OBITS MONTH OF - OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 1920 - Researched by Tina Easley 2008

ED TUCKER - GEORGE ABINGTON - T. WELTY - JOHNNIE WOOD - DESS HOLLIFIELD - COL. W.F. RHEW - BOB BENSON - CLYDE BRANSON - GWENDOLYN IMOGENE ALBRIGHT - MR. JONES - CAPT. DROSTA - BOB BRASHER - MRS. C.M. CUPP - W.C. HOLDER - MRS. C.W. REINEY - MRS. W.W. HEATH - J.F. THOMPSON - MRS. J.O. NASH - LUCY ANN WILLCOCKSON - J.O. ROMELIN - CECIL STAFFORD - FANNIE VAUGHN - SON OF MR. & MRS. SHUBIE MITCHELL - MRS. E.E. McBRIDE - FRED A. LAIRD - IKE DAVIDSON -

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ED TUCKER , 55 , SALESMAN FOR HIS BROTHER , R.C. TUCKER , MERCHANT OF PIGGOTT , WAS RUN DOWN AND FATALLY INJURED BY AN AUTOMOBILE DRIVEN BY MRS. BURTON , WIFE OF COUNTY CLERK BALIARD BURTON OF PIGGOTT , FRIDAY AFTERNOON .

HE DIED FROM THE INJURIES AT 3 A.M. , SATURDAY NEVER REGAINING CONSCIOUSNESS . LUTHER TUCKER , BROTHER OF ED TUCKER , WHOSE HOME WAS IN DETROIT , MICH. AND HIS SON WAS KILLED IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT ABOUT THREE WEEKS AGO WHILE ENROUTE FROM DETROIT TO PIGGOTT ON A VISIT.

THE PRELIMINARY HEARING OF MURIEL GATEWOOD , 15 YR OLD NEGRO GIRL CHARGED WITH FIRST DEGREE MURDER FOR PLACING POISON IN SOUP AT THE ABINGTON HOME HERE ON SEPTEMBER 17 , WILL BE HELD THURSDAY . THE CASE WAS POSTPONED WHEN ONE MEMBER OF THE FAMILY WHO IS STILL SUFFERING FROM THE EFFECTS OF THE POISON WAS UNABLE TO ATTEND . GEORGE ABINGTON , AGED 83 , DIED FROM EATING THE POSION AND SEVEN OTHER MEMBERS OF THE ABINGTON AND HORTON FAMILIES WERE SERIOUSLY STRICKEN.

IT IS CHARGED THAT THE GIRL PLACED A QUANITY OF ARSENIC IN THE SOUP TO "GET EVEN " BECAUSE THE ABINGTONS WOULD NOT EMPLOY HER AFTER SHE WAS DISCHARGED A FEW DAYS BEFORE.

T. WELTY , OF NEAR POLLARD , WHO WAS SHOT LAST WEEK BY R.R. RANDLEMAN THROUGH MISTAKEN IDENTITY AND WHO WAS BROUGHT TO THE LOCAL SANITARIUM IMEDIATELY FOR TREATMENT , DIED LAST NIGHT (OCTOBER 5, 1920) . THE REMAINS WILL BE TAKEN BACK TO CLAY COUNTY FOR INTERMENT.

MR. RANDLEMAN WAS GIVEN A PRELIMINARY HEARING LAST SATURDAY ON A CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER AND ADMITTED TO BAIL IN THE SUM OF ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS. HE WAS IN PARAGOULD THIS MORNING IN COMPANY WITH A BROTHER OF THE DEAD MAN AND WAS ASSISTING WITH THE MAKING OF ARRANGEMENTS FOR SENDING THE BODY OF HIS UNFORTUNATE VICTIM HOME.

JOHNNIE WOOD , SON OF GEORGE WOOD , DIED AT WALCOTT , TUESDAY (OCT. 5, 1920 ) AFTER AN ILLNESS OF TWO WEEKS WITH TYPHOID FEVER . HE IS SURVIVED BY A WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN . HE WAS 25 YEARS OF AGE . FUNERAL AND INTERMENT WERE HELD AT FINCH . WEDNESDAY.

MRS. DESS HOLLIFIELD , WHO DIED SUNDAY ( OCT. 10, 1920 ) NIGHT AT HER HOME NEAR LAFE , WAS BURIED TODAY AT FAIRVIEW CEMETERY . MRS. HOLLIFIELD HAD BEEN ILL BUT A FEW DAYS . SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND AND THREE CHILDREN .

