Obits for Month of March 1920
MRS. RIXIE PURVIS - PAULINE SACHS - RICHARD SALTER - J. JACKSON - ALICE FLETCHER - MRS. WILLIAM HENEKE - LUCY SPARKS MITCHELL - INA BELL BOS - REV. GEORGE NEIDE - L. A. TAYLOR AND INFANT - MRS. BEN STONE - CHILD OF W.M. HANELINE - INFANT OF MR. AND MRS. EAF HORNE - CHARLOTTE E. COBB - WILL FOX - SHERRILL WESSON - WM. HOOKER - MRS. M. E. CLINE - MRS. N. BORAN - JOHN BROADWAY - STELLA JOHNSON
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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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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
PIGGOTT , ARK. - FEB. 28 - SIX YEAR OLD BOY SHOOTS BABY SISTER
SIX YEAR OLD HERSCHEL YATES YESTERDAY SHOT AND KILLED HIS THREE YEAR OLD SISTER WITH A PISTOL HE HAD TAKEN FROM A DRESSER DRAWER AND WHICH HE PLAYFULLY POINTED AT THE BABY WHILE THE TWO WERE FROLICKING WITH TWO NEIGHBOR CHILDREN.
THE VULLET STRUCK THE CHILD IN THE CENTER OF THE FOREHEAD AND PASSED ENTIRELY THROUGH HER HEAD . DEATH CAME WITHIN AN HOUR , DURING WHICH PERIOD THE CHILD NEVER REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS. THE TRAGIC ACCIDENT OCCURRED AT THE HOME OF J.C. YATES , CONSTABLE AND GRANDFATHER OF THE CHILDREN.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
MRS. RIXIE PURVIS DEAD
THE REMAINS OF MRS. RIXIE PURVIS WHO DIED YESTERDAY ( MARCH 2, 1920 ) IN MEMPHIS OF PNEUMONIA FOLLOWING INFLUENZA WAS BROUGHT TO PARAGOULD THIS MORNING. REV. M. M. SMITH CONDUCTING THE CEREMONY.
MRS. PURVIS IS SURVIVED BY FOUR DAUGHTERS , MARY AND JENNIE LEE WHO RESIDED WITH HER IN MEMPHIS , TENN. AND MISS LELIA OF THIS CITY , AND MRS. OLA ANTHAM OF CAIRO , AND HER MOTHER MRS. McBRIDE AND BROTHER P.C. McBRIDE .
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
( FROM TUESDAY'S DAILY PRESS - MARCH 2, 1920 )
LITTLE PAULINE SACHS
PAULINE SACHS , THE SIXTEEN MONTH OLD DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. IRWIN SACHS AND GRANDDAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. DAVE LOEB , DIED YESTERDAY MORNING AT 3 O'CLOCK AT LITTLE ROCK . MRS. LOEB AND MRS. SACHS WERE WITH THE CHILD AT THE TIME BUT MR. LOEB WAS HERE AND MR. SACHS WAS AT CARDWELL . THE BABY BECAME ILL VERY SUDDENLY SATURDAY MORNING AND WAS NOT APPARENTLY IN A SERIOUS CONDITION UNTIL , 8 O'CLOCK THAT NIGHT . MRS. SACHS HAD GONE TO LITTLE ROCK TO VISIT MRS. A. H. BURR AND HAD BEEN THERE LESS THAN A WEEK. MRS. BURR'S BABY BECAME SERIOUSLY ILL SOON AFTER MRS. SACHS CHILD WAS TAKEN AND WITH SIMILIAR SYMPTOMS , LEADING PHYSICIANS TO BELIEVE THAT THE CHILDREN SUFFERED FOOD POISONING . THE LITTLE SACHS BABY HAD BEEN ILL RECENTLY AND BECAUSE OF A WEAKENED VITALITY COULD NOT RESIST SERIOUS ILLNESS.
MRS. BURR'S BABY WAS NOT IMPROVED WHEN LAST HEARD FROM. . THE REMAINS OF THE LITTLE SACHS BABY WAS BROUGHT TO JONESBORO YESTERDAY AND WAS MET THERE BY MR. LOEB AND MR. SACHS . FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD FROM THE RESIDENCE OF MR. AND MRS. LOUIS SACHS IN THAT CITY , THIS MORNING AT 10 O'CLOCK . A NUMBER OF PARAGOULD PEOPLE WENT TO JONESBORO LAST NIGHT . MRS . LOUIS WRAPE AND MR. AND MRS FRANK WRAPE REMAINED FOR THE FUNERAL .
