Obituaries
and Death Notices
in Pulaski County, Illinois Newspapers
The Mounds Independent and
The Pulaski Enterprise
6 Jan. - 29 Dec. 1939
Mound City, Pulaski County, Illinois
Transcribed and annotated by Darrel Dexter
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 6 Jan 1939:
Clifford Gunn Dies Saturday after Long
Illness
Clifford
Gunn, merchant, died Saturday morning, December 31, at his home in
Pulaski following a lingering illness of 18
months, much of this time having been spent
in a hospital.
Mr.
Gunn was the son of the late George Wesley
Gunn and Eugenia Rendleman
Gunn of Villa Ridge, his father having
passed away on November 26.
He is survived by his wife, Nettie
Weiting Gunn; a daughter, Helen
Jeanette; and a son, Harry Clifford
Gunn,
all of Pulaski; his mother; one sister, Miss
Agnes
Gunn, both of Villa Ridge; four brothers, George W.
Gunn
of Mound City, Don
Gunn
of Villa Ridge, Henry
Gunn
of Mounds and Ray
Gunn
of Maywood.
Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon in Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church,
Rev. S. H.
Smith officiating.
Burial was made in Spencer Heights Cemetery,
Mounds, George C.
Crain directing.
(D. Wesley
Gunn, 28, farmer from Alto Pass, Ill., born in Canada, son of George
Gunn
and Margaret
Swane,
married Eugenia
Rendleman, 19, from Alto Pass, born in
Union Co., Ill., daughter of Henry
Rendleman and Agness
Head
on 1 Apr 1883, in Union Co., Ill.
When Clifford registered for the
draft in 1918, he worked in Villa Ridge at
the box factory.
According to his death certificate,
Clifford
Gunn,
grocery merchant, was born 18 Oct 1883, in
Alto Pass, Ill., the son of Wesley
Gunn, a native of London, Canada, and Eugenia
Rendleman, a native of Alto Pass, Ill., died 31 Dec 1938, in
Pulaski, Ill., husband of Nettie
Weiting, and was buried in Thistlewood
Cemetery at Mounds, Ill.
His marker in Beechwood Cemetery
reads:
Clifford
Gunn
1883-1938.—Darrel
Dexter)
Funeral Services for David Brown Held Sunday
Funeral services for David
Brown,
who met his death Thursday evening through
an accident, were held Sunday afternoon at 2
o’clock at the Church of God with Rev.
Martin officiating, assisted by Rev.
Wilson of Cairo.
Burial was in Spencer Heights
Cemetery, David’s young playmates serving as
casket bearers, as follows:
Ernest
Denham, Billy
Denham, Calvin
Wilson, Wilford
Lowery, Victor Bucher,
and Billy
Ewing.
J. T.
Ryan
directed the funeral.
The accident which caused the death
of this 11-year-old boy, son of Mr. and Mrs.
I. T.
Brown, occurred at the Parmly
home west of town Thursday afternoon,
December 29, when a shotgun in the hands of
Eugene
Parmly, age 9, was discharged.
The children were under the
impression that the gun was not loaded and
it was said that young
Parmley had snapped the gun several
times before a shell left in the chamber
exploded, the charge entering young
Brown’s
left leg near the torso.
These two boys and a third, Wilford
Lowery, 9, were the only persons present
at the time.
Before they could get help the boy
had lost a great deal of blood and by the
time George
Moses,
living between
Parmly’s and Mounds, had reached the
scene of the accident and had brought him to
a local doctor in his pick-up truck, it was
decided that a blood transfusion was the
only hope of saving the child’s life.
He was taken by ambulance to St.
Mary’s Hospital, Cairo, but died soon after
reaching the hospital.
The boy leaves his parents, four
brothers, Clarence of California, Billie,
John and Morris at home; and one sister,
Mary Ruth, also at home.
Also his grandparents, Mrs. Maggie
Brown
of Blandville, Ky., and Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Decker of Mounds.
He was a favorite of his playmates
and at school and had worked as a caddy, at
the Egyptian Golf Club.
His father is an employee of the
Illinois Central and the family residence is
west of town just over the I. C. viaduct.
(According to his death certificate,
David
Brown, school boy, was born 23 Jul 1927,
in Mounds, Ill., the son of I. T.
Brown, a native of Boxville, Ky., and Shellie
Deckerd, a native of Elizabethtown, Ky., died 29 Dec 1938, in Cairo,
Alexander Co., Ill., and was buried in
Spencer Heights Cemetery in Mounds, Ill.
His marker there has his picture and
reads:
David L.
Brown
July 23, 1927 Dec. 29, 1938.—Darrel
Dexter)
A. L. Watson
Alaric L.
Watson of Mound City, died Sunday night, January 1, at 11:55 o’clock
at St. Mary’s Hospital, Cairo, following an
emergency operation performed the day
before.
Mr.
Watson was born in Mound City in 1860 and had therefore reached the
age of 78 years.
While much of his life had been spent
in Cairo he had lived for the past ten years
in Mound City with his sister, Mrs. Alonzo
Shelton.
He was a charter member of the Cairo
Typographical Union and was foreman of the
Cairo
Bulletin for more than 30 years.
He had retired on pension from the
Union some years ago.
He is survived by two daughters, Mrs.
Joseph
Murion and Mrs. Thomas
Horner of Memphis, Tenn.; two sons, Earl
K.
Watson of Mound City and Clyde
Watson of Cairo; one sister, Mrs.
Shelton; several nieces and nephews.
His wife died in 1916.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church,
Mound City, of which he was a member.
Interment was in Villa Ridge
cemetery.
(Alaric
Watson married Ruth Mallady
on 18 Feb 1886, in Saline Co., Ill.
Alonzo H.
Shelton, 36, married Mary
Watson, 29, on 30 Oct 1894, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
According to his death certificate,
Alaric Lexington
Watson was born 8 Aug 1860, in Mound
City, Ill., the son of James Madison
Watson and Martha Carol
Marshall, died 1 Jan 1939, in Cairo,
Alexander Co., Ill., the husband of Ruth
Watson, and was buried at Villa Ridge,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Charles R. Mott
Mrs. Charles E.
Mott,
the former Miss Ella
Pyatt
of Villa Ridge, a foster daughter of
Mrs. Ambrose W.
Pyatt,
died December 20, 1938, in a hospital at
Blythe, Arizona, and was buried December 21
at Quartzsite.
Mrs.
Mott is survived by her husband; her foster mother and a foster
brother, D. A.
Pyatt
of Villa Ridge; also a stepdaughter, Mrs. J.
M.
Woods of Los Angeles, Calif.
(Her marker in Hi Jolly Cemetery in
Quartzite, La Paz, Arizona, reads:
Ella M.
Mott
1874-1938.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Gunn
of Maywood, who were called to Pulaski by
the death of Mr.
Gunn’s
brother, Clifford, were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry
Gunn the first of the week.
Henry
Gunn and family were called to Villa
Ridge Saturday morning by the death of Mr.
Gunn’s
brother, Clifford
Gunn.
This is the second death in his
family in a little over a month, his father,
George W.
Gunn,
having died November 26.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 6 Jan 1939:
DIED FROM FRACTURED SKULL
Arthur
Deaton, 57, living two miles northeast of New Burnsides, died
Wednesday afternoon of last week after
falling from a barn loft at his home earlier
in the day.
Deaton and his wife were at the barn preparing to feed the stock.
When he climbed to the barn loft to
throw down some hay, it is thought that his
foot slipped and he fell through a hole in
the loft floor, falling at the feet of Mrs.
Deaton. She carried him
to the house, while he was still conscious
and upon examination the doctor reported a
fractured skull and spine injury.
He is survived by his widow and a
daughter, Mrs. Frieda
Heathmar, by a former marriage.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at Reynoldsburg church with
interment in the family lot.
(Arthur
Deaton married Sarah E. Ross
in December 1903, in Williamson Co.,
Ill.
He married Amanda Elizabeth
Lollis on 16 Nov 1926, in Vienna,
Johnson Co., Ill.
His death certificate states that
Arthur
Deaton, general farmer, was born 22 Jul
1881, in Stonefort, Ill., the son of James
S. Deaton and Paulina Lollis,
natives of Alabama, died 28 Dec 1938, in
Johnson Co., Ill., husband of Amanda
Deaton, and was buried in Reynoldsburg Cemetery.
His marker there reads:
Sarah
Deaton 1883-1915 Arthur
Deaton 1881-1938.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 13 Jan 1939:
William Earle Dies Suddenly Thursday Eve.
William
Earle,
age 79 years, died Thursday at 4 p.m., at
his home on North Blanche Avenue following a
cerebral hemorrhage which he suffered
Wednesday morning at 6 o’clock.
Mr.
Earle for many years was an engineer in the employ of the Illinois
Central System and had retired on a pension
some years ago.
He was a charter member of the Mounds
Methodist church.
He was intensely religious, firm in
his convictions of right and wrong and had
the respect of the entire community.
In former years he had served
faithfully as a member of the Mounds School
Board.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Emma
Poole
Earle; one son, Harry
Earle
of Centralia, Ill.; two grandsons, Billy and
James
Earle of Centralia; one sister, Mrs.
Annie
Booth of Memphis, Tenn.
A son, Walter, died in 1912.
The body was taken to the
James
Funeral Home, where it will remain until
2:30 Saturday afternoon, when funeral
services will be held at the M. E. church.
Interment will be made in Thistlewood
Cemetery.
(According to his death certificate,
William
Earle,
engineer, was born 12 Nov 1859, in
Myersberg, Tenn., the son of Thomas
Earle
and Sallie
Roberts, died 12 Jan 1939, in Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill., and was
buried in Thistlewood Cemetery, Mounds,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 13 Jan 1939:
Titus
Kessler and Harvey
Johnson, both of Ullin, while investigating trouble with their car,
were struck by another car and badly injured
Saturday night at McClure.
Both men were taken to the hospital
at Cape Girardeau and upon examination,
Titus was found to be badly crushed.
Johnson’s injuries were not as serious.
Kessler died Tuesday and his body was taken to the
Ford
Funeral Home at Dongola where it was
prepared for burial and then removed to his
home in Ullin.
Funeral services were held at the Mt.
Pisgah Church near Wetaug Thursday
afternoon, conducted by Rev. William E.
Bridges.
Burial was made in the Mt. Pisgah
Cemetery.
Surviving are his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Walter
Kessler; and a son, Carl Eugene, of
Ullin; two brothers and two sisters.
He was a member of the M. W. of A.
Lodge of Ullin and members of the lodge will
serve as pallbearers.
(Walter
Kesler, 21, farmer, born in Wetaug, Ill., son of Monroe
Kesler and Mary
Ritchie, married Sallie
Miller, 19, born in Wetaug, Ill.,
daughter of Joseph
Miller and Alice
Sowers, on 28 Oct 1897, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
Titus
Kesler married Cynthia Provo
on 21 Jan 1932, in Marble Hill,
Bollinger Co., Mo.
His marker in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery
near Wetaug, Pulaski Co., Ill., reads:
McTitus
Kesler Son Dec. 22, 1911 Jan. 9,
1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
VETERAN JOHNSON COUNTY TEACHER DIED LAST
WEEK
Charlie
Peterson, widely known former teacher, succumbed to an attack of
bronchial asthma early Tuesday morning of
last week at his home one mile east of
Buncombe.
Mr.
Peterson became seriously ill last Saturday, the acute bronchial
condition following a cold.
He was about 73 years of age and had
taught thirty terms of school before his
retirement several years ago.
He was born at Old Reynoldsburg and
was a son of one of that erstwhile
prosperous town’s merchants, Capt. William
Peterson.
Surviving are one son, one daughter,
the widow, one grandson, and one
granddaughter.
The funeral was delayed until Friday
in order that the grandson, Paul
Peterson, of Sidney, Neb., might arrive.
(W. W.
Peterson married Mary N. Gray
on 10 Dec 1857, in Johnson Co., Ill.
Charles
Peterson married Alice
Elkins on 20 Sep 1890, in Johnson Co.,
Ill.
According to his death certificate,
Charles
Peterson, school teacher, of Buncombe,
Ill.,
was born 23 Nov 1865, in Reynoldsburg,
Johnson Co., Ill., the son of Will
Peterson and Mary U.
Gray,
natives of Illinois, died 6 Jan 1939, in
Vienna, Johnson Co., Ill., husband of Alice
Peterson, and was buried at Vienna, Ill.
He was buried in Vienna Fraternal
Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. MARY L. SPIELMAN
Mrs. Mary Lenora
Spielman, 73, passed away Monday evening
at St. Mary’s Infirmary, where she had been
a patient for the past five weeks.
Mrs.
Spielman was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William
Wilson of America, pioneer residents of
Pulaski County, and has spent almost her
entire lifetime in this locality.
She is survived by her husband, O. A.
Spielman, of Gillette, Wyoming, who was
at her bedside at the time of her death.
A niece, Mrs. Roy
Pierce of St. Louis, and one nephew,
Charles
Wilson, of Hynes, Calif., also survive.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at the
James
Funeral Home in this city, with Rev. J.
W.
Fix, pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Cairo, officiating.
The pallbearers were W. E.
Schnaare, D.
Brelsford, Walter Schwartz,
George
Lewis,
Will
Mason, and Ernest
Steers, all neighbors of Mrs.
Spielman.
Interment was made in the Thistlewood
Cemetery.
G. A.
James was in charge of arrangements.
(Her death certificate states that
Mary Leonora
Spielman was born 28 Feb 1865, in
America, Ill., the daughter of William
Wilson, a native of Pennsylvania, died 9 Jan 1939, in Cairo,
Alexander Co., Ill., the wife of O. A.
Spielman,
and was buried in Thistlewood Cemetery
at Mounds, Ill.
Her marker in Beechwood Cemetery
reads:
Nora
Spielman Wife Feb. 28, 1865 Jan. 9,
1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. OCTAVY STEPHENSON
Mary Octavy
Stephenson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
Stokes was born June 1st, 1868.
She was united in marriage to Weslie
McClellan and to this union was born one
daughter, Ethel, who died in infancy.
She was later married to John T.
Lynch
and to this union two children were born,
William of Ullin and Rosie, who died at the
age of 3 years.
On May 17th, 1900, she was
united in marriage with John
Stephenson.
Surviving besides her husband, she
leaves to mourn her departure, one son,
William
Lynch, of Ullin; one brother, Tom
Stokes, of Grand Chain; a grandson, Scottie
Lynch, of Ullin; and many other relatives and a host of friends; a
half-sister, Mrs. Paul
Geentally, of Champaign, Illinois;
William
Stokes; a half-brother, Hallie
Fitzgerald, also of Pulaski.
She departed this life at her home
near Grand Chain, Ill., Saturday, Jan. 7,
1939, at the age of 71 years, 6 months, and
7 days.
Services were held in the
Congregational Church in Grand Chain Monday
afternoon at two o’clock.
Rev. S. C.
Benninger, pastor of the church, officiated.
The
Wilson Quartet furnished the music.
Interment was made in the Ullin
Cemetery.
(Thomas W.
McClelland married Mary O.
Stokes on 6 Mar 1884, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
John
Lynch
married Mrs. Mary O.
Stokes on 1 Jun 1890, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
John W.
Stephenson married Mary Lynch
on 17 Feb 1900, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
W. H. H.
Stokes married Mary J.
Coble
on 23 Dec 1866, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Mary O.
Stephenson was born 1 Jun 1867, in
Illinois, the daughter of W. H. H.
Stokes, a native of Kentucky, and Mary
Cable, a native of Tennessee, died 7 Jan 1939, in Road District 5,
Pulaski Co., Ill., wife of John
Stephenson,
and was buried in Ullin Cemetery.
Her marker there reads:
Mother Mary O.
Stephenson.—Darrel Dexter)
MRS. MOREHEAD
Funeral services for Mrs. Hannah
Morehead, who passed away Thursday
morning of last week at her home in this
city, were held Saturday afternoon at the
family residence.
Rev.
Overby, of Barlow, Ky., a former pastor
of the First Baptist Church of this city,
officiated.
Interment was made in the Thistlewood
Cemetery, with G. A.
James
in charge.
(Her death certificate states that
Hannah Catherine
Morehead was born 23 Dec 1864, in
Arkansas, daughter of Allen
Tally, died 5 Jan 1939, in Mound City, Pulaski Co., Ill., widow of
Henry
Morehead, and was buried in Thistlewood
Cemetery at Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
OLD WORTHINGTON HOME BURNED FIRST OF WEEK
The old
Worthington home near Olmstead, long the home of the
Worthington family and with only one
member still living in it, burned the early
part of this week.
The building, erected before the
Civil War, was once the finest residence at
that point,
Worthington’s Landing, and in its spacious rooms, about eight or ten
in number, many things happened.
As the years went by, and days not so
fortunate came on, three members of the
family, three sisters, were left in the
place.
Then two of them died, and only one
remained at the time it burned.
With the fire perished many old
antiques and many things of historical
value.
The house had two fireplaces in four
or five rooms, had two wide stairways that
were of walnut, and some of its furniture
dated way back to the days of canopy beds.
In fact, canopy beds were in that
house, only the tops had been sawed off
because of the labor incurred in dusting
them off.
But the burning of the home removes a
landmark, perhaps a full century old, around
which many stories can be told and the
cemetery standing nearby will, in time, be
about the only landmark of a once prominent
and influential family.
(The cemetery mentioned may be the
Calvin-Barber Cemetery northeast of Olmsted,
where Isaac and Sarah
Worthington are buried.—Darrel
Dexter)
FORMER LOCAL RESIDENT DIES IN CALIFORNIA
Mrs. Mary W.
Bradley, a resident of Berkley, Calif., since 1920, passed away
December 19, 1938, at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. W. D.
Geldert. She was 83 at
the time of her death and had been in
failing health for the past year.
Mrs.
Bradley came to Mound City about 48 or 50 years ago as the bride of
L. M.
Bradley, a young and prominent lawyer in
this city.
They were married in Chicago by Rev.
Harris, who was then pastor of the Mound
City Congregational Church and was a close
friend of Mr.
Bradley.
Upon moving to Mound City they went
to housekeeping in the Phoenix Block, which
was erected in 1882 by
Bradley and Dan
Hogan. When their first
child, Lucille, was born they built their
home on the corner of Pearl and N. First
streets.
Both buildings remain standing in
memory of their enterprises in this city.
Later, Mr.
Bradley purchased Hogan’s
interest in the Phoenix Block and it was at
this time, during some repair work, that
Mrs.
Bradley had the inscription, “Alcohol is
Poison” put into the floor of the entrance
of the building.
Mrs.
Bradley was quite active in both church and civic work and upon
moving to California transferred her
membership to the Congregational Church in
Berkeley and was quite active in church work
there.
She was also an active member in the
Berkeley League of Women Voters and was a
member of the Berkeley Woman’s City Club.
Mr.
Bradley, who died about 20 years ago in Carbondale, where they were
then residing, was quite prominent in
politics and was state’s attorney for a
number of years.
Surviving are her daughter, Mrs.
Lucille
Geldert of Berkeley; a son, Attorney
Lloyd M.
Bradley of Carbondale; and one sister,
Mrs. N. M.
White,
also of Berkeley.
YOUTH KILLED SELF OVER WRECK COSTING $100
Raymond
Trexler of Alto Pass, living on a farm
near there, killed himself last Thursday
because he could not face telling a car
owner that he had wrecked the car the night
before and damages were about $100.
He was riding with his brother and
another party when he asked them to stop,
pulled the gun from the car pocket, and
killed himself.
He had previously said that he did
not know how he could face the car owner and
his mother.
(According to his death certificate,
James Raymond
Trexler, laborer, was born 4 Feb 1920,
in Alto Pass, Ill., the son of James Edgar
Trexler, a native of Saratoga, Ill., and
Myrtle Hattie
Yates,
a native of Temple Hill, Ill.,
died 5 Jan 1939, in Road District 4,
Union Co., Ill.
His marker in Alto Pass Cemetery
reads:
Raymond
Trexler 1920-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 20 Jan 1939:
Grandmother of Mrs. Ray Keller Dies Suddenly
Mrs. Sarah C.
Dick of Dongola, grandmother of Mrs. Ray
Keller of Cairo, died Wednesday night about midnight at the home of
her stepson, Emmett
Dick
of Christopher, where she was visiting.
Mrs.
Dick, age 78 years, was the widow of the late Dr. J. F.
Dick
of Mount Pleasant, Union County.
Their only child, Chloe
Dick
Toler, was Mrs.
Keller’s mother.
Mrs.
Toler
died when her daughter was a child and Mrs.
Dick reared her granddaughter.
Surviving are her granddaughter, Mrs.
Keller; and two stepsons, Emmet
Dick
of Christopher and Dr. E. B.
Dick
of Chester; also one brother, J. P.
Grear
of Anna.
The body was taken to the
Ford
Funeral Home in Dongola Thursday where
funeral services will be held today at 2:30
o’clock, Rev. W. J.
Ward
officiating.
Interment will be made in McGinnis
Cemetery east of Anna and near Mount
Pleasant on Highway 146.
(James F.
Dick, 34, physician from Mt. Pleasant, born in Kentucky, son of
William
Dick,
Sr., and Permelia A.
Frances married 2nd Sarah C.
Grear,
20, from Mt. Pleasant, born in Illinois,
daughter of James M.
Grear
and Elizabeth
Halterman,
on 4 Sep 1881, in Union Co., Ill.
James
M.
Grear, son of William
Greer,
married Elizabeth
Halterman on 21 Oct 1858, in Union Co.,
Ill.
James M.
Grear married Mrs. Sarah C.
Ballard on 7 Dec 1873, in Union Co.,
Ill.
Her
death certificate states that Sarah
Christina
Dick
was born 8 Dec 1860, in Mt. Pleasant, Ill.,
the daughter of James
Grear, a native of Illinois, and Christina
Schelenberger, a native of North Carolina, died 19 Jan 1939, in
Christopher, Franklin Co., Ill., and was
buried at Dongola, Ill.
Her marker in McGinnis Cemetery near
Mt. Pleasant reads:
Father Dr. J. F.
Dick
April 19, 1847 Dec. 2, 1910 Mother Sarah C.
Dick
Dec. 8, 1860 Jan. 18, 1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Robert A. Cunningham Dies Early
Wednesday Morning
Mrs. Robert A.
Cunningham, age 86 years, died at 3:30
o’clock Wednesday morning, Jan. 18, at the
home of her son, Robert C.
Cunningham, west of Mounds, where she
and her husband had made their home for some
time. She had been in failing health for a
number of years.
Before coming to Pulaski County 65
years ago the
Cunninghams lived in Cairo, having
arrived there during Civil War time.
For many years Mr. and Mrs.
Cunningham made their home here at the
corner of Delaware and First Street where
Ray Mahoney now resides.
Surviving are two sons, Robert C.
Cunningham of Mounds, and Roy
Cunningham of Cape Girardeau; 15
grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and
two great-great-grandchildren.
Their daughter, Mrs. I. N.
Taylor died October 15, 1925.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at two o’clock at the residence,
Rev. Joseph W.
Fix, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Cairo officiating.
Interment was made in Beech Grove
Cemetery, J. T.
Ryan
Funeral Service in charge.
(Robert A.
Cunningham married Sarah H.
Holmes on 5 Apr 1870, in Alexander Co.,
Ill.
According to her death certificate,
Sarah H.
Cunningham was born 1 Nov 1852, in Princeton, N. J., the daughter of
James
Holmes, a native of New Jersey, died 18
Jan 1939, in Road District 7, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., the wife of Robert A.
Cunningham, and was buried in Beech
Grove Cemetery at Mounds, Ill.
Her marker reads:
Robert
Cunningham 1848-19 Sarah
Cunningham his wife 1852-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Funeral Services for William Earle Held
Saturday
Funeral services were held Saturday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock for William
Earle
who died Thursday, January 12, at his home
here.
Rev. Joyce Rue
Reid, pastor of the church, assisted by Rev. P. R.
Glotfelty of Golconda, the preceding
pastor, conducted the services which were
attended by a large concourse of relatives
and friends.
Mr.
Earle,
a lifelong member of the Methodist Church,
had seldom missed a church service and his
absence will be greatly felt.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery, the casket bearers being Richard
Copeland, C. R.
Scott,
C. A.
Ragsdale, of Murphysboro, Adolphus
Laws,
Eugene
Miller and Albert Simpson,
G. A.
James directed the funeral.
Mr.
Earle had been an employee of the Illinois Central for 41 years,
retiring as engineer in 1930.
He had lived in Mounds for 38 years.
He was born in Tennessee on Nov. 12,
1859, and was married to Miss Emma
Poole, on March 29, 1893, who, with one son, Harry, of Centralia,
survives.
Another son, Walter, died in 1912.
Surviving also are two grandsons,
Billy and James, of Centralia; and a sister,
Mrs. Anna
Booth of Memphis, Tenn.
Refused a Crown
Prince Valdemar of Denmark, who once
refused the crown of Bulgaria, is dead, at
the age of 90 years.
He was once nicknamed “The Uncle of
Kings.”
Before the World War, his nephews
occupied the thrones of five countries:
Great Britain, Norway, Denmark,
Greece, and Russia.
Valdemar, who preferred the life of a
prince of Denmark and his career in the
Danish navy rather than a throne, was the
uncle of King Christian of Denmark and the
youngest brother of the late Queen
Alexandria of Great Britain, wife of King
Edward VII.
Pioneer Resident of Pulaski County Dies at
83
William J. Biggerstaff
William James
Biggerstaff, pioneer resident of Pulaski
County and long a prominent citizen of
Mounds, passed quietly away Sunday, January
15, at his home on McKinley Avenue, after an
illness of several months.
Born west of Villa Ridge in Shiloh
neighborhood, Sept. 2, 1855, he was the son
of William and Rebecca Elizabeth
DeLaney Biggerstaff.
His father was a farmer and stock
raiser.
At an early age he moved with his
parents to Mound City, where he was reared
to manhood and married Dora Elizabeth
Fair,
who had been reared in Charleston, Mo.
Mr.
Biggerstaff, while living in Mound City, was foreman at the Marine
Ways.
In an interview early in 1938, he
told us that during his early days in Mound
City, the town was surrounded by a black oak
swamp populated with wild turkey, deer,
coons, and other animals.
When the Illinois Central was built,
the junction between the main line and the
branch to Mound City was called Burkville.
Spreading north it became Beechwood.
He became an employee of the Illinois
Central and from 1909 until 1928 when he
retired he was car foreman in the Mounds
yards.
He was a member of the village board
when the town was called Beechwood and was
the first mayor of the city of Mounds.
He also served as councilman and
altogether served on the village and city
boards for 20 years.
He was a member of the school board
of Mounds for a number of years.
Surviving are four children:
one son, J. W.
Biggerstaff of Mounds; and three daughters, Miss Wilma
Biggerstaff of Mounds, Mrs. John
Osborne of Beaumont, Texas, and Mrs. W.
T.
Head of Oklahoma City, Okla.; one
sister, Mrs. William
Pease
of Bloomington, Ill.; also eight
grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren,
one of whom is William
Biggerstaff IV.
His wife and a daughter preceded him
in death.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Congregational
church with Rev. S. C.
Benninger, the pastor officiating.
Members of the Odd Fellows Lodge
served as casket bearers.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery, J. T.
Ryan
Funeral Service directing.
(William J.
Biggerstaff married Dora E.
Fain on 20 Jan 1881, in Pulaski
Co., Ill.
According to his death certificate,
William J.
Biggerstaff, farmer, was born 27 Sep 1855, in Pulaski Co., Ill., the
son of William
Biggerstaff and Elizabeth
Delaney, died 15 Jan 1939, in Mounds,
Pulaski Co., Ill., husband of Dora
Biggerstaff, and was buried Thistlewood Cemetery.
His marker in Beechwood Cemetery at
Mounds reads:
William James
Biggerstaff 1856-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. W. C.
Hogg
of Cairo was here Saturday to attend the
funeral of William
Earle.
Mr. and Mrs. George
Hironimous of St. Louis attended the
funeral of W. J.
Biggerstaff Tuesday.
Among those from out of town attending the
funeral of William
Earle Saturday were Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Eastman of Anna.
Mrs. Anna
Booth,
who was called here on account of the death
of her brother, William
Earle,
has returned to her home in Memphis, Tenn.
(J. M. E.
Booth married Annie Prince
Earle on 15 Sep 1886, in Jackson Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. Berry
Biggerstaff and son have returned to
their home in Mattoon after having been
called here by the death of Mr.
Biggerstaff’s grandfather, W. J.
Biggerstaff.
Joe Talmage
Biggerstaff, a student at the University
of Illinois, who was called home on account
of the death of his grandfather, W. J.
Biggerstaff, on Sunday, returned to
Champaign Tuesday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Earle
and sons, who were called here by the
illness and death of the former’s father,
William
Earle have returned to their home in Centralia, Mrs.
Earle
accompanying them for a short visit.
Mrs. William
Pease
of Bloomington, Ill., sister of W. J.
Biggerstaff and her daughter, Miss Wilma
Pease
of Teheran, Iran (old Persia) were called to
Mounds on account of the death of Mr.
Biggerstaff.
Miss
Pease
is at home on a vacation from her work in a
Presbyterian mission in Teheran.
J. N.
Smith of Boaz, age 80 years, died at
noon Sunday, Jan. 15, at his home.
Mr.
Smith
had been a merchant at Boaz for 50 years and
had retired about five years ago.
He was a member of the Masonic Lodge
No. 822 at Belknap.
Surviving are his wife, Emily; one
daughter, Mrs. Maude
Smith
of Karnak; two sisters, Mrs. Kate
Dillow and Mrs. Allie
Galeener; and one brother, A.
Smith,
all of Karnak.
Funeral services were conducted by
Rev. Frank
Corzine assisted by the Rev. Mr.
Wright at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon in
Anderson Church.
Interment was made in Anderson
Cemetery,
Wilson Funeral Services directing.
(James N.
Smith married Emily Graham
on 18 Sep 1878, in McCracken Co., Ky.
Percy Hasbrook
Galeener married Laura I.
Smith
on 11 Mar 1878, in Johnson Co., Ill.
According to his death certificate,
James Nelvills
Smith,
merchant, was born
8 Feb 1858, in Massac Co., Ill., the son
of Daniel D.
Smith,
a native of North Carolina, and Sarah
Thompson, a native of Ohio, died 15 Jan
1939, in Massac Co., Ill., husband of Emily
Smith, and was buried in Anderson Cemetery in Massac Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Mary
Wilson Spielman
Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday of last week at the
James
Funeral Home, Mound City, for Mrs. Mary
Lenora
Spielman of Gillette, Wyoming, who had
been a patient at St. Mary’s Hospital in
Cairo for five weeks.
Rev. Joseph W.
Fix,
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of
Cairo officiated.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery.
Casket bearers were W. E.
Schnaare, D.
Brelsford, Walter
Schwartz, George Lewis,
Will
Mason and Ernest
Steers.
G. A.
James
directed the funeral.
Mrs.
Spielman had reached the age of 73 years.
She was a member of an old family in
Pulaski County, was born at America, and had
spent the greater part of her life there.
She is survived by her husband, O. A.
Spielman of Gillette, who was with her
at death; one niece, Ms. Roy
Pierce of St. Louis, the former Agnes
Wilson of Mounds; and one nephew,
Charles
Wilson of Hymes, Calif.
Mrs. Hannah C. Morehead
Mrs. Hannah Catherine
Morehead, age 74, died at her home in
Mound City Thursday, Jan. 5th,
following an illness of a few days.
She is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. Edith
Meredith and Miss Blanch
Morehead, both of Mound City; two
stepdaughters, Mrs. Minnie
Moody,
Naperville, Ill., Mrs. Clara
Gillam, Haleyville, Ala.; one son, Otto
Morehead, Mound City; one half brother,
William
Tally,
Grand Chain,
Funeral services were conducted from
the home on Saturday by Rev.
Overby of Barlow, Ky., a former pastor
of the Baptist Church of Mound City and
interment was made in Thistlewood Cemetery,
G. A.
James directing.
