Obits for Month of October 1911
INFANT OF MR. & MRS. LANE PRINCE - JOE LYTLE ALSEY - BEN KIRCHOFF - VERNIE THOMAS - ARTHUR BECHERER - W.M. BONE - INFANT OF MR. AND MRS. SAM PRINCE - MOSE TYNER - GEORGE DEPOYSTER - M. GILSON - DR. W.F. SPEERS - MISS MAUDE GENGE - W.H. HOWELL - JENNIE BURKE - CHAS E. COLE - JOHN V. BURKE - RUBY PERKINS - PEARL DAVIDSON - GEORGE HYATT , MRS. BURCH WALDEN ,
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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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THE DAILY PRESS - THURSDAY , OCTOBER 5, 1911
INFANT OF MR. & MRS. LANE PRINCE
THE EIGHT-MONTH OLD DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. LANE PRINCE WAS BURIED YESTERDAY ( OCTOBER 4, 1911 ) AT NEW FRIENDSHIP CEMETERY .
(Burial added to Cemetery Record )
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THE DAILY PRESS - FRIDAY , OCTOBER 6, 1911
ALSEY INFANT
JOE LYTLE ALSEY , THE SEVENTEEN MONTH OLD - SON OF MR. AND MRS. L.F. ALSEY , RESIDING ON NORTH SECOND STREET , DIED LAST NIGHT AFTER A DISEASE OF ONE MONTH DIED LAST NIGHT ( OCTOBER 5, 1911 ) WITH STOMACH TROUBLE . THE LITTLE CHILD WAS THE ONLY CHILD IN THE FAMILY AND WAS IDOLIZED AS THE FIRST CHILD USUALLY IS.
THE FUNERAL IS BEING HELD THIS AFTERNOON AT THE FAMILY HOME BY REV. A.C . GRIFFIN , INTERMENT WILL FOLLOW AT LINWOOD CEMETERY.
(Burial added to Cemetery Record )
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THE DAILY PRESS - FRIDAY , OCTOBER 6, 1911
BEN KIRCHOFF
BEN KIRCHOFF , WELL KNOWN CITIZEN DIES AFTER ILLNESS OF TWO DAYS
1833 - 1911
BEN KIRCHOFF , AGED 78 YEARS ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN CITIZENS OF PARAGOULD , DIED THIS MORNING AT TWO O'CLOCK AT THE PARAGOULD SANITARIUM FROM STRANGULATED HERNIA . WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON MR. KIRCHOFF WAS IN THE BEST OF HEALTH AND HAD NO WARNING OF HIS FATE . HE WAS STRICKEN WHILE WALKING TOWARD HIS HOME IN NORTH PARAGOULD . PHYSICIANS WHO WERE SUMMONED PRONOUNCED THE CASE EXTREMELY SERIOUS AND HE WAS MOVED TO THE SANITARIUM .
MR. KIRCHOFF WAS A NATIVE OF GERMANY COMING TO THIS COUNTRY IN 1856 AND SETTLING IN CINNINNATI . IN 1869 HE CAME TO PARAGOULD AND HAD RESIDED SINCE THAT TIME . HE WAS FROM STURDY GERMAN STOCK . TWO YEARS AGO HIS WIFE DIED AND ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO HE WAS MARRIED TO MRS. CRESENT KETTNER . BESIDES HIS SECOND WIFE HE IS SURVIVED BY THREE SONS , J.B. KIRCHOFF , A LEADING ATTORNEY OF THIS CITY , AND JOHN AND JOE WHO RESIDE IN OREGON . THEY WERE NOTIFIED OF THEIR FATHERS DEATH BUT WILL BE UNABLE TO REACH HERE IN TIME FOR THE FUNERAL .
SERVICES ARE TO BE CONDUCTED AT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND INTERMENT AT THE CATHOLIC CEMETERY (ST. MARY'S ) .
