Obituaries
and Death Notices
in Pulaski County, Illinois Newspapers
The Mounds Independent and
The Pulaski Enterprise
4 Jan. - 27 Dec. 1929
Mound City, Pulaski County, Illinois
Transcribed and annotated by Darrel Dexter
Pulaski
Enterprise, Friday, 4 Jan 1929:
Card of
Thanks
We take this
means of thanking our friends and neighbors
for their kindness and assistance during the
illness and death of our departed brother.
Myrtle
Rivers
Pearl
Schnaare
Wilbur and
Willis
Sheffer
Funeral
Services for John Crise
Funeral
services for John
Crise (colored), who committed suicide
Sunday evening, were held Thursday afternoon
from the undertaking parlors of G. A.
James.
His body was taken to Kentucky for
interment.
Obituary
Mr. William
Henry
Sheffer, son of William Jackson and
Louisa Elizabeth
Sheffer, was born at Elco, Illinois,
December 10, 1886, and died at his home near
Joppa, being 42 years old.
He leaves to mourn his departure a
father, mother, wife, two sisters, two
brothers, namely Mrs. Pearl
Schnaare, of Grand Chain, Mrs. Myrtle
Rivers, of Ullin, Mr. Wilbur
Sheffer, of McCoysburg, Indiana, Mr.
Willis
Sheffer, of Joppa, and a host of friends
and relatives.
He served his country one year and
five months.
He returned home and was united in
marriage to Winnie
Hale,
of Jackson, Missouri, in 1925.
He was converted in the Ohio Chapel
M. E. Church in 1922.
He lived a faithful life and loved to
serve his Master.
At last he has been called to his
home in that beautiful land of rest found
everlasting joy.
“God doeth all things and doeth them
well.”
He was laid to rest in the Salem
Cemetery.
(His marker in Salem Cemetery in
Massac Co., Ill., reads:
William H.
Sheffer Died Dec. 10, 1928.
Ill. Pvt. 20th Battn. U.
S. Guards.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds
Independent,
Friday, 4 Jan 1929:
Card of
Thanks
We desire to
extend our sincere thanks for the sympathy
and kindness offered us following the death
of our beloved son, and brother, Claude
Bour.
Especially do we thank Mr. J. C.
Mench, the singers, and those who sent
flowers.
Frank
Bour,
Sr., and family
Former
Mounds Resident Dies in Anna
Claude
Bour,
a former resident of Mounds and vicinity,
died December 29, 1928, at 1:45 a.m. at the
Anna hospital.
Mr.
Bour
was born May 30, 1900, and had reached the
age of 28 years, 6 months and 29 days.
He was the son of Frank
Bour,
Sr., of Route One.
His mother died several years ago.
Besides his father, he leaves a wife,
formerly Miss Beatrice
Rhiner, of Jefferson City, Mo.; a
daughter, Helen
Bour;
four brothers, Frank
Bour,
Jr. and Henry
Bour,
of Mounds, Clyde
Bour,
of Aurora, and Robert
Bour,
of Murphysboro; also one sister, Mrs. A. R.
DeCrow, of Mounds.
The body was brought to the home of
his brother, Frank
Bour,
Jr.
Funeral services were held December
30 at the home, Sec. J. C.
Mench of the Y. M. C. A. conducting
them, after which the father, Frank
Bour,
Sr., and Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Bour,
Jr., accompanied the remains to Jefferson
City, Mo., for interment.
Undertaker G. A.
James was in charge.
DuQUOIN—Mrs.
Goldie
Coffel, young mother of a
three-month-old baby, was hit by an
automobile on the hard road between West
Frankfort and Johnston City Sunday
afternoon, dying four hours later in the
West Frankfort hospital.
The young woman was only 17 years of
age.
Mrs. Monroe
Hileman and brother, Mr.
Kirkland, were called to Fulton, Ky.,
Monday evening on account of the serious
illness of their sister-in-law, Mrs. George
Kirkland, who died a few hours later.
(Ullin)
The Mounds
Independent,
Friday, 11 Jan 1929:
Boy Dies
Early Monday Morning
Little
Robert
Cauble, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee
Cauble, died Monday morning, January 7,
at the age of 2 years, 4 months and 7 days,
having been born August 31, 1926.
Death was caused by pneumonia.
The little
fellow was very lovable and will be greatly
missed in the home circle.
Funeral services were held at the
home at 11 a.m. Wednesday conducted by Rev.
McGill of Anna.
Interment was made in the Anna
Cemetery with Undertaker G. A.
James in charge.
(His marker in Anna City Cemetery
reads:
Robert
Cauble Born Aug. 31, 1926 Died Jan. 7,
1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mother of
Supt. C. R. Young Dies
C. R.
Young, formerly superintendent of the
St. Louis division of the Illinois Central,
has the sympathy of his many friends along
the line in the death of his mother, which
occurred at Bowling Green, Ky., Monday,
January 7.
Mr.
Young, who was located in Carbondale,
while superintendent of the St. Louis
division is now in Chicago with the Illinois
Central.
Cousin of
Murdered Woman
Mrs. T. W.
Baine, of Pulaski, mother of Mrs. T. M.
Ridgeway, of the Mounds Variety Store,
is an own cousin of Miss Anna
Preher, the Carmi school teacher who was
so brutally murdered December 21, last.
The murder occurred in the old home
of Mrs.
Baine, where Miss
Preher lived alone.
Boyt
McMurray, colored, is being held for the
murder.
CREAL
SPRINGS—Gertrude B.
Murrah, widow of the late H. C.
Murrah, died at the home of her son, Dr.
Frank
Murrah, at Herrin at 12:30 Thursday
morning, 6th.
She was seventy-five years past and
had spent a lifetime in our county.
Spending her early youth in the
vicinity of Creal Springs, thirty-five years
ago she founded the Creal Springs College
and Music Conservatory, where for many years
she was one of our county’s best known
instructors.
Mrs. Leoma
Roberts Muscovalley Dies in Chicago
Leoma
Roberts
Muscovalley, wife of Samuel
Muscovalley, died at her home in Chicago
on Friday, January 4, 1929, and was brought
to Mounds for burial.
Mrs.
Muscovalley was the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. G.
Roberts, well known colored residents on
Route One.
She leaves besides her parents and
husband, three children, two brothers and
three sisters to mourn her demise.
Funeral services were held in St.
John’s Baptist Church Tuesday afternoon,
January 8, with Rev. W. L.
DeArmon officiating.
George P.
Hartwell was the funeral director in
charge.
The Pulaski
Enterprise,
Friday, 18 Jan 1929:
Manley
Palmer and Frank Crain Killed When Train
Wrecks
Soon after
leaving the station at Belleville on Friday
night, January 11, “The Seminole,”
southbound Illinois Central passenger train
was derailed and the engine turned over,
resulting in the death of Frank
Crain, 50, engineer, of East St. Louis,
and Manley
Palmer, 28, fireman of Mounds, Illinois.
Frank
Crain, was a former resident of Mounds,
but located in East St. Louis about seven
years ago.
He had just recently received a
promotion to the passenger run.
Surviving Mr.
Crain are his widow and two sons,
Raymond and Edwin; his mother, Mrs. Margaret
Crain; sister, Rena, and two brothers
living in Mound City; Miss Ella
Crain, sister of Anna; Mrs. Percy C.
Bride, sister of Cairo; another sister
living in the East and William
Crain, brother of Centralia. The latter
also being an Illinois Central engineer.
Funeral services were held at East
St. Louis Friday afternoon and were largely
attended.
Manly
Palmer, of Mounds, is survived by his
wife, also his mother, Mrs. Charles
Wilson, a brother, Roy
Palmer, and a half-sister, Agnes
Wilson, all of Mounds, a brother, Ernest
Palmer, living at Pulaski, a brother,
Harvey
Palmer, of East St. Louis, a
half-brother, Charles
Wilson, who is in the Navy, and a
sister, Mrs. John
Croxton, of Mississippi.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon in the Baptist church at Mounds,
the Rev. Mr.
Croslin pastor officiating.
Interment was made at Beech Grove
Cemetery.
Mr.
Palmer was fireman on No. 16 when it was
wrecked at Mounds last August, resulting in
the death of eight persons and injury to
many more.
Mounds Lady
Passes Away
Mrs. Clara
Lewis, age 44 years, wife of Walker
Lewis, of Mounds, passed away last
Tuesday night at 10:15 at St. Mary’s
Infirmary at Cairo after an illness of ten
days.
Mrs.
Lewis was well known and well liked in
this community.
She is survived by her husband and
her mother, Mrs. M. L.
Koonce.
Her father preceded her to death
several years ago.
She also leaves one brother, Ivan
Koonce, sister, Mrs. W. C.
Thomas, and two nieces and a nephew, all
of Mounds.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at the home of her sister.
Interment was made in the Thistlewood
Cemetery.
G. A.
James directed the funeral.
The
Enterprise and community wish to share
their heartfelt sympathy with the bereaved
relatives in this their sad hour.
Mr. and Mrs.
A.
Dieslie and Mr. J. C.
Mench attended the funeral of Frank
Crain at East St. Louis Monday.
The Mounds
Independent,
Friday, 18 Jan 1929:
Betty Jean
Carney
Betty Jean
Carney, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Revis
Carney, of Ullin, Ill., was born June
22, 1928, and departed this life January 11,
1929, age 6 months and 20 days.
She leaves to mourn her going home
her mother, father, one grandmother Mrs.
Lola
Carney, of Ullin, Ill., grandfathers,
Mr. Sam
Carney, Ullin, Ill., Mr. H. F.
Crawford, Blytheville, Ark., seven
uncles and six aunts and a host of other
relatives and friends.
Little Betty Jean was the joy of the
household.
She was dearly loved by everyone who
knew her.
She always had a smile for everyone.
(Her marker in Ullin City Cemetery
reads:
Betty Jean
Carney Born June 22, 1928 Died Jan. 11,
1929 Baby.—Darrel
Dexter)
Death Claims
Mother
Mrs. F. J.
Bandy was called to Cape Girardeau, Mo.,
Thursday on account of the death of her
mother, Mrs. J. W.
Allan, which occurred at the home of
another daughter in Advance, Mo.
Interment will be made at Cape
Girardeau.
Mrs. Clara
Koonce Lewis
Mrs. Clara
Koonce
Lewis, daughter of L. H. and Marie L.
Koonce, was born near Golconda, Pope
County, Illinois, April 13th,
1884, and died at St. Mary’s Hospital,
Cairo, Illinois, January 15th,
1929, 10:45 p.m. at the age of 44 years, 9
months and 2 days.
She was married to Mr. Ralph C.
Lewis, in Mound City, Illinois, May 30th,
1902.
So for many years this congenial
couple have trod life’s pathway as one.
A special characteristic of Mrs.
Lewis was that she possessed a sunny
disposition, always having a smile for
everyone. And, too, she was very sympathetic
in her nature and ever shared with others
their sorrows and disappointments.
In 1912 she
professed faith in Christ and united with
the M. E. Church, South, of Wagoner,
Oklahoma, where her membership remained
until death.
Mrs.
Lewis will be greatly missed by her many
friends, both in the business and social
life.
Her illness occasioned by an
ulcerated stomach covered only a few brief
months and even her most intimate friends
knew nothing of it, for she preferred to
suffer in silence.
However, during his period, she had
the best of care in the home, in the
hospital and by the attending physicians.
She is
survived by her husband, Ralph C.
Lewis; her mother, Mrs. L. H.
Koonce; one sister, Mrs. W. C.
Thomas; one brother, Ivan E.
Koonce, all of this city; two nieces,
Mrs. Lee
Boyd,
of Chicago, and Miss Claudia
Thomas, of Mounds; Billy L.
Thomas, a nephew, together with other
relatives and a large circle of friends.
Funeral
services were held Thursday at 2:30 p.m. at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
Thomas, on North Oak Street, conducted
by Elder H. C.
Croslin, pastor of the First Baptist
Church.
The members of the choir of this
church having charge of the music with Mrs.
Golda
Tosh
at the piano.
Interment at the Thistlewood
Cemetery.
Mr. G. A.
James was the undertaker in charge.
Frank Crain
and Manley Palmer Killed in Train Wreck near
Belleville
Locomotive
on Seminole Jumps Tracks on Curve and Turns
Over. Both Men Badly Scalded
Mounds
people were deeply shocked Saturday morning
when they heard the sad news of the death of
Engineer Frank
Crain and Fireman Manley
Palmer in a wreck at Belleville the
night before.
The Seminole Limited, a fast
passenger train to the Gulf Coast, of the
Illinois Central, had left the St. Louis
station on time with
Crain and
Palmer in charge.
At 11:45 p.m. just west of the
Belleville station the locomotive was
derailed for some unknown reason and both
men were hurled from their engine as it over
turned and were badly scalded.
Fireman
Palmer was found dead and a crew from a
freight train on ___ side track.
Engineer
Crain died only a short time after being
taken to a Belleville hospital.
The accident occurred on a curve
about 200 feet beyond the Belleville
station.
Mail and baggage coaches left the
rails, but remained upright.
Passengers and baggagemen were badly
shaken, but none were seriously injured.
For years Mr.
Crain and his family made their home in
Mounds in the house on Blanche Avenue, now
owned by Ray
Scott.
About seven years ago he moved to
East St. Louis, but this was usually “one
end of his run” and he was here much of the
time.
His age was 58 and he had seen nearly
40 years of railroad service without an
accident.
He leaves his wife, two sons, Raymond
and Edwin; his aged mother, Mrs. Margaret
Crain; four sisters, Miss Rena, of Mound
City, Mrs. P. G.
Bride, of Cairo, Miss Ella, of Anna, and
Mrs. Alice
Dermody, of Washington, D.C.; three
brothers, William
Crain, of Centralia, Ed and Jonathon,
(Bud) of Mound City.
Funeral services for Mr.
Crain were held in East St. Louis Monday
afternoon and he was buried in an East St.
Louis cemetery.
Manley Pleas
Palmer, son of Pleas and Christyann
Palmer, was born in Mounds, Illinois,
Oct. 15, 1899.
He was 29 years, 2 months and 16 days
old.
He was married to Miss Winifred
Penrod, of Anna, Illinois, June 2nd,
1927 and was a devoted husband.
The brief months of wedded life have
been happy ones indeed.
He made profession of faith in Christ
and united with the Congregational Church of
this city early in life.
At the time of his death, Mr.
Palmer, had been an employee of the
Illinois Central Company for about ten
years; for six years of that time he had
served as fireman and at the time of the
accident he was firing for Mr. Frank
Crain his favorite engineer, who also
lost his wife at this time.
He leaves, besides his companion, his
mother, Mrs.
Wilson, three brothers, Earnest, of
Pulaski, Harvey, of East St. Louis, Roy, of
Mounds; one sister, Mrs. G. S.
Croxton, of Fayette, Miss.; one
half-brother, Charles
Wilson, of the U. S. Navy; one
half-sister, Miss Mary Agnes
Wilson, of Mounds, many other relatives
and a host of friends.
Funeral services were held at the
First Baptist Church at 2:00 o’clock Sunday
afternoon with the Rev. H. C.
Croslin in the pulpit, J. C.
Mench assisting.
The choir was composed of singers
from the Methodist, Congregational and
Baptist churches.
Interment was made in Beech Grove
Cemetery.
(Frank
Crain, 23, locomotive fireman, son of
Jonathon
Crain and Maggie
Vonida, married Ida B.
Jones, 20, born in New Market, Tenn.,
daughter of Thomas
Jones and Catherine
Ellis, on 31 Dec 1896, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
Pursey
G.
Bride, 22, born in Pulaski, Ill., son of
H. A.
Bride and Hannah
Henry, married Mary E.
Crain, 25, born in Beechwood, Ill.,
daughter of Johnathon
Crain and Margaret
Vonida, on 21 Jan 1896, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
John Joseph
Dermody, 30, born in Clay City, Ill.,
railroad telegrapher, son of James
Dermody and Mary
Madden, married Alice Margaret
Crain, 18, born in Beechwood, Ill.,
daughter of John
Crain and Margaret
Vonida, on 23 May 1900, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
Pleas
Palmer, Jr., married Christiana
Clanton on 26 Aug 1885, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
HARRSIBURG—Ernest
Kreitgenmeier, 20, was killed and his
brother, Edgar, 15, was believed fatally
injured when the wholesale grocery truck
they were riding struck a Louisville and
Nashville passenger train near Eldorado
yesterday.
Both are from Evansville, Ind.
The truck hit the rear coach of the
train.
OLNEY—The
funeral of Mrs. Elmira
Riggs, 107 years old, one of the oldest
residents of the United States, was held
Tuesday afternoon at Mount Gilead Christian
Church.
Burial was at Wachtel Cemetery in
Denver Township.
She died Friday.
She leaves a son, 70 years old, a
daughter, 25 grandchildren, and 100
great-grandchildren.
Card of
Thanks
We wish to
thank our dear friends and neighbors who
were so good to help and comfort us during
the sickness and death of our little Betty
Jean.
Mr. and Mrs.
Revis
Carney, parents
Mr. and Mrs.
S. E.
Carney, grandparent
Card of
Thanks
We desire to
express our sincere appreciation of the many
kindnesses shown us following the death of
Manley
Palmer.
We wish especially to thank Rev. H.
C.
Croslin, the choir, those who sent
floral offerings, those who offered cars and
Mr. G. A.
James.
Mrs. Manley
Palmer and relatives
Mrs. Charles
Wilson and family
Mr. and Mrs.
Hugh
Caudle and daughter, LaVerne, and Homer
Mathis, of Mounds, attended the funeral
of Betty Jean
Carney Saturday.
(Ullin)
The Mounds
Independent,
Friday, 25 Jan 1929:
Winter
Tornado Leaves Death Toll of Thirteen
Sweeps
across Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and
Kentucky
A tornado
swept over the Middle West Friday, January
18, leaving in its path death and
destruction in many states.
Near Cape
Girardeau, Mo., two children, Marjorie
Hargraves, 4, and Buddy
Hargraves, 5, met death in the storm.
Mrs.
Thompson, of Benton, Mo., and Mrs.
Albert
Stoodt, of Mansfield, Mo., were also
killed.
Near Maunie,
Ill., a school house was demolished and two
school girls, Bernice
Tucker, 10, and Dorothy
Hanley, 12, were killed.
A large number were reported injured
at Maunie, among them two teachers and 25
students.
Red Cross aid was dispatched from St.
Louis headquarters.
Mrs. Amos
Newman was also reported killed at
Maunie.
Texas City,
a small town south of Carmi, Ill., was at
first reported to be wiped off the map.
Later reports were to the effect that
two persons were injured and a number of
houses blown down.
At
Goreville, Ill., Herman
Martin was caught under a timber from
the barn on his father’s farm where he had
rushed for refuge and was killed almost
instantly.
Fort Branch,
Ind., reported Mrs. Mary
Nolan dead and her husband injured.
In Kentucky
four were killed.
A farmer, O. G.
Klosse, of near Georgetown, was crushed
to death when a barn collapsed and three
other men were swept in to the Ohio River.
At Akron,
Ohio, the wind uprooted trees and shattered
store window.
Had the
tornado struck a town of any size, the death
list would doubtless have been appalling.
The wind at time reached a velocity
of 75 miles an hour.
Damage was confined mainly to rural
sections and small towns.
Reports indicate that the financial
loss will mound high into the thousands.
Prominent
Grand Chain Man Dies Monday
James S.
Adams, for years a hotel keeper in Grand
Chain, died Monday evening at 6:15 o’clock
at the home of his sister-in-law, Mrs.
Samuel
Price.
His age was 55 years.
Another sister-in-law, Mrs. James E.
Woelfle, of Cairo.
He is also survived by two sisters.
The body was
taken to Chester Wednesday morning for
interment.
George P.
Hartwell was the undertaker in charge.
The Pulaski
Enterprise,
Friday, 1 Feb 1929:
Mrs.
Florence Yoder Dies in Colorado
Mrs. Elmer
Lackey received a message Friday
announcing the death of her mother, Mrs.
Florence
Yoder, which occurred at her home in
Pueblo, Colorado.
Mrs.
Yoder was interred in the Pueblo
Cemetery, her daughter, Mrs.
Lackey, being unable to attend the
funeral owing to illness in her home.
Mrs.
Yoder was a former resident of Cairo,
having resided there several years ago and
will be remembered as Mrs. Florence
Proffer.
“Uncle Ben”
Guy Dies at Cairo
N. B.
Guy,
age 77 years, known to his friends as “Uncle
Ben,” died Thursday morning at 4:30 o’clock
at his home in Cairo.
Mr.
Guy
is survived by three sons, Mark
Guy,
of Cairo, and Charles and Artlet
Guy,
of Mounds.
His wife, Mary
Guy,
preceded him in death ten days ago.
Funeral
services were held this morning in the
Eastwood Cemetery near Ullin, Rev. G. P.
Comer officiating.
Interment was made in the Eastwood
Cemetery.
E. A.
Burke directed the funeral.
(This may be
the same person as Benjamin M.
Guy,
who married Mrs. Mary D.
O’Hare on 14 Oct 1877, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
His marker in Eastwood Cemetery near
Ullin reads:
N. Benjamin
Guy
1851-1929 Mary Della
Guy
1854-1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mounds
Infant Passed Away
Lester
Eugene
Wilson, eight-month-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Claude
Wilson, of Mounds, died at the home of
his parents, Monday afternoon.
He is survived by his parents and a
brother, Charles Louis.
He also leaves his grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles
Cox,
of Olive Branch, and Mrs. and Mrs. Louis
Wilson, of Mounds.
Funeral
services were held Wednesday afternoon at 2
o’clock in the Pentecostal Church at Olive
Branch, Rev. Fred
Harp
of Mounds officiating.
Interment was made in the Olive
Branch cemetery.
G. A.
James directed the funeral.
(His marker
in Olive Branch Cemetery next to one for
Claude and Goldie Mae
Wilson reads:
Lester Eugene
Wilson Born May 4, 1928 Died Jan. 28,
1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
OBITUARY
Meryl Tarr
Talley, age 16 years, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W.O.
Talley, of Grand Chain.
Born March 25, 1913.
Died January 27th, 1929 at
eight o’clock p.m. after a week of illness,
not having recovered from an attack in
influenza and bronchial inflection
contracted last month.
Meryl will
be remembered by school friends and others
for the friendly smile and cheery greetings
she was always ready to give.
She was a regular attendant at the
Christian Bible School since babyhood, a
member of Mrs. Charles
Coovert’s class of young ladies.
She is
survived by the parents, four sisters, Mrs.
J. H.
Ablett, the Misses Louise and Ella
Talley, of Grand Chain, Mrs. Clyde
Turner, of East Alton, Illinois, and a
brother, Harry
Talley, of Norfork, Nebraska.
Funeral
services were conducted by Evangelist Robert
Smith at the Christian Church Tuesday
afternoon, burial at Ohio Chapel.
Pallbearers were six classmates, the
Misses Ruby
Abblett, Grace
Price, Lois
Hise,
Ruth
Powel, Lucy
Barber, Ileen
Slinkard.
The flower girls were Ruth
Hutchinson, Irma
Davis, Catherine
Carr,
Oda
Hays and Lorene
Crippen.
(Her marker
in Ohio Chapel Cemetery near Grand Chain
next to one for William O. and Stella E.
Talley reads:
Meryl
Talley 1913-1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs.
Tom
Meisenheimer, of Orient, Ohio, were
called here (Dongola) Saturday on account of
the death of the latter’s mother, Mrs. Josie
Hunter.
The Mounds
Independent,
Friday, 1 Feb 1929:
Aged Couple
Die Ten Days Apart
N. B.
Guy,
a former resident of Mounds, died Thursday,
January 31, at the home of his son, Mark
Guy,
of Cairo.
Just ten days preceding, his wife,
Mrs. Mary
Guy,
passed to the great beyond.
Mr.
Guy,
who was 77 years old, is survived by three
sons, Charles and Arlett
Guy,
of Mounds, and Mark
Guy,
of Cairo.
Funeral
services will be held this morning at 11
o’clock in the Eastwood Church near Ullin
with interment to be made in Eastwood
Cemetery by the side of his aged companion.
Myrtle Tarr
Talley of Grand Chain Dead
Myrle Tarr
Talley, sixteen-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. O.
Talley, of Grand Chain, died Sunday
night at 8 o’clock following a week’s
illness resulting from flu and bronchitis.
She is survived by her parents, four
sisters, Mrs. J. H.
Ablett, Misses Louise and Ella
Talley, of Grand Chain, and Mrs. Clyde
Turner, of East Alton, also a brother,
Harry
Talley, of Norfolk, Neb.
Funeral
services were held at the Christian church
of Grand Chain Tuesday afternoon conducted
by Evangelist Robert
Smith.
Interment was made in Ohio Chapel
cemetery.
HURST—Mrs.
John
Cuttrell and her twin babies were buried
at one funeral held at Hurst last Monday.
Interment was at Royalton.
Mrs.
Cuttrell was taken to the hospital at
Murphysboro for treatment for pneumonia.
The twins were born in the hospital
and died soon afterward.
She is survived by her husband and
six children.
The funeral
of Mrs. John
George, of Johnston City, was held at
the Baptist church Saturday, January 26.
Interment at the Ullin Cemetery.
The Mounds
Independent,
Friday, 8 Feb 1929:
CARBONDALE—The Jackson County grand jury in
its report, ignored the case of Victor A.