(Her marker in Beechwood Cemetery at
Mounds, Ill., reads:
Hannah
Morehead Dec. 23, 1865 Jan. 5,
1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
John H. Gates
Funeral services for John H.
Gates,
prominent Cairo man who died Thursday, Jan.
12, in Cairo, were held Sunday afternoon at
the family residence, the Rev. Wesley B.
Pearce, pastor of the Cairo Baptist
Church officiating, assisted by Rev. Joseph
W.
Fix, pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church.
Interment was made in Villa Ridge
cemetery.
(According to his death certificate,
John Herman
Gates,
pharmacist, of Cairo, Ill., was born 15 Jun
1875, in Cairo, Ill., the son of John W.
Gates,
a native of Ohio, and Laura C.
Hunsaker, a native of Cairo, Ill., died
12 Jan 1939, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill.,
husband of Edith H.
Gates, and was buried at Villa Ridge, Ill.
He was buried in Cairo City Cemetery.
His marker there reads:
John H.
Gates
1875-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
News was received here Sunday afternoon by
the
Graves family of the death of Mrs.
Annetta
Wakeland of St. Louis.
Mrs.
Wakeland was a sister of the late L. F.
Graves.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 20 Jan 1939:
MRS. ROBERT CUNNINGHAM
Mrs. Robert A.
Cunningham passed away Wednesday morning at the home of her son,
Robert C.
Cunningham, at Mounds.
She had been ill the past two months.
Mrs.
Cunningham, who was 86 at the time of her death, came to this
section of Illinois during the Civil War
period and has lived in Pulaski County for
some 65 years.
She is survived by her husband; two
sons, Robert, with whom they made their
home, and Roy, of Cape Girardeau, Mo.; and a
number of grandchildren, great-grandchildren
and great-great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the
family residence west of Mounds, Thursday
afternoon, with Rev. Joseph
Fix,
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of
Cairo, officiating.
Interment was made in the Beech Grove
Cemetery.
PIONEER RESIDENT OF COUNTY DIES AT MOUNDS
William James
Biggerstaff, 83 years of age, died at his home in Mounds Sunday,
following a long illness.
Mr.
Biggerstaff was a pioneer resident of this county, was a former
mayor of Mounds and for twelve years served
as a city councilman.
He was a car foreman in the Illinois
Central yards at Mounds from 1909 to 1928,
retiring on pension at that time.
Prior to his work for the Illinois
Central, Mr.
Biggerstaff was foreman at the Marine
Ways in Mound City.
He is survived by one son, J. W.
Biggerstaff of Mounds; three daughters,
Mrs. John
Osborne of Beaumont, Tex., Mrs. W. T.
Head
of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Miss Wilma
Biggerstaff of Mounds; one sister, Mrs.
William
Pease
of Bloomington, Ill.; eight grandchildren
and seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held in the
Congregational church in Mounds Tuesday
afternoon with Rev. S. C.
Benninger, pastor of the church,
officiating.
Members of the Odd Fellows Lodge
served as casket bearers.
Interment was made in the Thistlewood
Cemetery.
DIED IN ST. LOUIS
Mrs. Nettie
Wakeland, who has been quite ill for the past several weeks, passed
away Sunday afternoon in a St. Louis
hospital.
She had been at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. C. J.
Higgins of St. Louis, until her
condition became so serious that she was
removed to the hospital. Services were held
in St. Louis Thursday and interment made in
a cemetery at that place.
Mrs.
Wakeland was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E.
Graves of Villa Ridge and spent many of
her childhood days in this city.
She is survived by the daughter with
whom she made her home; three sons, Harry of
St. Louis, Ed of New Orleans, La., and
Charles of Texas; a brother, W. O.
Graves of this city; a sister, Mrs. Flo
Bundschuh of Thermal, Calif.; and four grandchildren.
Mrs. Gene
Hughes and Cal Sheerer of
this city, a niece and nephew of Mrs.
Wakeland, also survive her.
WILLIAM EARLE PASSES AWAY AT HIS HOME IN
MOUNDS
William
Earle, 79 years of age, passed away Thursday afternoon, January 12,
at his home in Mounds.
He had been seriously ill for several
____.
Earle had been a resident of Mounds for the past 38 years, and
before his retirement in December ___ was an
engineer for the Illinois Central Railroad.
He is survived by his wife, Emma;
____, Harry of Centralia; a sister, Mrs.
Annie
Booth of Memphis; ___grandsons and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held Saturday
afternoon in the M. E. church in Mounds.
Rev. Rue
Reid
officiated, assisted by Rev. T. R.
Glotfelty, former pastor of the church.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery with G. A.
James in charge.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 27 Jan 1939:
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Ozment
Mrs. Elizabeth Ann
Ozment, age 80 years, died Sunday,
January 22, at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. John
Hayden of Valley Recluse, following a short illness.
Surviving are her daughter, Mrs.
Hayden, with whom she made her home;
three sons, Robert
Ozment of Mounds, Louis of Villa Ridge
and John of Peoria; a brother, Phillip
Sams
of Olive Branch; eight grandchildren and
five great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 1
o’clock Tuesday afternoon at the
Hayden residence, Rev. William
Snyder officiating.
Burial was made in Liberty Cemetery.
Charles
Ozment, Clyde Ozment, Roy
Ozment, Troy
Adams
and Oscar
Atherton, all grandsons, served as casket bearers.
George C.
Crain directed the funeral.
(According to her death certificate,
Elizabeth Ann
Ozment was born 5 Jul 1858, in Fayville,
Ill., the daughter of Nathan
Sams
and Amanda
Bridgeman, died 22 Jan 1939, in Road District 6, Pulaski Co., Ill.,
widow of McDonald
Ozment, and was buried in Liberty
Cemetery.
Her marker there reads:
Elizabeth A. wife of McDonald O.
Ozment July 5, 1858 Jan. 22, 1939.
He is buried next to her with a
marker that reads:
McDonald
Ozment Co. D, 18th Ill.
Inf.—Darrel
Dexter)
INFANT DIES
Jacqueline, three-day-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Anderson of Olmstead, died Saturday,
Jan. 21, at the family home.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 2 o’clock, Rev. Mr.
Martin officiating.
Burial was made in the Masonic
Cemetery at Olmstead,
Wilson Funeral Service in charge.
(Her marker in Olmsted Masonic
Cemetery reads:
Jacqueline
Anderson Jan. 19, 1939 Jan. 21,
1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Leonard Mahoney Brought from Ohio for Burial
Leonard
Mahoney, who died at his home in Cleveland, Ohio, Saturday, January
21, was brought to Mounds Tuesday and taken
to Ryan Funeral Home, where services were held Wednesday afternoon at 2
o’clock, Rev. J. Rue
Reid
officiating.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery, George C.
Crain
directing.
Mr.
Mahoney is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Mahoney; two brothers, Robert and Leo
Mahoney; and two sisters, Mrs. Ruby
Gravette and Mrs. Ellen
Klever, all of Cleveland.
He was a cousin of Ray and Dewey
Mahoney of this city. And the family
formerly lived in Pulaski County.
His cousins served as casket bearers.
Former Villa Ridge Woman Dies in California
Mrs. Mayme
Powers, formerly of Villa Ridge and Cairo, died Tuesday, January 10,
at the home of her brother, Will
Powers in Pasadena, California.
She had been ill for several weeks
having suffered a stroke of paralysis.
Burial was made at Pasadena.
Miss
Powers formerly held a position with
Kaufman Brothers Drygoods Company in Cairo, later making her home
with her sister, Mrs. Kate
Fursy,
in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Upon the death of this sister, Miss
Powers went to California to make her
home with a younger brother, Will
Powers, who is the only surviving member of the family.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 27 Jan 1939:
LEONARD MAHONEY
Funeral services for Leonard
Mahoney, who passed away at his home in
Cleveland, Ohio, were held Wednesday
afternoon at the
Ryan Funeral Home in Mounds.
Mr.
Mahoney is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Mahoney; two brothers, Robert and Leo;
and two sisters, Mrs. Ruby
Gravette and Mrs. Ellen
Klever, all of Cleveland; and several
relatives in Mounds.
MRS. ELIZABETH ANN OZMENT
Mrs. Elizabeth Ann
Ozment, 80 years of age, passed away
after a brief illness Sunday morning at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. John
Hayden of Valley Recluse.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at the
Hayden residence with Rev. Wilbert
Snyder officiating.
Interment was made in the Liberty
Cemetery.
Besides the daughter with whom she
made her home, Mrs.
Ozment is survived by three sons, Robert
of Mounds, Louis of Villa Ridge and John of
Peoria; one brother, Phillip
Sams
of Olive Branch; and a number of
grandchildren and great-grandchildren and
other relatives.
Two Killed and One Beaten in One Night
Two killings and one beating marked
Saturday night in Cairo as Old Demon Rum and
some of his wicked associates got under way
to help out.
James William
DeJarnett, 53 years of age, a constable and not very large in size,
was killed when John
Morehead, 25 years of age, a WPA
timekeeper from Charleston, Mo., struck him
a forceful blow in the face and
DeJarnett fell to the sidewalk and never
again regained consciousness.
At the Turf Tavern where
Morehead had trouble because of too much
liquor, he had been knocked down and ordered
out.
Outside, the constable, who had not
said much, told
Morehead he had better go on home as he
did not wish to lock him up.
Morehead is said then to have struck him
a hard blow and
DeJarnett fell, probably fracturing his
skull on the sidewalk.
He died not long after.
Then
Morehead prepared to drive off in a car not his and another row
ensued with the owner or owner’s friends and
Morehead was held until night officers took him over.
That was about 1:30 o’clock and an
hour before, not more than a few blocks
away, a negro woman, Jonnie May
Woodson, 22 years old, plunged a knife
into the heart of Booker T.
West,
after calling him from a tavern where he was
drinking beer.
The row there is said to be over him
deserting her for some other woman.
And only a few minutes earlier,
Robert
Briggs, negro, had been beaten
unconscious and B. E.
Baggot, a white man, is said to have
either done it or helped.
The reason is given as an alleged
insult to a white woman.
Demon Rum & Infidelity seems to have
made a night of it in Cairo and robbed some
of the roadhouses in this county of their
Saturday night rows.
(A marker in Shiloh Cemetery in
Clinton, Hickman Co., Ky., reads:
James
DeJarnett Mar. 8, 1886 Jan. 22, 1939.
Booker T.
West, truck driver, according to his death certificate, was born 22
Jan 1916, in Forest City, Ark., the son of
Jack and Sally
West, died 21 Jan 1939, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., husband of
Alma
West, and was buried in Charleston, Mo.—Darrel
Dexter)
FORMER MOUND CITY MAN DIES
Ernest
Nordman, city comptroller of Cairo, formerly of this city, died in
Cairo Tuesday night of pneumonia at the age
of 61.
He moved from this city about 1888
and has since lived at Cairo.
(According to his death certificate,
Ernest
Nordman, Cairo comptroller and
treasurer, was born 31 Mar 1877, in
Indianapolis, Ind., the son of Fred
Nordman and Augusta
Rau,
natives of Germany, died 24 Jan 1939, in
Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., the husband of
Grace
Little Nordman, and was buried at Villa Ridge, Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker in Cairo City Cemetery
reads:
Grace E.
Nordman Sept. 22, 1885 March 11, 1965
Ernest
Nordman March 31, 1877 Jan. 25,
1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
TRIPLETS BORN IN THIS CITY SUNDAY MORNING
Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo
Bough
are the parents of triplets, two girls and
one boy, born at their home in this city
Sunday morning, about 9 o’clock.
The smallest, a girl, weighs less
than two pounds, was stillborn, while the
other girl, weighing two pounds and the boy
weighing a little less than two and
three-quarters pounds were placed in an
incubator and are doing nicely.
Dr. W. R.
Wesenberg was the physician called on
the case and the county has made
arrangements for the proper nursing
facilities.
Mr. and Mrs.
Bough are also the parents of four other children, three boys and
one girl.
Mr.
Bough is an unemployed cobbler.
Interment for the third child was
made Tuesday morning in the Thistlewood
Cemetery.
(Her death certificate states that
she was stillborn 22 Jan 1939, in Mound
City, Pulaski Co., Ill., the daughter of L.
D.
Bough, a native of Indiana, and Kate
Sowers, a native of Perks, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Word was received here (Beech Grove) of the
serious illness of Grandmother
Sowers. Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Mowery and Mr. and Mrs. Wayne
Miller left Saturday for a visit with
her at her son’s, Rev. Ben
Sowers and family.
The community wishes her a speedy
recovery.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 3 Feb 1939:
Norma Lou Miller
Norma Lou
Miller, 27-day-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Miller, died about 8 o’clock Friday
___ning, Jan. 27, at the home of her parents
in Ullin.
She is survived by her parents; a
brother, Donald
Miller; one sister, Marilyn Jean; her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
Sydenstricker of Ullin and Mr. and Mrs.
Earl
Miller of Dongola; and her
great-grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Z.
Rider of Dongola.
Funeral services were held at 2
o’clock Saturday afternoon at the ___ifly
residence, Rev. W. J.
Ward
officiating.
Burial was made in Mt. Pisgah
Cemetery near Wetaug.
(According to her death certificate,
Norma Lou
Miller was born 1 Jan 1939, in Ullin,
Ill., the daughter of Raymond
Miller and Helen
Sydenstricker, natives of Illinois,
died 27 Jan 1939, in Ullin, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., and was buried in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery.
Her marker there reads:
Norma Lou
Miller Jan. 1, 1939 Jan. 27, 1939—Darrel
Dexter)
Bough Triplets Die
Robert
Bough,
the last of the triplets born Sunday,
January 22, to Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo
Bough
of Mound City, died at five o’clock Saturday
morning, Jan. 27.
The first one born, a girl and the
smallest of the three, died at birth and was
buried Monday, Jan. 23.
Roberta, who weighed two and one-half
pounds, lived five days.
Robert, the largest, lived six days.
The doctor in attendance, Dr. W. R.
Wesenberg of Mound City, assisted by
Miss Hazel
Korando, Pulaski County health nurse,
and relief organization workers did
everything in their power to save the lives
of Robert and Roberta by placing them in
improvised incubators and giving them every
attention.
The father, we understand, is out of
employment.
The tiny bodies were placed in the
same casket and buried Saturday afternoon in
Thistlewood Cemetery, Mounds, G. A.
James
in charge.
(His death certificate states that
Robert
Bough
was born 22 Jan 1939, in Mound City, Ill.,
the son of L. D.
Bough,
a native of Indiana, and Kate
Sowers, a native of Perks, Ill., died 28
Jan 1939, in Mound City, Ill., and was
buried in Thistlewood Cemetery.
The death certificate of Roberta
Bough
states she was born 22 Jan 1939, in Mound
City, Ill., died 27 Jan 1939, in Mound City,
Ill., the daughter of L. D.
Bough,
a native of Indiana, and Kate
Sowers, a native of Perks, Ill., and was
buried in Thistlewood Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
Negro Eighty Years Old Killed by Switch
Train
Frank
Musgraves of Cairo, eighty-year-old negro, was killed by an Illinois
Central switch train between the Illinois
Central bridge approach and the
McFarland Lumber Co. plant in Cairo
Tuesday night at 11:15 o’clock.
Testimony at the inquest indicated
that the old man had rolled a bridge timber
from the top of the bridge approach, had
then sawed it in two on the switch tracks
and had loaded a push cart with it,
preparatory to taking it home.
His back must have been approaching
train when the first car struck the timber,
the timber striking him and throwing him
under the train.
Among those testifying were Charles
Walbridge, acting yardmaster; Horace
Fellenstein, switchman, both of Mounds;
and Charles
McKinney, special officer for the
Illinois Central.
The verdict returned was that
Musgraves was killed accidentally while
trespassing on I. C. property.
Mrs. W. P. Lackey
Mrs. Mary E.
Lackey, age 76 years, 8 months and 15 days, wife of W. P.
Lackey, died Thursday afternoon, Jan.
26, at their home near Ullin.
Besides her husband, she is survived
by three children, Mrs. R. L.
Willis and Mrs. Sadie Caudle
of Ullin and S. P.
Lackey of Olive Branch; twelve
grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 2
o’clock Sunday afternoon in the M. E. church
at Ullin, Rev. R. J.
Weiss
officiating.
Interment was made in New Hope
Cemetery with W. J.
Rhymer directing.
(William P.
Lackey married Mary E. Lentz
on 17 Jul 1887, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker in New Hope Cemetery near
Ullin, Ill., reads:
Mary E.
Lackey May 11, 1862 Jan. 26,
1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Porter Duncan
Mrs. Sarah Briscoe
Duncan, wife of Porter
Duncan, died Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 31,
at the family home in Mound City at the age
of 75 years, as the result of an attack of
pneumonia.
She had lived in Mound City for 17
years.
Surviving, besides her husband to
whom she was married only last year, are two
daughters, Mrs. Bertie
Mathis, of Paducah, Ky., and Mrs. Lettie
Hardison of Chicago; one son, Thomas
Tolley of Johnsonville, Tenn.; a sister,
Mrs. Lizzie
Ball
of Providence, Ky.; 13 grandchildren and
four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon in the Pentecostal church, Mound
City, Rev. Earl
Harp officiating. Burial
was made in Spencer Heights Cemetery, G. A.
James
directing.
(According to her death certificate,
Sarah Emaline
Duncan was born 28 Sep 1863, in
Kentucky, died 31 Jan 1939, in Mound City,
Ill., wife of Porter
Duncan,
and was buried in Spencer Heights
Cemetery in Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Malinda Sowers
Mrs. Malinda
Sowers, widow of Eli Sowers,
died Monday evening, January 30, at the home
of her son, Rev. T. B.
Sowers, pastor of the Methodist Church
in Benton, where she had been making her
home in recent months.
She passed away on her 84th
birthday, after an illness of long duration.
Mrs.
Sowers, who was the aunt of B. A.
Braddy of Mounds, leaves three sons, Rev.
Sowers, Roy of Dix, Ill., and Seth of St. Louis; three daughters,
Mrs. Mary
Hartman of Tamms, Mrs. Ona
Mowery of Ullin and Mrs. Florence
Shelton of Pontiac, Mich.; a brother,
George
Braddy of Ullin; a number of
grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
morning at 11 o’clock at the Ullin M. E.
Church with interment at Mt. Pisgah Cemetery
near Wetaug.
(Eli
Sowers married Malinda Braddy
on 27 Mar 1873, in Union Co., Ill.
According to her death certificate,
Margret Malindy
Sowers was born 30 Jan 1855, in
Illinois, the daughter of Benjamin
Sowers and Sarah
Lentz,
natives of North Carolina, died 30 Jan 1939,
in Benton, Franklin Co., Ill., widow of Eli
Sowers, and was buried in
Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery
near Wetaug, Ill., reads:
Eli
Sowers Born Feby. 1, 1853 Died Aug. 27,
1914 Aged 61 Y., 6 M., 26 D. Malinda
Sowers his wife Born Jan. 30, 1855 Died Jan. 30, 1939 Aged 84
Y.—Darrel
Dexter)
Quaint Old Print
An old Currier & Ives print of an
albino family (you know, the white-haired
people with the pink eyes) was reproduced in
Karl K.
Knecht’s daily cartoon in the
Evansville Courier Monday.
Knecht’s inspiration is owned by an
Elberfield, Ind., lady.
The legend under the old lithograph
states that this family of man, wife and two
children was first exhibited in P. T.
Barnum’s Museum in New York.
It is not dated.
Knecht’s cartoon attracted the attention of Dan
Smith
of this city who Tuesday brought in the same
ancient picture in a handmade frame.
Mr.
Smith
said that the old picture was owned by his
father, who died 45 years ago at the age of
72.
Mr.
Smith said his father saw the famous family in
Barnum’s museum shortly after he came over from England and was so
impressed that he bought the picture.—Albion
Journal-Register
Mrs. Jenny Riddle
The body of Mrs. Jenny
Riddle, who died in Chicago, was brought
to the
James
Funeral Home here early this morning and
will be taken to Olmstead for burial.
Funeral arrangements have not been
made at this writing.
Three Killed in Illinois Central Wreck on
Cut-off
Three of the train crew of an
Illinois Central freight were killed and one
injured Sunday night between 8 and 9 o’clock
when an engine and 29 cars were derailed on
the single track cut-off branch one mile
north of Robbs, in Pope County.
Engineer Adolphus J.
West
of Paducah, Ky., Fireman M. C.
Waterbury of Centralia, formerly of
Mound City, and Brakeman Walter
Choate of Reevesville, all in the engine
cab at the time of the accident were killed
as the locomotive struck a slide of dirt in
a cut, evidently caused by the heavy rains.
Rescue crews worked for hours in a
steady rain to remove the bodies, which were
taken to a Vienna funeral home.
West and Choate were
fatally scalded, according to reports.
The body of
Waterbury was found pinned under the
engine and workers using blow torches
labored for hours to extricate it.
Brakeman Paul
Wiederman suffered a broken collarbone and other injuries and was
removed to a Paducah hospital.
Conductor C. A.
Elliott of Centralia was not injured.
The train was
en route to Paducah from Bluford and carried about 100 cars, 29 of
which were derailed with the locomotive.
The cut-off route is used only for
freight trains and has many high hills, cuts
and tunnels along its bedway.
It is a single track and all
railroaders dread it.
Fireman
Waterbury’s wife is seriously ill in a San Francisco hospital.
The family moved to California when
railroads put so many of their employees on
lay-off.
Mr.
Waterbury later returned to work on the
I. C. with headquarters in Fulton, Ky.,
afterward going to Centralia.
Engineer
West lived here for years and the two men have many friends here who
are deeply shocked at their tragic passing.
(When Adolphus F.
West
registered for the draft in 1917, he stated
he was born 22 Jan 1891, in Belknap,
Ill., and worked as a locomotive engineer in
the Mounds yards for the Illinois Central.
The
death certificate of Adolphus Frank
West,
engineer, of Paducah, Ky., states that he
was born 22 Feb 1891, in Boaz, Ill., the son
of Frank James
West,
a native of Boaz, Ill., and Sarah Ellen
Medders, died 29 Jan 1939, in Road
District 8, Pope Co., Ill., husband of Laura
West, and was buried in
Anderson Cemetery.
His marker there reads:
Adolphus F.
West Feb. 22, 1892 Jan. 29, 1939.
When Murl Clifford
Waterbury registered for the draft in 1917, he was a hoop coiler for
O. L.
Bartlett in Mound City, Ill.
According to his death certificate,
Murl Clifford
Waterbury, fireman, of Paducah, Ky., was
born 30 Oct 1891, in Bellevue, Mich., the
son of Fred
Waterbury, a native of Belleville,
Mich., and Anna
Grisold, a native of New York, died 29
Jan 1939, in Road District 8, Pope Co.,
Ill., the husband of Ruth
Waterbury, and was buried in Dexter
Cemetery in Dexter, Stoddard Co., Mo. His
marker there reads:
Murl C.
Waterbury Oct. 30, 1893- Jan. 30,
1939.
Walter
Choate, brakeman, according to his death
certificate, was born 25 Jun 1891, in New
Burnside, Ill., the son of Marion
Choate, a native of New Burnside, Ill.,
and Jennie
Kuykendall, a native of Vienna, Ill.,
died 29 Jan 1939, in Road District 8, Pope
Co., Ill., husband of Gertie
Choate,
and was buried in Reevesville, Johnson
Co., Ill.
His marker in Reevesville Cemetery
reads:
Walter
Choate 1891-1939 Gertrude
Choate 1893-1981.
The 1918 draft registration for
Walter
Choate states he was born in New
Burnside, Ill., a farmer for Frank
Marbury at
Reevesville, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Circuit Court Convened Yesterday in Mound
City
An adjourned session of circuit court
was convened in Mound City yesterday with a
full schedule.
Judge Hal A.
Spann of Anna presided and the first case on the schedule was that
of W. L.
Burns,
administrator vs. Henry
Richardson.
This is a damage suit which has been
pending in court for a number of years,
resulting from the death of Esther
Burns,
daughter of W. L.
Burns,
who was killed in an automobile accident in
which young
Richardson was driver of the car, which
turned over on an embankment at the
intersection of Route 37 and the blacktop
road.
William H. Gibson
William H.
Gibson of Cairo, father of Mrs. James E.
Wilhoit, formerly of Mounds, died at his home on Pine Street,
Thursday, January 19, following a long
illness.
His age was 78 years.
He was born in Metropolis, but had
made his home in Cairo for 55 years, and was
employed by the Woodward Hardware Co., for
48 years, retiring five years ago on account
of failing health.
Surviving are his wife, three sons,
William of Huntington, W. Va., Eugene of St.
Louis, and Ralph of Little Rock, Ark.; two
daughters, Mrs.
Wilhoit of Cairo and Mrs. Charles
Porter of Tamms; also six grandchildren.
Burial was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery Friday afternoon.
(His death certificate states that
William Henry
Gibson was born 1 Jan 1861, in
Metropolis, Ill., the son of Davis
Gibson, a native of Paisley, Scotland, and Susan
Pierce, a native of Pennsylvania, died
19 Jan 1939, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill.,
the husband of Lena
Gibson, and was buried in Thistlewood
Cemetery at Mounds, Ill.
His marker in Beechwood Cemetery
reads:
William H.
Gibson 1861-1939 Cairo, Ill. Husband of
Magdalena Father of
Mabel, Iva, William, Eugene and
Ralph.—Darrel
Dexter)
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our thanks for the
many kindnesses shown us during the illness
and ___ of our wife, mother and grandmother,
Mrs. Sarah
Cunningham.
We especially wish to thank Rev.
Fix
of Cairo, Rev. Rue
Reid
and Judge
Dewey for their consoling words and prayers.
___
Lansden and Mrs.
Can___
for the beautiful hymns and ____ Gladys
Reno
for her ____ and nursing; those who sent the
beautiful flowers and provided their cars
and the
Ryan
Funeral Home for their services.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 3 Feb 1939:
SARAH BRISCOE DUNCAN
Sarah Briscoe
Duncan, 75 years of age, died at her home in ____ Tuesday afternoon
following a week’s illness.
She has been a resident of this city
for 17 years and was more familiarly known
as “Aunt Sarah.”
She is survived by her husband, ____Duncan,
to whom she was married Oct. 11, 1938; also
two ____, Mrs. Bertie
Mathis of ___, Ky., and Mrs. Lettie
Har___
of Chicago; one son, Thomas ____ of
Johnsonville, Tenn., and _____, Mrs. Lizzie
Ball
of Provi_____.
Thirteen grandchildren, ____
great-grandchildren, also ______.
Funeral services were held Thursday
_____ at the Pentecost church, with Rev.
Earl
Harp officiating. Burial
was in Spencer Heights Cemetery at Mounds.
G. A.
James was in charge of arrangements.
ULLIN WOMAN DIES
_____
Sowers, 84 years of age, a resident of the Beech Grove community
near Ullin, died at the home of her son,
Rev. Ben
Sowers, in Benton, Monday.
Three sons survive, Ben, Roy of
Dixon, and ____ of St. Louis; and three
daughters, Mary
Hartman of Tamms, Mrs. Ray
Mowery of Ullin and Mrs. ___
Shelton of Pontiac, Mich.
Funeral services for this well-known
woman were held Wednesday morning at the
Methodist church at Ullin and burial was in
the Mt. Pisgah Cemetery near Wetaug.
COMPLAINING ABOUT JANITOR
The school boards are hearing
complaint about Granville
Allen,
colored, who is janitor at the Lovejoy
School.
A girl has been to the boards with
the story about her baby born some time ago
and for support of which, she said,
Allen paid sums of money.
Now the child is dead and no more
money is paid.
(This may be a reference to Harold
Eugene
Allen,
who was born 11 Nov 1938, in Mound City,
Ill., the son of Granville
Allen and Eula Mae Kilgore,
a native of Arkansas, died 9 Dec 1938, in
Mound City, Ill., and was buried in
Thistlewood Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
LAST OF TRIPLETS BORN LAST WEEK, DIED SUNDAY
The last of the triplets born Sunday
to Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo
Baugh,
died Saturday morning at their home in this
city.
One of the children, a girl, died at
birth, the other two, a girl, Roberta, and a
boy, Robert, lived five and six days
respectively.
Roberta died Friday morning and
Robert died Saturday morning.
All three children were buried in
Thistlewood Cemetery.
G. A.
James
was in charge of arrangements.
Martin
Henderson, colored, was indicted on
charge of murder of Roy
Davis,
colored, at Olmstead.
Bessie
Meals,
colored, was indicted for the killing of her
husband.
This was the colored woman with very
young baby who walked a couple of miles to
give herself up and seemed little concerned
about her act.
Mrs. Ray
Mowery spent several days recently at
the home of her brother, Rev. T. B.
Sowers of Benton, nursing her mother who
has been seriously ill for several weeks and
passed away Monday night, Jan. 30.
The funeral was held at the Ullin M.
E. Church Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock
and burial was made in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery.
This community (Beech Grove) has lost
a great church worker, spiritually and
financially, for Grandmother was always
about her Master’s business.
Earl
Miller’s and Van
Short’s families attended the burial of the infant baby of Mr. and
Mrs. Raymond
Miller one day last week.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 10 Feb 1939:
Infant Dies
Harry
Jacobson, Jr., infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Jacobson, died at birth Thursday
afternoon February 2, at 2:35 o’clock.
The baby was born at the home of his
grandmother, Mrs. Maude
Arnold, where Mr. and Mrs.
Jacobson are making their home.
The mother is Theda
Arnold Jacobson.
Burial was in Thistlewood Cemetery
Friday afternoon, J. T.
Ryan
directing.
INFANT DIES
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
A.
Hogendobler of Villa Ridge died at birth
Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock at St. Mary’s
Hospital, Cairo.
His parents and one brother, Clyde
Kennedy, survive.
(His death certificate states he was
stillborn 7 Feb 1939, in Cairo, Alexander
Co., Ill., the son of Clyde
Hogendobler, a native of Villa Ridge,
Ill., and Florita
Kennedy, a native of Mound City, Ill.
His marker at Beech Grove Cemetery
reads:
Andy
Hogendobler Born and Died Feb. 7, 1939
Infant Son of Clyde A. & Florita K.
Hogendobler.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Alice Beaver Lewis
Mrs. Alice
Beaver Lewis, 86, of America, died Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs.
Lewis,
the widow of Elisha
Lewis,
leaves three daughters, Mrs. Lenora
Unger
and Mrs. Pearl
Martin of America and Mrs. Bert
Helwig of Chicago; nine grandchildren
and one great-grandchild.
She also leaves a brother, Abe
Beaver of Mounds and a half-brother,
John
Roulette of Los Angeles, Calif.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at the home with Rev. Joseph
Fix
of Cairo officiating.
Burial was in Thistlewood Cemetery,
G. A.
James directing.
(Elisha R.
Lewis married Alice Beaver
on 29 Apr 1870, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
According to her death certificate,
Mary Alice
Lewis
was born 19 Feb 1853, in America, Ill., the
daughter of Joe
Beaver, died 7 Feb 1939, in Road District 6, Pulaski Co., Ill., widow of
Elisha
Lewis,
and was buried in Thistlewood Cemetery at
Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
“U. S. Grant’s Nephew Dies of Starvation”
The above headline appeared in a
Chicago morning paper on Monday and below
was a lengthy article telling its readers of
the death of Jesse Root
Grant,
75, of Wilmette, a nephew of General and
later President Ulysses S.
Grant,
at Cook County Hospital of starvation and
exposure.
Grant, once wealthy, had retired years ago and lived, together with
his 38-year-old son, Ulysses S., in an
eight-room house at 1327 Washington Avenue,
Wilmette.
The son said he himself had been
unemployed since 1930, when an injury caused
him to lose a position he had held since
1912 with the Continental Illinois National
Bank in Chicago.
The two had been without funds for
several weeks and had had no food or fuel
for a number of days.
Relief authorities were to be asked
to defray funeral expenses.
(His death certificate states that
Jesse R.