(Burial added to Cemetery Record )
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THE DAILY PRESS - SATURDAY , OCTOBER 7, 1911
VERNIE THOMAS
( MIS-PRINT NAME IN OLD NEWSPAPER OBIT - SHOULD READ D.V. THOMASON HE IS BURIED IN FAIRVIEW CEMETERY )
VERNIE THOMAS MEETS TRAGIC DEATH WHILE RETURNING FROM CHURCH
BASE OF BRAIN IS INJURED
UNFORTUNATE MAN ONLY LIVES TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES
D.V. THOMAS , FAMILIARLY KNOWN AS VERNIE , RESIDING ABOUT FOUR MILES WEST OF PARAGOULD , WAS THROWN FROM HISE HORSE LATE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON RECEIVING INJURIES FROM WHICH HE DIED WHITHIN TWENTY - FIVE MINUTES . JUST HOW THE DEPLORABLE ACCIDENT OCCURED WILL PROBALLY NEVER BE KNOWN . AS THEIR WAS NO WITNESSES TO THE ACCIDENT .
MR. THOMAS HAD BEEN TO PALESTINE TO ATTEND CHURCH SERVICES YESTERDAY AFTERNOON , GOING TO THE CHURCH ON HORSE BACK AND ACCOMPANIED BY SEVERAL NEIGHBORS . ABOUT FIVE O'CLOCK WHEN SERVICES WERE DISMISSED MOUNTED HIS ANIMAL AND STARTED FOR HOME IN ADVANCE OF HIS COMPAINIONS . IN A SHORT TIME THEY COME UPON HIM LYING ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD IN A DYING CONDITION . HE WAS STILL CONSCIOUS ENOUGH TO STATE THAT HIS HORSE HAD THROWN HIM AND THAT HE COULD LIVE ONLY A FEW MINUTES .
HE WAS TAKEN TO A NEARBY HOME AND MEDICAL AID WAS SUMMONED , HE DIED BEFORE A DOCTOR COULD ARRIVE . AN EXAMINATION OF HIS BODY SHOWED NO MARKS OR BRAISES , THE PHYSICIAN CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THE HORSE MUST HAVE STUMBLED AND THROWN MR. THOMAS FORWARD ON HIS HEAD , INFLICTING INJURIES TO THE BASE OF THE BRAIN THAT PRODUCED ALMOST INSTANT DEATH .
( NO BURIAL INFORMATION )
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THE DAILY PRESS - SATURDAY , OCTOBER 7, 1911
ARTHUR BECHERER
LAD OF 15 YEARS THROWN FROM WAGON AND KILLED
ARTHUR BECHERER , A LAD OF FIFTEEN ( BORN 1896 ) SON OF ED BECHERER , RESIDING FOUR MILES FROM PARAGOULD MET A HORRIBLE DEATH ABOUT ONE O'CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON ( OCTOBER 7, 1911 ) WHEN HE WAS THROWN FROM A WAGON ON HIS HEAD , SUSTAINING SEVERAL FRACTURES OF THE SKULL AND CONCUSSION OF THE BRAIN .
THE STORY OF THE TRAGEDY WAS BROUGHT TO THE PRESS OFFICE BY C. BURNS , WHO LIVES IN THAT PART OF THE COUNTY . HE SAYS THAT YOUNG BECHERER AND HIS TWO SMALL BROTHERS HAD STARTED TO THE WOODS AFTER A LOAD OF FUEL . ARTHUR AND ONE OF THE YOUNGER BOYS , WAS IN THE REAR OF THE WAGON WHILE THE OTHER BOY WAS DRIVING THE TEAM . THE ANIMALS BECAME FRIGHTENED AND STARTED TO RUN . ARTHUR AND THE BROTHER IN THE REAR ATTEMPTED TO REACH THE FRONT OF THE BED BY HOLDING TO THE SIDEBOARDS WHEN SUDDENLY THE HIND WHEEL ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE WAGON HIT AN OBSTRUCTION THROWING THE TWO BOYS OVER THE SIDE OF THE BED . THE YOUNGER BOY WAS BRUISED IN SEVERAL PLACES BUT NOT SERIOUSLY HURT HE RAN TO THE HOUSE TO GET HIS PARENTS . WHEN THEY ARRIVED ON THE SCENE ARTHUR WAS DEAD.