Hundley, who was held in connection with
the slaying of his father and stepmother.
Charges against
Hundley were dismissed on the
recommendation of State’s Attorney
Lewis at a preliminary hearing.
The murder of the wealthy former
mayor and his wife is still unsolved and
Sheriff
Flanigan and
Lewis declare they have exhausted all
leads and clues for a possible solution of
the killings.
CARMI—Francis
Diller, nine-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles
Diller, residing in east Carmi, was
drowned in the backwater of the Little
Wabash River yesterday morning.
She was skating with several children
when the ice broke and the body was
undertaker more than one half an hour before
it was recovered.
Mr. and Mrs.
A. S.
Dale,
Mr. and Mrs. W. L.
Rutter, Mrs. E.
Cook,
M. G.
Hart,
and A.
Baker attended the funeral of Mr. R.
Dale
at Dongola Friday.
(Ullin)
(The death notice in the
Jonesboro Gazette for James R.
Dale,
a Civil War veteran, 84,
states he died 31 Jan 1929, in Anna City
Hospital and was buried in I. O. O. F.
Cemetery at Dongola.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski
Enterprise,
Friday, 15 Feb 1929:
___ Carr of
Dam 53 Passes Away Friday
Jessie
Bernice
Carr
and her ___ only a few hours, passed away
___ afternoon at their home at Dam 53
Saturday morning.
The remains were to have been shipped
to ___ Ky., where funeral services will be
held and interment made in ____.
Villa Ridge
Resident Dies Wednesday
D. W.
Ing,
age 75 years, a resident of Villa Ridge, for
many years, died at his home Wednesday
afternoon at 4 o’clock following a lingering
illness.
He is
survived by his widow, two daughters, Mrs.
Charles
Fearnside and Mrs. John
Wilkinson, of Villa Ridge, a son, Alfred
Ing,
of Pulaski, and a brother, G. M.
Ing,
of Chicago.
Funeral
services were held this afternoon at 2
o’clock at the Methodist church at Villa
Ridge and interment was to be made in the
Villa Ridge cemetery.
(C. E.
Fernside, 31, of Villa Ridge, married
Lola
Ing, 17, of Villa Ridge, on 4 Jan 1899,
in Pulaski Co., Ill.
His
marker in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge
reads:
Dempsey
Ing
1854-1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
Grand Chain
Man Is Seriously Ill
Mr. Fritz
Reichert, of Grand Chain, was removed to
St. Mary’s Infirmary several days ago where
he is in a serious condition.
He is a brother of Mrs. E. L.
Merchant, of this city.
(He seems to
have survived, as a marker in St.
Catherine’s Cemetery at Grand Chain reads:
J. F. “Fritz”
Reichert 1887-1953.—Darrel
Dexter)
Former Mound
City Girl Passes Away at Home in Memphis
Word has
been received by friends in Mound City of
the death of Mrs. Crawford
Erwin, of Memphis, Tenn.
Her death occurred at two o’clock
Wednesday morning following an illness of
several months’ duration.
Mrs.
Erwin, who before her marriage was Miss
Sudie
Cherry, of this city, leaves many
friends in this community to mourn her
passing.
Mrs.
Erwin was reared in Mound City, leaving
here with her parents, a number of years ago
for Millington, Tenn., where they resided
for several years.
Later she was united in marriage to
Crawford
Erwin, of Memphis, Tenn., and they have
resided in Memphis since her marriage.
She is
survived by her husband, five children, one
an infant of six weeks, three sisters, Mrs.
Mary Lou
Caldwell, of 37th street,
Cairo, Mrs. Nina
Slaughter, of Tenth Street, Cairo, and
Mrs. Joe
Slaughter, of Mounds.
Also two brothers, Albert
Cherry, whose place of residence is not
known, and Charles
Cherry, of Mounds.
She was also a sister of the late
Thomas
Cherry of Carbondale.
Mrs. Nina
Slaughter, of Cairo, was at the bedside
of her sister when the end came.
Mrs.
Erwin was an aunt of James
Slaughter, who formerly resided in Mound
City.
Funeral
services were held Thursday afternoon at 3
o’clock from the residence with interment in
the cemetery there.
The Mounds
Independent,
Friday, 15 Feb 1929:
Civil War
Veteran Dies near Pulaski
Albert
Brewster, known as “Uncle Ab,” passed
away at his farm home near Pulaski and
adjoining Liberty Church grounds on
Thursday, February 14, at the age of 79
years.
Mr.
Brewster was one of the few surviving
veterans of the Civil War.
Since the death of his wife a number
of years ago, he has lived alone.
Funeral
services will be held Saturday morning at 11
o’clock at Liberty Church.
Interment will be made in Liberty
Cemetery with the Odd Fellows Lodge in
charge.
(His death
certificate states that Albert Ross
Brewster was born 3 Nov 1849 in
Illinois, and died 16 Feb 1929, at Pulaski,
Pulaski Co., Ill., husband of Annie
Brewster.
Albert D.
Brewster married Annie E.
Hunter on 22 Feb 1884, in McClean Co.,
Ill.
Allen
Bruster, 18, of Sandy, Scott Co., Ill.,
born in Illinois, 5’9”, dark hair, gray
eyes, dark complexion, enlisted as a private
ibn Co. K, 9th Illinois Cavalry
on 25 Feb 1865, in Jacksonville, Ill., and
was mustered out 31 Oct 1865, at Selma, Ala.
He filed for a pension on 6 Aug 1890.
His marker in Liberty Cemetery reads:
Albert R.
Brewster Co. K 9th Ill.
Cav.—Darrel
Dexter)
Well Known
Villa Ridge Man Dead
D. W.
Ing,
residing near Villa Ridge, died Wednesday
February 13, after a lingering illness.
He had reached the age of 75 years.
Surviving
him are his widow, two daughters, Mrs.
Charles E.
Fearnside and Mrs. John
Wilkinson, of Villa Ridge, a son, Alfred
Ing,
of Pulaski, and a brother, G. M.
Ing,
of Chicago.
Funeral
services will be held this afternoon at 2
o’clock at the Methodist Church of Villa
Ridge.
Interment will be made in Villa Ridge
cemetery with
Hartwell and Sons, directing the
funeral.
Mrs. Emma
Stull Simons Dies Thursday
Mrs. Emma
Simons, wife of Homer
Simons, of Cairo, died at the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Stull, also of Cairo, early Thursday
morning at the age of 20 years.
Mrs.
Simons, with her parents, lived in
Mounds for a number of years.
She was a granddaughter of the late
Mrs. Emma
Britt and a niece of Mrs. Robert
Anglin and Mark
Britt.
She is
survived by her husband, a two-year-old son,
Homer Eugene, her parents, four sisters, who
lived in St. Louis and a brother, Raymond,
of Cairo.
Funeral
services will be held Saturday afternoon at
2 o’clock at the home in Cairo with
interment in one of the Mounds cemeteries.
Pulaski
County Farmer Called by Death
William H.
Basse, who was born in 1863 and resided
near Olmstead during the 66 years of his
life, died at his home Sunday evening at
5:15 o’clock after a lingering illness of
several months.
In 1893, he
was married to Miss Bertha
Studer, who survives him.
He leaves, besides his widow, eight
children, five sons and three daughters.
The sons are William H.
Basse, Jr., Ralph, Henry, Alvin and
Melvin, the daughters are Mrs. Don C.
Gore,
Grace and Clara
Basse.
Funeral
services were held Tuesday afternoon in
Center Methodist Church, of which Mr.
Basse was a devout member.
Interment was made in Concord
Cemetery with Undertaker G. A.
James in charge.
(William H.
Basse married Bertha H.
Studer on 23 Jul 1893, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
His marker in Concord Cemetery near
Olmsted reads:
William H.
Basse Born July 24, 1863 Died Feb. 10,
1929.
Bertha
Basse his wife
Born March 18, 1872 Died July 11,
1962.—Darrel
Dexter)
BELLEVILLE—Because she feared a spanking,
four-year-old Victorine
Bertellsman is dead.
The girl, a daughter of Philip
Bertellsman of near Belleville, died
from burns she suffered at home.
She had upset a jug of kerosene on
her dress and, fearing she should be
spanked, attempted to dry the dress before
an open fire.
It was ignited.
The Mounds
Independent,
Friday, 22 Feb 1929:
F. Mahoney
Dies after Long Illness
Mr. Florence
Mahoney, son of T. C.
Mahoney, well known resident of the
rural district of Mounds, died Thursday,
Feb. 21, 1929.
Mr.
Mahoney was 62 years of age and for
several years has been in failing health, so
that his death was not unexpected.
He was born
in Mound City Nov. 18, 1867.
He leaves a
sister, Mrs. Kate
Stout, of Cairo, two brothers, James, of
Mounds, and John, of Cleveland, Ohio, and a
number of other relatives.
Funeral
services will be held at the Methodist
Church in Mounds at 2 o’clock Saturday
afternoon with Rev. H. B.
Shoaff officiating.
Interment will be made in the Mounds
cemetery.
G. A.
James is the undertaker in charge.
(Claude
Stout, 22, of Valley Recluse, son of
Henry
Stout, married Katie
Mahoney, 23, of Valley Recluse, daughter
of T. C.
Mahoney, on 24 Nov 1897, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
John
Mahoney, 28, son of Timothy
Mahoney, married Corda
Welton, 23, daughter of Squire
Welton, on 6 Feb 1898, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Card of
Thanks
We desire to
thank our many friends and neighbors for
their help and kindness during the illness
and after the death of our beloved husband
and father.
We especially thank the choir, the
pastors, Rev.
Shoaff and Rev.
Peppersack, for their consoling words,
Mrs. C. E.
Endicott for her constant help, those
who gave the use of their cars and those who
sent the beautiful floral offerings.
Mrs. Susan
Ing
Mrs. C. E.
Fearnside
Mrs. J F.
Wilkinson
A.J.
Ing
The Mounds
Independent,
Friday, 1 Mar 1929:
Charles
Luther Volner
Charles
Luther
Volner passed away Saturday, February
23, at 10:45 a.m. at his home in the
Scruggs-Chapman Addition.
His age was 26 years, 5 months and 28
days.
Interment was made Sunday, February
25, in Thistlewood Cemetery with Undertaker
G. A.
James in charge.
Mrs. Robert
Stewart Dies at Home of Son
Nancy Ann
Stewart, widow of the late Robert
Stewart, of Villa Ridge, died Tuesday,
February 26, 1929, at the home of her son,
John
Stewart, of this city.
Mrs.
Stewart suffered a stroke of paralysis a
week ago and a second one before her death.
She was born March 3, 1859, and had
reached the age of 69 years, 11 months and
23 days.
She was the daughter of David and
Martha
Meisenheimer
Hoffner.
Surviving
her are seven children—four sons, C. E. and
Harry
Stewart, of East St. Louis, Clyde, of
Anna, and John, of this city; three
daughters, Mrs. Myrtle
Hester, of St. Louis, Mrs. F. D.
Kennedy, of Carbondale, and Mrs. Henry
Nordman, of Mounds.
Funeral
services were held Wednesday afternoon at 2
o’clock at the Methodist church with H. B.
Shoaff officiating.
Interment was made in the Villa Ridge
Cemetery.
G. A.
James was the undertaker in charge.
(Robert C.
Stewart, 22, barber, born in New Jersey,
son of Henry
Stewart and Susan
Schrood, married Nancy A.
Hoffner, 23, born in Union Co., Ill.,
daughter of David S.
Hoffner and Martha E.
Meisenheimer, on 11 May 1882, in Union
Co., Ill.
David S.
Hofner married Martha E.
Meisenheimer on 9 Sep 1857, in Union
Co., Ill.
Frank
Kennedy, 19, born in Pulaski, Ill., son
of W. R.
Kennedy and Armazin
Gardy, married Laura A.
Stewart, 17, born in Dongola, daughter
of R. C.
Stewart and Annie
Hoffner, on 19 May 1901, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Card of
Thanks
We want to
tender our sincere thanks to our many
friends for their sympathy and kindness at
the death of our dear brother and uncle,
Florence
Mahoney, and especially to the Rev. Mr.
Shoaff, and the choir of the M. E.
Church of Mounds and for the beautiful
floral offerings.
The
Relatives
Kinnon
Scott, two months old, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Kenneth
Scott, (col.) who live on the
Hawkins farm, died Monday, Feb. 25.
(His death certificate states that
Kinnon
Scott, Jr., was born 19 Dec 1928 and
died 25 Feb 1929, in Pulaski, Ill., the son
of Kinnon
Scott, born in Tennessee, and Elizabeth
Lane,
born in Illinois.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Guy
Barker
Mrs. Lessie
Barker, colored, died at her home on
North Blanche on Monday, February 25, at
11:30 o’clock at the age of 35 years.
Surviving her are her husband, Guy
Barker, and a son about 12 years of age.
Funeral
service will be held today with interment in
Spencer Heights Cemetery.
Undertaker G. A.
James is in charge.
The Mounds
Independent,
Friday, 8 Mar 1929:
Old Resident
of Pulaski County Passes to Beyond
Maurice
Clancy died Saturday, March 2, at the
home of his daughter in Ullin at the age of
75 years, 4 months and 7 days.
He was born at Irving, Franklin
County, Mass., November 25, 1853, and was
the son of William and Margaret
Clancy.
He came to Villa Ridge in early
manhood.
On June 11,
1882, he was married to Miss Melissa
Galbraith, of Villa Ridge.
He is survived by his widow, one
daughter, Mrs. George
Wadkins, of Ullin, and two sons, G. W.
and Harry
Clancy, of Villa Ridge, four children
having preceded him in death.
He also leaves fourteen
grandchildren, two brothers, W. P.
Clancy, of Bethlehem, Pa., and Thomas
Clancy, of Villa Ridge, and one sister,
Mrs. W. B.
Evans, of Greenfield, Mass.
Funeral
services were held Monday, March 4, at the
Congregational Church in Villa Ridge.
Rev. S. A.
Morgan, pastor of the Ullin M. E. Church
preached the sermon.
Interment was made in the Villa Ridge
cemetery.
(Maruce
Clancy married Melissa
Galbreth on 11 Jun 1882, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
His marker in Cairo City Cemetery at
Villa Ridge reads:
Maurice
Clancy 1853-1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
Thomas
Littleton Dies at His Home near Ullin
Thomas
Littleton, was born in North Carolina
Oct. 21, 1840, and died at Ullin, Ill.,
March 4, 1929.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
morning at 11 o’clock in the Methodist
church of Ullin, Rev. S. A. Morgan
officiating.
Hartwell and Son of Mounds directed the
funeral.
Mr.
Littleton is survived his widow, four
daughters, Mrs. Mary
Stevens, Mrs. J. R.
Richerson and Mrs. C. F.
Sergant, all of St. Louis, and Mrs. Ed
Dexter, of Ullin; also a stepdaughter,
Mrs. Joe
Boger, of Mounds, and three sons, Jake
Littleton, of Dongola, John, of
Springfield, Ohio, and Robert, of Pendleton,
Ind.; one sister, besides other relatives.
Uncle Tom,
as he was familiarly called, has long been a
resident of Alexander and Pulaski counties
and had many friends.
He was converted and joined the
Methodist Church in the tent meeting held by
Rev. Charles
Atchison in 1902.
He attended church services until his
hearing became so bad that he could not
understand.
He had his faults and shortcomings,
but he never denied his faith in God and
during his last illness he said that he was
ready to go.
He said he had not always lived just
as he ought to have lived, but Jesus was his
savior and He was going to take him home.
“Uncle Tom” will be missed from the
little house by the side of the road, for he
was always glad to greet his friends and
neighbors as they passed.
All of his children were home for his
funeral.—Contributed
(Thomas M.
Littleton, 19, born in Indiana, 5’9”,
black hair, blue eyes, fair complexion, of
Macon Co., Ill., enlisted 28 Jul 1862, in
Cerro Gordo, Ill., as a private in Co. A,
116th Illinois Infantry, promoted
to full musician, and was mustered out 7 Jun
1865, in Washington, D.C.—Darrel
Dexter)
JOHNSTON
CITY—William W.
Eagleson, 66, of Carbondale, for more
than 40 years a railroad engineer, died
Thursday in the Illinois Central Hospital in
Chicago after an illness of two years.
Mr.
Eagleson was engineer on the first C. &
E. I. passenger train that went through this
city 35 years ago.
Mr. and Mrs.
Ed
Buchanan and daughter Louise, of Mounds,
attended the funeral of Mr. Tom
Littleton here (Ullin) Tuesday.
The Mounds
Independent,
Friday, 15 Mar 1929:
Infant Dies
Betty Ruth
Ryan,
infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Ryan,
died early this morning and will be buried
this afternoon.
Two other
children in the family are ill.
Prominent
Mound City Man Killed in Auto Accident
Fire Chief
W. J. Perks Died When Car Goes Over
Embankment
William J.
Perks, fire chief and garage owner of
Mound City, was fatally injured at about
4:30 Sunday morning, March 10, when his
Gardner roadster collided with a Hudson car
and turned over a 15-foot embankment just
south of
Weil’s
corner between here and Mound City on State
Highway No. 2.
With him in the car were Leslie
Schuler and Clifford
Biggs, also of Mound City.
Mr.
Perks had shortly before returned from
Cairo where he had assisted in fighting a
disastrous fire in which two small children
were burned to death.
Soon after retiring he received a
call from Leslie
Schuler stating that the
Schuler car was off the road near
Dongola, but that the wrecking car would not
be needed.
Accompanied
by
Schuler and
Biggs he started north and when about
halfway between Mound City and Mounds the
collision occurred.
The left front wheel and a portion of
the left fender were torn from Mr.
Perks’ car.
The motion
of the uninjured right front wheel caused
the car to swerve to the left and it darted
across the concrete and turned somersault
over the embankment at the left.
Mr.
Perks was pinned behind the wheel and
the other occupants fell on him.
The
Webb
car, containing besides the driver, his
wife, and another couple, all colored, was
toppled and the party assisted Mr.
Schuler and Mr.
Biggs out of the roadster, but they
discovered to their horror that Mr.
Perks had been killed.
The two
other men were badly bruised but suffered no
broken bones.
Webb
and his party reported to Sheriff
Gleason in Mound City.
Leaving their car, which also had a
wheel torn off, they returned to St. Louis
last evening.
Dr. O. T.
Hudson, coroner, held an inquest Sunday
morning, the jury returned a verdict that
death resulted from injuries due to an
automobile accident.
Mr.
Perks who was a World War veteran, is
survived by his wife, formerly Caroline
Ritter, of Richmond Hill, N.Y., one son,
Oran F., age seven, his mother, Mrs. L. A.
Rupp,
of Centralia, one brother, Thomas J.
Perks, an aunt, Mrs. Thomas
Higgins, of Mound City, who reared him,
two cousins, Harry
Perks and Mrs. Clara
Bonner, both of Mound City.
Funeral
services were held Wednesday afternoon at
the home of Mrs.
Higgins, with interment in St. Mary’s
Cemetery.
The Pulaski
Enterprise,
Friday, 15 Mar 1929:
Ullin Infant
Passed Away at His Home
Marcus Henry
Ervin, age one year, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Floyd
Ervin, of Ullin, Illinois, passed away
at the home of his parents, Friday night at
10 o’clock.
Besides his
parents the infant is survived by two
sisters, Helen and Louise.
Another
sister, Cora Irene, preceded him in death
about three years ago.
He also leaves his grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. H.
Ervin, of Pulaski, and Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Potter, of New York, and his
great-grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Dillow, of Anna, Illinois.
Funeral
services for the little one were held at the
Baptist Church of Ullin Sunday afternoon.
The Rev.
Holloman, pastor of the Christian Church
of Pulaski officiating.
Interment was made in the Ullin
cemetery. W. H.
Aldred directed the funeral.
(Markes
Floyd
Ervin, son of William Henry
Ervin and Cora Lavetia
Smith, married Margaret Isabell
Lookinbee, daughter of Andrew Jackson
Lookinbee and Irene
Dillow, on 8 Jun 1923, in Washington
Co., Ill.
Irene
Dillow, daughter of Walter
Dillow and Anna Jerusha
Dillow, married Andrew Jackson
Lookinbee, son of David
Lookinbee and Margaret
Garrigas, on 10 Aug 1905, in Union Co.,
Ill.
His marker in Ullin Cemetery reads:
Markes Henry
Ervin Born Nov. 23, 1927 Died March 8,
1929.
Cora Irene
Ervin Born Aug. 21, 1923 Died Oct. 20,
1925.
Daughter and Son of Mr. and Mrs.
Floyd
Ervin.—Darrel
Dexter)
W. J. Perks
Killed in Auto Accident Sunday Morning
William J.
Perks, one of Mound City’s most popular
businessmen was instantly killed Sunday
morning at 4:30 o’clock when his roadster
left the concrete road about a hundred yards
north of
Weil’s
corner where the Mound City road makes the
turn going to Mounds.
Mr.
Perks was accompanied by Leslie
Schuler and Clifford
Biggs, both of Mound City, who escaped
with minor injuries.
His car was sideswiped by a Hudson
sedan that was driven by a negro man, who
with his wife and another negro and his wife
were
en route to Cairo to visit relatives.
The
Perks car plunged down the embankment
about fifteen feet pinning Mr.
Perks beneath the car and throwing the
other occupants of the car over him.
Only the quick action of the negroes
in ___ng the curtains from the
Perks ___
Biggs and
Schuler would have met the same fate as
Mr.
Perks from escaping fumes.
Mr.
Perks, who was known to his friends in
this community as ____ had just returned
from Cairo where he had aided the Cairo
fireman in fighting the
Thomas fire, wet and exhausted.
Soon after he retired, he received a
call from Leslie
Schuler to come with the wrecker and
bring in the
Schuler car, which had gone off the road
near Dongola.
It is stated that the
Schuler car was not in a position that
the services of the
Perks wrecking car was needed, but Mr.
Perks accompanied by Mr.
Schuler and Mr.
Biggs started out immediately in Mr.
Perks’ Gardner roadster, not being able
to get the wrecker started.
Mrs.
Perks __ted to prevent her husband from
going in his exhausted condition, but ___,
as he was a man who was to be depended upon
to return immediately to a call for help.
During the time of the high water,
when the city of Mound City was in danger
from the floods, he was quick to respond to
the aid of the ___ur Railroad Co., in the
valiant ___ which held our levees and by
this helpfulness made many friends of the
officials and employees.
He was chief
of the Mound City Fire Department and during
the time he served in this capacity, he had
_ed the city in many ways with ___ use to
the city.
For instance, at the time of the deep
snows this ___ the country has suffered the
disaster, Mr.
Perks has been known to clean the
streets with his wrecker ___ at the time,
clearing the ____.
When the concreting of Main Street
was in progress, in this city, he aided in
many ways free gratis to ___.
He will be greatly missed by the
entire community.
He was a man of genial disposition,
quickly making friends wherever he went.
Immediately
after the fatal accident, he was rushed to
Mound City by a passing motorist and Dr.
Wesenberg was called by Mrs.
Perks, rushed quickly to the scene of
the accident.
He was removed at once to his home
___ pulmotor was used in the hope of
resuscitating him, but without avail.
It was at first thought that he might
___ stunned and the pressure of the steering
wheel had cut off his ___ that he had been
overcome ___ escaping gas fumes.
The only other injury was a scar
running from the point of the chin to a
point near the left ear.
Coroner
Hudson of ___ held an inquest Sunday
afternoon and the jury returned a verdict of
death by injury due to an automobile
accident.
Perks
was actively identified in any undertaking
that would result in improvement of his city
and the community.
He was always ready to respond to a
call for help in firefighting in Mounds and
Cairo and was ___n the job when needed in
his ___.
He was a member of the Fire Chiefs’
Association and his advocacy of all
progress___ government which would reduce
__ards or devise new ways to ____n.
Perks
was 38 years of age.
He was born in Ripley, Tenn., and
came to Mound City while still a child.
His _____, now Mrs. I. A.
Rupp,
of Centralia.
Mr.
Perks was reared in Mound City by his
aunt, Mrs. Thomas
Higgins through the grade schools and
finished at Christian College of St. Louis.
When a young man, he entered the
employ of
Perks and
Higgins real estate, one of the oldest
and most prominently known firms in Southern
Illinois.
In 1917 he enlisted in the aviation
corps of the United States Army and was sent
to Jefferson Barracks.
From there he was sent to Kelly Field
and other southern training camps and went
over sea in 1918, being stationed at
Bordeaux.
He returned to the States and Mound
City in 1919 and entered the garage
business.
The
Perks wrecking car was a familiar sight
on the country roads throughout Pulaski
County and the upper part of Alexander
County.
Mr.
Perks was also a splendid photographer,
always being at the scene of accidents
securing pictures of the accidents.
His pictures were the first to make
their appearance in the tragic wreck of the
Illinois Central trains near Mounds last
August, where eight lives were lost.
On February
21, 1920, Mr.
Perks was united in marriage to Miss
Caroline J.
Ritter, of Richmond Hill, N.Y. and to
this union one son, Oran Frederick was born.
He is now seven years of age.
Mr.
Perks was appointed chief of Mound
City’s Fire Department in 1921 and has
served since that time with distinction and
credit.
He was a member of St. Mary’s
Catholic Church of this city.
He leaves to mourn his untimely
death, his widow and son, his mother, Mrs.