Grant
was born about 1866, the son of Orvel and
Gertrude
Grant,
died 4 Feb 1939, in Chicago, Cook Co., Ill.,
and was buried at Norwood Park, Cook Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 10 Feb 1939:
Mrs. Emma
Hartline and Mrs. Doll
Beaver of Johnston City and Mrs. Zelma
Sowers of Harvey and Mrs. Ella
Sowers and son Walter of Perks were the
guests Monday of the later Mrs.
Sowers’ daughter, Mrs. L. D.
Bough.
They were surprised to hear of the
death of the triplets recently born to Mr.
and Mrs.
Bough.
PIONEER RESIDENT DIES AT AMERICA
Mrs. Alice
Beaver Lewis, born Feb. 19, 1853, passed away Tuesday afternoon,
February 7, at her country home at America,
Ill.
Mrs.
Lewis had spent her entire life in this community.
On April 29, 1870, she was married to
Elisha
Lewis,
who preceded her in death 15 years ago.
To this union five children were
born, four of which are still living.
A daughter, Miss Minnie
Lewis,
passed away, April 4, 1934.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs.
Pearl
Martin and Mrs. Lora
Unger
of America and Mrs. Bert
Helwig of Chicago; one son, George of
America; one brother, Abe
Beaver of Mounds; and one half brother,
John
Roulette of Los Angeles, Calif.
Five grandchildren and several nieces
and nephews also survive her.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at the home, Rev. Joseph
Fix
of the Congregational Church of Mound City
officiating.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery at Mounds.
G. A.
James directed the funeral.
INFANT DIED
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Hogendobler of Villa Ridge, born Tuesday
afternoon at St. Mary Infirmary, died
following birth.
He leaves, besides his parents, a
brother, Clyde Kennedy
Hogendobler.
Interment was made Wednesday morning
in Thistlewood Cemetery at Mounds.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our gratitude and
thanks to those who in any way assisted
during the illness and death of our dear
wife and mother, Sarah Briscoe
Duncan.
May God bless you.
Porter
Duncan
Letty
Hardison
Bertie
Mathis
Thomas
Talley, children
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 17 Feb 1939:
Vernon William Webb
Vernon William
Webb, age 16, and the older son of County Superintendent of schools,
Marvin W.
Webb
and Mrs.
Webb,
died Thursday afternoon, February 9, at the
family home in Mound City following a long
illness.
For many weeks he was a patient in
Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, but when hopes
for his recovery had been given up, he was
brought home.
He had been confined to his bed since
the first of last July.
Surviving him are his parents, a
younger brother, Marion E.
Webb,
and his paternal and maternal grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. M. V.
Webb of Karnak, and Mr. and Mrs. F. M.
Thornton of Ullin.
Funeral services were held Saturday
afternoon at two o’clock at St. Peter’s
Episcopal Church, Mound City, Rev. S. L.
Hagan,
vicar of the church, officiating.
Interment was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery, Mounds.
Casket bearers were Noah
Tapley, Warren
Vine,
George L.
Walker, James Westerman,
Joseph
Westerman, and Harry
Hickman.
Wilson Funeral Service of Karnak
directed the funeral.
(According to his death certificate,
Vernon William
Webb
was born 22 Sep 1922, in Ullin, Ill., the
son of Marvin W.
Webb, a native of Pulaski, Ky., and Sena E.
Thornton, a native of Ullin, Ill., died 9 Feb 1939, in Mounds,
Pulaski Co., Ill., and was buried in Spencer
Heights Cemetery at Mounds.
His marker there reads:
Son Vernon W.
Webb Sept. 27, 1922 Feb. 9, 1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Grandmother of Fred Walker Dies Monday in
Cairo
Mrs. Florence E.
Wood,
age 71 years, died Monday afternoon, Feb.
13, at her home, 4222 Thirtieth St., Cairo.
She had been a resident of Cairo for
the past 37 years, having formerly lived in
Johnson County, where she had been a
lifelong member of the Pleasant Grove
Baptist Church.
She is survived by one daughter, Mrs.
T. A.
Forehand of Fulton, Ky.; two grandsons,
Fred
Walker of Mounds and Bernard
Walker of Fulton; a granddaughter, Mrs.
K. C.
Borgeson of Chicago; two
great-grandsons, Freddie Gene
Walker of Mounds and Jimmie
Wall of Cairo; and two nephews, William
and Ernest
Dolan of Centralia.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at
Berbling Funeral Home, Cairo, Rev. L. H.
Anderson of Washington St. Baptist
Church officiating.
Burial was in Spencer Heights
Cemetery, Mounds.
(Her death certificate states that
Florance E.
Wood
was born 10 Apr 1868, in Pleasant Grove,
Johnson Co., Ill., the daughter of Francis
L.
Dolan, a native of Ireland, and Mary Ann
Pender, a native of Pleasant Grove,
Johnson Co., Ill., died 13 Feb 1939, in
Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., widow of Newton
Wood,
and was buried at Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 17 Feb 1939:
____ WEBB DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS
____ William
Webb, more popularly known as “Buddy,” passed away Thursday
afternoon at the home of his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Marvin W.
Webb
in this city.
___ who was sixteen years old, ___
been sick for the past year or so and had
been bedfast since the ___ mer.
The particular disease of
insufficient corpuscles which beset this
____ one that baffled medical ____.
The parents were told ___ ago that
the end would ____ it they hoped against
their ____ge, that he might regain ____
strength.
They stood by as the ____ gained a
stronger foothold.
___ was sleeping that morning,
____don, he was in a coma, and _____ became
delirious, he was ____ never conscious of
any ____e had worn and wasted in ____as, and
illness that deprived ____ energy and
strength until ____ functions could not go
on.
____ breathing almost required ____s
effort.
To the parents, the ____ many times
as he lay in ____ly wearing out.
He is survived by his parents; one
____ Marion; and his grand_____ Mr. and Mrs.
M. V.
Webb of Karnak and Mr. and Mrs. F. M. ____n of Ullin.
Funeral services were held Saturday
afternoon in St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
with Rev. S. L.
Hagan, officiating.
Interment was in Thistlewood Cemetery.
The pallbearers were Noah
Tapley, ___
Vines,
George L.
Walker, ___
Westerman and Harry Hick___.
___
Webb is superintendent of the _____ County Schools and Ver____ a
junior in the Mound City ____ity High School
at the time _____ sick.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 24 Feb 1939:
Louise Cunningham Miller
Mrs. Louise
Cunningham Miller, wife of Ervin
Miller of Van Nuys, Calif., died at her home Friday, February 17, at
8:20 p.m.
She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
B. C.
Cunningham of this vicinity, and a
sister of Mrs. Joseph
Fox,
the former Alice
Cunningham.
She is survived by her husband, a
daughter and two grandsons, her parents,
sisters and brothers.
Interment was made in California.
IN MEMORIAM
In loving remembrance of ___ Edgar
Clanton our dear husband, father and
grandfather, who departed this life February
25, 193_.
__ sadly missed by his wife, ___ and
grandchildren.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 24 Feb 1939:
SWEETIE KILLS TOM BUTLER, CONSTABLE
Ida Bell
Allen, colored woman, the reputed sweetie of Tom
Butler, colored constable, confessed to
Sheriff I. J.
Hudson that she killed
Butler about midnight last Friday as he
was approaching his home.
Butler was shot three times with a .38
caliber revolver, once through the stomach,
once through the neck and ranging downward
and once in the top head, apparently as he
fell forward.
Nearly any one of the shots would
have brought instant death.
The story back of the killing runs to
the days when
Butler and she began to meet and when
she parted from her husband who lives at
Cairo.
It is said that threats against her
if she returned to her husband and over $8
that he obtained from her, brought her to
the point where she feared for her life and
decided to defend herself.
Butler, in years gone by, had killed a
man at Olmstead and here among colored
people he was feared and very much disliked.
The coroner’s verdict required that
she be held and is in jail without bond.
Butler is divorced from his first wife.
He has six children.
He became constable here when a
chance was made to interpret the law for an
additional constable, and so was appointed
by the County Board.
He had no opposition at his last
election.
Butler was known about town and sometimes did work for the
courthouse group.
His name figured in several cases and
was considered to have an “in” at the
courthouse.
(According to his death certificate,
Thomas
Butler, constable, was born 8 Sep 1885,
in Illinois, the son of John D.
Butler and Emma
Thomas, died 17 Feb 1939,
in Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill., divorced
husband of Ida
Wilson Butler, and was buried in Mt. Zion Cemetery near Olmsted, Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker there reads:
Tom
Butler Father Sept. 8, 1885 Feb. 17,
1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
DISAGREEMENT OF JURY IN MANSLAUGHTER CASE
The jury disagreed at Cairo in
circuit court in the case of John
Morehead, 25 years of age, over the
killing of James
DeJarnatt, a Cairo constable.
The affair grew out of a row in a
tavern and further rows outside in which
DeJarnatt was killed after being hit by the defendant, who testified
that he was quite drunk and knew nothing of
what he did.
The fight was first in the Turf
Tavern and then outside, when
DeJarnatt took some hand, the blow or
blows ending in death took place.
With the jury disagreeing, probably
another chapter written, one dead and only
booze to blame.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 3 Mar 1939:
Sudden Death of John Littell a Shock to the
Community
The sudden passing of John
Littell Friday morning, February 24, in
the office of Dr. O. T.
Hudson, brings to mind the thought that
today we are here, tomorrow we are gone.
Mr.
Littell was in the grocery store of Henry
Gunn when he complained of feeling ill and was taken by someone
present to the office of Dr.
Hudson where he died from a heart
attack.
For many years Mr.
Littell was an employee of the Illinois
Central Railroad.
At his death he resided in one of the
houses belonging to the Thistlewood Estate
just west of Mounds.
His age at death was 52 years.
He is survived by his wife, three
daughters, Mrs. Ruby
Wehrenberg, Hazel Ruth and Carole Jean
Littell; two sons, Clyde and Jack
Littell, all of Mounds; two sisters,
Mrs. George
Hawkins of Illmo, Mo., and Mrs. Ella
Hagey
of Cairo; a brother, Lonzo
Littell of Talapoosa, Mo.; and a
half-brother, William
Cheniae of Villa Ridge.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at two o’clock in the First
Baptist Church, Rev. Earl
Throgmorton, pastor, officiating.
Casket bearers were M. M.
Shifley, S. A.
Shifley, P. W. Scott,
Harry B.
Williams, Ed
Adams
and Wave
Wingo. Interment was in
Thistlewood Cemetery, J. T.
Ryan
directing.
(His registration for the draft
states John Clyde
Littell was born 10 Jul 1877, and that
he was a machinist for the Illinois Central
Railroad at Mounds, Ill.
According to his death certificate,
John Clyde
Littell, farmer, was born 10 Jul 1878,
in Villa Ridge, Ill., the son of Adam
Littell, a native of Texas, and Hannah
Beals,
a native of Louisiana, died 24 Feb 1939, in
Mounds, Ill., husband of Ethel
Littell, and was buried
in Thistlewood Cemetery.
His marker in Beechwood Cemetery at
Mounds, Ill., reads:
Ethel W.
Littell 1892-1978 John C.
Littell 1877-1938.—Darrel
Dexter)
Former Mounds Resident Dies Sunday in Cairo
Emmett J.
Sackman, age 47, died Sunday afternoon, February 28, at St. Mary’s
Hospital, Cairo, where he had been a patient
only a few days.
It was thought shortly before his
death that Mr.
Sackman was improving.
Mr.
Sackman, a former general foreman in the Illinois Central yards at
Mounds was transferred to Cairo some years
ago when the yards were moved to Cairo
junction.
He was a member of the Episcopal
Church of the Redeemer in Cairo and of the
Masonic Lodge in East St. Louis.
Surviving him are his wife, Florence,
and a son, Emmett, Jr.
Also two sisters, Mrs. Charles
Hauss
and Mrs. Charles
Winning, and two brothers, Charles and
Henry
Sackman, all of East St. Louis.
Short funeral services were held Sunday
evening at the
Berbling Funeral Home in Cairo, with
Rev. S. L.
Hagan,
rector of the Church of the Redeemer,
officiating.
The funeral cortege went to East St.
Louis Monday and funeral services were held
there Wednesday afternoon in the
Linder Funeral Home with interment in
Mt. Hope Cemetery, Belleville.
(The 1917 draft registration card for
Emmett J.
Sackman, of 1753 N. 46th,
East St. Louis, Ill., machine shop foreman
for American Zinc Co., in Fairmont City,
Ill., states he was born 21 Mar 1890,
in East St. Louis.
His death certificate states that
Emmett J.
Sackman, general foreman on Illinois
Central Railroad, of Cairo, Ill., was born
21 Mar 1892, in East St. Louis, Ill., son of
Henry
Sackman, a native of Germany, died 26
Feb 1939, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill.,
husband of Florence A.
Sackman, and was buried in Belleville,
St. Clair Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. George
Hawkins has returned to her home in
Illmo, Mo., after being called here by the
death of her brother, John
Littell.
Mr. and Mrs. O. E.
Pawlish are in Fort Wayne, Ind., called
there by the death of the former’s sister.
Many friends of John
Littell of Mounds were saddened to hear
of his death, which occurred suddenly last
Friday.
Mr.
Littell was a brother of W. M.
Cheniae, a prominent grocer here (Villa
Ridge).
Word was received here of the death of Mrs.
Mollie
Jones,
who resided with her daughter, Mrs. Paul
Phelps in Chicago.
Her body was brought to Harrisburg,
where the funeral was held Wednesday.
Her nieces, Mrs. W. B.
Kennedy and Mrs. D. C. Gunn,
and families from here (Villa Ridge) were in
attendance.
(This is Nellie
Jones,
daughter of Cornelius
Mangan, whose death certificate states died 2 Mar 1939, in Chicago, Cook
Co., Ill., the wife of Alonzo
Jones.
There is also a marriage certificate
in Johnson Co., Ill., for James A.
Jones
and Lillie
Mangum, which could refer to her.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 3 Mar 1939:
Maggie
Kerley and Joy
Dexter attended the funeral of Mrs. Ellen
Corzine in Dongola Friday afternoon.
(Beech Grove)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 10 Mar 1939:
Alfred Lee Seals
Alfred Lee
Seals, 26 years of age, passed away Wednesday evening, March 1, at
his home in Ullin, following a prolonged
illness.
He is survived by his wife, Esther;
two sons, Johnnie Lee and Alfred Jr.; and
one daughter, Mrs. Dora
Seals of Ullin; four sisters, Mrs. Myrtle
Jones of Hanford, Calif., Mrs. Iva Mae
Williams of Mounds, Mrs. Grace
Dodson of Tamms and Miss Mildred
Seals
of Ullin; also five brothers, Ralph
Seals
of Hanford, Calif., and Omar, Ira, Sylvester
and Frank
Seals, all of Ullin.
Funeral services were held at 1
o’clock Friday afternoon in the Baptist
Church at Elco, Rev.
Parker, the pastor, officiating.
Interment was in the Ullin Cemetery.
(His death certificate states that
Alfred Lee
Seals,
fireman, of Ullin, Ill., was born 6 Dec
1912, in Ullin, Pulaski Co., Ill., the son
of Sylvester
Seals
and Dora
Mize, natives of Ullin, Ill., died 2 Mar 1939, in Ullin, Ill.,
husband of Ester
Seals,
and was buried in Ullin Cemetery.
His marker there reads:
Alfred L.
Seals Dec. 6, 1912 March 2, 1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie
McKenzie, daughter Sylvia Patricia and
W. C. V.
Prather, father of Mrs.
McKenzie spent Saturday and Sunday in
Brazil, Ind., called there by the death of
Mr. Prather’s sister, Mrs. Sarah
Prather.
(Her marker in Harmony Cemetery in
Clay Co., Ind., reads:
Sara C.
Prather 1861-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Wilkerson received word Monday of the
death of Mr.
Wilkerson’s uncle, Alfred
Ireland, who died at his home in
Aberdeen, Wash., Saturday, March 4.
Burial was made Thursday in
Wickliffe, Ky., and the funeral was attended
by Mr. and Mrs.
Wilkerson, Mrs. Carrie
Wilkerson, and son Raymond of St. Louis,
and Mrs. Victor
Reagan of Ullin.
Mr.
Ireland was at one time a resident of Cairo.
(A death certificate for Frank
N.
Ireland states he was born about 1867,
son of J. M.
Ireland and Betty
Neache,
and
died 3 Mar 1939, in Aberdeen, Grays
Harbor Co., Wash., husband of Belle
Ireland.
His marker in Wickliffe Cemetery
reads:
Alfred N.
Ireland 1866-1939.
Alfred Neale
Ireland was born 20 Aug 1866, in Ballard
Co., Ky., and was the son of
James Morton
Ireland and Elizabeth
Neale.—Darrel
Dexter)
News was received here last week of the
death of Mrs. Nellie
Jones,
the mother of H. E.
Jones
of Harrisburg.
They were former residents of this
place and their friends were much shocked.
Mr. and Mrs. D. C.
Gunn and Mr. and Mrs. William
Kennedy attended the funeral.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 17 Mar 1939:
Mrs. Earnest Smith
Mrs. Donna Belle
Smith,
47 years of age, has passed away Thursday,
March 9, at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Frances
Walters, near Karnak, following an
illness of about two years.
She had been a resident of the same
community during her entire life, a member
of the Royal Neighbors Lodge of Karnak and
was a highly esteemed citizen.
Mrs.
Smith
is survived by her husband, Earnest
Smith;
and her daughter, Mrs.
Walters; her father, W. F.
Evers
of Buncombe; two sisters, Mrs. Maude
Poulson of Joppa and Mrs. A. W.
Tarr
of Johnston City; also three brothers, John
Evers
of Karnak, A. L.
Evers
of Salem and J. H.
Evers
of Aurora.
Funeral services were held at 2
o’clock Saturday afternoon in the M. E.
church.
Rev.
Wright officiated and interment was made
in the Masonic Cemetery at Belknap.
The casket bearers were Paul
Mathis, Ray
Mathis, Charles Evers,
Clellan
Walters, Kenneth
Walters, and Elmer
Baccus.
Wilson Funeral Service directed the funeral.
(Her death certificate states that
Donna Bell
Smith
was born 16 Jun 1891, in Belknap, Ill., the
daughter of William F.
Evers, a native of Massac Co., Ill., and Mollie
Green,
a native of Pennsylvania,
died 9 Mar 1939, in Massac Co., Ill.,
wife of Earnest
Smith,
and was buried in the Masonic Cemetery in
Johnson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Roscoe Wood
Roscoe
Wood passed away Saturday morning, March 11, at his home in Ullin,
at the age of 40 years, after a brief
illness of pneumonia.
In addition to his wife Augusta, he
leaves three children, Victor, Elva Ruth and
Darrel Gene.
He also leaves his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John
Wood
of Ullin; three brothers, Nile A.
Wood
of Pulaski, Ollie Lester
Wood
of Ullin, Delbert
Wood
of Shamrock, Texas; and one sister, Mrs.
Florence
Kraatz of Ullin.
Funeral services were held at Cache
Chapel Church at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon
with Rev. N. R.
Burris officiating, assisted by Rev. R.
J.
Weiss.
Interment was made in Cache Chapel
Cemetery with W. J.
Rhymer in charge.
(He signed his name as Roscoe Vernard
Wood
on his 1918 draft registration card.
His death certificate states that
Roscoe Verne
Wood,
farmer, of Ullin, Ill., was born 2 Feb 1899,
in Mt. Carmel, Ill., the son of John H.
Wood
and Clara
Campbell, natives of Mt. Carmel, Ill.,
died 11 Mar 1939, in District 3, Pulaski
Co., Ill., husband of Augusta
Wood,
and was buried in Cache Chapel Cemetery in
Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Elizabethtown Hotel Owner Dies at 87
Mrs. Sarah
Rose, 87, proprietor for many years of the Rose Hotel at
Elizabethtown, was buried Friday.
She was a direct descendant of James
McFarland, founder of the city, who
built the Rose Hotel as a family residence
in 1818 on land he acquired from the
government during the administration of
George
Washington.
The city was named for his wife,
Elizabeth.
The two grandparents of Mrs.
Rose
are buried on the residential lot.—Marion
Post.
(Wiley
Rose married Sarah E. Baker
on 27 Jul 1869, in Gallatin Co., Ill.
Calvin M.
Baker
married Frances
Colbert on 10 Jan 1850, in Gallatin Co.,
Ill.
The death certificate of Sarah E.
Rose,
hotel proprietor, states that she was born 5
Nov 1851, in Illinois, the daughter of
Calvin
Baker
and Frances
Colbert, natives of Illinois, died 7 Mar 1939, in Elizabethtown,
Hardin Co., Ill., widow of Wiley
Rose,
and was buried at Elizabethtown.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 17 Mar 1939:
Several from here (Beech Grove) attended the
funeral of Roscoe
Wood at Cache Chapel Tuesday.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 24 Mar 1939:
Infant Dies
Charlotte Marian, age two months and
25 days, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton
Wilson died at the home of her parents on Oak Street Sunday morning,
March 19.
She leaves her parents and two
sisters, Terry Dean and Teddy Gene.
Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at Cache Chapel
Church, Rev. Mr.
Martin conducting.
Burial was in Cache Chapel Cemetery,
Wilson Service in charge.
(Her death certificate states that
Charlotte Marion
Wilson was born 23 Dec 1938, in Mounds,
Ill., the daughter of Clinton
Wilson and Cleone Albright,
natives of Ullin, Ill.,
died 19 Mar 1939, in Mounds, Ill., and
was buried in Cache Chapel Cemetery.
Her marker there reads:
Charlotte daughter of Clinton and
Cleona
Wilson Dec. 23, 1938 Mar. 19,
1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Celebrates 95 Birthday
Mrs. Catherine
Aydt Wallbaum, widow of the late Henry
Wallbaum of Cairo, celebrated her 95th birthday at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. H. A.
Williams of Villa Ridge with whom she
has lived for the past six years.
Mrs. Ed
Dyas
of Villa Ridge is another daughter.
She was born in the little town of
Piopolis, Ill., of German parents, March 20,
1844.
There were 11 children in the family.
At twenty years of age she went to
Cairo on a visit, met and married Henry
Wallbaum and the young couple
established their home there.
They became the parents of 12
children, eight of whom are living.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 31 Mar 1939:
Mrs. Mary Belle Taft
Mrs. Mary Belle (Thomas)
Taft of Cairo, age 34 years, died Sunday morning after an illness of
nine days due to pneumonia.
She had been with the
McKesson-Schuh
Drug Co., for the past twelve years.
Surviving are her daughter, Joan, age
nine; her mother, Mrs. Grace
Thomas; two brothers, Prentiss and
Marshal
Thomas of Spencer Heights, Mounds; one
sister, Mrs. Iva Jane Hartigan of Lexington, Ky., and other relatives less near.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Lutheran
Church with Rev. C. R.
Dunlap officiating.
Burial was in Thistlewood Cemetery.
(Her death certificate states that
Mary Bell
Taft,
clerical worker for
McKesson &
Schuh, of Cairo, Ill., was born 29 Oct 1904, in Charleston, Mo.,
daughter of Joseph
Thomas, a native of Oakland, Ind.,
and Grace
Marshall, a native of Smithland, Ky.,
died 26 Mar 1939, in Cairo, Alexander Co.,
Ill., divorced wife of Normand
Taft, and was buried at Mounds, Ill.
Her marker in Beechwood Cemetery
reads:
Mary Belle
Taft
Oct. 29, 1904 March 26, 1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Ruth Inez Mattson
Rosalie Inez
Mattson, age ten years and 18 days, passed away at her home in
Independence, Mo., Saturday evening, March
25, following an illness of two months.
She is survived by her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John E.
Mattson of Independence; her
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Smith and Mrs. Josephine
Hanes; a great-grandmother, Mrs. J. M.
Castle, all of Mounds; three aunts, two
uncles, six cousins and other relatives.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon and burial made at Independence.
Mr. and Mrs.
Mattson and Rosalie were former residents of Mounds, having moved to
Independence in 1937 to make their home.
From Slave to Teacher
A death was reported recently which
occurred at the neighboring town of Carrier
Mills.
The man who died was a negro and a
retired principal of schools in Saline,
Alexander and Pulaski counties.
His name was Samuel Patrick
Gardner.
The story of his life is interesting
enough, we believe, to reprint in this
column:
Gardner was born in 1862 in Weakley County, Tenn., at a time when
his mother was owned by the owner of a large
plantation.
When he was four years old he and his
mother were sold at auction to an
abolitionist, a “Mr.
Hill.”
That was shortly before the Civil War
began and the terms of the purchase provided
that in event of the slaves being freed by
war, payments would stop.
Gardner learned to read and write from three other children in the
Hill
home who taught him what they in turn had
learned at school each day.
In 1870, his parents brought him to
Illinois, where he attended his first term
of country grade school at the age of 15.
His first work as a teacher was with
a Sunday school class.
Later he was certified to teach in
the public schools at Cairo, although he was
not qualified.
Determined to qualify, he entered a
grade school at the Southern Illinois Normal
University for the summer term and in
addition studied with a private teacher, a
young high school principal on whose farm he
worked during his vacation.
Gardner’s first pay as a teacher was $20 per month.
When he retired in 1929 as principal
of the school at Muddy, his salary was $__
per month.
The former slave’s constant struggle
to improve himself provided inspiration for
many of his pupils.
Some of them have distinguished
themselves as negro educators and are listed
in a pamphlet “Up from Slavery” written by
Gardner to commemorate completion of 50
years as a teacher.
(According to his death certificate,
Samuel P.
Gardner, retired school teacher, was
born 8 Jan 1857, in Tennessee, died 4 Mar
1939, in Carrier Mills, Saline Co., Ill.,
husband of Adeline
Gardner, and was buried
in Lake View Cemetery near Carrier Mills,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 31 Mar 1939:
AGED COUPLE BURNED
A fire which took the lives of two
aged and highly respected residents of New
Burnside, occurred about 4 o’clock Tuesday
morning.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W.
Hampton, who had been lifelong residents
of New Burnside were burned to death when
their home was destroyed.
Inez
Reed who was living with the
Hamptons barely escaped with her life.
The origin of the fire is unknown.
Miss
Reed told a coroner’s jury that Mrs.
Hampton awakened her, shouting that the house was on fire.
She gathered a few bits of clothing
about her and ran to the front room where
she was almost overcome by smoke.
She unlocked the front door and ran
to the neighbors spreading the alarm.—Vienna
Times
(William
Hampton married Miss McNew
on 19 Aug 1886, in Pope Co., Ill.
Charles
McNew
married Anna
Stone on 29 Mar 1863, in Pope Co., Ill.
According to his death certificate,
William Wade
Hampton, retired salesman,
was born 2 Jun 1864, in McCormick,
Ill., died 21 Mar 1939, in New Burnside,
Johnson Co., Ill., husband of Mary
Hampton, and was buried at New Burnside, Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Mary Susan
Hampton was born 12 Apr 1866, in
Stonefort, Ill., the daughter of Charles
McNew,
a native of Tennessee, and Anna
Stone,
a native of Kentucky, died 22 Mar 1939, in
New Burnside, Johnson Co., Ill., wife of W.
W.
Hampton,
and
was buried at New Burnside, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
CREAL SPRINGS MAN AND WIFE DIE IN FLAMING
FIELD
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
Smith
of Creal Springs were found burned to death
about one-eighth of a mile east of their
home in a field, Wednesday morning.
The bodies were found by Jess
Arnold of Carrier Mills.
The discovery was made about 1:00
o’clock in the afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs.
Smith had gone to the field from their home and were burning it off.
It is thought that Mr.
Smith
became surrounded by the burning sage grass
in the field and Mrs.
Smith
started to his rescue.
There were no eye witnesses to their
tragic death.
The body of Mrs.
Smith
was found about 100 yards from that of her
husband.
All of the clothing was burned from
their bodies which were badly charred by the
flames.
The watch in Mr.
Smith’s
pocket stopped at 11:32.
Coroner L. W.
Gasoway of Williamson County held an inquest at Creal Springs
Thursday afternoon and the jury empaneled
returned the verdict of “accidental death by
fire.”
The jury was composed of Elbert
Ford,
Arlie
Odum J. R.
Rector, Joe Lauderdale,
C. O.
Addlesburger and Howard
Byassee.
Neighbors fought the flames in the
field and finally brought them under
control.
The home of Mrs. Alice
Reagan was threatened.
The
Smiths had recently purchased a small farm in the edge of Creal
Springs.
Mrs.
Smith is a former resident of Johnson County and was formerly Miss
Nora
Calhoun and her home was at Buncombe.
Until a few years ago she owned a
farm near Buncombe.
She was one of this county’s foremost
teachers and had a wide acquaintance here.
Her many friends will be saddened to
learn of her tragic death.
Her age was about 64 and Mr.
Smith
was 68 years of age.—Vienna
Times.
(According to his death certificate,
Herbert R.
Smith,
retired G. W. employee, was born 5 Aug 1871,
in Canada, died 22 Mar 1939, in Creal
Springs, Williamson Co., Ill., husband of
Nora
Smith, and was buried in
Vienna Fraternal Cemetery in Johnson Co.,
Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Nora
Calehoun Smith was born
22 Jul 1874, in Buncombe, Johnson Co., Ill.,
the daughter of James Franklin
Calehoun, a native of Tennessee, and
Francis
Reid,
a native of Illinois, died 22 Mar 1939, in
Creal Springs, Williamson Co., Ill., the
wife of Herbert R.
Smith,
and was buried at Vienna, Ill.
Their marker there reads Herbert R.
Smith
1872-1939 Nora wife of Herbert
Smith
1874-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 7 Apr 1939:
William Baker
William
Baker, age 70, died Saturday morning, April 1, at the home of his
son, Noel
Baker,
at Villa Ridge.
Surviving are three sons, Noel of
Villa Ridge, James of Bluford and Rex of
Pulaski; one daughter, Mrs. Mamie
Modglin of Bluford; two brothers, Lee
and Fred
Baker
of Mounds; nineteen grandchildren and
one great-grandchild.
(The death certificate states
that William Washington
Baker,
farmer, was born 20 Dec 1868, died 1 Apr
1939, in Road District 4, Pulaski Co., Ill.,
widower of Mary
Baker,
and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
Clifford Van Meter
Clifford “Weary”
Van
Meter, 24, passed away at the home of
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Van
Meter of Mound City, Sunday evening at
9:35 o’clock after a lingering illness.
He had been a resident of Mound City
for eight years and had been employed by the
Piggly Wiggly store.
Besides his parents, he is survived
by three sisters, Hattie Mae and Elizabeth
Van
Meter of Mound City and Mrs. Hazel
Daley
of Karnak; three brothers Walter Jr., Isaac
and Paul of Mound City; his maternal
grandmother, Mrs. Hattie
Mossburger of Karnak, and his paternal
grandmother, Mrs. May
Van Meter of Mound City.
Funeral services were held at the
Pentecostal church at 2 o’clock Thursday
afternoon with Rev. Will
Sires
of Cairo officiating.
The casket bearers were Richard
Evans,
Paul
McDown, Robert Murphy,
Harry
Huft Oral
Cartner and Clarence Voiles.
Burial was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery, G. A.
James
directing.
(According to his death certificate,
Clifford
Van
Meter, grocery clerk, was born 1 May
1915, in Grand Chain, Ill., the son of
Walter
Van
Meter, a native of Humboldt, Ill., and
Beulah
Van
Meter, a native of Brookport, Ill., died
2 Apr 1939, in Mound City, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., and was buried in Thistlewood Cemetery
at Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
W. V. Volner
William V.
Volner, 74, passed away at 9:40 o’clock Thursday evening, March 30,
at his home in Mound City, after an illness
of one year of heart disease.
He has been a resident of Mound City
since 1921.
He is survived by two daughters, Mrs.
G. H.
Knight of Mounds, Mrs. Robert
Deckard; and two sons, Roy of Alton and
Hallie of Mound City; three brothers, Frank,
Oscar and Charles of Carterville; five
sisters, Mrs. Mollie
Penrod and Mrs. Nora
Evans
of Benton, Mrs. Mattie
Stewart of Olive Branch, and Mrs. Hattie
McCall of California; and eighteen
grandchildren and two great grandchildren
also survive.
