passed from this earth Friday (July 26)
at 1:42 p.m. at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Percy
Hunt,
where he had been seriously ill for the past
four weeks.
For 23 busy years, from 1910 to 1933,
Jacob Christian
Mench
had faithfully served as secretary of the
Railroad Y. M. C. A. at Mounds.
His life had probably touched and
influenced the lives of more men in this
section than any other life in Southern
Illinois.
And life as he lived it was an
uplifting influence wherever it was felt.
Mr.
Mench was born Aug. 25, 1865, in Bridgeton, New Jersey, to which
place his parents had come from Germany.
As schools are classified he had a
fifth grade education, but in self-education
he ranked with college graduates.
He was a broad and constant reader.
At the age of 10 he was earning his
own living in a glass factory as a water
boy.
He became a professional glass blower
at the age of 18.
At 21 he transferred to Baltimore and
from there to Alton where he met and married
Miss Mary Janet
Logan,
a teacher.
They were married in Alton July 5,
1899.
While not reared by Christian
parents, he was converted at the age of 17
and lived to see both his father and mother
accept the Christian faith.
To this young man, that faith meant
everything, as his life proved.
Soon after his conversion he became a
member of a “Praying Band,” who would meet
and pray and then go out to visit the sick
and relieve the distressed.
Doubtless his whole life was
influenced by this band.
Mr. and Mrs.
Mench and children moved to Mounds October 3, 1910, at the time he
accepted the secretaryship of the Railroad
Y. M. C. A.
The membership of the “Y” increased
until at one time it numbered over 1,200,
the largest of any one railroad Y. M. C. A.
in the United States.
Records have it that in one year
137,020 men used the large building, which
has since been torn down, as a temporary
home.
With the assistance of Mrs.
Mench,
a musician, gospel meetings were held
regularly and a large library was built up.
Mrs.
Mench
also assisted with the office work and the
two made this their life work.
He often attended the National Y. M.
C. A. conventions and was asked to fill
pulpits of prominent churches in cities as
Boston and Springfield, Mass.
He established the Hi-Y in Mounds and
also in Cairo and sponsored the trips of
members to the district and state
conventions.
He accompanied the sick to hospitals
and made arrangements for their families.
He organized a “Flying Squadron” of
men who went about holding religious
services.
He frequently filled the pulpits of
the various local churches and, although his
membership was in the Congregational Church,
he was at home in all.
During the World War, all Illinois
Central troop trains stopped at Mounds and
Mr. Mench gave all aid possible to the soldier boys, often accompanying
them to the next terminal.
It can truthfully be said of him that
he lived for others in a sense that few men
do.
The removal of the Illinois Central
yards resulted in the closing of the “Y” on
January 1, 1933.
For a while Mr. and Mrs.
Mench lived in Texas near their son, Charles, but upon the death of
Mrs.
Mench, July 3, 1937, Mr.
Mench
returned to Mounds and lived with his
daughter, visiting frequently with his sons.
He
returned from a visit with his son, Charles,
in Butte, Montana, the last day of June.
Surviving are three children, Mrs.
Edith Virginia
Huet
of this city, James Logan
Mench
of Cairo and Charles Russell
Mench
of Butte, Montana; three grandchildren,
Frederick
Mench
of Washington, D. C., Helen Clair
Hunt
of Mounds, and Susan Lee
Mench
of Butte; two sisters, Mrs. R. F.
Emerson of
Saley City, Calif., and Mrs. E. B.
Hider
of Woodbine, N. J.
R. B.
Logan
of Alton and Mrs. E. G.
Gooding of Shoshone, Idaho, nephew and
niece of Mrs.
Mench,
also were as near as blood relatives to him.
Beautiful memorial services honoring
his life were held in both the Methodist and
Baptist churches of Mounds Sunday morning.
Sunday afternoon at 5:30 o’clock
funeral services were held in the
Congregational church with the pastor, Rev.
S. C.
Benninger delivering a most fitting
sermon and the Rev. J. Rue
Reid leading in prayer.
Three favorite hymns were sung by a quartet,
H. S.
Adams, R. N. Meredith and
Clint
Mackfield of Centralia and Hugh
Atherton of this place, and a solo, “My
Task,” by Ray
Lentz.
Ray
Phelps Scott accompanied the singers.
Active casket bearers were members of
Trinity Lodge A. F. & A. M. of which he was
a member.
Honorary casket bearers were members
of the Board of the Y. M. C. A. at the time
of its closing:
G. E.
Chance, Luther Hodge, E.
G.
Britton, Sam
Shifley, J. A. Childers,
Charles
Austin, Sr., and Fayette
Blancett, the last named now of Memphis,
Tenn.
Among the out-of-town friends
attending the services were Mr. and Mrs.
William
Gallion, daughter Mary Ruth, and Mr.
Meeker of Champaign; Misses Norma and Eula
Clanton, also of Champaign, and J. W.
Sawyer, retired railroad conductor of Jackson, Tenn.
Following the services the body was
removed to the J. T.
Ryan
Funeral Home where it remained until 5
o’clock Monday morning when the funeral
cortege left for Alton where burial was made
by the side of Mrs.
Mench in the Alton Cemetery.
Masonic rites were conducted at the
grave by the Alton lodge.
(Jacob C.
Mench married Mary Jeannette
Logan on 5 Jul 1899, in Madison Co.,
Ill.
According to the death certificate,
Jacob Christian
Mench,
retired Y. M. C. A. secretary, of Mounds,
Ill., was born 5 Aug 1865, in Bridgeton, N.
J., the son of Frederick
Mench
and Mary
Siebert, natives of Germany, died 25 Jul
1941, in Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill., widower
of Mary
Mench,
and was buried in Upper Alton Cemetery in
Alton, Madison Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Noah Kiestler
Mrs. Alameda
Kiestler, age 77, passed away Saturday, July 26, at noon at her home
in Cypress, following an illness of several
weeks.
She had been a resident of Cypress
for more than 30 years.
Surviving her are her husband, Noah;
and one sister, Mrs. Alice
Heflin of Nashville, Tenn.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Baptist
church with Rev. A. L.
Cox
officiating.
Interment was made in Luther’s Chapel
Cemetery with G. A.
James
Funeral Service in charge.
(The death certificate of Alameda
Kiestler, of Cypress, Ill.,
states that she was born 1 Dec 1863, in
Tennessee, the daughter of Jacob
Thomas, a native of Virginia, and Mary
McDaniel, a native of Tennessee, died 26
Jul 1941, in Cypress, Johnson Co., Ill.,
wife of Noah
Kiestler, and was buried in Luther’s Chapel Cemetery near Cypress, Johnson
Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 1 Aug 1941:
PROMINENT RESIDENT OF MOUNDS DIES
Jacob Christian
Mench
passed away at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Percy
Hunt
in Mounds Friday, July 25.
Mr.
Mench and his wife and children moved to Mounds from Alton.
He had accepted the secretaryship of
the railroad Y. M. C. A.
Under the leadership of Mr.
Mench
the “Y” gained in membership to over 1,200,
the highest Y. M. C. A. membership in the
United States.
He visited the sick and persons in
trouble and was considered one of the
greatest humanitarians in Southern Illinois.
When the I. C. yards closed in
Mounds, the “Y” closed January 1, 1933.
Mr. and Mrs.
Mench
left Mounds for Texas to reside.
Mrs.
Mench died in 1937.
Since then Mr.
Mench
has made his home with his three children.
He is survived
by three children, Edith Virginia
Hunt
of Mounds, James Logan
Mench
of Cairo, and Charles Russell
Mench
of Butte, Mont.; three grandchildren, Helen
Clair
Hunt of Mounds, Frederick
Mench
of Washington, D.C., and Susan Lee
Mench
of Butte.
Rev. S. C.
Benninger, assisted by Rev. J. Rue
Reid, officiated at the funeral services.
The Centralia Railroad Conductors
Quartet was in charge of the music.
A tribute was paid Mr.
Mench
when all the churches of Mounds held
memorial services in his honor at their
regular worship hour.
Burial was made in the Alton
Cemetery, Alton, Ill.
BROTHER OF HENRY HALL DIES MONDAY AFTERNOON
James Hardy
Hall, age 61, of Hickman, Ky., passed away at the home of his
brother, Henry
Hall,
in Mound City Monday afternoon at 12:10
o’clock.
Mr.
Hall is survived by two brothers, Henry of Mounds City and Raymond
of Hickman; one sister, Mrs. Nora
Talley of Mound City.
Funeral services were conducted by
Rev. Charles
Montgomery at the
James
Funeral Home in this city Wednesday
morning at 11 o’clock.
Burial was made in Hickman, Ky.
G. A.
James
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
(According to his death certificate,
James Hardy
Hall,
farmer, was born 1 Jan 1880, in Pope Co.,
Ill., the son of John R.
Hall,
a native of Tennessee, and Margaret
Carter, a native of Georgia, died 28 Jul
1941, in Mound City, Pulaski Co., Ill., and
was buried in Hickman Cemetery in Hickman,
Hickman Co., Ky.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 8 Aug 1941:
Friends of Mrs. Fred
Adler
of Centralia, formerly of this city, will
regret to hear that death claimed her
mother, Mrs.
Bundy,
of Centralia, July 11.
Had Mrs.
Bundy
lived until Aug. 14, she would have been 82
years of age.
(John E.
Baldridge married Moriah
Richey on 29 May 1839, in Marion Co.,
Ill.
The death certificate of Martha A.
Bundy
states she was born 14 Aug 1859, in
Jefferson Co., Ill., the daughter of John
Baldridge, a native of North Carolina,
and Maria
Ritchie, a native of New York City, N.
Y., died 11 Jul 1941, in Centralia, Marion
Co., Ill., widow of Alex
Bundy,
and was buried in Gilead Cemetery in Grand
Prairie, Jefferson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 8 Aug 1941:
INFANT DAUGHTER DIES
Carolyn Mae
Davis, two months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ilijah
Davis
of Dongola, passed away at the farm home of
her parents Sunday morning at 1 o’clock.
She is survived by her parents, her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harris
Davis
and Mrs. Laura
Slusher, all of Dongola.
Funeral services were held at the
Baptist church in Mill Creek Monday morning
at 11 o’clock with Rev. H. G.
Peterson officiating.
Burial was made in St. John’s
Cemetery.
(Elijah Andrew
Davis married Lola May
Hartline on 24 Dec 1940.
The death certificate of Carolyn Mae
Davis
states that she was born 7 Jun 1941,
near Dongola, Union Co., Ill., the daughter
of Elijah
Davis,
a native of Mill Creek, Ill., and Lola May
Hartline, a native of Dongola, Ill.,
died 3 Aug 1941, in Road District 6, Union
Co., Ill., and was buried in St. John’s
Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
ULLIN RESIDENT DIES
Herman Lloyd
Sowers, age 14, passed away at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Clen
Sowers, on a farm near Ullin Sunday
afternoon at 4:45 o’clock.
Herman is survived by his parents;
one sister, Helen; and his grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Marris
Sowers of Ullin and Mrs. Etta
Sheffer of Dongola.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church in Ullin Tuesday afternoon
at 2 o’clock by Rev. J. R.
Weiss.
Burial was in Chapel Cemetery near
Dongola.
(His death certificate states that Herman
Lloyd
Sowers, student, was born 7 Jan 1927, in
Wetaug, Pulaski Co., Ill., the son of Clen
Sowers and Effie
Sheffer, natives of Illinois, died 3 Aug 1941, in Road District 10,
Pulaski Co., Ill., and was buried in Chapel
Cemetery in Road District 3, Union Co., Ill.
His marker in Christian Chapel
Cemetery near Dongola reads:
Herman L.
Sowers Jan. 7, 1927 Aug. 3, 1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 15 Aug 1941:
Sister of Frank Ebbs Dies Monday in
Carbondale
Miss Mary
Ebbs, sister of Frank Ebbs,
died Monday afternoon, August 11, at 3:15
o’clock at the home of her sister, Mrs. J.
B.
Wright of Carbondale, following a long
illness.
She had made her home with Mrs.
Wright for several years.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Laura
Watson and Mrs. Emma
Wright, both of Carbondale; three
brothers, Harry and Charlie
Ebbs
of Carbondale and Frank
Ebbs
of this city.
Funeral services were held at the
Van
Natta Funeral Home in Carbondale
Wednesday afternoon at two o’clock, the
pastor of the Christian Church officiating.
Burial was made in Oakland Cemetery,
Carbondale.
Those from Mounds who attended the funeral
were Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Ebbs,
Mrs. Theo
Endicott and daughter, Naydine.
(Henry
Ebbs married Lucy Hopper
on 2 Jul 1865, in Jackson Co., Ill.
According to her death certificate,
Mary Margaret
Ebbs, of Carbondale Township, Jackson Co., Ill., was born 28 Feb
1879, in Marion, Williamson Co., Ill., the
daughter of Henry
Ebbs
and Miss
Hopper, natives of Marion, Ill., died 12 Aug 1941, in Carbondale
Township, Jackson Co., Ill.
Her marker in Oakland Cemetery in
Carbondale, Ill., reads:
Mary M.
Ebbs
1879-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 22 Aug 1941:
DIES FROM INJURIES RECEIVED IN WRECK
Charles Burrows of Equality, who had been operating a tractor on the
Mounds-Mound City levee project, died Friday
from injuries received in an automobile
wreck on Route 37 over the Spur Inn.
He leaves his wife and two children.
Benjamin F. Harget
Benjamin F.
Harget of Cairo age 63, died at St. Mary’s Hospital Monday evening,
August 18, at 9 o’clock.
Mr.
Harget was taken suddenly ill at his
home at Twenty-eighth and the Mississippi
during the electrical storm.
He is survived by his wife; four
daughters, Mrs. Myrtle
Day
of Ola, N.C., Mrs. Louise
Murphy, Mrs. Stella
Abney
and Miss Mary
Harget, all of Cairo; five sons, Ben
Jr., of Company K, Dan of Lincoln, Ill., and
Charles, Jimmie and Harold of Cairo.
One grandchild and many other
relatives also survive him.
Funeral services were held at the
Karcher Funeral Home Thursday morning at
10 o’clock with Capt. John
Potter of the Salvation Army
officiating.
Burial was in Spencer Heights
Cemetery.
(The 1918 draft registration card of
Benjamin
Harget states that he was born 8 Aug
1877, was a U. S. guard at Cairo, Ill. The
death certificate of Benjamin F.
Harget, W. P. A. laborer, of Cairo,
Ill.,
states that he was born 8 Aug 1878, in
Festus, Mo., the son of Dan
Harget, died 18 Aug 1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., husband of
Mamie
Harget, and was buried in Spencer
Heights Cemetery in Mounds, Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
His original Social Security
application states he was born 8 Aug 1879,
in Crystal City, Mo., the son of Dan
Harget and Anna
Quinton.—Darrel Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 22 Aug 1941:
INFANT SON DIES
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Winters, who was born Monday at their
home in this city, died late Tuesday
evening.
Burial was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery.
G. A.
James
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
(His death certificate states the
infant was born 18 Aug 1941, in Mound City,
Ill., the son of Harry
Winters, a native of Kentucky, and Rose
Fitzgerald, a native of Mound City,
Ill.,
and died 19 Aug 1941, in Mound City,
Ill., and was buried in Thistlewood Cemetery
at Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
DROWNS IN OHIO RIVER AFTER FALL FROM DREDGE
D. R.
Waller was drowned Monday morning when he fell from a dredge boat
stationed on the Ohio River near Grand
Chain.
The boat on which
Waller was working was dredging a
channel in the river about a mile from Grand
Chain and while
Waller was signaling with a flashlight
early in the morning, he fell overboard.
His body was found a short time after
he fell.
Attempts at artificial respiration
failed.
A coroner’s jury returned a verdict
of accidental death.
Waller is survived by his wife.
FORMER WORKER HERE DIES OF INJURIES FROM
FALL
Charles
Burrows, a Caterpilar tractor operator for the Mound City-Mounds
flood control project for the last few
months, died as the result of injuries he
received last Thursday afternoon when he
fell out of the open door of his automobile
as he was driving on Route 37 near the Spur
Inn.
Burrows’ back was broken. He lived about 24 hours.
The car left the highway following
Burrows’ fall, turned over, slightly
injuring his wife and another occupant.
His wife and two children survive.
The cause of
Burrows’ fall was not learned except that the door next to the
driver’s seat was open.
He never regained consciousness after
being taken to the Metropolis hospital.
His home was in Equality.
One or two of the workers here on the
levee were with him, one of them being “Pop”
Barnett, but were not hurt.
LIFE LONG RESIDENT OF MOUND CITY DIES
Mrs. Bell
Crandall Cumby, age 65, passed away Tuesday afternoon at 3:15
o’clock at her home in Mound City.
Mrs.