L. A.
Rupp,
of Centralia; one brother, Thomas
Perks, postmaster of Mound City; an
aunt, Mrs. Nannie
Higgins, of Mound City; two cousins,
Mrs. Clara
Bonner and Harry
Perks, also of Mound City, besides a
host of more distant relatives and friends
who are saddened by his death.
Funeral
services were held Wednesday afternoon at
the residence of his aunt, Mrs.
Higgins, and were conducted by Rev.
Father
Traynor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church of
Mound City.
Interment was made in St. Mary’s
Catholic Cemetery of Mounds.
He was laid to rest with full
military honors given by the Winifred
Fairfax Warder Post of Cairo of which he was
a member.
The pallbearers were chosen from the
members of the Cairo Fire Department and
were as follows:
Fred
Farnbaker, Homer
Watts, Steve
O’Loughlin, Eddie
O’Loughlin, Louis
Zanone, and Curil
Powell.
Fire Chief
Herrin of Murphysboro, Chief
Smith of Mt. Vernon and State Fire
Marshall
Seyferlick were present for the funeral
services.
Representatives from the Egyptian
Fire Fighters Association were also in Mound
City to attend the funeral.
G. A.
James was the funeral director.
The
Enterprise and its many friends wish to
share their heartfelt sympathy with the
bereaved relatives and friends in this their
darkest hour.
He was a friend of all and all were
his friends.
The Mounds
Independent,
Friday, 22 Mar 1929:
Among those
who attended the funeral of W. J.
Perks, of Mound City, Wednesday were the
following:
Mr. and Mrs. Loren
Boyd,
Mr. and Mrs. H. A.
Mason, John
Mathis, Walter
Dishinger, Fred
Unger, son Louis, Mrs. A.
Beaver and son George.
(America)
Former Villa
Ridge Resident Dies in Dongola
Oscar
Fritz, age 44, died at his home five
miles north of Dongola Monday evening at 5
o’clock following an illness from double
pneumonia.
Oscar
Fritz was born at DuQuoin, Ill., June 7,
1884.
He died at his home near Dongola,
Ill., March 18, 1929, at the age of 44
years, 10 months and 11 days.
He was
united in marriage June 11, 1905, with
Minnie Ora
Sheehorn (nee
Mize).
She preceded him to the Great Beyond
on March 4, 1917.
To this union four children were
born—John, Ira, Carl and Minnie, all of whom
survive him.
He was again
married to Emma
Bartell, July 6, 1920.
To this union five children were
born—Oscar, Jr., Helen, Villa, Gertie, and
Bertie; besides these children he leaves two
stepsons, Earl
Sheehorn and Vernon
Bartell, and a sister, Mrs. W. G.
French, several aunts and uncles and a
host of friends to mourn his loss.
Funeral
services were held Wednesday afternoon at
2:30 o’clock at the home of his sister Mrs.
W. G.
French, of Villa Ridge.
Interment was made in the Villa Ridge
cemetery.
Undertaker G. A.
James directed the funeral.
(Elmer
Shehorn, 20, of Ullin, Ill., born in Mt.
Vernon, Ill., son of Marion
Shehorn and F. C.
Farthing, married Minnie Ora
Mize,
17, born in Pulaski Co., Ill., daughter of
Albert
Mize
and Mahaly
Biggerstaff, on 17 Jun 1897, in Pulaski
Co., Ill.
His marker in Cairo City Cemetery at
Villa Ridge reads:
Oscar A.
Fritz Born Jun 7, 1884 Died March 18,
1927 Father.
Minnie O.
Fritz Born Nov. 21, 1881 Died March 4,
1917 Mother.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds
Independent,
Friday, 29 Mar 1929:
Brother of
W. I. and R. C. Connell Buried Sunday
W. Frank
Connell, of Cairo, who died at St.
Mary’s Infirmary, in that city on Thursday,
March 21, was buried in the Villa Ridge
Cemetery Sunday.
He was the
son of the late J. F.
Connell, a Southern Illinois newspaper
man.
He himself followed the printing
trade and had been a linotype operator for
the
Cairo Evening Citizen since 1922.
Mr.
Connell is survived by his widow and
four brothers, W. I.
Connell and R. C.
Connell, of this city, Dana C. and James
A.
Connell, of Chicago.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 29 Mar 1929:
Former Mound City Child Fatally Injured
Otis Melvin, little son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan
Cagle, was fatally injured Friday
afternoon and passed away shortly
afterwards. He was struck by an
automobile in St. Louis. The little
one was four years, five months and 21 days
of age. He with his mother was
visiting relatives in St. Louis when the
accident occurred, the father being in Mound
City and is employed at the O. L.
Bartlett Hoop Mill.
The little boy leaves to mourn his passing
besides his parents, one half-brother, who
resides in Paducah, his grandmother, Mrs.
George
Cagle, of Luxora, Arkansas, besides many
other relatives. The body was brought
to Mounds Sunday morning and interment was
made Sunday afternoon in the Thistlewood
Cemetery. G. A.
James had charge of the funeral.
Word has been received in this city
announcing the death of Asa
Campbell, which occurred in
Caruthersville, Mo.
Campbell is an uncle of Roland
Campbell, of this city, and he was a
former resident of Mound City.
W. F.
Connell, of Cairo, age 55 years, passed
away Thursday morning at St. Mary’s
Infirmary, following a surgical operation.
Mr.
Connell had undergone ____ one operation
a few days ____ the one which proved fatal.
____ is known in Mound City, he having lived
here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F.
Connell during his early days. Mr.
Connell was an ____ the
Evening Citizen as linotype operator.
He was a member _____ Typographical Union.
Surviving him are his widow, four children,
James A. and Charles Dana, both of Chicago,
W. I. and R. C.
Connell, of Mounds. His
stepmother, ____
Dishinger, of this city, also survives
him.
Services were held Sunday at the Church of
the Redeemer, rector, the Ven. Charles _____
officiating. The cortege left the
residence, 329 Sixth Street, for the church.
At the conclusion of the services they moved
by ___ to Villa Ridge cemetery where
interment was made. ___thers
directed the funeral.
(His marker in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa
Ridge reads:
W. F.
Connell 1871-1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
___ I.
Tharp, age 83 years, who ____ judge of
Ballard County, Kentucky for twenty-five
years, passed away at his home in Wickliffe,
Ky., ____ morning at 7:30 o’clock.
____ had been a member of _____ Lodge since
he was a _____. He was born in Ballard
County and was one of the county’s most
prominent residents. He was the father
of Joe
Tharp
Martin, of this city, and favorably
known in ____.
Irene
Toler, whose death occurred Sunday
morning by being struck by an automobile,
has saddened the community in which she
lived. The child was 11 years of age
and was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Toler ____. She was returning to
her ____ in Sunday school with her ___ two
neighbor children, when ____ picked up in
his car by Dr. ____ler
who took them to their ____ at one mile
north of Dongola. Mr.
Lanider stopped his car, and she darted
across the road and directly in the path of
an oncoming car driven by Carter
Campbell, of Hurst, Ill. The child
was struck and ___ considerable distance,
both ___ were broken and her skull crushed.
She was rushed to the hospital in Anna, but
passed away before reaching there. The
body was returned ____ Funeral Home in
Dongola, where an inquest was held Sunday
afternoon by Coroner Dr. H. O.
Taylor. The jury returned a
verdict that death was the result of
unavoidable accident and it ____osed that
Dr.
Campbell had done everything possible
after the child ____.
She was the youngest child in the family of
nine children and was a favorite with a
large number of ____.
Impressive and largely attended
funeral services were held at _____ Tuesday
morning at the First ______ Church, the W.
J.
Ward ____. Interment was made in
the I. O. O. F. Cemetery, with undertaker
_____ directing the funeral.
(William Alexander
Toler, 21, born in Union Co., Ill., son
of William
Toler and Miss
Thorn, married Sarah Nevada
Hightower, 15, born in Union Co., Ill.,
daughter of David
Hightower and Miss
Freeze, on 6 Jun 1889, in Union Co.,
Ill.
David
Hightower married Synthia C.
Freeze on 2 Dec 1866, in Union Co., Ill.
Her
marker in I. O. O. F. Cemetery at Dongola
reads:
Irene
Toler 1917-1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
Howard Ishmael
Douglas, son of Rollie H. and Annie M.
Douglas, was born in Pulaski County near
Karnak, Illinois, on January 16, 1908.
He received his first schooling at Post
Creek School near his home. He grew to
manhood in this community, attaining his
high school course in both Karnak and
Metropolis high schools, graduating with the
Class of 1926.
In his fifteenth year he accepted Christ and
was buried with Him in baptism, continuing
in this faith until death. He was
affiliated with the First Christian Church
at Metropolis, Illinois.
He was of a loving and cheerful disposition,
making friends of all who knew him, the old
as well as young. His genial smile and
wholesome companionship will be missed by
his many friends and relatives as well as
the grief stricken home.
He passed away in Flint, Michigan, where he
had employment. He was stricken March
19th and it was reported he had
ptomaine poison. He was rushed to the
Hurley Hospital of that city, where he was
found to be suffering from cerebro spinal
meningitis. His brothers, Raphael and
Delbert, were with him in his last hours.
Everything was done that could be done to
relieve his suffering, but all in vain.
He passed away Thursday, March 21, at 10:05
p.m., 1929, at the age of 21 years, 2 months
and 5 days. He leaves to mourn his
untimely death, his parents, two brothers,
Raphael and Delbert, a grandfather, S. L.
Womack, and other relatives and many
friends.
The body was shipped to his home, arriving
there Saturday and the funeral, directed by
Aikins and
Fleming, was held in his home on Monday,
March 29, at 1:30 p.m., conducted by Rev.
Wiley
Mathis.
Burial was in Anderson Cemetery.
(Shepard L.
Womack married Sarah S.
Boaz
on 19 Mar 1870, in Pope Co., Ill.
His marker in Anderson Cemetery
reads:
Howard I.
Douglas 1908-1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
We wish to thank the many friends for their
great interest manifested by the kindness,
solicitude, and loving helpfulness to us in
our recent sad bereavement of the loss of
our dear son, brother and grandson, Howard
Ishmael
Douglas. We wish to extend our
thanks for the music rendered, for the
precious and consoling sermon, also for the
beautiful floral offerings.
Should sad hours as ours come to you, may
you have the same kindness and loving
sympathy shown you as have been showered
upon us.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 5 Apr 1929:
Dr. William F.
Grinstead, widely known physician and
surgeon of Cairo, died Monday at St. Mary’s
Infirmary after a lingering illness.
He had reached the age of 75.
On December 14, 1927, Dr.
Grinstead celebrated fifty years of
medical practice. At this time a
dinner was given in his honor at the
Halliday Hotel and among those in attendance
were doctors from Chicago, St. Louis and
many other places.
Dr.
Grinstead was born in Charleston, Mo.,
in 1853. He received his medical
education at the old Missouri Medical
College, St. Louis, and in the medical
department of Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, Tennessee. Later he did
hospital work in a medical school in London,
England, and still later he took a course of
surgery at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh,
Scotland.
He was never married. He is survived
by a sister, Mrs. Q. E.
Beckwith, of Cairo, and a brother,
Thomas
Grinstead, of Oklahoma.
Funeral services were held Wednesday at 1
p.m. at the
Beckwith residence. A special
train on the Illinois Central took the
funeral party to Thebes, where interment was
made in the cemetery on the hill in a spot
he had selected a number of years ago.
(His marker in Thebes Cemetery reads:
William F.
Grinstead, M. D., 1853-1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. William
Earle were called to Sandoval Friday
last by the death of Mrs. Laura
Atwell, an aunt of Mrs.
Earle.
Mrs.
Atwell, whose age was 85, had for years
made long visits at the
Earle home and at one time had made her
home there for two years. She died at
the home of Mrs. Nora
Mundy, another niece. She was
taken to St. Louis for burial.
(Samuel Lafayette
Cox
married Mrs. Mrs. Malinda Ann
Dexter Smith on 23 Oct 1904, in Pulaski
Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Friday, 12 Apr 1929:
William Worth
Cummons, aged 77 years, passed away
Sunday, March 31. He was born December
10, 1851. December 31, 1872, he was
united in marriage to Margaret Francis
Willard. To this union ten
children were born, seven of whom have
preceded their father in death. Mr.
Cummins is survived by his widow, one
sister, Mrs. Matilda
Stoddard, three daughters, Mrs. Mary
Riston, Mrs. Ellen
Atkinson, and Mrs. Elsie
Anderson. He also leaves 27
grandchildren, besides many friends to mourn
his passing. Mr.
Cummins united with the Pleasant Valley
Church about 25 years ago. W. H.
Aldred of Pulaski directed the funeral.
Word has been received by relatives in Mound
City announcing the death of George
Snyder, a former resident of this city.
Mr.
Snyder underwent a surgical operation,
passing away Friday afternoon in a hospital
in Akron, Ohio, in which city he has resided
since leaving Mound City. His widow,
who survives him, was before her marriage,
Miss Mary
Flynn, of this city. He also
leaves nine children and many other
relatives. His niece, Mrs. W. H.
Dunlap, of this city, left immediately
upon being informed of his death for Akron.
John E.
Herron, of Olmsted, passed away at his
home in that city Sunday, April 7. He
was born in Floyd County, Kentucky, in the
year of 1853, being 74 years of age at the
time of his death. He was united in
marriage to Miss Missouri
Hampton, to which union six children
were born, five of whom still survive him,
being Fred
Herron, of Bird Tree, Mo., Walter
Herron and William
Herron, of Olmstead, Oscar
Herron, of Charleston, Mo., and Clarence
Herron, of Camp, Ark. He is also
survived by nine grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren, and a twin brother, Jim
Herron, of Oscar, Ky. Mr.
Herron was a fine Christian character,
having a kind and loving disposition which
made for him a wide circle of friends.
Mrs. Ida
Weaver received a message Tuesday
informing her of the death of her only
sister, Mrs. J. T.
Robertson, who had passed away at 6
o’clock that morning in Toledo, Ohio.
Mrs.
Robertson and her husband, Dr.
Robertson, head physician in the Toledo
State Hospital, were guests of Mrs.
Weaver last fall.
Mrs.
Weaver left Thursday morning for Cabool,
Mo., the old home of the deceased, to attend
the funeral services which are to be held
this afternoon. Interment will be made
at Cabool.
Mrs. Louis
Brown, age 24, died at her home in Ullin
on Tuesday, April 16. Mrs.
Brown, before her marriage to Louis
Brown in 1923, was Miss Marie
Egner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. E.
Egner. She is survived by her
husband, three children, Ray Ellis, Norris,
and an infant son only a few days old; her
parents, four sisters, Mrs. Bertha
Goins, of Olmstead, Mrs. Edna
Houchin, of Washington, D.C., Misses
Pauline and Mary Helen
Egner, and a brother, Raymond
Egner. Funeral services were
conducted at the home by Rev.
Corzine, of Cambria. Interment
made at Butter Ridge Cemetery.
(Her death certificate states that Marie
Brown was born 3 Jul 1904, in Olmstead,
Ill., the daughter of T. E.
Egner and Daisy
Corzine and wife of Lewis A.
Brown and
died 16 Apr 1929, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
A marker in Butter Ridge Cemetery
near Ullin reads:
Marie
Brown 1904-1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. W. A.
Crader, age 62, died at her home in
Ullin, Saturday, April 20.
Rose Anna
Langston was married to W. A.
Crader in 1905. One son, Alvie,
died four years ago.
Her husband is ill and in the Paducah, Ky.,
hospital and was not able to be with her
during her last days.
Besides her husband, she is survived by
three brothers, E. N.
Langston and Otto
Langston, of East St. Louis, Len
Langston, of Wetaug, and a sister, Mrs.
Ed
Hogg, of St. Louis.
Funeral services were held at the Ullin
Baptist Church, Rev. H. E.
Vick,
of Tamms, officiating.
Interment was made in the Ullin Cemetery.
(Her death certificate states that
Anna
Crader was born 13 Jun 1869, in Gravel
Hill, Mo., the daughter of Hiram G. and Mary
Langston, wife of William A.
Crader and died 21 Apr 1929, in Ullin,
Ill.
Her
marker in Ullin Cemetery reads:
Anna
Crader Born June 13, 1869 Died April 20,
1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 26 Apr 1929:
Mrs. D. W.
Heilig, of Clarendon, Ark., passed away
at her home last Friday. Funeral
services were held in the Lutheran Church of
Anna, Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock and
interment was made in the Anna Cemetery.
Mrs.
Heilig formerly resided in Jonesboro,
Illinois. She was the mother of W. W.
Heilig, of Pulaski. Besides her
son, at Pulaski, she is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. William O.
Farrin, of Clarendon, Ark., and Mrs. R.
R.
Karraker, of St. Louis. She was
well known in the Anna-Jonesboro community.
(Daniel W.
Heilig, 24, born in Springville, Ill.,
son of Michael N.
Heilig and Miss
Eddleman, married Lizzie
Miller, 23, born in Union Co., Ill.,
daughter of John
Miller and Miss
Fink,
on 10 Jan 1886, in Union Co., Ill.
Michael N.
Heilig married Sarah
Eddleman on 18 Feb 1858, in Union Co.,
Ill.
John
Miller married Mary A.
Fink
on 7 Mar 1852, in Union Co., Ill.
Her marker in Anna City Cemetery
reads:
Elizabeth M.
Heilig 1859-1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. W. A.
Crader, aged 59 years, died at her home
in Ullin Saturday. Funeral services
were held at Ullin Baptist Church at 2 p.m.,
April 21, conducted by Rev. J. ___rton.
Interment was made in the Ullin Cemetery.
E. J.
Ford,
of Dongola, was in charge of the funeral
arrangements.
Mrs. Marie
Brown, wife of Lewis
Brown, of Ullin, passed away at her home
Tuesday afternoon, April 16 at ___ o’clock.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the residence.
The Rev.
Corzine, a relative of the deceased,
conducted the services. Interment was
made in a private family cemetery at Ullin.
Mrs.
Brown, before her marriage, was Miss
Marie
Egner, and was a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. T. E.
Egner, who survive her. She also
leaves to mourn her passing, her husband,
three children, an infant three days of age,
sisters, Mrs. Bertha
Goins, of ____, Mrs. Edna
Houchin, of Washington, D.C., Miss
Pauline
Egner, and Mary Helen
Egner and a brother, Raymond
Egner. She was a ___ of Arnie
Corzine of this city. Mr. and Mrs.
Corzine and daughter, ____, attended the
funeral at Ullin. ___
Egner, of this city, was also a ____ of
the deceased.
(A marker in Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge
reads:
Selena
Barth Born April 11, 1853 Died April 21,
1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
On Saturday afternoon about 25 members of
the Princess Olga shows formed a party and
visited the grave of the late W. J.
Perks in St. Mary’s Cemetery at Mounds
where they placed an exquisite floral cross
as a token of love and esteem in which he
was held by them. W.
Wadsworth, the manager and principal
owner of the shows, was a very warm friend
of Mr.
Perks and he desired showing that he and
the entire company missed Will and they
expressed their sorrow in this beautiful and
fitting manner.
At a meeting of the Egyptian Fire Fighters
Association, which was held in Flora,
Illinois, Wednesday, April 24, approximately
125 representatives of the 60 lower Illinois
towns comprising the association were
present. Among other business of the
session, the association adopted fitting and
eloquent resolutions of sorrow on the death
of Fire Chief W. J.
Perks, of this city, who met with a
tragic death several weeks ago. Mr.
Perks was held in high esteem by the
association. Copies of the resolution
are to be mailed to the widow of Mr.
Perks and family and to the newspapers
in the territory. Chief _ind,
of Cairo, who is treasurer of the
association, was in attendance. He was
accompanied by Fred
Farnbaker, a Cairo fireman.
Ruby
Smock, living in a household __th of
this city, passed away Wednesday morning
about 8:30.
Hearing rumors, Deputy Sheriff ____ went to
the houseboat Wednesday morning and upon
investigation took Walter
Smock into custody. A coroner’s
jury returned a verdict of manslaughter and
that he be held ____.
Smock
was 25 years of age and leaves three small
children, the ___ being five years of age.
Interment was made in Mounds Cemetery ___day
afternoon. G. A.
James was in charge of the funeral.
(Her death certificate states that she was
the daughter of Albert and Hattie
Smock, the wife of Waldo
Smock, and was buried in Beech Grove
Cemetery.
Albert
Smock married Hattie
Evans on 9 Apr 1901, in Hardin Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. L. D.
Woods
received a message from their eldest son,
James A.
Wood,
of Oakland, California, stating that his
wife, Mrs. Jessie
Wood,
had passed away on April 22, at their home
in Oakland. She is survived by her
husband, one son and many friends.
Funeral services were held on April 25, with
interment in the Oakland cemetery.
Mrs. Bessie
Lance passed away Tuesday morning, April
23, after a brief illness of pneumonia.
Mrs.
Lance was 33 years of age and leaves to
mourn her passing her husband and five
children. The
Lance family resided in a house boat a
short distance north of this city.
Interment was made Wednesday morning, April
24, in the Thistlewood Cemetery by G. A.
James, funeral director.
Mr. William E.
Carter, son of George and Nancy
Carter, was born in Gilmar, Ga., March
31, 1862, and died at his home near Dongola,
Ill., April 28, 1929, at the age of 67 years
and 27 days. He came with his parents
to Illinois when a small boy. He was
married to Miss Minnie
Dover, in Jonesboro, Ill., July 22,
1886. To this union were born nine
children, four of whom preceded their father
in death. Those living are: Mrs.
William
Kelley, of Cairo, Mrs. O. B.
Murphy, of Mounds, Della, Everett, and
Minnie, all of whom are yet at home.
Beside the above named loved ones, he leaves
eight grandchildren and many friends to
mourn his departure.
Mr.
Carter had not united with any church,
but in the last few days of his life he made
profession of faith in Christ. He was
a loyal worker, ever striving for the best
interest of his family and will be greatly
missed in his community. The funeral
services were conducted at the home on
Monday, April 29, at 2 p.m. by Elder M.
Reeves, assisted by Elder W. J.
Ward.
Interment was made in the I. O. O. F.
Cemetery at Dongola.—Contributed
(William E.
Carter, 23, of Western Saratoga, Ill.,
born in Georgia, son of George
Carter and Nancy
Ellison, married Minnie
Dover, 21, from Jonesboro, Ill., born in
Tennessee, daughter of Green
Dover and Martha
Bean,
on 22 Jul 1886, in Union Co., Ill.
His marker in I. O. O. F. Cemetery at
Dongola reads:
W. E.
Carter Born March 31, 1862 Died April
28, 1929 Father.—Darrel
Dexter)
(Daniel
Kimmel married Mary Ann
Green on 28 Jul 1853, in Union Co., Ill.
A marker in Cobden Cemetery reads:
Daniel
Kimmel Born June 7, 1828 Died Oct. 20,
1904 Mary A.
Kimmel his wife Born Dec. 4, 1835 Died
Nov. 29, 1928.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 10 May 1929:
Ritchason
was killed last October after a fight on a
highway with the teacher growing out of
enmity engendered by
Watson’s disciplinary measures.
The teacher was placed in charge of the Doty
School because it had somewhat of an
unmanageable reputation. Shortly after
assuming control, he had occasion to
discipline three or four
Ritchason children, who reported the
matter to their father.
A few days later the two men met on a
highway.
Ritchason allegedly knocked
Watson down, and the teacher lying on
the ground, fired at him with a revolver.
Ritchason died several days later.
Members of the school board contributed to
Watson’s bond and insisted he finish out
the term. Then they re-employed him
for another term. His case came up for
trial this week.
John T.
Nichols, known to most people as “Nick,”
a well-known Cairo Cafe proprietor, killed
himself Monday morning at his home in Cairo.
He had arisen and, after telling his
daughter he was feeling ill, had returned to
his bed. Hearing a shot, she ran to
his room and found him in bed dead from a
bullet wound in his head.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 17 May 1929:
Mrs. Ethel Flora
Craig, age 28 years, of Ullin, Illinois,
passed away at St. Mary’s Infirmary in Cairo
last Thursday night at 10:30 o’clock.
She had been at the infirmary for three days
for treatment.
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon
at 2 o’clock at the Methodist church of
Ullin, the pastor, the Rev. Mr. Morgan,
officiating. Interment as made in
the Ullin Cemetery. E. A.
Burke directed the funeral.
Surviving Mrs.
Craig are her husband, two small
daughters, her parents Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Crippen, of Ullin; five sisters, Mrs.
Ruth
Echols, Mrs. Arvle
Sowers, Mrs. Floyd
Mowery, Mrs. Lena
Crippen and Mrs.
Wilmot, two brothers, Bernard and Curtis
Crippen, of Ullin, besides other
relatives and a host of friends.
(A marker in Ullin Cemetery reads:
Edith Flo wife of Cecil
Craig 1901-1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
Andrew Jack
Hayes, age 62 years, passed away
Wednesday, May 8, at 6 p.m. at his home on
Main Street. Mr.
Hayes had been seriously ill for several
weeks and his death was not unexpected.
He leaves to mourn his passing his widow,
one daughter, Eva, one son, Russell, one
brother, William
Hayes, and a sister.
Funeral services were held Friday morning at
St. Mary’s Catholic Church and interment was
made in the Mounds cemetery. G. A.
James was the funeral director.
Word has been received in Mound City of the
death of Mrs. Louise
Adkins, wife of Edward
Adkins, better known in this community
as “Doc”
Adkins. Mrs.