Funeral services were held at the
Baptist church in Mound City Sunday
afternoon, Rev. Robert
Shelton officiating.
Burial was made in Camp Ground Cemetery near
Anna, J. T.
Ryan officiating.
(Albert
Volner married Nancy R.
Crabtree on 18 Sep 1864, in Union Co.,
Ill.
His death certificate states that
William V.
Volner, retired inspector, was born 27
Jun 1865, in Union Co., Ill., son of Nancy
Crabtree Volner, died 30 Mar 1939, in
Mound City, Pulaski Co., Ill., widower of
Mary
Volner, and was buried in Camp Ground Cemetery near Anna, Union Co.,
Ill.
His marker there reads:
William
Volner 1866-1939 Mary
Volner 1871-1918.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. George Severs
Mrs. Emma
Severs died at her home in Ullin Sunday afternoon, April 2.
She is survived by her husband and
ten children, Wayne, George Jr., Harvey,
Ray, Truman, Marie and Iris Fay
Severs of Ullin, John
Severs of Pulaski, Mrs. Nellie
Shifley of Brookport, and Mrs. Flora
Culverson of Ullin.
One sister, Mrs. Della
Summers of Perks and three brothers, Orville
Johnson of Dongola, Osa
Johnson and Floyd
Johnson of Pennsylvania; and one
grandchild and many other relatives also
survive.
Funeral services were held at 2
o’clock Tuesday afternoon at the Baptist
church in Ullin, with Rev. Hobert
Peterson officiating.
Interment was made in Butter Ridge
Cemetery.
(Joseph
Johnson married Mary F. Dale
on 27 Jun 1886, in Union Co., Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Emma
Severs was born 7 Jun 1892, in Dongola,
Ill., the daughter of Joe
Johnson and Mollie Dale,
natives of Illinois, died 2 Apr 1939, in
Ullin, Pulaski Co., Ill., the wife of George
Severs, and was buried in Butter Ridge
Cemetery.
Her marker there reads:
Emma
Severs 1892-1939 George
Severs 1882-1969.—Darrel
Dexter)
Prominent Pulaski County Farmer Dies March
30
M. J.
McBride, for many years a prominent farmer and fruit grower of the
Villa Ridge community, died Thursday
evening, March 30, at his home following a
stroke of apoplexy suffered while in Mounds
on Saturday, March 25.
Martin Joseph
McBride, age 79 years, was born at Baltimore, Md., and was reared in
Dayton, Ohio.
He moved to Villa Ridge in the year
of 1876, working on farms and as a carpenter
for the I. C. Railroad.
He helped build the old Cairo
elevator on the Ohio levee.
In January 1884, he was married to
Lizzie A.
Scheirich and the couple settled on the
farm upon which they lived until their
deaths, his wife dying in 1924.
He was a charter member of the Odd
Fellows Lodge of Villa Ridge, transferring
to the Mound City lodge when the Villa Ridge
Lodge was dissolved.
He also held membership in the Modern
Woodmen of America.
Mr.
McBride was one of the pioneer orchardists of this section of
Illinois and his peach orchards were known
far and wide.
He kept constantly in touch with the
latest methods in horticulture.
Other interests were the organization
of the Ullin Mutual Fire Insurance Co., the
rural electric line at Villa Ridge and the
first rural telephone company there.
He is survived by one son, Orlan L.
McBride of Villa Ridge and several
nieces, nephews and cousins, some of whom
came from Dayton, Ohio, to attend his
funeral.
Funeral services were held Saturday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Union
Church of Villa Ridge cemetery with the G.
A.
James Funeral Service directing.
Casket bearers were John
Clancy, Louis
Graves, W. E. Rife,
William
Bride,
Fred
Whelan and Walter Hogendobler.
(M. J.
McBride married Lizzie A.
Sherrick on 16 Jan 1884, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
His death certificate states that
Martin Joseph
McBride, farmer and fruit grower at Pulaski, Ill.,
was born 16 Oct 1859, in Emmetsburg,
Md., the son of Patrick
McBride and Mary
Ganon,
natives of Ireland, died 30 Mar 1939, in
Road District 4, Pulaski Co., Ill., widower
of Lizzie Ann
McBride, and was buried at Villa Ridge,
Ill.
His marker in Cairo City Cemetery at
Villa Ridge reads:
Martin J.
McBride 1859-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Willis Weaver
Willis
Weaver, 57, died at his home in Karnak, April first.
He is survived by his wife, Martha
Weaver; three children, Fred, Robert and
Blanche
Weaver of Karnak; one sister, Mrs. Renda
Holt
of Parma, Mo.; five brothers, James of
Parma, Joseph and William of Lite, Ark.,
Charles of Cavalue, Mo., and Lem of Gideon,
Mo.
Services were held in the Pentecostal
Church in Karnak Sunday afternoon at 2
o’clock, with Rev. Hal
Corzine officiating.
Burial was made in the Lutheran
Cemetery,
Wilson Funeral Service conducting.
(Her death certificate states Willis
Weaver, farmer, was born 8 Oct 1881, in
Massac Co., Ill., the son of Enoch
Weaver, a native of Massac Co., Ill., and Nancy
Gregory, a native of Benton, Ill., died
1 Apr 1939, in Karnak, Pulaski Co., Ill.,
the husband of Martha
Nusor, and was buried in Lutheran Chapel Cemetery in Johnson Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 7 Apr 1939:
WILLIAM VOLNER
William V.
Volner, 74, passed away Thursday evening, at his home in this city
after a year’s illness of heart disease.
He had been a resident of this city
for the past 18 years.
Mr.
Volner is survived by two daughters, Mrs. G. H.
Knight of Mounds and Mrs. Robert
Deckard of this city; two sons, Roy of
Alton and Hallie of this city.
Three brothers, Frank, Oscar and
Charles of Carterville; five sisters, Mrs.
Mollie
Penrod and Mrs. Nora
Evans
of Carterville, Mrs. Alice
Evans
of Benton, Mrs. Mattie
Stewart of Olive Branch and Mrs. Hattie
McCall of California; and 18
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren
also survive.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at the Mound City Baptist Church
with Rev. Robert
Shelton, assisted by Rev. Will
Farrell officiating.
Interment was made in Camp Ground
Cemetery near Anna.
M. J. McBRIDE, PIONEER FRUIT GROWER, DIES AT
VILLA RIDGE
Funeral services for Martin
Joseph
McBride, who passed away at his home
near Villa Ridge, Thursday evening, March
29, were held Saturday afternoon at the
Union Church in Villa Ridge, with Rev. James
Tucker officiating.
Interment was made in the Villa Ridge
cemetery beside his wife who preceded him in
death in 1924.
He is survived by one son, Orlan, and
several nieces, nephews and cousins, some of
whom came from Dayton, Ohio, to attend the
funeral.
Casket bearers were:
John
Clancy, Louis Graves,
Billie
Rife,
Bill
Bride, Fred
Whalen and Walter
Hogendobler.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1860,
Mr.
McBride was reared in Dayton, Ohio, and
came to Villa Ridge when he was 16 years
old.
He hired out as farm hand on numerous
farms in that community, finally
establishing himself on the farm of the late
G. W.
Endicott, where he became interested in
the orchard business.
In 1884 he married Lizzie A.
Scheirich, sister of Andrew
Scheirich, who resides in the old
Scheirich home near Villa Ridge.
The young couple took up their abode
in a small dwelling near the present site of
the McBride home.
His interest in orchard growing
increased and due to diligence and
application he became one of the most
prominent fruit growers in Southern
Illinois.
Peach growing was his special
interest and his peaches commanded much
attention in the fruit markets throughout
the state.
Not only a pioneer in the fruit
business, Mr.
McBride was first in many civic social
undertakings in his community.
He helped organize the Ullin Mutual
Fire Insurance Co., the rural electric line
in the Villa Ridge locale and the first
rural telephone company at Villa Ridge.
He was a charter member of the Odd
Fellows Lodge at Villa Ridge and transferred
to the lodge at Mound City when the Villa
Ridge lodge dissolved.
He was a member of the Modern Woodmen
of America.
A resident of Pulaski County for the
past 62 years or so, Mr.
McBride had many friends, not only
through the state, all of whom mourned the
news of his death.
G. A.
James had charge of the funeral arrangements.
CLIFFORD (WEARY) VANMETER
Funeral services for Clifford
VanMeter were held Thursday afternoon at
the Pentecostal church of this city with
Rev. Will
Fires of Cairo officiating.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery at Mounds.
The casket bearers were:
Dick
Evans,
Paul
McGowan, Robert
Murphy, Harry
Hust, Oryn Cartner and
Clarence
Voiles.
Clifford, more popularly known as
“Weary,” was 24 years old at the time of his
death, Sunday evening, and was the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Walter
VanMeter of this city.
Besides his parents, he is survived
by three sisters, Hattie Mae and Elizabeth
VanMeter of this city and Mrs. Hazel
Daley of Karnak; three brothers, Walter Jr., Isaac and Paul of this
city; his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Hattie
Mossburger of Karnak and his paternal grandmother, Mrs. May
VanMeter of this city.
“Weary” was well known by Mound City
residents, having been employed at the
Piggly Wiggly where he made many friends.
About a year ago he had his tonsils
removed and had been in ill health ever
since, most of the time confined to his bed.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 14 Apr 1939:
ELDERLY COLORED WOMAN DIES
Mrs. Ellen
Walker, aged 104 years, died early
Wednesday morning at her home near Olmstead,
where she resided with her son, Gus
Walker.
She was the wife of Abraham
Walker, a Civil War veteran and was a
resident of this county for some 40 years.
It is thought she is the oldest
resident of this county.
Funeral services will be held Sunday
at Mt. Zion Church and burial will be in Mt.
Zion Cemetery.
(According to her death certificate,
Ellen
Walker was born 10 Feb 1835, in
Nashville, Tenn., the daughter of Daniel
Cunard, a native of Virginia, died 12 Apr 1939, in Road District No.
4, Pulaski Co., Ill., widow of Abraham
Walker,
and was buried at Mt. Zion
Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
JOE P. GORE OF MT. PISGAH DIES OF CARBOLIC
ACID BURNS
Joe
Gore, 60, passed away at the Fisher Hospital in Metropolis, Sunday.
He had been taken there from his home
in the Mt. Pisgah settlement near Cypress,
suffering from carbolic acid burns about the
mouth, throat and probably stomach.
Gore, it is reported, drank the acid by mistake, while
en
route to his home in an automobile
driven by a daughter.
He was returned to Cypress, where he
received medical attention and later was
taken to his home.
His condition was such that he was
later removed to the Fisher Hospital.
Funeral services were held Tuesday.
Gore was one of four candidates for road commissioner in Road
District No. 3.—Vienna
Times.
(Joe P.
Gore married Lula B. Campbell
on 22 Jul 1900, in Johnson Co., Ill.
When he registered for the World War
I draft in 1918, in Matthews, New Madrid
Co., Mo., he signed his name as Josiah
Patterson
Gore. He was born 11 Sep
1877, and was a fireman for Garver Lumber
Co., in Matthews, Mo.
His death certificate states that Joe
P.
Gore, farmer, of Vienna, Ill., was born
11 Sep 1876, in Illinois, son of Joe
Gore,
died 2 Apr 1939, in Metropolis, Massac Co.,
Ill., and was buried in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery.
His marker at Mt. Pisgah Cemetery in
Cypress, Johnson Co., Ill., reads:
Father Joseph P.
Gore
1875-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Joy
Dexter attended the funeral of Mrs.
George
Seivers in Ullin Tuesday.
(Beech Grove)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 21 Apr 1939:
F. H. Leidigh
Fred H.
Leidigh of Cairo, a former resident of the Villa Ridge community,
died Friday evening, April 14, at 7:30
o’clock at his home, 501 Washington Avenue,
at the age of 69 years.
He had been ill for several months.
Mr.
Leidigh was born in Villa Ridge, son of William Henry and Elizabeth
Hogendobler Leidigh.
He had lived his entire life in this
locality.
Surviving are his wife, one son,
Elmer
Leidigh, a state highway police officer;
three brothers, Harry of Gulfport, Miss.,
Charles of Jackson, Mo., and Dee of Villa
Ridge; three sisters, Misses Minnie and
Maggie
Leidigh of Villa Ridge and Mrs.
Elizabeth
Niestrath of America, Ill.
Funeral services were held at the
Berbling Funeral Home in Cairo Sunday
afternoon at 1:30 o’clock, Rev. Robert C.
Dunlap officiating.
Interment was made in Alto Pass
Cemetery.
(His death certificate states that
Frederick Horace
Leidigh, farmer, was born 4 Jun 1869, in
Villa Ridge, Ill., the son of William H.
Leidigh and Elizabeth
Hogendobler, natives of Pennsylvania,
died 14 Apr 1939, in Cairo, Alexander Co.,
Ill., the husband of Fannie
Leidigh, and was buried in Alto Pass
Cemetery.
His marker there reads:
Fred H.
Leidigh June 4, 1869 April 14
1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
J. W. Painter
James Ware
Painter, 65, died at his home in Mound City Tuesday morning, April
18, at 12:20 o’clock.
Mr.
Painter moved to Mound City in 1895 from
Hallen Center, Ohio, where he was born.
October 20, 1901, he married Miss
Hannah May
Knowlton of Mound City.
To this union were born two children; a son,
Marvin
Ware, who passed away in 1915; and a daughter, Mrs. Pearl
Salmon of Mound City; and a sister, Miss
Jennie
Painter of Champaign also survive.
For several years Mr.
Painter conducted a transfer between
Cairo and Mound City for the St. Louis
Traction Company.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock in the
James
Funeral Home at Mound City, with Rev. J. W.
Ward of Dongola, former pastor of the First Baptist Church of Mound
City and a very good friend of the deceased
officiating, assisted by Rev. James
Henderson, pastor of the First Methodist
Church.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery, with
James
Funeral Service in charge.
(In 1918, when he registered for the
draft, he was a self-employed teamster in
Mound City, Ill., and his nearest relative
was Anna May
Painter of Mound City.
According to his death certificate,
James Ware
Painter, farmer, was born 23 Dec 1873,
in Allen Center, Ohio, the son of Jacob R.
Painter and Samantha J.
Ware,
natives of Ohio, died 18 Apr 1939, in Mound
City, Pulaski Co., Ill., husband of Hannah
Painter, and was buried
in Thistlewood Cemetery in Mounds, Pulaski
Co., Ill.
His marker there reads:
James Ware
Painter Dec. 23, 1873 April 18, 1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 21 Apr 1939:
J. W. PAINTER
James Ware
Painter, 65, passed away at his home in
this city Tuesday morning after several
years’ illness from asthma.
Mr.
Painter was born at Allen Center, Ohio.
He first moved to Natchez, Miss.,
then to Champaign, Ill., and came to Mound
City in 1895, where on October 20, 1901, he
married Miss Hannah May
Knowlton of this city.
To this union were born two children;
a son, Marvin
Ware,
who passed away in 1915, and a daughter,
Mrs. Pearl
Salmon of this city. His
widow and a granddaughter, Miss Treva
Salmon, also of this city; and a sister,
Miss Jennie
Painter of Champaign also survive.
For several years Mr.
Painter conducted a transfer between
Cairo and Mound City and later became an
agent for the Traction Company.
When his health began to fail, he
retired from business and farmed near his
home.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the
James
Funeral Home in this city.
The services were conducted by Rev.
J. W.
Ward of Dongola, former pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Mound City and a
very good friend of the deceased.
Rev.
Ward
was assisted by Rev. James
Henderson, pastor of the First M. E.
Church of this city.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery.
The Casketbearers were:
George R.
Martin, James Rushing,
Claud
Stout, C. F.
Bode,
George
Eichhorn and George W. Gunn.
G. A.
James was in charge of arrangements.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 28 Apr 1939:
Mrs. Sarah J. Horner, 79, passed away Wednesday morning at 4:30 o’clock at
Karnak.
She was the widow of the late J. C.
Horner.
She is survived by three daughters,
Mrs. Maggie
Brown
of Vienna, Mrs. May
Wadkins and Mrs. Dollie __ey,
both of Karnak; three sons, Frank and Henry
of Vienna, and John of Grand Chain; and a
sister, Mrs. Nellie
Miller of Marion, Ark.
Funeral services were held at the
home of R. D.
Wadkins at Karnak, Thursday afternoon at
1 o’clock with Rev. Wilburn
Sutton officiating.
Burial was made in Mt. Olive Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Paul
Horner, Carl
Horner, Elmer
Horner, Everett
Brown, William Brown, and
Floyd
Brown.
Wilson Funeral Service directed the
funeral.
M. A.
Pulley who was called to Carterville
Saturday by the death of a relative has
returned home.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Carson were called to Perks Tuesday
afternoon to attend the funeral of Jean
Christian, a nephew of Mrs.
Carson, who was drowned Saturday night
when the auto in which he was riding plunged
into a ditch of water.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Curtner of Chicago were called here
Tuesday on account of the death of their
brother-in-law, Herschel
Foutch of Gale.
(The death certificate of Herschel
Foutch, laborer, of Gale, Alexander Co.,
Ill.,
states that he was born 11 Aug 1907, in
Gale, Ill., the son of John and Rose
Foutch, died 24 Apr 1939, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., and was
buried in McCrite Cemetery in Alexander Co.,
Ill.
His marker there reads:
Hearschel
Foutch 1907-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Victim of Auto Wreck Dies Unexpectedly
Monday
William Herschel
Foutch, age 32 years, of Gale, died at
St. Mary’s Hospital, Cairo, Monday morning,
although it had been believed for several
days that he was recovering from injuries he
had sustained in an auto accident on April
2, south of Thebes.
Foutch, who married Thelma
Boren of this city, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ed
Boren,
had suffered a fracture of the skull and
other injuries and had been treated for
about a week of St. Mary’s before going to
his home in Gale.
Mrs.
Foutch was also injured, having suffered
a fractured jaw.
Funeral services were held at Diswood
Tuesday afternoon, Rev.
Smith
of Thebes officiating.
Burial was at Diswood.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 28 Apr 1939:
COUSINS DENIED ESTATE OF HUGH THOMASSON
Sustaining a defense demurrer,
Circuit Judge Robert J.
Kirkwood Wednesday dismissed a suit
filed in 1934 by 2 cousins of the late Hugh
W.
Thomasson, wealthy St. Louis real estate
owner, seeking his entire $500,000 estate.
The plaintiffs were Tower A.
Thomasson of Mounds, Ill., and E. M.
Thomasson of Denver.
The claim was based upon a contract
Thomasson is alleged to have executed in
1932, promising to leave them his estate in
return for their loyalty and their agreement
to assist him in defending insanity
proceedings and other litigation instituted
against him.—St.
Louis Star-Times
Three Die When Truck Plunges into Ditch
Three young people came to sudden
death Saturday night early, possibly 9:30 or
10 o’clock when the pickup truck in which
they were riding plunged into a ditch about
a mile and a half east of Route 37 on the
road to Perks.
The truck turned down to the
temporary bridge, but went on the outside of
the guard railing to a point nearly midway
across on two wheels and then, tilting
downward, struck the projecting center beam
wrecked the car, probably stunning, if not
actually killing one of the occupants and
turned over sidewise as it settled into
about six feet of water.
The dead are:
Luther
Green,
21, Brownfield, in Pope County; Jean
Christian, 14, of Perks; and Enos
Elizabeth
Brush,
16, of Perks.
The truck belonged to Harold
Clanahan of Brownfield and had been
borrowed by
Green,
who came to see the
Brush
family, lately of Brownfield.
The trio, it is understood, were on
their way from Perks to Spur Inn.
The road, which is a good road most
of the way, runs straight east from Perks
and is broken by this bridge, which is of
considerable length and size.
The temporary bridge, of wood, was to
one side, and it was necessary to drive off
the road to reach it.
Flares were burned, indicating
danger, and it is not understood how they
came to drive off the road and then out on
the outer edge of the bridge, holding up on
two wheels, until the car wrecked on the
center timber.
Green, who was large, was driving, some thought, had his neck
broken.
No one knew of the accident for some
time.
The parties in the wrecked truck,
stunned by the collision with the projecting
center timber, or killed, may never have
known and the truck settled bottom side up
in about five or six feet of water.
Lowell
Kessler and Earl Robinson
of Grand Chain made the discovery.
The lights of the truck, although
submerged in water, were still burning.
In
crossing this bridge, they had killed their
motor, and that pause caused them to see the
lights in the water.
The alarm was spread and the truck
was turned over and the bodies, after
considerable effort, were dragged up the
steep bank.
It was near midnight when all was
over.
The coroner’s jury under Dr. O. T.
Hudson returned a verdict next day that
their death was accidental.
Funeral services for the three were
held Tuesday, with the
Wilson Funeral Service in charge of all
three.
Miss
Brush
is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Cephas
Brush;
two sisters, Mary and Velma; and one
brother, Donald, all of Perks.
Her funeral was at the Pleasant
Valley Church at Grantsburg.
Jean
Christian is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Christian of Perks; three sisters and
one brother, all of Perks.
Funeral services were held at the
Pentecostal church there.
The funeral of Luther
Green,
the oldest of the trio, was held at the
residence at Brownfield.
(The death certificate of Luther
Elisha
Green,
laborer, of Brownfield, Pope Co., Ill.,
states he was born 16 Sep 1917, in
Brownfield, Ill., the son of Luther M.
Green,
a native of Golconda, Ill., and Rose
Joiner, a native of Brownfield, Ill.,
died 22 Apr 1939, in Pulaski Co., Ill., and
was buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery at
Golconda, Pope Co., Ill.
Luther M.
Green married Rosie Joiner
on 27 Nov 1911, in Pope Co., Ill.
According to his death certificate,
Jean
Christian was born 12 Dec 1924, in
Pulaski Co., Ill., the son of Clarence
Christian, a native of Indiana, and Opal
Price,
a native of Williamson Co., Ill., died 22
Apr 1939, in Pulaski Co., Ill., and was
buried in Mount Olive Cemetery in Union Co.,
Ill.
His marker there reads:
Jean
Christian 1924-1939.
According to her death certificate,
Enos Elizabeth
Brush
was born 9 Jun 1923, in Illinois, the
daughter of Cephas
Brush
and Ethel
Nelson, natives of Illinois, died 22 Apr
1939, in Pulaski Co., Ill., and was buried
in Nelson Cemetery in Johnson Co., Ill.
Cephus
Brush
married Ethel
Nelson on 31 Jul 1917, in Pope Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
FORMER MOUND CITY RESIDENT DIED IN KENTUCKY
Word has been received of the recent
death of Mrs. Kate
Wilcox of Morganfield, Ky., who died at
the home of a daughter, Mrs. Ruby
Brown,
in that city.
Mrs.
Wilcox was 70 years old and death was
caused from a heart attack.
She was the widow of Charles D.
Wilcox, who was in the hoop mill
business in Mound City in 1901-02.
When Mr.
Wilcox died in 1902, Mrs.
Wilcox and family of three children
moved to Sturgis, Ky., where they made their
home for some time.
A son, O. H.
Wilcox, is mayor of Sturgis and the other daughter surviving is Mrs.
R. E.
Hare of Zanesville, Ohio.
(According to her death certificate,
Kate
Wilcox was born 3 Oct 1869, in Union
Co., Ky., the daughter of Charles E.
Wilcox (?) and Kathrine
Liebenguth, natives of France, died
suddenly on 15 Apr 1939, in Morganfield,
Union Co., Ky., of thrombosis, widow, and
was buried in Sturgis Cemetery in Sturgis,
Ky.—Darrel
Dexter)
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our sincere thanks
and heartfelt appreciation for the many
kindnesses during the illness and after the
death of our loved one, James W.
Painter. We especially
wish to thank Rev. J. W.
Ward
and Rev. James
Henderson for their consoling words,
those who sent flowers, those who gave the
use of their cars, the casket bearers and
all who assisted in any way.
The
Painter Family
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 5 May 1939:
Mrs. Nannie Stone
Mrs. Nannie
Stone, age 86 years, daughter of Samuel and Caroline
Kennedy, pioneer citizens of Villa
Ridge, died at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. C. L.
Grandstaff, in Mounds, Thursday, April 27, where she had resided for
the past six years.
She was a sister of the late M. L.
Kennedy of Tunica, Miss.
Besides her daughter, she is survived
by three grandchildren:
Dr. Harry
Grandstaff of Rockford, Ill., Mrs.
Katherine
Wyman
of Mobile, Ala., Lester
Grandstaff, Jr., of Mounds; one
great-granddaughter, Lynda
Wyman.
Funeral services were conducted at
the
James Funeral Home in Mounds Friday
afternoon at 2 o’clock by Rev. S. C.
Benninger of Grand Chain and interment was made in Liberty Cemetery
three miles southeast of Pulaski, G. A.
James
directing.
The casket bearers were:
John
Newell, J. L.
Wanura, W. J.
Crocker, Frank
Bour, Mr. Corzine of
Cairo and Clarence
Beedle.
(Her death certificate states that
Nannie
Stone
was born 16 Jan 1851, in Villa Ridge, Ill.,
the daughter of Samuel
Kennedy, a native of Illinois, died 27 Apr 1939, in Mounds, Pulaski
Co., Ill., widow of P. H.
Stone,
and was buried in Liberty Cemetery in
Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Willis
Goza
will graduate from the Northwest Missouri
Teachers College at Maryville, Mo., on May
25.
Since the death of his mother and the
breaking up of the
Goza
household, Willis has made his home with his
uncle and aunt, Dr. and Mrs. J. R.
Titus
of Spencer Heights.
William O’Sullivan
William
O’Sullivan, age 70, died suddenly at 5:30 a.m. Friday, April 28, at
his home in Mound City. He had been ill with
heart trouble and had been confined to his
home for several weeks.
Mr.
O’Sullivan, a lifelong resident of Mound City, was known to his
friends as “Cappy.”
He was an employee of the Marine Ways
as a ship carpenter.
Because of his efficiency in the
profession he was called to various parts of
the country, serving in this capacity
overseas during the war.
He is survived by a ____ James
O’Sullivan, with whom he made his home;
three nieces, Mrs. Joe
Westerman of Mound City, Mrs. Kate
Mathis of Tamms, and Mrs. George
Noeman of Chicago; and two nephews, Dan
and ___
O’Sullivan of Mound City.
Funeral services were ___ Sunday
afternoon at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, of
which he was a member, by Rev.
Gilmartin.
Interment was in St. Mary’s Cemetery,
Mounds,
Ryan Funeral Service directing.
(When he applied for a passport in
1917 in Paducah, Ky., he stated that his
father, a naturalized citizen, had been dead
about 30 years and his mother about 25
years.
William was going to France for
construction work for the Engineers Corps.
His death certificate states that
William
O’Sullivan, retired ship carpenter, was
born 20 Apr 1869, in Mound City, Ill., the
son of Timothy
O’Sullivan and Katherine
Shea,
natives of Ireland, died 28 Apr 1939, in
Mound City, Pulaski Co., Ill., and was
buried in St. Mary’s Cemetery in Mounds,
Ill.
His marker there reads:
William
O’Sullivan 1869-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 5 May 1939:
JIM HARBISON ILL
Jim
Harbison, 85 years of age, village clerk of Olmstead and road clerk,
also justice of the peace, has been a sick
man.
A bunion on his foot that has been
there for years, began to swell and hurt.
Last week, for four days he got no
sleep save a little induced by medicine and
Harbison was a sick man, and it came
very near putting him in bad and out.
Word yesterday was that he was still
a very sick man.
WILLIAM “CAPPY” O’SULLIVAN
Funeral services for William
O’Sullivan, who passed away suddenly
Friday morning at his home in this city were
held Sunday afternoon at St. Mary’s Catholic
Church, with Rev. Lawrence
Gilmartin officiating. Interment was
made in St. Mary’s Cemetery at Mounds.
Mr.
O’Sullivan was familiarly known to Mound City residents as “Cappy.”
A life-long resident of this city, he
was employed at the Marine Ways as
carpenter, and in this capacity served
overseas during the war.
He is survived by one brother, James,
who is the last of a large family, all of
whom had spent almost their entire life in
Mound City and who had been prominent in the
community.
Of the many nephews and nieces who
were able to attend the funeral were Mrs. J.
S.
Westerman, in whose home he had been
living, George W.
Sweeney of this city, Mrs. A. M.
Mathis of Tamaroa, Mrs. Rose
Cavanaugh of Shreveport, La., Mrs. Elmer
Cowell and Mrs. Herbert
Neff
of Cairo, Attorney Joe
O’Sullivan and Dan
O’Sullivan, Jr., of this city.
A number of grandnieces and
grandnephews were also present at the
funeral services.
74 YEARS AGO
April 27, 1864
Mrs. Lizzie
Booth, the widow of Major
Booth of the Federal Army, who was
killed during the recent battle at Fort
Pillow, arrived in Memphis at Fort Pickering
this morning on a steamer bound from Cairo.
Memphis Federal Army officers sent a
group of soldiers to the boat landing to
receive her.
She came off the steamer carrying a
United States flag, stained with the blood
of Major
Booth. Taking her
position in front of 14 surviving soldiers
of her dead husband’s command, she raised
the flag above her head, stepped forward and
said:
“Boys, I have come from a visit to
the Army hospital at Mound City, Ill., where
I saw your wounded comrades, still bloody
from the struggle at Fort Pillow.
I saw the one who saved this flag
from the insulting touch of traitors’
fingers.
I have given the country all I had to
give—my husband—yet I have given him for the
freedom of my country.
Soldiers, if you give this flag that
waved in proud defiance on the works at Fort
Pillow, I know you will remember the last
words of my noble husband, ‘never surrender
the flag to traitors.”—Memphis
Commercial Appeal
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our most sincere
thanks to our many friends who so kindly
assisted us during our recent bereavement,
the sudden passing of our beloved brother
and uncle, the late William
O’Sullivan.
James
O’Sullivan
Joseph
O’Sullivan and family
MRS J. B. WILLIAMSON
Mrs. J. B.
Williamson, mother of Mrs. J. M.
Monan, of this city, died at her home in Lexington, Ky., Saturday
morning, April 15.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon conducted by Rev. A. H.
Miller. Interment was
made in Bethesda Cemetery.
Mrs.
Williamson was a native of Holmes County and had spent many years in
the community where she died.
She was a member of the Baptist
Church.
Besides her husband, J. B.
Williamson, she is survived by the
following children:
Mrs. J. M.
Monan,
Mound City; Mrs. Josie
Truitt, Mrs. Alice
Walker, Jackson, Tenn.; Miss Myrtle
Williamson, McMillan, Tenn.; Ollie
Williamson, Kerrville, Tenn.; J. B.
Williamson, Jr., Crigler, Ark.
DR. A. E. McKENZIE, VETERAN DENTIST OF
VIENNA, DEAD
Dr. A. E.
McKenzie, 67, who practiced dentistry in Vienna for over forty
years, passed away at his home on West Main
Street, Tuesday afternoon, April 25.
Dr.
McKenzie had been in failing health for several months and in an
effort to improve his health had made two
trips to the West for a vacation and rest.
He returned to Vienna about two
months ago suffering from a number of
ailments.
On Tuesday his condition became
serious and within a few short hours he
passed away.
Funeral services were held at the
family home Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Rev. J. B.
Jones,
pastor of the Christian Church, and Rev. H.
G.
Hurley, pastor of the Methodist Church,
were in charge of the service.
Interment was made in the Fraternal
Cemetery.
Pall bearers were:
A. D.
Stanley, Ward
Stanley, Ned
Stanley, C. J.
Huffman, Dr. C. R.
Moschenross and Dr. Royce S.
Hundley.
He was married to Alice
Cook
of Delhi, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 29, 1897,
who survives.
The children are:
Harold of Carbondale; Mary B.,
Herbert, George and Mrs. Myra
Ruppert of Vienna; Donald of Alton; Mrs.
Martha
Adamson and A. E., Jr., of Streator; and
Mrs. May
Jones
of Roxana, Ill.
Three children, Mildred, Mabel and
Lewis, have preceded him in death.
Nine grandchildren and three sisters,
Mrs. P. T.
Chapman, Mrs. C. J. Huffman
of Vienna and Mrs. A. D.
