Jap Melton
Obit
January 11, 1909 - Paragould Daily Press
TRANSCRIBED BY : TINA EASLEY
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JAP MELTON DEAD
PROMINENT YOUNG MAN OF ST. FRANCIS TOWNSHIP PASSES AWAY AND WAS BURIED AT WOODS CHAPEL SUNDAY.
W.J. MELTON , A GOOD CITIZEN OF ST. FRANCIS TOWNSHIP AND CONSTABLE OF THE TOWNSHIP DIED AT HIS HOME TWO MILES EAST OF BETHEL SATURDAY NIGHT AND WAS BURIED AT WOODS CHAPEL SUNDAY.
THE DECEASED WAS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR AND PROMINENT YOUNG MEN OF HIS COMMUNITY AND HIS DEATH IS VERY MUCH DEPLORED . HE WAS 24 YEARS OF AGE AND LEAVES A YOUNG WIDOW AND TWO SMALL CHILDREN.
HE WAS AN ODD FELLOW AN A.O.U.W. AND A MEMBER OF THE METHODIST CHURCH AND THE FUNERAL WAS JOINTLY CONDUCTED BY THE TWO FRATERNAL ORDERS ABOVE MENTIONED . THE BEREAVED WIFE IS A DAUGHTER OF RICHARD WINN A WELL KNOWN CITIZEN OF THAT PART OF THE COUNTY.
DECEASED WAS ELECTED CONSTABLE OF ST. FRANCIS TOWNSHIP AT THE LAST SEPTEMBER ELECTION AND WAS A YOUNG MAN OF MUCH PROMISE. THE IMMEDIATE CAUSE OF HIS DEATH WAS HEART TROUBLE THOUGH IT WAS THOUGHT THAT HE HAD CONSUMPTION .
THE SOLIPHONE JOINS THE MANY FRIENDS OF THE BEREAVED RELATIVES IN EXPRESSIONS OF CONDOLENCE AND IN THE HOPE THAT HE HAS GONE TO A BRIGHTER AND BETTER WORLD.