Adkins was drowned Sunday while on a
pleasure trip on the river in a motor boat
accompanied by her husband and some friends,
when the boat capsized.
Mrs.
Adkins was formerly Miss Louise
Lawyer, of Cairo, and had many friends
in that city, where she was very popular in
musical circles. She was a young woman
of much charm and the word of her tragic
death came as a great shock to her friends.
Surviving Mrs.
Adkins are her husband, her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. A. C.
Lawyer, a stepson, Russell
Adkins, of St. Louis, and a brother,
Harold
Lawyer, of Cairo.
Funeral services were held Tuesday evening
at 8 o’clock in the Provest Chapel, 3710
North Grand Boulevard in St. Louis and
interment was made in the Eldorado Cemetery
Wednesday.
Mrs. W. J.
Henning was terribly burned about 4
o’clock Tuesday afternoon at her home on
North Main Street as a result of an
explosion occurring when she kindled a fire
in the kitchen stove, pouring kerosene over
it. Her clothing was ignited and the
flames rapidly enveloped her entire body.
Mrs.
Henning’s screams attracted the
attention of her husband, who happened to be
in another portion of the house. Mr.
Henning ripped down some curtains and
wrapped his wife in them, rolling her to the
floor at the same time and thus succeeded in
smothering the fire in the unfortunate
woman’s clothing, not, however until she had
been very severely burned along her entire
left side from her head to her feet.
Her condition is very serious. Before
her marriage she was Miss Aline
Baker and resided at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. W. I.
Baccus.
(Elihu T.
Snyder, 28, born in Franklin Co., Ill.,
son of T. S.
Snyder and Mary
Dobbins, married Minnie
Rodman, 19, born in Johnson Co., Ill.,
daughter of W. R.
Rodman and Julia
Jones, on 20 Nov 1900, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
Elmer E.
Boyd
married Eliza E.
Lyerly on 4 Sep 1884, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
W. T.
Curtsinger died early Saturday morning,
May 18, at his home on Spencer Heights.
He had been ill for some time yet his death
was unexpected.
Mr.
Curtsinger, who was 82, had lived
practically all his life in Cairo, having
moved to Spencer Heights only a few months
ago.
He is survived by his widow, a daughter,
Mrs. C. L.
Pulley, of this city, and four sons, A.
J. and Claude, of Mounds, Robert, of Cairo,
and U. L., of New York.
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon
at 3 o’clock at the residence conducted by
P. E.
Mangers, pastor of the Christian Church
of Cairo. Interment was made in Beech
Grove Cemetery, with Undertaker G. A.
James in charge.
(His death certificate states that James
Rogers was born 15 Mar 1884, in Ullin,
Ill., the son of William
Rogers, born in Missouri, and Julia
Dillon, born in Ullin, Ill., died 21 May
1929, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
William O.
Rogers married Julia
Dillon on 15 Aug 1880, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 24 May 1929:
Mrs. Marie Salome
Trampert, age 89 years, who was perhaps
the oldest resident of this city, passed
away at her home Saturday evening at 6:15
o’clock following an illness of several
months. Mrs.
Trampert had been confined to her home
for eleven years, but several months ago
suffered injuries from a fall which had
confined her to her bed or chair. She
had not been able to walk since the fall.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon
at 2 o’clock at St. Peter’s Episcopal
Church, the Ven. Charles
Waller, rector of the Church of the
Redeemer, of Cairo, officiating. The
choir, which was selected from members of
the Episcopal, Methodist and Congregational
choirs, furnished two beautiful hymns.
The services were largely attended and many
beautiful flowers were sent as marks of
sympathy from friends. Interment was
made in Beech Grove Cemetery, G. A.
James directing the funeral. The
pallbearers were E. P.
Easterday, George R.
Mar___,
J. A.
Lutz,
William
Bestgen, George
Eichhorn and Mike
Winkler.
Mrs.
Trampert was well known throughout the
community and leaves many close friends.
She was born in Germany, coming to this
country when a girl of sixteen. She
made her home in Mound City for the past 62
years, and was the widow of the late John
Trampert, who conducted a leading
mercantile establishment in this city for
many years. Since his death, the
business has been continued by members of
the family.
Surviving Mrs.
Trampert are a son, John T.
Trampert, and two daughters, Miss Sena
and Miss Anna
Trampert, all of this city. She is
also survived by a niece of St. Louis.
(John
Trampert married Mary S.
Roth
on 1 Jun 1867, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
W. T.
Curtsinger, age 82 years, passed away at
his home in Spencer Heights, Mounds, Friday
night, following an illness of several
weeks. Until the past six months, Mr.
Curtsinger had resided in Cairo with his
family, where he had made his home
practically all his life.
Surviving the aged man are his widow, a
daughter, Mrs. C. L.
Pulley, of Mounds, and four sons,
Robert, of Cairo, A. J.
Curtsinger and Claude N.
Curtsinger, of Mounds, and U. L.
Curtsinger, of New York.
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon
at 3 o’clock at the residence conducted by
the pastor of the Christian Church.
Interment was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery. G. A.
James directed the funeral. Mr.
Curtsinger leaves many close friends in
the community who regret to hear of his
death.
We wish to sincerely thank your many friends
for their kindness and sympathy during the
illness and death of our mother.
Mr. Fred
Hoffmeier, son of Clemer and Angel
Hoffmeier, was born in Hanover, Germany,
Feb. 1, 1846, and died at his home near
Ullin, Illinois, June 4, 1929, aged 83
years, 4 months and 3 days.
Mr.
Hoffmeier came to America at the age of
twenty-one years and to Pulaski County in
1876. He was married Dec. 24, 1874, to
Miss Ferbin
Adkins. To this union were born
five children, two of whom died in infancy.
Those surviving are William and Samuel, of
Ullin, Illinois, and Fred L., of Mounds,
also two grandchildren.
He was a member of the Lutheran Church but
attended the Baptist and Methodist churches
of Ullin and was a liberal contributor to
religious interests.
Mr.
Hoffmeier was the first vice president
of the First National Bank of Ullin and one
of the original trustees of the Ullin School
District. He was a well-educated man
and has taken great interest in both civic
and religious affairs in this country for
half a century. Few men, if any,
have been better known in this county and in
Southern Illinois than he, and his demise
will be keenly felt by our citizenship in
general.
His last illness covered a period of about
twelve months, but it was not considered
acute until within the past few weeks.
His mental powers were quite alert until the
moment when his soul passed quietly on to
meet his companion who passed away Dec. 24,
1923.
Funeral services were held at the home
Wednesday afternoon, June 5th, at
2 o’clock, conducted by Rev. H. C.
Croslin of the Mounds Baptist Church.
Interment was made in Butter Ridge Cemetery
directed by Undertaker E. J.
Ford,
of Dongola.
(Frederick
Hoffmier married Ferban
Adkins on 24 Dec 1874, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
His marker in Butter Ridge Cemetery
near Ullin reads:
Fred
Hoffmeir 1846-19
Ferban
Hoffmeir his wife 1854-1923.—Darrel
Dexter)
We wish to thank all who assisted us during
the hour of our bereavement on account of
the loss of our father and especially do we
thank those who furnished the songs for the
funeral service.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 7 Jun 1929:
Entered into rest May 27, 1929, J. W.
Essex was called to the land beyond.
He was born May 20, 1861, age 68 years and
seven days. He was married in 1885 to
Mamie
Winstead, of Pulaski, Illinois. To
this union four children were born, J. O.
Essex, of Mounds, Mrs. R. M.
Bagby, of Villa Ridge, Mrs. L. C.
Settlemoir, of Mound City, and Cecil
Essex, of Pulaski.
Mrs.
Essex died October 5, 1912. In
November 1913, he was united in marriage to
Lydia
Simmons, of Oconee, Illinois.
He joined the Odd Fellows Lodge in Pulaski
in 1890. At an early age he confessed
faith in Christ and was a charter member of
the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church and was a
devout and faithful member and a deacon
until his heavenly father called him to the
great beyond. He leaves to mourn his
death a wife and four children, two sisters,
Mrs. W. A.
Lackey and Mrs. G. W.
Lackey, both of Pulaski, two
half-sisters and three half-brothers and a
host of relatives and friends. He was
a loving husband and father and a good
neighbor, always doing that which was right.
We have lost our soul’s companion,
And day by day we’ll miss him,
Past his suffering, past his pain,
He who suffered is at rest,
(Joseph W.
Essex married Mamie
Winstead on 8 Mar 1885, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
George W.
Lackey married Emma D.
Essex on 3 Nov 1878, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
A marker in Rose Hill Cemetery at
Pulaski reads:
Joseph W.
Essex 1861-1929
Mary E.
Essex 1866-1912.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. Fred
Hoffmeier, son of Clemer and Angel
Hoffmeier, was born in Hanover, Germany,
February 1, 1846, and died at his home near
Ullin, Illinois, June 4th, 1929.
Age 83 years, 4 months and 3 days.
He was a member of the Lutheran Church, but
attended the Baptist and Methodist churches
of Ullin and was a liberal contributor to
religious interests.
Mr.
Hoffmeier was the first vice president
of the First National Bank of Ullin and one
of the original trustees of the Ullin School
District. He was a well-educated man
and had taken great interest in both civil
and religious affairs in this county for
about half a century. Few men, if any,
have been better known in this county and in
Southern Illinois than he, and his demise
will be keenly felt by our citizenship in
general.
His last illness covered a period of about
twelve months, but was not considered acute
until within the past few weeks. His
mental powers were quite alert unto the
moment when his soul passed quietly on to
meet his beloved companion who passed away
December 24, 1923.
Funeral at family residence today at 2 p.m.
conducted by Rev.
Croslin, Mr. E. J.
Ford,
of Dongola, was the undertaker.
We wish to express our heartfelt thanks to
the many friends and neighbors for their
deeds of kindness during the sickness and
death of Lizzie and Winnie
Steers.
(His death certificate states that Samuel
Barker was born 12 Mar 1874, in
Tennessee, son of Sam
Barker and husband of Josie
Barker, died 28 May 1929, in Pulaski
Co., Ill., and was buried in Mt. Olive
Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
George A.
Lyerly, Sr., passed away at his home in
Mound City Wednesday evening at 7:20 o’clock
following an illness of a week. He
suffered a paralytic stroke about a week ago
and never regained consciousness after he
was stricken. This was not the first
stroke. Mr.
Lyerly had been stricken with paralysis,
he having suffered a stroke _1 years ago,
but since that time he has enjoyed fairly
good health.
Surviving him are three daughters, Mrs.
Elsie
Saint, of Gary, Indiana, Mrs. ___
Abbott, of Fort Douglas, Utah, Miss
Esther M.
Lyerly, of Washington, D.C., three sons,
James W.
Lyerly, of Brooklyn, N.Y., Frank
Lyerly, of Kansas City, Mo., and George
Lyerly, of Mound City. Also two
sisters, Mrs. E. E.
Boyd,
of Mound City, and Mrs. M. D.
Brelsford, of America.
Funeral services will be held Saturday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Pilgrim
Congregational Church, the ___ being
conducted by Rev. Joel
Burgess, of Carbondale, formerly pastor
of the Mound City Congregational Church.
Interment will be made in Beech Grove
Cemetery. G. A.
James will direct the funeral.
Roy F.
Hudson, brother of I. J.
Hudson, of this city, passed away at his
home in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Tuesday morning
at 7 o’clock, following an illness of about
two years duration. The deceased was a
barber by trade, but owing to ill health had
been unable to do any work for the past two
years.
Surviving are his widow and five brothers,
L. J.
Hudson, of Mound City, Dr. O. T.
Hudson, of Mounds, Paul
Hudson, of Globe, Arizona, Henry
Hudson, of Cairo, and Omer
Hudson, of East St. Louis.
Funeral services were held at the Grace
Methodist Church in Cape Girardeau, at 12
o’clock Wednesday. Interment was made
in the Mounds cemetery at 4 p.m. Wednesday
afternoon. The services at the
cemetery were conducted by the Odd Fellows
Lodge of Mounds.
Edward
Brown, age 60, living on a farm two
miles east of Ullin, on the Butter Ridge
Road, is in St. Mary’s Infirmary in Cairo
and is in a critical condition as a result
of an accident which occurred about 8
o’clock Wednesday morning.
Mr.
Brown and brother were operating a disc
harrow in a field. A young and an old
mule were hooked to the disc. The
young mule was fractious and difficult to
handle. Both men were engaged in
seeking to control them when in some manner,
their feet became tangled and the older man
fell with his back across the revolving
blades, his brother falling on top of him.
Mr.
Brown’s spine was dangerously cut, but
the spinal cord was not severed. He
was rushed to St. Mary’s Infirmary and is in
a dangerous condition.
Mrs. Mary
Dean,
wife of John
Dean,
passed away at her home in this city Sunday
about 1 p.m. following an illness of a week.
Mrs.
Dean was 79 years of age. She was
a woman of wonderful Christian character, a
kind and loving mother and a devoted wife.
Everyone who knew her loved her for her
sweet and kind disposition. She was
industrious to a fault, never thinking of
self, but always with her mind on the
thought of helping others.
Left to mourn her passing are her husband,
John
Dean, four daughters, Mrs. James
Read,
Mrs. Claude
Stout, and Mrs. Robert
Burke, of Mound City, and Mrs. Jack
Moyers, of Vineland, N.C., and one son,
Charles
Dean,
of Piedmont, Mo., besides several
grandchildren and hosts of friends.
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon
at 1 o’clock with a short service at the
home in this city, going by automobile to
Vienna where another service was held at the
grave and interment made in the Vienna
cemetery. Rev.
Atherton, of Dongola, pastor of the
Baptist church, officiated. G. A.
James was the funeral director.
Roy F.
Hudson died at his home in Cape
Girardeau, Mo., Tuesday morning at seven
o’clock at the age of 35. He had been
ill for a number of years. Mr.
Hudson was born and reared in this
county and for some time made his home in
Mounds. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs.
H. J.
Hudson, both deceased and a brother of
Dr. O. T.
Hudson, of this city. He is
survived by his wife and five brothers, Ira
J., of Mound City, O. T. , of Mounds, Henry
T., of Cairo, Paul, of Globe, Ariz., and
Omer, of East St. Louis.
Funeral services were held Wednesday at 12
o’clock noon in Grace Methodist Church, Cape
Girardeau. Interment was made in
Thistlewood Cemetery, Mounds, at 4 p.m.,
Wednesday, the Odd Fellow Lodge conducting
the service.
Peculiar Accident May Prove Fatal
Edward
Brown, 60, a farmer near Ullin, was
seriously injured Wednesday morning, when in
trying to control a mule team hitched to a
disc harrow, his feet became entangled with
those of his son, who was helping and the
father was thrown on his back across the
revolving blades, the son falling on top of
him. His spine was cut and he is in a
precarious condition at St. Mary’s Hospital.
George A.
Lyerly died Wednesday night, June 12, at
his home in Mound City at the age of 59.
(Milton D.
Brelsford, 24, of America, born in Trigg
Co., Ky., son of Thomas
Brelsford and Ellen
Cates, married Cornelia
Lyerley, 24, born in America, Ill.,
daughter of William A.
Lyerly and Ann E.
Cloud, on 17 Nov 1897, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
Elmer E.
Boyd
married Eliza E.
Lyerly on 4 Sep 1884, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Dearing
was injured about 7 o’clock yesterday, when
he was standing near his train, which was
stopped, and in some manner fell or became
dizzy and toppled in front of the train
which was passing.
Dearing
lived at Kuttawa, Ky.
Two colored women are in the Pulaski County
jail at Mound City, held for the murder of
Robert
Wilson, husband of one and stepfather of
the other.
The killing occurred at five o’clock Tuesday
morning on the Otto
Witchman farm, four miles northwest of
Olmstead.
Wilson,
age 45, was shot twice with a pistol, one
bullet piercing him in the left breast and
the other in the back of the neck, and was
cut seven times on the back of his head and
neck with an axe.
The women claimed self-defense and told a
story of abuse and blows struck the girl,
Anna
Robinson, before the woman, Kansas
Wilson, went to her assistance.
The latter claims that her husband shot
twice at her and that in a struggle for the
gun it was discharged, as both fell to the
floor, and he was killed. The girl
then wielded the axe thinking her mother was
being killed.
Their story sounding rather improbable, a
coroner’s jury recommended that both women
be held for murder waiting the next session
of the grand jury.
Harry R.
Fulkerson was born May 1, 1892, at Lusk,
Ill., and passed away June 20, 1929, at 3:30
p.m. in Mounds, Ill.
For the past six months he has been confined
to his bed. Mr.
Fulkerson was a veteran of the World
War, having been in active service overseas.
He leaves to mourn his death, his mother,
Mrs. Mary Ann
Fulkerson, one brother, Otto, of East
St. Louis, five sisters, Mrs. A.
Fleming, of Vienna, Ill., Mrs. C. S.
Copeland, Mrs. O.
Crawford, Miss Martha
Fulkerson, and Mrs. E. A.
Young, all of Mounds.
Funeral services will be held Sunday, June
23, 1929, at the residence of his sister,
Mrs. E. A.
Young, on South Blanche Avenue, with
burial at Spencer Heights Cemetery.
(His marker in Spencer Heights Cemetery
reads:
Harry R.
Fulkerson Ill. Pvt. 309 MG Battn. 78
Div. Died June 20, 1929—Darrel
Dexter)
Eric
McReynolds, 45, of Mounds City, died
Monday afternoon at St. Mary’s Infirmary,
Cairo, as the result of an auto accident in
Mound City Saturday afternoon. Mr.
McReynolds was riding in the rumble seat
of a car driven by Charles
Baccus, of Mound City and when the
Baccus car and one driven by L.
Downey collided,
McReynolds was thrown from the rumble
seat. He is survived by his widow and
several children. Mrs.
Baccus was injured slightly. Both
cards were wrecked.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 21 Jun 1929:
Eric
McReynolds, age 45 years, of this city,
who was injured Saturday afternoon in an
automobile collision in this city when he
was knocked from the rumble seat of a car
driven by Charles
Baccus when the
Baccus car and a car driven by L.
Downey, also of this city, collided,
passed away Monday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock
at St. Mary’s Infirmary, in Cairo.
Mr.
McReynolds had been in a critical
condition since the accident and little hope
had been held for his recovery. An
inquest was held at 11 o’clock Tuesday
morning, Coroner Dan
Sullivan conducting the inquest at the
undertaking parlors of E. A.
Burke. Internal hemorrhage
resulting from a fracture of the liver
caused
McReynolds’s death, according to the
verdict of the coroner’s jury, the injury
being received during the collision at Mound
City.
The version of the fatal accident as ___ted
by witness at the inquest was that Charles
Baccus, with his wife be__ him, was
driving north on Main Street with
McReynolds riding in the rumble seat.
L.
Downey was driving w__th also and
started to make a left hand turn, the two
machines crashing ___
Baccus continued north and
Downey ___ned. Mrs.
Baccus was severely cut and bruised
about the head and face, ___al of her teeth
being loosened.
McReynolds’ body was taken to Barlow,
Ky., Monday afternoon for burial in the Odd
Fellows cemetery there. His former
home had been at Barlow. His body was
taken to Barlow by a Kentucky undertaker
immediately after the death and had to be
returned to Cairo for the inquest Tuesday.
The deceased is survived by his widow and
___r children, and many friends to mourn his
untimely death.
Word has been received in this city of the
death of D. E.
Miller, of Los Angeles, Calif., which
occurred last Saturday. Mr.
Miller is a brother of E. S.
Miller and Judge C. S.
Miller and also a brother of Mrs. Nora
Gaunt, of Urbana, formerly of this city.
Mr.
Miller has been in the West for the past
eighteen years.
Florence Helen
Britt, the infant daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. M.
Britt, of North Main Street, passed away
at their home Friday night at the age of
three and one half months. The funeral
services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday
afternoon, conducted by Rev. W. Clyde
Bruce, pastor of the First M. E. Church,
of this city. Interment was made in
Concord Cemetery. G. A.
James had charge of the funeral
arrangements.
The little one is survived by her parents
and several sisters and brothers.
Robert
Wilson, 45, colored laborer, was killed
by his wife, Kansas
Wilson, and his stepdaughter, Anna
Robinson, about five o’clock Tuesday
morning on the Otto
Witzman farm four miles northwest of
Olmstead, according to the verdict of a
coroner’s jury inquiring into the case
following the killing. Both women were
held on a murder charge and were taken to
the Pulaski County jail in this city.
Wilson
was shot with a pistol, once in the left
breast and once in the back of the neck, and
seven deep and ugly gashes had been chopped
in the back part of his head and neck with
an axe.
The shooting was done by his wife, and his
stepdaughter, wielded the axe, according to
the jury’s verdict.
The story of the woman was to the effect
that
Wilson had returned to the house from
his morning chores in an ugly mood.
The wife claims he began abusing the
stepdaughter and finally struck her several
blows. The mother claims that when she
went to the assistance of her daughter
Wilson grabbed a chair and ran her out
of the house, again renewing his attack on
the girl. She claims that
Wilson secured a pistol and fired two
shots at her, but both went wild. Mrs.
Wilson told the jury she had run around
the house after being fired upon, entire
through another door and sought to disarm
her enraged husband, that during the scuffle
for possession of the gun, she fell and the
gun was discharged,
Wilson at the same time falling across
her prostrate body. At this point, the
girl, believing that her stepfather was
about to kill her mother and had already
shot her, grabbed an axe and began hacking
away at the man’s head and neck.
We wish to thank our many friends who
rendered so many acts of kindness during the
illness and death of our beloved father and
brothers. Also we wish to thank the
Congregational Church and choir, Rev. Joel
Burgess, The Modern Woodmen of America,
Royal Neighbors of America, and all of those
who expressed their sympathy with flowers.
Harry
Fulkerson, age 37 years, died at his
home in Mounds Thursday afternoon at 2:30
o’clock. He is survived by his mother,
Mrs. Mary
Fulkerson, and the following sisters and
brothers: Miss Martha Fulkerson, Mrs.
Oran
Trafford, Mrs. Ed
Young, Mrs. C.S.
Copeland, all of Mounds, Mrs. America
Fleming, of Vienna, Illinois, and Otto
Fulkerson, of East St. Louis. All
were at his bedside when the end came, with
the exception of the brother of East St.
Louis. She had been confined to his
bed for the past six months.
The body was taken to the home of his
sister, Mrs.
Young, and funeral services were held
there Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock
conducted by Walter F.
Wissman, of St. Louis, representative of
the International Bible School.
Interment was made in Beech Grove Cemetery.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 28 Jun 1929:
Charleston, Mo.—The body of E. J.
Ferrell, 70, of Cobden, Ill., who
committed suicide in a hotel here was taken
to Carbondale Sunday and buried in the
family lot beside his wife, who died several
years ago.
Ferrell, a traveling book salesman, is
believed to have ended his life Friday
morning, but his body was not found until
late Saturday afternoon, when John
Mitchell, manager of the hotel, became
alarmed because
Ferrell had not been seen for two days
and broke open the door to this room.
Ferrell
had been stopping at the hotel for the past
seven years and was well known in
Charleston.
Five weeks ago he came here and engaged a
room. He seemed to be in financial
difficulties and the manager did not press
him for money. He also was said to
have been suffering from indigestion.
Relatives were notified and a nephew, John
Snyder, of Cobden, arrived with an
undertaker to claim the body. Dr.
Frank
Vernon, coroner, held an inquest and a
verdict of suicide induced by financial
troubles and ill health was returned.
The undertaker then removed to body to
Carbondale. Mr.
Ferrell is survived by a daughter living
in New York and a son who is a student at
Annapolis Military Academy.
(His death notice in the 28 Jun 1929,
Jonesboro Gazette gives his name as Ed
G.
Ferrill and states he was buried in
Carbondale, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
We desire to express our appreciation and
thanks to all who so lovingly rendered us
assistance and sympathy during the recent
illness and death of our dear son and
brother, Harry. Also to thank all for
the use of their cars, the beautiful floral
offerings, and especially do we thank the
members and minister of the Congregational
Church for their kindness in offering us the
use of their church. May God bless you
all is the wish of
We desire to thank the friends and neighbors
who so kindly assisted us following the
death of our loved one, Elisha
Lovellette. We wish especially to
thank, Rev. H. B.
Shoaff and the singers.
Warren
Martin, colored, a former Mounds
resident and son of John
Martin, well known carpenter of this
city, died in Indianapolis, Ind., Friday,
June 21, as a result of taking poison
presumably by mistake.
His age was 33 years.
The body was brought to the home of his
father arriving Wednesday of this week.
Funeral services were held at the family
residence on Thursday afternoon, Rev. J. T.
Dodson officiating. Interment was
made in Thistlewood Cemetery with G. A.
James directing.
Elisha
Lovellette, age 42 years, 3 months and
19 days, died suddenly Monday evening, June
24, at 6:15 o'clock at his home west of
town.
Mr.
Lovellette was the eldest son of Mr. and
Mrs. George
Lovellette and is survived by his
parents, his widow, two children and two
stepsons, Will and Lee
Staten, also one brother, Frank
Lovellette, and two sisters, Mrs. O. H.
Kekow and Mrs. Leo
Lingle.
Funeral services were held at the grave
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Rev. H. B.
Shoaff officiating. Interment was
made in Thistlewood Cemetery with Undertaker
G. A.
James in charge.