Cumby was born and reared in Mound City and spent her entire life
here.
According to the history of Alexander
and Pulaski counties, Mrs.
Cumby
was a daughter of James B.
Crandall, attorney at law, who came to
Mound City in 1863.
Mr.
Crandall held the office of county
treasurer of Pulaski County from 1865 to
1868 and for several years was a member of
the city council.
He was also city attorney for Mound
City.
Mrs.
Cumby is survived by her husband, John, of Mound City.
Burial was made Wednesday evening at
5 o’clock in the family lot at Beech Grove
Cemetery.
Short services were conducted at the
grave by Rev. Walter
Van
Meter.
G. A.
James
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
(Her death certificate states that
Isabel
Crandel
Cumby was born 26 Feb 1876, in Mound City, Ill., died 12 Aug 1941,
in Mound City, Pulaski Co., Ill., wife of J.
C. Cumby, and was buried in Beechwood Cemetery in Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Among those who attended the funeral of
Charles
Burrows in Equality were Mr. and Mrs.
Claude
Burnett, Mr. and Mrs. Carrol
Sisk,
Mr. and Mrs. Whitey
George, Mr.
Berry
and Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie
Stern.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 29 Aug 1941:
Everett Jones
Everett
Jones, age 54, passed away Saturday night, August 23, at 10:20
o’clock at his home in Mound City.
Mr.
Jones
had been a resident of Mound City for 13
years.
He is survived by his widow, Anna;
four daughters, Mrs. Esther
Ford
of Blytheville, Ark., and Mrs. Agnes
Wadlington, Mrs. Beulah
Tapley and Mrs. Virginia
Cook
of Mound City; his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth
Peterson of Mt. Carmel; two sisters,
Mrs. Minnie
Williams of Mt. Carmel and Mrs. Maxine
Bruce
of Springfield, Ill.; and three brothers,
Manuel and Alva of Evansville, Ind., and
Earl of Mt. Carmel.
Funeral services were held at the
First Methodist Church in Mound City Monday
afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Rev. Charles
Montgomery, pastor, officiated.
Interment was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery.
G. A.
James
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
(According to his death certificate,
Everett
Jones,
laborer, of Mound City, Ill., was born 2 Mar
1887, in Grayville, Ill., the son of Steward
Jones
and Elizabeth
Lewis,
natives of Illinois, died 23 Aug 1941, in
Mound City, Ill., the husband of Anna
Jones, and was buried in Spencer Heights Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
Otto H. Betts Dies at His Home in Mound City
Otto H.
Betts, a prominent resident of Mound City, died at his home here
Saturday night, August 23, at 11:45 o’clock,
following a long illness.
His age was 69 years.
Mr.
Betts was born in Hickman, Ky., but moved to Mound City 52 years
ago.
He was married to Miss Rose
Monahan in 1897.
He was an accomplished musician and
could play most any instrument.
He will specially be remembered here
in Mounds as having been the manager of the
Gold Sand Store at one time located just
east of the First State Bank.
Surviving are his wife; one sister,
Mrs. Charles
Conyers of East Prairie, Mo.; one
brother, George
Betts
of Mound City; also nieces and nephews
and other relatives.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Congregational
church of Mound City, of which he was an
active member, with Rev. H. S.
Bahr,
pastor, officiating, assisted by Rev. Ed
Lockard.
Burial was in the family lot in Beech
Grove Cemetery.
Casket bearers were Clyde
Richey, Frank
Sergman, William
Bestgen, A. J. Ridings,
Robert
DeZonia and Rohan
Lutz.
(The original Social Security
application of Otto
Betts
gives his parents as John T.
Betts
and Maria J.
Kinman. His death certificate
states that Otto Hickman
Betts
was born 25 Apr 1872, in Hickman, Fulton
Co., Ill., the son of John Thomas
Betts,
a native of Kentucky, died 23 Aug 1941, in
Mound City, Pulaski Co., Ill., husband of
Rose
Betts, and was buried in Beech Grove Cemetery at Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Sidney L. Luckey
Sidney L.
Luckey, prominent colored farmer of Bethel community west of town,
died Monday morning, August 25, at the age
of 82 years.
Born of slave parents in 1859 in the
state of Alabama, he farmed for his parents
for 17 years then moved with them to
Illinois in 1877, to a farm east of Villa
Ridge, now known as the
Delaney farm.
He left the farm to accept a job on
the river working at that for 18 years then
went to work for the Illinois Central
Railroad Co., holding that place for 16
years.
From the railroad he returned to the
farm, purchasing 117 acres four miles west
of this city and remained there until his
death.
He became known as one of Pulaski
County’s best farmers and was comfortably
situated.
His knowledge of farming and farming
conditions and the various crops and fruits
made him a valuable asset to the farmers in
the community and county.
He reared two children, Isaac
Luckey and Birdie
Luckey Jones, both of whom reside near their father’s home.
(According to the death certificate,
Sidney
Luckey, farmer, of Road District 7,
Pulaski Co., Ill., was born about 1860 in
Alabama, the son of John and Sarah
Luckey, died 25 Aug 1941, in Road
District 7, Pulaski Co., Ill., and was
buried in Spencer Heights Cemetery in
Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Former M. T. H. S. Teacher Died in Indiana
July 28
Miss Mary Gayle
Graham, age 41, died in a hospital at
Lebanon, Ind., July 28, after having
undergone an operation July 22, according to
word received a few days ago by Miss Mary
Scruggs from Mrs. Mabel Lane
of Lebanon, a sister of Miss
Graham.
Miss
Graham taught mathematics in Mounds Township High School the year of
1921-1922, going from here to the Flora High
School where she had taught continuously
since that time.
While here she made her home with the
George M.
Scruggs family on Oak Street and was
planning to visit here this month.
She was a graduate of Franklin
College and a member of Delta Zeta Sorority.
She leaves three brothers and three
sisters, all living in Indiana.
(Her marker in Old Union Church
Cemetery in Jamestown, Boone Co., Ind.,
reads:
Daughter Mary G.
Graham 1900-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 29 Aug 1941:
DEATH CLAIMS EVERETT JONES
Everett
Jones, age 54, passed away Saturday night at 10:20 o’clock at his
home in Mound City.
Mr.
Jones had been a resident of Mound City for 13 years.
He is survived by his widow, Anna;
four daughters, Mrs. Ester
Ford
of Blytheville, Ark, and Mrs. Agnes
Wadlington, Mrs. Beulah
Tapley and Mrs. Virginia
Cook
of Mound City; two sons, Leon of Cairo and
Harold of Mound City; his mother, Mrs.
Elizabeth
Peterson of Mt. Carmel; two sisters,
Mrs. Minnie
Williams of Mt. Carmel and Mrs. Maxine
Bruce
of Springfield, Ill.; and three brothers,
Manuel and Alva of Evansville, Ind., and
Earl of Mt. Carmel.
Funeral services were held at the
First Methodist Church in Mound City Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Rev. Charles
Montgomery, pastor, officiated.
Interment was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery.
The following friends served as
casket bearers, Mark
Capoot, Roy
Tyler,
Arthur
Henning, R. Hust, Herman
Dunn
and Gilbert
Sheerer.
OTTO BETTS DIES AT HIS HOME SATURDAY
Otto H.
Betts, age 69, passed away at his home in this city at 11:45 o’clock
Saturday night, following an illness of
several years.
Surviving him are his wife, Rose; one
sister, Mrs. Charles
Conyers of East Prairie, Mo.; one
brother, George
Betts
of Mound City; besides several nieces and
nephews and other relatives.
Mr.
Betts was born in Hickman, Ky., and moved to Mound City 52 years
ago.
He was married to Miss Rose
Monahan in 1897.
He was an active member of the
Congregational Church of Mound City.
Mr.
Betts
was an accomplished musician and could play
most any musical instrument.
He had many friends throughout
Pulaski County.
Funeral services were held at the
family residence at 3 p.m. Tuesday with Rev.
H. A.
Bahr, pastor of the Congregational church of Mound City assisted by
Rev. H. E.
Lockard of the Baptist church
officiating.
Burial was made in the family lot in
Beech Grove Cemetery.
The following friends served as
casket bearers:
Clyde
Richey, A. J.
Ridings, Frank Bergman,
William
Bestgen, Robert
De
Zonia and Rohan
Lutz.
Mrs. Agnes
Wadlington returned Sunday from a
western trip having been called by the death
of her father, Everett
Jones.
Among those from out of town who attended
the funeral Monday of Everett
Jones
were Mr. and Mrs. John
Peterson of Mt. Carmel, and Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur
Williams of Mt. Carmel, Mr. and Mrs. M.
Jones
and Mr. and Mrs. Alva
Jones,
all of Evansville, Ind.
Among those from out of town who attended
the funeral Tuesday of Otto
Betts
were Mr. and Mrs. C. C.
Conyers of East Prairie, Mo.; Mr. and
Mrs. Fred
Nunnulee of Blodgett, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs.
John
Nunnulee and son Roddy and Jean and Joe
Nunnulee, all of Charleston, Mo.; Mr.
and Mrs. Art
Conyers and Mrs. Bryan
Harris of St. Louis, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs.
A. J.
Dannaker of Webster Groves, Mo.; Mrs.
Lillian
Hanley of St. Louis, Mo.; Mr. and Mrs.
Ray
Olmsted of East St. Louis, Ill.; Mr. and
Mrs. George
Muscovalley and son, Milton, and daughter, Mrs. Micholis and Mrs.
George Thomas
Muscovalley, Jr., all of St. Louis, Mo.;
and Mrs. C. S.
Miller and Mrs. Paul
Hickman, both of Cairo.
Harris
Sowers passed away Tuesday at 2 p.m.
after a week’s illness.
(Beech Grove)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 5 Sep 1941:
Louis Edward Fiessinger
Louis Edward
Fiessinger, age 64, passed away at his
home in Mound City Saturday morning, August
30.
He had been a resident of Mound City
for the past seven years.
Surviving are his wife; three
daughters, Mrs. Glena
Wilburn, Mrs. Bertha Mae
Coonrod and Miss Anna Neal
Fiessinger of Mound City; and two sons,
Aubrey and Everett.
Three brothers, John of Kevil and
Lloyd and Frank of Lovelaceville, Ky.; four
sisters, Mrs. Della
Rudolph of Kevil, Mrs. Ella
Stigall of Blandville, Mrs. Lizzie
Overby and Miss Vida
Fiessinger of Lovelaceville; and ten
grandchildren also survive him.
Funeral services were held Sunday
morning at 10:30 o’clock at the residence in
Mound City with Rev. Charles A.
Montgomery, pastor of First Methodist
Church, officiating.
Following the services, the funeral
party left for Lovelaceville, Ky., where
burial was made.
G. A.
James Funeral Service was in
charge of arrangements.
(According to his death certificate,
Louis Edward
Fiessinger, laborer, of Mound City,
Pulaski Co., Ill., was born 19 Aug 1877, in
Grayville, Ill., the son of Louis
Fiessinger, a native of Germany, and
Lucy
Shears, died 30 Aug 1941, in Mound City,
Pulaski Co., Ill., husband of Fruzzie
Fiessinger, and was buried in
Lovelaceville Cemetery in Ballard Co.,
Ky.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 5 Sep 1941:
PULASKI NEGRO KILLED AS HE RUNS INTO MOVING
AUTO
A coroner’s jury returned a verdict of
accidental death upon investigating evidence
from the accident in which Unie
Ford, Pulaski Negro, was instantly killed.
Ford, the evidence brought out, had stepped out of a truck, went
around the machine and made a dash across
the road, running more or less into the side
of an automobile driven by Miss Grace
Behme of Vienna. The
accident happened near Ullin last Thursday
afternoon.
(A death certificate for Urie
Ford,
W. P. A. worker, of Ullin, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., states that he was born 6 Aug 1898, in
Mississippi, the son of Dave
Ford
and Mary
Thompson, natives of Mississippi, died
28 Aug 1941, in Road District 3, Pulaski
Co., Ill., husband of Francis
Ford, and was buried in Union Grove Cemetery in Road District 3, Pulaski
Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
ONE TO 14 YEARS ON MANSLAUGHTER
Sallie
Young Williams, colored, who has been in the county jail for several
months awaiting trial for killing one Willie
“Moon”
McCurry, entered a plea of manslaughter
in circuit court this week before Judge
Bradley and drew from one to 14 years.
The indictment called for murder, but
due to no witnesses to the crime, a plea of
manslaughter was accepted and she was
sentenced to Dwight.
The man killed, and self-defense
would have been the plea, had been with her
in a tavern at Mounds and an argument
developed.
Something was said about settling it
outside and no one thought much about it.
Next morning, someone found “Moon”
quite dead in the ball park—a knife slash on
the side of his neck had gone too deep.
DEATH CLAIMS LOUIS FIESSINGER
Louis Edward
Fiessinger, age 64, passed away at his
home in this city at 1 o’clock Saturday
morning. He had been a resident of Mound
City for the past seven years.
Surviving are his wife, Fruzzie;
three daughters, Mrs. Glena
Wilburn, Mrs. Bertha Mae
Coonrod and Miss Anna Neal
Fiessinger of Mound City, and two sons,
Aubrey and Everett.
Three brothers, John of Kevil and
Lloyd and Frank of Lovelaceville, Ky.; four
sisters, Mrs. Dela
Rudolph of Kevil, Mrs. Ella
Stigal of Blandville, Mrs. Lizzie
Overby and Miss Vida
Fiessinger of Lovelaceville; and ten
grandchildren also survive him.
Funeral services were held Sunday
morning at 10:30 o’clock at the residence in
Mound City with Rev. Charles F.
Montgomery, pastor of First Methodist
Church, officiating.
Following the services, the funeral
party left for Lovelaceville, where burial
was made.
G. A.
James
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
New Teacher at Karnak Dies of Heart Attack
Miss Phyllis
McLaughlin of Decatur, age 22, died shortly after retiring at her
boarding place in Karnak Friday night.
She had been employed as a teacher in
the Karnak High School for the present year
and had held classes just four days.
The verdict at the coroner’s inquest
was to the effect that her death was caused
by a heart attack.
The body was taken to Decatur for
burial.
(Her death certificate states that
Phyllis
McLaughlin, teacher, of Karnak, Pulaski
Co., Ill., was born 19 Mar 1919, in Cerro
Gordo, Ill., the daughter of Francis R.
McLaughlin, a native of Piatt Co., Ill.,
and Hallie
Selby,
a native of Illinois, died 5 Sep 1941, in
Karnak, Pulaski Co., Ill., and was buried at
Cerro Gordo, Piatt Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mound Independent,
Friday, 12 Sep 1941:
Brother of E. E. Goddard Dies in California
Home
E. E.
Goddard, superintendent of the St. Louis Division of the Illinois
Central Signal System and at one time a
partner in business with W. L.
Toler
here, is mourning the loss of his only
brother, Glenn
Goddard, principal of the Jordan Junior
High School of Palo Alto, Calif., whose
death occurred Sunday, August 31, at his
home.
He leaves his wife, the former
Pauline
Peterson of Carbondale; and two small sons—Billy, 6, and Bobby, 3—;
his brother, Earl E.
Goddard of Carbondale; and a sister,
Miss Grace
Goddard, also of Carbondale.
Both brother and sister were on their
way to Palo Alto, but arrived only in time
to attend the funeral services, which were
held in the Memorial Chapel of Leland
Stanford University.
(William H.
Goddard, 21, farmer, born in Anna, Union Co., Ill., the son of
Timothy H.
Goddard and Susan
Sumners, married on 20 May 1883, in Union Co., Ill., Alice L.
Anderson, 21, born in Anna, Ill.,
daughter of James H.
Anderson and Rosa
Worley.
His 1917 draft registration states
that Glenn
Goddard, student, of Carbondale, Ill.,
was born 8 May 1896, in Anna, Union Co.,
Ill.
The California Death Index states
that Glenn W.
Goddard was born 8 May 1896, in
Illinois, the son of Mr.
Goddard and Miss Anderson,
died 31 Aug 1941, in Santa Clara Co.,
Calif.
His marker in Oakland Cemetery in
Carbondale, Jackson Co., Ill., reads:
Glenn W.
Goddard 1891-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
President’s Mother Dies Suddenly in Her 87th
Year
Mrs. Sara Delano
Roosevelt, mother of President Franklin
Delano
Roosevelt, died at her Hyde Park home on
the Hudson River Sunday, September 7, at
11:15 a.m.
Had she lived until Sept. 21, she
would have been 87.
President and Mrs.
Roosevelt were at her bedside when the
end came, having watched there throughout
the night.
Stricken Friday night, Mrs.
Roosevelt’s condition did not become
alarming until almost 24 hours later.
Death was attributed to an acute
circulatory collapse.
Mrs.