Stanley of Chester, Ill., survive.
(Peter S.
McKenzie married Mary J.
Smith on 30 Oct 1868, in Massac Co.,
Ill.
According to his death certificate,
Dr. A. E.
McKenzie, dentist, was born 12 Nov 1871,
in East St. Louis, Ill., the son of Dr. P.
S.
McKenzie, a native of Edinburgh,
Scotland, and Mary J.
Smith,
a native of Pulaski Co., Ill., died 25 Apr
1939, in Vienna, Johnson Co., Ill., husband
of Alice
McKenzie,
and was buried in Road District 5,
Johnson Co., Ill.
His marker in Vienna Fraternal
Cemetery reads:
Adolphus E.
McKenzie 1871-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. NANNIE STONE
Mrs. Nannie
Stone, 88 years old, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
C.L.
Grandstaff in Mounds, Thursday morning,
April 27, where she had resided for the past
six years.
She was a sister of the late M. L.
Kennedy.
Besides her daughter, she is survived
by three grandchildren; Dr. Harry
Grandstaff of Rockford, Mrs. Katherine
Wyman
of Mobile, Ala., Lester
Grandstaff, Jr., of Mounds; and one
great-granddaughter.
Funeral services were conducted at
the
James Funeral Home in Mounds, Friday
afternoon by Rev. S. C.
Benninger of Grand Chain.
Interment was made in Liberty
Cemetery, three miles southeast of Pulaski.
The casket bearers were:
John
Newell, J. L.
Wanura, W. J.
Crocker, Frank
Bour, and Clarence Beedle
of Mounds and Mr.
Corzine of Cairo.
G. A.
James was in charge of arrangements.
MRS. MARY BLATTLER
Mrs. Mary
Blattler passed away Saturday evening after an illness of ten weeks,
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Noel
Jones,
Cairo, where she has made her home since
last September.
She is survived by a sister, Mrs.
Emma
Mertz of St. Louis; two nieces, Mrs. M.
L.
Atherton of Cairo and Mrs. Ralph
Loehr
of Evansville, Ind.; and a nephew, Earl
Coneter of St. Louis.
Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon at St. Patrick’s Church, Cairo,
with Rev. Bernard
Pender officiating.
Interment was made in Calvary
Cemetery, Villa Ridge.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 12 May 1939:
Jesse Knupp of Villa Ridge Dies Suddenly
Jesse
Knupp of Villa Ridge, age 63, died suddenly Wednesday afternoon from
a heart attack at his home.
Surviving are his wife, Minnie; four
sons, William of Texas, Edward of Villa
Ridge, Lee of Cairo and Omar of Sikeston,
Mo.; one daughter, Mrs. Kathyrn
Gunn
of Villa Ridge; also two brothers, Jonas of
Olmstead and J. T.
Knupp
of Mounds; and four sisters, Mrs. Ed
Burd
of Pulaski, Mrs. Owen
Edwards of Olmstead, Mrs. Joy
Bagby
of Olmstead and Mrs. Jennie
Rees
of Hot Springs, Ark.
Funeral services will be held this
(Friday) afternoon at 2 o’clock at Union
Church, Villa Ridge, Rev. J. A.
Tucker officiating.
Interment will be made in Thistlewood
Cemetery, G. A.
James
directing.
(Jesse Eldridge
Knupp,
farmer, 23, of Wetaug, Ill.,
born in Illinois, son of Daniel
Knupp
and Catharine
Hoffner, married Minnie Staudacher,
20, of Ullin, Ill., born in Germany,
daughter of John
Staudacher and Marie
Sebackley,
on 30 Jul 1899, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Daniel
Knupp married Catherine
Hoffner on 17 Jan 1875, in Union Co.,
Ill.
According to his death certificate,
Jesse Eliza
Knupp,
farmer, was born 10 Mar 1876, in Union Co.,
Ill., the son of Dan
Knupp
and Catherine
Hoffner, natives of Illinois, died 10
May 1939, in Road District 1, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., husband of Minnie
Knupp, and was buried in Thistlewood Cemetery at Mounds, Ill.
His marker there reads:
Father Jesse E.
Knupp Mar. 10, 1876 May 10, 1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Edgar S. Miller
Edgar S.
Miller died Thursday morning at 9 o’clock at his home in Webster
Groves, Mo., after a lingering illness.
He leaves his wife and two daughters,
also a brother, Judge C. S.
Miller of Cairo.
He and his family formerly resided in
Mound City.
The body will be brought to Mound
City and the funeral will be held Sunday.
Napoleon was located just at the foot of the
Grand Chain of Rocks, which extends five
miles upstream with a fall of five feet
within that distance.
In the early days of steamboating,
the chain was a great menace to navigation
and special pilots were used to navigate the
Chain.
One special pilot, Mr.
Moyers mentions by name, a Mr.
McDonald, the father of Mrs. Henrietta
Clemson
Bartleson, whom he knew personally.
Within the decade of 1820-30 the
Government undertook to remedy matters by
building a loose stone dyke at the lower end
of what is now Dam 53.
During this construction, on a
Sunday, some of the workmen were joy riding
in a yawl.
Someone rocked the boat; it was
capsized and 19 men were drowned.
Their bodies were recovered and were
buried on the high ground near the river
bank.
Later a man name Joe
Lipe,
who had a wood yard there, died and was
buried in the same ground as were two of his
little girls.
(James
Bartleson married Mrs. Henrietta
Clemson on 14 Mar 1894, in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 12 May 1939:
EDWARD MILLER DIED IN ST. LOUIS THURSDAY
MORNING
Edward
Miller, for a long time a resident of this city in the lumber
business and born and raised in the Villa
Ridge community, died at Webster Groves,
Mo., yesterday morning about 9:30 o’clock
after an illness that dates back for a
number of years.
While the details could not be
secured at press time, the body will be
shipped to Mound City for funeral services
and burial, according to G. A.
James,
who has charge of arrangements.
The funeral will be Sunday afternoon
at the Congregational church of which he was
a member and burial will be at the
Thistlewood Cemetery.
Besides his wife, who is in poor
health, there are two children, Mrs. Carl
Westerman of Castle Gate, Utah, and Mrs.
Leonard
Gay
of Webster Groves; and two
grandchildren.
He is a brother of C. S.
Miller of Cairo and formerly of here.
Mr.
Miller was about 68 or 69 years of age.
ANOTHER DEATH ALONG “DEATH AVENUE” INTO
CAIRO
William
Helton, 66, of Cairo, was killed and his son, Marion, 27, hurt
Monday night about 7:30 on Route 2 in the
Drainage District near the artesian well.
With no lights on their pushcart on
which was loaded some of their belongings,
they were trudging up the road.
The trees, while having little to do
in this case, prevented them from operating
their cart with one or both wheels off the
pavement.
When a car approached from one
direction, a truck from the other, they were
not seen, and the truck, driven by Edward
Young
of Trimble, Tenn., crashed into them with
fatal results.
The coroner’s jury did not order
Young
held.
(According to his death certificate,
William
Helton, common laborer, of Cairo,
Alexander Co., Ill., was born 15 Feb 1873,
in Lyon Co., Ky., the son of William T.
Helton and Martha
Ridgo,
died 8 May 1939, in Cairo, Alexander Co.,
Ill., the widower of Ethel
Helton, and was buried at Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
ACTIVITY ABOUT PERKS ESTATE
There appears to be some activity
about the Nettie B.
Perks
estate around the courthouse.
Considerable litigation over this has
been pending for some time.
Part of it will be in circuit court
and part in county court when it is all
threshed out.
C. S. MILLER VERY ILL
C. S.
Miller of Cairo, who was operated upon Wednesday of last week at
Cairo for appendicitis, is reported to be
seriously if not critically ill.
Infection developed in the wound and
it was necessary for a second operation
Wednesday night and the report at Mound City
was yesterday that a blood transfusion was
ordered.
His many friends here hope for his
recovery and are shocked by the turn of his
condition.
BOY KILLS ANOTHER WHILE PLAYING WITH SHOTGUN
Sunday afternoon tragedy came to the
home of Arthur
Denton, about four miles south of
Thebes, when Herbert
Lovell, 11 years of age, got a shotgun
down from the wall and in some manner
discharged it so that Vernon
Denton, 13 years old, was hit with the
full load in the chest.
From four boys who were playing,
happy and gay, came rank tragedy.
The
Denton boy died
en
route to Cairo in an ambulance summoned
at the same time a doctor was called.
The coroner’s jury said it was
accidental and placed no blame.
The 11-year-old boy said he hardly
knew how it happened.
An older brother had warned them to
put the gun up some few minutes before, a
.410 gauge shotgun.
(His death certificate states that
Vernon Franklin
Denton, school boy, of Thebes, Ill., was
born 11 Jun 1925, in Thebes, Ill., the son
of Arthur
Denton, a native of Thebes, and Grace
May
Bracken, a native of Anna, Ill., died 7
May 1939, in Alexander Co., Ill., and was
buried at Thebes, Alexander Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 19 May 1939:
Mrs. Julia Rogers
Mrs. Julia
Rogers, age 77, died at her home in Ullin Friday night, May 12.
She is survived by a daughter, Mrs.
Ada
Romain, of Poplar Bluff, Mo.; two sons,
Joseph and Omer
Rogers, both of Ullin; and a brother,
Harvey
Dillon of Dallas, Texas.
Funeral services were held at the
home Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev.
R. J.
Weiss officiating.
Interment was made in the Ullin Cemetery.
(William O.
Rodgers married Julia Dillon
on 15 Aug 1880, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Julia
Rogers was born 25 May 1862, in Olmstead, Ill., daughter of Sirus
Dillon, died 12 May 1939, in Ullin, Pulaski Co., Ill., widow, and was
buried in Ullin Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. B. A.
Stalcup and son, Keith, have returned
from Morton, where they were called by the
death of Mrs.
Stalcup’s brother, Harry
Braden.
(According to his death certificate,
Harry
Braden was born 6 Jan 1908, in Morton,
Ill., the son of Bion C.
Braden, a native of Oreel, Ohio, and Vioma Grant
Von
Note, a native of Farmer City, Ill.,
died 11 May 1939, in Morton, Tazewell
Co., Ill., and was buried at Morton, Ill.
His marker in Roberts Cemetery in
Morton, Tazewell Co., Ill., reads:
Harry
Braden 1908-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Henry Wallbaum
Mrs. Catherine
Aydt Wallbaum, age 95 years, died Thursday, May 11, at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. H. A.
Williams of Villa Ridge.
Mrs.
Wallbaum was born in Piopolis, Ill., in 1844 and moved to Cairo in
1864.
She resided in Cairo 69 years, going
to Villa Ridge in 1933 to make her home with
her daughter.
Surviving are eight children:
William of Piopolis, Ill., Mrs. Louis
Casey
and Walter F. of Cairo, Mrs. W. A.
Williams and Mrs. Ed
Dyas
of Villa Ridge, Rudy of Kenner, La., Fred of
Helena, Ark., and Mrs. Katie
Huckabay of Henshaw, Ky.; 20
grandchildren and 29 great-grandchildren.
Two sisters, Miss Christine
Aydt
and Mrs. Charles
Brummer of DeSoto, Mo., also survive
her.
Funeral services were held Saturday
afternoon at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church,
Cairo, of which she was a devout member.
Rev. Father L.
Gilmartin, pastor of St. Mary’s Church,
Mound City, officiated.
Burial was made in Villa Ridge
cemetery.
(Her death certificate states that
Catherine
Aydt
Walbaum was born 20 Mar 1844, in
Piopolis, Ill., the daughter of William
Aydt,
a native of Germany, died 11 May 1939, in
Villa Ridge, Pulaski Co., Ill., widow of
Henry
Walbaum, and was buried
at Villa Ridge, Ill.
Her marker in Cairo City Cemetery at
Villa Ridge reads:
Catherine
Wallbaum 1844-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. Omer
Knupp
and daughter Peggy
Earle
of Sikeston, Mo., who were called here by
the death of Mr.
Knupp’s
father, who passed away at Villa Ridge
Thursday of last week, have returned home.
William D.
Knupp
of Houston, Texas, arrived in Villa Ridge
Friday called there by the death of his
father, Jesse
Knupp.
Mr. and Mrs. William
Strohm and Mr. and Mrs. John
Strohm have returned to their homes,
having been called here (Villa Ridge) by the
death and funeral of Ed
Miller, a former resident of Mound City.
Mr.
Miller is a brother-in-law of Mrs. E. L.
Crain.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy
Krummel of Springfield spent the weekend
with Mr. and Mrs. E. L.
Crain,
also attended the funeral of the latter’s
uncle, Ed
Miller.
The remains of Guy
Delaney arrived here Monday from
California and were entered in the Villa
Ridge cemetery.
Mr.
Delaney was a former resident here
(Villa Ridge) residing on a farm with his
parents east of town.
(The California Death Index states
that Guy H.
Delany died 27 Apr 1939, in Los Angeles
Co., Calif.—Darrel
Dexter)
Alderman F. W.
Hallerberg informs us that Grandma
Lockhart was his own great-grandmother
and that her farm lay just north over the
ravine from the present site of the houses
at Dam 53.
John
Guy,
the old light tender, was also a relative of
his.
Mrs. George T.
Schuler tells us that Mr.
McDonald, a special pilot mentioned, was
her great-great-grandfather, that Col. James
B.
Clemson, one of the soldiers of 1812, who settled Napoleon, was
related through marriage to her mother’s
aunt.
Col.
Clemson died in 1889.
He was a member of the Cairo Knights
Templars.
Mrs.
Schuler’s grandfather, Morgan
Boren,
came to this section with the company of men
who established Old Fort Wilkinson and was
one among their number who occupied the
fort.
(George Thomas
Schuler was born 1 Jan 1875, in Illinois, the son of George
Schuler and Julia
Kennedy. His wife was
named Frances Angie
Schuler, of 122 N. Blanche St., Mounds,
Ill., who, according to her death
certificate was born 24 Dec 1883, in
Arkansas, the daughter of Hiram
Calvin and Angie Bourn,
died 8 Feb 1951, at Baptist Memorial
Hospital in Memphis, Shelby Co., Tenn.
Hiram
Calvin married Gussie
Boren
on 24 Jan 1883, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Their marker in Calvin-Barber
Cemetery reads:
Hiram
Calvin May 31, 1864 March 5, 1921 Gussie
Calvin Jan. 29, 1854 Mar. 15, 1916.
The
1883 county history states that Morgan
Boren
was born in Tennessee in 1795, died in
January 1851 in Pulaski Co., Ill., and came
to Fort Wilkinson in 1827, where he had
earlier been stationed as a soldier.
His wife was Anna
Lathum, also a native of Tennessee, who died in Pulaski Co., Ill.
A
marker in Olmsted Masonic Cemetery reads:
James Y.
Clemson Mar. 20, 1822 Mar. 20,
1889.
He was the son of Col. Eli B.
Clemson, who was the one who served in
the War of 1812, according to the 1883
county history.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 19 May 1939:
ANOTHER TO TOLL
Miss Lillian
Hammock, 27, of Natchez, Miss., was killed near Curce Inn near
McClure about 1 o’clock Tuesday morning
while riding with Mrs. Lillian
Husky
of Cape Girardeau.
Mrs.
Husky
said she had had only two small beers and
was not under the influence of alcohol.
She drove the car across and over the
road and down a six-foot embankment.
One man in the car was scratched up,
but Miss
Hammock was either suffocated or had her neck broken.
(Her death certificate states that
Lillian
Hammock, store clerk, of Alexander Co.,
Ill., was born 1 Mar 1912, in Natchez,
Miss., died 16 May 1939, in McClure,
Alexander Co., Ill., and was buried in
Natchez, Miss.—Darrel
Dexter)
C. S. MILLER STILL QUITE ILL
C. S.
Miller is still seriously and dangerously ill at the hospital in
Cairo after his operation of two weeks ago.
A tumor of some kind seemed to be on
one of his intestines and this was removed.
Infection developed and the case
became very critical.
There have been four blood
transfusions, it is understood, and their
report yesterday was that he was showing
some improvement.
OLD JAIL WAS SCENE OF TWO LYNCHINGS
Last week we printed a story about
the tearing down of the old county jail the
two-story brick building back of the present
jail.
This week we will tell about a
lynching that occurred at this jail when L.
F. Crain was sheriff and Will
Painter was jailer.
Painter and his family lived in the jail and Sheriff
Crain
and family lived in the house now owned by
Sheriff I. J.
Hudson on High Street.
On the morning of July 4, 1883, the
excursion train on the Wabash Railroad (now
the Big Four) was crowded with people going
to attend the celebration at Cairo.
About 6 o’clock in the evening the
same people were returning to their homes
and among this crowd was John
Kane,
a white man, living at Carmi, Ill., who was
a bridge builder for the Wabash Road, and
who was on his way home.
Nelson
Howard, a negro, was also among the
crowd.
Howard was a section hand on the road at
Grand Chain, in this county, where he lived.
Kane
and
Howard were not acquainted, but as the train was pulling into the
depot at Mound City, some rudeness on the
part of
Howard in passing Kane
caused a quarrel to start between them.
Both men had been drinking and a
scuffle ensued.
Kane
drew a pistol and
Howard quickly snatched the pistol from
him.
Howard shot
Kane through the head and body and from all indications
Kane
was fatally injured.
By this time the train had pulled
into the depot and
Howard made his getaway, pursued by
Gibson, the conductor and others, but
they failed to overtake him.
Kane
was taken into the depot and upon
examination it was discovered that he had
been stabbed in the breast, supposedly
before he had drawn his pistol.
That night William
Painter, jailer and deputy sheriff, and
A. J.
Ross, city marshal, left in pursuit of
Howard.
On their way to Grand Chain they were
joined by William
Napier, G. F.
Boren
and Robert
Summers. Upon reaching
the house they surrounded it and ordered
Howard to make his appearance.
They captured him without any fuss
and brought him to Mound City and placed him
in the county jail.
The inquest on
Kane’s body was held the next day and the jury stated that he had
come to his death by the hand of Nelson
Howard.
No threats of lynching were made, but
the residents of Mound City regretted the
happening as neither
Kane nor Howard were
residents of the city.
That night Jailer
Painter retired at his usual hour,
taking the necessary precautions to make
sure that his prisoner was all right, and
went to bed in the debtors’ room as he often
did when having a dangerous criminal in his
care.
From the debtors’ room, a door led
into the iron cage where
Howard was kept.
About 1:30 the morning of the 6th,
the jailer’s wife, Mrs.
Painter, was awakened by loud knocking
at the front door and upon going to the door
she saw the yard and jail surrounded by men.
She roused her husband who got his
revolver and went into the room where
Howard was caged.
Upon looking out of the east window
he saw seventy-five or one hundred armed men
below.
The jailer told them that they could
not get
Howard and if they attempted to they would get hurt.
Someone said that the jailer might
give them trouble, thereupon the leader
whistled and the gate to the jail yard
opened and about twenty or thirty more
entered the yard.
During this commotion, Mrs.
Painter had herded the children into the
rear of the hall and with pillows all around
them they sat in the corner of the hall, too
scared to cry and too excited to even
whisper.
Mrs.
Painter acted as intermediary between the men and her husband and
pleaded with the men to wait until the
sheriff came.
The men wanted the keys to the jail
and she had begged her husband to hand them
over saying that it was useless for them to
try to resist the men.
Mr.
Painter started downstairs to give them
the keys, but changed his mind and locked
himself in the debtors’ room.
The mob became more restless and
finally started climbing in the windows and
were soon at the debtors’ door.
They informed the jailer that they
didn’t want to hurt him, but insisted that
he let them have the prisoner.
When they demanded the keys to the
cell,
Painter said that he did not have them,
Crain
had them at his house.
During Mrs.
Painter’s first talk with her husband, he had told her to have Joe
S.
Dille, who was stopping with them having
come in from the country that day, slip out
the back way and inform
Crain
of the happening.
When
Dille
was questioned as to why he hadn’t gone for
Crain, he said that he had tried to get out, but had been threatened
by the mob.
Mrs.
Painter then decided that she would have
to go and started for the front gate calling
for Crain. Two men caught
her placing their hands over her mouth and a
little man approached with a revolver
pointed at her face and said he’d stop her.
Mrs.
Painter knocked his arm down and another
said that they did not want to hurt her, but
she must not cry out.
In placing their hands over her
mouth, one of the men got his finger in her
mouth and it took considerable effort on his
part to remove it.
Finally a large stout man put his arm
across her throat, which stopped her from
making any further noise.
Mrs.
Painter begged for the negro man, saying
that he ought to have a fair trial.
During this time Mr.
Painter was in the cell room and had
told
Howard to call for help, which he did.
After the mob had taken the jailer
downstairs they went to a bedroom and got a
lamp that was burning and started upstairs
to the cell room.
On the way up the stairs, they
noticed the pile of pillows in the corner
and one of the men took the lamp and peered
over the top, finding only two frightened
girls.
With sledgehammers they pounded open
the cell door.
Howard, who was still calling for
Crain,
would stop holloaing when the pounding
ceased.
Painter and
Dille tried to escape through the back way, but were caught and
guarded and told to keep their hands up.
The men brought
Howard downstairs and on the way out of
the jail enclosure Mrs.
Painter heard one of the men tell him to
stand up and walk.
They took him to a huge tree near the
jail, but Mrs.
Painter begged them not to hang him on
that tree, as that was the tree the children
used to hang their swing and to play under,
so they took him to a tree outside of the
gate.
The tree died soon after.
After
Howard was hung, three pistol shots were
heard and the jailer saw four men march out
of the jail yard.
Then all left, going south.
No one had been notified of the
danger of a mob hanging
Howard, but four or five colored men
went that night to guard the jail, but left
with the exception of Pat
Scott
and a man by the name of
Howard, no relation to the prisoner,
however.
They were outside the gate at the
time the mob came,
Scott
leaving over the levee and
Howard remaining.
They had guns but made no effort to
protect the prisoner.
After the hanging, the fire bell was
rung and the sheriff cut
Howard down.
At the inquest the next day, it was
learned that the back of
Howard’s skull had been fractured and it
was thought to have been done when he was
ordered to walk.
No one was found guilty of the
lynching, however, it was thought to have
been done by employees of the Wabash
Railroad.
No blame could be placed on the
sheriff or the jailer and the jailer did all
he could, even to endangering his life and
that of his family, to save the prisoner.
Mrs.
Painter was very courageous and did all she could to aid her
husband.
Much excitement prevailed in Mound
City for several days afterwards.
The lynchers all wore masks and had a
captain who gave the orders which were
readily obeyed, just as though it had been
organized or planned.
The second lynching was of a Villa
Ridge man who killed his son-in-law.
Mrs. E. P.
Easterday was at the jail when one of
the lynchings took place.
She recalls the scene well.
We were sorry to learn of the sudden death
of Mrs. Julia
Rogers that occurred in Ullin Friday
night after only a few hours illness.
(Beech Grove)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 26 May 1939:
Mrs. Lizzie Silver Dies at Age of
Eighty-Seven
Mrs. Lizzie
Silver died Tuesday morning, May 23, at her home three miles east of
Pulaski, following a prolonged illness.
She was born and reared in Pulaski
County and had lived on the same farm 51
years.
Her age at death was 87.
She is survived by a sister, Mrs.
Delia
Powers of Villa Ridge; two nieces, Mrs.
Grace
Pavey of Cairo, and Mrs. George
Sitter of Mounds.
Mr. and Mrs.
Sitter have been constant in their attendance upon Mrs.
Silver for many months.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the
James
Funeral Home in Mounds with Rev. J. A.
Tucker, pastor of the Union Church of
Villa Ridge, officiating.
Interment was made in Villa Ridge
cemetery, G. A.
James
directing.
(Her death certificate states that
Lizzie
Silver was born 22 Jan 1852, in Pulaski
Co., Ill., the daughter of Bert
Wallace and Adeline
Robinson, natives of North Carolina,
died 23 May 1939, in Road District 2,
Pulaski Co., Ill., widow of Sol A.
Silver, and was buried at Villa Ridge,
Pulaski Co., Ill.
She was buried in Cairo City Cemetery
at Villa Ridge.
Her marker there reads:
Sol
Silver July 26, 1830 Nov. 18, 1900
Lizzie
Silver Jan. 22, 1852 May 23, 1939—Darrel
Dexter)
Prominent Contractor Dies Sunday at His Home
Here
Arthur
Barter, age 70, for many years a prominent building contractor in
Cairo, but who made his home in Spencer
Heights in recent years, died Sunday
morning, May 20, following a ten days’
illness.
Mr.
Barter was a native of Mt. Vernon, Indiana, from England in early
pioneer days.
He is survived by a daughter, Mrs.
Idabelle
Wilburn of Spencer Heights, Mounds;
three brothers, John and Lester of
California, and Festus
Barter of Cairo; one sister, Miss Ella
Barter of Mt. Vernon, Ind.; and several
nieces and nephews.
Mrs.
Barter died January 12, 1937, at their
home in Spencer Heights.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at two o’clock at the
Berbling Funeral Home in Cairo with Rev.
C. Robert
Dunlap officiating.
Burial was made in the family lot in
Thistlewood Cemetery, Mounds.
Casket bearers were James
Walder, Michael
Farrin, Eugene
Marshall, Jerre
Collins, Jr., Frank Walder,
and Edward R.
Dunn,
all of Cairo.
(His death certificate states that
Arthur
Barter, building contractor, was born 9
Jul 1868, in Mt. Vernon, Ind., the son of
John H.
Barter, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and
Elizabeth
DuPuent, died 21 May 1939, in Road
District 7, Pulaski Co., Ill., widower of
Kate B.
Barter, and was buried in Thistlewood Cemetery at Mounds, Ill.
The marker there reads:
Arthur
Barter 1868-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Christy Ann Wilson
Mrs. Christy Ann
Palmer Wilson died Friday morning, May
19, at the home of her brother, Sylvester
Clanton in this city, where she had been
ill many weeks.
Her age at death was 72 years.
Surviving her mother are three sons,
Ernest
Palmer of Pulaski, Harvey
Palmer of East St. Louis, and Charles
Wilson of Hines, Calif.; two daughters,
Mrs. G. S.
Croxton (Neva
Palmer Croxton) of Fayetteville, Miss.,
and Mrs. Roy
Pierce (Agnes
Wilson Pierce) of St. Louis; also one
brother, Sylvester
Clanton of Mounds; two sisters, Miss
Norma
Clanton and Mrs. William
Gallion, both of Champaign, Ill.; 21
grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 1:30 o’clock in the Mounds
Congregational church with Rev. Charles
Day
assisted by Rev. S. C.
Benninger, officiating. Interment was
made in Beech Grove Cemetery.
Casket bearers were grandsons,
Marvin, Ernest, Earl, Gerald, Clifton and
William
Palmer.
Crain
Funeral Service of Pulaski directed the
funeral.
Among those from out of town who
attended the funeral services were:
Mr. and Mrs. William
Gallion, Jr., and son Jean; Mr. and Mrs.
William
Gallion and daughter, Mary Ruth; Miss
Norma
Clanton and Miss Eula
Clanton of Champaign; Mr. and Mrs. John
O’Nielle, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman
Montgomery and children, Mr. and Mrs.
Russell
McCullough and children, Mr. and Mrs.
Bill
Fravel and Mrs. Ida
Clanton and daughter Zena of St. Louis,
Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Pierce (Mary Agnes) of St. Louis; Mr.
and Mrs. Harvey
Palmer of East St. Louis, Mrs. Stella
Clanton Mr. and Mrs. Herbert
Johnson, Mrs. Fred Fox, Mrs. Edmo
Shanahan and Mrs. Edmond
Pierce of Cairo.
(Pleas
Palmer, Jr., married Christiana
Clanton on 26 Aug 1885, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Silvester
Clanton married Rosa James
on 22 Oct 1899, in Massac Co., Ill.
According to her death certificate,
Christy Ann
Palmer Wilson was born 31 Jan 1867, in
Olmstead, Ill., the daughter of William
Jackson
Clanton and Henrietta
Spence, natives of Pulaski Co., Ill.,
died 19 May 1939, in Mounds, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., and was buried in Beech Grove Cemetery
at Mounds.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 26 May 1939:
FUNERAL SERVICES OF MRS. SILVER YESTERDAY
Funeral services for Mrs. Lizzie
Silver, 87 years of age, who died
Tuesday morning, were conducted at the
James
Funeral Home yesterday afternoon.
Mrs.
Silver was the widow of the late Sol
Silver, steamboat captain, and a
lifelong resident of the county.
She had been in good health until
last winter and was up and about on her farm
near Villa Ridge.
A sister, Mrs. Delia
Dowers and two nieces, Mrs. George
Sitter and Mrs. Grace
Pavey,
survive.
Rev. James E.
Tucker conducted the services and interment was in Thistlewood.
JAIL BUILT IN 1869
With all written about the jail,
The
Enterprise has not fixed the date of its
building.
E. P.
Easterday comes forward with the date of 1869 in form of a letter
which talks about the steamboats bringing
iron for the railroad and that the jail is
being built.
So it was built after the Civil War
and in 1869.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 2 Jun 1939:
Father of L. O. Trigg Dies May 24 at Son’s
Home
William Anderson
Trigg
of Ozark died May 24 at the home of his son,
L. O.
Trigg, publisher of the
Eldorado Journal.
His age was 82 and he had been
bedfast for almost a year.
His wife, an invalid, was with him,
the aged couple having been taken to
Eldorado about two weeks earlier.
Mr.
Trigg was born in Johnson County, Feb. 1, 1857.
Most of his life had been spent on a
farm near Ozark, although he conducted one
of the first stores established in Ozark.
He was active until eighty.
(W. A.
Trigg married Mary I. Laney
on 12 Feb 1878, in Johnson Co., Ill.
Milton A.
Trigg
married Maryann
Barnwell on 17 Dec 1850, in Johnson Co.,
Ill.
According to his death certificate,
William Anderson
Trigg,
merchant, of Eldorado, Saline Co., Ill., was
born 1 Feb 1857, in Simpson, Ill., son of
Milton A.
Trigg
and Mary
Barnwell, natives of North Carolina, died 23 May 1939, in Eldorado, Saline
Co., Ill., husband of Mary I.
Trigg,
and was buried in Simpson Township, Johnson
Co., Ill.
His marker in Gilead Cemetery in
Simpson, Johnson Co., Ill., reads:
W. Anderson
Trigg
1857-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Dewey King Fatally Injured in Auto Crash
All Mounds was shocked by the tragic
death of Dewey
King
which occurred soon after 8 o’clock Saturday
morning at St. Mary’s Hospital, Cairo, where
he had been taken following a head-on
automobile collision on the new graveled
road between U. S. highways 45 and 37 near
Karnak.
Mr.
King had been to Metropolis to service the coin machines of the
Hudson Novelty Co., of Mound City, which has
machines all over Southern Illinois, and was
returning home.
About two miles east of Karnak his
car collided head-on with a car owned and
driven by A. C.
House
of Vienna, a rural mail carrier.
It was raining at the time of the
collision.
House and the two men riding with him escaped serious injury.
King
was caught in his car and it took some
time to extricate him.
He was given emergency treatment at
Karnak and taken to St. Mary’s Hospital,
Cairo, by ambulance.
Examination showed that his left leg
had been shattered and driven into the lower
part of his body.
Mr.
King and family have lived in Mounds for many years and, until
recently, he had driven busses for the
Tri-City Transportation Company, between
Mounds, Mound City and Cairo.
He was widely known in earlier years
as a wrestler.
Surviving are his wife, Erma; two
sons, Marshall and Herschel, all of Mounds;
also a half-brother, Roy
Cleek
of Marion.
Brief funeral services were held
Monday morning at nine o’clock at the G. A.
James Funeral Home, Rev. J. Rue
Reid, pastor of the Methodist Church officiating.
The funeral cortege then left for
Friendship, Tenn., where services were held
in the Bethesda Presbyterian Church with
interment in the Bethesda Cemetery.
(According to his death certificate,
Dewey
King, salesman, of Mounds, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., was born 10 Apr 1900, in Friendship,
Tenn., the son of William
King
and Miss
Rooks,
natives of Tennessee, died 27 May 1939, in
Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., husband of Irma
King, and was buried near Friendship, Tenn.