Mr.
Brown was strictly honest and
conscientious and could not endure the idea
of having obligations which he could not
meet. Here, again its strain was too great.
This suggests a new and unexpected field for
social workers. The best of men and
women need encouragements and help when
overtaken by adversities. We have
institutions and organizations to see that
destitute persons are clothed and fed.
We need an organization to bring aid and
encouragement to honest souls who are trying
to help themselves, but who are on the verge
of losing hope.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 5 Jul 1929:
Pulaski Boy of Five Called by Death
William Arthur
Lindsey, age five years, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Barney
Lindsey, of Pulaski, died at the family
home Friday, June 28. Funeral services
were held Saturday morning at 11 o'clock at
Rose Hill Church conducted by Rev. Mr.
Vick of
Tamms. Interment was made in Rose Hill
Cemetery.
(His death certificate states that William
Arthur
Lindsey was born 13 Aug 1923, in
Pulaski, Ill., the son of Barney
Lindsey and Hertie
McBride, and died 29 Jun 1929, in
Pulaski, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 5 Jul 1929:
Mr. Elisha
Lovellette, age 42 years, passed away at
his home west to Mounds Monday.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon, the Rev. H. B.
Shoaff officiating. The services
were held at the grave in Spencer Heights
Cemetery. Surviving him are his widow,
four children, his parents, one brother and
four sisters.
(His death certificate states that Elisha
Lovellette was born 5 Mar 1887, in
Mounds, Ill., the son of George
Lovellette and Susan E.
Nesler, and died 24 Jun 1929, in Pulaski
Co., Ill.
George
Lovellette married Susan E.
Nesler on 3 Jun 1883, in Wabash Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
William
James, son of G. A.
James, and Mrs.
James and son, Junior, were called to
Sesser, Illinois, last Friday on account of
the death of the former’s sister.
Funeral services were held Friday.
They were accompanied home by Alvin
Stout, nephew of G. A.
James, who will spend several days
visiting in Mound City.
William Arthur
Lindsey, age five years, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Barney
Lindsey, of Pulaski, Illinois, passed
away at his home Friday. Funeral
services were held Saturday morning at 11
o’clock at the Rose Hill Church conducted by
the Rev. Mr.
Vick
of Tamms. Interment was made in Rose
Hill Cemetery. W. H.
Aldred directed the funeral.
Mrs. Mary A.
Brown, age 77 years, widow of C. H.
Brown of Pulaski, died at her home
Saturday morning at 9 o’clock. Mrs.
Brown was well known throughout Pulaski
County and had a large circle of friends who
are grieved to learn of her death.
Mrs.
Brown was a member of the Christian
Church of Pulaski. She was a member of
the Eastern Star Chapter of Pulaski and Zion
Shrine No. 58, Order of the ___e Shrine of
Jerusalem, of Mound City. She is
survived by two daughters, Mrs. Nellie
Rogers, of Monmouth, Illinois, and Mrs.
Bert
Moore, of Osceola, Ark., and a son,
Frank
Brown, of Pulaski.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon
at 2 o’clock at the Christian Church in
Pulaski, conducted by the pastor, Mr.
Harmon. After the services the
cortege moved by automobile to Rose Hill
Cemetery, where interment was made. W.
H.
Aldred directed the funeral.
Services at the cemetery were conducted by
the Eastern Star Chapter.
(Charles H.
Brown married Mary A.
Rowley on 26 Sep 1869, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
Her marker in Rose Hill Cemetery at
Pulaski reads:
Charles H.
Brown 1846-1914 Mary A.
Brown 1851-1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
Arthur G.
Mercer passed away Friday, July 5, 1929,
at 12:30 o’clock at his home in this city
after an illness of several months.
Mr.
Mercer was 46 years of age and had lived
in this city for the past several years.
He leaves to mourn his death, his widow,
four children, one brother and a host of
friends.
Funeral services were held Saturday night at
7:30 o’clock at the family residence,
conducted by Sister
Mabus, who was conducting special
services at the Pentecostal church in this
city. The funeral cortege left by
early boat Sunday morning for Sikeston, Mo.,
where interment was made in the Sikeston
cemetery by G. A.
James funeral director.
Raleigh Reid
Farris, 27, formerly of Cairo, but for
the last two years employed in Detroit,
Mich., was perhaps fatally shot at the Roy
Richardson filling station at
Twenty-fifth Street about 2 o’clock Tuesday
afternoon by Edna
Larrison, of Mounds, said to have been a
former sweetheart of the victim.
Farris
was rushed to St. Mary’s Infirmary in Cairo
and is in a serious condition. One
bullet penetrated
Farris’ liver and another pierced his
lung. A third bullet grazed his arm.
Doctors were unable to remove the bullets
that penetrated the lung and liver.
Farris
was underneath his car working on it when,
according to police, the
Larrison girl drove up, stopped her car
and opened fire just as
Farris is said to have been emerging
from beneath his own car.
Farris was married last Saturday night
at Mounds to Miss Lillian Irleen
Parmely, of that city, who was formerly
a waitress at Nick’s Cafe in Cairo. It
is supposed that
Farris was shot as a result of the
Larrison girl’s jealousy which was
brought to a fever heat by the marriage.
Chief
Kelsey arrested Miss
Larrison late Tuesday afternoon after
she called headquarters by telephone and
said she wished to surrender. She
remains in the city jail pending the outcome
of
Farris’ injuries. She persistently
refused to make a statement for publication.
When told that
Farris was in a serious condition she
broke down and cried. She denied that
she shot
Farris because of jealousy over the
marriage. An odd angel of the
situation was that Miss
Larrison and the girl whom
Farris married attended school together
at Mounds a few years ago.
Alex
Johnson, colored, a witness to the
shooting, said the woman opened fire on
Farris as he pulled himself from under
the car on which he was making some repairs.
“I’m sorry, but it can’t be helped now,”
Farris had said to his former sweetheart
as he was pulling himself from under the car
according to
Johnson’s version. “Yes, you put
one over on me all right,” Miss
Larrison had replied and started
shooting at
Farris as he was rising,
Johnson said. Getting to his feet,
Farris had grappled with Miss
Larrison.
Johnson
told the police that at least one more shot
was fired during the struggle.
Farris had shoved the woman away with
such force that she fell over a car.
He had managed to knock the gun out of her
hand.
Farris had then walked to the front of
the battery station and collapsed, while
efforts were being made to call the police
and an ambulance. Miss
Larrison had returned to the car with
her sisters, Ethel, and driven away. A
few minutes later she called the police from
a downtown barber shop, told Chief Clyde
Kelsey what she had done and voluntarily
surrendered to him. Miss
Larrison and her sister had driven to
the battery station in a car and the sister
had waited in the car while Edna and
Farris were talking, but had gotten out
and gone to her sister after the shooting.
Statements of witnesses whose attention was
attracted by the first shot, conflicted.
Some thought that no shot was fired after
Farris got to his feet while others
thought several shots were fired at that
time. Examination of the .22 caliber
revolver showed only three empty shells.
(Raleigh Reed
Farris recovered and died in August 1964
in Detroit, Mich.—Darrel
Dexter)
Samuel Rily
Basse passed away at his home near Villa
Ridge Friday morning at 6 o’clock after a
short illness.
Mr.
Basse was born September 6, 1866, and
was the second son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
H. H.
Basse. He had lived his entire
life here and had followed farming and stock
raising, the latter being his greatest
delight.
Mr.
Basse lived a consistent Christian life
having united with the Lutheran church in
Pulaski County when quite young and later
moved his membership to the church at Cairo,
where he was a member at the time of his
death.
Funeral services which were very largely
attended were held Sunday afternoon at 2
o’clock at Center Church conducted by Rev.
C. Robert
Dunlap, pastor of the Lutheran Church of
Cairo, who paid a beautiful tribute to the
fine Christian character of the deceased.
A quartet composed of Mrs. W. E.
Shumaker, Mrs. Leroy
Stoner, Mr. G. A.
James and Rev. C. Robert
Dunlap sang, “Sweet By and By,” and
“Asleep in Jesus,” and the choir sang, “God
Be With you Till We Meet Again,” and
“Beautiful Isle.”
Miss Laverne
Clanahan presided at the organ.
Mr.
Basse is survived by two sisters, Misses
Sarah and Mary
Basse, with whom he resided, six nieces,
thirteen nephews, two sisters-in-law, and
many other relatives and friends. His
remains were laid to rest in Concord
Cemetery, beside his father, mother and two
brothers, who preceded him to the new world.
G. A.
James directed the funeral. The
pallbearers were: H. D.
Hileman, W. L.
Richey, Hiram
Chittick, Loy
Bagby, J. W.
Waite, and Jesse
Clanahan.
(Henry Harmon
Basse married Sarah Catharine
Shoemaker on 2 Jan 1862, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
His marker in Concord Cemetery near
Olmstead reads:
Samuel
Rily
Basse Born Sept. 6, 1866 Died July 5,
1929 Son.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 12 Jul 1929:
Edna Larrison Shoots Raleigh Reid Farris
Over Love Triangle
Victim Married Another Girl on Day Set for
His Wedding with Miss Larrison
Raleigh Reid
Farris, 29, was shot and perhaps fatally
wounded by Edna
Larrison, 21, about 2 o'clock Tuesday
afternoon at the small garage and battery
station of Roy
Richardson at 2314 Sycamore Street,
Cairo.
According to the story of Alex
Johnson, colored, who saw the shooting,
Miss
Larrison opened fire on
Farris as he pulled himself from
under his car where he had been making some
repairs. One bullet penetrated
Farris' lung and another pierced his
liver while a third grazed his arm.
Farris
and Miss
Larrison had been engaged, according to
the story of a brother, of Miss
Larrison, for two years.
He formerly lived in Cairo, but went
to Detroit some time ago, where he obtained
employment. While there he sent for
the girl to come and marry him, but when she
arrived he had decided he was not yet ready
to marry. She obtained employment in
St. Louis. Last week he wrote her in
St. Louis telling her to come to Mounds and
they would be married on Saturday. She
did so and waited at home all day Saturday
and Sunday for
Farris. Someone then gave her news
of his wedding on Saturday night to Miss
Lillian Irene
Parmley, also of this city.
Johnson
said as
Farris pulled himself out from under his
car, he remarked, "I'm sorry, but it can't
be helped now." She answered, "Yes,
you put one over on me all right." and
started shooting. Pulling himself to
his feet,
Farris grappled with the girl and
Johnson says he pushed her with such
force that she fell over a car.
Farris walked to the front of the
battery station and collapsed. An
ambulance was called and he was taken to St.
Mary's Infirmary where he lies in a critical
condition.
Miss
Larrison and her sister Ethel had driven
to the battery station and her sister had
remained in the car until the shooting then
had gotten out and gone to Edna. They
returned to the car and drove away. A
little later Edna called the police station,
told what he had one and voluntarily
surrendered to Chief of Police Clyde
Kelsey. Examination of the 22
caliber revolver she had used showed three
empty shells.
Miss
Larrison was taken to the city jail in
Cairo, where she remains pending the outcome
of
Farris' injures. The
Cairo
Citizen states that she persistently
refuses to make a statement for publication.
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.N.
Larrison who live on the
Royall farm just west of town. She
and Miss
Parmley are both former pupils of
Thistlewood School. Her mother is
frantic over the tragedy. When the
girl was told of the serious condition of
Farris, she cried, but would not talk.
Infant Daughter Dies
Betty Jean, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce
Jones, was born Tuesday morning, July 9,
at the home of her grandmother, Mrs. Hattie
Horner and passed away Thursday morning,
July 11th.
The bereaved young parents have the sympathy
of the entire community this being the
second baby they have lost.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon and the little daughter was
tenderly laid by the side of her baby
brother. Mrs.
Jones was, before her marriage, Miss
Mildred
Horner.
Samuel Riley Basse Dies at Home East of
Pulaski
Samuel Riley
Basse, a life-long resident of Pulaski
County, died at his home four miles east of
Pulaski Friday morning, July 5 at 6:15
o'clock, at the age of 62 years, 9 months
and 29 days.
Mr.
Basse, who was the second son of H. B.
and Sarah C.
Basse, was born Sept. 6, 1866. He
was born and spent his entire life at the
family home. His father and mother
died some five years ago, only thirty days
apart, each at the age of 81 years. He
had two brothers, Eliu and William H.
Basse, both deceased. He is
survived by two sisters, Misses Sarah and
Mary
Basse, with whom he resided, also five
nieces and nine nephews.
Funeral services were held at the Center
Church Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock,
conducted by Rev. C. Robert
Dunlap, pastor of the Emanuel Lutheran
Church of Cairo. Interment was made in
Concord Cemetery with undertaker G. A.
James directing.
Mrs. Mary Brown of Pulaski Dies Saturday
Mrs. Mary
Rowley
Brown, died Saturday, July 6, at her
home in Pulaski, Ill., at the age of 77
years.
She was the daughter of J. W. and Elizabeth
Rowley, and was born in Harrison, Ind.,
September 4, 1851. When eight years
old she moved with her parents to Cairo.
Later the family moved to Pulaski.
She was married September 26, 1869, to
Charles Henry
Brown. To this union five children
were born, three of whom survive, Mrs. A. A.
Rogers, of Monmouth, Ill., Mrs. B. R.
Moore, of Osceola, Ark., and Frank R.
Brown, of Pulaski. She also leaves
seven grandchildren, six great-grandchildren
one sister, Mrs. Ella
Fitzpatrick, of California, and two
nieces, Mrs. William
Crain, of Centralia, and Miss Olga
Fitzpatrick, of California.
In her youth, she united with the
Episcopal Church of Cairo. In 1913 she
joined the Christian Church of Pulaski.
She was a member of the Eastern Star Chapter
of Pulaski, Zion Shrine of Mound City, and
Alma Rebekah Lodge of Cairo.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon
at 2 o'clock at the Christian Church of
Pulaski, the Rev. Mr. Holloman
conducting the services. Interment was
made in Rose Hill Cemetery.
MURPHYSBORO—A blister, which formed on her
heel when she was ten years old caused blood
poisoning from which Mrs. John
Williams, 23 years old, formerly Miss
Lucille
Clements, died in a hospital at
Murphysboro a few days ago. She
neglected to have the sore treated by a
doctor at the right time and when she did do
so, it was too late. Moral. See
the doctor before taking the advice of
others.
MURPHYSBORO—Kavanaugh
Martin, 23, Marion Bakery driver, died
of a broken back ten hours after he dived
into a shallow pool in Lewis Creek a mile
above where it empties into Big Muddy River
at Murphysboro Sunday.
He had gone with some other young men,
including Douglas
Coulter, a Review employee, his cousin,
to swim in a pool alongside the Mobile and
Ohio tracks at high rock south of the city,
where a waterfall dug out a pool. It
was only four feet deep.
Martin
tried a high spiral drive from a spring
board and struck in a shallow part of the
pool, on his neck and shoulder. He was
rendered unconscious and died ten hours
later as a result of a dislocated neck.
Surgeons performed a last minute operation
in the hope of reducing the dislocation, and
perhaps saving his life.
Martin
leaves a wife and eight-month-old baby.
BENTON—Frank
Conditt, of Benton, was instantly killed
Friday morning when his body came in contact
with a live wire carrying 11,000 volts.
Conditt was a lineman for the Central
Illinois Public Service Company and was
helping to install meters at Ina.
For four hours efforts were made by fellow
workman to bring back breath but to no
avail.
Conditt
had just installed a meter in a home, but
when the switch was turned on there was no
light and he discovered that there was no
connection at the transformer on a pole near
the house. While climbing the pole to
make the connection, his body came in
contact with the live wire. He was
discovered by a fellow workman at a
neighboring house who said that he heard a
sizzling noise and looked up to see
Conditt's body dangling from the pole.
It required about five minutes to get the
body down. The hot current set his
clothing on fire and the body was horribly
burned.
Mr.
Conditt was married, but had no
children. He was about 32 years of
age. He leaves a father and mother who
live in Shawneetown.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 19 Jun 1929:
Mrs. L. Schneider Loses Sister
Mrs. L.
Schneider was called to St. Louis
Wednesday by the death of her sister, Mrs.
E. N.
Hamilton. Mrs.
Schneider had spent the day Tuesday with
Mrs.
Hamilton, leaving at 4 p.m. The
message containing the notice of her death
at 7:30 p.m. reached Mrs.
Schneider on her return home.
Funeral services were held Friday. Mr.
Schneider attended the funeral.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 19 Jul 1929:
Miss Edna
Larrison, 21, of Mounds, is being held
without bond in the city jail on a charge of
attempting to murder Reid
Farris, her former sweetheart, ___ twice
through the body on Tuesday of last week at
the battery station and garage of Roy
Richardson, at 2314 Sycamore Street, two
days after
Farris had married Miss Lillian
Parmley, 17, of Cairo, but formerly of
Mounds, and a former school mate of Miss
Larrison.
Miss
Larrison was taken before Judge M. S.
Egan,
in police court on the warrant late
Saturday. She was granted a
continuance of 10 days.
Reid
Farris remains in a serious condition at
St. Mary’s Infirmary in Cairo. Hope for his
recovery has not been abandoned, but doctors
refuse to minimize the graveness of his
condition. The warrant was sworn out
by James L.
Farris, father of the wounded man.
Mrs. Jennie
Kreitner, age 68 years, passed away at
her home in Belleville, Illinois, Wednesday.
Funeral services were held Friday afternoon
at 2 o’clock in Belleville and interment was
made in the family lot in Walnut Hill
Cemetery. The Rev. Emma
Stolenberg, pastor of the Divine Science
Church, conducted the services.
Mrs.
Kreitner had a large circle of friends
in Mound City and the surrounding community
where she, with her family resided, for a
number of years. Mrs.
Kreitner was born in Belleville, October
14, 1862, and was the daughter of the late
Mortiz and Nancy Ann
Dobschutz. She was united in
marriage March 20, 1890, in Belleville to
Frank
Kreitner, who operated a drug store in
Belleville, later coming to Mound City where
he operated a drug store where the C. F.
Bode
store is at the present time. Mr.
Kreitner passed away in this city on
March 14, 1914.
Left to mourn her passing are the following
children: Mrs. Peter
Jacobs, Mrs.
Moehrl and Mrs. E.
Klem,
all of Belleville, William
Kreitner, of Cairo, Morris
Kreitner, of Mound City, Frank
Kreitner, of St. Louis, and Mrs. Harry
Morris, of Tiffin, Ohio. She
leaves 19 grandchildren, a sister, Mrs.
Charles
Schott, of Belleville, and two brothers,
Morita
Dobschutz, of Greenville, Illinois, and
John
Dobschutz, of St. Louis. Several
relatives from Mound City and Cairo attended
the funeral.
(Frank
Kreitner married Martha J. C.
Dobschutz on 30 Mar 1882, in St. Clair
Co., Ill.
Charles
Schott married Annie
Dosbschutz on 24 Nov 1887, in St. Clair
Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Kansas
Wilson and daughter Anna
Robinson, colored, charged with murder
of
Wilson, the husband and stepfather,
entered pleas of guilty of manslaughter and
were sentenced from one to fourteen years.
Thomas
Jaynes, age 51 years, died at his home
in Mounds Monday night at 10 o’clock.
He had resided with his family in Mounds for
the past two years. Surviving him are
his widow and four children, a daughter, who
lives in Arkansas, a son, Carl, of Flint,
Mich., and two daughters, of Mounds, Miss
Christine, night telephone operator, and
Miss Kathleen. Before coming to
Mounds, he, with his family, resided in
Parma, Mo. Funeral services were
conducted Wednesday by the Rev. H. C.
Croslin.
Little hope is being held for the recovery
of Reid
Farris, who was shot twice through the
body by Edna
Larrison, of Mounds, a former
sweetheart, in the battery station of Roy
Richardson, 2314 Sycamore Street on the
afternoon of July 9, two days after Farris
had married Lillian
Parmley, 17, of Cairo.
With
Farris in a grave condition at St.
Mary’s Infirmary, State’s Attorney M. J.
O’Shea went to the hospital to obtain a
statement from him. Miss
Larrison remains in the city jail, where
she is being held without bond on a charge
of attempt to murder
Farris. The warrant was sworn out
by James L.
Farris, father of the injured man.
Frank
Brown, of Pulaski, received a message
stating that Tom
Daley, who formerly resided in Pulaski,
was drowned at Centralia, Sunday. Mr.
Daley was born in Pulaski and lived
there until he reached manhood. He had many
close friends who will regret to hear of his
tragic death. Two weeks ago he was in
Pulaski to attend the funeral of Mrs. Mary
A.
Brown. Besides his wife and family
he leaves to mourn his passing a sister,
Mrs. Maggie
Thompson, of Cairo.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 26 Jul 1929:
Thomas Jaynes Dies Monday Night
Thomas
Jaynes, age 51 years, 2 months and 29
days, died at his apartment on South Oak
Street at 10:10 p.m. Monday
Mr.
Jaynes was born in Illinois, but had
lived in Missouri a great part of his life.
About 2 years ago he moved to Mounds.
He leaves two daughters and a son. One
daughter, Miss Christine, lived with her
father and has been employed as night
operator for the Illinois Bell Telephone
Company in the local office.
Funeral services were held Wednesday with
interment in the Anderson Cemetery near
Boaz, Illinois, Rev. Whitwall
Hogg,
of Karnak officiating. Undertaker G.
A.
James was in charge.
Father of Mrs. Forest Nixon Dies
Mr.
Marberry, father of Mrs. F.
Nixon, died Saturday night at Metropolis
and was buried Monday at Reevesville.
Mrs. George
Dunn,
wife of a former pastor of the Mounds M. E.
Church, is also a daughter of Mr.
Marberry. He was about 81 years of
age and was the father of 10 children, all
of whom are living and attended the funeral,
says the
Carbondale Free Press.
Little Boy Dies
Lorenza
Dixon, colored, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Dixon, died at the family home on
Tuesday, July 23, at 9:40 p.m., at the age
of 3 years, 4 months and 9 days.
Funeral services were held at the A. M. E.
Church Thursday, July 25, at 2 p.m.
Interment was made in Thistlewood Cemetery
with Undertaker George P.
Hartwell in charge.
(Earl
Dixon, of Erin, Tenn., married Carrie
Albritton of Fulton, Ky.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Charlotte
Aldrich passed away at her home Sunday
night, July 21st. She was taken
to Indiana, Tuesday morning for burial.
She leaves to mourn her death two daughters,
Mrs. Betty
Peterson, of Herrin, and Mrs. Florence
Ryan,
of Ullin, and one son, John
Aldrich, of Ullin, and other relatives.
(Ullin)
(Her death certificate states that
Charlotte
Aldrich was born 15 Jan 1863, in
Indiana, the daughter of Ralph
French and Elizabeth
Kivett, and died 21 Jul 1929, in Ullin,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
JONESBORO—Moses
Barnhart, 101 years old, of Cypress,
Ill., died Thursday. He lived near
Vienna, Ill., until three years ago, when he
moved to Cypress to make his home with his
granddaughter, Mrs. Robert
Martin.
He leaves a daughter, grandchildren
and great-grandchildren.
(Moses
Barnhart married Eliza Catharine
Karricker on 21 Aug 1854, in Johnson
Co., Ill.
Moses
Barnhart married Margaret
Hausner on 25 Feb 1862, in Johnson Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
CARMI—Elder A. J.
Coale, for seventy-seven years a
resident of White County and for fifty-seven
years a member of the Mount Pleasant
Primitive Baptist Church, forty-two years of
this time the fateful pastor, died at the
home in Burnt Prairie Township, where he had
lived for more than fifty years, on July 9,
1929, at the ripe old age of 82 years, 2
months and 8 days. The funeral service
was held in the church, where he had labored
so faithful for almost a half century, in
charge of Elder M. L.
Gwaltney, assistant pastor for the past
few years, assisted by Elders Charles
Jones, C. C.
Hughes, and W. C.
Arnold, July 10, 1929.
This service was as he had planned and was
conducted in the simple manner which was
ever characteristic of his labors in the
gospel ministry. An obituary, written
by his own hand, was read at the funeral
service.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 2 Aug 1929:
Mrs. Amalie
Wesenberg, widow of the late H.
Wesenberg, passed away at her home near
America at 1:30 Thursday morning after a
brief illness. Mrs.
Wesenberg was 80 years of age and had
been very active all her life until her
recent illness. She was born in
Germany, coming to this country in 1874 with
her husband settling at America in the
homestead where she passed away. She
is survived by three sons, Charles
Wesenberg, of America, Dr. W. R.
Wesenberg, of Mound City, and Dr. Paul
Wesenberg, of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Mrs.
Wesenberg had many friends, was a kind
and loving mother and a good wife. She
was a member of the Lutheran Church.
While Mrs.
Wesenberg had been shut in from the
world for several years, she was always glad
when her friends and relatives came to visit
her.
Funeral services will be held Saturday
afternoon at 1:30 o’clock , the Rev.
Huebotter of the Lutheran Church of
Olmstead officiating. Interment will
be made in Beech Grove Cemetery by G. A.
James, funeral director.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 9 Aug 1929:
Later, she went into the yard with a lamp to
see if he was around.
Anderson, she said, took the lamp away
from her and knocked her down with it.
Then, according to her story, he whipped out
a razor and slashed her between the eyes,
cursed her and went away.
The woman went to a doctor, who took four
stitches to close the slash between her
eyes.