Roosevelt was born Sept. 21, 1854, at Algonac, north of
Newburgh-on-the-Hudson, N.Y.
Her mother was the former Katherine
Robbins
Lyman
of Northampton, Mass.
Her father, Warren
Delano, one of a long line of merchants
in the far east trade, was engaged in
banking and commerce.
She was educated by governesses in
her own home and later studied four years in
France and Germany.
She was married to James
Roosevelt on Oct. 7, 1880.
He was a lawyer by profession, but
was kept busy by his financial and railroad
interests and did not practice law.
His death occurred Dec. 8, 1900.
Mrs.
Roosevelt lived to see what no other
American mother has ever seen—her son
elected president for the third term.
Burial services were held privately
in the library of the Hyde Park home and
burial was made in the family lot in the
churchyard of St. James Episcopal Church,
Hyde Park, by the side of her husband.
FATHER OF MRS. J. F. CONNELL DIES SATURDAY,
SEPT. 7
Mrs. James F.
Connell was called to Peoria Saturday by the illness of her father,
L. C.
Schuley, who passed away before she
reached his bedside.
Mayor
Connell and children, accompanied by his
mother, Mrs. W. I.
Connell left Sunday for Peoria where
funeral services for Mr.
Schuley were held Tuesday.
Mrs. B. A.
Braddy attended the funeral of her
brother-in-law, Swinton
Ballard in Buncombe Friday morning.
(Swinton W.
Ballard, 23, farmer from Johnson Co., Ill., born in Union Co., Ill.,
son of Ben F.
Ballard and Elizabeth
Gurley,
married on 8 Oct 1889, at Robert M.
Pryor’s in Union Co., Ill., Nora M.
Cunningham, 17, from Johnson Co., Ill.,
born in Union Co., Ill., daughter of Hugh D.
Cunningham and Susan
Pool.
Franklin
Ballard, son of William
Ballard, married on 29 Dec 1853, in Union Co., Ill., Elizabeth
Gurley.
The death certificate of
Swinton W.
Ballard, farmer, of Buncombe, Elvira
Township, Johnson Co., Ill., states that he
was born 15 Jan 1863, in Union Co., Ill.,
the son of Franklin
Ballard, a native of Pennsylvania, and Elizabeth
Gurley, a native of North Carolina, died
10 Sep 1941, in Buncombe, Johnson Co., Ill.,
husband of Nora
Ballard, and was buried in Road District
2, Johnson Co., Ill.
His marker in Mount Zion Cemetery in
Buncombe, Johnson Co., Ill., reads:
Swinton W.
Ballard 1863-1941 Nora M.
Ballard 1872-1951.—Darrel
Dexter)
KARNAK SCHOOL TEACHER DIES OF HEART DISEASE
Miss Phyllis
McLaughlin of Decatur, Ill., who was hired this year to teach in the
Karnak High School was found dead last
Saturday morning of heart disease.
Miss
McLaughlin taught social sciences.
She was called early Saturday morning
and when no answer came the lady with whom
she was living entered her room and found
her dead in bed.
She was 22 years of age.
Her body was prepared for burial by
the
Wilson Funeral Service and sent to her
home in Decatur.
The Mound Independent,
Friday, 19 Sep 1941:
Eli Mowery
Eli
Mowery, age 92, died in Detroit, Mich., Sunday.
His body arrived at Dongola by train
Monday afternoon at 5 o’clock and was taken
to the
Ford Funeral Home, where it remained until the hour of the funeral,
which was held at St. John’s Church Tuesday
afternoon at two o’clock.
Burial was made beside his wife in
St. John’s Cemetery.
Mr.
Mowery lived in Dongola and vicinity for years, but since the death
of his wife in 1934, he moved to Detroit
where he made his home with his only
daughter, Mrs. Clara
Lentz.
Mr. and Mrs. T. M.
Ridgeway have returned from Tulsa,
Okla., where they were called Friday by the
illness of Mr.
Ridgeway’s brother, Roy
Ridgeway, who passed away before they
reached his bedside.
Funeral services were held Monday in
Tulsa.
(A marker in Memorial Park Cemetery
in Tulsa, Okla., reads:
Dear Daddy David Roy
Ridgeway Apr. 7, 1886-Sept. 12,
1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mound Independent,
Friday, 26 Sep 1941:
Miss Margaret Lansden Dies Saturday at Her
Home in Cairo
Miss Margaret
Lansden, youngest daughter of the late John M. and Mrs. Effie W.
Smith
Lansden of Cairo, died Saturday evening,
September 20, at the family home, 315 Fifth
Street, where she had been ill for several
months.
She leaves two sisters, Miss Emma
Lansden of Cairo and Mrs. Robert
Peck
Bates of Chicago; two brothers, David S.
Lansden of Cairo and John M.
Lansden of New York City; also three
nephews, David V. and Robert L. of Cairo and
John A., of Madera, California.
Another sister, Miss Effie
Lansden, passed to the beyond on May 29
of this year.
Miss
Lansden was an active worker in the First Presbyterian Church of
Cairo and in the primary department of its
Sunday school.
She was also a member of the Cairo
Woman’s Club.
Until it was closed, she was chairman
of the Board of Managers of the Cairo
Children’s Home, which was an outstanding
private charitable institution with its
success due largely to her efforts.
Services were held at the family
residence Tuesday morning at 10:30 o’clock
conducted by the Venerable Samuel L.
Hagan
of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer.
Burial was in the family lot at Villa
Ridge cemetery.
(Her death certificate states that
Margaret
Lansden, of Cairo, Ill., was born 9 Aug
1879, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., the
daughter of John M.
Lansden, a native of Sangamon Co., Ill.,
and Effie W.
Smith,
a native of Jacksonville, Ill., died 20 Sep
1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., and was
buried in Villa Ridge cemetery.
Her marker there reads:
Margaret
Lansden 1879-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Two Young Men Killed in Early Sunday Morning
Wreck
Dallas
Jones of Grand Chain, age 21, and Herschel
Maze, Jr., of Goreville, age 20, were killed and Riley
Pritchett, also of Goreville, is
reported in a critical condition in the
Herrin Hospital as the result of a collision
which occurred early Sunday morning on the
highway south of Goreville when the car,
said to have been driven by
Jones,
struck a loaded coal truck and was
demolished.
A fourth young man, William
Dunn,
also of Goreville, who was at first thought
to have sustained only slight injuries was
later reported to be suffering from numerous
bruises and cuts and possibly internal
injuries.
The young men were returning to Goreville from the midnight show at
Vienna.
Dallas
Jones is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Jones
of Grand Chain, formerly of Goreville; two
sisters, Bertha of Marion and Helen of Grand
Chain; five brothers, John Elmer of Grand
Chain, Claude of Ullin, Omar of Karnak,
Clarence of Chicago and Leon of Louisiana.
Funeral services were held Monday
morning at 11 o’clock at the Mt. Hebron
Church at Goreville with Rev. Earl
Throgmorton officiating.
Burial was made in Mt. Hebron
Cemetery.
Maze is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herschel
Maze
and a brother Victor, all of Goreville.
Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Methodist
church in Goreville with Rev. Bluford
Dawson officiating.
Interment was made in Busby Cemetery.
Wilson Funeral Service was in charge of
both funerals.
Later:
Riley
Pritchett died from his injuries on
Monday following.
(The death certificate of Dallas
Jones,
truck driver, of Grand Chain, Ill., states
that he was born 2 Jan 1916, in Chaffee,
Mo., the son of John
Jones
and Lula
Foster, natives of Illinois, died 20 Sep
1941, in Road District 1, Johnson Co., Ill.,
and was buried in 22 Sep 1941, in Road
District 1, Union Co., Ill.
His marker in Mt. Hebron Cemetery in
Union Co., Ill., reads:
Dallas
son of John & Lula
Jones
Jan. 2, 1916 Sept. 20, 1941.
The
death certificate of Herschel Landon
Maze,
Jr., of Goreville, Ill., states that he was
born 19 Aug 1921, in Goreville, Johnson Co.,
Ill., the son of Herschel
Maze
and Dessie
Threet, natives of Goreville, Ill., died
20 Sep 1941, in Road District 1, Johnson
Co., Ill.
He was buried in Busby Cemetery in
Goreville, Ill.
The death certificate of Rollie
Pritchett, service station attendant, of
Goreville, Ill.,
states that he was born 17 May 1920, in
Goreville, Ill., the son of James
Pritchett and Bertha Glenn,
natives of Goreville, Ill., died 22 Sep
1941, in Herrin, Williamson Co., Ill., and
was buried in Road District 1, Johnson Co.,
Ill.
His marker reads:
Rollie
Pritchett May 17, 1920 Sept. 22, 1941
Brothers Arbie
Pritchett July 12, 1908 July 23, 1930 Sons of James and Bertha
Pritchett.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 26 Sep 1941:
USES AX ON HUSBAND
W. C.
Jones, Negro, of near Grand Chain, is in
the Cairo hospital after being cut on the
head with an ax.
It was reported that
Jones’ wife, whom he had put out of the house, had re-entered the
room where her husband was sleeping and
struck him across the forehead with an ax,
inflicting a serious wound.
An operation was performed on
Jones
at the hospital with part of his brain being
removed.
However,
Jones
is reported to be getting along all right.
He had thrown all of the clothing
owned by his wife out the door when he made
her leave, it was reported.
THREE YOUTHS KILLED WHEN THEIR CAR HITS
TRUCK
Fatally injured when their car
sideswiped and tore under a loaded 12-ton
Diamond T coal truck on Route 37 south of
Goreville early Sunday morning.
Dallas
Jones,
21, of Grand Chain and Herschel
Maze,
Jr., age 20, of Goreville, were buried
Monday, and a third victim, Rollie
Pritchett of Goreville, age 21, died
Monday night.
With two other Goreville youths, the
two young men had attended a midnight show
in Vienna and were returning to Goreville
where
Jones formerly lived.
The cab of the car in which they were
riding about a 1930 model Chevrolet, was
crushed back, instantly killing
Jones
and Maze who were in the front seat.
Surviving
Jones are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Jones of Grand Chain; two sisters, Bertha of Marion and Helen of
Grand Chain; five brothers, John Lemer of
Grand Chain, Claude of Ullin, Omar of
Karnak, Clarence of Chicago and Leon of
Louisiana.
Funeral services for the Grand Chain
youth were held Monday morning at 11 o’clock
at the Mt. Hebron Church at Goreville.
Rev. Earl
Throgmorton officiated with
Wilson Funeral Service in charge of
arrangements.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 3 Oct 1941:
Sister of Louis Stout Dies
Mrs. F. H.
Harmon, sister of Louis Stout,
died September 25 in a hospital at Quincy.
The former Maud
Stout,
she was born in Cairo, but had lived in St.
Louis for many years before going to Quincy
early in this year to make her home with a
daughter.
She is survived by her husband, two
daughters, three grandsons and three
brothers, Louis of this city, Thomas and
Claude of Cairo.
(Henry
Stout married Mary E. Connery
on 21 Aug 1864, in Gallatin Co., Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Maud
Harman was born 2 Oct 1869, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., the
daughter of Henry
Stout,
a native of Shawneetown, Ill., and Mary
Connery, a native of Wisconsin, died 25
Sep 1941, in Quincy, Adams Co., Ill., wife
of Seymour
Harman, and was buried in St. Louis
Cemetery in St. Louis, Mo.—Darrel
Dexter)
Cairo Youth Killed in Flight Crash in China
Max C.
Hammer, Jr., of Cairo, an instructor in the Chinese Air Corps, met
death in a training flight crash Sept. 22,
according to word received by his father in
the form of a telegram from Secretary of
State Cordell
Hull.
The news had been relayed to him from
the American Consulate in Rangoon, Burma.
The youth, who was only 25, had been
in China less than a month.
He completed his U. S. Army Air Corps
training at Kelly Field, Texas, this summer,
resigned in July and at once enlisted for
service in China.
The last letter his father received
was written Aug. 31, aboard ship
en
route to Singapore.
(The Report of the Death of American
Citizens Abroad states that Maax Curtis
Hammer, Jr., died 22 Sep 1941 at 1:30 p.m. near Toungoo, Burma, in
an accident during an airplane training
flight.
He was buried in Plot D-15 British
Cantonment Cemetery in Toungoo, Burma.
His father, Maax C.
Hammer, of 219 Fourth St., Cairo, Ill.,
was notified by telegraph 23 Sep
1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Robert Lee Henderson
Robert Lee
Henderson, age 55, died early Sunday morning, Sept. 28, at the home
of his sister, Mrs. H. G.
Gevedin, in Anna following a short
illness.
For many years Mr.
Henderson was a resident of this place.
Besides his sister, he is survived by
one son, James, who is in the U. S. Army;
one daughter, Mrs. Mildred
Wadley; two brothers, Bailey of Jackson,
Tenn., and Vester of Tucson, Ariz.
Funeral services were conducted at
the grave at Bardwell Cemetery in Kentucky
Monday afternoon.
J. T.
Ryan
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
(According to his death certificate,
Robert Lee
Henderson, farm laborer, was born 15 Jan
1886, in Arlington, Ky., the son of J. L.
Henderson, a native of Ogden Landing,
Ky., and Martha
Sullinger, a native of Kentucky, died 28
Sep 1941, in Anna, Union Co., Ill., the
widower of Virgie
Henderson, and was buried at Bardwell, Carlisle Co., Ky.
His June 1937 Social Security
application listed his father as John L.
Henderson.—Darrel
Dexter)
John Miller
John
Miller, age 91, died at his home on a farm near Wetaug Sunday after
an illness of 9 months.
His funeral was held at the Mt.
Pisgah Lutheran Church near Wetaug Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock conducted by the
pastor, Rev. William E.
Bridges, and burial was made in the Mt.
Pisgah Cemetery.
He leaves three children, Albert G.
Miller of Cairo, Hugh
Miller of Bruce, Miss., and Walter
Miller of Bruce, Miss., and Walter
Miller of Ullin; two stepchildren,
Mrs. Ethel
Betts
of New Cangton and Ed
Crippen of Ullin; 11 grandchildren and 4
great-grandchildren.
(His death certificate states that
John
Miller, farmer, was born 17 Oct 1849, in
Mill Creek, Ill., the son of John
Miller and Sarah
Harky,
natives of North Carolina, died 28 Sep 1941,
in Road District 10, Pulaski Co., Ill.,
widower of Anna S.
Miller, and was buried in Road District
10, Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery
reads:
John
Miller 1849-1941 Anna S.
Miller 1862-1930.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 3 Oct 1941:
CAIRO AVIATOR KILLED IN CHINA PLANE CRASH
Max Hammer, Jr., well known Cairo aviator, was killed in a plane crash
in China, September 22, his father learned
last week.
Hammer, who was a lieutenant in the U.
S. Army Air Corps before volunteering for
service with the Chinese Army, was flying a
training plane.
He was an instructor.
Lieut.
Hammer completed his basic flight training at Randolph Field in
Texas.
He was then transferred to Kelly
Field from which he was graduated early last
spring.
He was one of 60 resigning from the
U. S. Air Corps to go to China to aid that
army in its fight against Japan.
Freeman
Sowers of Chicago was called to the
funeral of his aunt.
(Perks)
RESIDENT OF WETAUG DIES
John
Miller, age 91, died at his home on a farm near Wetaug Sunday noon
after an illness of about nine months.
His funeral was held from the Mt.
Pisgah Lutheran Church near Wetaug Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock conducted by the
pastor, Rev. William E.
Bridges, and burial was in Mt. Pisgah
Cemetery.
He leaves three children, Albert G.
Miller of Cairo, Hugh
Miller of Bruce, Miss., and Walter
Miller of Ullin; two stepchildren, Mrs.
Ethel
Betts of New Canton, Illinois, and Ed
Crippen of Ullin; 11 grandchildren and 4
great-grandchildren.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 10 Oct 1941:
Griffin Mayberry
Griffin
Mayberry, colored, age 49, who suffered a brain hemorrhage and ___e
Monday while at work on the levee project
and was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital, died
Wednesday night.
He came to Mounds in 1914 from
Jackson, Tenn., but his original home was in
Mississippi.
He was a deacon of St. John’s Baptist
Church, having served in that capacity since
___.
Surviving are his wife, one daughter,
Mrs. Jennie Mae
Brown;
and two grandchildren.
(His death certificate states that
Griffin
Mayberry, common laborer, of 128 Elm
St., Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill., was born 16
Aug 1892, in Cannon, Miss., the son of Henry
Mayberry, a native of Cannon, Miss.,
died 8 Oct 1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co.,
Ill.,
husband of Raida
Mayberry, and was buried
in Spencer Heights Cemetery at Mounds, Ill.
