Obits for Month of January 1920
THOMAS BAIRD - " AUNT " POLLY COBB - MRS. ELIZA SPAIN - MOTHER OF FRANK AND HARRY WARD - MRS. ORA LEE FRANS - MRS. VALIA O'NEAL - MRS. ELIZABETH KEY - FLOYD SPEERS - MRS. FRANCES ROGERS - MARGERY ROBINSON - W. H. COOPER - MRS. L.H. BIGGS - THOMAS MENCER - MRS. IRENE MAHAR - FRANK PETERSON - CLARENCE DICKINSON - WALTER GREENWAY -
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DOCUMENT WRITTEN AND RESEARCHED BY : TINA EASLEY
I HAVE CREATED THIS DOCUMENT WHILE RESEARCHING THE OLD NEWSPAPERS . I WILL BE ADDING MORE AS I RECORD THE OBITS FROM THE OLD NEWSPAPERS .
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MONDAY , JANUARY 5 , 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
THOMAS BAIRD DEAD
THOMAS BAIRD , FATHER OF NEWT BAIRD OF THIS CITY AND WILLIE BAIRD , DECEASED , WHO WAS A SALOONKEEPER IN PARAOULD IN THE EARLY DAYS OF THE TOWN , DIED YESTERDAY ( JANUARY 4, 1920) AT HIS HOME IN LEBANON , TENN.
MR BAIRD WAS AT AN ADVANCED AGE . MESSAGES ANNOUNCING HIS DEATH DID NOT TELL THE CAUSE OF DEATH. WILLIE BAIRD ERECTED THE FIRST BRICK BUILDING EVER PUT UP IN PARAGOULD . THIS WAS KNOWN AS " THE CORNER SALOON " AND AFTER IT WAS BURNED A FEW YEARS AGO THE BUILDING NOW OCCUPIED BY THE McBRIDE CAFE WAS ERECTED.
AFTER THE DEATH OF WILLIE BAIRD WHO MADE A SMALL FORTUNE HERE HIS PROPERTY REVERTED TO HIS FATHER. AMONG THE LOCAL BUILDINGS OWNED BY THE ELDER BAIRD AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH WAS THE MAJESTIC THEATER BUILDING AND ALL OF THE BRICK BUILDINGS FROM BEARD'S MUSIC STORE TO THE CORNER.
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MONDAY , JANUARY 5 , 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
( FROM FRIDAY'S DAILY PRESS - JANUARY 2, 1920)
DEATHS
" AUNT " POLLY COBB
" AUNT " POLLY COBB DIED YESTERDAY AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS . HER DEATH DAY WAS ALSO A 64TH BIRTHDAY .
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MOTHER OF FRANK AND HARRY WARD
THE MOTHER OF FRANK AND HARRY WARD OF THIS CITY DIED YESTERDAY ( JANUARY 1, 1920) AT HER HOME SEVEN MILES EAST OF TOWN.
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MRS. ORA LEE FRANS
MRS. ORA LEE FRANS , WIFE OF F.C. FRANS OF CAMPBELL , DIED NIGHT BEFORE LAST ( DECEMBER 31, 1919 ) AT THE PARAGOULD SANTITARIUM . DEATH WAS DUE TO DROPSY. HER REMAINS WERE SHIPPED TO CAMPBELL FOR INTERMENT.
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MRS. VALIA O'NEAL
MRS. VALIA O'NEAL , WHO WAS FORMERLY MISS VALIA ELLISON , DIED YESTERDAY AT A HOSPITAL IN ST. LOUIS FROM APPENDICITIS, ACCORDING TO A LETTER RECEIVED BY MRS. HARIRET A. MARTIN WHO WAS A NEIGHBOR OF THE DECEASED WHEN SHE WAS A RESIDENT OF THIS CITY.
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MONDAY , JANUARY 5 , 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
MRS. ELIZA SPAIN DEAD
MRS. ELIZA SPAIN DIED LAST NIGHT ( JANUARY 4, 1920 ) AT THE HOME OF HER SON , A.J. SPAIN AT NEW HOPE , NEAR BETHEL . MRS. SPAIN WAS 89 YEARS OLD , AND IS SURVIVED BY FOUR DAUGHTERS , BESIDE HER SON WITH WHOM SHE LIVED.
THE DAUGHTERS ARE ; MRS. HYATT OF RUSSELLVILLE , MRS. BELLE GREER , PARAGOULD , MRS. JENNIE HALEY OF CARDWELL AND MRS. POINDEXTER OF WALNUT RIDGE . THE DECEASED HAD LIVED IN GREENE COUNTY FOR MANY YEARS . FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD TOMORROW MORNING AT 11 O'CLOCK AT THE SPAIN HOME AT NEW HOPE , FOLLOWED BY INTERMENT IN LINWOOD CEMETERY.