Funeral services for Mrs. R. J.
Yost,
a former resident of this city, who passed
away at 6:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon of
last week at her home in St. Louis were held
on Friday afternoon and interment was made
in a St. Louis cemetery. Mrs.
Yost’s
daughter, Mrs. Henry
Beaupre, and granddaughter, Mrs. George
Rutledge, of this city, attended the
funeral. Besides her daughter, Mrs.
Beaupre, granddaughter, Mrs.
Rutledge, and grandson, Arlie
Rutledge, of this city, Mrs.
Yost
leaves to mourn her passing a son, Eugene
Yost,
three granddaughters, Misses Gail, Eunice
and Valada
Yost,
of Carbondale, also many other relatives and
a host of friends. Mrs.
Yost
recently celebrated her 91st
birthday anniversary. She had been in
failing health for the past several years
and her death was not unexpected.
Moses
Schwab, age 79 years, a retired
merchant, who formerly resided in Paducah,
Ky., passed away Tuesday afternoon at 3:15
o’clock at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Ben
Blum, of this city. Mr.
Schwab had been in failing health for
several months.
Mr. and Mrs.
Schwab came to Mound City from their
home in St. Louis 16 days ago to visit with
their daughter and family. Last
Thursday Mr.
Schwab became seriously ill.
He was born in Germany, coming to America
when quite a young man. After residing
in Paducah for many years, where he was in
the mercantile business, he retired moving
to St. Louis, where since that time they
have made their home with another daughter,
Mrs. Al
Stein.
Besides his widow, and two daughters, Mr.
Schwab is survived by two grandchildren,
Miss Tessie
Blum,
of this city, and Billy
Stein, of St. Louis, besides other
relatives and a large circle of friends.
Mr. and Mrs.
Schwab have formed _____ in this city
and the bereaved family has the sincere
sympathy of their many friends here.
They body was taken to Paducah Thursday
morning
via
Illinois Central, accompanied by Mr.
Blum
and Mrs.
Stein. The remainder of the family
went to Paducah by automobile.
Funeral services were held in Paducah
Thursday afternoon and interment was made in
the Jewish Cemetery.
Abraham
Weece, an old and highly respected
resident of Levings, Illinois, passed away
at his home there Monday afternoon, about
2:30 o’clock. Mr.
Weece came to that section of Illinois
with his parents when he was about two years
of age and has lived in that territory ever
since.
He is survived by his widow, two sons, Abel,
of Farmington, Illinois, Elmer, of Grand
Chain, and two daughters, Mrs. Rollie
Bayles, and Mrs. August
Ruchter, of Grand Chain. He is
also survived by a stepson, William
Price, of Levings, and one sister, Mrs.
Sam
Carson, of Los Angeles, Calif. The
latter was unable to attend the funeral
which was held Wednesday afternoon.
(The 23 Aug 1929,
Pulaski Enterprise identifies his
daughter as Grace
Reichert.
A. H.
Weece married Henrietta
McAlister on 21 Oct 1879, in Pulaski
Co., Ill.
Abraham
Weece married Mrs. Kate
Price on 10 Mar 1881, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
William
Price married Kate
Roach on 12 May 1874, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
His marker in St. Catherine’s
Cemetery at Grand Chain reads:
Abraham H.
Weece Born March 11, 1857 Died Aug. 12,
1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
Funeral services for Moses
Schwab, age 78 years, whose death
occurred in this city at the home of his
daughter Tuesday, August 6, while he was
visiting here, was held Thursday morning at
10:30 o’clock at the Roth Funeral Chapel in
Paducah, Ky., the former home of Mr.
Schwab. Mr.
Schwab was a retired merchant, left
Paducah two years ago to reside with a
daughter, Mrs. Al
Stein, of St. Louis. He had been
in failing health for some time. The
body was taken
via
Illinois Central to Paducah accompanied by
his sons-in-law, Mr. Ben
Blum,
of this city, and Mr. Al
Stein, of St. Louis. The remainder
of the party accompanied by several friends
of this city and Cairo went to Paducah
via
automobile.
Miss Edna
Larrison, of Mounds, who shot and
seriously wounded Reid
Farris, 27, a former sweetheart at a
garage in Cairo, on July 9, a day after he
had married Lillian
Parmely, 19, of Cairo, was released on a
bond of $2,500 from the city jail late
Thursday where she had been held since the
shooting on a warrant sworn out by the
wounded man’s father, charging her with
assault with intent to kill. Reid
remains in a serious condition at St. Mary’s
Infirmary in Cairo, but some hopes are held
out for his recovery. He has undergone
two operations and may have to undergo the
third. The fact that hopes for Reid’s
recovery had brightened resulted in Miss
Larrison being released on bond.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 16 Aug 1929:
Wilbert
Hobbs fired three shots at Lawrence
Gardner Tuesday about noon, two of them
taking effect.
Gardner was killed and
Hobbs and his wife are in jail at Mound
City, the former charged with homicide and
the latter with accessory to the act.
According to evidence brought forth at the
coroner’s inquest, held Wednesday morning by
coroner O. T.
Hudson, the two men had had an
altercation on Monday and
Gardner had slapped
Hobbs over the sum of $1.50 which
Gardner claimed
Hobbs owned him for repair work on
Hobbs' car.
Gardner ran a small garage and repair
shop in North Mounds.
Hobbs lost one leg some time ago from an
injury received while doing construction
work on a bridge. He used the
Construction Company and received a small
sum of money, a part of which went toward
the purchase of his car.
On Tuesday morning
Hobbs' wife, Lola, was sitting on the
porch of "Ruth's Place" in North Mounds.
Gardner was across the street and Lola
Hobbs called him over to where she sat.
While the two were talking
Hobbs stepped out of the front door of
the place and fired three shots at
Gardner, one according to testimony,
while the victim was writhing on the ground.
Two shots took effect and
Gardner soon breathed his last.
Hobbs
and his wife are in their twenties as was
also
Gardner.
Gardner leaves a father, Levi
Gardner.
Hobbs is the son of Mrs. Rob
Manning.
A bus breaking through the bridge caused the
death of Victor
Canada, 16, of Belknap and serious
injury to a number of other passengers early
Tuesday morning.
The bus, owned and driven by Curt
George, of Belknap, was loaded with 16
men and two women
en
route
to the peach orchards in Johnson County,
near Vienna.
The bridge, a large wooden structure over a
dredge ditch, was thought to be safe, but
gave way under the weight of the bus and
precipitated bus and passengers into 15 feet
of water after 1 25-foot plunge from the
bridge.
A number of the passengers were seriously
injured, and it is feared some of the
injuries may prove fatal. The body of
Canada was recovered.
Funeral services for Abraham H.
Weece, aged 72 years, who died at his
home in Levings, Illinois, Monday afternoon,
were held Wednesday of last week with
interment in St. Catherine’s Catholic
Cemetery at Grand Chain, Mr.
Weece was born in Little Rock, Ark.,
March 10, 1857. He came to Pulaski
County when two years of age with his
parents and had resided in the same locality
for the remainder of his life. He was
married to Mrs. Kate
Roach
Price March 10, 1881, and to this union
six children were born: Elmer, J. A.
Weece, Mrs. Rene
Bayless, Mrs. Grace
Reichert, Chester and Ray
Weece, the latter two having preceded
their father in death. The widow and
four children survive, besides a stepson,
William
Price. Fourteen grandchildren, one
great-grandchild, and one sister, also
survive. The pallbearers were Elmer
Weece, J. A.
Weece, William
Price, Marshall
Weece, Rollie
Bayless, and August
Reichert.
Mrs. Annie Julia
McCune, wife of J. L.
McCune, one of Mound City’s most highly
respected citizens, passed away at her home
in this city Saturday morning at 2 o’clock
following a brief illness. Mrs.
McCune was 66 years of age and had
resided in Mound City for a number of years.
She had lived an active life always doing
things for the betterment of her home and
family. She had endeared herself to a
large circle of friends by her loving
personality and Christian life. She,
through all her trials and tribulations,
could always see the silver lining behind
the darkest cloud.
Left to mourn her passing are her husband,
one daughter, Mrs. Ward
Corzine, of Mounds, one granddaughter,
Mary Leland
Painter, who had always resided with her
grandparents, two brothers and one sister.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon
at 2 o’clock at the residence, conducted by
the Christian Science organization of Cairo.
Interment was made at Mounds. G. A.
James was the funeral director.
(J. L.
McCune married Anna
Foss
on 15 Jun 1882, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker in Spencer Heights
Cemetery at Mounds reads:
Annie J.
McCune Born Oct. 4, 1863 Died Aug. 24,
1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
George
Ritter passed away Tuesday evening,
August 20, at his house near Cross Roads,
following a brief illness. Mr.
Ritter was 76 years of age. On
Wednesday the body was conveyed to
Fredericktown, Mo., the former home of the
deceased, by G. A.
James, funeral director, where the
funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon, with interment in Oak Grove
Cemetery at that city.
Reid
Farris, 27, who was shot twice in the
body by Edna
Larrison, 21, of Mounds, at the garage
of Roy
Richardson, at Twenty-fourth an Sycamore
street, July 9, one day after
Farris had married Lillian
Parmely, was sufficiently recovered to
leave St. Mary’s Infirmary last Thursday.
Despite the fact that one bullet pierced the
victim’s liver and another bullet penetrated
his lung, he made such a valiant and
determined fight for his life that he
finally began to improve after a period of
weeks when it seemed impossible for him to
recover.
Miss
Larrison was held in the city jail for
several weeks upon a warrant charging her
with assaulting
Farris with a deadly weapon with intent
to kill. She was eventually released
on bond of $2,500 when it appeared probable
that
Farris would recover. No date for
a hearing has been set.
Rev. Clyde
Bruce was called to Pocahontas,
Illinois, Tuesday to conduct the funeral of
one of his former parishioners, he having at
one time held this charge. Mrs. Eliza
Frances
Short, whose funeral he conducted, was
the mother of Charles F.
Short, former prohibition enforcement
administrator of East St. Louis, and she was
81 years of age. Rev.
Bruce was accompanied to Pocahontas by
his wife and son, Lawrence.
En
route home, they spent Tuesday night
with Mrs.
Bruce’s sister, Mrs. Albert
Baldus, and family of Belleville.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 30 Aug 1929:
Mrs. Annie
Faust McCune, age 66, died at her home
in Mound City Saturday morning, Aug. 24, at
2:00 o'clock. She had been ill for a
week or more with malaria but her death was
quite unexpected.
Funeral services were held at the family
residence in Mound City Monday afternoon at
2:00 o'clock. Interment as made in
Spencer Heights Cemetery.
The accident in which
Bell
was fatally injured occurred at the curve on
Route One, about a half mile this side of
Crossville, at approximately 12:30 Tuesday
noon. It is an evident fact that the
unfortunate man was walking along the
highway when hit and his blood covered the
slab for a distance of thirty feet.
Slivers of glass along this gory path
demonstrated that the headlight of the fast
traveling car had been smashed when the man
was struck and a piece of this headlight
bearing part of the name "Lincoln" is the
only clue that the officers have to go on in
their attempt to bring the driver of the
death car to justice.
Employees of the C. I. P. S. Co. at the
local plant saw that he was given a decent
burial. The recitation at the funeral
was made by Rev. C. B.
Harris.
The aged man had a lot in the Anna Cemetery.
The grave diggers dug into two graves.
One was that of his mother, the other a
sister's grave. The deceased had never
been married. He is survived by a
nephew "Jerry" who went away from town on
one of his "tramping" trips the day his
uncle died, but returned for peach harvest
work in the orchards.
For years and years, way back yonder, Antone
fired the lime kilns then flourishing, for
Shick and
Stinson. When the kilns closed
down, he secured work wherever he could find
it. At 103 years, he was shoveling
coal from the huge coal cars on the I. C.
tracks here.
Carson P.
Martin, age 72, died at his home in
Beech Ridge at 5:30 Sunday night, Sept. 1,
from cancer, having suffered for five years
with the malady.
He was born in Alexander County and spent
his life there. He was a pioneer in
road building having built the first gravel
road in Alexander County, a stretch of about
10 miles between Beech Ridge and Cairo.
He was a merchant and farmer, a lifelong
politician and was a former assessor and
treasurer of Alexander County.
Surviving Mr.
Martin are his widow, Mrs. Alice
Martin, one son, Attorney Hugh
Martin, of Tulsa, Okla., and a sister,
Mrs. James
Roche, of Thebes.
Funeral services were held at the family
home Tuesday at 1:30 p.m., conducted by the
Rev. W. C.
Hurst, pastor of the Cairo
Baptist Church. Interment was made in
Beech Grove Cemetery.
(Carson
Martin married Sarah Alice
Craig on1 Oct 1893, in Alexander Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Ina B.
Harrington, sister of Mrs. H. B.
Wilkerson, of this city, died Tuesday
morning at the home of another sister, Mrs.
O. C.
Walker, now of Jackson, Tenn. She
was brought to Mounds Tuesday night and was
taken to the home of her niece, Mrs. Roy
McClelland.
Surviving Mrs.
Harrington are seven sisters, Mrs. H. B.
Wilkerson, of Mounds, Mrs. O. C.
Walker, of Jackson, Tenn., Mrs. T.
Clark, of Oklahoma City, Mrs. L.
Poynor, of Memphis, Mrs. Belle
Ireland, of Miami, Fla., Mrs. Bess
Rollins, of Detroit, and Mrs. Sadie
Flack, of New Orleans. All of the
sisters with the exception of Mrs.
Rollins, were here for the funeral.
Raymond
Wilkerson, a nephew from St. Louis, was
also here as were friends from Kentucky and
Missouri.
Funeral services were held at the
McClelland residence Thursday afternoon
at 2 o'clock with Rev. H. B.
Schoaff, pastor of the M. E. Church,
conducting the services.
Undertaker George P.
Hartwell directed the funeral.
Mrs. Emma Pearl
Mangold Waite, wife of County Clerk W.
W.
Waite, died Sunday morning Sept. 1 at 4
o'clock at the family residence in Mound
city. Mrs.
Waite had not been well for some months,
but was able to be out and had been in
Mounds and Cairo with her family on Saturday
and had seemed to be feeling unusually well.
At about 9:30 that evening she became
suddenly ill and lived only a few hours.
Mrs.
Waite, who was 38 years old, was born in
Pulaski County near Olmsted. She is
survived by her husband, one daughter, Ruth,
two sons, Claude and Kenneth, her mother,
Mrs. Henry
Mangold, two sisters, Mrs. Marie
Hawkins and Mrs. Ed
Shoemaker and two brothers, Claude and
Jesse
Mangold, of Olmsted.
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon
at the first M. E. Church in Mound City with
the pastor Rev. Clyde
Bruce reading the service.
Interment was made in Thistlewood Cemetery,
G. A.
James directing the funeral.
Mrs. John
Staudacher died Monday at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Dan
Behrendt of Villa Ridge. On Sunday
she had suffered a stroke of apoplexy.
Marie
Bechtel
Staudacher was born in Wurthemburg,
German, on October 7, 1842, and was in her
87th year. Her husband who
was nearly 90, died June 29, 1929.
They were married in Germany some 67 years
before his death. They came to America
in 1834. To this union were born
eleven children, eight of whom survive,
namely: Mrs. Daniel
Behrendt, Mrs. J.
Knupp, Villa Ridge, Mrs. E.
Echols, Mrs. J.
Tapprich, and Will
Staudacher, of Ullin, Mrs. Louise
Unruh, of St. Louis, Gottleib
Staudacher, of Marion, Louis, of
Lockport. She is also survived by 39
grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.
Mrs. John
Staudacher passed away at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Dan
Behrendt, at Villa Ridge, Sunday.
She was born in Wurttenburg, Germany,
October 1842. She came to America in
1884. She is survived by eight
children, Mrs. Dan
Behrendt, Will
Staudacher, Louis
Staudacher, Mrs. J.
Tapprich, Mrs. T.
Echols, Gottlieb
Staudacher and Mrs. J.
Knupp, 39 grandchildren, and 22
great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist
Church at Ullin at 2:30 o’clock Tuesday
afternoon.
Interment was made in Butter Ridge Cemetery.
(Daniel
Behrent married Fredericka
Staudtacher on 18 Jan 1885, in Pulaski
Co., Ill.
Lewis
Staudacher, 24, of Ullin, born in
Besigheim, son of John
Staudacher and Mary
Bechtel, married Eliza
Johnson, 21, born in Alexander Co.,
Ill., daughter of Jesse
Johnson and M. J.
Meisenheimer, on 26 May 1895, in Pulaski
Co., Ill.
William
Staudacher married Theodisa E.
Mofford on 27 Jan 1889, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
Jacob
Tapperich married Mary
Staudacher on 28 Apr 1889, in Pulaski
Co., Ill.
Jesse Eldridge
Knupp, 23, of Wetaug, born in Illinois,
son of Daniel
Knupp and Catharine
Hoffner, married Minnie
Staudacher, 20, of Ullin, born in
Germany, daughter of John
Staudacher and Marie
Sebackley, on 30 Jul 1899, in
Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker in Butter Ridge Cemetery
near Ullin reads:
Marie
Staudacher 1842-1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
We wish to acknowledge with sincere thanks
the kinds assistance and expressions of
sympathy extended us during our recent grief
occasioned by the loss of our loved one.
The entire community was shocked and
saddened early Sunday morning by the news
that Mrs. Emma Pearl
Waite, wife of County Clerk Walter W.
Waite, had passed away at 4 o’clock
Sunday morning at her home on High Street.
While Mrs.
Waite had been in failing health for the
past several years, she was not confined to
her home and had been with her family in
Cairo and Mounds on Saturday, making
preparations for her children to enter
school on Monday, providing them with their
necessary books and clothing for the winter.
She returned to her home feeling unusually
well and light hearted. She had
completed her supper work and, according to
her husband and family, seemed in better
spirits than she had been for several
months. She retired at 9 o’clock and
at 9:30 called her husband, saying she was
ill.
Physicians were summoned immediately, but
all efforts failed to relieve the suffering
of the stricken woman.
Everything in the power of those who loved
her had been done in the past few years to
relieve her physical condition, but nothing
seemed to do any good. About two years
ago Mr.
Waite took his wife to Rochester, Minn.,
to the Doctors Mayo, but from this source he
received little or no encouragements.
Mrs.
Waite was a woman of a bright and sunny
disposition and during her residence in this
city had made many close friends. She
was 38 years of age and was born and reared
in Pulaski County, coming to Mound City
eleven years ago with her husband, where she
has since made her home. She was
greatly devoted to her home and her family
her first thoughts being for her husband and
children. She was a member of the
First M. E. Church of this city, a member of
the Ladies Aid Society and also a valued
member of Class Nine of the Methodist Sunday
School. On account of her ill health
she could not attend church or the other
organizations to which she belonged very
often, yet her heart was always with them
and when called upon to help any department
of the church with her financial support she
always responded readily. She was
loved by all who knew her. The entire
community joins in sympathy for the bereaved
family in this, their great loss.
Left to mourn the passing of Mrs.
Waite are her husband, one daughter,
Ruth; two sons, Claude and Kenneth, of this
city; her mother, Mrs. Henry
Mangold; two sisters, Mrs. Marie
Hawkins and Mrs. Ed
Shoemaker; two brothers, Claude and
Jesse
Mangold, of Olmsted; also a number of
other relatives and a wide circle of
friends.
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon
at the First M. E. Church, the pastor, the
Rev. Clyde
Bruce, officiating. The altar was
banked with the most beautiful flowers,
which was a silent tribute of the high
esteem in which Mrs.
Waite was held in this community.
The pallbearers were Attorney Joe
Crain, Robert
Hurst, Georg
Gunn,
Attorney Joe
O’Sullivan, Ivan
Calvin, and George R.
Martin. Interment was made in the
Thistlewood Cemetery by Undertaker G. A.
James.
(Perks, intended for last week)
(Lewis E.
Lentz, 26, born in Wetaug, son of John
H.
Lentz and Malinda
Hartman, married Annette
Hight, 20, born in Wetaug, daughter of
Alexander
Hight and Matilda
Williams, on 29 Dec 1895, in Pulaski
Co., Ill.
Her marker in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery near
Wetaug reads:
John H.
Lentz Born Jan. 10, 1835 Died April 2,
1919.
Malinda
Lentz 1843-1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
The remains of Rev. P. Oswald
Moosmuller were disinterred at the
Catholic cemetery here (Wetaug) last week
and will be taken to ____devan, Canada,
where the order of Benedictine monks are now
located.
Rev.
Moosmuller died 28 years ago and he was
in charge of the school and farm known as
Cluny.
The Pulaski
Enterprise,
Friday, 13 Sep 1929:
Body of
Wesley Baker Brought to Pulaski
The body of
Wesley
Baker, age 24, who passed away at
Detroit, Mich., September 4, arrived in
Pulaski Saturday and was taken to the home
of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Ed
Reeves.
Mr.
Baker lived near Villa Ridge and only
recently went to Detroit.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Wilda
Baker, three brothers, Norman Lee, and
Noel, of Villa Ridge, and Chester, of
Bluford, and a sister, Mrs. George
Modglin, of Bluford.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon.
W. H.
Aldred was the funeral director.
(His marker in Rose Hill Cemetery at
Pulaski reads:
Raymond Wesley
Baker Born Oct. 9, 1903 Died Sept. 4,
1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mound City
Resident Fatally Shoots Himself
The entire
community was shocked early Wednesday
morning when they learned that Arthur
Betts had shot and killed himself about
five o’clock at his home, 303 High Street,
the motive for his act being a matter which
his relatives and friends are unable to
explain.
Mr.
Betts returned Tuesday evening from
Mounds where he was in the barbering
business in the firm of
Betts and
Thomas. He went to his home as usual for
the evening meal and complained of feeling
extremely tired.
He had been
running the shop himself for some time, as
Mr.
Thomas was away on his vacation. He had
been in a rather nervous condition for
several days, but attributed the tiredness
due to the extra work.
About 8 o’clock Tuesday evening he
went up town and spent several hours with
friends and returned to his home, retiring
about the usual time, apparently in good
spirits.
His friends stated that they had
never seen him in a jollier mood than the
evening before his fatal act.
He was in the J. B.
Blankenship barber shop, he being the
last man in the chair before closing time,
and Mr.
Blankenship stated that he seemed to be
in good spirits.
It had been Mr.
Betts’ habit, occasionally, when he
awoke early, to smoke a part of a cigarette
and on this morning when he arose, Mrs.
Betts assumed that he was reaching for a
cigarette until she was horrified by the
fatal shot which Mr.
Betts had fired through his right
temple.
Death was instantaneous.
Coroner O. T.
Hudson, of Mounds, was summoned and
after examination, determined that death was
due to a self-inflicted wound.
Mr.
Betts had never enjoyed the very best of
health, but it is not thought that this
could have been the cause of his act.
He was the only son of Mr. and Mrs.
John T.
Betts, one of the most prominent and
most highly respected families in this city.
He was born and reared in this city
and was popular and well liked.
He was a veteran of the World War,
having served 18 months overseas and during
that time he suffered from shell shock.
Friends are inclined to believe that
a recurrence of this condition at times left
him in a highly nervous state and it is
believed possible that this may have led to
his tragic action.
No other cause is known.
Mr.
Betts had been married about eight
years.
His home life was ideal, his
financial affairs were in good condition and
there was no seeming reason in the world
which would cause his sudden determination
to take his own life.
The entire community is suffering
from a deep sense of shock as the result of
the tragedy.
Mr.
Betts is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Wilma
Betts, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John T.
Betts, one sister, Mrs. Carl F.
Bode,
and a number of other more distant
relatives.
Funeral
services will be held this afternoon
(Friday) at the residence, the Rev. Horace
Hastings, pastor of the Pilgrim
Congregational Church, officiating.
Interment will be made in Beech Grove
Cemetery at Mounds.
G. A.
James will be the funeral director.
(John T.
Betts married Minnie
Coldwater on 3 Sep 1890, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Melvin
Weideman of Mounds Dies Suddenly
Melvin
Wiedeman, of Mounds, passed away at noon
Monday at St. Mary’s Infirmary in Cairo of a
throat infection.
He had been suffering with a sore
throat for several days at his home, but no
doubt his condition suddenly became serious
shortly before noon Monday and he was rushed
to the hospital in an ambulance where
surgeons made desperate efforts to save his
life.
The infection had spread to his brain
and he died less than an hour after reaching
the hospital.
The young man had returned last
Friday from Evansville, Indiana, being taken
ill with acute tonsillitis, hard chills and
fever.
He had gone to Evansville to attend
school this year, and when he became ill he
returned to his home.
Surviving
Melvin are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. W.
Wiedeman, of Mounds, and a grandfather,
P. W.
Kobler, and other relatives of Cairo.
Mrs.
Wiedeman is a daughter of Mr.
Kobler.
Funeral
services were held Wednesday afternoon at 2
o’clock at the Baptist church of Mounds, the
Rev. C. Robert
Dunlap, pastor of the Lutheran Church of
Cairo, officiating.
Immediately following the services at
the church, the cortege left by automobile
for Villa Ridge where interment was made by
Undertaker G. A.
James.
(His marker
in Cairo City Cemetery at Villa Ridge next
to one for his parents, Reinholdt W. and
Minnie S.
Wiedeman reads:
Melvin V.
Wiedeman Born April 9, 1907 Died Sept.