OTHERS WHO WENT DOWN AND RETURNED LAST NIGHT WERE ; MESDAMES JOHN S. WILKINSON , AL H. WRAPE AND WILLIAM D. KAMP AND MISSES ALMA HICKSON , BERNITA COLE , RUTH SIMPSON AND MR. LOUIS WRAPE , MR. AND MRS. LOEB AND MR.. AND MRS. SACH AND MRS. LOUIS WRAPE WILL RETURN TONIGHT. MR. AND MRS. FRANK WRAPE WILL GO ON TO THEIR HOME IN ST. LOUIS.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
"DICK" SALTER
DICK SALTER DIES OFF COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA
MRS. M. L. SALTER RECEIVED A MESSAGE YESTERDAY MORNING THAT HER SON , RICHARD ( DICK ) GAINES SALTER DIED SATURDAY MORNING ( FEB. 28, 1920 ) AT THE MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL AT ST. THOMAS , VIRGIN ISLANDS OFF THE COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA.
DICK HAD BEEN ILL AND IN THE HOSPITAL FOR NEARLY TWO MONTHS AND THE NEWS OF HIS DEATH DID NOT COME AS SUCH A GREAT SCHOCK. DICK'S DEATH WAS DUE TO WEAKENING OF THE BLOOD VESSELS CAUSED BY BEING GASSED WHILE SERVING IN THE LATE WAR. HE ALSO SUFFERED FROM RHEUMATISM WHICH WAS CONTRACTED DURING SERVICE IN THE TRENCHES. HE SERVED FOR MORE THAN A YEAR WITH 15TH ROYAL SCOTTISH HIGHLANDERS AND AFTER BEING WOUNDED SPENT EIGHT MONTH IN HOSPITALS IN EUROPE .
HIS WAR RECORD WAS SPLENDID AND HE WAS HONORABLY DISCHARGED FROM CANADA WHERE HE ENLISTED . SOME OF THE MOST INTERESTING LETTERS PUBLISHED BY THE DAILY PRESS DURING THE WAR WERE WRITTEN BY DICK TO HIS MOTHER AND IN NEARLY EVERY INSTANCE WERE PUBLISHED IN FULL.
DICK WAS BORN IN INDEPENDENCE , KY . HE WAS 34 YEARS OF AGE THE 4TH OF FEBRUARY. HE SPENT MOST OF HIS LIFE IN THIS CITY. HOWEVER , SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE WAR WAS FIRST DECLARED IN EUROPE HE WENT TO CANADA TO WORK AND IT WAS THERE THAT HE ENLISTED SEVERAL MONTHS BEFORE THIS COUNTRY ENTERED THE WAR. AFTER HE WAS DISCHARGED FROM THE SERVICE HE WENT WITH HIS MOTHER TO FLORIDA .
MRS. SALTER DOES NOT KNOW WHETHER SHE CAN BRING THE BODY BACK HERE FOR BURIAL OR WHETHER THE REMAINS WILL BE ENTERED AT ST. THOMAS . DICK IS SURVIVED BY ONE BROTHER J.M. WHO LIVES AT TEXARKANA .
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FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
( FROM WEDNESDAY'S DAILY PRESS - MARCH 3, 1920 )
J. JACKSON
J. JACKSON OF HALLIDAY DIED LAST NIGHT. ( MARCH 2, 1920 ) FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD THIS AFTERNOON.
ALICE FLETCHER
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD MONDAY AFTERNOON ( MARCH 1, 1920 ) OVER THE REMAINS OF MRS. ALICE FLETCHER , WIFE OF THE LATE JEFF FLETCHER . SHE IS SURVIVED BY ONE SON.
MRS. WILLIAM HENEKE
( MATTIE HENEKE )
MRS. WILLIAM HENEKE DIED LAST NIGHT ( MARCH 2, 1920 ) AT 12 O'CLOCK AT HER HOME ON GAINESVILLE ROAD . DEATH WAS DUE TO PNEUMONIA . SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND , TWO BROTHERS , ANDREW AND B. BURNETT AND A BROTHER -N- LAW JOHN HENEKE . FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED TOMORROW AND BURIAL WILL FOLLOW AT BURNETT GRAVEYARD.