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FRIDAY , JANUARY 9, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
MRS. ELIZABETH KEY DEAD
DEATH AT AN EARLY HOUR LAST NIGHT ( JANUARY 8, 1920 ) CAME TO THE RELIEF OF MRS. ELIZABETH KEY 310 WEST GARLAND STREET , WHO FOR MORE THAN THREE WEEKS HAD BEEN UNCONSCIOUS .
MRS. KEY WAS THE WIFE OF S. KEY TO WHOM SHE MARRIED IN 1881 . SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF C.T. KEY OF THE DAILY PRESS. HER FATHER WAS THE REV. W.T. MCLASKEY . EARLY IN LIFE SHE JOINED THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND REMAINED A CONSISTENT MEMBER UP TO HER HOUR OF DEATH.
FUNERAL SERVICE WERE CONDUCTED AT THE RESIDENCE THIS MORNING BY REV. A.B. HALTOM??? . THE REMAINS WILL BE LAID TO REST AT MARS HILL CEMETERY AT PIGGOTT.
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WEDNESDAY , JANUARY 14, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
CONWAY , AR. - JAN. 13, 1920
FLOYD SPEERS
FLOYD SPEERS AGED 26 , OF PARAGOULD IS BELEIVED TO HAVE DROWNED IN CADRON CREEK , SIX MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONWAY , AT 2 O'CLOCK YESTERDAY AFTERNOON . SPEERS WHO WAS AN EMPLOYEE OF THE WILSON STAVE COMPANY OL LITTLE ROCK , WAS WORKING WITH A GANG OF MEN FLOATING A BARGE TO THE RAILROAD AT GLEASON. A BARGE HAD BROKEN LOOSE FROM ITS MOORINGS AND AFTER IT WAS OVERTAKEN SPEERS WAS LEFT ON THE BARGE. THE POWER BOAT WAS TAKEN BACK UP STREAM FOR ANOTHER EMPLOYEE LEFT ON THE BANK. WHEN THE MEN RETURNED SPEERS WAS MISSING AND HIS HAT WAS FOUND FLOATING IN THE STREAM.
SEARCH FOR HIS BODY HAS BEEN IN PROGRESS SINCE 3 O'CLOCK WITHOUT RESULTS , SPEERS IS THE SON OF J. M. SPEERS OF PARAGOULD . A BROTHER WAS SAID TO BE WORKING WITH HIM ON THE SAME JOB. THE CADRON CREEK IS DANGEROUS THIS TIME OF THE YEAR AND IT WAS SAID THE MAN HAD LITTLE CHANCE FOR HIS LIFE IF HE ACCIDENTALLY FELL INTO THE STREAM.
JOE SPEER , OF ROUTE NO. 2 , FATHER OF THE UNFORTUNATE BOY LEFT LAST NIGHT FOR CONWAY. FLOYCE SPEER WAS WORKING WITH HIS BROTHER FOR THE WILSON STAVE COMPANY AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT . MR. AND MRS. JOE SPEER ARE ALSO THE PARENTS OF SEVEN OTHER BOYS , SIX OF WHOM ARE AT HOME AND FOUR DAUGHTERS , WHO ARE ALSO AT HOME. ONE SON IS WORKING IN NEW JERSEY.
FLOYD SPEER SERVED EIGHT MONTHS IN THE ARMY AND WAS STATIONED AT CAMP PIKE THE ENTIRE TIME. ERNEST AND CLAUDIS SPEER , TWO OF THE BOYS WERE WITH THE 142ND FIELD ARTILLERY AND WENT TO FRANCE WITH THAT UNIT.
THE REMAINS OF FLOYD SPEER WILL BE BROUGHT HOME FOR BURIAL IF THEY CAN BE RECOVERED FROM CADRON CREEK.
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WEDNESDAY , JANUARY 14, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
MRS. FRANCES ROGERS
THE SAD NEWS OF THE DEATH OF MRS. FRANCES ROGERS , WIFE OF RICHARD T. ROGERS , WAS CONVEYED TO MRS. RUTH ROGERS IN A MESSAGE FROM HER SON. MRS. ROGERS DIED AT ST. VINCENT'S HOSPITAL AT 5 O'CLOCK THIS MORNING FOLLOWINA AN OPERATION LAST TUESDAY FOR APPENDICTIS . MRS. ROGERS WAS BEFORE HER MARRIAGE MISS FRANCES YATES , ONLY DAUGHTER OF MRS. G.W. TUCKER OF 808 WEST THIRD STREET, LITTLE ROCK.