His marker in Bethesda Cemetery in
Friendship, Crockett Co., Tenn., reads:
E. Dewey
King
1900-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Former Light Tender Visits Old Scenes
A few weeks ago we published an
article about “The Grand Chain of Rocks” in
the Ohio River, at the point where Dam 53 is
now located.
In the article was mentioned John
Guy,
the light tender at the Grand Chain.
Mr.
Guy, who now lives at Anniston, Mo., has been visiting his
great-nephew, Alderman F. W.
Hallerberg, and last Saturday made the
Independent office a call.
From him we learned a number of
interesting facts which we are pleased to
share with our readers.
Mr.
Guy is an uncle of Mr.
Hallerberg’s mother, the late Mrs. Frank
Bour.
He is the son of Liza
Bettice Guy who married
for her second husband, Arthur
Lockhart and was the “Grandma
Lockhart” mentioned in the article on
the Old town of Napoleon, published May 12.
Her father was James
Bettice, a Revolutionary War solider, who is buried in Calvin
Cemetery near Olmstead.
James
Bettice was also the grandfather of the
late Mrs. Tillie (Matilda)
Scott.
Mrs.
Lockhart, mother of Mr.
Guy,
lived to the age of 88 years.
Mr.
Guy told us that the “Grand Chain of Rocks” was a very dangerous
place for steamboats.
He named a number of steamboats that
were wrecked on the rocks, among them the
James
Pabasco, the
Richmond, Suwanee, and
the
Granite State.
It was his duty to keep the warning
lights burning.
There was no light house and the
lights were attached to tall poles or, as
was the case on the Kentucky bank, to a tall
tree.
Sometimes these lights would go out
and it was Mr.
Guy’s
duty to get in a row boat and cross the
river to the light to find the trouble and
correct it.
Another steamboat tragedy occurred in
1902 when the steamer
City
of Pittsburg was wrecked on the rocks.
About 100 persons were drowned or
burned, among the number two millionaires,
passengers from near Johnstown, Pa.
These rocks were removed from the
surface of the river bed in a peculiar
manner, according to Mr.
Guy.
Before the building of Dam 53, great
dredge boats were used to dredge large holes
in the bed of the river and the rocks were
lifted and rolled into these holes and
buried.
Where
once danger threatened each passing steamer,
boats now enter the locks of Dam 53 and pass
through easily and safely.
It is only through the eyes of the
“old timer” or through the written and
printed word that the younger generation may
learn of the past and be able to compare it
with the present.
We thank you Mr.
Guy.
(Arthur
Lockhart married Eliza F. Guy
on 5 Apr 1874, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
There is no marker for James
Bettice in Calvin Cemetery near
Olmsted.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Artie Badgley
Mrs. Ora
Badgley, age 61, died at her home in Grand Chain Saturday, May 27.
Besides her husband, she is survived
by four children:
Durard and Marion
of Grand Chain, Mrs. Muriel
Billingsly of Mount Carmel, and Lawrence
of Grand Chain; and one brother, Ernest
Pace of Greenville, Miss.
Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon at 2 o’clock in the Ohio Chapel
Church at Grand Chain, with Rev. S. A.
Wright officiating.
Interment was made in the Ohio Chapel
Cemetery.
Wilson Funeral Home was in charge.
(According to her death certificate,
Ora
Badgley was born 10 Jan 1887,
in Kentucky, the daughter of Joe
Pase, died 27 May 1939,
in Pulaski Co., Ill., the wife of Artie G.
Badgley,
and was buried in Ohio Chapel in Road
District 5, Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker there reads:
Ora
Badgley June 10, 1888 May 27, 1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 2 Jun 1939:
FRED PFAFF
On Wednesday, May 24, 1939, at _ _.m.
the death angel claimed Fred
Pfaff,
aged 73 years, at the home of his daughter,
Mrs. Bon___
Kerr.
He was a member of Mt. Pisgah
Lutheran Church since his youth.
He was united in marriage to ___de
Axley
who preceded him in death four years to the
day, and to this union was born three
daughters and two sons, Mrs. Linnie
Lacer
of Perks, Mrs. Leola
Buie,
Mrs. Bon___
Kerr,
Carl and Herman
Pfaff
both of Dongola; and five grandchildren.
He had a quiet but friendly
disposition, never saying anything bad about
anybody.
Mr.
Pfaff had made his home with his children after his health became
poor, about three years ago.
Funeral services were held in the Mt.
Pisgah Church on Thursday at __ o’clock by
Rev. Henry
Karraker of Dongola.
Burial was made in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery.
E. J.
Ford
directed the funeral.
(Fred
Pfaff, 32, farmer, of Wetaug, Pulaski Co., Ill., born in Wetaug,
Ill., son of Joseph
Pfaff
and Christina
Croff, married on 23 Jun 1898, in Dongola, Union Co., Ill., Carrie
Axley,
25, born in Dongola, Ill., daughter of
George
Axley
and Catherine
Wright. Joseph
Pfaff
married Christina
Croft
on 3 Oct 1854, in Union Co., Ill.
His death certificate states that
Fredrick
Pfaff,
carpenter, was born 19 Sep 1865, in
Illinois, the son of Joseph
Pfaff,
a native of Germany, and Christine
Croft, died 24 May 1939, in Union Co., Ill., widower of Carrie
Pfaff, and was buried in Road District 6, Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery
near Wetaug, Ill., reads:
Frederick M.
Pfaff
Sept. 19, 1865 May 24, 1939 Carrie M.
Pfaff
Dec. 17, 1872 May 24, 1935.—Darrel
Dexter)
Several from here (Beech Grove) attended the
funeral of Fred
Pfaff
at Mt. Pisgah last Thursday.
TWO NEAR DEATH
Word yesterday was that J. H.
Harbison, 85, of Olmstead, for years
village and road clerk and well known, was
at the point of death.
He has been failing since about a
month ago when a bunion or joint of his toe
began to swell and to pain him.
The other is Joseph
Young of Pulaski, who has cancer of the throat.
He is 80 years of age and in his
younger days worked about the boats here at
Mound City.
DEWEY KING DIED AS RESULT OF AUTO CRASH
Dewey
King,
39 years of age, bus driver for a number of
years and an employee of the Hudson Novelty
Supply, servicing music boxes and cigarette
machines scattered over a number of
counties, died last Saturday morning as the
result of a crash last Friday night about 9
o’clock on the road east of Karnak leading
to Route One that connects with Metropolis.
King had a badly shattered left leg which was driven into his body
and there must have been injuries about the
chest.
The car with which he crashed, driven
by A. C.
House,
rural mail carrier out of Vienna, was
damaged and
House
and two other men with him escaped injury.
King
was driving a light car, a Willy’s four and
the cars lapped on their left side about 12
to 18 inches.
The heavier car drove farther into
the lighter car and
King
was caught.
It was necessary to take the seat out
to extricate him.
Emergency treatment was given at
Karnak and
King
was brought to Cairo in
Wilson’s ambulance.
There he was thought at midnight to
have chances of recovery, but toward morning
grew worse and at 3 o’clock was dead.
Funeral services were conducted at
James
Funeral Home at Mounds Monday morning and
from there the funeral party went to
Friendship, Tenn., for funeral services
there at the Bethersday Presbyterian Church
and interment in the cemetery nearby.
Besides his wife, he is survived by
two sons, Marshall and Herschel, of Mounds;
and one half-brother, Roy
Cleek,
of Marion.
King had driven busses for the Tri-City Transportation Co., for a
number of years and in the last year or so
had worked for I. J.
Hudson, Jr., in the novelty business
servicing the machines.
Earlier in life he had done
considerable wrestling.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 9 Jun 1939:
J. H. Young
Joseph Hathway
Young, age 81, passed away at his home near Pulaski, Ill., Friday
afternoon, June 2, at 3:30 o’clock.
Surviving is one son, William Otto,
of Pulaski.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 2 o’clock in the Center Church
near Olmsted, with Rev.
Weiss
officiating.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery, Mounds.
Wilson Funeral Service was in charge of the funeral.
(Joseph H.
Young married Katie
Casper on 17 Aug 1884, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
His death certificate states that
Joseph Hathaway
Young,
night watchman, was born 3 Jul 1864, in
Indiana, died 2 Jun 1939, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill., widower of Eva
Young,
and was buried at Mounds, Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
A marker in Beechwood Cemetery at
Mounds, Ill., reads:
Joseph
Young
July 2, 1853-.—Darrel
Dexter)
Pulaski County Pioneer Dies at Age of 85
James Heslip
Harbison, age 35, passed away at his home in Olmstead at 6:30
o’clock Thursday evening, June 1, after an
illness of two weeks.
He was a lifelong resident of the
Olmstead community and was active in public
life, serving as road clerk, justice of the
peace, and village clerk. He was justice of
the peace for 38 years.
Surviving are three children, Mrs.
Hattie
Upchurch, of Pontiac, Mich., George of
Karnak, and Carl of Bruceville, Ind.; two
sisters, Mrs. Lucy
Britt
of Mounds and Mrs. Jessie
Hale
of Long Beach, Calif.; and a half-brother,
Robert
Sheehan of Long Beach, also survive.
Funeral services were held at 2
o’clock Saturday afternoon in the Methodist
church of Olmstead, with Rev. Robert
Shelton officiating.
Interment was made in the Masonic
Cemetery at Olmstead.
Wilson Funeral Service directed the funeral.
(J. H.
Harbison married Nancy L.
Kraatz on 4 Feb 1886, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
According to his death certificate,
James Heslip
Harbison, village clerk, of Olmstead, Pulaski Co., Ill., was born 5
Jun 1864, in Pulaski Co., Ill., the son of
William
Harbison, a native of Ohio, and Harriet
Upchurch, a native of Kings Harbor, Mich., died 1 Jun 1939, in
Olmstead, Pulaski Co., Ill., widower of
Louise
Kraatz Harbison, and was buried in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 9 Jun 1939:
J. H. HARBISON DIED LAST WEEK AT OLMSTED
J. H.
Harbison, 85 years of age, a lifelong resident of Olmsted community
and Justice of the Peace there for 35 years,
city clerk and road clerk for many years,
died on Thursday evening of last week
shortly before 7 o’clock.
The infirmities of old age might be
said to have caused his death.
A bunion or enlarged joint on his
right foot caused him much pain and loss of
sleep, and this soon wore down his vitality
until a slight paralytic stroke appeared.
He did not go to bed at first.
He stayed up, determined to stick it
out.
At one time he said the bunion was
“making him awful good.”
But his vitality waned and he began
to sink, and the last week, he spent in bed
wearing away.
He was quite a character.
He was tremendously independent and a
man of strong opinions and ideas, rigidly
honest and with a sense of humor.
In religion he was decidedly inclined
to doubt and on the wet and dry question, he
was in later years the driest of the drys.
He said he knew all about it, having
in earlier days dealt in the business, but
in his latter days, he could say nothing too
harsh about the business.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church in Olmsted on Saturday
afternoon with Rev. Robert
Shelton in charge.
Interment was in Olmsted in the
Masonic Cemetery.
Three children survive:
Mrs. Hattie
Upchurch of Pontiac, Mich., George of Karnak, and Carl of
Bruceville, Ind.
A half-brother, Robert
Sheenan of Long Beach also survives.
Harbison was one of the pioneers of the community.
He had followed the river when young;
had engaged in threshing business, hotel and
other things and was, all in all, a sturdy
character.
We were very sorry to lose our dear friend
and neighbor, Mrs. Artie
Badgley. She was laid to
rest in the Ohio Chapel Cemetery May 29th
with Rev. S. C.
Wright officiating.
Wilson Funeral Service was in charge.
(Ohio Chapel)
Mr. Ernest
Pase
of Greenville, Miss., was called here (Ohio
Chapel) last week due to the death of his
sister, Mrs. A. J.
Badgley.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Billingsley of Friendsville, Ill., were
here (Ohio Chapel) last week for the funeral
of Mrs.
Billingsley’s mother, Mrs.
Badgley.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 16 Jun 1939:
Mrs. Charles Daniels
Mrs. Lizzie
Daniels, age 64, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Pearl
Brown,
in Mounds Friday morning at 9:30 o’clock.
She had been in failing health for
some little time and had come to Mounds on
Sunday preceding her death to visit her
daughter.
After preparation for burial the body
was removed to her home two miles west of
Pulaski.
She is survived by her husband, nine
children—Mrs. Pearl
Brown,
Mrs. Juanita
Penrod and Mrs. Erma
Crow
of Mounds, Mrs. Edith
Coleman of Pulaski, Mrs. Augustine
Palmer of Villa Ridge, John and Herman
of Mounds, Floyd of Pulaski and Raymond of
Cairo; two sisters, Mrs. Mary
Calori of San Francisco, Calif., and
Mrs. Bertha
Skyles of Mounds; two brothers, James
and William
Clanton of California.
Several grandchildren and
great-grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the
First Baptist Church in Mounds by Rev. Earl
Throgmorton and interment was made in
Beech Grove Cemetery, G. A.
James
directing.
(Charles
Daniels, 23, married
Lizzie
Clanton, 17, on 20 Apr 1892, in Pulaski
Co., Ill.
Lewis L.
Clanton married Matilda
Spence on 2 May 1867, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Lizzie
Daniel was born 13 Feb 1875, in Pulaski
Co., Ill., the daughter of Mr.
Clanton and Matilda
Spence, a native of Illinois, died 9 Jun
1939, in Mounds, Ill., wife of Charles
Daniel, and was buried at Mounds.
His marker in Beech Grove Cemetery
reads:
Charles
Daniels 1869-1940 Lizzie
Daniels 1875-1939 Cecil
Daniels Ruby
Daniels Eugene
Daniels Roy Daniels
Edward
Daniels Andrew
Daniels Charles C.
Miller.—Darrel Dexter)
William T. Garrett
William T.
Garrett, age 76, passed away at his home in Mound City Saturday
evening at 8:45 o’clock.
He had resided in Mound City for more
than 50 years and followed the occupation of
shoe repairman.
He is survived by his wife, Mary E.
Garrett; three sons, Charles Donald and
William James and Harold Eugene; one
daughter, Virginia Sue; one stepdaughter,
Velva
Mahan.
Funeral services were conducted
Monday afternoon at the First Baptist Church
in Mound City at 2 o’clock by Rev. H. E.
Lockhard and interment was made in the
Cypress Cemetery, G. A.
James
in charge.
(His death certificate states that
William Thomas
Garrett, shoe repairman, was born 10 Aug
1862, in Blandville, Ky., died 10 Jun 1939,
in Mound City, Pulaski Co., Ill., husband of
Mary E.
Garrett, and was buried
at Cypress, Johnson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
W. H. Smith
W. H.
Smith of Spencer Heights died suddenly Sunday afternoon at 1:30
o’clock at his home.
His age at death was 78 years.
Born near Olmstead, Ill., in 1861, he
came with his family from America to Spencer
Heights in 1913 and has since resided here.
He is survived by two daughters, Miss
Pearl
Smith, local manager of the Illinois
Bell telephone office and Mrs. Ethel
McConnell of Portland, Oregon; two sons, Roy and Claude of Spencer
Heights.
Mrs.
Smith passed away 18 months ago.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at two o’clock at the
Congregational church, the pastor, Rev. S.
C.
Benninger, officiating.
Burial was in Thistlewood Cemetery by
the side of the grave of his wife, with G.
A.
James directing.
(Her death certificate states that
William Henry
Smith
was born 12 Jul 1861, in Pulaski Co., Ill.,
the son of T.
Smith,
died 11 Jun 1939, in Mounds, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., the widower of Martha
Smith, and was buried at Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Well-known Resident Dies Suddenly at Home
Here
William L.
Daniels passed away suddenly at his home on McKinley Ave., Thursday
evening, June 8, at 8:30 o’clock, from a
heart affection.
His age at death was 74 years, 60 of
them having been spent in this locality.
Surviving are his wife; three
daughters, Mrs. F. E.
Dycus
of East St. Louis, Mrs. Verne
Moore
of Crown Point, Ind., and Mrs. John P.
Licos
of Carbondale; three sons, Elmer of
Portageville, Mo., Lawrence and Richard of
Cairo, Ill.
Also surviving are two brothers,
Charles of Pulaski and James of Mounds; two
sisters, Mrs. Emma
Bernard and Mrs. Sarah
Arrington, both of San Francisco, Calif.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church Sunday afternoon at 2:30
o’clock with Rev. J. Rue
Reid,
pastor officiating.
All of the children were here to
attend the funeral.
On the same day funeral services were
held for a sister-in-law, Mrs. Charles
Daniels.
(His death certificate states that
William Louis
Daniel, carpenter, was born 30 Jun 1865,
in Tennessee, and died 8 Jun 1939, in
Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker in Oakland Cemetery in
Carbondale, Jackson Co., Ill., reads:
William L.
Daniel June 30, 1865 June 8,
1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Archie Miller
Mrs. Cora
Miller, age 58, of Dixon, Ill., formerly of Karnak, passed away at
her home in Dixon, Thursday morning, June 8.
Surviving her are four children and
three brothers.
The body was removed to the home of
her brother, William
Peck,
at Karnak, where it remained until 2 o’clock
Sunday afternoon, when funeral services were
held in the Salem Church with Rev. Robert
Smith officiating.
Interment was made in Salem Cemetery.
Nephews of Mrs.
Miller were the casket bearers.
Wilson Funeral Service directed the funeral.
(Henry H.
Peck married Mary E. Douglas
on 24 Mar 1872, in Massac Co., Ill.
According to her death certificate,
Cora May
Miller was born 20 Mar 1881, in Massac
Co., Ill., the daughter of Henry
Peck,
a native of Virginia, and Mary
Douglas, died 8 Jun 1939, in Dixon, Lee
Co., Ill., wife of Arch
Miller,
and was buried in Karnak, Pulaski Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 16 Jun 1939:
LONG COUNTY RESIDENT DIES
Funeral services for W. H.
Smith,
who passed away at his home in Spencer
Heights Sunday afternoon, were held Thursday
afternoon in the Congregational church at
Mounds with Rev. S. C.
Benninger officiating.
Interment was made in Thistlewood Cemetery,
beside the grave of his wife, who passed
away __ months ago.
Mr.
Smith was 78 at the time of his death, has been a lifelong resident
of this county, born in Olmsted in 1861.
The family later moved to America and
in 1913 moved to Spencer Heights, where they
have resided ever since.
He is survived by two daughters, Miss
Pearl
Smith of Spencer Heights and Mrs. Ethel
McConnell of Portland, Ore.; and two
sons, Roy and ___ of Spencer Heights.
WILLIAM T. GARRETT
William T.
Garrett, age 76, passed away at his home in Mound City Saturday
evening at 8:45 o’clock.
He had resided in Mound City for more
than 50 years and followed the occupation of
shoe repairman.
He is survived by his wife, Mary E.
Garrett; three sons, Charles Donald,
William James, and Harold Eugene; one
daughter, Virginia Sue; one step-daughter,
Velva
Mahan.
Funeral services were conducted
Monday afternoon at the First Baptist Church
in Mound City at 2 o’clock by Rev. H. E.
Lockard and interment was made in the
Cypress Cemetery.
Casket bearers were:
George
Eichhorn, George
Gunn,
Mark
Capoot, George R.
Martin, Mike Winkler and
Tom
Vines.
G. A.
James was in charge of arrangements.
OPEN VERDICT IS RETURNED IN CASE OF DEWEY
KING
An open verdict as the cause of death
of Dewey
King
was returned by the coroner’s jury on
Thursday night of last week at Cairo.
The accident happened on May 26, on
the road east of Karnak.
Arl C.
House
of Vienna was driving the car, which
collided with
King
and with him were Westerman
Mathis and R. R.
Evans,
also of Vienna.
All the Vienna men were injured, but
not seriously.
MRS. CHARLES DANIEL
Mrs. Lizzie
Daniel, age 64, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Pearl
Brown
in Mounds, Friday morning at 9:30 o’clock.
She had been in failing health for
some little time and had come to Mounds on
Sunday preceding her death to visit her
daughter.
After preparation for burial, the
body was removed to her home 2 miles west of
Pulaski.
She is survived by her husband; nine
children, Mrs. Pearl
Brown,
Mrs. Juanita
Penrod and Mrs. Erma
Crow
of Mounds, Mrs. Edith
Coleman of Pulaski, Mrs. Augustine
Palmer of Villa Ridge, John and Herman
of Mounds, Floyd of Pulaski, and Raymond of
Cairo; two sisters, Mrs. Mary
Calori of San Francisco, Calif., and
Mrs. Bertha
Skyles of Mounds; two brothers, James
and William
Clanton of California.
Several grandchildren and
great-grandchildren also survive.
Funeral services were conducted
Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at the
First Baptist Church in Mounds by Rev. Earl
Throgmorton and interment was made in
Beech Grove Cemetery. G. A.
James
was in charge of arrangements.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 23 Jun 1939:
Deaths of the Week
Man Drowns Tuesday Morning near Easter’s
Landing
George
Cuthbertson, age 43, of Johnston City, is reported to have met death
by drowning at Mon
Easter’s Landing, four miles from Dam
53, early Tuesday morning.
Cuthbertson, while fishing with his
brother, John, fell out of the boat.
Formerly a resident of Harrisburg, he
was an outstanding track star and football
player of Southern Illinois some 25 years
ago.
(His death certificate states that
George Scott
Cuthbertson, coal miner, of Johnston
City, Williamson Co., Ill., was born 16 Oct
1896, in Indiana, the son of John
Cuthbertson, a native of Indiana, and
Leona
Antis, a native of Kentucky, died 20 Jun
1939, in Pulaski Co., Ill., divorced husband
of Ruth
Cuthbertson,
and was buried at Lake Creek, Williamson
Co., Ill.
He was buried in Lakeview Cemetery in
Johnston City, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
John Castle
John
Castle passed away at his home in Clebit, Okla., Friday morning,
June 16.
He had been in failing health for
some time.
He is survived by his wife, two
daughters, Freida and Marle, of Clebit; his
mother, Mrs. Josephine
Castle of Mounds; two sisters, Mrs.
Josephine
Hanes
of Mounds and Mrs. Fred
James
of Detroit, Mich.; four brothers, Dave,
Ernest and Walter of Mounds and George of
Pulaski.
Two grandchildren and a number of
nieces and nephews also survive.
Funeral services were held Sunday at
Clebit.
(John Henry
Castle, of Bismark, McCurtain Co., Okla., registered for the draft
in 1918 and stated he was born 11 Mar 1877,
and was a car repairer for the T. O. E.
Railroad.
His nearest relative was Emma
Castle.
He was buried in Wright City Cemetery
in McCurtain Co., Okla.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Raymond Red Cloud
Mrs. Delpha
Red Cloud, age 33, passed away at her home in Perks, Thursday
morning, June 15, at 9 o’clock.
Besides her husband, Raymond
Red
Cloud, she is survived by a daughter,
Bobby Jean; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Moak; and two sisters, Mrs. Bertha
Churchill of Perks and Mrs. Gertrude
Hope of St. Louis. Five
brothers also survive her, Andy and John of
Cypress, Robert of Aurora, Will of
Pinckneyville, and Claude of Carrier Mills.
Funeral services were held in the
Baptist church at Perks Saturday afternoon
at 2:30 o’clock with Rev. A. M.
Troutman officiating.
Interment was in the Lutheran Chapel
Cemetery, with
Wilson Funeral Service in charge of
arrangements.
(James P.
Moak married Ellen Sowers
on 27 Nov 1890, in Johnson Co., Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Delpha
Moak
Red Cloud was born 17 Feb 1901, in
Cypress, Ill., the daughter of J. R.
Moak,
a native of Marion, Ill., and Ellen
Sowers, a native of Illinois, died 15
Jun 1939, in Perks, Pulaski Co., Ill., wife
of Raymond
Red
Cloud, and was buried in Luther Chapel
in Road District 3, Johnson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. L. H. Harris
Word was received by Col. O. L.
Bartlett of Cairo of the death of his
daughter, Mrs. L. H.
Harris of Greenville, S.C.
Mrs.
Harris died in a hospital in Greenville
Friday morning, June 16, after an illness of
two weeks.
Mrs.
Harris was formerly Miss Lurlean
Bartlett of Mound City and had many friends in the Tri-Cities—Mound
City, Mounds, and Cairo.
Besides her father, she is survived
by two daughters, Lurlean
Harris and Mrs. Susanne
Lehning.
Mr.
Harris died two years ago.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 23 Jun 1939:
THREE KILLED IN WRECK
Otto R.
Thomas, Joe R. Hill and
Ernest
Loomas, all living at or in the vicinity
of Simpson, Ill., were killed and Paul
Trover, living near Ozark, was seriously injured Tuesday afternoon
at 3:30 o’clock, when the car in which they
were riding and driven by
Trover, crashed into an earthen bank
north of Vienna on U. S. Route 45.
Hill
was killed instantly.
Thomas died while being taken from the
wreckage of the car and
Loomis died at the office of Dr. E. A.
Veach in Vienna, a short time after being taken there.
The coroner’s jury found that all
came to their death as the result of an
automobile accident and did not place
responsibility for the accident on anyone.
Testimony showed the men had been
drinking.—Vienna Times.
(John L.
Thomas married Nancy E.
Rainbolt on 6 Jun 1885, in Johnson Co.,
Ill.
When he registered for the draft
during World War I, he lived in Ozark, Ill.,
and stated he was born 29 Apr 1893, in
Simpson, Ill., and had a wife and two
children.
His death certificate states that
Otto R.
Thomas, farmer, of Simpson, Ill., was
born 25 Apr 1895, in Simpson, Ill., the son
of J. L.
Thomas and Nannie
Rainbolt, natives of Simpson, Ill., died 13 Jun 1939, in Road
District 5, Johnson Co., Ill., widower, and
was buried in Road District 8, Johnson Co.,
Ill.
His marker in Gilead Cemetery in
Johnson Co., Ill., reads:
Mother & Father Floy E.
Thomas 1892-1935 Otto R.
Thomas 1893-1939 With Christ in Heaven.
Thomas
Hill
married Mariah I.
Stoneman on 14 May 1897, in Union Co.,
Ill.
According to the death certificate of
Joseph R.
Hill,
farmer, of Bloomfield, Johnson Co., Ill., he
was born 7 Mar 1884, the son of Thomas
Hill,
a native of Tennessee, and Belle
Stonun, a native of Illinois,
died 13 Jun 1939, in Road District 5,
Johnson Co., Ill., husband of Mary
Hill,
and was buried in Belleville, St. Clair Co.,
Ill.
He was buried in Walnut Hill
Cemetery.
The death certificate of Ernest M.
Lomas,
laborer, of Simpson, Ill., states that he
was born 7 May 1894, in Bennington, Ill.,
the son of William S.
Lomas,
a native of Bennington, Ill., and Elizabeth
A.
Marlen, a native of Davisville, Ill.,
died 13 Jun 1939, in District 5, Johnson
Co., Ill., the husband of Lyda
Lomas,
and was buried at Simpson, Ill.
When he registered for the World War
I draft in 1917, he signed his name as
Ernest Mikel
Lomas and stated he was born 9 May 1894, in White Co., Ill.
William S.
Lomas married Elizabeth A.
Marler on 21 Aug 1889, in White Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
KILLED IN FLORIDA
A telegram here Wednesday told of the
death of Bobby
Carey,
grandson of Mrs. W. T.
Kennedy.
The boy, about three years of age,
ran out in the street and was run over by a
bus at West Palm Beach, Wednesday.
(The Florida Death Index states that
Robert Eugene
Carey
died in 1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
BODY FOUND HERE
Fishermen early yesterday morning
found the body of George
Cuthertson, 46 years of age, who drowned
Tuesday morning about 6 o’clock about 4
miles above Dam 53.
It was near the shipyards and was
soon identified.
Cuthertson was from Johnston City and
drowned when he fell out of a boat and his
brother, fishing with him, could not reach
him.
The body was taken to the
James
Funeral Home and from there to Johnston City
after the coroner’s inquest.
TOM MASSIE, COLORED, IS HELD ON MURDER
CHARGE
Tom
Massie, colored, of Ullin, is held in the county jail on the charge
of murder, following the killing of William
Miles, also colored, on the streets of Ullin about 4:30 Wednesday
afternoon.
Massie and Miles are said
to have had a dispute on Sunday while in a
crap game over one dollar.
Wednesday, the differences flared
into the open again when
Massie wanted some cakes from
Miles
and told him he could apply it on the dollar
he owed him, and
Miles refused. They were
working with the same gang at the time.
Massie, upon reaching Ullin, and he is reported to have been
drinking, apparently went home, secured a
single barrel shotgun and took a short cut
to waylay
Miles.
As
Miles
went along the street running west in Ullin
and not far from a foot bridge,
Massie came out and pointed his gun at
him.
Considerable talk ensued in which Jim
Eanes,
stepfather of
Miles,
and living across and up the road, called to
Massie not to shoot.
Witnesses said that
Massie stepped back a way and shot.
There were children near and
Miles
had previously laid down packages,
presumably some groceries.
Miles
did not fall at the shot and
Massie, witnesses say, advanced upon him
to strike him with the gun which
Miles
first warded off, but the second
attempt, he was hit and went down.
He was struck again.
How a man stood up after receiving a
full charge in his chest is hard for anyone
to understand. Miles was dead a few
moments later.
The coroner’s jury recommended
holding
Massie.
This makes four or five killings
among colored folks in the last year.
Miles
is 26 and
Massie married with a number of children.
(According to his death certificate,
Willie
Miles,
laborer,
was born 28 Jun 1912, in Brinkley, Ark.,
the son of C.
Miles
and Cora
Harris, natives of Arkansas, died 21 Jun
1939, in Pulaski Co., Ill., the husband of
Ida May
Miles, and was buried in Road District 3, Pulaski Co., Ill.
Tommie
Massie is in the 1920 census of Ullin,
Pulaski Co., Ill.
He was born about 1898 in Illinois
and his wife, Lydia
Massie, was born about 1900 in Illinois.
They are also in the 1930 census of
Ullin and Thomas then worked at the box
factory.
Their children were:
Arnold, Leonard, Venecia, Clifford,
David, Edith, and Veria
Massie.–Darrel
Dexter)
LOVE TRIANGLE FATAL
The old love triangle broke forth in
Alexander County late Monday night when
Everett
Meisenheimer, 23, of Olive Branch, shot, with a 22 rifle, Edna Mae
Peeler, 19, mother of two children and
separated from her husband, and seriously
wounded her.
The shooting was at the home of Mrs.
William
Berry,
mother of Mrs.
Peeler near Frog City.
Next morning the body of
Meisenheimer was found in a cornfield with a bullet through the
head.
It is presumed that he killed himself
after shooting Mrs.
Peeler.
The row was over a second man.
(The death certificate states that
Edna Mae
Peeler was born 26 Feb 1920, in Tamms,
Ill., the daughter of William H.
Berry, a native of West Frankfort, Ill., and Luella
Smith,
a native of Rochester, Ky., died 2 Aug 1939,
in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., wife of
Charles
Peeler, and was buried in
Provo Cemetery near Tamms, Alexander Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
McCLURE WOMAN WHO DROWNED KNOWN HERE
Miss Margaret
Johnson, 22-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney
Johnson of McClure, who was drowned in
Black River near Poplar Bluff, Mo., last
Sunday morning while wading, is known here
and is a cousin of Mrs. Willis
Edwards and almost like a sister.
Mrs.
Edwards’ sister was entirely raised by
the
Johnson family.
Miss
Johnson, in company with Gerald Wayne
Mosby of Pennsylvania and Dewey
Cameron of Thebes, left early to spend the day at Current River
Beach in Arkansas.
They stopped on the Black River to
swim.
Miss
Johnson could not swim and she either
lost her footing or stepped in a hole and
was carried downstream.
Her body came up once and then went
down and lodged under a rock.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at McClure in the high school
gymnasium. A vast number of people attended,
for she was well known and had worked in
several towns as a beauty operator.
Besides her parents, three brothers
and a sister survive.