His Social Security application in
1938 states he was born 16 Aug 1888, in
Canton, Miss., the son of Henry
Mayberry and Jennie
Smith.—Darrel
Dexter)
Garland Williams Killed When Car Overturned
on R. 37
Garland
Williams, well known colored business man of this city, was
instantly killed at 3 o’clock Friday morning
when the car he was driving overturned on
Route 37, on a curve just north of Clancy’s
Place.
With
Williams were John
Scurlock, janitor at the Douglass Grade
School, who was seriously injured and was
taken to St. Mary’s Hospital, Cairo; Henry
Nixon,
an employee of R. W.
England, injured but not seriously;
Lewis
Shelby and Jack
Buggs,
who were only slightly injured.
The coroner’s verdict was to the
effect that
Williams died of a broken neck and other
injuries as the result of an accident in
which he lost control of the car he was
driving and it overturned.
Williams conducted a second-hand furniture, repair and upholstery
establishment on North Front Street.
Surviving are his wife Agnes
Holt
Williams, a teacher in the Douglass High
School; two brothers, Richard of Detroit and
Leonard of Mounds; his stepmother, Mrs.
Cecelia
Williams, Mounds; a grandmother; and two
uncles in Paris, Tenn.
He was the son of the late J. T.
Williams.
Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the A. M. E.
church, the Rev. E.
Taborn officiating.
Burial was in Thistlewood Cemetery.
(When he registered for the draft in
1918, Garland Radford
Williams, of Mounds, Ill., stated he was
born 7 Jan 1899, and was a waiter for DuPont
Co., of Carney’s Pt., N.J.
According
to his death certificate Garland
Williams, cabinet maker, of Road
District 4, Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill., was
born 7 Jan 1898, in Paris, Tenn.,
son of John T.
Williams and Emily Porter, natives of
Paris, Tenn., died 3 Oct 1941, near Olmsted,
Pulaski Co., Ill., husband of Agnes
Williams, and was buried at Mounds,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Joseph A. Lutz
Joseph Anton
Lutz,
age 71, passed away at his home in Mound
City, Wednesday morning at 9:45 o’clock
after a long illness.
Mr.
Lutz was born in Mound City and had spent his entire life there.
At the death of his father, he
succeeded him in the meat business, which he
continued for a number of years.
At one time he served as councilman
of Mound City.
Surviving him are his wife Lena;
three daughters, Miss Louise and Mrs. Helen
Mitcham of Mound City and Miss Margaret of Chicago; four sons,
Albert of Springfield, Mo., Rohan of Mound
City and Edward and William of Chicago; two
grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. William
Bestgen of Mound City.
Infant Dies
Vivian Kay, the six-month-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Morris
Brashiers, passed away at the home of
her parents in Karnak Monday morning at 3:30
o’clock.
Funeral services were held at the
Baptist church in Karnak Tuesday afternoon
at 2 o’clock with Rev. William
Henry
of Cypress officiating.
Burial was made in Salem Cemetery.
Wilson
Funeral Service was in charge.
L. D. Harper
L. D.
Harper, age 78, died in Cairo Sunday morning, Oct. 5, at 6 o’clock.
He is survived by one daughter, Mrs.
Joe
Lane, of Miami Beach, Fla.; two sons,
James of Chicago and Vernon of Detroit; a
brother, J. W.; a sister, Mrs. Myrtle
Mattson of this city; and a grandson.
Funeral services were held at the J.
T.
Ryan Funeral Home Wednesday afternoon at
1:30 o’clock, Rev. L. B.
Walkington, pastor of the Methodist
Church, officiating.
Burial was in Thistlewood Cemetery
with the
Ryan Funeral Service in charge.
Former Mounds Merchant Dies at His Home in
Cairo
Julius F.
Ericson, age 59, died Sunday night at his home, 814 Walnut Street,
Cairo, after a three weeks’ illness.
For many years Mr.
Ericson conducted men’s clothing store
on First Street in this city and his Mounds
friends will regret to hear of his passing.
Surviving are his wife, the former
Anise May
Thistlewood; a foster son, Harry K.
Moore,
of Cairo; one sister, Mrs. Ben
Wilson of Chicago; one brother, Victor
of Cairo.
From Mounds Mr.
Ericson went to St. Louis, where he was
connected with the American Sugar Refining
Company as manager; later he was associated
with the St. Louis National Bank.
From St. Louis he went to Palm Beach,
Fla., and was in the real estate business
for several years.
For the past seven years he has
resided in Cairo.
He was a member of the Christian
Church and of the Masonic Lodge.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev. Ernest D.
Fritts, pastor of the Christian Church,
officiating.
Burial was made in the family lot in
Thistlewood Cemetery.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 10 Oct 1941:
NEGRO KILLED IN WRECK ON ROUTE 37
Fatally injured when the car he was
driving overturned on Route 37 on a curve
south of Grand Chain, Garland
Williams, well known Mounds Negro, died
a few minutes after being pulled from the
wrecked car.
His neck was broken and he suffered
other injuries.
Three companions were injured in the
accident, when
Williams lost control, John
Spurlock is in a serious condition at
the Cairo hospital.
Henry
Nixon,
Lewis
Shelby and Jack
Bugs were taken to the hospital but released after treatments for
minor cuts and bruises.
Williams was considered a furniture repair expert and was widely
known throughout the county.
A coroner’s jury returned a verdict
of accidental death,
Joseph A. Lutz
Joseph Anton
Lutz, age 71, passed away at his home in Mound City, Wednesday
morning at 9:45 o’clock after a prolonged
illness.
Mr.
Lutz was born in this city and spent his
entire life here.
At the death of his father he
succeeded him in the meat business, which he
continued for a number of years.
At one time he served as councilman
of Mound City.
Surviving him are his widow Lena;
three daughters, Miss Louise of this city,
Mrs. Helen
Mitcham of Perryville, Mo., and Miss Margaret of Chicago; four sons,
Albert of Springfield, Mo., Rohan of Mound
City and Edward and William of Chicago; two
grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. William
Bestgen of Mound City.
The only other surviving relatives are five
cousins, children of the late Mr. and Mrs.
W. O.
Wallace of Pulaski.
Funeral services will be held at St.
Mary’s Church in this city Saturday morning
at 9:00 o’clock with Rev. Lawrence
Gilmartin
conducting the service.
Interment will be made in St. Mary’s
Cemetery in Mounds.
G. A.
James Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.
RESIDENT OF VILLA RIDGE DIES
Mrs. Betty
Cochran, age 72, passed away Wednesday, October 1, at 11:30 p.m. at
the home of her son, Herman
Cochran on the Villa Ridge Road after an
illness of two years.
Her husband, Lee
Cochran, preceded her in death December
10, 1940.
Surviving her are five sons, Tom of
Paducah, Silas of Mounds, Herman of Mounds,
Jack of Detroit and Lee of Mounds; a sister,
Mrs. Jennie
Brown
of Cairo; five grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the
funeral home Friday afternoon at 3:30
o’clock with Rev.
Lannton of Perks officiating.
Interment was in Spencer Heights
Cemetery.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 17 Oct 1941:
Death of William H. Wise Saddens His Many
Friends
The community was saddened Friday
morning last to here that W. H.
Wise,
a resident here for the past __ years, had
died Thursday night, October 9, at his home.
Mr.
Wise had not been well for several years, yet the news of his
passing was a shock to many.
Mr.
Wise was born November 5, 1875, at Knoxville, Tenn.
When six years of age, he came with
his parents to Illinois and has since
resided in this vicinity.
He had lived in Mounds since his
marriage to Miss Effie
Laws
at Villa Ridge, April __, 1899.
He had been an employee of the
Illinois Central Railroad for 41 years,
retiring in February 1930 because of his
health.
He was promoted from fireman to
engineer in 1914.
He was a member of the First Baptist
Church in Mounds.
Surviving are his wife; five sons,
William, Adolphus and Robert of Chicago,
Leslie of Detroit, Mich., and Woodrow of
Denver, Colo.; two daughters, Mrs. Dorothy
Rose of Mounds and Miss Susie
Wise of Chicago.
He is also survived by four
grandchildren; three brothers, Oscar of
Charleston, Mo., Walter and Bertie of
Commerce, Mo.; and one sister, Mrs. Ed
Axley
of Steele, Mo.
Funeral services were held at the ___
Funeral Home Sunday afternoon, October 12,
at 2 o’clock with the Rev. Kenneth G.
Hall,
pastor of the First Baptist Church,
officiating,.
The pallbearers were the five sons of
a brother-in-law, A. H.
Laws. Interment was in
Thistlewood Cemetery.
(Willie H.
Wise, 23, of Beechwood, Pulaski Co., Ill., married on 12 Apr 1899,
in Pulaski Co., Ill., Effa
Laws,
19, of Villa Ridge, Pulaski Co., Ill.
William Henry
Wise,
retired locomotive engineer,
was born 5 Nov 1875, in Knoxville,
Tenn., the son of Benjamin
Wise and Laura Beegle,
natives of Tennessee, died 9 Oct 1941, in
Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill., husband of Effie
Wise, and was buried in Thistlewood Cemetery at Mounds. His marker in
Beechwood Cemetery reads:
William H.
Wise
Nov. 5, 1876 Oct. 9, 1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Four Negroes Killed in Auto Crash in Cairo
Four negroes were killed at 3:30 a.m.
Sunday when a car in which eight were riding
crushed against an electric power line pole
on the east side of Sycamore Street, Cairo,
in front of the Swift & Company plant just
south of the subway as you go into the city.
The dead are John D.
Parker of Mound City, who owned and was
driving the car; John
Muse
and his wife Carrie
Muse
of South Mounds, McGowan
Tidwell of Mound City.
Lucille
Larry of Cairo was seriously injured and was taken to St. Mary’s
Hospital where he remained in a serious
condition; John Allen
Carr
of South Mounds was also injured, but not
seriously, Mrs.
Parker and Henry
Vaughn, also of Mound City, escaped with
slight injuries.
The large pole was broken off and
remaining stump bent halfway to the ground.
The car was on its side with the top
mashed.
(According to the death certificate,
John
Parker, laborer, of Mound City, Ill.,
was born 6 Nov 1911, in Olmsted, Ill., son
of Lora
Parker, a native of Illinois, died 12
Oct 1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill.,
husband of Ruth
Parker, and was buried in
Olmsted cemetery.
The death certificate of John D.
Muse,
laborer, of Mounds, Ill., states he was born
12 Aug 1908, in Woodland Mill, Tenn., son of
John
Muse and Bertha
Johnson, natives of Tennessee, died 12
Oct 1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill.,
divorced husband of Carrie
Muse,
and was buried in Thistlewood Cemetery at
Mounds, Ill.
The death certificate of Carrie
Muse,
of Cairo, Ill., states that she was born 29
Nov 1913, in Charleston, Mo., the daughter
of Hallie
Gordon, a native of Charleston, Mo.,
died 12 Oct 1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co.,
Ill., and was buried in Lincoln Cemetery at
Mounds, Ill.
According to the death certificate,
McGowan
Tidwell, common laborer, of Mound City, Ill., was born 6 Feb 1899,
in Abbeville, Miss., the son of Sam
Tidwell and Anna
Porter, natives of Abbeville, Miss.,
died 12 Oct 1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co.,
Ill., and was buried in Dobford Chapel
Cemetery, Holly Springs, Marshall Co., Miss.
When he registered for the draft in
1918, McGowan
Tidwell of Holly Springs, Miss., stated
he was born 6 Feb 1898, and was farming for
Sam
Tidwell, and his nearest relative was
his mother, Anna
Tidwell, of Holly Springs.
He did not sign his name, but made
his mark.—Darrel
Dexter)
State Rep M. F. Browner Dies after Long
Illness
State Representative M. F.
Browner of Mound City, age 79 years,
died at his home Tuesday night, October 14,
following a long illness.
Representative
Browner was born in Mound City and had resided there all his life.
He was a member of the Republican
County Central Committee for 32 years and
its chairman for 20 years.
He had held the office of city
treasurer, city clerk and served as mayor of
Mound City for 30 years.
He was a charter member of the Mound
City Building and Loan Association and
served as its president for 25 years.
He was in the mercantile business for
36 years, retiring in 1918.
On the retirement of the late Judge
W. A.
Wall, his brother-in-law from the
presidency of the First State Bank of Mound
City Mr.
Browner was elected to the place and
continued as president until his death.
At death he was serving his fifth
two-year term as a member of the General
Assembly, having been a member of the 58th,
59th, 60th, 61st
and 62nd General Assemblies.
He was married July 25, 1913, to Miss
Rose Ella
Kennedy of Cairo.
Three children who died in infancy,
were born of this marriage.
Mrs.
Brower died in childbirth on February
21, 1918.
He never remarried.
He was a life-long member of St. Mary’s
Catholic Church of Mound City.
In manner Mr.
Browner was quiet and unassuming.
He was liked by all who knew him.
In his campaigns for election to the
General Assembly, members of all parties and
all faiths cast their votes for him.
Surviving are two sisters, Miss Mary
Browner and Mrs. W. A.
Wall,
both of Mound City.
Funeral services will be held this
(Friday) morning at nine o’clock at St.
Mary’s Church.
A group of fellow members of the
state legislature are expected to attend the
services.
(His death certificate states that
Michael Francis
Browner, retired banker, of Mound City,
Pulaski Co., Ill., was born 19 May 1863, in
New Jersey, the son of Thomas
Browner and Mary
McCarthy, natives of Ireland, died 14
Oct 1941, in Mound City, Pulaski Co., Ill.,
and was buried in St. Mary’s Cemetery at
Mounds, Ill.
His marker there reads:
Michael F.
Browner 1862-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Adolphus and Robert
Wise,
who were called here by the death of their
father, W. H.
Wise,
returned to Chicago Tuesday.
William and Miss Susie remained for a
few days longer.
A. B. Walters
A. B.
Walters, age 79 years, died Sunday morning, October 12, at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. James
Martin on Spencer Heights.
He had been ill for some time.
Surviving are one son, Andrew, of
Metropolis; and one daughter, Mrs.
Martin; also five grandchildren.
Short services were held at the home
of his son in Metropolis Tuesday afternoon
at two o’clock.
Immediately afterward, the funeral
cortege left for Mt. Zion Church, where
funeral services were conducted by the Rev.
Mr.
Simmons.
Burial was in Mt. Zion Cemetery.
(Albert B.
Walters married Nancy P.
Baker on 30 Sep 1883, in Pope Co., Ill.
Thomas
Walters married Polly
Grissom on 19 Jun 1834, in Pope Co.,
Ill.
According to his death certificate,
Albert Burton
Walters, retired blacksmith, was born 29
Aug 1862, in Pope Co., Ill., the son of
Polly
Grissen Walters, died 12 Oct 1941, in
Road District 7, Pulaski Co., Ill., widower
of Ellen
Walters, and was buried in Mt. Zion Cemetery in Pope Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Norris and Robert
Taylor of Truman, Arkansas, were called
here by the illness and death of their
mother, Mrs. I. N.
Taylor.
Card of Thanks
To the public as a whole:
We wish to thank you for the
consoling cards, the beautiful flowers and
also thank the ones who donated their cars,
the Rev. J. T.
Dodson, for his words of consolation;
also the
Donelson Funeral Service who had charge
of the death of Griffin
Mayberry.
The
Mayberry Family
Mounds, Illinois
Brother of Mrs. Hallerberg Dies Suddenly
October 12
Mrs. F. W.
Hallerberg and her sister, Miss Lucy
Simon of Oconee, received word Sunday afternoon of the sudden death
of their brother, William
Simen
of Oconee, with whom Miss Lucy made her
home.
She had been visiting here the past
two weeks and left at once for her home,
accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Reichert.
Mrs.
Reichert is the former Christamae
Hallerberg.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at the Methodist church in Oconee
with burial in a cemetery in that place.
Mrs.
Hallerberg was unable to attend on
account of the illness of Mr.
Hallerberg.
(The death certificate of William C.
Simen,
harness maker, was born 30 Dec 1881, in
Oconee, Ill., the son of Bernard
Simen and Martha Dutler,
natives of Switzerland, died 12 Oct 1941, in
Jacksonville, Morgan Co., Ill., and was
buried in Oconee Mound Cemetery in Shelby
Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 17 Oct 1941:
M. F. BROWNER PASSED AWAY TUESDAY AT HOME
Mound City’s First Citizen Comes to End of
Useful Life at 79
M. F.
Browner, known to nearly all as “Mike,” died at his home about 7:15
p.m. Tuesday of an illness that began early
in the year when the fatigue of the campaign
of last fall and the attempt to keep abreast
of public duties, overtaxed his strength.
He literally began to wear down and
wear out and with 79 years of active life
lived, the end approached gradually and
peacefully.
It was not unexpected.
Browner was Mound City’s first citizen, a place he earned, deserved
and held.
A man of sterling character, a man of
high ideals, tolerant and charitable, he
held the confidence and esteem of all.
