CHARLES GAGER

 

TRANSCRIBED BY : TINA EASLEY

tina@grnco.net

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ar/county/greene/

FROM THE WEEKLY SOLIPHONE

MAY 28, 1902

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FORMER PARAGOULD CITIZEN PASSES AWAY IN ST. LOUIS

THE FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENT APPEARED IN A ST. LOUIS PAPER .

DIED ON SATURDAY , MAY 24 , 7 P.M. CHARLES GAGER THE BELOVED HUSBAND OF ANNA GAGER (NEE RINNE) AND FATHER OF CHARLES AND FLORENCE GAGER.

THE FUNERAL WILL TAKE PLACE FROM RESIDENCE , NO. 3420 CHIPPEWA STREET , ON TUESDAY , MAY 27 , AT 1:30 P.M. TO BELLEFONTAINE CEMETERY.

THE DECEASED WAS WELL-KNOWN IN PARAGOULD HAVING BEEN FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS IN THE HOTEL BUSINESS IN THIS CITY , AS PROPRIETOR OF THE GAGER NOW STANCILL HOUSE .

DECEASED HAS MANY FRIENDS HERE TO WHOM THE NEWS OF HIS DEATH WILL BE RECEIVED WITH REGRET.

HUGH SULLIVAN , H.J. WRAPE AND OTHER EX- PARAGOULDIANS NOW RESIDE IN ST. LOUIS ATTENDED THE FUNERAL

GAGER LEFT HERE ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO AND WENT TO ST. LOUIS HAS A RESIDENCE OF SEVEN OR EIGHT YEARS IN THE TOWN.

A. RAITH INFORMS US THAT HIS RESIDENCE IS VALUED AT ABOUT $15,000.