MR. BECHERER IS A WELL TO DO FARMER WHO FORMERLY RESIDED IN PARAGOULD .
( NO BURIAL INFORMATION )
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THE DAILY PRESS - TUESDAY , OCTOBER 10, 1911
W.M. BONE
SQUIRE W.M. BONE OF HORNERSVILLE , THE PRESIDENT OF THE BANK OF COMMERCE OF THAT CITY , DIED YESTERDAY (OCTOBER 9, 1911 ) AND HIS FUNERAL TAKES PLACE TODAY . MR. BONE HAD MANY FRIENDS IN PARAGOULD .
( NO BURIAL INFORMATION )
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THE DAILY PRESS - TUESDAY , OCTOBER 10, 1911
INFANT OF MR. AND MRS. SAM PRINCE
THE INFANT SON OF MR. AND MRS. SAM PRINCE OF NORTH PARAGOULD DIED LAST NIGHT ( OCTOBER 9, 1911 ) THE FUNERAL WILL BE HELD AT CLARK'S CHAPEL .
(Burial added to Cemetery Record )
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THE DAILY PRESS - SATURDAY , OCTOBER 14, 1911
MOSE TYNER
MOSE TYNER , PROMINENT FARMER DIES SUDDENLY THIS MORNING
MOSE TYNER AGED 55 YEARS ( BORN 1856 ) , ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN FARMERS IN THIS SECTION OF THE COUNTY , DIED SUDDENLY THIS MORNING AT HIS HOME FIVE MILES SOUTH OF PARAGOULD . HE HAD BEEN IN ILL HEALTH FOR SEVERAL MONTHS BUT HIS CONDITION WAS NOT CONSIDERED SERIOUS. UNTIL A FEW DAYS AGO WHEN HE BEGAN TO HAVE HEMORHAGES OF THE BOWELS . HE SUFFERED SEVERELY YESTERDAY AND LAST NIGHT AND DESPITE THE ATTENTION OF HIS PYHSICIANS HE LOST SO MUCH BLOOD THAT HIS LIFE EBBED AWAY .
MR. TYNER WAS BORN IN THIS SECTION OF THE STATE AND HAD BEEN IDENTIFIED WITH ITS GROWTH FOR NEARLY HALF A CENTURY . HE WAS AN HONEST , HARD WORKING FARMER , LOVED AND RESPECTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM.
HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND ONE DAUGHTER , MRS. J. H. ROSEBERRY AND THREE BROTHERS T. TYNER , J.L. TYNER AND J.T. TYNER ALL PROMINENT CITIZENS OF SPRING GROVE VICINITY .
THE FUNERAL WILL BE CONDUCTED TOMORROW AFTERNOON AT FRIENDSHIP CHURCH AND BURIAL WILL FOLLOW UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ODD FELLOWS . REV. A.C. GRIFFIN WILL PREACH THE FUNERAL.
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THE DAILY PRESS - SATURDAY , OCTOBER 14, 1911
GEORGE DEPOYSTER KILLED AT FORT WORTH , TEXAS
MRS. J. E CHILDS RECEIVED A MESSAGE THIS MORNING THAT HER BROTHER GEORGE DEPOYSTER , A CONDUCTOR ON THE TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILROAD , FUNNING FROM FORT WORTH TO EL PASO HAD BEEN KILLED IN A RAILROAD ACCIDENT AT FORT WORTH . MRS. CHILDS LEFT ON THE NOON IRON MOUNTAIN TRAIN FOR FORT WORTH TO BE PRESENT AT THE BURIAL . THE MESSAGE CONVEYED NONE OF THE PARTICULARS SURROUNDING THE TRAGEDY , BUT IT IS PRESUMED HE WAS KILLED IN THE YARDS WHILE LOOKING AFTER HIS TRAIN .
MR. CHILDS ACCOMPANIED HIS WIFE AS FAR AS KNOBEL AND WILL RETURN TO THIS CITY TONIGHT . MR. DEPOYSTER LEAVES A WIFE AND SEVERAL CHILDREN .