He earned his place while in business
and while a city official, called back time
and time again to serve, and he kept it when
he entered the political field as a member
of the State Legislature.
He was 30 years mayor of Mound City.
Not continuously, but in count of
years, for he left the office many times and
did not desire to serve.
But the town called him back, and his
conservative, sensible, straightforward ways
were standard patterns.
Mr.
Browner was the son of the late Thomas
Browner and was born in the east.
He attended Mound City schools and
grew up in the town.
He worked for a time in the ship
yards and entered the grocery business with
his father in the eighties and continued in
that business until he retired after the
World War.
He was city treasurer and then clerk.
Then he became mayor.
Some of the critical floods which the
city fought off, and they were floods in
those days, too, were while he was mayor.
Much of the levee building came in
his day.
He was interested in the banks and
was a director in both.
When the First National Bank closed
here,
Browner never withdrew a penny when it
was going under, but took his losses with
the depositors.
In 1932 he became president of the
First State Bank after the death of the late
Judge
Wall. He was president
of the Building and Loan for years.
About ten years ago he decided to
enter state politics and ran for the
legislature.
Since then he has been a member
continuously save for one term.
In November 1936, he fell while
inspecting a corn crib and fractured his
hip.
It was several days before the extent
of his injuries were known and he was
removed to a hospital where he was when the
flood swept over Mound City in January 1937.
The suffering from the broken hip and his
determined fight to get well cost him much.
But he recovered and was much the
same, save that some of his vigor was gone
and exertion soon tired him.
The campaign of last fall, the
determination to stay in the legislative
halls, the onrush of job seekers and then a
deep cold, cut him down to where he was in
bed much of the time.
A trip to Springfield to vote or a
measure when his vote was needed did not
help his health and from then on, his
vitality seemed to diminish.
In bed for nearly two months, he
gained no strength until gradually he
slipped out to join many of his own people
and friends who have gone on.
Browner was married in 1913 to Miss Rose Etta
Kennedy. The children
born to this union did not live long and
Mrs.
Browner died soon after the birth of the
third child in 1932.
Since that time, he and his sister,
Miss Mary
Browner, have lived in the home.
He was a lifelong member of the
Catholic Church and a member of the Knights
of Columbus.
Aside from his two sisters, Miss Mary
and Mrs. Margaret
Wall,
he has no immediate relatives.
A sister-in-law, Miss
Kennedy of Cairo and cousins in St.
Louis survive.
The friends who knew him in five
counties are many and some of them were
close and liked
Browner for his sterling qualities.
The body was taken from the
James
Funeral Home Thursday morning and removed to
the home where it lay in state until this
morning at 9:00 o’clock, when the funeral
was held at St. Mary’s Church.
From many points upstate and over the
district, messages of condolence were
received and expressions of sympathy.
The services found large numbers from
out of town attending.
After all, it was the final gesture
not only in respect for the town’s first
citizen, but also a gesture for one of the
finest men this area has ever placed in
political office.
Business houses closed this (Friday)
morning from 8:30 to 10:00 to pay respect to
a man who gave so many years of his life to
public service.
The twelve pallbearers will be L. J.
Mulroney, Dan
O’Sullivan, Jr., Von
Lawler, Rohan
Lutz, Frank Ledbetter,
Joe
Westerman, Str., C. F.
Bode,
John
Trampert, C. E. Richey,
George A.
Tharp,
George W.
Gunn,
and F. J.
Kuny.
FIVE NEGROES DIE AS RESULT OF AUTO CRASH
After their car struck a power line
pole near the Swift and Co. mill in Cairo,
causing two large transformers to fall
through the roof of the car, five Negroes
were dead, four of them being killed
instantly.
The accident happened early Sunday
morning as the car, containing eight
persons, got out of control of the driver,
John D.
Parker, rolled sideways into the pole,
stearing it off near the ground and loosing
the heavy transformers.
It was not known whether the persons
were killed in the car wreck or if the
transformers caused the fatalities.
Those dead are John D.
Parker of Mound City, who owned the car
and who was driving.
His wife was not injured.
John
Muse of Mounds and his wife Carrie.
McGowan
Tidwell of Mound City.
All of these were killed instantly.
Lucille
Larry of Cairo died at St. Mary’s Hospital later in the morning.
A survivor, Henry
Vaughn of Mound City, said he had driven
the car from Mounds to the Artesian Well
when
Parker took over. He
said they were traveling “pretty fast.”
He was riding in the front seat with
Parker and his wife.
The transformers fell through the
roof of the car, just behind the driver,
crushing the skulls of three persons.
Parker’s neck was broken, possibly in the crash against the pole.
Among those from out of town who attended
the funeral Saturday of Joe
Lutz
were Mr. and Mrs. K. J.
Stuart and family of Cairo, Miss Hazel
Flaws
of Chicago, Mrs. Margaret
Rohan
and family of St. Louis and Mr. and Mrs.
George
Muscovalley of St. Louis.
GRAND CHAIN RESIDENT DIES
Mrs. Aubrey E.
Haynes, wife of Captain Aubrey E.
Haynes of Grand Chain, passed away at De Paul Hospital in St. Louis
Tuesday morning, where she has been a
patient for the past three weeks.
Besides her husband, she is survived
by two children, Aubrey, Jr., and Ruby; her
father, P. J.
Loomis of Cairo; four sisters, Mrs.
James
Gray of Elberton, Ga., Mrs. P.
Zarofonetis of Augusta, Fa., Mrs. Wilson
Brackey of New Orleans and Miss Jeanette
Loomis of Cairo.
Funeral services were held at the
Karcher Funeral Home Thursday afternoon
at 1:30 o’clock with Venerable S L.
Hagan, rector of the Church of the Redeemer, officiating.
Burial was made in Spencer Heights.
(The death certificate of Christine
Haynes, of rural Grand Chain, Pulaski
Co., Ill.,
states that she was born 12 Feb 1906, in
Decatur, Ill., daughter of Peter
Loomis and Nellie Hattoon,
died 13 Oct 1941, in DePaul Hospital, St.
Louis, Mo., wife of A. H.
Haynes.
Her marker in Spencer Heights
Cemetery at Mounds, Ill., reads:
Christina
Loomis Haynes Feb. 12, 1906 Oct. 13, 1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
A. B. WALTERS DIES SUNDAY
A. B.
Walters, age 79, died Sunday morning at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. James
Martin, in Spencer Heights, following an
illness of several weeks.
Mrs.
Walters is survived by one son, Andrew of Metropolis; a daughter,
Mrs.
Martin; and five grandchildren.
Short services were held at the home
of his son in Metropolis Tuesday afternoon
at 2 o’clock.
Immediately following the group left
for Mt. Zion Church, where funeral services
were conducted by Rev.
Simmons. Burial was made
in the Mt. Zion Cemetery.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 24 Oct 1941:
Funeral Services Held for U. S. A. Gadbois
Saturday
Funeral services were held Saturday
afternoon for U. S. A.
Gadbois whose death, at the age of 81,
occurred Thursday, October 16, at 2 a.m. at
his home near Villa Ridge.
The survives were held at the
residence with the Rev. S. C.
Benninger, Congregational pastor,
officiating.
Burial was made in Villa Ridge
cemetery with the G. A.
James
Funeral Service in charge of arrangements.
Mr.
Gadbois was a retired farmer and fruit grower of the Villa Ridge
community, where he had lived for the past
25 years.
For 18 years previous to his
residence near Villa Ridge he lived in
Cairo, where he was a carpenter and
contractor.
He is survived by three daughters,
Mrs. Ethel
Piper
of Oak Ark, Mrs. Mabel
Herbert and Mrs. Zena
Clancy of Villa Ridge; two sons, Roy of
Natchez, Miss., and Everett of Chicago; two
granddaughters, Mrs. Wallace
McKinney of Oak Park and Mrs. Jean
Mirus
of Springfield; also two
great-grandchildren.
(U. S. A.
Gadbois married M. Alice
Spencer on 25 Nov 1885, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
The death certificate of Urgeus
Samuel Alphonse
Gadbois, retired farmer, of Pulaski Co., Ill., was born 14 Sep 1860,
in Jackson Co., Ill., the son of Pierre
Gadbois and Leocadia Paye,
natives of Quebec, died 16 Oct 1941, in Road
District 1, Pulaski Co., Ill., and was
buried in Villa Ridge cemetery.
His marker in Cairo City Cemetery at
Villa Ridge reads:
Urgeus S. A.
Gadbois 1869-1941 Mary Alice
Gadbois 1860-1935.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 24 Oct 1941:
ACCIDENTAL DEATH IN WRECK KILLING FOUR
A coroner’s jury in Cairo returned a
verdict of accidental death at an inquest
into the death of four Negroes early Sunday
morning, October 11.
Those killed were John
Parker of Mound City, John
Muse
of Cairo and his wife, Carrie and McGowan
Tidwell.
The accident occurred when the car,
driven by
Parker, crashed into a light company
pole near Swift and Company’s cotton seed
mill just inside Cairo city limits, causing
two large transformers to fall through the
roof of the car, killing all four instantly.
Another, who was injured in the
wreck, Lucile
Larry
of Cairo, remains in a serious condition at
St. Mary’s Hospital.
It was brought out at the inquest
that the car had swerved just after crossing
the railroad tracks near the subway and
continued swerving until it hit the pole.
Those in the car who were able to
testify said
Parker was not driving fast.
VILLA RIDGE RESIDENT DIES
U. S. A.
Gadbois, age 81, passed away at his home east of Villa Ridge,
October 16, at 2 o’clock after a short
illness.
Mr.
Gadbois was a retired farmer and fruit
grower of Villa Ridge, where he has lived
for the past 25 years.
Prior to moving to Villa Ridge he was
located in Cairo or 18 years as contractor
and carpenter.
Surviving him are three daughters,
Mrs. Ethel
Piper
of Oak Park, Mrs. Mabel
Herbert and Mrs. Zena
Clancy of Villa Ridge; two sons, Roy of
Natchez, Miss., and Everett of Chicago; two
granddaughters, Mrs. Wallace
McKinney of Oak Park and Mrs. Jean
Mirus
of Springfield; and two great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the
residence Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock
with Rev. S. C.
Benninger officiating.
Burial was made in Villa Ridge
cemetery.
G. A.
James Funeral Service was in charge of arrangements.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to take this means of
thanking our many friends who expressed
their sympathy to us and who paid tribute to
our dear brother, M. F.
Browner.
We wish especially to thank the Rev.
Father
Gilmartin, Father
Taylor and Father
Jantzen for their assistance, political and business associates,
Knights of Columbus and others who by their
presence and floral offerings noted his
passing.
We shall ever remember your kindness.
Mrs. Margaret
Wall
and
Miss Mary
Browner
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 31 Oct 1941:
Cairo Negro Kills Wife Early Sunday Morning
James
Brown shot and fatally wounded his wife, Anita, at their restaurant
in Cairo about 1 o’clock Sunday morning.
She died a few hours later at St.
Mary’s Hospital, Cairo.
Her age was 32.
Brown fled and hid in the woods along the Mississippi River Sunday,
then later decided to give himself up to the
authorities.
After being taken into custody,
Brown
said he had married Anita several months
ago, but during their investigation the
police found a letter addressed to James
Brown
and signed by Lula Mae
Brown, which indicated she was to arrive
in Cairo to institute divorce proceedings
against him.
The letter was from Hayti, Mo.
An inquest was held and
Brown
was held for the grand jury.
(A death certificate for Georgia
Anita
Brown, cook, of Cairo, Alexander Co.,
Ill., states she was born 12 Jun 1905, in
Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., the daughter of
William M.
Donaldson, a native of Lexington, Miss.,
and Lena R.
Seavers, a native of Grand Chain, Ill.,
died 26 Oct 1941, in Cairo, Ill., wife of
James
Brown, and was buried in Lincoln
Cemetery at Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Johnnie Wayne Grace
Death claimed Johnnie Wayne
Grace,
two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John
Grace
of Unity Wednesday morning, October 29, at
St. Mary’s Hospital, Cairo.
Surviving are his parents, a brother
Michael, age six months; his paternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis
Grace
of Unity; his maternal grandparents, Mt. and
Mrs. G. P.
Grace
of Cairo and maternal great-grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Amos W.
Jones
of Olive Branch.
The body was brought Wednesday
afternoon to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Penrod, where funeral services were held
Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock, with the
Rev. W. P.
Pearce of the Cairo Baptist Church
officiating.
Burial was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery.
(The death certificate of Johnnie
Wayne
Grace, of Unity, Alexander Co., Ill.,
states he was born 21 Oct 1939, in Mounds,
Ill., the son of John
Grace,
a native of Cairo, Ill., and Virginia
Penrod, a native of Olive Branch, Ill.,
died 29 Oct 1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co.,
Ill., and was buried in Thistlewood Cemetery
in Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 7 Nov 1941:
Mrs. Millie Waters
Mrs. Millie
Walters, age 67, died at the home of her son, Ulis
Linder, in Valley Recluse Monday, Nov.
3, after an illness of two months.
Mrs.
Walters is survived by her son and two daughters, Mrs. Eva
Phimister of Valley Recluse and Mrs.
Ivie
Bever of Anna; a brother, James
Dwyer
of Mounds; a sister, Mrs. Belle
Hammons of Mound City; and two
grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the
residence Tuesday afternoon with Rev. Ernest
Pruett officiating.
Interment was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery.
Ryan
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
C. L. McMackin
C. L.
McMackin, age 81, prominent resident of Salem and father of Miss
Helen
McMackin known throughout the state,
died Saturday in a Chicago Heights hospital,
where he had been taken following an auto
accident in which he was fatally injured.
C. S.
Barnett of West Frankfort, his companion
en
route to a furniture dealers’ meeting
died Friday night.
He is survived by his wife; one son,
Mayor Omar
McMackin of Salem; one daughter, Miss
Helen
McMackin; two grandsons, a
granddaughter, and one great-granddaughter.
Miss Helen
McMackin is a former president of the Illinois Federation of
Business and Professional Women’s Clubs and
former state regent of the Illinois Society
of Daughters of the American Revolution.
(The Social Security application of Charles
Lincoln
McMackin states that he was born 21 May
1860, in Salem, Ill., the son of Warren E.
McMackin and Delilah
Crews.
The 1942 application of Oscar J.
McMackin states that he was born 18 Mar
1888, in Salem, Ill., the son of Charles L.
McMackin born 20 May 1860, died 1 Nov
1941, the husband of Eugenia A.
Drake,
born 16 May 1866—married 10 May 1886;
grandson of Louis W.
Drake, born 19 Sep 1835, died 1915, and Helen
Merryfield, born 2 Apr 1838, died 1 Oct 1890—married 21 May 1859;
great-grandson of John
Merryfield, born 5 Jul 1811, died 16 Nov
1880, and Cassandra
Rawson, born 26 Mar 1816, died 4 Apr 1871—married 1 Mar 1835;
great-great-grandson of James
Rawson, born 12 Jun 1790, died 12 Jun
1866, and Mary Polly
Franklin born 27 Dec 1795, died 27 Nov 1876—married in New York; and
great-great-great-grandson of Samuel
Rawson born 16 Jun 1760, died 1814, and
Lydia
Thurston born 22 Feb 1753, died 13 May
1812—married 20 May 1781; and
great-great-great-great-grandson of Elijah
Rawson born 5 Feb 1717 died 1798, and
Mary
Paddock.
Elijah
Rawson was a private in the Worchester County Militia in
Massachusetts, 6th Regiment
during the Revolutionary War.
The
death certificate of Charles L.
McMackin, furniture dealer, of Salem,
Marion Co., Ill., states that he was born 15
May 1860, in Salem, Ill., the son of Warren
McMackin, a native of Tennessee, and
Delilah
Cruse,
a native of Wayne Co., Ill., died 31 Oct
1941, in Chicago Heights, Ill., husband of
Eugenia
McMackin, and was buried in East Lawn
Cemetery in Salem, Marion Co., Ill.
His marker reads:
Charles Lincoln
McMackin 1860-1941 21st Mayor of Salem.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. John Moore of Pulaski Dies Suddenly
Sunday Morning
Mrs. Ethel
Moore, age 61 years, wife of John
Moore of Pulaski, died suddenly Sunday morning, November 2,
following an attack of apoplexy.
She is survived by her husband, one
daughter, Mrs. Carrell
Davis
of Pulaski; three sons, Royal of Pulaski,
Henry of Los Angeles, Calif., and Charles of
Prairie City, Ill.; three grandsons, Carroll
Davis and Ray Moore of
Pulaski and John David
Moore
of Los Angeles.
Several nieces and a nephew also
survive.
Mrs.
Moore had spent her entire life in the Pulaski community and had
many friends.