9, 1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
Louis
Modglin, forty-five, Cambria coal miner,
was killed by an Illinois Central freight
train, bound from St. Louis to Herrin, east
of Cambria.
Mr. C. O.
Aden
died September __, 1929, after several
months’ illness.
His remains were laid to rest in St.
John’s Cemetery with ___ of Dongola
officiating. His ___ were all at his bedside
___ youngest daughter, Helen, of ____.
(Perks)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 13 Sep 1929:
Wesley
Baker, age 24, died in Detroit, Mich.,
Wednesday, September 4, after a brief
illness. He had gone to Detroit to
seek employment only a few days before his
death.
Mr.
Baker was the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. W.
Baker, of Villa Ridge. He is
survived by his parents, his widow, Wilda
Rives
Baker, three brothers, Norman Lee and
Noel of Villa Ridge, and Chester, of
Bluford, one sister, Mrs. George
Modglin, of Bluford.
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon
in Pulaski from the home of Mrs. Ed
Rives, mother of Mrs.
Baker.
Friends of Miss Nona
Douglas, of Carbondale, who, as an
employee of the Central Illinois Public
Service Company, is known by many of its
patrons in Mounds, will regret to hear of
the death of her sister, Mrs. Leonard
Holt,
of Marion, who passed away in a St. Louis
hospital following a Caesarian operation,
leaving an infant daughter, Joyce Elizabeth.
Mrs.
Holt was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John
Douglas, of Carbondale.
Miss Edith
Corzine of the Mounds C. I. P. S. office
attended the funeral which was held at
Carbondale Monday.
(A marker in Oakland Cemetery at Carbondale
reads:
Violet M.
Holt
1901-1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
Melvin
Wiedemann, only child of Mr. and Mrs. R.
W.
Wiedemann, died Monday, September 9,
1929, at St. Mary's Infirmary, Cairo,
following a short illness form acute
tonsillitis.
He was born in Maplewood, Mo., and came to
Mounds with his parents at the age of 1
year. He had reached the age of 22.
He attended the Mounds grade schools and
Mounds Township High School, graduating in
the class of 1926. The following year
he took the course of instruction in the
Coyne Electrical School of Chicago.
Last year he attended an Electrical School
in Evansville, Ind., and had returned to
Evansville only a few days before he was
taken ill. He was brought to the home
of his parents last Friday. After a
sudden turn for the worse on Monday morning
he was taken to St. Mary's Hospital Cairo,
where death claimed him at 12 o'clock noon.
The young man was blessed with a happy
disposition and easily made friends wherever
he went. Everyone in Mounds knew and
loved him, hence his passing brings grief to
the entire community. Surviving him
are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. W.
Wiedemann, his grandfather, P. W.
Kobler, his grandmother, Mrs. William
Wiedemann, of Golconda, and other
relatives.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Frist Baptist
Church, conducted by Rev. C. Robert
Dunlap, pastor of the Lutheran Church at
Cairo. The pallbearers were Rex
Beck,
Walter Lee
Beck,
Joe
Groner, Sam
Lewis, Edgar
Minton, and Ray
Cruse. The floral offerings were
many and beautiful. There was a large
attendance including many from Cairo, Villa
Ridge, and other nearby towns.
The business houses of Mounds were
closed from 2 till 3 o'clock and the schools
were dismissed for the afternoon.
Interment was made in the Villa Ridge
Cemetery, the funeral cortege going by
automobile. G. A.
James acted as funeral director.
Among those from out of town who attended
the funeral were Mrs. William
Wiedemann, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver
Kuebler, of Golconda, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Jost,
of East St. Louis, Mr. and Mrs. George
Ringhausen, of St. Louis, and Mrs. Phil
Shied, of Memphis, Tenn.
Mound City, Ill. (Special)—Arthur
Betts, aged 35, well known Mounds
barber, shot and killed himself at 5 o'clock
this morning at his home, 303 High Street,
in this city, the motive for his
self-destruction being a matter which his
friends and relatives are unable to explain.
Mr.
Betts returned Tuesday evening from
Mounds where he has been engaged for several
years in the barbering business of
Betts and
Thomas, went to his home as usual for
the evening meal and complained of feeling
extremely tired. He had been running
the shop himself for some time, as his
partner, Mr.
Thomas, was on a vacation. He had
been in a rather nervous condition for
several days, but attributed it to
tiredness, due to the extra work.
About 8 o'clock Tuesday night he went up
town and spent several hours with friends
and returned to his home, retiring about the
usual time and apparently in his usual
health.
It had been Mr.
Betts' habit occasionally, when he awoke
early, to smoke a part of a cigarette, and
this morning when he rose, Mrs.
Betts show was partially awake, assumed
he was reaching for a cigarette, until she
was horrified by the fatal shot which Mr.
Betts had fired through his right
temple. Death was instantaneous.
Coroner O. T.
Hudson, of Mounds, was summoned and
after examining the young man determined
that death was due to a self-inflicted
wound.
Arthur
Betts was a son of Mr. and Mrs. John T.
Betts, one of the most prominent and
highly respected families in the city.
He was born and reared in this city and was
popular and well liked. He was a
veteran of the World War, having served 18
months in France and during that time he
suffered from shell shock. Friends are
inclined to believe that a recurrence of
this condition at times left him in a highly
nervous condition and it is believed
possible that this may have led to his
tragic action. No other cause is
known. Mr.
Betts had been married about eight
years. His home life was ideal, his
financial affairs were in good condition,
and there was no seeming reason in the world
which would cause his sudden determination
to take his own life.
The entire community is suffering from a
deep sense of shock as the result of the
tragedy.
(John G.
Soergel married Josephine
Gattinger (also recorded as
Gattermeier) on 4 Oct 1866, in Union
Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Willis
Hugg,
brother of Mrs. A. C.
Burr,
died Monday September 16, at his home in
Binghamton, New York, following an illness
of several years' duration.
Mrs.
Burr had been visiting in his home and
helping to care for him for the past month.
Winstead
Standard, a former Mounds resident and
son of the late Mrs. M. O.
Cole,
was shot in the back of the head and it is
feared fatally injured Monday in
Bensonville, Ill., where he resides.
Accompanied by his brother, Charles
Standard, he went to the residence of a
Syrian, with a court order for eviction.
While
Winstead's back was turned the fellow
shot him with a 210 gauge shot gun, the load
taking effect in the back of the head.
Charles
Standard, the brother, was outside the
house and did not see the man shoot, as it
was done from the inside.
The wounded man was taken to a hospital in
Bensonville, where very slight hopes for his
recovery are entertained. He is
married and the father of three children.
Earl
Giles, of this city, is his half-brother
and T. L.
Cole,
is his stepfather.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W.
Wiedemann wish to express thanks and
appreciation to all friends and neighbors of
Mounds and the surrounding communities for
all expressions of sympathy and kindness
shown them during the recent illness and
death of their dear son Melvin.
We shall never fort the kindness of those
who sent floral offerings, who gave use of
automobiles, the choir, churches of Mounds
and comforting words of Rev.
Dunlap. May God bless each and
every one.
In appreciation of the kindness and sympathy
extended us following the untimely death of
our beloved husband, son and brother, Arther
Betts, we desire to express our grateful
thanks. We especially wish to thank
the Rev. H.
Hastings, of the Congregational Church,
for his comforting words, the choir, the
American Legion, those who sent the
beautiful floral tributes and others for the
sue of their cars.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 20 Sep 1929:
Infant Son
Passes Away Sunday
Harold Ray,
infants on of Mr. and Mrs. J. D.
Dillon, passed away Sunday night at
10:20 o’clock at their home on North Main
Street.
The little one was eight months old
and the family had only resided in this city
one month, the father being foreman for the
Ward Hayes Construction Company now working
on the levee work in this city.
The body was taken to Central City,
Ky., for burial.
Funeral
Services for Martin Mayer
Funeral
services for Martin
Mayer were held Monday morning at 11
o’clock in the Lutheran Church at Olmstead.
He lost his life by drowning Friday
afternoon at Dam 53.
The services were conducted by the
Rev.
Huebotter.
Interment was made in Concord
Cemetery by G. A.
James, funeral director.
(His marker
in Concord Cemetery near Olmstead reads:
Martin E.
Mayer Born June 16, 1908 Died Sept, 13,
1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
Funeral
Services for Travis Infant
Funeral
services for Margaret June
Travis, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Norman
Travis, who died Thursday morning at
seven o’clock, were held Friday afternoon at
the home of the child’s grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. John
Travis.
Funeral arrangements were in charge
of G. A.
James.
Former Mound
City Man Passes Away
Word has
been received in this city announcing the
death of Henry
Rose,
who passed away Sunday, September 8, at his
home in Poplar Bluff, Mo.
Mr.
Rose
was a former resident of this city and will
be remembered by a number of persons in this
community.
He was 76 years of age and had been
in failing health for several months.
He was known as the champion fiddler
of Missouri, having won the honor last year
at the old fiddlers’ contest held in
Jefferson City, Mo.
He is survived by his daughter, Mrs.
Marie
Stovall, of Poplar Bluff, two brothers,
Dudley
Rose,
of Los Angeles, Calif., and Frank
Rose,
of Cobden, Illinois, several other relatives
and a wide circle of friends.
Mrs. Charles
DeVore of this city is a niece of Mr.
Rose.
Aged
Resident Passed Away
Miss Nellie
O’Sullivan, age 68 years, 11 months, and
24 days, one of Mound City’s most highly
respected residents, passed away at 4:30
o’clock Thursday morning at her home in this
city.
She had been ill for several months
and her death was not unexpected.
Miss
O’Sullivan had resided in Mound City for
64 years and had many friends who will be
grieved to learn of her death.
Surviving
her are one sister, Mrs. Margaret
Sweeney, of Chicago, four brothers, Tim
O’Sullivan, Dan
O’Sullivan, James
O’Sullivan, and William
O’Sullivan, all of this city.
Several nephews and a large circle of
friends.
She was a devout communicant of St.
Mary’s Catholic Church of this city.
The funeral
will be held at 8:30 Saturday morning at St.
Mary’s Catholic Church.
Interment will be at St. Mary’s
Cemetery at Mounds.
G. A.
James will direct the funeral.
(Her marker
in St. Mary’s Cemetery at Mounds reads:
Nellie
O’Sullivan 1860-1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
CARD OF
THANKS
In
appreciation of the kindness and sympathy
extended us following the death of our
beloved son, we wish to express our grateful
thanks to the many for their kindness
extended us in our darkest hour.
William
Mayer and family
CARD OF
THANKS
In
appreciation of the kindness and sympathy
extended us following the untimely death of
our beloved husband, son and brother, Arthur
Betts, we desire to express our grateful
thanks.
We especially wish to thank the Rev.
Hastings of the Congregational Church
for his comforting words, the choir, the
American Legion, those who sent the
beautiful floral tributes and others for the
use of their cars.
Mrs. Wilma
Betts
Mr. and Mrs.
John T.
Betts
Mr. and Mrs.
Carl F.
Bode
A number of
Mounds friends attended the funeral of
Arthur
Betts, which was held in Mound City last
Friday.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 27 Sep 1929:
Funeral
Services for Miss O’Sullivan
Funeral
services for Miss Nellie
O’Sullivan, who passed away early
Thursday morning at her home in this city,
were held Saturday morning at 8:30 o’clock
in St. Mary’s Catholic Church, conducted by
Father Eugene
Traynor, assisted by Father
Traynor, of Cairo.
The pallbearers were Peter
McNeil, M. F.
Browner, Edward
Westerman, Thomas
Campbell, James
Dolan, and John
Masterson.
Interment was made in St. Mary’s
Catholic Cemetery at Mounds by G. A.
James, funeral director.
Mrs. Hugh
Sampson, of America, was in Mound City
Monday to attend funeral services for Mrs.
Ella
Ford.
Former Mound
City Resident Passes Away
The body of
Mrs. Ella
Ford,
widow of the late T. M.
Ford,
former residents of this city, who passed
away last Wednesday morning in the Glendale
Sanitarium at Glendale, Calif., arrived in
this city Monday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock,
being accompanied by her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Inez
Williamson, of Hollywood, Calif.
Funeral services were held in the
Pilgrim Congregational Church at 2:30
o’clock conducted by the Rev. Horace
Hastings, pastor of the church.
While a resident of this city, Mrs.
Ford
was a devout member of the Congregational
and a regular attendant of the church.
Her former pew was marked with a
cluster of white and purple asters tied with
a large bow of gray satin ribbon.
A number of very beautiful floral
tributes told of the high esteem in which
Mrs.
Ford was held by her many friends in
this community.
The pallbearers were M. F.
Browner, G. J.
Murphy, W. S.
Sandeson, A. C.
Mert,
C. S.
Miller, and W. F.
Jaccard.
Following the services the cortege
moved by automobile to Beech Grove, where
her body was laid beside the bodies of her
husband and son.
Many years
Mrs.
Ford’s husband, the late T. M.
Ford,
was one of Mound City’s leading dry goods
merchants.
Mrs.
Ford
left Mound City about five years ago and
since that time has made California her
home.
G. A.
James was the funeral director.
Obituary
Ella
Williamson
Ford
was born in Oswego, N.Y., December 1854,
died in Hollywood, Calif., September 26th,
1929, age 74 years, and 9 months.
Early in life Miss
Williamson moved with her family to
Chicago.
From Chicago the family moved to
Paducah, Ky., where Miss
Williamson was united in marriage to Mr.
Theodore M.
Ford,
in the year 1880.
While living in Paducah, Mr. and Mrs.
Ford
united with the Presbyterian Church.
Mr. and Mrs.
Ford
moved to Mound City in 1881, where they have
lived until about six years ago, when Mrs.
Ford
took up her abode at Hollywood, Cal., where
she died.
Mrs.
Ford,
with her mother, Mrs.
Williamson, joined the Pilgrim
Congregational Church of Mound City in 1892,
and were faithful and consistent members for
over 30 years.
Mr. and Mrs.
Ford
always had the best interest of the church,
and Christ’s Kingdom at heart.
Servant of God, well done
Thy warfare
past.
The victory is won.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 27 Sep 1929:
The passing of Mrs. Lula
Rudd,
on Thursday, September 26, at 8:45 a.m.
while not unexpected because of her long
illness, brings great sorrow to the family
and a large circle of friends.
The funeral cortege leaves this afternoon at
2 o'clock by automobile for Kevil, Ky.,
where funeral services will be held and
interment made in New Liberty Cemetery.
Undertaker G. A.
James will have charge.
The following is a brief obituary:
Lula
Rudd, wife of John L.
Rudd,
deceased, was born May 6, 1865, and died
September 26, 1929. She was a member
of the Methodist Church South. She
became a Christian and joined New Liberty
Church of McCracken Co., Ky., in her early
married life. She has always been sure
and true, ready to help those that needed
help regardless of how great the sacrifice.
In her quiet way she has lived such a
Christian life before her children and
friends, that it will be a sweet memory and
guide for us if we but follow. At the
time of death she was living in the home of
her daughter, Mrs. Bennie
Hatche, of Mounds, Ill. She leaves
six children, Messrs. Richard
Rudd,
Paducah, Ky., Sidney
Rudd,
Detroit, Mich., Mrs. Albert
Simpson, Mounds, Ill., Mrs. Bennie
Hatche, Mounds, Ill., and Mrs. Steve
Elrod, of Kevil, Ky., also eight
grandchildren, one brother, Sidney
Terry, of Cairo, Ill., and two sisters,
Mrs. Jess
Harper, Stillwell, Okla., and Mrs. Will
Warford, of Kevil, Ky.
Leon, infants on of Mr. and Mrs. Troy
Boren, of Villa Ridge, was born Sept.
23, 1929, and passed away on the same day.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. W.
J.
Ward, and the little body was laid to
rest in Beech Grove Cemetery, Mounds, on
Sept. 24.
Mrs. Charles
Lane,
long a resident of Mounds, died Wednesday,
September 25, at the home of her nephew,
James
Snell, near Perks, at the age of 78.
She leaves a half-sister, Mrs. Fannie
Snell and a nephew, James
Snell.
Mrs.
Lane continued to make her home in
Mounds, after the death of her husband until
a few months ago when she went to Perks to
her nephew's home.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist
Church this morning at 11 o'clock, conducted
by Rev.
Langford, of Karnak. G. A. James
had charge of the interment which was made
in Thistlewood Cemetery.
Mrs. J. E.
Herman, was called to Edgewood, Ill.,
Saturday by the death of Mrs. Margaret
Heth,
mother of Mrs. Bert
Yaters, a former resident of Mounds.
She was accompanied by Mrs. Joe
Hickey, and baby, of Cobden, and Mrs.
Nellie
Shields, of Thebes.
Mrs.
Heth who had frequently visited here,
was 87 years and 7 months of age.
Funeral services were held in the Edgewood
Christian Church Saturday at 10 a.m.
Mr.
Brannon became afflicted with a boil on
the back of his neck, which developed into a
carbuncle.
Skilled medical attention and careful
nursing combined in every attempt to save
him from the dreaded complication of
meningitis, but to no avail and death
triumphed.
We desire to extend our sincere thanks for
all the kindness shown to us during the
illness and after the death or our beloved
mother. Especially do we thank the
friends who offered the use of their cards
and the donors of the beautiful floral
offerings.
We desire to express our heartfelt thanks to
our many friends, for their kind expressions
of sympathy and especially to those who so
kindly assisted during the long illness and
the death of our beloved sister, and aunt,
Miss Nellie
O'Sullivan.
Obituary
Beulah Lee
Oddle was born August 14, 1912, and died
at the Anna hospital September 15, 1929,
being 17 years, 1 month and 1 day of age at
the time of her death.
She joined the Olmstead Methodist
Church 6 years ago when only a child and
renewed her faith in Christ a few weeks ago.
She leaves to mourn her loss her
father and mother, Mrs. and Mrs. James
Oddle, of Olmsted, four sisters and
three brothers, besides a host of friends
and relatives.
Funeral services were conducted at
the church by the pastor, R. F.
Scott.
She was laid to rest in the Concord
Cemetery beneath a mound of beautiful
flowers.
(Her marker in Concord Cemetery near
Olmstead reads:
Beulah Lee
Odle
Born Aug. 14, 1912 Died Sept. 16,
1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
Double
Funeral for Father and Son
A double
funeral service was conducted in Grand Chain
Wednesday morning, September 25, for Stanton
Fields and his son, Ezekiel, former
residents of Grand Chain, who were killed in
an automobile accident in Greenville, Miss.,
Sunday, September 22.
Services were conducted by the Rev.
Gilbert at the Christian Church and were
largely attended by relatives and friends.
Interment was made in the Grand Chain
cemetery.
The older man was 63 years of age,
his son was 36.
The elder Mr.
Fields is survived by one daughter, Mrs.
R. E.
Gibbons, of Greenville, Miss., and two
brothers, Ishmael, of Arkansas City, Ark.,
and Oscar
Field, of Grand Chain.
The elder Mr.
Fields was reared in the Grand Chain
community and had moved to Greenville just a
few years ago.
CARD OF
THANKS
We desire to
express our heartfelt thanks to our many
friends for their kind expressions of
sympathy and especially to those who so
kindly assisted during the long illness and
the death of our beloved sister and aunt,
Miss Nellie
O’Sullivan.
Mr. and Mrs.
J. S.
Westermann
William
O’Sullivan
James
O’Sullivan
Mr. and Mrs.
Sanford
Bagby were called to Grand Chain last
week where they attended the funeral of Mr.
Field and son, who lost their lives in
an automobile accident.
Mr.
Field and son were relatives of Mr.
Bagby.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 11 Oct 1929:
Infant Son
Passes Away Last Friday
James
Virgil, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs.
Virgil
Edwards, who was born Thursday morning,
October 3, at 7:30 o’clock, passed away
Friday morning at 9:45 o’clock at the home
of his parents in this city.
The little one was laid to rest
Saturday morning, Rev. W. J.
Ward
of Dongola conducting the short funeral
services at the grave.
Interment was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery by G. A.
James, funeral director.
(His marker
in Spencer Heights Cemetery at Mounds reads:
James V.
Edwards, Jr., Born Oct. 3, 1929 Died
Oct. 4, 1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 11 Oct 1929:
Garfield
Malone, colored, fell dead Tuesday
morning while at work at the coal chute in
the local Illinois Central yards. A
coroner’s inquest was held and the cause of
death was given as valvular heart trouble.
He leaves a widow and two children, having
married the daughter of Josh and Mattie
Williams. His age was about 45
years.
The body was sent to Greenfield, Tenn., his
old home, Thursday evening for burial.
Undertaker George P.
Hartwell had charge of funeral
arrangements.
CARD OF
THANKS
We desire to
express our sincere thanks to our many
friends for their kindness and sympathy
extended us in the death of our beloved
sister and mother, Daisy
Floyd, and also those who participated
in the services.
The Family
Mound City
Woman Dies in Hospital
Mrs. Daisy
Floyd, who has been a patient at the
State Hospital in Anna for the past few
months, passed away at the hospital Tuesday
afternoon.
G. A.
James brought her remains to her home in
Mound City and Thursday morning at 9:30
o’clock the interment was made in Spencer
Heights Cemetery at Mounds.
(Her marker
in Spencer Heights Cemetery at Mounds reads:
Daisy
Floyd Born June 26, 1876.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs.
Beaver, Sr., and daughter, Miss Nellie,
were called to Johnston City on account of
the death of Mr. Ray
Beaver’s wife which came very
unexpectedly after a brief illness of only a
few hours.
She leaves 2 children and 1 brother,
besides her husband to mourn her loss.
She was buried at Johnston City
beside her three little ones who had gone on
before and will welcome mother dear on the
other shore.
(Perks)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 25 Oct 1929:
Old Resident
of Wetaug Passes Away
Funeral
services of Jacob E.
Doane, age 63 years, who died October 13
at his home near Wetaug, Illinois, were held
last Monday at the Methodist Church in
Ullin, conducted by the Rev. Mr.
Browner.
Interment was made in Liberty
Cemetery near Pulaski, E. J.
Ford
directing the funeral.
Mr.
Doane was the son of Ephraim and Nancy
Doane.
He was born in Orange County,
Indiana, April 18, 1866.
He joined the United Brethren Church
of Wabash County when quite a young man.
He had been in failing health for the
past three months.
He was
united in marriage to Alice
Vehman March 8, 1890 and to this union
one son was born, John H.
Doane, of Bridgeport, Illinois.
His wife preceded him in death August
17, 1891.
He was again married January 12,
1893, to Fanny
Young and one daughter was born to them,
Mrs. Ellen
Leek,
of Mt. Carmel, Illinois.
His second wife died February 8,
1901.
He was again married February 23,
1902, to Hattie E.
Whiteman and to this union four children
were born, Mrs. Helen
Harrison, of Aurora, Illinois, Floyd
Doane, of Wetaug, Illinois, Mrs. Mary
Ledbetter, of Pulaski, Illinois, and
Raymond
Doane, of Wetaug.
He is survived by his widow and six
children, also six grandchildren, a brother,
Will L.
Doane, of Mulberry Ind., and many other
relatives.
Barney J.
Lee Died as Result of Accident
Barney J.
Lee,
a resident of Grand Chain, was fatally
injured while working at Dam 53 last
Thursday, October 17.
He was in the act of putting on a
belt when in some manner his arm was caught,
taking his whole body within the belt.
It
is stated that his body hit the ceiling so
hard that it broke several boards out of the
ceiling.
His bones were badly broken.
He was
removed to St. Mary’s Infirmary as soon as
possible, but he was injured so badly that
he passed away there at 6:30.
G. A.
James took the body to Leavenworth,
Ind., where interment was made.
Mr. Barney
leaves a wife and a six-year-old son,
besides a host of other sorrowing relatives
and friends.
The
Enterprise and its many friends wish to
share their heartfelt sympathy with the
bereaved family.
Mrs. Henry
Knupp, who has been ill for some time,
is in a critical condition as this writing.
(Wetaug)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 25 Oct 1929:
(The surname may be
Poe.
A marker in Cache Chapel Cemetery
near Ullin reads:
J. F.
Poe
1887-1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
Barney
Cobbs died Sunday, October 27, at the
age of 77 years and 10 months. He was
born in North Carolina, but had lived in
Mounds for many years. He was the
father of 15 children, 5 of whom survive
him.
Funeral services were held at St. John
Baptist Church Wednesday afternoon, the Rev.
J. T.
Dodson officiating. Burial was in
Thistlewood Cemetery with undertaker George
P.
Hartwell in charge.
Mrs. Anne
Boekenkamp, of Mound City, died
Thursday, October 24, at her home at the St.
Charles hotel after an illness of many
months’ duration.
Mrs.
Boekenkamp and her sister, the late Mrs.
Mary
Mulroney conducted the management of the
St. Charles Hotel in Mound City for many
years.
Her stepmother, Mrs. Norman
Harris, of Beaumont, Texas, a former
resident of Mounds, had spent much time with
her caring for her during her illness.
Funeral services were held Saturday morning
at 10 o'clock at St. Mary's Catholic Church,
with
requiem high mass conducted by her
nephew, Father Walter
Mulroney, of Biloxi, Miss., assisted by
Father Eugene
Traynor, of Mound City and Father
Taylor of Cairo.
Interment was made in St. Mary's Cemetery,
Mounds, G. A.
James directing. The pallbearers
were F. J.
Kuny,
C. F.
Bode,
O. L.
Bartlett, William
Bestgen, J. F.