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MONDAY , MARCH 8, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
MRS. LUCY MITCHELL CLAIMED BY DEATH
MRS. LUCY SPARKS MITCHELL , WIDOW OF THE LATE JUDGE J.C. MITCHELL , WHO WAS KILLED IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT A FEW YEARS AGO . MRS. MITCHELL DIED AT ST. BERNARD'S HOSPITAL AT 4 O'CLOCK THIS MORNING AS A RESULT OF A SERIOUS OPERATION A FEW DAYS AGO . THE DECEASED WAS A EXCELLENT CHRISTIAN WOMAN , AND STOOD HIGH IN THE ESTEEM OF HER FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS , WHERE SHE HAD RESIDED ALL HER LIFE.
SHE WAS 51 YEARS OF AGE , AND IS SURVIVED BY HER SISTER MRS. GEORGE CLARK OF THIS CITY , AND TOM SPARKS OF HARRISBURG , ALSO MRS. MARY PARR OF THIS CITY AN AUNT.
THE BODY WAS SHIPPED TO HARRISBURG .
JONESBORO TRIBUNE - MARCH 4, 1920.
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MONDAY , MARCH 8, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
MRS. INA BELL BOS
C.W. DIEHL , PASTOR OF THE FIRST CHURCH OF CHRST , RETURN YESTERDAY FROM DEWITT , WHERE HE WAS CALLED TO CONDUCT THE FUNERAL SERVICES OF MRS. INA BELL BOS .
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MONDAY , MARCH 8, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
REV. GEORGE NEIDE
REV. GEORGE L. NEIDE , RECTER OF ST. MARK'S ESPISCOPAL CHURCH , DIED AT THE RECTORY LAST NIGHT (MARCH 3, 1920) AT 8 O'CLOCK , AFTER AN ILLNESS OTHREE YEARS DUE TO AN ATTACK OF PARALYSIS , WITH WHICH HE WAS STRICKEN ABOUT THREE WEEKS SINCE.
THE DECEASED CAME HERE LAST FALL FROM MEMPHIS WITH HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER , HE HAVING BEEN PLACED IN CHARGE OF THIS CHURCH BY THE BISHOP , UNTIL HIS HEALTH FAILED. WAS VERY ACTIVE AND MADE MANY NEW FRIENDS .
HE WAS 60 YEARS OLD , AND IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND ONE GROWN DAUGHTER , WHO WERE WITH HIM ALL DURING HIS ILLNESS. REV. NEIDE WAS A MAN OF STRONG PERSONALITY , A SPLENDID PREACHER .
THE BODY WAS PREPARED FOR BURIAL BY UNDERTAKER GREGG AND SHIPPED TO BATESVILLE. THE WIDOW AND DAUGHTER ACCOMPANIED THE BODY , ALSO MR. PIERRE LATOURETTE WENT AS FAR AS HOXIE WITH THEM.
JONESBORO TRIBUNE MARCH 4.
REV. NEIDE PREACHED FOR THE EPISOCPALIANS IN PARAGOULD ONCE A MONTH , AND HAD MANY FRIENDS IN PARAGOULD.
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WEDNESDAY , MARCH 10, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
L.A. TAYLOR
EIGHT MEMBERS OF THE TAYLOR FAMILY OF ROUTE 1 ARE ILL WITH INFLUENZA . L.A. TAYLOR , FATHER OF THE HOUSEHOLD WAS BURIED YESTERDAY ( MARCH 9, 1920 ) AND HIS INFANT DAUGHTER WHO DIED FROM INFLUENZA WAS BURIED SUNDAY (MARCH 7, 1920 ) .
L.A. TAYLOR , A WELL KNOWN FARMER OF RT. 1. DIED YESTERDAY OF PNEUMONIA . HE WAS FORTY FIVE YEARS OF AGE . (BORN 1875) THE BODY WILL BE BURIED THIS AFTERNOON AT FAIRVIEW CEMETERY . YESTERDAY A 13-MONTH OLD CHILD OF MR. TAYLOR WAS BURIED , DEATH DUE TO INFLUENZA.
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WEDNESDAY , MARCH 10, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
MRS. BEN STONE
MRS. BEN STONE , SIXTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE DIED AT HER HOME NEAR MARMADUKE YESTERDAY (MARCH 9, 1920 ) AND WILL BE BURIED AT HARVEY'S CHAPEL TODAY. SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF MRS. BUD CRIBBS , MRS. FLORENCE DORTCH , MRS. WILLIAM THROGMORTON , TRICE STONE AND PRICE STONE.
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WEDNESDAY , MARCH 10, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
CHILDREN OF W.M. HANELINE
W.M. HANELINE , A FARMER LIVING THREE MILES SOUTH OF MARMADUKE , LOST A CHILD YESTERDAY DUE TO INFLUENZA . THIS IS THE SECOND CHILD MR. HANELINE HAS LOST WITHIN A WEEK , INFLUENZA BEING THE CAUSE IN BOTH DEATHS.
