Tom Collier Obit 1909
TRANSCRIBED BY : TINA EASLEY
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MONDAY , JAN. 25, 1909 - PARAGOULD DAILY PRESS
TOM COLLIER DIED EARLY THIS MORNING
POPULAR YOUNG CITIZEN OF PARAGOULD SUCCUMBS TO RAVAGES OF BRIGHT'S DISEASE.
PROMISING CAREER IS CLOSED
TOM COLLIER , ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR AND PROMINENT YOUNG MEN OF PARAGOULD DIED AT THE FAMILY HOME ON WEST COURT STREET THIS MORNING AT 6 O'CLOCK AFTER A LONG ILLNESS OF BRIGHT'S DISEASE.
TOM WAS A SON OF MR. AMRS. M.F. COLLIER AND A GENERAL FAVORITE WITH A LARGE CIRCLE OF FRIENDS. WHILE AT WORK IN PINE BLUFF SEVERAL WEEKS SINCE HE WAS STRICKEN WITH THE AFFLICTION WHICH RESULTED IN HIS DEATH. HE WAS WORKING AS LINEMAN IN PINE BLUFF ASSISTING IN RECONSTRUCTION WORK BEING PROMOTED BY THE ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY OF THAT CITY. HE CONTINUED AT WORK SEVERAL DAYS AFTER SICK , BUT WAS FINALLY FORCED TO GUVE UP AND COME HOME. HE RECEIVED THE BEST POSSIBLE MEDICAL ATTENTION AND GENEROUS SERVICES OF MANY FRIENDS AT HIS BEDSIDE , BUT AFTER GIVING UP AND GOING TO BED HIS CONDITION GREW GRADUALLY WORSE TILL THE END THIS MORNING.
TOM WAS A CLEVER BOY EVER WILLING TO FAVOR A FRIEND AND WAS HELD IN HIGH ESTEEM BY HIS ASSOCIATES. HE WAS A VERY INTIMATE FRIEND OF THE WRITER , WHO WAS HIS SCHOOLMATE IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL AND A COMPANION IN BOYISH FUN AND GAMES . AS WITH THE WRITER TOM WAS A FAVORITE WITH OTHER PARAGOULD YOUTHS AND GREW UP IN THE MIDST WITHOUT EVER DOING ANY ACT OR SAYING A WORD THAT WOULD CAUSE AN ENEMY. AS FAR AS THE WRITER KNOWS HE NEVER HAD A SINGLE ENEMY AND HIS DEATH HAS CAST A GLOOM OVER THE YOUNG MEN OF THE CITY AND REMOVED A TRUE , NOBLE AND BIG-HEARTED FRIEND THAN CAN NEVER BE REPLACED.
TOM WAS 23 YEARS OLD AND WAS BORN AT POCAHONTAS , ARK. DEC. 7 1886 . HE CAME TO PARAGOULD WITH HIS PARENTS WHEN ONLY FIVE YEARS OLD AND UP TIL THE TIME OF HIS DEATH MADE THIS PLACE HIS HOME ALTHOUGH HE WAS ABSENT FROM THE CITY MUCH OF THE TIME DURING THE LATTER FEW YEARS OF HIS LIFE , FOLLOWING HIS TRADE AS LINEMAN.
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1/26/1909
THE FUNERAL OF TOM COLLIER IS BEING CONDUCTED THIS AFTERNOON FROM THE FAMILY RESIDENCE ON WEST COURS STREET , REV M.M. SMITH OFFICIATING . INTERMENT WILL FOLLOW IN LINWOOD CEMETERY.
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