She was a member of the Christian
Church, where funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock with
Rev. Charles A.
Day
officiating.
Burial was in Rosehill Cemetery with
George C.
Crain
directing arrangements.
(The death certificate of Ethel May
Moore
states that she was born 20 Dec 1879, in
Pulaski Co., Ill., the daughter of J. H.
Johnson, a native of Tennessee, and Permelia J.
King,
a native of Texas, died 2 Nov 1941, in
Pulaski, Ill., wife of John
Moore,
and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery in
Pulaski, Ill.
Her marker there reads:
Ethel
Moore
Dec. 20, 1880 Nov. 2, 1941 John
Moore
May 14, 1877 Oct. 5, 1950.—Darrel
Dexter)
F. E. Buder
Florence E. (Floss)
Buder
of Cairo, well known business man, died
suddenly of a heart attack Tuesday evening
while at the Presbyterian manse, where he
was supervising some repair.
With him was George
Vines,
a carpenter.
Following the death of their parents,
he and his sister, Miss Minnie
Buder
had made their home together for many years.
He was in the jewelry business and
also had charge of the
Buder
estate.
(The 1918 draft registration in
Menominee Co, Mich., states that Florence
Edward
Buder, of 210 7th St., Cairo, Ill., was a magnet
assembler for Tideman’s Electric
Manufacturing Co. of Menominee, Mich. His
death certificate states that Florence E.
Buder,
real estate manager, of Cairo, Ill., was
born 25 Mar 1883, in Cairo, Ill., the son of
Edward A.
Buder
and Wilhelmina
Kaufman, natives of Germany, died 3 Nov
1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., and was
buried in Beechwood Cemetery at Mounds,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
R. M. Hurst, Sr., of Mound City Dies Nov. 1
R. M. “Bob”
Hurst, Sr., of Mound City, died at his home there Saturday night,
November 1, after several heart attacks
during the week.
Mr.
Hurst was born in Pulaski, but had lived in Mound City for the past
25 years.
He was a barber by trade, but his
chief outside interest in life was the
schools in his community.
He was secretary of the school board
in District 15 for fifteen consecutive years
and had so familiarized himself with every
phase of school legislation that he was able
to add greatly to the efficient
administration of the school board.
Surviving are his wife, the former
Effie Maude
Lewis
of Pulaski, daughter of A. W.
Lewis;
two sons, Robert M.
Hurst,
Jr., and Wayne
Hurst,
both of Mound City; a sister, Mrs. Lulu
Price
of Kankakee and granddaughter, Phyllis Ann
Hurst
of Gary, Ind.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at the Mound City Congregational
church with the Rev. Mr.
Bahr,
assisted by the Rev. Mr.
Wall,
officiating.
Burial was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery.
(According to the death certificate
of Robert Michael
Hurst,
Sr., barber, of Mound City, Ill., was born 9
Apr 1886, in Cairo, Ill., the son of John
Hurst,
a native of Germany, died 1 Nov 1941, in
Mound City, Pulaski Co., Ill., husband of
Effie
Lewis Hurst, and was buried in
Thistlewood Cemetery at Mounds, Ill.
His marker there reads:
R. M.
Hurst
1886-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
William Wagner
William
Wagner, age 64, passed away Tuesday morning at the home of his
brother-in-law, Ernest
Stadler, in Valley Recluse after an
illness of four years.
He is survived by his wife, Lena, of
Villa Ridge; and another brother-in-law,
Fred
Schotz.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev. C. A.
Jacobi of Cairo officiating.
Burial
was made in Villa Ridge cemetery.
Card of Thanks
We wish to express our sincere thanks
to our neighbors and friends for their
kindness during the illness and following
the death of our dear mother, Mrs. Millie
Waters. We wish especially to thank Rev. Ernest
Pruetz for his consoling words, those
who sent flowers and who offered the use of
their cars, also undertaker J. T.
Ryan.
The Family
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 7 Nov 1941:
R. M. HURST, SR., DIES AT HOME IN THIS CITY
SATURDAY
R. M.
Hurst, Sr., age 55, prominent Mound City resident, died about 10
o’clock Saturday evening after an illness
which began several months ago with a
stroke.
During the past week he suffered a
series of heart attacks.
Mr.
Hurst, who has been a resident of this city for the past 25 years,
came here as a barber from Pulaski, his
birthplace.
He married Miss Effie Maude
Lewis,
also of Pulaski, and to this union was born
three children, two boys and a girl, the
girl having died at an early age.
For fifteen consecutive years, Mr.
Hurst
served as secretary of the Board of School
District 15.
He was well informed on school
legislation and administration and his
services were greatly appreciated by members
of the board.
He was one of the organizers of the
Pulaski County School Board Association and
a consul for nine years in the Mound City
Camp 5151 of the Modern Woodmen of America
and an advisory member of the Royal
Neighbors of America.
Surviving family members other than
his wife are two sons, R. M. "Bob”
Hurst,
Jr., and V. Wayne
Hurst.
A sister, Mrs. Harry
Price, of Kankakee, Ill.; a granddaughter, Phyllis Ann
Hurst
of Gary, Ind.; and numerous nieces and
nephews among whom is Carl
Nelms
of Cairo.
Funeral services were held in the
Congregational church of which he was a
member, at 1:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon.
Rev.
Bahr, assisted by Rev. Wall,
was in charge of the services.
Burial was made in the family lot in
Thistlewood Cemetery in Mounds.
In respect to Mr.
Hurst,
Mound City grade schools closed Tuesday
afternoon.
Among those from out of town who attended
the funeral Tuesday of R. M.
Hurst,
Sr., were Mr. and Mr. T. E.
Lewis
and daughters, Gwendolyn, Watana and Janet
Sue of Centralia, Ill.; Mrs. Hattie
Hurst and sons, Saw and Bill, daughter, Mrs. Dorothy
Ruengert of St. Louis; Irvin
Nelms
and children of Indianapolis, Ind.; Mrs. I.
Holmes of Indianapolis, Mrs. Kate
Sneed
of Pulaski; Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
Handley of Paducah; Mrs. Lulu
Price
of Kankakee, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Atherton and Mrs. and Mrs. Arthur
Throgmorton of Carbondale; Mrs. Margaret
Phelps and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Nelms
and children and Mr. and Mrs. Wardell Grace,
all of Cairo; Mr. and Mrs. Chris
Rife
of Centralia, Ill.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 14 Nov 1941:
Mrs. Andrew Chapman Dies Nov. 6, at Home in
Pulaski
Mrs. Andrew
Chapman of Pulaski died Thursday morning, November 6, at her home.
Her age at death was 66 years.
Surviving are her husband; four daughters,
Mrs. Floyd
Jones
of Marion, Mrs. Dolph
Grolock of Vicksburg, Miss Clarence
Aldred of Pulaski, and Mrs. Clyde
Hase
of this city; four sisters, Mrs. Edgar
Kraus
of Belleville, Mrs. C. O.
Waite
of Pulaski, Mrs. Will
Milford of Anna and Mrs. Amos
Thompson of Pulaski; a brother, Everett
Lackey of Bell City, Mo.; and six
grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Saturday
afternoon at two o’clock at the Pulaski
Christian church with the pastor, Rev.
Charles A.
Day,
officiating.
Interment was made in Rosehill
Cemetery with George C.
Crain,
funeral director, in charge.
All of the children were at home for
the funeral.
(Cyrus
Lackey married Mary M.
Stringer on 20 Mar 1875, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
Charles O.
Waite,
19, farmer, born in Pulaski, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., son of John M.
Waite and Sophronia A. O’Hara,
married on 21 Mar 1897, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill., Ida L.
Lackey, 18, born in Pulaski, Ill.,
daughter of Cyrus
Lackey and Mary M.
Stringer.
Her death certificate states that
Delia Pearl
Chapman was born 25 Jun 1875, in Pulaski
Co., Ill., the daughter of Cyrus
Lackey, a native of Pulaski Co., Ill.,
and Melvina
Stringer, died 6 Nov 1941, in Road
District 2, Pulaski Co., Ill., wife of
Andrew
Chapman, and was buried in Rosehill
Cemetery.
Her marker there reads:
Delia Pearl
Chapman 1875-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Dolph
Grolock of Vicksburg, Miss., was called
to Pulaski by the illness and death of her
mother, Mrs. Andrew
Chapman.
Mrs.
Grolock will be remembered as Miss
Juanita
Chapman.
She is a graduate of Mounds Township
High school.
Card of Thanks
Words cannot express our deep
appreciation for the many kindnesses shown
us before and after the death of our beloved
wife and mother, Pearl
Chapman.
We especially wish to thank the
minister, the pallbearers and flower girls,
those who furnished the music, and all those
who sent flowers.
To each and everyone who contributed
in any way to our comfort and support, we
can only say we are deeply grateful.
Andrew
Chapman, Daughters and Relatives
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 14 Nov 1941:
AGED NEGRO, FORMER SLAVE, DIES AT HOME HERE
SUNDAY
For nineteen years Narsis
Royal
served as a slave in the
Royal
home in Tennessee before coming to this
county 30 years ago where she died Sunday,
at the age of 97.
Narsis
Royal was born in Tennessee, where she served as a faithful slave in
the
Royal home for many years until the
freeing of the slaves in 1865.
After gaining her freedom, she left
Tennessee in search of the
Royal
family, who had left some time before.
It was in this state that Narsis
finally located a member of the family, Dr.
B. A.
Royal, a practicing physician in Villa Ridge.
She again took up her old duties as a
household domestic and remained there for
many years, until his death a few years ago.
She then moved to Mound City and has made
her home with a friend, Bessie
Winston Bomar, at whose home she died
Sunday.
She was the mother of three children,
two sons and a daughter.
Narsis
Royal was a well-known and respected colored resident of Pulaski
County and her death will mark the passing
of one of the oldest colored residents in
this county.
(Her death certificate states that
Narsis
Royal,
on old age assistance, was born in March
1844 in Villa Ridge, Ill., died 9 Nov 1941,
in Mound City, Pulaski Co., Ill., widow of
Richard
Royal,
and was buried in Thistlewood
Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
PULASKI RESIDENT DIES
Mrs. Andrew
Chapman, age 66, passed away at her home
near Pulaski Friday morning at 10:10
o’clock.
Besides her husband, she is survived
by four daughters, Mrs. Floyd
Jones
of Marion, Mrs. Clarence
Aldred of Pulaski, Mrs. Dolph
Grolock of Vicksburg, Miss., and Mrs.
Clyde
Hase of Mounds; four sisters, Mrs. Edgar
Kraus
of Belleville, Mrs. C. O.
Waite
and Mrs. Amos
Thompson of Pulaski, and Mrs. Will
Milford of Anna; a brother, Everett
Lackey of Bell City, Mo.; six
grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Saturday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Christian
church in Pulaski with Rev. Charles A.
Day,
pastor, officiating.
Burial was made in the Rosehill
Cemetery.
Mrs. Hattie
Price,
who was called here by the death of her
brother, R. M.
Hurst,
Sr., returned to her home Saturday in
Kankakee.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 21 Nov 1941:
Virgil E. Edwards
Virgil Eugene
Edwards, age 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Edwards of Olmsted, died Saturday morning, Nov. 15, at St. Mary’s
Hospital, Cairo.
The boy’s health had been failing for
the past year or more.
Virgil was a member of the Olmsted
Methodist Church.
He was a pupil in the eighth grade of
the Olmsted school and a member of Boy Scout
Troop 28 of which Rev. E. B.
Beaty
is scoutmaster.
Surviving are his parents, his maternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
Milford of Olmsted; and other relatives.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon
at two o’clock at the Olmsted Methodist
Church, with Rev. E. B.
Beaty,
pastor, officiating, assisted by Evangelist
Mercer of Golconda.
G. A.
James
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
Cousins of Virgil served as
pallbearers, namely:
Melvin
Thurston, Carl
Thompson, Leon
Galbraith, Austin
Capron, Gilbert and Clarence
Edwards.
Flower girls were Marilyn
Koch,
Dennie
Miller, Betty Goins,
Marilyn
Kraatz, Marian
Burd,
Barbara
Holman, Marie Jean Rushing
and Evelyn
Britt.
(The death certificate of Virgil
Eugene
Edwards states he
was born 6 Apr 1928, in Olmsted, Ill.,
the son of Ernest
Edwards and Dorris
Milford, natives of Pulaski Co., Ill.,
died 15 Nov 1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co.,
Ill., and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery
in Pulaski, Ill.
His marker there reads:
Doris P.
Edwards 1908-19 Ernest E.
Edwards 1901-1942 Virgil E.
Edwards 1928-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Father of Mrs. A. C. Toler Dies Saturday in
Goreville
Andrew C.
Maze, of Goreville, died suddenly at 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 15.
He was born in Johnson County
February 20, 1865, and was married some 50
years ago to Millie
Lambert. Mr.
Maze
was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Riley
Maze
and had farmed until his retirement a few
years ago when he moved to Goreville where
he had since resided.
Surviving are his wife, four
daughters, Mrs. Oscar (Ada)
Newton of Buncombe, Mrs. Albert C.
(Valley)
Toler
of Mounds, Mrs. Otis (Lillie)
Jones
of Benton and Mrs. Thelma
Wilson of Alton; also one son, Lester of
East Moline; three brothers, Monroe, Harvey,
and Thomas
Maze
of Goreville.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon, Nov. 18, at the Goreville
Methodist Church with Rev. Bluford
Dawson officiating.
Interment was made in Busby Cemetery
near Goreville.
(The death certificate states that A.
C.
Maze, farmer, of Goreville, Ill., was
born 20 Feb 1865, in Johnson Co., Ill., the
son of Riley
Maze,
died 15 Nov 1941, in Goreville, Johnson Co.,
Ill., the husband of Millie
Lambert.
His marker in Busby Cemetery in
Goreville, Johnson Co., Ill., reads:
Father Andrew C.
Maze
Feb. 20, 1865 Nov. 15, 1941 Mother Millie
Maze
Dec. 20, 1864 June 20, 1943 I lay my burden
down and at Jesus’ feet sit down.
Amen.—Darrel
Dexter)
Speaker Scheduled for Last Sunday Died
Thursday, Nov. 13
It was with deep regret that the
members of the Baptist Church of Mounds and
other Baptist churches in this section
learned Friday of the death of Miss Elma
Elam
of Madison, Mo., a missionary, who was on
the Egyptian liner
Zamzam
and survived its sinking by a German warship
last April.
She returned to the U.S. in June and
had been speaking in many places.
While at Harrisburg, she was taken
seriously ill on Tuesday night and died
Thursday.
Although in failing health for some
time, she had spoken Tuesday night at a
Saline County school of missions.
She had been scheduled to speak last
Sunday morning in the local Baptist church
at the opening meeting of the “Week of
Missions.”
Each evening this week some speaker
is appearing as announced in last week’s
Independent.
(Elma
Elam applied for a passport to go to Africa and Great Britain to do
missionary work on 4 Aug 1923, in Kansas
City, Mo., and intended to leave on 1 Oct
1923.
She returned to New York on 20 Jun
1927, on the
Baltic.
She returned from a subsequent trip
from Southampton, England, on the
Homeric on 5 Aug 1931.
Her death certificate states that
Elma
Elam, Baptist missionary, was born 9 Mar
1895, in Madison Co., Mo., the daughter of
John H.
Elam
and Mollie
Birner, natives of Madison, Mo., died 13 Nov 1941, in Harrisburg,
Saline Co., Ill., and was buried in Madison,
Monroe Co., Mo.
Her marker there in Sunset Hill
Cemetery reads:
She hath done what she could Elma
Elam
missionary to Africa from 1924 to 1941
1895-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. Albert C.
Toler
and son, James, were called to Goreville
Saturday evening by the sudden death of Mrs.
Toler’s
father, Andrew C.
Maze.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Ray
Scott
on Sunday attended the funeral of Mr.
Scott’s
stepmother, Mrs. John
Scott,
who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Mary
Nelson, in Marion.
Burial was made near Simpson in the cemetery
at Gilead Church, the
Scott
family burial place.
(The death certificate of Ida Bell
Scott
states she was born 6 Mar 1878, in Johnson
Co., Ill., the son of Jasper
McGowan and Elizabeth
Simmons, died 14 Nov 1941, in Marion,
Williamson Co., Ill., the widow of John
Scott, and was buried in Simpson Township, Johnson Co., Ill.
Her marker in Gilead Cemetery reads:
Ida B.
Scott
Mar. 6, 1878 Nov. 15, 1941 John M.
Scott
Apr. 14, 1862 Nov. 14, 1931.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Belle Hammon
Mrs. Belle
Hammon died at the home of her nephew, Ulis
Linder, in Valley Recluse Friday morning, Nov. 14, at 8:30 o’clock,
following an attack of pneumonia.
Her age was 65 years.