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FRIDAY , MARCH 12, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
( FROM WEDNESDAY'S DAILY PRESS - MARCH 10, 1920 )
INFANT OF MR. AND MRS. EAF HORNE
THE THREE MONTH OLD DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. EAF HORNE OF RECTOR , RT. 2 DIED YESTERDAY (MARCH 9, 1920 ) .
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FRIDAY , MARCH 12, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
( FROM WEDNESDAY'S DAILY PRESS - MARCH 10, 1920 )
CHARLOTTE E. COBB
MRS. CHARLOTTE E. COBB , WHO MADE HER HOME IN THIS COUNTY SICE 1859 HAVING COME HERE FROM ALABAMA , DIED SEVERAL DAYS AGO AT THE HOME OF A BROTHER , H.B. WHEELESS AT SENATH. MRS. COBB HAD GONE TO SENATH TO VISIT WHEN SHE WAS TAKEN ILL.
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MONDAY , MARCH 15, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
WILL FOX
WILL FOX OF SOUTH THIRD STREET DIED SUDDENLY FROM HEART FAILURE THIS MORNING AT THE HOME OF A SON . FUNERAL SERVICES WILL CONDUCTED TOMORROW.
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WEDNESDAY , MARCH 17, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
SHERRILL WESSON
(MRS. BEN WESSON )
ALL PARAGOULD MOURNS TODAY THE DEATH OF MRS. SHERRILL WESSON , WHOSE SWEET SPIRIT PASSED TO THE GREAT BEYOND YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT 3 O'CLOCK ( MARCH 16, 1920 ) . MUCH CAN BE SAID IN PRAISE OF MRS. WESSON WHOSE SWEET SPIRIT WAS KNOWN AND LOVED BY SCORES OF FRIENDS HERE AND IN KENTUCKY , WHERE SHE WAS BORN , AND AT WACO , TEXAS WHERE SHE SPENT A YEAR BEFORE HER MARRIAGE .
MRS. WESSON HAD ONLY BEEN ILL ABOUT THREE WEEKS BUT IT HAD BEEN KNOWN FOR SEVERAL DAYS THAT HER CHANCE FOR LIFE WAS VERY SLIM.
MRS. WESSON WAS MARRIED TO BEN W. WESSON OF THIS CITY IN FEBRUARY , 1918 , THE CEREMONY BEING PERFORMED IN WACO , TEXAS , WHERE HER FAMILY WAS LIVING AT THE TIME . MRS. WESSON WAS BEFORE HER MARRIAGE , MISS SHERRILL WATWOOD , DAUGHTER OF MRS. MATTIE AND THE LATE I.W. WATWOOD , OF THIS CITY.
SHE WAS BORN IN KENTUCKY , MARCH 8, 1892 , AND CAME TO THIS CITY WITH HER PARENTS WHEN SHE WAS TEN YEARS OF AGE. SHE WAS EDUCATED IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THIS CITY.
MRS. WESSON IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND , MOTHER , ONE SISTER , MISS GERTRUDE WATWOOD , OF GREENVILLE, MISS. AND FIVE BROTHERS , FRANK OF DALLAS , TEXAS , CLARENCE AND HARRY OF GREENVILLE, MISS. , ROBERT OF MAYFIELD , KY. ANOTHER BROTHER , MURRAY WAS MORTALLY INJURED DURING THE LAST FIGHTING OF THE LATE WAR AND WAS TAKEN PRISONER BY THE GERMANS, DYING SOON AFTER THE AMERICAN ARMY REACHED THE PRISON CAMP WHERE HE WAS HELD.
ALL OF THE FAMILY WERE AT MRS. WESSON'S BEDSIDE EXCEPT FRANK AND ROBERT WHO ARRIVED LAST NIGHT.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD OVER THE REMAINS THIS AFTERNOON AT 3:00 AT THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH . REV. B.L. BRIDGES CONDUCTED THE SERVICES . BURIAL WAS AT LINWOOD CEMETERY.
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WEDNESDAY , MARCH 17, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
WM. HOOKER DEAD AT NEWPORT
NEWPORT - MARCH 15 - WM. M. HOOKER , 53 , TRAVELING SALESMAN FOR A SHOE COMPANY OF COLUMBUS , OHIO . FOR MANY YEARS ONE OF THE NEWPORT'S MOST PROMINET CITIZENS DIED SUDDENLY THURSDAY NIGHT AT HIS HOME HERE OF APOPLEXY , DYING 10 MINUTES AFTER BEING STRICKEN . DECEASED IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND TWO DAUGHTERS .