THE REMAINS OF COL. W.F. RHEW , WHO DIED SUDDENLY AT THIS HOME IN CARDWELL WEDNESDAY EVENING ( OCT. 13, 1920 ) WERE BROUGHT OVER ON THE P.S.E. THIS MORNING AND INTERRED AT LINWOOD CEMETERY BESIDE HIS WIFE. MRS. RHEW IS A NIECE OF MRS. JOHN SPENCER OF PARAGOULD AND WAS FORMERLY MISS NADIE McCLURE .

THOSE WHO ACCOMPANIED THE REMAINS FROM CARDWELL WERE : MRS. HOMER E. BREWER , MRS. JOHN SEABORN , TOM SHIPMON , MRS. JOHN LONG , MISS LELA HARTSOE , MR. AND MRS. HOLER , MR. AND MRS. COLLINS , MR. AND MRS. ONIE HOLDER , MRS. TOM YOUNG , MRS. JAMES MEREDITH , REV. DR. HARVEY .

THE BODY OF BOB BENSON OF HARRISBURG WAS FOUND ON THE IRON MAUNTAIN TRACK HEAR NEAR THE YARD OFFICE SUNDAY MORNING . THE CORONER'S JURY RETURNED A VERDICT TO THE EFFECT THAT HE WAS STRUCK BY PASSENGER TRAIN NO. 308 , SATURDAY NIGHT ( OCT. 9, 1920 ) . NO MARKS OF VIOLENCE WAS FOUND ON THE BODY OTHER THAN THOSE THAT COME IN CONTACT WITH THE ENGINE . A SMALL AMOUNT OF MONEY WAS STILL IN HIS POCKETS .

MR. BENSON HAD A CAR OF CATTLE IN THE SWITCH YARD , AND IT IS PRESUMED THAT HE HAD LEFT THE CAR AND HAD GONE TO RESTAURANT FOR SUPPER AND THAT HE WAS RETURNING TO THE CAR WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY THE ENGINE.

CLYDE BRANSON , SON OF TOM BRANSON OF PIGGOTT , DIED AT THE LOCAL SANITARIUM THURSDAY ( OCT. 14, 1920 ) FROM APPENDICITIS . THE REMAINS WERE SHIPPED TO PIGGOTT , FRIDAY MORNING.

GWENDOLYN IMOGENE ALBRIGHT , THE LITTLE FOUR AND ONE - HALF MONTHS OLD INFANT OF MR. AND MRS. W.E. ALBRIGHT DIED MONDAY AFTERNOON ( OCT. 18, 1920 ) OF BRONCHITIS .

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED AT THE RESIDENCE TUESDAY AT 10 A.M. BY REV. LOWREY . INTERMENT AT NEW FRIENDSHIP CEMETERY.

MR. JONES DIED YESTERDAY (OCT. 21, 1920 ) AND WAS BURIED THIS MORNING NEAR THE CHAPEL AT ELEN O'CLOCK. MR. JONES WAS SEVENTY ONE YEARS OLD. HE HAD LIVED IN GREENE COUNTY ALL OF HIS LIFE . HE IS SURVIVED BY A WIFE AND SEVERAL CHILDREN .

NEWS HAS JUST BEEN RECEIVED IN PARAGOULD OF THE DEATH OF CAPT. DROSTA OF PINE BLUFF . HE WAS THE FATHER OF MRS. W.C. WOOD , WIFE OF THE PASTOR OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF PARAGOULD WHO WHAS HERE FOR A PERIOD OF FOUR YEARS.

BOB BRASHER , FARMER WHO LIVES ONE MILE SOUTHEAST OF TOWN , DIED YESTERDAY ( OCT. 21, 1920 ) AND THE BODY WILL BE BURIED AT LINWOOD CEMETERY HERE TOMORROW MORNING. MR. BRASHER WAS A SON IN LAW OF JOHN SCHUNN OF THIS CITY. HE LEAVES A WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN . HE WAS BETWEEN THIRTY-FIVE AND FORTY YEARS OF AGE. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED AT EAST SIDE METHODIST CHURCH.