SLOWLY IMPROVING
C. S.
Miller, who lingered around very close to death’s door after an
operation, is slowly mending.
His strength is returning and he is
becoming more cheerful.
He is still unable to read or to have
company, but he is definitely mending,
Possibly a couple more weeks will see
a very marked improvement and Judge
Miller will begin to enjoy visits and to
spin a few yarns or set a few fires under
the New Deal
et al.
EDWARD OGDON
Funeral services for Edward
Ogdon,
59 years old, who died Wednesday, June 14,
at his home in Metropolis, were held Friday
afternoon at the Baynes Chapel in that city,
with Rev.
Osborne of Cairo officiating.
He is survived by his wife, Esther;
four sons, Edward, William, Doris and Roy;
three daughters, Mrs. Kathleen
Miller, Mrs. Thelma
Nefteger and Miss Dorothy
Ogdon;
two sisters, Mrs. Frank
Deahl
of Mound City and Mrs. Julia
Timmons of Shuttuc, Ill.
(Lafayette
Ogden married Eliza Ann
Reagan on 12 Apr 1863, in Pope Co., Ill.
When Edward
Ogden
registered for the draft in 1918, he stated
he was born 30 Apr 1881, and was a
blacksmith for J. T. Polk Co., in Mound
City, Ill.
He made his mark instead of signing
his name.
The application of Edd Young
Ogden
for a Social Security claim in December
1936 states he was born 30 Apr 1880, in
Ozark, Ill., the son of Lafette
Ogden
and Lizzie A.
Reigan. The death certificate of Edd Y.
Ogden, blacksmith, states he was born 30 Apr 1880, in Illinois, the
son of Fate
Ogden
and Eliza Ann
Ragen,
natives of Illinois,
died 14 Jun 1939, in Massac Co., Ill.,
husband of Esther
Ogden,
and was
buried in Massac Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 30 Jun 1939:
Edward Arthur Nelson Dies after Brief
Illness
Edward Arthur
Nelson died at his home on South Delaware Avenue Sunday morning,
June 25, at 5:00 o’clock following a brief
illness.
His age was 44 years.
Mr.
Nelson was born in Baldwin, Illinois and had lived in this state
throughout his life.
For the last eleven years he had been
station agent for the Illinois Central
Railroad until a short time ago when his
house and contents were burned.
Thus, within a short period this
family had gone through both flood, and
fire, sustaining losses in both disasters.
He is survived by his wife and two
daughters, Betty and Pollyanna; also two
brothers, John of Pinckneyville and F. M.
Nelson of St. Louis.
Funeral services were held in the
First Methodist Church of Mound City Tuesday
afternoon at 4 o’clock with Rev. James
Henderson, pastor, officiating.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery, G. A.
James
directing.
Among those from out of town who
attended the funeral were his two brothers
and their wives and three sisters of Mrs.
Nelson, who live at Mattoon.
(His death certificate states that
Edward Arthur
Nelson, railroad agent, was born 19 Jul
1893, in Baldwin, Ill., the son of W. R.
Nelson, died 25 Jun 1939, in Mound City, Pulaski Co., Ill., husband of
Peggy
Nelson, and was buried at Mounds, Ill.
His marker in Highland Memorial Park
Cemetery in Mount Carmel, Wabash Co., Ill.,
reads:
Peggy Anna
Nelson Aug. 1976 E. Arthur Nelson June
1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Roy Turner
Funeral services for Roy
Turner, age 32, who was fatally injured
in an auto accident Wednesday, June 21, were
held at the Pentecostal church in Cypress
Saturday morning at 11:00 o’clock.
Rev. Will
Henry
officiated.
Interment was made in the Lutheran
Chapel Cemetery.
Fellow W. P. A. workers served as
casket bearers.
Mr.
Turner is survived by his wife, Myrtle; his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George
Turner; a sister, Mrs. Edith
Greer
of Vienna; and three brothers, Harry and
Audy of Cypress and Jake of Detroit.
Wilson Funeral Service directed the funeral.
(His death certificate states that
Roy
Turner, laborer, was born 10 May 1907,
in Johnson Co., Ill., the son of George
Turner and Lilly Farr,
natives of Johnson Co., Ill., died 22 Jun
1939, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., husband
of Myrtle
Turner,
and was buried in Road District 10,
Johnson Co., Ill.
His marker in Luther Chapel Cemetery
in Cypress, Johnson Co., Ill., reads:
Roy
Turner 1907-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Body of Drowned Man Found at Mound City
The body of George
Cuthbertson, 41 years old, Johnston City
miner, who drowned at Mon
Easter’s Landing above Dam 53 Tuesday
morning, was found Thursday morning near the
Mound City shipyards by Harry
Winters and Elias
Buckles at about 5:30 o’clock.
The body, clad only in trousers,
remained unidentified until Joe
O’Sullivan, state’s attorney, telephoned
his description to Johnston City police, who
verified the identification.
The body was taken by relatives to
Johnston City for burial.
Mrs. Lula Hoffner Ward
Funeral services were held Friday
afternoon, June 30, at the
Ryan
Funeral Home for Mrs. Lulu
Hoffner Ward, who died in Flint, Mich.,
on Wednesday, June 28.
Burial was in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery
near Wetaug.
Mrs.
Ward was first married to Earl
Hoffner, brother of Mrs. S. R.
Shifley of Mounds.
Mr.
Hoffner died in 1918.
She is survived by four children:
Mrs. Delbert
Spangle, Orville, Vernon and Eugene
Hoffner, all of Flint, Mich.
U. G.
Meneley
U. G.
Meneley of Champaign, husband of Rosella
Morrow Meneley, formerly of Mounds, died
Wednesday of last week.
Burial was in Champaign.
Surviving are his wife, two daughters
by a former marriage, two brothers and two
sisters.
(The death certificate of Ulysses
Grant
Meneley, farmer, of Park Ridge, Ill.,
states he was born 29 Aug 1867, in Illinois,
died 18 Jun 1939, in Chicago, Cook Co.,
Ill., the husband of Lula May
Meneley, and was buried
in Mt. Hope Cemetery in Champaign, Champaign
Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
I. A. Beegle
Isaac A.
Beegle, age 82 years, died Thursday morning, June 29, at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. J. E.
Price
west of Mounds.
He has been a resident of this
community for 33 years.
He is survived by six children, three
daughters, Mrs. H. L.
McElligott of Cairo, Mrs. J. E.
Price,
and Mrs. Clara
Hudgins of Benton Harbor, Mich.; three
sons, R. L.
Beegle, Henry and Homer
Beegle, all of Mounds; and other
relatives less near.
Funeral services were held at Shiloh
Church Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock
with Rev. W. J.
Ward
officiating.
Burial was made in Shiloh Cemetery
with J. T.
Ryan
conducting.
(His death certificate states that I.
A.
Beegle, retired farmer, was born 8 Nov
1857, in Tennessee, died 29 Jun 1939, in
Pulaski Co., Ill., divorced husband of
Elizabeth
Yoder,
and was buried at Villa Ridge, Pulaski
Co., Ill.
His marker in Shiloh Cemetery at
Villa Ridge, Ill., reads:
Isaac A.
Beegle 1857-1939 Sarah E.
Beegle 1855-1942.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Keele
of Centralia were here to attend the funeral
of Mrs. Lulu
Hoffner Ward.
A. J. Jaeckel
Funeral services were held Thursday
of last week for A. J.
Jaeckel, 77, of Illmo, Mo., in Illmo.
Mr.
Jaeckel was well known here, having been employed by the Illinois
Central Railroad Company for many years.
He was a native of Cairo.
Surviving are his wife and one
daughter.
Card of Thanks
We wish to express our sincere
appreciation for the love and sympathy
extended us during the short illness and
death of our dear husband, daddy and
brother, E. A.
Nelson. Especially do we
thank Rev.
Henderson and Rev.
Reid
for their consoling words, the ones who sent
flowers, furnished cars, the choir, the
pallbearers and everyone who helped in any
way.
Your kindness will always be
appreciated.
Mrs. E. A.
Nelson
Betty M. and Pollyanna
Nelson
John W.
Nelson
F. M.
Nelson
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 30 Jun 1939:
E. A. NELSON DIED SUNDAY MORNING AT HIS HOME
Arthur
Nelson, for 11 years Illinois Central agent here, baseball and
basketball fan, died at his home in Mounds
Sunday morning about 5 o’clock after an
illness that extends, in reality, back for
some time.
He became very weak last week, not
being able to be around, and then took to
bed and the weakness increased until he was
in a dying state.
Literally, he appeared to wear out.
After his long illness in the
hospital at Paducah, he never regained his
health.
The upheaval on the Illinois Central
that cost him his job over bills of lading
further set him backward.
Of these forged bills of lading,
Nelson in person told
The
Enterprise they were clear forgeries and
only last week, the Illinois Central is said
to have re-employed him.
Mr.
Nelson, however, was too ill to be able
to work, but did realize that he was
re-instated.
There survives his wife and two
children, Betty and Pollyanna; and two
brothers, John of Pinckneyville and F. M. of
St. Louis.
Funeral services were held in Mound
City at the Methodist church Tuesday
afternoon with Rev. James
Henderson in charge.
Interment was in the Mounds cemetery.
Mr.
Nelson was born in Baldwin, Ill., and was 44 years of age at the
time of his death.
There were 12 murder cases in ten years
according to Joseph
O’Sullivan, state’s attorney; of this number 10 are negroes and two
are whites.
There are now 7 murder cases pending,
all negroes.
ESTATE OF NETTIE PERKS SEEMS TO BE WELL
TANGLED
The estate of Nettie B.
Perks,
widow of the late Leslie
Perks,
a partner of the firm of
Perks
& Higgins, apparently is growing more complicated as time goes on.
Its halt in court for the past few
months has largely been due to the illness
of C. S.
Miller, attorney for George
Schuler of Mounds, executor of the
estate.
But the estate is complicated in that
there is argument relative to the meaning of
the will of the late Leslie
Perks
and what property it does or does not
bequeath and while the will of Mrs.
Perks
in itself is not so difficult, the property
she wills seems to be depending on the
property she had the right and title to.
Judging by the motions back and
forth, there is not complete harmony on
this.
There are motions requiring the
executor, George
Schuler, to file a complete inventory of
all property.
There is the motion directed towards
Harry
Perks, one of the heirs, asking him to surrender certain things and
to account for others.
There is also a motion asking for
property from
Schuler that
Perks
says is his own personal property.
The back and forth motions are
between
Schuler as executor on one side and
Harry and Tom
Perks
as major contestants on the other, may have
just started.
There was a time when a change of
venue out from Judge
Boyd
was in progress or had been granted, and the
case now may be back with Judge
Crain.
The estate lists quite a bit of real
estate in this state and some in Kentucky
and a whole long list of loans after which
is written “doubtful” or some similar term.
There is no addition to values and no
one probably knows, since taxes are a matter
to be considered.
Against the estate are a number of
claims and recently there has been filed by
Harry
Perks a claim for $9,907.34 for personal services between 1931 and
1937.
This is divided into two accounts of
$6,707.34 and $3,200 and a third bill for
$412 for insurance fees due the
Perks
& Schuler insurance agency or a total of $10,319.34.
There are several notes against the
estate, most of these secured by real estate
and there are a number of open accounts.
The court will doubtless, in time,
hear accounting of property from two sides;
proof and adjustment of
claims and then the final manner in which
the estate will be distributed.
It has become already quite a tangled
affair that has the possibility of weeks in
court and not in probate or county court
alone, but also in circuit court.
ROBERT EUGENE CAREY
Funeral services for Robert Eugene
Carey
were held Sunday afternoon in the Baptist
church in this city, Rev. H. E.
Lockard, pastor, officiating.
Interment was made in the Thistlewood
Cemetery.
Robert
Carey, 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George R.
Carey
of West Palm Beach, Florida, was fatally
injured when hit by a bus near his home.
He is the grandson of Mrs. W. T.
Kennedy of this city.
BROOKPORT WOMAN DIES OF BURNS
Mrs. Hattie
Gibson, 48, of Brookport, suffered fatal burns early Sunday morning
when she threw coal oil on a fire she was
building and the resulting explosion ignited
her clothing.
The accident occurred on the John
Davis
farm about three miles from Brookport
where the
Gibson family made their home.
Mr.
Gibson suffered minor burns in
extinguishing his wife’s burning clothing.
The home caught fire and burned to
the ground.
Mrs.
Gibson was rushed to the Fisher Hospital in Metropolis and died
Sunday afternoon.
She is survived by her husband,
several children, her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George
Reynolds and many other relatives and is a cousin of Rev. Earl
Throgmorton of Mounds.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon.
(According to her death certificate,
Hattie M.
Gibson was born 6 Dec 1890, in Illinois,
the daughter of George W.
Reynolds and Julia Harmon,
natives of Illinois, died 18 Jun 1939, in
Metropolis, Massac Co., Ill., wife of George
E.
Gibson,
and was buried in Pope Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 7 Jul 1939:
Mrs. G. A.
James,
who has been a patient in St. Mary’s
Hospital for the past week or so, was
removed last week, by ambulance to the
bedside of her mother, Mrs.
Zuber
at Vincennes, Ind., having been called there
by her sudden relapse, Mrs.
Zuber
having been in failing health for some time.
Mrs.
James was driven by her son and his wife, who has been her attendant
during her illness.
Sunday she was taken to the hospital
in Cairo, where she remained until Tuesday,
when she was brought to her home in this
city.
J. B. SHEERER
John Brown
Sheerer, aged 76 years, passed away at his home in this city,
Wednesday evening.
He had been in ill health for about a
year.
Born in Johnson County, Bud
Sheerer, as he was more popularly known,
has resided in Mound City for 44 years.
He is survived by his daughter, Mrs.
Ruth
Kennedy; one son, Gilbert; and a
grandson, Paul Louis
Kennedy, who resided with him.
He is also survived by a brother, W.
E.
Sheerer, of this city; a half-brother,
Grover
Rebmen of Wyoming; a half-sister, Mrs.
Gussie
Greer
of Anna; a granddaughter, Miss Lucille
Seibert and other cousins, relatives and
friends.
The funeral will be held this
afternoon at 3:30 at the
James
Funeral Home in this city with Rev. Joseph
Fix
of Cairo officiating.
Rev. H. E.
Lockard, of the Baptist Church in this
city, will assist Rev.
Fix.
Interment will be made in Spencer
Heights Cemetery with G. A.
James
in charge of arrangements.
(According to his death certificate,
John Brown
Sheerer was
born 6 Jan 1863, in Johnson Co.,
Ill., the son of Perry
Sheerer, a native of Germany, and
Margaret S.
Mathis, a native of Kentucky,
died 5 Jul 1939, in Mounds, Pulaski
Co., Ill., the widower of Ida
Sheerer, and was buried in Spencer Heights Cemetery at Mounds,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
HARRY BARBER DIES AFTER 3 MONTHS ILLNESS
Harry
Barber, 50 years of age, passed away at his home in Grand Chain,
Monday, July 3.
He had been ill for the past three
months.
Left to mourn his passing are his
wife, five children, Charles, Flora and
James of Grand Chain, Allen of Metropolis
and Mrs. Lucy
White
of Harlem, Mont.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at 2 o’clock in the Congregational
church at Grand Chain, with Rev.
Benninger officiating.
Interment was in the Masonic Cemetery
at Grand Chain with
Wilson Funeral Service in charge.
(According to his death certificate,
Harry Robert
Barber, carpenter, of Grand Chain, Ill.,
was born 22 Dec 1879, in Ohio Chapel, Ill.,
the son of John
Barber, died 3 Jul 1939, in Grand Chain,
Pulaski Co., Ill., husband of Emma
Barber, and was buried in
Masonic Cemetery at Grand Chain, Ill.
His marker there reads:
Harry
Barber 1879-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our
appreciation for the love and sympathy
extended to us during the illness and death
of our husband, daddy and brother, E. A.
Nelson.
Especially do we thank Rev.
Henderson and Rev.
Reid for their consoling words, the ones who sent flowers, furnished
cars, the pallbearers, and everyone who
helped in any way.
Your kindness will always be
remembered.
Mrs. E. A.
Nelson
Betty M. and Pollyanna
Nelson
John W.
Nelson
F. M.
Nelson
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 14 Jul 1939:
Judge Carl S. Miller Dies Following Nine
Weeks’ Illness
Attorney Carl S.
Miller, age 60 years, a practicing
lawyer in Pulaski County for 29 years, died
Saturday night, July 8, in the Illinois
Central Hospital, Chicago, where he had been
taken a few days previous.
He had been a patient at St. Mary’s
Infirmary, Cairo, for nine weeks following a
surgical operation.
During 29 years of practice as a
lawyer in this county Attorney
Miller had served three terms as state’s
attorney and two terms as county judge.
Before beginning his work here he had
practiced six years with a large law firm in
Chicago, thus laying the foundation on which
he later built a most successful public
career.
Born two miles east of Villa Ridge on
a farm, Mr.
Miller decided early in life to study
law and worked his way through John
Marshall Law College, graduating in 1902.
From 1908 until the flood of 1937, he
lived and practiced in Mound City.
Following this disaster he moved to
Cairo, where he has since remained, taking
over the offices of the late Attorney Reed
Green
and forming a partnership with his son,
Donald
Miller, who moved to Cairo from Chicago to enter the firm to be
known as
Miller and
Miller.
Judge
Miller made many contacts during his long career in the courtroom
and on the bench.
He was a natural orator and was
called on as a speaker on many public
occasions, ably responding at a moment’s
notice.
He was a member of the State Bar
Association and the Pulaski County and
Alexander County Bar Association.
At the time of his death he was
attorney for the Illinois Central, the Big
Four and the C. & E. I. railroads and other
corporations.
He was also city attorney for Mounds
and Mound City.
In politics he was a Republican and
was a party leader for many years.
For many years he was director in the
First State Bank of Mounds and was the
bank’s attorney; he was president of the
First State Bank of Olmsted.
He was a Thirty-second degree Mason
and was a member of Trinity Lodge No. 563 A.
F. & A. M.
Attorney
Miller was also prominent in the work of the church for almost 20
years he was superintendent of the Sunday
school of the Pilgrim Congregational Church
of Mound City and was a teacher of the adult
class.
He had high ideals and tried to
realize them in his daily living.
His death is a loss not only to his
family but to this section of Illinois.
Surviving are his wife, Lottie Austin
Miller; four daughters, Mrs. Donald
Auble
of Bartlett, Ill., Miss Marguerite
Miller and Miss Eleanor
Miller, both of Cairo, and Miss Ethel
Miller of Mounds; one son, Donald
Miller of Cairo; five grandsons; one
sister, Mrs. Ida
Forsythe of Tamms; and one brother,
Jasper
Miller of San Antonio, Texas.
Funeral services were held at the
Pilgrim Congregational Church in Mound City
Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock with a
large concourse of people assembled to pay
their last mark of respect.
Rev. Joseph W.
Fix
of the Presbyterian church of Cairo
officiated.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery, Mounds, G. A.
James
directing.
Pallbearers were E. C.
Hogendobler and Jesse
Rutherman of Olmsted, O. B.
Archibald and John
Dewey of Cairo, C. E. Richey
and C. F.
Bode
of Mound City.
(George H.
Forsyth, 23, farmer, of Villa Ridge, Ill., born in Villa Ridge, son
of Charles
Forsyth and Jane
Parker, married Ida Miller, 19,
born in Villa Ridge, Ill., daughter of J. N.
Miller and Margaret Albin,
on 7 Apr 1895, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Joseph Newton
Miller, 22, farmer, of Villa Ridge, Ill., born in Villa Ridge, son
of Jasper Newton
Miller and Margaret
Alben,
married on 22 Jul 1896, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill., Lulu
Stringer, 20, born in Pulaski, Ill.,
daughter of William
Stringer and Mary Kelley.
According to his death certificate,
Charles Sumner
Miller, attorney, of Chicago, Ill.,
was born 6 Oct 1878, in Villa Ridge,
Ill., the son of Joseph N.
Miller and Margaret
Albin,
natives of New Corbite, Ohio, died 8 Jul
1939, in Chicago, Cook Co., Ill., husband of
Lottie
Miller, and was buried at Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Billie Jean Baccus
Billie Jean, 6 months old, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Baccus of Mound City, passed away at St.
Mary’s Hospital Sunday night, July 9, at
9:30 o’clock.
Besides her parents, she is survived
by one sister, Doris Anne; a half-sister,
Anita Sue; and a half-brother, Freddie of
St. Louis.
Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the home of her
parents with Rev. James
Henderson, pastor of the First Methodist
Church, Mound City, officiating.
Interment
was made in Spencer Heights Cemetery,
Mounds, G. A.
James
Funeral Service directing.
(The death certificate of Billie Jean
Baccus states she was born 17 Jan 1939,
in Mound City, Ill., the daughter of Charles
Baccus, a native of Neeleyville, Mo., and Ludene
Lingle, a native of Dongola, Ill., died
9 Jul 1939, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill.,
and was buried in Spencer Heights in Mounds,
Ill.
Her marker there reads:
Daughter Billie Jean
Baccus Jan. 17, 1939 July 9,
1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. A. D. McCown Dies in Mound City
Mrs. Blanche
McCown, age 76, died Monday morning, July 10, at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. I. J.
Hudson, Jr., in Mound City, following an
illness of several months.
Mrs.
McCown had lived in Mound City for the past 26 years.
She was a member of the Pilgrim
Congregational Church and had many friends
who still miss her presence.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. I.
J.
Hudson, Jr., of Mound City, and Mrs.
Blanche
Lentz
of Cairo; two sons, Foster of California and
Cecil of East Alton, Ill.
Her husband, A. D.
McCown, died four years ago.
Funeral services were held at the
Pilgrim Congregational Church, Mound City,
Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, the
Rev. Joseph W.
Fix
of Cairo officiating. Burial was made in
Thistlewood Cemetery, Mounds, G. A.
James
in charge.
(A. B.
McCowan married O. C. Hartley
on 7 Nov 1885, in Weakley Co., Tenn.
Her death certificate states that
Blanche
McCown was born 20 Mar 1863, in Nashville, Tenn., the daughter of
Napoleon
Hartley and Mary
Wilson, natives of Tennessee, died 10
Jul 1939, in Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill.,
widow of A. B.
McCown, and was buried in
Thistlewood Cemetery at Mounds.
Her marker in Beechwood Cemetery
reads:
Blanche
McCown Mar. 20, 1863 July 10, 1939
Mother.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Samuel Price
Mrs. Maebelle
Price, 71 years of age, died at her home in Grand Chain Saturday
afternoon, July 8, at 3:15 o’clock.
Besides her husband, Samuel
Price,
she is survived by a sister, Mrs. Hortense
Woelfle, widow of the late Dr. J. E.
Woelfle of Cairo; and three nieces, Mrs.
Mary
Newman of St. Louis, Mrs. Hortense
Hatch
and Mrs. Albert
Rust
of Carbondale.
Funeral services were held in the
Congregational church in Grand Chain Monday
morning at 10:30 o’clock with Rev. S. E.
Benninger, officiating.
Interment was made in the Masonic
Cemetery at Grand Chain.
Pallbearers were William
Victor, Joseph
Gaunt, Dr. James Turner,
Guy
Harris, Norman
Boyd
and Calvin
Wilmouth.
Wilson Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
(Thomas B.
Echols married Ammon Brown
on 1 Dec 1863, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Mabelle E.
Price
was born 29 Nov 1867, in Olmstead, Ill., the
daughter of Thomas B.
Echols and Arminda B.
Brown,
natives of Olmstead, Ill., died 8 Jul 1939,
in Grand Chain, Pulaski Co., Ill., wife of
Samuel
Price, and was buried in the Masonic Cemetery at Grand Chain, Ill.
Her marker there reads:
Mabelle
Price
1865-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. John
Henderson and their guests, Mr. and Mrs.
W. T.
Bland and Mrs. S.
Decker of Tulsa, Okla., were called to
Jonesboro, Ark., by the death of a sister of
Mrs.
Henderson and Mrs. Bland.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 14 Jul 1939:
Carl S. Miller Died Saturday in Chicago
Carl S.
Miller, better known as Judge
Miller, three times state’s attorney for
this county and twice county judge, a
veteran of many legal battles, widely known
and a lawyer of unusual prominence , died in
the Illinois Central Hospital in Chicago
last Saturday night.
He had been removed from the Cairo
hospital Thursday in this last effort to
save him after an illness that had lasted
for nine weeks.
Operated upon for appendicitis at
Cairo, infection developed and it was
necessary to open the wound.
Blood transfusions were given and for
several days Judge
Miller wavered between life and death.
He then appeared to mend and there
were strong hopes that in time he would
recover.
But the struggle and suffering,
perhaps the long and hard legal battle here
at the election contest case, had worn him
down and he began after nearly nine weeks to
grow worse.
In a desperate attempt he was moved
to Chicago where death came to ease his
sufferings and bring to an end one of the
bar’s strongest characters.
Judge
Miller spent almost his entire life of 60 years in this county.
He
grew up on the farm near Villa Ridge,
attending the common schools of that
section.
He attended Albion College and then
the John Marshall Law School.
For a few years he remained in
Chicago with a law firm and in 1906 came to
Mound City to practice, opening up in the
office of L. M.
Bradley.
Five times elected to public office,
he proved himself to be aggressive and a
persistent fighter in the courtroom.
No witness who wavered in testimony
escaped when cross examination time came; no
point was too small to see and no argument
advanced but what he countered or offered
rebuttal.
In the court room he was in his
domain and few lawyers were his match.
Out of his profession, he was an
energetic citizen loyal to his community and
interested in the better things.
A church worker, a man devoted to
education and good schools and a man with
high civic mind, Carl
Miller was always at the front.
In the political field, he dropped
the suave, hand-shaking, baby-kissing
methods of patting everyone on the back or
working into clever schemes.
No one ever fronted for the
Republican Party like he did in this county
and he laid on blow for blow and did not
spare words.
His aggressive and challenging
attitude brought him many friends and much
admiration. It also created enemies.
He moved to Cairo after the flood of
1937 and into the offices of the late Reed
Green. Here he and his
son were carrying on a law partnership that
was growing and flourishing.
Judge
Miller is survived by his wife and five children, Mrs. Donald
Auble
of Bartlett, Ill., Miss Margaret, Miss Ethel
and Miss Eleanor
Miller and one son, Donald, and five
grandchildren.
A sister, Mrs. Ida
Forsythe, of Tamms; and one brother,
Jasper, of San Antonio, Texas, also survive.
Funeral services were held here
Tuesday. The body was brought to the G. A.
James
Funeral Home and at 10 o’clock was placed in
state at the Congregational church where,
for some 20 years he was superintendent of
Sunday school and where for years upon years
he attended services with remarkable
regularity.
That afternoon, the services were
conducted by Rev. J. W.
Fix,
pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Cairo
and music was by the Presbyterian choir.
The church was filled and many were
outside.
Members of the bar from a number of
counties attended.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery.
From friends of long standing were
chosen pallbearers.
They were:
E. C.
Hogendobler and J. A.
Rutherman of Olmstead, O. B.
Archibald and John
Dewey
of Cairo, and C. E.
Ritchey and C. F.
Bode of Mound City.
MRS. BLANCHE McCOWAN
Mrs. Blanche
McCowan, 76, passed away Monday morning
following several months’ illness at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. I. J.
Hudson, Jr.
Mrs.
McCowan had been a resident of Mound City for 26 years and was a
devout member of the Pilgrim Congregational
Church.
She is survived by two daughters, the
above named Mrs.
Hudson, Jr., and Mrs. Blanche
Lentz
of Cairo; two sons, Foster of California and
Cecil of East Alton, Ill.
Twelve grandchildren and five
great-grandchildren also survive her.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at the Pilgrim Congregational
Church with Rev. J. W.
Fix
officiating.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery beside the grave of her husband, A.
D. McCowan, who preceded her in death four years ago.
G. A.
James was in charge of arrangements.
The casket bearers were:
M. L.
Capoot, E. E.
Schuler, George R.
Martin, C. F.
Bode, George Gunn and A.
J.
Ridings.
BILLIE JEAN BACCUS
Funeral services for Billie Jean
Baccus, 6 months old, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles
Baccus of Mound City, were held Monday
afternoon at the home of her parents, with
Rev. James
Henderson, pastor of the M. E. Church,
officiating.
Interment was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery.
Besides her parents, she is survived
by one sister, Doris Anne, a ____ sister,
Anita Sue; and a half-brother, Freddie of
St. Louis.
The baby passed away Sunday ____ at
St. Mary’s Hospital, where she had received
treatment for an ____ due to a recent
operation.
G. A.
James Funeral Service was in charge of arrangements.
BUTLER’S MOTHER DIED SUNDAY
Mrs. Emma
Butler, 89, died Sunday at the home of her son, George
Butler, near Levings, Ill.
At the age of 14, she and her mother,
Millie
Kirkpatrick came to Mound City from
Greenville, Miss., and have resided in
Pulaski County for the past 75 years.
The shock of the tragic death of her
son, Tom, brought on the illness from which
she never recovered.
She leaves two sons, Honora and
George; one daughter, Mrs. Ada
Burwell and many other relatives.
Services were held Wednesday
afternoon and burial was made in Mt. Zion
Cemetery near Olmstead.
G. A.
James was in charge of arrangements.
(Her death certificate states that
Emma
Butler was born 15 May 1852, in
Greenville, Miss., died 9 Jul 1939, in Road
District 4, Pulaski Co., Ill., widow of John
Butler,
and was buried in Mt. Zion Cemetery near
Olmstead, Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker reads:
Grandmother Emma
Butler 1852-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. SAMUEL PRICE
Mrs. Maebelle
Price, 71, passed away at her home in Grand Chain Saturday
afternoon.
Besides her husband, Samuel
Price,
she is survived by a sister, Mrs. Hortense
Woelfle; and three nieces, Mrs. Mary
Newman of St. Louis, Mrs. Hortense
Harch
and Mrs. Albert
Rust
of Carbondale.
Funeral services were held Monday
morning in the Congregational church in
Grand Chain with Rev. S. E.
Benninger, officiating.
Interment was made in the Masonic
Cemetery at Grand Chain.
Casket bearers were William
Victor, Joseph
Gaunt, Dr. James Turner,
Guy
Harris, Norman
Boyd
and Calvin
Wilmouth.
Mrs. M. L.
McConnell, who was called here by the
death of her father, W.
Smith,
will leave Wednesday for her home in
Portland, Ore.
C. S. MILLER
We chronicle on another page the
death of Carl
Miller.
But we do not feel that a mere news
story should carry the only message, but
that a few words of tribute are due this
unusual character, this citizen and this
lawyer.
In our time, now nearly nine years,
we came to know Judge
Miller quite well.
We have met few who had the
fearlessness that he had, possessed the
aggressive nature and who stood plainly for
what he considered the right and proper
things.
With all his legal talent, his
aggressive ways and with his legal
knowledge, he possessed a very kindly side.
He was a family man, devoted to them
and on him they can look with pride.
He was a religious man, deeply so,
and practiced it when softer and more
enticing things called.
He was a man for civic affairs and
for education and to this he gave both time
and energy and money, too, if need be.
He had a strong sense of honest and
fair play and to trivial cases he gave his
best as well as to those cases more in
public eye and in prominence.
He had aspirations for high political
honors after winning some of the lesser, and
we have seen him in the hour of defeat, like
a man and soldier, bear his defeat, and
whatever the wounds were, they were not
paraded to the public.
There was a grimness to his soul, a
tenacity to his spirit and a moving energy
that made him live more and feel more in
this sixty years than most men do in a
longer span of life.
We do not think he feared in the
least as death approached.
Regrets he would have, but his eager
spirit was ever ready for a new adventure
and his faith quite strong.
We recall that in years past while
sick in a hospital and hearing church bells
ring he wrote lines that are fitting now.
It may well close this little
composition of a man we were proud to know.
Here is the poem:
Oh, the little brick church in the home of
my youth,
Built by love for the teaching of
truth.
How many times on God’s holy day
My youthful footsteps have turned thy
way.
There would we sing the songs of old,
There for us the story was told
For us there angels fain would sing
As Christmas bells their joy would
bring.
