OBITS MONTH OF OCTOBER 1909
BUD FLETCHER - J.F. SMITH - ARTHUR LIGGETT - RICHARD ELLIOTT - JIM WHITTINGTON - OSCAR CLUCK - J.T. PATTERSON -
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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VOL. XI - SATURDAY , OCTOBER 9, 1909 - THE DAILY SOLIPHONE
TWO MEN HURLED TO DEATH BY EXPLOSION
TWO MEN WERE BLOWN INTO ETERNITY THIS MORNING AT AN EARLY HOUR ON CACHE RIVER BY A DYNAMITE EXPLOSION , ONE WAS INSTANTLY KILLED AND THE OTHER FATALLY INJURED.
THE UNFORTUNATE MEN WERE BUD FLETCHER AND J.F. SMITH , BOTHE RESIDENTS OF FINCH NEIGHBORHOOD NINE MILES SOUTHWEST OF PARAGOULD .
THE MEN WENT TO CACHE RIVER TO FISH AND WERE FISHING ON THE RIVER JUST ABOVE RAY BRIDGE , SOME TWELVE OR FOURTEEN MILES WEST OF PARAGOULD . THEY WERE IN A DUGOUT AND WERE USING DYNAMITE.
FLETCHER HAD TWO STICKS OF THE DYNAMITE IN HIS POCKET WHICH WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE EXPLODED FROM THE CONCUSSION OF A STICK THAT HAD BEEN EXPLODED IN THE RIVER . THE EXPLOSION WAS TERRIFIC AND FLETCHER'S MANGLED REMAINS WERE HURLED FROM THE BOAT INTO THE RIVER . SMITH'S ARM WAS BLOWN OFF AND HE WAS BROUGHT TO SHORE ALIVE AND PLACED UNDER TREATMENT OF PHYSICIANS AND THE OTHER ARM WAS AMPUTATED. IT IS NOT BELIEVED THAT HE CAN RECOVER.
THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED ABOUT AT DAYLIGHT THIS MORNING . THE OLDEST SON OF SMITH WAS STANDING ON THE BANK OF THE RIVER WHEN THE EXPLOSION OCCURED . HE GAVE THE ALARM.
FLETCHER AND SMITH ARE BOTH MEN WITH FAMILIES . FLETCHER HAVING A WIFE AND THREE CHILDREN AND SMITH A WIFE AND EIGHT CHILDREN . THEY ARE NEIGHBORS.
THE BODY OF FLETCHER WAS RECOVERED FROM THE WATER AT 11 O'CLOCK TODAY AND WAS TAKEN TO HIS HOME AT FINCH , ARRIVING THERE THIS AFTERNOON. IT IS SUPPOSED THAT THE FUNERAL WILL TAKE PLACE TOMORROW.
THE FIRST NEWS OF THE DREADFUL ACCIDENT REACHED PARAGOULD THIS MORNING AND WAS PHONED TO TOM FLETCHER , SALESMAN FOR BERTIG BROS. , WHO IS A COUSIN TO THE FLETCHER WHO WAS KILLED .
THERE IS GREAT SORROW IN THE FINCH NEIGHBORHOOD OVER THE UNFORTUNATE AFFAIR.
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YOUNG MAN KILLED
OCTOBER 15, 1909 - THE DAILY SOLIPHONE
ARTHUR LIGGETT , NEAR MARMADUKE MEETS DEATH SUDDENLY BY A FALLING TREE
YESTERDAY IN THE WALNUT RIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD , SIX MILES EAST OF MARMADUKE , ARTHUR LIGGETT WAS SUDDENLY KILLED BY A FALLING TREE. LIGGETT WAS ABOUT 22 YEARS OLD AND WAS ENGAGED IN LOGGING. A HIGH WIND WAS BLOWING AND A FALLING TREE FELL ACROSS HIS WAGON . KILLING HIM AND ONE OF THE MULES AND SERIOUSLY INJURING THE OTHER MULE. THIS INFORMATION WAS GEVEN THE SOLIPHONE OVER THE LONG DISTANCE PHONE LINE FROM MARMADUKE THIS MORNING BUT NO FARTHER DETAILS COULD BE ASCERAINED.
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SAD DEATH OF A STRANGER
OCTOBER 15, 1909 - THE DAILY SOLIPHONE
RICHARD ELLIOTT , A CARPENTER , EXPIRES WITHOUT SYMPATHETIC PRESENCE OF FRIENDS
ONE OF THE SADDEST DEATHS IN THE HISTORY OF PARAGOULD WAS THAT OF RICHARD ELLIOTT AT THE HOME OF MRS. SEATS ON EAST POPLAR STREET MONDAY MORNING. HE BOARDED AT THE HOME OF MRS. SEATS AND HAD BEEN IN THE CITY ONLY FOUR MONTHS. HE WAS A CARPENTER BY TRADE AND CAME HERE IN JUNE TO TAKE WORK ON BERTIG'S NEW STORE . HE WAS IN BAD HEALTH ALL THE TIME HE WAS IN PARAGOULD , SUFFERING FROM STOMACH TROUBLE , BUT HIS LAST ILLNESS WAS OF ABOUT A WEEK'S DURATATION.