MRS. C.M. CUPP , AGED 85 YEARS DIED LAST NIGHT (OCT. 24, 1920) AT THE HOME OF HER DAUGHTER , MRS. J.M.W. AGEE , ON ROUTE 6 , AFTER AN ILLNESS OF MORE THAN TWO YEARS. MRS. CUPP WAS BORN AND REARED IN NORTH CAROLINA , WHERE SHE REMAINED UNTIL 38 YEARS AGO WHEN SHE AND HER FAMILY CAME TO THIS COUNTY. SHE PROFESSED RELIGION WHEN A YOUNG GIRL AND JOINED THE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH .

SHE IS SURVIVED BY THREE CHILDREN , C.R. (DOCK) TAYLOR OF THIS CITY , MRS. J.M.W. AGEE AND LAFAYETTE TAYLOR OF MARLOW , OKLAHOMA . THE FUNERAL WILL TAKE PLACE AT THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH , REV. B.L. BRIDGES OFFICIATING . BURIAL WILL FOLLOW AT FAIRVIEW CEMETERY.

JESSE REUBEN GREEN , FOUR YEAR OLD , SON OF MR. AND MRS. CHARLES GREEN OF CARDWELL , MO DIED THURSDAY (OCT. 21, 1920) AT HIS HOME , AND THE REMAINS WERE BROUGHT TO PARAGOULD . FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED THIS MORNING AT THE HOME OF MR. ED BOWMAN BY REV, G.R. TYLER , PASTOR OF THE SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH . THE BODY WAS BURIED AT LINWOOD .

REMAINS OF OLD GENTLEMAN WHO DIED IN PARAGOULD YESTERDAY (OCT. 24, 1920 ) MORNING ABOUT TEN O'CLOCK AT THE HOUSE OF J.D. CANTRELL , 317 SOUTH SECOND STREET , WERE TAKEN TO BLYTHEVILLE THIS AFTERNOON FOR BURIAL , ACCOMPANIED BY K. O. ODOM , A SON IN LAW OF THE DECEASED , AND GEO. W. McLEOD A FRIEND . ODOM AND McLEOD CAME TO PARAGOULD TO MAKE A CAREFUL INVESTIGATION INTO THE CIRCUMSTANCES .

THE FUNERAL OF MRS. C.W REINEY WAS HELD SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE FAMILY RESIDENCE .

MOTHER OF L.L. VANDERVOORT , SEVENTY-SIX YEARS OF AGE PASSES AWAY AFTER LONG ILLNESS.

MRS. W.W. HEATH WHO FOR SEVERAL YEARS HAS BEEN MAKING HER HOME AT THE VANDERVOORT FARM TWO MILES NORTHEAST OF PARAGOULD , DIED THIS MORNING (NOV. 17, 1920) THE REMAINS WILL BE SHIPPED TO MARBEL HILL , MO. HER OLD HOME , FOR BURIAL. MRS. HEATH WAS 76 YEARS OLD AND HAD BEEN IN FAILING HEALTH FOR MONTHS.

L.L. VANDERVOORT IS THE YOUNGEST OF HER FOUR CHILDREN . HER OTHER CHILDREN ARE MRS. GEO. TUTT , OF CHICAGO , JAMES AND GLYNN VANDERVOORT OF SIOUX FALLS , S.D.

J.F. THOMPSON , WHO FOR SEVERAL YEARS HAS CONDUCTED A FISH MARKET ON NORTH FOURTH AVENUE , DIED LAST NIGHT (NOV. 19, 1920 ) AFTER AN ILLNESS EXTENDING OVER A PERIOD OF FIFTEEN WEEKS.

HE CAME TO PARAGOULD FROM FULTON , KY. MANY YEARS AGO . HE WAS SIXTY-THREE YEARS OF AGE . HIS WIFE SURVIVES HIM . MR. THOMPSON HAD FOUR DAUGHTERS AND ONE SON. THEY ARE MRS. HARRY SCRIBNER OF GLOVERSVILLE , N.Y. , MRS. R.P. WORLEY OF PARAGOULD , MRS. C. PARKER OF BRINKLEY AND MISS INEZ THOMPSON . HIS SON IS H.A. THOMPSON . A GRANDDAUGHTER , MISS DOROTHY TOMPKINS , HAS FOR SEVERAL YEARS BEEN MAKING HER HOME WITH MR. THOMPSON.