Her sister, Mrs. Millie
Waters, preceded her in death on Nov. 3.
She is survived by a son, Clifford
Young;
a daughter, Mrs. Fannie
Grounds; a brother, Charles
Dyer,
all three of Mounds; also three
grandchildren and other relatives.
Funeral services were held at the
Linder residence Saturday afternoon at
2:30 o’clock with Rev. Ernest
Pruett of the Assembly of God
officiating.
Burial was made in Spencer Heights
with the J. T.
Ryan Funeral Service in charge of arrangements.
(The death certificate of Bell
Hammon, of Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill.,
states that she was born 12 Dec 1875, in Bay
City, Ill., the daughter of William
Dyer
and Elizabeth
Buchs,
natives of Bay City, Ill., died 14 Nov 1941,
in Road District 6, Pulaski Co., Ill., widow
of Cobe
Hammon, and was buried in Spencer
Heights Cemetery at Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. A.P. Schroeder
Mrs. Sophie
Schroeder, age 82 years, of Grand Chain, died suddenly at her home
Sunday morning.
She is survived by one brother, Hans
Johannsen of Bunkie, La.; a niece, Mrs.
Catherine
Cramer;
and a nephew, Philip Wright
of Memphis, Tenn.
Born in Denmark, Mrs.
Schroeder has lived in Grand Chain for
many years.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at two o’clock at the residence
with G. A.
James Funeral Service in charge.
(The death certificate of Sophie E.
Schroeder states she was born 20 Jan
1860, in Denmark, the daughter of Hans
Johansen and Margaret
Hansen, natives of Denmark, died 16 Nov
1941, in Grand Chain, Pulaski Co., Ill.,
widow of Andrew P.
Schroeder, and was buried in Thistlewood
Cemetery at Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker there reads:
S. E.
Schroeder 1860-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Card of Thanks
We wish to express our thanks for the
kindness shown us during the illness and
after the death of our mother, Mrs. Belle
Hammon, who passed away November 14.
We wish especially to thank Rev.
Ernest
Pruett, the
Holman sisters, the pallbearers and all
who assisted in any way.
Clifford
Young
Fannie
Grounds
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 21 Nov 1941:
Former Editor of
Enterprise Dies
Will A.
Ashbaugh, for several years editor and owner of the
Pulaski Enterprise, died in a hospital
in Long Beach, California, Sunday morning
after an illness of several weeks.
The funeral was held Wednesday in
Long Beach.
Mr.
Ashbaugh, who was 57 years of age at his death, will be recalled by
many older residents of the city and county
as owner of the
Enterprise preceding and during the
World War.
He left Mound City in 1920.
He succeeded his father in publishing
the
Enterprise, selling out in 1920 to W. W.
Waite
and the late Judge Fred
Hood.
His father, W. H.
Ashbaugh owned the Enterprise
for many years.
He married Miss Margie
Slocum, his first wife, who is living in
Compton, California.
She is a cousin of Miss Cora
Fullerton in Mounds.
His present wife also survives.
There were no children.
A sister, Mrs. Hattie
Kern of California also survives.
Mr.
Ashbaugh was in stationery supply and bookbinding business in
California.
(Henry
Ashbaugh married Emma E.
Archer on 27 Apr 1870, in Rock Island
Co., Ill.
When he registered for the 1918 draft
in Pulaski Co., Ill., William Henry
Ashbaugh was an editor and lived in
Mound City, Ill.
His nearest relative was Margaret
Ashbaugh, of Mound City, and he was
physically disqualified from service because
of his left eye.
The California Death Index states
that William Henry
Ashbaugh was born 23 Jul 1882, in
Kansas, the son of Mr.
Ashbaugh and Miss
Archer,
and died 16 Nov 1941 in Los Angeles Co.,
Calif.
His Social Security death claim
states he was born in Newton, Kan.—Darrel
Dexter)
OLMSTED SCHOOL BOY DIES SATURDAY MORNING
Virgil Eugene
Edwards, age 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Edwards of Olmsted, passed away at St. Mary’s Hospital Saturday
morning at 8:45 o’clock after a week’s
illness.
Virgil has been in failing health for
the past 18 months.
Besides his parents, he is survived
by his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. J.
Milford of Olmsted and a number of other relatives.
Virgil was an eighth grade pupil in
the Olmsted school and a member of Boy Scout
Troop 28 of which Rev. E. B.
Beaty
is scoutmaster.
He was also a member of the Olmsted
Methodist Church.
Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Olmsted
Methodist church.
Rev.
Beaty,
pastor, assisted by Evangelist Rev.
Mercer of Golconda, officiated.
Casket bearers were the following
cousins of the deceased:
Melvin
Thurston, Carl
Thompson, Leon Galbraith, Austin Capron, Gilbert
Edwards.
Flower girls were Marilyn
Koch,
Bennie
Miller Betty Goins,
Marilyn
Kraatz, Marian
Burd,
and Clarence Barbara Holman, Merle
Jean
Rushing and Evelyn
Britt.
Burial was made in the Rosehill
Cemetery at Pulaski.
G. A.
James
was in charge of arrangements.
DEATH CLAIMS MRS. B. HAMMON
Mrs. Belle
Hammon, age 65, passed away at the home of her nephew, Ulis
Linder, in Valley Recluse Friday morning
at 8:30 o’clock following an attack of
pneumonia.
She was preceded in death by her
sister, Mrs. Millie
Waters, November 3.
Surviving her is a son, Clifford
Young;
a daughter, Mrs. Fanny
Grounds, both of Mounds; a brother,
Charles Dyer, of Mounds; and three
grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the
Linder residence Saturday afternoon at
2:30 o’clock with Rev. Ernie
Pruett of the Assembly of God
officiating.
Interment was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 28 Nov 1941:
Milas S. Galbraith
Milas S.
Galbraith, age 77, passed away Thursday,
Nov. 13, at his home in Long Beach, Calif.,
according to word received by relatives in
Cairo.
Mr.
Galbraith formerly made his home in Pulaski County and later in
Cairo, moving to California six years ago.
He is survived by his wife; two
brothers, R. F. and T. E. of Cairo; two
sisters, Mrs. Lizzie
Lampley of Villa Ridge and Mrs. Elzora
Neistrath of Long Beach, besides several
nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held at Lomita,
Calif., November 14.
Burial was made there.
(The California Death Index states
that Milus Sherman
Galbraith was born 11 Jan 1865, in
Illinois, and died 13 Nov 1941, in Los
Angeles Co., Calif.
His marker in Wilmington Cemetery in
Wilmington, Los Angeles Co., Calif., reads:
Wife Mattie L.
Galbraith Nov. 4, 1869 Sept. 16, 1950
Husband Milus S.
Galbraith Jan. 11, 1865 Nov. 11,
1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Cecil Young
Cecil
Young, colored, age 88, of Grand Chain and a former resident of
Mounds, died Thursday, Nov. 20, at the
Martha Jane Fisher Memorial Hospital,
Paducah, Ky., of pneumonia.
He had been ill only a few days,
He is survived by four sisters, Miss
Calva
Young of Mounds, Mrs. Annie
Phillips of St. Louis,
Mo., Mrs. Ada Jones and Miss
Ernestine
Young of Gary, Ind.; five brothers, Seth
of Cairo, Ed of Mounds, Harry of Los
Angeles, Calif., Cleve of Salt Lake City,
Utah, and Hugh of Madison, Ill.
Funeral services were held Saturday
afternoon at the Missionary Baptist Church
in Grand Chain with Rev. Bemis
Allensworth officiating.
Wilson Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
(According to his death certificate,
Cecil
Young, mill worker, of Karnak, Pulaski
Co., Ill., was born 27 Jul 1904, the son of
Calvin
Young,
a native of Paris, Tenn., and Lucy
Williams, a native of Tennessee, died 20
Nov 1941, in Metropolis, Massac Co., Ill.,
husband of Callie
Young,
and was buried in Grand Chain cemetery.
His marker in Forestview Cemetery in
New Grand Chain, Pulaski Co., Ill., reads:
Calvin
Young
1856-1915 Cecil
Young
1903-1941 Ada E.
Young
1896-19.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 5 Dec 1941:
PULASKI RESIDENT DIES
Annie
Bartlett, wife of J. C.
Bartlett, passed away at her home in
Pulaski Tuesday, November 25th
after a lingering illness,
Besides her husband, she is survived
by one son, William A.
Sharp
of Santa Monica, Calif.; four grandchildren;
three great-grandchildren and several nieces
and nephews.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Mt. Pleasant
Baptist Church in Pulaski with the pastor,
Rev. George
Leathers, officiating.
Burial was in Rosehill Cemetery.
George C.
Crain was in charge of arrangements.
(According to the death certificate,
Annie M.
Bartlett, was born 14 Jun 1863, in
Olmsted, Ill., the daughter of Frank
Chamberlain, a native of Union Co., Ill., and Condesay
McClellan, a native of North Carolina,
died 25 Nov 1941, in Pulaski, Ill., the wife
of Jesse C.
Bartlett, and was buried in Rosehill Cemetery in Pulaski, Ill.
Her marker reads:
Jesse C.
Bartlett 1871-1962 Annie M.
Bartlett 1863-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
DEATH CLAIMS MRS. W. GULLEY
Susan
Gulley, age 84, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Severs, in Ullin Wednesday night at 9
o’clock.
Her husband, William
Gulley, preceded her in death several
months ago.
Surviving her besides Mrs.
Severs are the following children, Lou
Julen
of Ullin, Elmer
Gulley of Maywood, Ill., Jess
Gulley of Dongola and Lewis
Gulley of Wetaug; a sister, Mary
Walker of Anna.
Funeral services were held at the
Baptist church in Ullin Friday afternoon at
2 o’clock with Rev. Hobart
Peterson officiating.
Burial was in Ullin Cemetery.
Wilson Funeral Service was in charge.
(Willis
Gulley married M. L. Smothers
on 26 Feb 1852, in Saline Co., Ill.
The death certificate of William
Gulley, timber cutter and lumberman,
states that he was born 29 Apr 1853, in
Saline Co., Ill., the son of Willis
Gulley, a native of Illinois, and Mary
Smothers, died 2 Apr 1941, in Ullin,
Pulaski Co., Ill., husband of Susan
Gulley, and was buried in Butter Ridge
Cemetery at Ullin, Ill.
Her birth certificate states that
Susan
Faulkner was born 9 Dec 1856, in Whitley
Co., Ky., the daughter of James
Faulkner and Martha
Fox.
Her death certificate states that
Susan
Gulley, of Ullin, Ill., was born 10 Dec
1856, in Boston, Ky., the daughter of James
Faulkner, a native of Boston, Ky., and Martha
Fox, a native of Pope Co., Ill., died 26 Nov 1941, in Ullin, Pulaski
Co., Ill., the widow of William W.
Gulley, and was buried in Butter Ridge
Cemetery in Road District 3, Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
Her marker there reads:
William
Gulley Apr. 29, 1853 Apr. 2, 1941 Susan
Gulley Dec. 10, 1856 Nov. 27,
1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 12 Dec 1941:
Pioneer Resident of Villa Ridge Dies Sunday
Night
Andrew M.
Scherick of Villa Ridge died Sunday night, December 7, at St. Mary’s
Hospital, Cairo.
He had been in failing health for
several months, but had been at the hospital
only a short time.
His age at death was 80 years.
Mr.
Scherick had lived in the Villa Ridge community for 76 years, having
come to Pulaski County with his parents from
Lancaster, Pa., his birthplace, at the age
of four.
He was in the mercantile business in
Villa Ridge for several years and for 30
years travelled for a St. Louis business
firm.
He had outlived the members of his
immediate family.
The only surviving relatives are two
nieces, Mrs. Anna
Royce
of Chicago, and Miss Minnie
Davidson of Joliet; one nephew, O. L.
McBride of Villa Ridge; two grand
nieces, Evalyn
Royce
of Chicago and
Mary
Howell of Fort Worth, Texas; and three
grand nephews, John and Charles
Royce
of Chicago and John
Howell of Fort Worth, Texas.
Funeral services were held at the residence
of O. L.
McBride of Villa Ridge Tuesday afternoon
at two o’clock.
Burial was made in Villa Ridge
cemetery with G. A.
James Funeral Service in charge of arrangements.
(The death certificate of Andrew M.
Scherick was born 19 Jul 1861, in
Lancaster Co., Pa., the son of Benjamin H.
Scherick and Elizabeth
Metzger, natives of Pennsylvania, died 7
Dec 1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., and
was buried at Villa Ridge, Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker in Cairo City Cemetery at
Villa Ridge reads:
Andrew M.
Scheirich 1861-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
Son of Former Mounds Couple Accidentally
Killed Sunday
Rodney
Wise, ten-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie
Wise of Detroit, Mich., former residents of Mounds, was accidentally
and instantly killed in Detroit Sunday,
December 7, when he fell from
platform while watching some boats
with a playmate and struck his head on a
rock.
The body was brought to Mounds
Wednesday morning and was taken to the home
of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L.
Wanura.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at the Methodist church with Rev.
L. B.
Walkington officiating.
Burial was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery.
Casket bearers were Wayne, Claude and
Herbert
Hayden and Loal
Hargan, cousins of Rodney.
J. T.
Ryan was in charge.
Surviving him are his parents; a
half-brother, Edward
Russ;
his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
L.
Wanura; his paternal grandmother, Mrs.
William
Wise;
five aunts, Mrs. E. D.
Holoday and Mrs. Mack
Denby
of Detroit, Mrs. William
Clancy of Olmsted, Mrs. Dorothy
Wise
Rose of Mounds, and Miss Susie
Wise
of Chicago; five uncles, William, Adolphus,
and Robert
Wise of Chicago, Woodrow Wise
of Denver, Colo., and Roy
Wanura of Mounds.
No news has been received concerning Harold
D. Shaffer, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L.
Shaffer, who was with the 46th Pursuit Squadron stationed
at Wheeler’s Field, Territory of Hawaii.
His parents, family and friends are
hoping that no news is good news.
Mr. and Mrs. John
Britton were in Paducah Saturday night
and Sunday called by the illness and death
of J. W.
Kern.
(When he registered for the draft in
1917, James William Kern, Jr., stated he was
born 26 Jul 1887, in Alexandria, Va., and
was a civil engineer for the Illinois
Central Railway Co., of Chicago, Ill.
The death certificate of James
William
Kern,
a World War I veteran and retired I. C.
superintendent, states that he was born 2
Jul 1887, in Alexandria, Va., the son of
John W.
Kern
and Mary
Davis,
natives of Virginia, died 6 Dec 1941, from a
brain tumor in the I. C. R. R. Hospital in
Paducah, McCracken Co., Ky., where he had
been seven years, husband of Nancy B.
Kern,
and was buried in Maple Lawn Cemetery.
Informant for the death certificate
was his son, Dabney
Kern,
of Paducah, Ky.
His marker in Maplelawn Park Cemetery
in Paducah reads:
James W.
Kern
July 26, 1887 Dec. 6, 1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
James W. Kern
James W.
Kern of Paducah, Ky., son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. B. I.
Britton of Route One, died Saturday,
December 6, in the Illinois Central Hospital
Paducah, following an illness of a year or
more.
He had undergone an operation at John
Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md., and had
been a patient at Rochester, Minn., but to
little avail.
Mr.
Kern, a native of Virginia, came to Mounds as supervisor of the
Illinois Central terminal and was here for
several years.
He served also as roadmaster at
Carbondale.
During the First World War he was
with the Thirteenth Engineers in France,
serving as lieutenant and later as captain.
He was located at Clinton, Ill., for
several years and for six years had been
superintendent of the Kentucky division of
the Illinois Central.
He retired last year due to illness,
after a service of 37 years.
He is survived by his wife, the
former Nannie
Britton; and four children, three sons,
Dabney, James, Jr., and John
Stage, and a daughter, Nancy, all of Paducah.
Funeral services were held Monday
morning at the Grace Episcopal Church in
Paducah. Burial was made in Maplelawn
Cemetery, Paducah.
Attending the services from here were
Mr. and Mrs. B.I.
Britton, Mr. and Mrs. Benson
Britton, Mr. and Mrs. John
Britton, Mr. and Mrs. E. G.
Britton, Miss Edith
Gould,
Mr. and Mrs. M. M.
Hartman.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M.
Block of Cairo also attended.
Mother of John Sheets Dies Sunday Night in
Cairo
Elizabeth Ellen
Sheets, age 89 years, and mother of John
Sheets, died Sunday night, Dec.7, at the
home of another son, Sam
Sheets, of Cairo, following a six weeks’
illness.
Mrs.
Sheets was the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Edward
Olmsted.
Her father was a Presbyterian
minister and was pastor of the Presbyterian
Church of Olmsted, Ill., for 50 years.