THE MARRIAGE OF MR. AND MRS. ROGERS TOOK PLACE AT CAMP PIKE IN JUNE , 1915 , WHEN MR. ROGERS WAS A CAPTAIN IN THE ARMY AND THE CEREMONY WAS PERFORMED BY CHAPLAIN C.M. REVES , FORMERLY OF THIS CITY. THE WEDDING WAS THE CULMINATION OF A ROMANCE WHICH BEGAN WHEN THE COUPLE WERE STUDENTS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS THE YEAR BEFORE THIS COUNTRY ENTERED THE WAR. THE COUPLE SPENT A VERY HAPPY HONEYMOON NEAR AN EASTERN CAMP , WHERE CAPT. ROGERS WAS STATIONED FOR THREE OR FOUR MONTHS BEFORE LEAVING FOR FRANCE. DURING THE YEAR SINCE CAPT. ROGERS HAS BEEN HOME FROM FRANCE THEY HAVE LIVED HERE , AT JONESBORO AND AT BRINKLEY.
MRS. ROGERS WAS A VERY CHARMING GIRL AND DURING HER STAY HERE WON MANY FRIENDS BY HER SWEET MANNER .
THE MESSAGE DID NOT STATE WHERE THE FUNERAL WILL BE HELD IT IS PRESUMED THAT BURIAL WILL TAKE PLACE AT LITTLE ROCK. MR. ROGERS IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND , MOTHER AND TWO BROTHERS .
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WEDNESDAY , JANUARY 14, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
MARGERY ROBINSON
MARGERY ROBINSON , FOUR YEAR OLD DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. W.A. ROBINSON OF EAST POPLAR STREET DIED LAST NIGHT ( JANUARY 13, 1920 ) AT 12 O'CLOCK AND WILL BE BURIED WEDNESDAY AT BROWN'S CHAPEL . THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED AT THE SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH WEDNESDAY MORNING AT 10 O'CLOCK BY REV. G. R. TYLER.
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WEDNESDAY , JANUARY 14, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
W.H. COOPER
THE FAMILIAR FACE OF W.H. COOPER WILL BE SEEN NO MORE IN HIS USUAL CIRCLE AROUD THE VILLAGE OF BEECH GROVE . ON FRIDAY , JANUARY 9TH , 1920 , GOD BECKONED AND UNCLE WILL ,AS HE WAS LOVINGLY CALLED , WENT HOME . HE WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 2, 1845 , AND REMOVED FROM KENTUCKY , THE STATE OF NATIVITY , TO ARKANSAS , AND SETTLED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF BEECH GROVE IN 1881 , AND LIVED WITHIN A STONE'S THROW OF WHERE HE SETTLED TILL THE CLOSE OF HIS EVENTFUL CAREER.
HE SPRANG FROM A LARGE FAMILY AND TRUE TO HIS BLOOD , HIMSELF REARED A FAMILY CONSISTING OF SEVEN CHILDREN , MRS. W.F. GROOMS OF PARAGOULD , WIFE OF OUR REAL ESTATE AGENT , BEING ONE OF THEM. ALL OF WHOM SURVIVE THE DECEASED. HE WAS 74 YEARS OLD AT HIS LAST BIRTHDAY . WHEN THE UNPLEASANT STRUGGLE OCCURRED MR. COOPER , BELIEVING THAT THE UNION SHOULD BE PRESERVED AT AT HAZARDS CAST HIS LOT UPON THAT SIDE AND THERE SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN WAR , AS HE ALWAYS DID IN PEACE , LOVINGLY , HONESTLY AND TRUE. DURING THE YEARS THAT HE WENT AMONGST US HE WAS THE VERY SOUL OF HONOR AND OF GREAT CHRISTIAN FORTITUDE. HIS LIFE WAS AN INSPIRATION TO ALL WITH WHOM HE CAME IN CONTACT.
HE SERVED HIS COUNTY AS JUSTICE OF THE PEACE FOR CROWLEY TOWNSHIP FOR SIX YEARS , DISCHARGING THE DUTIES OF THEAT OFFICE WITH PERFECT JUSTICE .
AS HE LIVED HE PASSED AWAY WITHOUT A MURMER , FAREWELL , UNCLE WILL AND MAY THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS TAKE YOU TO YOUR WELL DESERVED HOME . THE PLEASURE OF KNOWING YOU IN YOUR DAILY WALKS . FAREWELL ! FAREWELL !
A FRIEND
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WEDNESDAY , JANUARY 21, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
MRS. L.H. BIGGS
MISS ANNIE BIGGS RETURNED YESTERDAY FROM STUTTGART , WHERE SHE WENT TO ATTEND THE FUNERAL OF HER SISTER -IN - LAW , MRS. L.H. BIGGS WHO WAS BURNED TO DEATH WHEN SHE MISTOOK GASOLINE FOR KEROSENE IN LIGHTING A FIRE . MISS BIGGS WAS ACCOMPANIED HOME BY HER BROTHER WHO WILL REMAIN HERE FOR A FEW DAYS.