HE ALSO HAD ONE SISTER AND THREE BROTHERS , AND NUMEROUS OTHER RELATIVES. THE FUNERAL WILL BE CONDUCTED SUNDAY MORNING AT THE RESIDENCE , 215 NORTH FOURTH AVENUE.

SERVICES WILL BE IN CHARGE OF REV. A.B. HALTOM. THE REMAINS WILL BE INTERRED IN LINWOOD CEMETERY.

THE BODY OF MRS. J.O. NASH , STEPMOTHER OF MRS. P.E. HOUSE , WHO DIED AT HER HOME IN MARINGO , IND. LAST MARCH ARRIVED THIS MORNING TO BE PLACED IN THE MAUSOLEUM. THE REMAINS WERE ACCOMPANIED BY CHARLES SUMMERS , THE UNDERTAKER FROM MARINGO. PRAYERS WERE HELD AT THE HOME OF MR. AND MRS. P.E. HOUSE , THE SERVICES BEING DIRECTED BY REV. A.C. CLOYES.

LUCY ANN WIILLCOCKSON WAS BORN FEB. 16 , 1841 , MARRIED PARK WILLCOCKSON DEC. 2 , 1859 , DEPARTED THIS LIFE NOV. 23, 1920 , AGE 79 YRS. 9 MONTHS , 7 DAYS . TO THIS UNION THERE WERE BORN 11 CHILDREN 10 GIRLS , AND ONE BOY , NAMELY ;

MARY JOSEPHINE , LIVING , JOHN FRANKLIN , LIVING , SARAH JANE , LIVING , LINNIE ELIZABETH , LIVING , SINIA LUEANNA , DEAD , JALEY ADELINE , LIVING , TILDA LEE , DEAD , ALICE ANAR , DEAD , DELANA CANSORA , DEAD , PARKER DEMARYLESS , DEAD.

AUNT LUCY HAD 56 GRANDCHILDREN , 64 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN AND ONE GREAT - GREAT GANDCHOLD.

PARK WILLCOCKSON DIED WHILE SERVING THIS COUNTY AS SHERIFF , 44 YEARS AGO , LEAVING AUNT LUCY WITH THE CHILDREN TO RAISE.

AUNT LUCY WAS A TRUE SOUTHERN WOMAN , LOVING HER GOD , COUNTRY , HOME , FAMILY AND FRIENDS . SHE LIVED SO CLOSE TO HER SAVIOR AND RULED HER HOME SO WELL . SHE RAISED HER FAMILY TO BE AMONG OUR BEST CITIZENS NO ONE HAVING HEARD A SLIGHT REMARK OR CRITICISM AGAINST HER OR HER CHILDREN .

AUNT LUCY PROFESSED FAITH IN CHRIST EARLY IN LIFE AND UNITED WITH THE M.E. CHURCH SOUTH , UNDER THE PREACHING OF A.C. GRIFFIN , 37 YEARS AGO.

IT WAS HER DESIRE DURING BRO. GRIFFIN'S LIFE TIME THAT HE HELD HER FUNERAL SERVICES , BUT BRO. GRIFFIN PASSED ON BEFORE HER. IT WAS THEN HER REQUEST THAT BRO. SAM WATSON OFFICIATE HE BEING AWAY AT THE TIME OF HER DEATH , HER FUNERAL WILL BE HELD SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE.

MR. AND MRS. JULIS MILLER , MRS. M.H. OLIVER , MRS. C.C. HOLMES OF LAFE , LEFT YESTERDAY FOR COFFEEN , ILL. WHERE THEY WERE CALLED BY A MESSAGE ANNOUNCING THE DEATH OF J.O. ROMELIN , A SISTER OF MESDAMES ALFVER AND MILLER AND A DAUGHTER OF MRS. HOLMES.

CECIL STAFFORD , AGE 14 YEARS , DIED AT THE SANITARIUM YESTERDAY (DEC. 12, 1920 ) AFTER SUFERING FOR SEVERAL MONTHS WITH APPENDICITIS. HE WAS BROUGHT HERE A FEW DAYS AGO FROM WHITE HALL AND UNDERWENT AN OPERATION . THE REMAINS WERE SHIPPED TO WHITE HALL , ACCOMPANIED BY THE BOY'S FATHER , C.P. STAFFORD.

