Brack Thomason Obit
1915
TRANSCRIBED BY : TINA EASLEY
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FROM THE WEEKLY SOLIPHONE
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MAY 7, 1915 - FRIDAY
AFTER SUFFERING INTENSE PAIN FOR SEVERAL DAYS WITH PTOMAINE POISONING , BRACK THOMASON , AGED 45 YEARS , ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN CITIZENS OF PARAGOULD , DIED AT HIS HOME ON NORTH SIXTH STREET SATURDAY NIGHT. MR. THOMASON BECAME ILL ON FRIDAY NIGHT , APRIL 23 , PRESUMABLY FROM EATING SOME CANNED SALMON.
HE DID NOT REGARD THE MATTER SERIOUSLY FOR SEVERAL DAYS AND WHEN HE CALLED IN A PHYSICIAN HIS CONDITION HAD BECOME CRITICAL . THE POISON HAD BECOME SO THOROUGHLY DISTRIBUTED THROUGH HIS SYSTEM THAT ANTIDOTES GAVE NO RELIEF. DURING THE LAST THREE DAYS OF HIS ILLNESS HE ENDURED EXCRUCIATING AGONY AND DEATH CAME AS A RELIEF TO HIM.
MR. THOMASON WAS BORN ON A FARM NEAR GAINESVILLE AND HAD BEEN A RESIDENT OF GREENE COUNTY ALL HIS LIFE . DURING THE PAST FEW YEARS HE HAS BEEN EMPLOYED IN ED COLE'S GROCERY STORE. HE WAS A SOBER , INDUSTRIOUS CITIZEN AND WAS UNIVERSALLY ESTEEMED AND TRUSTED . HIS WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN SURVIVE HIM.
FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HALD AT THE THOMASON HOME AT NINE O'CLOCK THIS MORNING BY REV. C.M. REVES. THE REMAINS WERE TAKEN TO GAINESVILLE FOR INTERMENT.