MISS BIGGS STATED THAT MRS. BIGGS WAS CONSCIOUS ALMOST UP TO THE TIME OF HER DEATH , ALTHOUGH HER BODY WAS BADLY CHARRED . THE EXPLOSION CARRIED IN THE SCHOOL WHICH MRS. BIGGS WAS TEACHING AND TWO LITTLE GIRLS , AGE 12 AND 13 , WERE ALSO BURNED TO DEATH . OTHER PUPILS IN THE ROOM MADE A HEROIC EFFORTS TO SAVE THOSE WHO WERE BURNING AND IN A EFFORT TO SAVE MRS. BIGGS BURNED TWO HEAVY COATS WHICH THEY HAD WRAPPED AROUND HER . MR. BIGGS IS AN INSTRUCTOR IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF STUTTGART.
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WEDNESDAY , JANUARY 21, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
THOMAS MENCER
THOMAS MENCER , AGE 42 YEARS , DIED YESTERDAY ( JANUARY 20, 1920 ) AFTERNOON AT 2 O'CLOCK AT HIS HOME IN THE FRIENDSHIP SETTLEMENT , FOLLOWING AN ILLNESS OF TUBERCULOSIS. HE HAD BEEN IN ILL HEALTH SEVERAL YEARS .
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED THIS AFTERNOON , FOLLOWED BY BURIAL AT FRIENDSHIP CEMETERY.
MR. MENCER IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE , SON AND DAUGHTER . HE HAD RESIDED AT FRIENDSHIP ALL OF HIS LIFE AND WAS ONE OF THE INFLUENTIAL CITIZENS OF THAT SECTION.
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WEDNESDAY , JANUARY 21, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
MRS. IRENE MAHAR
MRS. IRENE MAHAR DIED AT THE HOME OF HER SON ON NORTH FOURTH AVENUE YESTERDAY AFTEROON ( JANUARY 20, 1920 ) AFTER AN ILLINESS OF SEVERAL DAYS . SHE WAS 74 YEARS OF AGE AND IS SURVIVED BY ONE SON , JAS MAHAR. THE FUNERAL SRVICES WERE CONDUCTED THIS MORNING . INTERMENT WAS IN FRIENDSHIP CEMETERY.
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WEDNESDAY , JANUARY 21, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
FRANK PETERSON
THE REMAINS OF FRANK PETERSON ARRIVED ON THE COTTON BELT TODAY AT NOON FROM PONEA CITY, OKLAHOMA ., WHERE THE YOUNG MAN DIED SEVERAL DAYS AGO. DEATH WAD DUE TO INFLUENZA FOLLOWED BY PNEUMONIA . HIS PARENTS , MR. AND MRS. J.F. PETERSON WERE NOT AWARE OF HIS ILLNESS UNTIL A FIRST MESSAGE ANNOUNCED HIS DEATH.
BEFORE HIS DEATH YOUNG PETERSON WORKED FOR THE SANTE FE RAILROAD OUT OF PONCA CITY. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED AT THE FAMILY HOME , 314 SOUTH 11TH STREET TOMORROW MORNING AT 10 O'CLOCK . INTERMENT AT LINWOOD CEMETERY.
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FRIDAY , JANUARY 30, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
CLARENCE DICKINSON
CLARENCE DICKINSON DIED AT 3:10 THIS MORNING AT THE STATE HOSPITAL IN LITTLE ROCK. MR. DICKINSON WAS FORMERLY A PROMINENT LUMBERMAN OF THIS CITY. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE , MRS. JESSIE DICKINSON AND HIS DAUGHTER , MISS KATHERINE. HIS REMAINS WILL BE SHIPPED HERE ARRIVING TONIGHT OR IN THE MORNING .
FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED FROM THE RESIDENCE OF MR. AND MRS. JOHN ROSSON ON WEST MAIN STREET , TOMORROW AFTERNOON AT 3 O'CLOCK.
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FRIDAY , JANUARY 30, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
WALTER GREENWAY
LITTLE WALTER GREENWAY , THE FOUR YEAR OLD SON OF MR. AND MRS. WILL GREENWAY , DIED YESTERDAY AT THE GREENWAY HOME , 605 SOUTH FIFTH STREET , OF SPINAL MENINGITIS . THE LITTLE FELLOW HAD SUFFERED FROM MASTOID TROUBLE FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND HAD BEEN PRATICALLY A INVALID , ALTHOUGH DURING ALL OF HIS SUFFERING HE COMPLAINED VERY LITTLE .
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CODUCTED THIS AFTERNOON , INTERMENT AT CENTER HILL CEMETERY.
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