She was a devoted Christian and was
active in church and lodge work as long as
her health permitted.
She held membership in the Eastern
Star Lodge of Pulaski and the Rebekah Lodge
of Cairo.
Surviving are three sons, Edward
Thurtell of Los Angeles, Calif., Sam
Sheets of Cairo and John
Sheets of Mounds; two daughters, Mrs.
Nick
Meyers of Ottawa, Kan., and Mrs. Claude
Deems
of Hamilton, Ohio; 24 grandchildren and 29
great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held in the
Berbling Funeral Home, Cairo, at 1:30
o’clock Tuesday afternoon, with Rev. F. C.
Stelzriede officiating.
A short service was also held at the
Baptist Church of Pulaski at 2:45 p.m. with
the Rev. Mr.
Stelzriede, assisted by Rev. George
Leathers, officiating.
Burial was made in Rose Hill
Cemetery, which was once a part of the
Sheets’ farm.
(Walter
Thurtell married Lizzie
Olmstead on 25 Dec 1871, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
Samuel
Sheets married Mrs. Elizabeth
Thurtell on 4 Feb 1879, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
Edward
Olmstead married Mary
Riddle on 11 Jul 1839, in Alexander Co.,
Ill.
According to her death certificate,
Elizabeth Ellen
Sheets, of Cairo, Ill., was born 16 Feb
1852, in Olmsted, Ill., the daughter of
Edward
Olmsted, a native of Chambersburg, Pa.,
and Mary
Riddle, a native of Covington, Ky., died
7 Dec 1941, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill.,
widow of Samuel
Sheets, and was buried in Rose Hill
Cemetery in Pulaski, Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker there reads:
Elizabeth E.
Sheets 1852-1941.—Darrel
Dexter)
James B. Minton
Mrs. Walter
Harper received word Wednesday of the death of her brother, James B.
Minton, who died that day at 12:45 p.m.
in Caruthersville, Mo., where he resided.
Mr.
Minton was the son of Bird and Julia A.
Minton, early residents of Pulaski County near Villa Ridge and was
born near Villa Ridge.
He is survived by his wife, Belle;
one son, Charles W. (Bud)
Minton of St. Louis, Mo.; one daughter,
Mrs. Edgar
Nickens of Caruthersville; three brothers, Frank and Will of Mounds
and John of Campbell, Mo.; three sisters,
Mrs. Fannie
Parker and Mrs. Walter Harper
of Mounds and Mrs. Charles
Nugent of Memphis, Tenn.; eight
grandchildren and several
great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held in
Caruthersville Thursday afternoon at 2:30
o’clock.
(According to his death certificate,
James B.
Minton, farmer, of West 14th
St., Caruthersville, Mo., was born 17 Jan
1857, in Birmingham, Ala., the son of Bird
Minton, a native of Tennessee, and Julia
Graddy, and died 10 Dec 1941, in
Caruthersville, Pemiscot Co., Mo., husband
of Aurchebelle
Minton, and was buried in Maple Cemetery
in Caruthersville, Mo.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 12 Dec 1941:
J. W. KERN DIES
Word has been received here of the
death of J. W.
Kern,
nephew of F. M.
Block
of Cairo, and at one time supervisor of the
Cairo terminal at Mounds, who passed away at
the Illinois Central Hospital in Paducah
Saturday night.
Surviving him besides his wife, the
former Nannie
Britton, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B.
I.
Britton of Mounds, are four children,
three sons and one daughter, all of Paducah.
Mr.
Kern was for six years superintendent of
the Kentucky Division of the Illinois
Central Railroad, having retired last
summer.
Mr. Kern had been connected with the Illinois Central System for 37
years,
Aside from being employed as
supervisor of the Cairo terminal at Mounds
for a number of years, he also served as
roadmaster out of Carbondale.
He was with the Thirteenth Engineers
in France during the World War, serving as
lieutenant and later captain.
Funeral services were held at the
Grace Episcopal Church in Paducah.
DEATH CLAIMS AGED VILLA RIDGE RESIDENT
Andrew M.
Sherrick, age 80, died Sunday night at 3 o’clock at St. Mary’s
Hospital in Cairo.
He had been ill for some time.
Mr.
Sherick was born in Lancaster, Pa., but came to Villa Ridge with his
parents when he was four years old.
He had made his home in that
community since that time.
He was for several years in the
mercantile business in Villa Ridge and for
30 years traveled a St. Louis concern.
Surviving are two nieces, Mrs. Anna
Royce
of Chicago and Miss Minnie
Davidson of Joliet; a nephew, O. L.
McBride of Villa Ridge; two grandnieces,
Evelyn
Royce
of Chicago and Mary
Howell of Fort Worth, Tex.; and three
grand-nephews, John and Charles
Royce
of Chicago and John
Howell of Fort Worth.
Funeral services were held at the
residence of O. L.
McBride in Villa Ridge Tuesday afternoon
at 2 o’clock.
Interment was in the Villa Ridge
cemetery.
G. A.
James Funeral Service was in charge of
the arrangements.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 19 Dec 1941:
TWO CHILDREN BURN IN FUTURE CITY FIRE SUNDAY
A fire in Future City, just north of
Cairo, cost the lives of two little girls,
Katherine
Ewing, age 4, and her sister, Gwendolyn, age 2, daughters of Preston
Ewing,
colored, and driver of a mail truck.
Two stores and four dwelling houses
were destroyed.
(According to the death certificate,
Kathyrn Marie
Ewing
was born 27 Dec 1937, in Cairo, Ill.,
daughter of Preston
Ewing, a native of Brinkly, Ark., and Nancy
Briggs, a native of Moscow, Tenn., died 15 Dec 1941, in Road
District 2, Alexander Co., Ill., and was
buried in Thistlewood Cemetery at Mounds,
Ill.
The death certificate of Gwendlyn
Lanora
Ewing
states she was born 2 Dec 1939, in Cairo,
Ill., daughter of Preston
Ewing, a native of Brinkly, Ark., and Nancy
Briggs, a native of Moscow, Tenn., died 15 Dec 1941, in Road
District 2, Alexander Co., Ill., and was
buried in Thistlewood Cemetery at
Mounds.—Darrel
Dexter)
DEATH COMES SUDDENLY
Death came to Richard
Parks,
47, World War veteran of Mound City, while
the music of the cantata in which he was to
take part was being sung at the Pilgrim
Congregational Church Sunday afternoon.
A heart attack caused him to fall
over against another member of the choir in
what was at first thought to be a fainting
spell.
While another sang the solo Mr.
Parks
was to sing, artificial respiration was
resorted to in an effort to restore him, but
to no avail.
Mr.
Parks, who was employed as an engineer on the Mound City-Mounds
levee project, had lived in Mound City for
more than a year.
He was buried in the National
Cemetery.
(His death certificate states that
Richard
Parks
was born 28 Apr 1894, in Scotland, the son
of William
Parks
and Helen
McIntire, natives of Scotland, died 21
Dec 1941, in Mound City, Pulaski Co., Ill.,
husband of Mildred
Parks.
His interment record for Mound City
National Cemetery states he was a private 1st
class in Battery E, 21st West
Virginia Field Artillery, 5th
Division and enlisted 14 May 1918 and was
honorably discharged 29 Jul 1919.
He was buried in Section F Grave
5117-A.—Darrel
Dexter)
LOSES HIS BROTHER
Mr. and Mrs. M. A.
Pulley and son, John Ward
Pulley, were called to Stonefort Monday
by the death of Mr.
Pulley’s half-brother, Ephran
Pulley of that place.
Funeral services were held at
Stonefort Monday afternoon.
(E. E.
Pulley married Mary E.
Mitchell on 23 Dec 1891, in Saline Co.,
Ill.
Barton
Pulley married Louisa
Lane
on 12 Jan 1854, in Williamson Co., Ill.
The death certificate of Ephraim
Enger
Pulley, retired merchant, of Stonefort
Township, Saline Co., Ill., states that he
was born 6 Mar 1859, in Pulley’s Mill, Ill.,
the son of Barton
Pulley, a native of near Marion, Ill.,
and Louisa
Mitchell, a native of North
Carolina, died 19 Dec 1941, in Stonefort
Township, Williamson Co., Ill., husband of
Mary E.
Pulley, and was buried in Stonefort
Township.
He was buried in Blackman Cemetery in
Saline Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
JERRY DAVID WILSON
Jerry David
Wilson died at birth at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin
Wilson, at 2 o’clock, Friday morning,
Dec. 19.
Besides his parents, he is survived
by two sisters, Maxine and Louise; a
brother, Thomas; his paternal grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Wilson; and maternal grandmother, Mrs.
Mae
Van Meter, of Mounds.
Funeral services were held in the
afternoon at the residence, with Rev.
Pruitt officiating.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery. J.
T.
Ryan Funeral Service was in charge.
(The death certificate of Jerry David
Wilson states that he was stillborn 19
Dec 1941, in Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill., the
son of Calvin
Wilson, a native of Mill Creek, Ill.,
and Rose Alline
Neilers, a native of Brookport, Ill.,
and was buried in Thistlewood Cemetery at
Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
KILLED IN ACTION
Mrs. Nora
Lackey of Ullin received word Dec. 17th that her
grandson, Juan Luis (Bimbo)
Lackey, eldest son of Billy
Lackey, had been killed in action at
Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii.
“BIMBO” LACKEY ALIVE
Mrs. Nora
Lackey of Ullin, who received word some time ago that her grandson,
Juan Luis (Bimbo)
Lackey, had been killed at Pearl Harbor,
has been informed by the Navy Department and
also by the young man that he is safe and
well.
WOUNDED IN HAWAII
Private James F.
Ewers
of Mound City was wounded in the attack on
Hickam Field in Hawaii Sunday, Dec. 7,
according to word received by his sister,
Mrs. Rohan
Lutz,
also of Mound City, in a telegram from the
War Department.
No details were given.
Harold
Shaffer, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. L.
Shaffer and Johnnie
Egner,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Egner,
both located with the U. S. Navy in Hawaii,
have not been heard from since Pearl Harbor
was bombed by the Japanese.
The parents of these boys are, with
thousands of other parents, having some
anxious moments.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 19 Dec 1941:
DEATH CLAIMS AGED RESIDENT OF AMERICA
Mrs. Fannie
Merchant, age 83, passed away at the home of her grandson, Hervey
Snow,
at America, December 11, at 5:45 o’clock
after several weeks’ illness.
She is survived by two sons, Wesley
Staton of Greenville, Miss., Mid
Staton of Mound City; one daughter, Mrs.
Nora
Gibson of Chicago; seven grandchildren
and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the
America Christian Church December 14, at 2
o’clock with Rev.
Day
of Metropolis, Ill., officiating.
Interment was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery.
G. A.
James
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
(The death certificate of Fannie
Riggs
Merchant states she was born 14 Jun
1860, in Gibson Co., Tenn., died 11 Dec
1941, in Road District 6, Pulaski Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
TWO NEGRO CHILDREN DIE IN FUTURE CITY FIRE
MONDAY
Fire which started in the rear rooms
of a store in Future City resulted in the
death of two small children trapped in
upstairs rooms and the destruction of two
stores and four homes.
The fire started at 11:30 o’clock
Monday morning and by 1:30 had leveled the
six buildings.
The children, daughters of Preston
Ewing,
colored, mail truck driver, could not be
rescued because of the intense heat.
A bystander attempted to reach them,
but flames burst out a broken window,
burning him about the face and hands, and he
was unable to go on with the rescue work.
The fire moved rapidly north along
the homes bordering the highway and no water
was thrown on the fire until the Mound City
truck was called.
One of Cairo’s two fire truck was
being worked on and the other truck didn’t
go to the fire.
It was necessary for Fire Chief
Houston of Mound City to string hose
from a hydrant inside the city limit and
then use the recently overhauled Mound City
truck’s engine in order to have pressure to
fight the rapidly moving fire.
Traffic was halted for about an hour.
The fire started in the store owned
by
Mason and was driven by a south wind
across a narrow street by the store catching
fire to a lunch stand.
It then began its northward sweep
with four homes destroyed.
Volunteer firemen, in order to stop
the fast consuming movement of the fire
battered down the last of six buildings
which were burning so the hose could be used
to greater advantage.
Rental insurance was carried by some
of the home and store owners.
None had complete coverage and two or
three buildings were not insured.
Recently, Future City and other
outlying communities had voted to set up a
fire district, but they had not gone ahead
with plans of buying a truck and equipment.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 26 Dec 1941:
VETERAN RIVER MAN DIES AT CAPE HOSPITAL
Roy A.
Jaynes, 53 years old, member of a family which for many years
operated ferry boats on the Mississippi
River, and in recent years a farmer and
stockman, died of pneumonia and cirrhosis of
the liver December 9th at the
Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape
Girardeau.
Mr.
Jaynes has been in ill health for
several months.
He was well known in Southern
Illinois.
Mr.
Jaynes was born at Thebes, Jan. 2, 1888, a son of A. C.
Jaynes and Sarah H.
Rice
Jaynes.
He spent his childhood in Southern
Illinois and when a young man became
associated with his father in the operation
of ferryboats on the Mississippi River,
between Thebes and the Missouri shore and
between Cape Girardeau and Illinois.
When this business was suspended in
1928 with the opening of the Cape Bridge,
Mr. Jaynes engaged in farming and livestock trading in Missouri.
He was married Dec. 24, 1915, to Miss
Agnes
Stone, whose home was on a farm near
McClure.
He was a member of the Masonic and
Knights Templar lodges.
Mr.
Jaynes is survived by his widow; two brothers, C. A.
Jaynes at Phoenix, Ariz., and Finis
Jaynes of St. Louis; and a sister, Mrs.
A. C.
Elkins of Los Angeles, Calif.
Funeral services were held last
Friday afternoon at the
Walther Funeral Home.
(The 1917 draft registration of Roy
Alfred
Jaynes, steamboat pilot for A. C.
Jaynes of Cape Girardeau, Mo., states he
lived at 372 Merriwether, Cape Girardeau,
Mo., was born 12 Jan 1888, in Thebes, Ill.,
and was corporal in Co. K, Missouri National
Guard for three years.
His death certificate states that Roy
A.
Jaynes, farmer and stock dealer, was
born 12 Jan 1888, in Thebes, Ill., the son
of Alvin C.
Jaynes and Sarah H.
Rice,
died 4 Dec 1941, of cirrhosis of the liver
at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape
Girardeau, Mo., and was buried in Memorial
Park Cemetery.
His marker there reads:
Beloved Husband Roy A.
Jaynes Jan. 12, 1888 Dec. 9, 1941—Darrel
Dexter)
INFANT SON DIES
Jerry David
Wilson died at birth at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin
Wilson, in Mounds Thursday morning at 2
o’clock.
Besides his parents, he is survived
by two sisters, Maxine and Lois; a brother,
Thomas; his paternal grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Louis
Wilson; and maternal grandmother, Mrs.
Mae
VanMeter of Mounds.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at the residence in Mounds with
Rev.
Pruitt officiating.
Interment was made in Thistlewood Cemetery.
RICHARD PARKS DIES AT CHRISTMAS
Richard
Parks, age 47, of Mound City was suddenly stricken with a heart
attack at the Congregational church in Mound
City Sunday afternoon and died within a few
minutes.
He was employed with the U. S.
Engineers on the Mound City-Mounds levee
product.
Mr.
Parks, a member of the male group presenting a Christmas cantata at
the church, was sitting while some of the
women vocalists were presenting their
numbers when he suddenly fell over on Donald
Miller, who was sitting next to him.
Several of the men, thinking Mr.
Parks
had fainted, carried him into a room
adjoining the main auditorium where G. A.
James administered artificial respiration for about 30 minutes,
assisted by Dr.
Wesenberg and others.
While the men worked over Mr.
Parks,
the cantata went on, a substitute stepping
in for a solo part which Mr.
Parks was to sing.
Dr.
Wesenberg pronounced the stricken man dead after almost 45 minutes
of artificial respiration.
A heart attack was given as the cause
of death.
Mr.
Parks
had not been known to have had previous
attacks of this nature and was a man of rare
good health, those who knew him well said.
He is survived by his wife, Mildred;
and daughters, Patty Jo of Mound City and
Jacquelyn of Huntington, Ind.; his mother,
Mrs. Helen
Parks
of Clarksburg, West Va.; and a sister, Mrs.
Clarence
Griffin of Clarksburg.
The deceased had been living in Mound
City for over a year in an apartment above
Gene’s Place.
He was born in Scotland, coming to
the United States when 15 years of age.
He saw service in the World War,
having fought at St. Michiel and other
battles.
He was in France over a year.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at the
James
Funeral Home with Rev. Hubert
Bahr
in charge of the services.
Burial will be made in the National
cemetery.
G. A.
James
Funeral service was in charge of
arrangements. |