MR. HOOKER WAS WELL KNOWN IN PARAGOULD.
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WEDNESDAY , MARCH 17, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
( FROM MONDAY'S DAILY PRESS - MARCH 15, 1920 )
MRS. M.E. CLINE
THE FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. M.E. CLINE WERE HELD THIS AFTERNOON FROM THE RESIDENCE AT 2 O'CLOCK THE REV. T.O. WATKINS CONDUCTING THE SERVICES , INTERMENT AT GREENWOOD CEMETERY . THE DECEASED HAD VEEN ILL WITH BRIGHT'S DISEASE FOR OVER A YEAR . SHE WAS TWENTY- SEVEN YEARS OLD. THE DAUGHTER OF MR. AND MRS. JOE WALKER . SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER HUSBAND M.E. CLINE , THREE SISTERS , MRS. JOHN GRUBER , MRS. WILL ALLEN , MRS. DICK BENTLEY AND THREE BROTHERS , FRED , RAY AND JOE WALKER AND PARENTS, MR. AND MRS. JOE WALKER.
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WEDNESDAY , MARCH 17, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
( FROM TUESDAY'S DAILY PRESS - MARCH 16, 1920 )
MRS. N. BORAN
THE FUNERAL OF MRS. N. BORAN , WHO DIED YESTERDAY (MARCH 15 , 1920 ) AT HER HOME NEAR THE TILE FACTORY OF BRIGHT'S DISEASE, WAS HELD THIS AFTERNOON . REV. KERNOODLE OFFICIATING . MRS. BORAN WAS 43 YEARS OLD AND LEAVES HER HUSBAND AND FOUR SONS .
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WEDNESDAY , MARCH 24, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
JOHN BROADWAY
WELL KNOWN FARMER FOUND DEAD BY SONS
JONESBORO , MARCH 22, - JOHN BROADWAY A FARMER , RESIDING SEVEN MILES NORTHWEST OF JONESBORO , WAS FOUND DEAD ABOUT A MILE FROM HIS HOUSE LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON , WITH A GUNSHOT WOUND FROM A SHOTGUN, THROUGH HIS NECK .
THE DECEASED LEFT HIS HOME SATURDAY MORNING TO GO TO HIS MAIL BOX , TELLING HIS WIFE THAT HE WOULD TAKE HIS GUN THINKING HE COULD FIND SOME SQUIRRELS. SOON AFTER LEAVING HOME MRS. BROADWAY HEARD A REPORT OF A GUN , BUT THOUGHT NOTHING OF IT . AFTER BEING OUT ALL DAY SHE BECAME ALARMED AND SENT ONE OF HER SONS IN SEARCH , FEARING SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED . IN A SHORT TIME THE SON FOUND THE FATHER IN THE FORKS OF A TREE THAT HE HAD CUT DOWN , DEAD , THE GUN NEARBY AND FROM THE POSITION IT IS THOUGHT THAT IT WAS AN ACCIDENT . HIS CAP WAS A FEW FEET AWAY.
IT IS EVIDENT THAT HE KILLED HIMSELF WHEN THE WIFE HEARD THE REPORT OF THE GUN . INQUEST WAS HELD BUT SO FAR THE JURY HAS FAILED ON A VERDICT , SOME BEING OF THE OPINION IT WAS A ACCIDENT , SOME OF THE OPINION THAT IT WAS MURDER. INVESTIGATIONS ARE BEING MADE.
HE WAS PAST 50 YEARS OF AGE AND IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND SEVEN CHILDREN. THE BROADWAY CONNECTION IS ONE OF THE LARGEST AND BEST KNOWN IN THE COUNTY.
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WEDNESDAY , MARCH 24, 1920 - THE PARAGOULD SOLIPHONE
(FROM MONDAY'S DAILY PRESS - MARCH 22, 1920 )
STELLA JOHNSON
MRS. STELLA JOHNSON DIED SUNDAY MORNING ( MARCH 21, 1920 ) AT 1:30 AT HER HOME IN THE CARDWELL ADDITION AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS WITH TUBERCULOSIS. MRS. JOHNSON WAS AN AUNT OF FRANK MILLER WHOM SHE REARED AND WITH WHOM SHE LIVED.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD THIS MORNING AT THE EAST SIDE BAPTIST CHURCH BY REV. F.B. EMONS , FOLLOWED BY BURIAL IN LINWOOD CEMETERY.
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