Trampertt, and B.
Hutcheson.
CARD OF
THANKS
We desire to
express our heartfelt thanks to our many
friends for their kindness and sympathy
extended to us in the last illness and death
of our beloved mother, sister and aunt.
Albert
Boekenkamp and relatives
Death Claims
Noble Woman of Mound City
Mrs. Anne
Boekenkamp, who with her sister, the
late Mrs. Mary
Mulroney, built and managed the St.
Charles Hotel, of Mound City for the past
thirty years, passed away in her apartment
in the hotel Thursday night.
Mrs.
Boekenkamp, who was born in Milwaukee,
Wis., came to Mound City when a baby with
her parents, Charles and Rosanna
Curren, in 1861.
Of a large family of brothers and
sisters, there remains but one sister at
present, Mrs. Al
Schuler, of this city.
A brother, the late Charles
Curren, was well known in the political
world.
She was
united in marriage to the late Charles
Boekenkamp in 1890.
A son, Albert, survives her with a
stepdaughter, Mrs. Bertha
Harris, of Beaumont, Texas, who had been
with her for the past four months and whom
she always called daughter.
A niece, Miss Mary
Mulroney, knowing of the serious illness
of her aunt, came to care for her, she being
a graduate nurse.
A nephew, the Rev. Father Walter
Mulroney, of Biloxi, Miss., was also at
her bedside.
Lawrence
Mulroney, another nephew, was with her
when the end came.
Besides her sister, her son, she is
survived by several other nieces and other
above mentioned relatives and nephews.
Mrs.
Boekenamp was a beautiful personality
and a charitable nature, frequently
assisting the needy, as her love for
humanity was strong.
The hotel under her management became
one of the most popular in the downstate
region and as a favorite Sunday stopover for
the traveling public.
Mrs.
Boekenkamp was possessed of a high
integrity that made her an influential force
in the business life of her community.
When about
two years ago, failing health compelled her
to give up the active management of the
hotel which had for so many years been her
chief interest in life, she patiently
resigned herself to the inevitable.
Throughout the long months of her
illness none of those around her heard one
word of complaint.
To the end she was the same, poised,
composed woman they had always known and
loved.
Mrs.
Boekenkamp was a devout member of St.
Mary’s Catholic Church, of this city, and
her beautiful Christian character had
endeared her to all.
Funeral services were held Saturday
morning at 10 o’clock at St. Mary’s Catholic
Church, with
requiem high mass by Father Walter
Mulroney, of Biloxi, Miss., assisted by
Father
Taylor, of Cairo, and father Eugene
Traynor, of this city.
The church was filled with sorrowing
relatives and friends of this noble woman
who listed to an eloquent sermon by Father
Mulroney, nephew of the deceased who
extolled the beautiful Christian character
and the kind deeds of Mrs.
Boekenkamp.
Following the funeral services the
cortege moved by automobile to St. Mary’s
Cemetery where interment was made by G. A.
James, funeral director.
Many exquisite and beautiful floral
emblems, silent messengers of love and
esteem, from those who truly knew and loved
Mrs.
Boekenkamp, covered her resting place.
The pallbearers were F. J.
Kuny,
C. F.
Bode,
O. L.
Bartlett, William
Bestgen, John T.
Trampert, and B.
Hutcheson.
(A.
L.
Boekenkamp married Annie
Curren on 24 Sep 1890, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
James
Mulroney married Mary A.
Curren on 19 May 1880, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
Alfred
Schuler married Rosa
Curren on 17 Jun 1891, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
Her marker in St. Mary’s Cemetery at
Mounds reads:
Anna
Bokenkamp 1862-1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
Rev. and
Mrs. Clyde
Bruce and son were called to Atlanta,
Illinois, Tuesday on account of the death of
the former’s father, who passed away on
Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs.
H. A.
Hamlett were called to Paducah Sunday on
account of the death of a relative.
Miss Viola
Thompson accompanied them. (Mounds)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 8 Nov 1929:
Aged Pulaski
County Woman Passes Away
Mrs. Nancy
Saint, age 85 years, one of the oldest
residents of Pulaski County, passed away at
the Anna Hospital Wednesday morning, October
30. The body was removed to the home of her
daughter, Mrs. J. K.
Mitchell, in Pulaski.
Funeral services were held Friday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at St. Raphael’s
Catholic Church in Mounds, Father Eugene
Traynor, of Mound City, officiating.
The cortege left the residence of
Mrs.
Mitchell at 1:30 o’clock for the church.
Immediately after the services, the
cortege left by automobiles for St. Mary’s
Cemetery, where interment was made.
Karcher Brothers directed the funeral.
Mrs.
Saint is survived by her daughter, Mrs.
Mitchell, six grandchildren, Mrs. Vera
Fonner, of San Francisco, Mrs. Eva
Anglin, of St. Louis, Mrs. Howard
Westfall, of St. Louis, Ralph
Mitchell and Roy
Mitchell, of Kankakee, Illinois, and
George
Mitchell, of St. Louis, also several
great-grandchildren.
Infant Child
of Mr. and Mrs. Beno Passes Away
Donald
Eugene, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil J.
Beno,
passed away unexpectedly at its home in
Cairo at 11:30 o’clock Friday morning at the
age of three months.
The baby is survived by his parents,
two brothers, John Edward and Joseph Peyton,
and a sister, Mary Helen, besides his
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Beno,
and Mrs. and Mrs. E. F.
Bergman, and other relatives.
Funeral
services were held at the residence Saturday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock conducted by
Father Bernard
Pender, pastor of St. Patrick’s Church
of Cairo.
Immediately after the services the
cortege left by automobiles for Villa Ridge,
where interment was made in Calvary
cemetery, Karcher Brothers directing the
funeral.
The pallbearers were classmates of
little John
Beno,
brother of Donald.
Mrs.
Beno,
mother of the infants, was a former Mound
City girl and Miss Mary Margaret
Bergman.
She was born and reared in this city
and has many relatives here and a host of
friends who sympathize with her and her
family in their bereavements.
(A marker in
Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge reads:
Donald E.
Beno.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mound City
Man Passes Away
William A.
Doom,
age sixty-four years, passed away at his
home in this city Friday, November 1, at
6:30 a.m. after an illness of about ten
days.
Mr.
Doom
had lived in this community about five
years, moving to this city from America,
about three years ago with his family.
For a short time after coming to this
city, he was connected with
Stark Brothers Nursery Co., as the
salesman in this community.
He leaves to mourn his passing two
daughters, Mrs. John
Hall,
of America, and Miss Thelma
Dooms, of this city, who resided with
her father.
Also three sons, John, Clifford, and
William
Doom,
all of Mound City and four grandchildren.
Funeral
services were held Saturday afternoon at the
residence conducted by Rev. W. Clyde
Bruce, pastor of the First M. E. Church.
Interment was made at Mounds by G. A.
James funeral director.
Several
relatives and friends from this city
attended the funeral services of the infant
son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil
Beno,
which was held in Cairo Saturday afternoon.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 8 Nov 1929:
The friends of Mrs. T. P.
Sifford, of Anna, were grieved to hear
of her death which occurred at St. James
Hospital, Chicago Heights, Saturday
afternoon, November 2nd, from
injuries sustained in an automobile
accident.
The funeral services were held Wednesday
morning at 10 o'clock at the Lutheran church
in Anna.
Mrs.
Sifford had long been a devoted member
of this church. She was a prominent
club woman and was beloved by all who knew
her.
(Thomas Peter
Sifford, 22, born in Cobden, Ill., son
of Daniel
Sifford and Susan
Casper, married Minnie
English, 17, born in Jonesboro, Ill.,
daughter of Columbus
English and Lavina
Dewitt, on 23 Dec 1888, in Union Co.,
Ill.
Her marker in Anna City Cemetery
reads:
Thomas Peter
Sifford Born Oct. 10, 1865 Died Feb. 17,
1936 Minnie
English Sifford Born April 25, 1870 Died
Nov. 2, 1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
"Ole Man Ribber" claimed another victim
Thursday afternoon about 4 o'clock when
Lloyd
Schwartz, chief engineer of the
Carbondale division of state highways,
stepped into a hole near the river bank and
disappeared to the horror of his three
companions on a duck hunting trip.
The fatal accident occurred in the
Mississippi River near Olive Branch in
Alexander County.
According to reports, Engineer
Schwartz had shot one duck and waded out
in the river to get it. His companions
warned him that this was a dangerous
procedure, but having shot another in his
zeal drew him in again.
His body has not been recovered.
Mary J.
Bondurant, widow of the late Dr. A. A.
Bondurant, of Cairo, died Friday
morning, Nov. 1, at St. Mary's Infirmary,
Cairo, following a prolonged illness.
Surviving her are three sons, and three
daughters, Dr. Flint
Bondurant and Lonnie
Bondurant, of Cairo, Simpson
Bondurant, of Montreal, Canada, Mrs. J.
S.
Bransford and Miss Vela of Cairo, and
Mrs. Carl F.
Shumaker, of Casper, Wyoming.
Funeral services were held in the Cairo
Baptist church Sunday afternoon with
interment in the Odd Fellows Cemetery near
Charleston, Mo.
Penniless and deserted by friends, as he
died in St. Mary's Hospital a county charity
patient, Tuesday morning, George
Crawford, 52, whose fortune was
estimated at nearly $100,000 a few years
ago, in death will return to some of his
former glory, says the
Cairo
Citizen.
Instead of a cheap coffin and a grave in a
potters' field at the expense of the county,
big and genial George will be laid to rest
in a satin lined and moderately expensive
casket, bought with funds given by many of
the most prominent businessmen of the city.
Crawford's
body now rests in this casket at the funeral
home of E. A.
Burke. Funeral arrangements have
not been completed but it is expected that
interment will be made in some cemetery in a
grave to be purchased with funds donated by
friends.
Mrs. Marie
Landis, of Cape Girardeau, passed away
Saturday in a sanitarium at Mt. Vernon, Mo.,
following a long illness due to tuberculosis
of the larynx.
Mrs.
Landis was a sister of Mrs. C. D.
Doughty, a former resident of this city,
and had made many friends during her
frequent visits here. She was a lovely
young girl and her passing in the bloom of
life brings sadness to all who knew her.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon
in Cape Girardeau, the minister of the Cape
Girardeau M. E. Church conducting the
obsequies.
Henry S.
Harrell, age 13, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Earnest
Harrell, of Mound City, was almost
instantly killed Monday night, Nov. 11, at
about 8 o'clock when he was struck by a Ford
sedan driven by Clyde
Lentz, of this city.
The accident occurred on Main Street, Mound
City. So many conflicting reports have
been circulated that it seems impossible to
get a correct version of the affair.
According to available information, the boy
was riding a bicycle without a signal light
when the car appeared from behind, striking
him from his wheel to the concrete and
running over him and crushing his skull. He
was unconscious when picked up and was taken
to the office of Dr. W. R.
Wesenberg where he died a few minutes
later.
A regrettable feature of the accident is the
fact that
Lentz drove on without stopping to aid
the boy. Deputy Sheriff
Wilson happened to be near the scene of
the accident and made an effort to stop the
car, finally firing at it and puncturing a
tire.
Miss Eva
Richardson, of Mound City, and Joe
Horner, of Mounds, were in the car with
Lentz, who drove to Miss
Richardson's home where he let her out
and then rushed on to his home here.
Sheriff
Gleason and Deputies
Ewing and
Wilson followed. Locating the car
at the
Lentz garage, they found the young man
at home in bed, evidently too frightened to
face the consequences.
Horner in the meantime had returned to
Mound City where he voluntarily surrendered
to the authorities.
Both young men were placed in confinement at
Mound City and are now out on bail awaiting
the decision of the grand jury.
Coroner O. T.
Hudson conducted an inquest following
the accident and a verdict was returned by
the jury that the
Harrell boy's death had been due to
injuries received when struck by a car
driven by Clyde
Lentz.
The little fellow was the son of parents
both mute, but was a normal child and a
bright student according to his teacher.
Mrs.
Joiner was shot and killed Oct. 30 while
she was washing dishes at the
Joiner home by a shotgun in the hands of
Dr.
Joiner, who said it was discharged.
An inquest resulted in an open verdict.
Relatives of Mrs.
Joiner aver that Dr.
Joiner had made repeated threats on his
wife's life.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 15 Nov 1929:
Henry S.
Harrell, 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Earnest
Harrell, of this city, was knocked down
and fatally injured Monday night by a car
driven by Clyde
Lentz, of Mounds. The child was
immediately removed to the office of Dr.
Wesenberg, where he passed away ten
minutes after being taken in the office.
Lentz fled the scene of the accident and
escaped to his home in Mounds, after being
shot at by Deputy Sheriff James
Wilson. The
Harrell boy was riding a bicycle north
on Main Street in front of the home of John
Read,
when the car driven by
Lentz approached from behind. In
the car with
Lentz was Joe
Horner, of Mounds, and Miss Eva
Richardson, of this city.
Horner voluntarily surrendered to the
authorities of Mound City.
According to information obtained by the
authorities,
Lentz was driving at a fair rate of
speed when he crashed into the bike ridden
by the unfortunate boy. Through fright
or an intent to evade responsibility,
Lentz failed to stop and dashed away to
Commercial Avenue by the ice plant, where he
let the girl out, leaving her to get home as
best she could and he and
Horner sped to Mounds.
Wilson shot one of his tires, puncturing
it and causing it to come off the rim, and
that is how he was tracked to his home after
leaving the hard road in Mounds.
Deputy Sheriff
Wilson had spotted the car and rushed to
the garage of Tom
Cardwell, obtaining a car and followed
him to his home.
The boy was struck in front of the home of
John
Read and knocked or dragged the length
of about fifty feet. He was
unconscious when picked up and never
regained consciousness and Deputies A. J.
Riding and
Wilson and Sheriff James
Gleason of Pulaski County traced the
death car to Mounds, where they found it
splattered with blood in the
Lentz garage. Both
Lentz and
Horner were placed under arrest.
Coroner O. T.
Hudson of Pulaski County conducted an
inquest in Mound City following the accident
and a verdict was returned by the jury that
the boy’s death has been due to injuries
received when struck by a car driven by
Clyde
Lentz.
The accident caused much excitement in Mound
City, where the
Harrell boy was a favorite with all who
knew him. He was said to have been a
manly little fellow and quickly made
friends. He was a pupil of the fourth
grade which is taught by Miss Ione
Wear.
He was a bright little boy, and his teacher
said he was extremely witty and a fine
student. His parents are both deaf and
dumb which makes the circumstances seem more
pitiful.
Funeral services were held at the First M.
E. Church Wednesday afternoon, the Rev. W.
Clyde
Bruce officiating. His remarks
were very fitting and impressive.
Interment was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery at Mounds by G. A.
James, funeral director. The
little boy is survived by his parents, a
sister and several brothers. The
bereaved family have the sincere sympathy of
the entire community in this their sad hour.
Clyde
Lentz and Joe
Horner were released Wednesday under a
$2,000 bond.
Sylvester
Thomas, age 34 years, passed away at his
home in this city at 9:45 o’clock Wednesday
morning. Funeral services were held at
the M. E. Church Friday morning at 10:30
o’clock with interment in Thistlewood
Cemetery. Mr.
Thomas is survived by his widow, four
children and his mother, Mrs. Garland
Youngblood, of this city, is a sister of
the deceased. G. A.
James was the funeral director.
Harrison
Kemp
died Tuesday of last week at his home in
this city at the age of 76 years.
While he had not been in good health he was
not bedfast at any time.
He leaves a widow, a daughter, Mrs.
Milner and a son. He was a
pensioner of the Illinois Central System.
Funeral services were held Friday at Pilgrim
Rest Baptist Church. G. A.
James was the undertaker in charge.
(His death certificate states Harrison
Kemp
was born 7 Dec 1853, in Mississippi, the son
of Coffee
Kemp
and husband of Cora
Kemp,
and died 12 Nov 1929, in Mounds, Ill., and
was buried in Spencer Heights
Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
Solomon
Scurlock, colored, died at the home of
his son, Dave
Scurlock, in Mounds, Monday, Nov. 18, at
the age of 107 years. He was the
father of 13 children. Nine of them
still survive him, seven sons and two
daughters.
Funeral services will be held Friday at the
Free Baptist Church in North Mounds.
Interment will be made in Thistlewood
Cemetery.
Hartwell and Son, undertakers, in
charge.
(His death certificate states that Solomon
Scurlock was born in 1826 in Tennessee,
the husband of Rosa
Scurlock, and died 18 Nov 1929, in
Mounds, Ill., and was buried in Thistlewood
Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
(Walter H.
Kesler, 21, born in Wetaug, Ill., son of
Monroe
Kesler and Mary
Ritchie, married Sallie
Miller, 19, born in Wetaug, daughter of
Joseph
Miller and Alice
Sowers, on 28 Oct 1897, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
A marker in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery near
Wetaug reads:
Lulu May
Knupp 1880-1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 22 Nov 1929:
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 29 Nov 1929:
Henry Florence
Meyer, well known Pulaski County farmer,
passed away Sunday morning at 7:30 o’clock
at the home of his father, August
Meyer, in Valley Recluse. Mr.
Meyer was 34 years of age and had lived
in this county all his life. His death
comes as a great shock to the entire
community, as he was ill just two days.
Surviving Mr.
Meyer are his widow, __ children, his
father and one sister, Mrs. John
Wright, of Mounds. His ___
preceded him in death in 1913.
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon
at 2 o’clock at the residence in Valley
Recluse.
Interment was made in Beech Grove Cemetery
by G. A.
James, funeral director. The
services were conducted by Rev.
Dunlap of the ____, pastor of the
Lutheran Church of that city.
(August
Meyer married Mamie
Stout on 10 Dec 1890, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 29 Nov 1929:
Henry
Meyer, of Valley Recluse, died Sunday,
November 24, at the home of his father,
August
Meyer, at the age of 34 years. His
death was a great shock to his relatives and
friends, as he was ill only two days.
Mr.
Meyer is a brother of Mrs. John
Wright, of this city.
Funeral services were held at the family
home in Valley Recluse Tuesday afternoon at
2 o'clock Rev. C. Robert
Dunlap of Cairo officiating.
Interment was made in Beech Grove Cemetery,
G. A.
James funeral director.
Mrs. Fred
Coleman, of Hurst, a former Mounds
resident, died Tuesday of last week in a
Herrin hospital. Funeral services were
held in Hurst on Thanksgiving Day.
Mrs.
Coleman will be remembered as Miss Kate
DeCrow, a sister of Al, O. J. and Will
DeCrow.
Richard
Huntely, of Herrin, fired the fatal shot
as
Cavitt stepped in front of his gun when
Huntely started to shoot at a rabbit.
Huntley and
Cavitt were mine buddies.
Cavitt leaves a widow and two children.
The body was taken to Vienna for burial.
We wish to extend our sincere appreciation
to our many friends and neighbors for their
kindness and sympathy shown us during our
recent bereavement and illness and death of
our daughter and niece, LaVern __
Williams. We feel deeply grateful
for each expression of sympathy and for the
many beautiful floral offerings.
John
Tolley, 59, passed away late Monday at
his home in this city following an illness
of several days. He had been a
resident of this city for the past twelve
years. Funeral services were held at
the residence Wednesday afternoon at 2
o’clock. The pastor of the Pentecostal
Church conducted the services.
Interment was made in the Beech Grove
Cemetery at Mounds by G. A.
James, undertaker in charge.
Mrs. M. P.
Mathis, of Shawnee, Okla., a sister of
Mrs. E. P.
Easterday, of this city passed away at
St. Andrew’s Hospital in Oklahoma City
Tuesday afternoon, following a brief
illness.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon in Shawnee with interment in the
cemetery there.
Mrs.
Mathis, before her marriage was Miss
Annie
Kennedy, of Villa Ridge, and she leaves
many relatives in Pulaski County.
Surviving her are her husband, who is a son
of the late Dr. J. D.
Mathis, formerly a practicing physician
of this city, a daughter, Kathryn, her
mother, three sisters, three brothers, and a
half-sister. Her mother and sisters
were at her bedside when she died. A
brother, William
Kennedy, of Villa Ridge, has gone to
Oklahoma to attend the funeral.
Mrs. William
Harelson passed away at her home, 727
Twenty-fourth Street, Cairo, at 7:40 o’clock
Thursday morning, December 5. She had
been ill for some time, but her condition
was not thought to be serious until
recently.
The deceased was a sister of James
Dolan, of this city. Other
surviving relatives are her husband, and a
daughter, Miss Mary Elizabeth. Her
only son, King
Harelson, was killed in an automobile
accident in Chicago a few year ago. A
nephew, Eddie
Flagler, made his home with her and she
also leaves a sister, Mrs. Martha
Jones, of Indianapolis, Indiana, and
several nieces and nephews. Before her
marriage, she was Miss Margaret
Dolan, and she was born and reared in
this city.
Mrs.
Harelson was a member of St. Patrick’s
Church in Cairo and the funeral services
were held in that church at 8:30 Saturday
morning, conducted by Rev. Father Bernard
Pender.
Karcher Brothers directed the funeral.
Interment was made in St. Mary’s Cemetery.
Pallbearers were James
O’Sullivan, Tom
Campbell, Dan
Hurley, and George
Sweeney, of this city, and Albert
Dupoyster, W. L.
Roberson, C. A.
Profilet, and John J.
Levitt, of Cairo.
(Her marker in St, Mary’s Cemetery reads:
Margaret E.
Harelson 1862-1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. M. P.
Mathis, of Shawnee, Oklahoma, died at
St. Andrew's Hospital in Oklahoma City
Tuesday afternoon following an illness from
blood poisoning caused by an infected tooth.
Mrs.
Mathis before her marriage was Miss
Annie
Kennedy, daughter of the late W. R. and
Mrs.
Kennedy and was born and reared near
Villa Ridge.
Surviving her are her husband, who is a son
of the late Dr. J. B.
Mathis, of Mound City; one daughter,
Kathyrn; her mother, Mrs. M.
Kennedy, who now resides in Pulaski; two
sisters, three brothers, and a half-sister,
Mrs. E. P.
Easterday, of Mound City. Her
mother and sisters were at her bedside.
William B.
Kennedy, a bother, went to Shawnee to
attend the funeral, which was held Thursday
afternoon, with interment in the cemetery
there.
(His marker in the I. O. O. F. Cemetery at
Dongola reads:
Fred C.
Eichorst Born Jan. 4, 1854 Died Dec. 6,
1929.
Louisa C.
Eichorst Born March 4, 1858 Died Oct.
18, 1949.—Darrel
Dexter)
(His marker in Casper Cemetery reads:
Fred
Young Born Feb. 24, 1888 Died Dec. 1,
1929.—Darrel
Dexter)
An explosion at the Old Ben No. 8 coal mine
near West Frankfort, Ill., Sunday, December
2, resulted in seven deaths. Fifteen
miners, the remainder of the night crew,
escaped uninjured.
The dead are Jewell
Baker, 25; Dewey
Baker, 28; Henry
Isaacs, 45; Earl E.
Beardon, 40; Veto
Geridino, 35; Thomas
McDermott and James
Tabor.
Tabor's body was not recovered until
Tuesday.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 20 Dec 1929:
A coroner’s jury late yesterday returned an
open verdict.
The dance hall was thrown into a panic,
young women screaming and running toward a
hiding place and to the outside to escape
the riotous turmoil caused by the shooting
of John
Barnett.
Mrs. Elizabeth
Keller passed away at 2:30 o’clock
Saturday afternoon at her home on Main
Street in this city after a short illness.
Mrs.
Keller was 81 years of age and had
resided in Mound City more than 63 years and
had lived in this county all her life.
She was the widow of the late Chris
Keller, a Civil War veteran, who
preceded her in death about two years ago.
Mrs.
Keller was stricken with paralysis about
a week before her death and she suffered
greatly until death came to relieve her
suffering Saturday. She was a kind and
charitable woman, a member of St. Peter’s
Episcopal Church and was a noble Christian
character. She leaves to mourn her
passing one daughter, Mrs. Ira
Finley, of Columbus, Ohio, three sons,
G. W.
Keller, of Brentwood, Mo., J. E.
Keller, of Mound City, and C. H.
Keller, of Cleveland, Ohio, and nine
grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren,
besides a wide circle of friends in this
community.
Funeral services were held Monday morning at
10 o’clock at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
and interment was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery. The services were conducted
by the Rev.
Williams, of Carbondale. G. A.
James was the funeral director.
The pallbearers were Dan
Hearly, John G.
Trampert, George
Eichhorn, M. F.
Browner, E. P.
Easterday, and William
Bestgen.
(Christian
Keller married Lizzie
Revington on 28 Oct 1867, in Pulaski
Co., Ill.
Ira S.
Finley, 29, of Mound City, married
Louisa A.
Keller, 24, of Mound City, on 25 Dec
1900, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 27 Dec 1929:
Brisenstein's
condition is the result of an argument with
is brother-in-law, Clarence
Hallam, who struck him in the head with
half of a brick late Saturday night.
Hallam
attempted to escape but was caught and was
taken to Carmi Sunday morning. No
definite charges have been filed against him
pending change in
Brisenstein's condition.
Brisenstein
has been living at the
Hallam home. It is report that the
two men have made frequent arguments and
that the last which was the cause of the
fight Saturday night, started earlier in the
day when
Brisenstein objected to
Hallam using profanity in addressing his
wife.
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