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THE DAILY PRESS - TUESDAY , OCTOBER 17, 1911
M. GILSON
M. GILSON AGED CARPENTER DIES FROM WOUNDS RECEIVED FROM
M. GILSON SERVED IN THE FEDERAL ARMY , FOUGHT WITH REGIMENTS FROM INDIANA , HAD BEEN A RESIDENT OF PARAGOULD FOR THE PAST NINE YEARS .
AS A RESULT OF INJURIES RECEIVED IN A FALL FROM A SCAFFOLD WHILE SHINGLING THE ROOF OF A HOUSE BELONGING TO W. W. STUART IN SOUTH PARAGOULD , M. GILSON AND AGED CARPENTER AND A EX- SOLDIER , DIED LAST NIGHT ( OCTOBER 16, 1911 ) AT HIS HOME IN EAST PARAGOULD .
MR. GILSON'S CONDITION YESTERDAY MORNING WAS NOT CONSIDERED FATAL , THOUGH HE SUSTAINED TWO BROKEN RIBS BUT THE PHYSICIANS OPINION WAS HE HAD INTERNAL INJURIES . HOWEVER , THE RESTORATIVES ADMINISTERED FAILED TO REVIVE THE HEART ACTION OF THE PATIENT AND HE GRADUALLY BECAME WEAKER UNTIL THE END CAME.
MR. GILSON FELL ON HIS LEFT SIDE BREAKING TWO RIBS JUST UNDER HIS HEART . IT IS THE OPINION OF HIS PHYSICIAN THAT OTHER INJURIES WERE SUSTAINED THAT IMPEDED THE WORK OF THE HEART AND THAT A BLOOD CLOD FORMED RESULTING IN DEATH.
THE DECEASED WAS 72 YEARS OLD ( BORN 1839 ) HE CAME TO THIS CITY EIGHT YEARS AGO AND HAD BEEN ENGAGED IN CARPENTER WORK BOTH HERE AND AT CARDWELL , MO. WHERE HE RESIDED A PORTION OF THE TIME . HE WAS A NATIVE OF DECATUR , IND. AND SERVED WITH DISTINCTION WITH A UNION REGIMENT FROM INDIANA . HE WAS TWICE MARRIED HIS FIRST UNION RESULTING IN THREE CHILDREN ONE SON RESIDING IN LOS ANGELES , CALIF. ONE DAUGHTER AT WINCHESTER , IND. TWENTY- THREE YEARS AGO HE WAS MARRIED TO MRS. MOLLIE ELCHOL AT DECATUR , IND. FROM THIS UNION THERE WERE NO CHILDREN . MRS. GILSON HAS TWO CHILDREN BY A FORMER MARRIAGE , THEY BEING MRS. A.E. AYERS OF THIS CITY AND A SON IN PUEBLO , COL.
MR. GILSON WAS A MEMBER OF THE K. OF P. LODGE A MEMBER OF THE GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC AND A CONSISTENT MEMBER OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH . THE REMAINS WILL BE CONVEYED TO HIS OLD HOME AT DECATUR , IND. TOMORROW NIGHT FOR INTERMENT , THE RELATIVES OF THE FAMILY MEETING OTHE BODY AT THAT PLACE .
FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT THE RESIDENCE ON THE EAST SIDE TOMORROW AFTERNOON AT 2:00 BY REV. W. C. WOOD .
REMAINS INTERRED AT DECATUR , INDIANA
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THE DAILY PRESS - WEDNESDAY , OCTOBER 18, 1911
DR. W. F. SPEERS
MARMADUKE PHYSICIAN SUCCUMBS TO ILLNESS
DR. W.F. SPEERS, OF MARMADUKE , TWENTY - THREE YEARS OF AGE ( BORN 1888 ) DIED LAST NIGHT ( OCTOBER 17, 1911 ) OF TYPHOID IN THE PARAGOULD SANITARIUM AFTER A SERIOUS ILLNESS OF ABOUT TWO WEEKS . DR. SPEERS WAS A GREENE COUNTY BOY WHO WAS EDUCATED IN THE LOCAL SCHOOLS AND IN THE MEDICAL COLLEGE AT MEMPHIS FROM WHICH HE GRADUATED ONLY A SHORT TIME AGO . HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS BRIDE ONLY A FEW MONTH FORMERLY MISS OLLIE EARLY . DR. SPEER'S MOTHER DIED WHEN HE WAS A SMALL BOY AND HE WAS REARED BY LEE BURRELL OF THIS COUNTY .