MR. ELLIOTT WAS 59 YEARS OF AGE AND CAME TO PARAGOULD A STRANGER. HE WAS A HARD WORKING AND VERY QUIET MAN AND MADE VERY FEW FRIENDS , HENCE HIS DEATH WAS DOUBLY SAD IN THAT HIS BEDSIDE WAS NOT VISITED BY FRIENDS AND LOVING RELATIVES . IN HIS POSSESSION WERE FOUND PAPERS SHOWING THAT HE HAD A BROTHER RESIDING IN DECATUR, ILL. AND A SISTER IN CHICAGO.
THEY WERE NOTIFIED AND AWAITING WORD FROM THEM REGARDING DISPOSITION OF THE BODY THE REMAINS WERE REMOVED TO THE UNDERTAKING ESTABLISHMENT , WHERE THEY WERE HELD TILL THURSDAY , WHEN WORD FINALLY CAME FROM THE BROTHER TO BURY THE BODY HERE AS HE WAS NOT FINANCIALLY ABLE TO COME AND COULD NOT TAKE THE REMAINS BACK TO THE FAMILY HOME AT DECATUR FOR INTERMENT.
MR. ELLIOTT LEFT SUFFICIENT FUNDS FOR A DECENT BURIAL AND THE REMAINS WERE LAID TO REST THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
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DEATH OF JIM WHITTINGTON
OCTOBER 25, 1909 - THE DAILY SOLIPHONE
JIM WHITTINGTON , ABOUT 65 YEARS OLD , DIED YESTERDAY MORNING (OCT. 24, 1909 ) AT 10 O'CLOCK AT HIS HOME NINE MILES SOUTHWEST OF PARAGOULD . HE HAD BEEN SUFFERING FROM HEART DISEASE AND IT IS ANNOUNCED THAT THIS CAUSED HIS DEMISE. MR. WHITTINGTON CAME TO THIS COUNTY ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO FROM ILLINOIS . HE FIRST LOCATED AT BROOKLAND , BUT LATER REMOVED TO A LOCALITY KNOWN AT GUBERTOWN.
HE WAS AN HONEST , HARDWORKING MAN AND HAD ACCUMULATED A NEAT COMPETENCE. HE IS SURVIVED BY A WIFE AND SEVERAL GROWN DAUGHTERS AND SONS. EARL IS EMPLOYED AT THE S.L. JOSEPH MERCANTILE COMPANY IN THIS CITY . THE INTERMENT TOOK PLACE THIS AFTERNOON AT 1 O'CLOCK AT PINE LOG CEMETERY.
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DR. J. H. SEEGRAVES DEAD
OCTOBER 27, 1909 - THE DAILY SOLIPHONE
( RECTOR VITASCOPE )
DR. J.H. SEEGRAVES A WELL KNOWN HIGHLY CONNECTED PHYSICIAN WHO FORMERLY RESIDED AT THIS PLACE , DIED OF RHEUMATISM AT HIS HOME IN MAYFIELD , KY. ON TUESDAY , OCTOBER 17, 1909.
THE BODY ACCOMPANIED BY HIS DAUGHTER , MRS. C.A. WASHBURNE AND HIS GRANDAUGHTER , MISS ORA WASHBURNE , ARRIVED IN RECTOR , THURSDAY MORNING . INTERMENT WAS AT THE SEEGRAVES CEMETERY ON THURSDAY AFTERNOON . THE FUNERAL SERVICES BEING CONDUCTED BY REV. J.L. LOWDERMILK.
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OCTOBER 13, 1909 - THE DAILY SOLIPHONE
KILLED BY A FALLING LIMB
OSCAR CLUCK ENGAGED IN FELLING TREE AT EARLE AT TIME OF THE ACCIDENT
EARLE , OCT. 13 - WHILE ENGAGED IN FELLING A TREE MONDAY , OSCAR CLUCK OF THIS PLACE WAS INSTANTLY KILLED BY A LIMB FALLING FROM THE TREE. THE LIMB WAS HEAVY AND FELL ON CLUCK WITHOUT WARNING. HIS BODY WAS BROUGHT TO THE HOME OF HIS SISTER, MRS. JENKINS AND THEN SENT CRAWFORDSVILLE FOR BURIAL . HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND THREE SMALL CHILDREN.
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THURSDAY , OCTOBER 14, 1909 - THE DAILY SOLIPHONE
J.T. PATTERSON BURIED
LITTLE ROCK , OCT 14 - THE REMAINS OF THE LATE J.T. PATTERSON WHO WAS KILLED AT WYNNE MONDAY NIGHT , WERE TAKEN TO JUDSONIA TH HOME OF MRS. PATTERSON , YESTERDAY AND BURIED . THE REMAINS WERE ACCOMPANIED TO JONESBORO BY JOHN SUMMERS , COUNTY JUDGE OF WOODRUFF COUNTY , E.J. BADINELLI OF WYNNE , A.B. SHAFTER OF MARION AND A DELEGATION OF CROSS COUNTY ODD FELLOWS .
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