TOM WHITTLESAY
OBIT
RECORD WRITTEN BY : TINA EASLEY
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RESEARCHED FROM THE DAILY SOLIPHONE
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MONDAY , APRIL 12, 1909 - Front Page
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PARALYSIS CLAIMS A SECOND VICTIM
"UNCLE" TOM WHITTLESAY , STRICKEN THURSDAY MORNING , DIES SATURDAY EVENING (APR. 10, 1909)
FUNERAL CONDUCTED YESTERDAY
"UNCLE" TOM WHITTLESAY , THE SECOND OF THE PARALYTIC VICTIMS THURSDAY MORNING DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS FAMILY ON NORTH PRUET STREET LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON ONLY A FEW MINUTES BEFORE 6 O'CLOCK WITHOUT REGAINING CONSCIOUSNESS.
HE WAS 58 YEARS OLD THE 17TH OF LAST FEBRUARY AND WAS BORN IN MOSCOW , KY . FULTON COUNTY. WHEN A YOUNG MAN HE MOVED TO TENNESSEE , LOCATING AT MARTIN IN WEAKLY COUNTY . THERE HE MET , WOOED AND WON MISS M.M. BERRY . THREE CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THE HAPPILY MATED COUPLE , BUT THE OLDEST , A SON DIED.
MR. AND MRS. WHITTLESAY WITH THEIR TWO SURVING CHILDREN CAME TO ARKANSAS FIVE YEARS AGO AND LOCATED IN THIS CITY , BUT MRS. WHITTLESAY DIED LAST FALL. MR. WHITTLESAY WAS BIG HEARTED AND JOVIAL, HEARTY AND WELL-MET AND DURING HIS RESIDENCE IN PARAGOULD AND HAD MANY FRIENDS.
HE WAS VERY POPULAR IN HIS TENNESSEE HOME AND WHEN THERE WERE VISITORS FROM WEAKLY COUNTY THEY ALWAYS HUNTED "UNCLE " TOM UP .
NEVER WAS THERE A MAN TO GAIN MORE POPULARITY IN PARAGOULD IN A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS AND THE ENTIRE TOWN MOURNS HIS DEATH.
HIS TWO SURVING CHILDREN ARE MISS DONA , WHO LIVED WITH AND KEPT HOUSE FOR HIM AND WILL , OF ST. LOUIS . THE LATTER IS NOW IN THE CITY, HAVING HURRIED TO THE STRICKEN MAN'S BESIDE , WHEN HE WAS IN SUCH SERIOUS CONDITION.
MR. WHITTLESAY WAS A MEMBER OF THE ODD FELLOWS AT MARTIN AND THE PARAGOULD LODGE OF THAT ORDER ASSISTED IN THE FUNERAL AND BURIAL. THE FUNERAL WAS CONDUCTED FROM THE FAMILY HOME YESTERDAY AT 2:30 BY REV. A.C. GRIFFIN . MANY FRIENDS GATHERED TO PAY LAST RESPECTS TO "UNCLE" TOM AND THE SONG SERVICE WAS RENDERED WITH MUCH FEELING : " JESUS LOVER OF MY SOUL " AND " NEARER MY GOD TO THEE " THE REMAINS WERE TAKEN IN CHARGE BY THE ODD FELLOWS WHO CONDUCTED THE BURIAL AT LINWOOD CEMETERY , WHERE THE REMAINS WERE LAID TO REST BY THE SIDE OF HIS WIFE.