THE FUNERAL WAS HELD TODAY AT FAIRVIEW CEMETERY .
(Burial added to Cemetery Record )
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THE DAILY PRESS - WEDNESDAY , OCTOBER 18, 1911
MISS MAUDE GENGE DIES OF TUBERCULOSIS
MRS. R. J. SETTLE RECEIVED THIS MORNING A LETTER FROM REV. M. E. GENGE , FORMERLY PASTOR OF THE FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF THIS PLACE . ANNOUNCING THE DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER , MISS MADE GENGE . MISS GENGE CONTRACTED TUBERCULOSIS WHILE TAKING NURSES TRAINING AT A HOSPITAL IN ST. LOUIS AND AFTERWARD WENT TO THE STATE SANITARIUM AT MT. VERNON , MO.
HERE HER CASE RAPIDLY BECAME WORSE AND SHE WAS TAKEN BY HER FATHER TO THEIR OLD HOME AT WALLACE BRIDGE , NOVA SCOTIA . THE YOUNG WOMAN'S DEATH OCCURRED ON OCTOBER 7 . MISS GENGE WAS WELL KNOWN TO LOCAL PEOPLE . SHE WAS AN EXCEPTIONALLY TALENTED YOUNG WOMAN ESPECIALY IM LITERARY LINES .
THE MANY FRIENDS OF THE FAMILY HERE WILL UNITE IN TENDERING SYMPATHY TO THE BEREAVED PARENTS.
( NO BURIAL INFORMATION )
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THE DAILY PRESS
SATURDAY , OCTOBER 28, 1911
MAN AND WOMAN FOUND DEAD
FAYETTEVILLE , ARK. -
WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE A SUICIDE COMPACT WAS BROUGHT TO LIGHT YESTERDAY MORNING AT THE HOME OF W.H. HOWELL , NEAR PRAIRIE GROVE , ARK. WHEN THE BODIES OF HOWELL AND A WOMAN SUPPOSED TO BE HIS WIFE WERE DISCOVERED LYING IN A POOL OF BLOOD ON THE BED . THE WOMAN HAD BEEN SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD AND BREAST AND ONE BALL HAD PASSED THROUGH HOWELL'S TEMPLE WHILE BY THE SIDE LAY A REVOLVER .
INVESTIGATION OF THE CORONER'S JURY RESULTED IN FINDING NO RECORD OF MARRIAGE OF HOWELL AND THE WOMAN , KNOWN FORMERLY AS JENNIE BURKE . HOWELL COMES FROM A WELL KNOWN FAMILY IN WASHINGTON COUNTY , ARK. BUT HIS PERSONAL RECORD WAS NOT THE BEST. THE WOMAN CAME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO FROM OKLAHOMA .
SHE RETURNED WEDNESDAY FROM AN EXTENDED VISIT TO SELIGMAN , MO. FROM THE CONDITIONS OF THE BODIES IT IS BELIEVED THAT THE KILLING TOOK PLACE TWO DAYS AGO.
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THE DAILY PRESS
MONDAY , OCTOBER 30, 1911
CHAS. E. COLE OF MEMPHIS , DIES IN ASHEVILLE
THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL TODAY HAS THE FOLLOWING ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF CHAS E. COLE , THE BIG PAINT MANUFACTURE OF MEMPHIS , WHO WAS RECENTLY INJURED IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT . MR. COLE WAS A FORMER TRAVELING SALESMEN OF PARAGOULD AND WAS WELL KNOWN IN PARAGOULD .