MRS. FANNIE VAUGHN DIED LAST NIGHT AT HER HOME , 609 NORTH THIRD STREET . AFTER AN ILLNESS OF SEVERAL MONTHS. MRS. VAUGHN WAS BORN AND REARED IN WEBSTER COUNTY , KY. NEAR PROVIDENCE , SHERE SHE REMAINED UNTIL ABOUT THIRTY YEARS AGO , WHEN SHE CAME TO ARKANSAS. MRS. VAUGHN WA 61 YEARS OF AGE (BORN 1859) . SHE PROFESSED RELIGION WHEN QUITE YOUNG , JOINING THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF WHICH SHE HAD BEEN A DEVOTED MEMBER . SHE IS SURVIVED BY THREE SONS , LUTHER VAUGHN , PARAGOULD , JAMES AND TOM VAUGHN WHO RESIDE AT ROCKEY , OKLA. AND ONE DAUGHTER , MRS. ALBERT HAMMOND , WHITH WHOM SHE MADE HER HOME . JAMES AND TOM VAUGHN ARRIVED TODAY FROM OKLAHOMA . FUNERAL WILL TAKE PLACE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT 2 O'CLOCK .. AT THE EAST SIDE (REST MISSING )

THE TWO YEAR OLD SON OF MR. AND MRS. SHUBIE MITCHELL , DIED AT THE HOME 511 WEST JUNCTION STREET , EARLY THIS MORNING FUNERAL AND INTERMENT WILL OCCUR SUNDAY AFTERNOON.

MRS. FRED A. LAIRD OF NORTH FOURTH STREET RECEIVED A MESSAGE YESTERDAY MORNING STATING THAT HER HUSBAND WAS KILLED NEAR MELWOOD MONDAY NIGHT AT 12 O'CLOCK WHEN HE FELL BETWEEN TWO CARS . MR. LAIRD WAS BRAKING ON THE MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD . THE REMAINS WERE BROUGHT TO PARAGOULD THIS MORNING AND THE FUNERAL WAS HELD AT 3 O'CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON , CONDUCTED BY REV. F.B. EMMONS . INTERMENT FOLLOWED IN LINWOOD CEMETERY . MR. LAIRD WAS A HALF BROTHER TO BRAKEMAN A.O. KELLY OF NORTH PRUETT STREET.

IKE DAVIDSON AGED 57 (BORN 1863 ) DIED CHRISTMAS EVENING AT 4 O'CLOCK , AFTER AN ILLNESS OF SIX WEEKS OF CANCER OF THE BLADDER . MR. DAVIDSON WAS ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN CITIZENS IN GREENE COUNTY HAVING BEEN ENGAGED IN FARMING AND THE MILL BUSINESS FOR SEVERAL YEARS . HE WAS REARED LAWRENCE COUNTY WHERE HE REMAINED UNTIL 1894 WHEN HE AND HIS FAMILY MOVED TO THIS COUNTY . MR. DAVIDSON MR. DAVIDSON WAS A CONSECRATED CHRISTIAN , HAVING PROFESSED RELIGION AND JOINED THE METHODIST CHURCH AT CAMPGROUND TEN YEARS AGO . HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND TWO SONS , ED AND DOLPH DAVIDSON , AND ONE DAUGHTER , MRS. J.R. McKELVEY . FUNERAL WAS HELD AT THE FAMILY HOME SUNDAY AFTERNOON BY REV. J.K. P. McKELVEY AND INTERMENT FOLLOWED AT THE CAMP GROUND CEMETERY.

MRS I.A. DUKE , AGED 72 DIED AT THE HOME OF ANDY BUTLER SATURDAY NIGHT , AFTER AN ILLNESS OF A WEEK WITH PNEUMONIA . MRS. DUKE HAD BEEN VISITING AT RELATIVES , JAMES GATLIN AT HORNERSVILLE AND HAD RETURNED TO PARAGOULD TO SPEND THE NIGHT WHEN SHE WAS TAKEN CRITICALLY ILL. SHE IS SURVIVED BY A NEPHEW , A.E. GATLIN OF EAST LAKE STREET AND OTHER RELATIVES NEAR BROOKLAND MEAR WHERE MRS. DUKE MAD HER HOME. THE REMAINS WERE SHIPPED TO SMITHVILLE SUNDAY WERE THE FUNERAL AND INTERMENT TOOK PLACE.