| 1911 Extracts from Barry County, MO, Newspapers An interlibrary loan of microfilm from the State Historical Society of MO was the source of the below given data. Extracts from Barry County, MO, Newspapers Extracted by: Donna Cooper, Coordinator |
October 26, 1911, Thursday, Cassville Republican, Barry Co., MO
In Memory:
At half past 12 o'clock Monday, Oct 16th, 1911, Death made his way into the home of James Jones of Clark and claimed for his own their loving son Otis, age 17 years and 9 days, born Oct 7th, 1894. Otis was a young man of promise just entering into manhood and the prime of the life with the prospects of a long and useful career which seemed to some of us very flattering when alas! that dread scourge of our race, typhoid fever overtook him. After several weeks of patent suffering his sprit took its flight to the blessed abode beyond this vale of tears where sorrow and sighing shall be felt and feared no more. Otis was a good boy. He was in industrious, honest, truthful and social and has unexpected, departure is a sad disappointment to his family, kindred and friends. He leaves a father and step mother. His own dear mother having preceded him to the glory world several years ago. He leaves two brothers, Joe and Dow, and one half brother and two sisters, Hattie and Velma, and four half sisters to mourn their loss and a host of other relatives and friends was in evidence at the funeral services in the Clark school house close by the Jones residence Oct 17th, which would in no wise [way] hold the anxious attentive and serious congregation waiting to see and hear the last benediction of him whom we loved and respected. Funeral services were conduced by Ray Angles. A number of his young men associates were the bearers of the casket which was covered with flowers taken of the love and esteem in which Otis was held. |
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