CLARK WILLINGHAM , A CALIFORNIAN WHO HAS BEEN IN THIS CITY FOR SERVERAL YEARS WAS INSTANTLY KILLED .
JOHN V. BURKE , A CLERK LIVING AT 694 SOUTH THIRD STREET , DIED THE NEXT DAY .
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THE DAILY PRESS
MONDAY , OCTOBER 30, 1911
NURSE KNOWN HERE IS BURNED TO DEATH
FRIENDS OF MISS RUBY MAY PERKINS , ONE OF THE GRADUATE NURSES OF THE PARAGOULD SANITARIUM , WERE SHOCKED TO READ IN SUNDAY'S COMMERCIAL APPEAL THAT THE YOUNG WOMAN HAD BEEN BURNED TO DEATH IN OKLAHOMA CITY . MISS PERKINS WAS STANDING NEAR AN OPEN GRATE IN HER ROOM WHEN HER CLOTHING TOOK FIRE . BEFORE HELP ARRIVED SHE WAS SO BADLY BURNED THAT SHE DIED OF HER INJURIES A SHORT TIME LATER.
MISS PERKINS WAS AN ATTRACTIVE YOUNG WOMAN AND HAD A HOST OF FRIENDS HERE. SHE WAS A CAPABLE NURSE AND WAS FOLLOWING HER PROFESSION IN OKLAHOMA CITY AT THE TIME OF HER DEATH.
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THE DAILY PRESS
MONDAY , OCTOBER 30, 1911
PEARL LENORE DAVIDSON , AGED FOURTEEN YEARS DIED , OCTOBER 29 , AT THE HOME OF HER GRANDFATHER , TOM HAY OF THE NEW FRIENDSHIP NEIGHBORHOOD . THE FUNERAL TOOK PLACE TODAY AT THE NEW FRIENDSHIP CHAPEL , REV. A.C. GRIFFIN CONDUCTING .
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TUESDAY , OCTOBER 31, 1911
THE DAILY PRESS
ON JANUARY 16 OF LAST YEAR THE PEOPLE OF THE NEW FRIENDSHIP NEIGHBORHOOD GATHERED AT THE NEIGHBORHOOD CHAPEL TO ATTEND A DOUBLE FUNERAL , THAT OF GEORGE HYATT , A PROSPEROUS FARMER OF OAK GROVE AND MRS. BURCH WALDEN , ONE OF THE WELL KNOWN WOMEN OF THE NEW FRIENDSHIP NEIGHBORHOOD . THE DEATH OF MR. HYATT AND MRS. WALDEN OCCURED ON THE SAME DAY AND IT SEEMED APPROPRIATE TO RELATIVES AND FRIENDS THAT ONE FUNERAL CEREMONY SHOULD SERVE FOR BOTHE . THE SERMON WAS PREACHED BY REV. J.D.J. FAULKNER .
IT MAY BE THAT THE SIMILAR SORROW BROUGHT THE GRIEF STRICKEN WIDOW AND THE BEREAVED WIDOW TOGETHER ON COMMON GROUND . ANYWAY THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED.
LAST WEDNESDAY NIGHT MRS. GEO. HYATT , IN THE PRESENCE OF A FEW CLOSE FRIENDS BECAME THE BRIDE OF MR. BURCH WALDEN . THE CERMONY WAS PERFORMED AT MRS. HYATT'S PRETTY HOME IN THE OAK GROVE NEIGHBORHOOD , THE SAME PASTOR OFFICIATING WHO PREACHED BOTH FUNERALS OF MR. HYATT AND MRS. WALDEN .
CUPID PLAYS STRANGE PRANKS WITH THE WALDEN FAMILY ANYWAY MR. WALDEN'S FIRST WIFE WAS A MISS WEATHERLY , THE DAUGHTER OF HUGH WEATHERLY OF THE NEW FRIENDSHIP NEIGHBORHOOD . THREE SISTERS OF THE WEATHERLY FAMILY MARRIED THREE BROTHERS IN THE WALDEN FAMILY.
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