Oh carry me back to the church of my youth
Teach me again God’s holy truth.
The love of God, the Savior dear,
Who took from death its sting of
fear.
Singing the songs that will never grow old
Clasping hands that never are cold
By its altar may we gather too
In that church built for me and you.
And when our time on earth is done,
And life’s brief sands fore’er have
run
How happy this spirit of mine shall be
If friends shall gather at that
church with me,
To read a bit from God’s holy word
To sing the songs the angels have
heard
To feel the spirit of God come down
In that little church in our home
town.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 21 Jul 1939:
Mrs. Hazel Casper
Mrs. Hazel
Casper, 24, died at her home in Anna at
5:30 o’clock Saturday morning, July 15,
after an illness of one week of heart
trouble.
She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
H. L.
Ketchie of Dongola and attended the Dongola High School from which
she graduated in 1933.
She was married in 1934 to Alfonzo
Casper and moved to Anna, where they
have resided since.
She was employed at the International
Shoe Company factory.
Funeral services were held at Mt.
Olive Baptist Church near Dongola at 2:30
o’clock Sunday afternoon, conducted by the
pastor, Rev. W. J.
Ward.
Burial was in Friendship Cemetery.
Surviving Mrs.
Casper are her husband, her father, four sisters and four brothers,
Mrs. Carrie
Hinkle of Dongola, Mrs. Lela
Casper and Miss Alta
Ketchie of Anna and Mrs. Bertha Hartley
of Cairo; David
Ketchie of Mounds, Stephen of Wolf Lake,
Willie of Woodriver and Irvin of Dongola.
(Her death certificate states that
Hazel Lowanda
Casper, shoe factory worker,
was born 23 Oct 1914, in Dongola, Union
Co., Ill., the daughter of Henry L.
Ketchie, a native of North Carolina, and Ida E.
Head,
a native of Illinois, died 15 Jul 1939, in
Anna, Union Co., Ill., the wife of Alfonzo
Casper, and was buried in Friendship Cemetery in Road District 3,
Union Co., Ill.
Her marker there reads:
Hazel
Casper 1915-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Kate Moll
Word
has been received by friends here of the
death of Mrs. Kate
Sair
Moll, age 31, who passed away at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Frankie
Jackson, in Glendale, California,
Thursday, July 13, following a heart attack.
She is survived by two daughters,
Mrs.
Jackson of Glendale and Mrs. Jessie
Ivy
of Birmingham, Ala., and several nieces and
nephews.
Mrs.
Moll was the last of the Sair
family, one of the oldest and most respected
families in Mound City.
Her father was a contractor.
Mrs. Leonard
Gray
of Webster Groves, Mo., Mr. and Mrs. Floyd
Britton of Chicago, Miss Grace
Gaunt
and Mr. and Mrs.
Winkleman of Champaign were in this city
Tuesday to attend the funeral of their
uncle, Carl S.
Miller.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 21 Jul 1939:
MRS. KATE MOLL
Word has been received of the death
of Mrs. Kate
Moll,
81, who passed away at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Frankie
Jackson, in Glendale, Calif., Thursday, July 13, following a heart
attack.
Mrs.
Moll is survived by two daughters, the above mentioned Mrs.
Jackson and Mrs. Bessie
Ivy
of Birmingham, Ala., also several nieces and
nephews.
Mrs. Moll is the last of the Fair
family, one of the oldest and most respected
families in this city.
She was also a sister of the late
Mrs. L. F.
Stophlet of this city.
((Louis J.
Moll married Kate Fair on
7 Jan 1879, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Loren
Stophlet married Annie
Fair
on 28 May 1873, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
The
California Death Index states that Kate
Moll
was born about 1858 and died 12 Jul 1939, in
Los Angeles Co., N.C.—Darrel
Dexter)
ARTHUR MEREIDETH
Arthur
Mereideth, 57, passed away at his home in this city Monday morning
following several months’ illness.
He is survived by his wife, Edith,
six children, two by a former marriage, and
his father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. J.
K.
Mereideth.
A half-brother and five half-sisters
also survive him.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at the residence in this city,
Rev.
Burgess of Blandville, Ky., officiating.
Burial was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery.
G. A.
James
was in charge of arrangements.
(According to his death certificate,
Arthur
Meredith, laborer,
was born 12 Jul 1882, in Baltimore, Ky.,
the son of J. K.
Meredith and Lizzie
Herndon, natives of Kentucky, died 17
Jul 1939, in Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill.,
husband of Edith
Meredith, and was buried in Thistlewood
Cemetery.
His marker in Beechwood Cemetery at
Mounds, Ill., reads:
Arthur
Meriedeth 1882-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Newton Riddle
Mrs. Elizabeth
Riddle, age 81 years, died at her home in Cairo Sunday night, July
23, following a four weeks’ sickness.
Mrs.
Riddle was the mother of the late Fred
Little, a resident of this community for a number of years.
Surviving her are three daughters,
Mrs. Nona
Hill
and Miss Anna Louise
Riddle of St. Louis and Miss Mayme
Riddle of Cairo; a daughter-in-law, Mrs.
Grace
Riddle
McClellan of Mounds; one sister, Mrs.
Albert
Cooper of Los Angeles, Calif.; and three
brothers, Labon and Robert
Culbertson of Dexter, Mo., and Eddie
Culbertson of Bloomfield, Mo.
Her husband, Newton
Riddle died in 1934,
The family has lived in Cairo for
thirty years.
(The death certificate of Elizabeth
Riddle, of Cairo, Ill., states that she
was born 25 Jan 1857, in Dexter, Mo., the
daughter of Eli
Culbertson, a native of North Carolina,
died 23 Jul 1939, in Cairo, Alexander Co.,
Ill., widow of Newton
Riddle, and was buried at Villa Ridge, Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker in Cairo City Cemetery at
Villa Ridge reads:
Elizabeth
Riddle 1857-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Eugie Lee Grief
Eugie Lee
Grief was born July 12, 1939 and died July 26.
She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Carnie
Grief
of Kevil, Ky.
Mrs.
Grief
is the sister of Mrs. J. T.
Thompson of Mounds.
The baby was taken to Riverside
Hospital in Paducah, Ky., and given two
blood transfusions is an effort to save her
life, but to no avail.
Surviving are the parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Carnie
Grief;
one sister, Garnetta; one brother, Louis
Earle; and a grandmother.
Funeral services were held at Newton
Creek Baptist Church near Raglan, Ky., at
3:30 p.m. July 26.
(Her death certificate states that
Eugie Lee
Grief
of R. F. D. 3, Kevil, Ky., was born 12 Jul
1939, in Ballard Co., Ky., the daughter of
Carnie
Grief
and Ella
O’Donley, natives of Kentucky,
died 26 Jul 1939, in Riverside Hospital
in Paducah, McCracken Co., Ky., and was
buried in Newton Creek Cemetery by the
family.
Her marker in Newton Creek Baptist
Church Cemetery reads:
Eugie Lee dau. of Carnie & Ella
Grief
July 12, 1939 July 26, 1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Foster Mother of Mrs. G. A. James Dies
Saturday
Mrs. J. B.
Zuber of Vincennes, Ind., foster mother of Mrs. G. A.
James
of Mound City, died Saturday morning, July
22, at 8:30 o’clock at her home in
Vincennes, Ind., following a long illness.
Her age was 82 years.
Mrs.
James and her son, G. A.
James, Jr., and wife were with Mrs.
Zuber
at the time of her death.
Funeral services were held Monday
morning at 8 o’clock with interment in the
Vincennes Cemetery.
(Elvira
Zuber died 24 Jul 1939, and was buried in Vincennes City
Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Lucille J. Young
Mrs. Lucille J.
Young,
77, well known and highly respected colored
resident of Mounds, died at the home of her
daughter, Miss Calva
Young
Tuesday night, July 25, at 8:30 o’clock
following a long illness.
The body was taken to the
Ruffin Funeral Home in Cairo and
returned to the home Thursday evening.
Funeral services will be held today
(Friday) at one o’clock at St. Paul’s A. M.
E. Church.
Burial will be in Spencer Heights
Cemetery.
Mrs.
Young was born in Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 1861, and was brought by
her parents to Pulaski County in 1862.
Her maiden name was Lucille J.
Williams.
Her husband, Calvin
Young
died in 1915.
Surviving are ten of their eleven
children, namely:
Seth
Young, Cairo; Edward Young,
Mounds; Clem
Young,
Salt Lake City, Utah; Mrs. Annie
Phillips, St. Louis, Mo.; Harry
Young,
Los Angeles, Calif.; Calva
Young,
Mounds; Mrs. Ada
Jones,
Gary, Ind.; Hugh
Young,
Grand Chain; Cecil
Young,
Grand Chain; and Ernestine
Tabor,
Chicago; also two grandchildren, Laverne
Davis,
St. Louis, and Seth
Young,
Jr., Chicago.
(Cal
Young married Lucy Jane
Williams on 22 Mar 1877, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
According to her death certificate,
Lucy Jane
Young was born 1 Nov 1861, in Nashville, Tenn., the daughter of
Nelson
Williams and Sarrah
Mitchell, natives of Nashville, Tenn.,
died 25 Jul 1939, in Mounds, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., widow of Calvan
Young, and was buried in Spencer Heights Cemetery at Mounds.—Darrel
Dexter)
Criminal Cases before Judge Bradley in Court
Judge Loyd
Bradley, holding his ___ term of court in this county, ___eted with
a barrage of murder cases Tuesday morning
and the ___ are still in progress.
___tin
Henderson, colored, who ___ Ray
Davis, also colored, at Olmsted on June 19 of last year, came to
trial Wednesday morning and after the
evidence and instructing the jury, the case
resulted in a hung jury, 10 to 2 for
conviction.
The jury was left with the case
___sday evening and remained at the
courthouse all night, sleeping in the court
room on benches and ___.
Aside from the hardness of the
benches and the mosquitoes, the night was
not so bad.
___ie
Meals, the colored woman, who shot her husband while he was in a
drunken condition and
then walked some distance to
surrender herself, was brought into court
yesterday shortly before noon.
___ must have been hungry, for she
carried a lunch in a bucket, ___ she ate in
the court room ____ things moved about to
determine what should be done with her.
Testimony was heard by Judge ___y and
while not learned at ____ time, it was
expected to be a sentence to the woman’s
prison ____ight.
____
Massie, colored of Ullin, was ___rt and while in a plea of guilty
was expected of him, it did not develop that
way.
Massie was the negro who shot down a man
in Ullin not long ago and when the man did
not fall, clubbed him over the head with a
gun.
Massie was drinking at the time.
The case was set ___ this morning,
and unless he enters a plea, the trial will
probably consume the remainder of the week.
STAY OUT OF COUNTY
The feud between
Stevens and
Casper, two fishermen who had a fight last week, came into county
court last Friday and
Stevens was given a 6 months sentence at
Vandalia and this suspended to stay out of
the county.
The background lay in the girl, a
daughter of
Stevens by a previous marriage.
When the child’s mother died, he gave
her to
Casper.
Stevens remarried, sought his daughter
back.
She did not want to come back nor did
Casper want her to go back.
Under the ruling,
Stevens will have to leave this
community and unless some legal proceedings
are brought, will have to leave his child
where she is and where she wants to stay.
MRS. JAMES’ MOTHER DIES
Mrs. J. B.
Zuber, foster mother of Mrs. G. A.
James of this city, passed away at her home in Vincennes, Ind.,
Saturday morning.
Mrs.
Zuber
was 82 years old and had been ill for
several months.
Mrs.
James
and Mr. and Mrs. G. A.
James,
Jr., have been with her for the past week.
Funeral services were held Monday
morning and interment was made in a cemetery
at Vincennes.
Mrs.
Zuber has many friends in this city who will be sorry to hear of her
death.
Ida Bell
Allen,
colored, was indicted for the killing of Tom
Butler, colored.
Tom
Massie, colored, was indicted for the
killing of a colored man at Ullin not long
ago.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 4 Aug 1939:
TWENTY YEARS FOR NEGRO FOR KILLING
Tom
Massey, colored, who shot and killed William
Miles, colored, of Ullin, after a dispute over one dollar that was
owed him and over five cents, in particular,
was given 20 years in the penitentiary in
circuit court last Friday.
Massey made his own worst witness and
undoubtedly told the straight story of their
previous differences, the quarrel in the
tavern when he took a cake from
Miles and said that Miles
could apply that five cents on the dollar
owed.
Miles
spilled out
Massey’s liquor and the two started to
fight when the tavern operator separated
them.
They went out together and walked
part of the way together.
Massey declared
Miles
abused him, threatened him and so on, and he
then went home, got his shotgun, met
Miles
and shot him.
It was said that 14 years had been
rather agreed upon for the term, but that
when Judge
Bradley heard the testimony, he did not think 14 years was
sufficient.
The sentence of 20 years was then
given.
MAN ELECTROCUTED SURVEYING LINES FOR R. E.
A.
When he threw a supposedly cloth tape
over a C. I. P. S. electric line to measure
clearance, Robert
Lafferty, age 23, Caruthersville, Mo.,
was electrocuted Friday morning.
He was working near the
McCormick farm, about two miles west of
Olmsted, as he surveyed lines for the Rural
Electrification Administration.
When the tape, which was only cloth
bound, hit the line, a flame ran from the
point of contact to a transformer where it
grounded.
Co-workers immediately gave
Lafferty artificial respiration, but
could not revive him.
A coroner’s jury returned a verdict
of accidental death.
Surviving
Lafferty are his parents, five brothers
and two sisters, all of Caruthersville.
(According to his death certificate,
Robert
Lafferty, surveyor, was born 12 Jul
1918, in Missouri, the daughter of Grover
Lafferty and Dixie McCarry,
natives of Missouri,
died 28 Jul 1939, in Road District 4,
Pulaski Co., Ill., and was buried at
Pemiscott, Mo.—Darrel
Dexter)
BULLET WOUND IS FATAL TO WOMAN
Six weeks after she was shot by her
lover, Mrs. Eda Mae
Peeler, 19 years of age, of Frog City,
died in the hospital in Cairo.
Meningitis resulted from the wound
and brought death, it is reported.
Her lover, Everett
Meisenheimer, whose body was found after
he had shot Mrs.
Peeler, is presumed to have killed
himself.
The wound which killed Mrs.
Peeler was that of a .22 caliber.
It entered the forehead and glancing
from the skull, took a course down and
around the left eye lodging near the
surface.
She improved rapidly in the hospital,
was dismissed and returned later when it
became serious and was never able to leave.
MONETARY DIFFICULTIES LEAD TO SHOOTING BRAWL
“Soot”
Henderson and Henry Parrish,
both negroes, engaged in a dispute over the
ownership of a small sum of money late
Wednesday afternoon, the outcome of which
was the shooting of
Parrish by
Henderson.
The trouble began in Roy’s tavern on
Main Street, with the shooting at the rear
of the tavern in the alley.
Parrish was hit in the groin by two
bullets, but is not believed to be seriously
hurt.
Immediately after the altercation
Henderson left town, but returned later
in the evening and surrendered to officials
and was lodged in the county jail.
Henderson accidentally shot and killed his son a few years ago as he
scuffled with another negro for the
possession of a revolver.
About 12 years ago,
Henderson, in self-defense, killed a
white man, after the latter had cut him with
a pocket knife.
A jury acquitted him.
F. W. WILSON DIES
Funeral services for Fred William
Wilson, age 58, who passed away at his
home in Mounds Wednesday night following an
illness of two months, were held at the
Ryan
Funeral Home Friday afternoon.
Surviving relatives include his wife,
Lula; a sister, Mrs. Iona
Burgress
of Phoenix, Ariz.
Rev. Earl
Harp officiated at the services, with burial being made in Spencer
Heights Cemetery.
(His World War I draft registration
states that his nearest relative was his
sister, Iona
Burgess of Dewater (?), Neb., and he was disqualified for service
because of his left leg.
According to his death certificate,
Fred William
Wilson, W. P. A. carpenter, was born 4
Feb 1881, in Dongola, Ill., the son of Louis
Wilson and Margret
Hatfield, died 26 Jul 1939, in Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill., husband of
Lula
Wilson, and was buried in Spencer Heights Cemetery at Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
FRANK FITZGERALD DIED SUDDENLY SUNDAY
EVENING
Frank J.
Fitzgerald, age 63, died suddenly Sunday evening in his automobile
while
en route home from a picnic at Dixon
Springs with Mrs.
Fitzgerald and a party of friends.
Mr.
Fitzgerald was one of Alexander County’s best known road builders
and also had done much levee construction.
One of the leading Democrats of Cairo
and Alexander County, Mr.
Fitzgerald served on precinct committee
most of the time during the last quarter of
a century, and was committeeman in the
Seventh Precinct at the time of his death.
He also served as city election
commissioner.
He was born in Cairo, March 25, 1876,
and spent his entire life there, being
educated at St. Patrick’s School there and
Christian Brothers College in Cape
Girardeau, Mo.
Besides his wife, he is survived by
one son, Frank, Jr., of Springfield, Ill.; a
sister, Mrs. Mayme
Owery
of Cairo, and a brother, Ed
Fitzgerald of Hartford, Conn.
Funeral services were held at St.
Patrick’s Church Wednesday morning at 9
o’clock with Rev. Bernard
Pender officiating.
Burial was made in Calvary Cemetery
at Villa Ridge.
(When Frank John
Fitzgerald, a farmer,
registered for the draft during World
War I, he lived at 2200 Pine St., Cairo,
Ill., and stated he was born 25 Mar 1875.
His application for a Social Security
claim has the same birthdate and lists his
parents as Patrick
Fitzgerald and Katherine
Caraher.
According to his death certificate,
Frank
Fitzgerald, Sr., superintendent of W. P.
A. road project, was born 25 Mar 1876,
in Cairo, Ill., the son of Patrick
Fitzgerald,
died 30 Jul 1939, in Grantsburg, Johnson
Co., Ill., husband of Rose
Fitzgerald,
and was buried in Villa Ridge cemetery.
His marker in Calvary Cemetery at
Villa Ridge, Ill., reads:
Frank
Fitzgerald March 25, 1875 July 30,
1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
FORMER RESIDENT DIES
Mrs. Walter B.
Huette, former resident of this city, died suddenly at her summer
home in Bay View, Mich., Sunday.
Mr.
Huette is ill in a hospital.
Funeral services were held in St.
Louis Wednesday morning and burial was made
in St. Louis.
(Her death certificate states that
Margaret B.
Huette was born 24 Jan 1861, in St.
Louis, Mo., the daughter of Patrick
Smith
and Bridget
Mahoney, natives of Ireland, died 30 Jul
1939, in Bear Creek Township, Bay View,
Emmet Co., Mich., wife of Walter B.
Huette, and was buried at St. Louis,
Mo.—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. ROSETTA S. CONANT DIES
T. P.
Conant of Villa Ridge received word Monday of the death of his
mother, Mrs. Rosetta S.
Conant, in Costa Mesa, Calif.
She had been ill over a year and was
92 years of age at her death.
Mrs.
Conant was a resident of Villa Ridge for
many years.
Three sons in this vicinity survive,
T. P. of Villa Ridge,
Edward of Tamms and Gordon of Grand
Chain.
A number of grandchildren including
Miss Alice
Conant of Cairo and Mrs. Whayne
Durbin of Villa Ridge and one great-grandchild also survive her.
(The California Death Index states
that Rosetta S.
Conant was born about 1848 and died 31
Jul 1939, in Orange Co., Calif.—Darrel
Dexter)
CHARLIE ROSE DIES IN PERKS
Charlie
Rose, age 80 years, 8 months and five days, passed away at his home
in Perks Thursday morning.
He was the son of Henry and Elizabeth
Rose,
born in Hardin County, Illinois, on November
22, 1858.
He was united in marriage to Grace
Ellis
on May 16, 1888, at Golconda, Illinois, and
she preceded him in death on October 24,
1936.
To this union three children were
born, John and Katie having preceded him in
death a number of years ago, and David, who
resided in Perks, Illinois.
He also leaves a niece, Mrs. Lula
Churchill of Perks, who was reared in his
home as a daughter; three grandchildren,
Carl, Flora Belle and Glenda Sue, all of
Perks; one brother, George of Salmon City,
Idaho; one sister, Mrs. John
Coker
of Harrisburg, Illinois, and a host of other
relatives and friends.
Mr.
Rose had been a resident of Perks for thirty-six years and made many
friends while engaged in the mercantile
business there.
Mr.
Rose
served one term as county commissioner.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 2 o’clock with burial in the I.
O. O. F. Cemetery at Golconda.
Rev. Earl
Throgmorton officiated.
(Charles C.
Rose married Grace Ellis
on 16 May 1888, in Pope Co., Ill.
John
W.
Coker married H. Addie
Rose
on 1 Oct 1885, in Hardin Co., Ill.
According
to his death certificate, Charles
Rose,
retired merchant, of Perks, Ill., was born
22 Nov 1858, in Elizabethtown, Ill., the son
of Henry
Rose,
a native of Elizabethtown, Ill., and
Elizabeth
Whiteside, a native of Illinois, died 27
Jul 1939, in Pulaski Co., Ill., widower of
Grace
Rose, and was buried in I. O. O. F. cemetery in Golconda, Pope Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Funeral services were held for Fred
Wilson, who died Thursday at his home in
Mounds, at the
Ryan
Funeral Home Saturday.
Interment was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 4 Aug 1939:
F. W. Wilson
Fred William
Wilson, age 58, passed away at his home here July 26, at 10:45
o’clock following a long illness.
Surviving are his wife, Lulu; and one
sister, Mrs. Iona
Burgess of Phoenix, Ariz.
Funeral services were held at the
Ryan
Funeral Home Friday afternoon at 1:30
o’clock with Rev. Earl
Harp
officiating.
Burial was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery with J. T.
Ryan
Funeral Service in charge.
John Fellnagel
Funeral services for John
Fellnagel, who passed away at St. Mary’s
Hospital, Cairo, Friday, was held at
Karcher’s Funeral Home Sunday afternoon with Rev. J. W.
Fix,
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church,
officiating.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery, Mounds.
Casket bearers were Fred
Brinkmeyer, Leonard
Brinkmeyer, George
Becker, Paul Carey, Otto
Serbian, and Jake
Steger.
Karcher’s Funeral Service was in charge
of arrangements.
(John
Fellnagel married Alice
Barton on 19 Apr 1891, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
According to his death certificate,
John
Fellnagel was born 10 Aug 1866, in Cairo, Ill., died 28 Jul 1939, in
Cairo, Ill., widower of Alice
Fellnagel,
and was buried in Thistlewood Cemetery
at Mounds, Ill.
His marker in Beechwood Cemetery
reads:
Uncle John
Fellnagel 1866-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Rosetta S. Conant
Mrs. Rosetta S.
Conant passed away at the home of her
daughter, Miss Sarah
Conant, in Costa Mesa, Calif.
She had been confined to her bed
since February 7, 1938.
Mrs.
Conant was born October 10, 1847, in Barre, N.Y.
On January 29, 1870, she was married
to John Haywood
Conant, who passed away in March 1917.
Mr. and Mrs.
Conant were residents in Villa Ridge for
a good many years.
Besides her daughter, Miss Sarah, are
four other daughters, Lyda and Edith, who
were with her when she died, Grace and Mrs.
Leslie
Etter
of Corning, Calif., who, with her husband,
are visiting relatives in Villa Ridge; and
three sons, T. P. of Villa Ridge, Edward of
Tamms, and Gordon of Grand Chain.
A number of grandchildren including
Miss Alice
Conant of Cairo, Mrs. Whayne
Durbin of Villa Ridge and Miss Flora
Conant of Mounds, and one
great-grandchild.
At this writing, funeral arrangements
have not been made.
Charles Rose
Charles
Rose, age 80, passed away at his home in Perks, July 27.
He is survived by a son, David
Rose
of Perks; a sister, Mrs. John
Coker
of Harrisburg; and a brother, George
Rose
of Salmon, Idaho.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at the family residence, Rev. Earl
Throgmorton officiating.
Casket bearers were Henry
Casper, Sylvester
Davis,
Alfred
Davis,
Pope
Isom, Clarence Christian,
and Aaron
Casper.
Interment was made in the I. O. O. F.
Cemetery at Golconda.
Wilson Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
Mr.
Rose was formerly county commissioner and was well known in Pulaski
County, having lived in this vicinity for
thirty-six years.
Caruthersville Man Accidentally Killed
Friday Morning
Robert
Lafferty, age 22, of Caruthersville, Mo., was electrocuted last
Friday morning near the
McCormick farm, about two miles west of
Olmsted, while surveying electric lines for
the R. E. A.
The accident occurred when
Lafferty threw a supposedly cloth tape
over the C. I. P. S. electric lines to
measure the necessary clearance that would
be required when the R. E. A. line crossed
those of the C. I. P. S.
The tape was a new metallic type,
which was cloth in appearance, but had a
thin strand of wire woven into the cloth.
His coworker said he had seen
Lafferty throw the tape over the wire
many times, but he hadn’t noticed the type
of tape that he was using.
Witnesses and other workers said that
when the tape hit the wire that flames ran
from the transformer approximately one-half
mile away, where it grounded.
They gave
Lafferty artificial respiration, working on him for about thirty
minutes, but to no avail.
It was learned at the inquest, held
by Coroner Otis
Hudson at the scene of the accident,
that his death was accidental and that he
was employed by A. Y.
Taylor & Co., who have the contract for
installing the R. E. A. lines.
Lafferty had been employed by this
company for eight months.
Lafferty
was born in Caruthersville, July 17, 1917.
He is survived by his parents, five
brothers and two sisters, all of
Caruthersville.
Word has been received here by Mr. and Mrs.
John
Hayden that their son-in-law, Mr.
Heep
had been killed in an auto accident Friday
night.
Mrs.
Heep
will be remembered as Miss Maude
Hayden.
Her many friends extend their
sympathy in this loss.
(This is likely Arthur C.
Heap.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 11 Aug 1939:
INFANT DIES
Relatives in this city have received
word of the death of an infant born July 23
to Mr. and Mrs. ___n
Blake
of Dayton, Ohio.
The baby died August 4, having been
ill since birth.
Mrs.
Blake is granddaughter of Mrs. Dora
Coonrod of this city and spent many of her childhood days in Mound
City.
BITE OF FIELD MOUSE FATAL
Dale
Jessing, 10 years old, living near Metropolis, died following an
illness supposedly caused by the bite of a
field mouse, and which was diagnosed by
physicians as rabies.
The youth was bitten by the mouse
about two weeks before becoming ill and was
rushed to a hospital in Paducah, where he
died, following convulsions characteristic
of rabies.
(According to his death certificate,
Albert Dale
Jessing was born 24 Oct 1928, in Massac
Co., Ill., the son of Albert
Jessing, a native of Arkansas, and Emma
Cozart, a native of Massac Co., Ill., died 30 Jul 1939, in Illinois
Central Hospital in Paducah, McCracken Co.,
Ky., of hydrophobia, and was buried at
Metropolis, Ill.
His brain was removed and sent to a
laboratory in Illinois.
His marker in Round Spring Cemetery
in Massac Co., Ill., reads:
Dale
Jessing 1928-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
GIRL DROWNS WHILE WADING IN RIVER
Floretta
Staten, age 12, drowned in the Ohio River Sunday afternoon when she
stepped in a hole while wading and was swept
away.
The body was recovered Monday night
by Hake
Knight, approximately fifty feet from
where she was reported to have been seen
last.
Floretta was wading with Maxine
Carter and Harry
Sheppard of Mound City on Bar Beach, two miles north of Mound City,
Sheppard was able to rescue the
Carter girl when the trio stepped into a
hole, but when he had struggled with her to
shore it was too late to reach the
Staten girl before she was pulled under
by swift current at that point in the river.
Dragging parties searched for the
body Sunday evening and Monday until Mr.
Knight found the body at 8:15 that
night.
A diver, Vernon
Parker, was called to the scene Monday
and searched for three hours without
success.
Parker declined payment, expressing a
wish that the money be spent for flowers for
the victim.
The body was removed to the
James
Funeral Home and at the inquest a verdict of
accidental death by drowning, while wading
in the Ohio River, was returned by the
coroner’s jury.
Floretta was the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Mid
Staten of Mound City, and besides her
parents, she is survived by two brothers,
Roy and Henry.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon with Rev. Earl
Harp
of Mound City officiating.
Burial was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery, with G. A.
James
in charge of arrangements.
(Her death certificate states that
Floretta
Staten was born 27 Feb 1927, in Mound
City, Ill., the daughter of Mid
Staten, a native of Illinois, and Eula Mae Starborn, a native of Kentucky, died 6 Aug 1939, in Road District
6, Pulaski Co., Ill., and was buried in
Spencer Heights Cemetery at Mounds,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. Gordon
Conant and family attended a memorial
service funeral at Villa Ridge Monday in
honor of his mother, who died in California
last Tuesday, July 31. (Ohio Chapel)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 11 Aug 1939:
Mrs. Edna Mae Peeler
Funeral services were held at the
Tamms Baptist Church Friday afternoon at
1:30 o’clock for Mrs. Edna Mae
Peeler, who passed away at St. Mary’s
Hospital, Cairo, Wednesday morning.
Rev. Harley
Vick
officiated.
Interment was made in Provo Cemetery.
Pallbearers were James
Hethman, Joe
Tucker, James Adams,
David
Smith, James
Ward
and James
Downing.
Karcher’s Funeral Service was in charge
of arrangements.
Mound City Girl Drowns Sunday in Ohio River
Floretta
Staten, age 12 years, of Mound City, was drowned in the Ohio River
Sunday afternoon, August 4, when she stepped
into a hole while wading on Bar Beach, two
miles north of Mound City.
Her companions were Maxine
Carter and Harry
Sheppard, also of Mound City.
Sheppard stated that the three of them while wading suddenly stepped
into water over their heads.
Able to swim, he grasped the
Carter girl
who was nearest to him and struggled
with her to shore.
Floretta
Staten was then no longer in sight,
having been drawn under by the strong
current.
Searching parties were organized but
it was not until Monday night at 8:15
o’clock that Jake
Knight located the body with a spike
pole only about fifty feet from where the
girl was last seen.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at the
Staten residence at 4 o’clock, Rev. Earl
Harp
of Mound City officiating.
Burial was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery, G. A.
James
directing.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 18 Aug 1939:
MRS. MARY ROGERS DIES
Mrs. Mary
Rogers, age 76, passed away at the home of her son, Charles
Rogers, in Mound City last Friday
evening.
She had been making her home with her
various children for a number of years, but
for the past eight months had been living in
Mound City with her son.
Surviving are three sons, Charles of
Mound City, Clarence of Pekin and Louis of
Quincy; a daughter, Mrs. Stella
Weare
of Naunie also survives her, besides
numerous grandchildren and other relatives.
The funeral was held Sunday morning
in the Azotus Church located 15 miles north
of Brookport in Pope County.
Interment was made in a cemetery
there, with G. A.
James
Funeral Service in charge of arrangements.
(Philip H.
Rogers married Mary Oswald
on 9 Dec 1882, in Pope Co., Ill.
According to her death certificate,
Mary
Rogers was born 7 Dec 1862, in Indiana,
the daughter of Peter
Oswald, a native of Switzerland, died 11 Aug 1939, in Mound City,
Ill., the wife of P. H.
Rogers,
and was buried in Azotus Cemetery in
Pope Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
DIES IN AUTO CRASH
Arthur C.
Heape, son-in-law of J. T.
Hayden, who resides at the intersection
of the blacktop and Meridian roads north of
Mound City was killed in an automobile crash
near East Whittier, Calif., about two weeks
ago.
Mr.
Heape married Miss Maude
Hayden, a daughter of J. T.
Hayden, about twelve years ago and has
resided in the west since that time.
Heape is survived by his widow and two small children, Edward and
Beverly.
(The California Death Index states
that Arthur C.
Heape
was born about 1900 and died 27 Jul
1939, in Los Angeles Co., Calif.—Darrel
Dexter)
LOCAL WOMAN’S BROTHER KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK
William
Burton, negro waiter on the crack streamliner,
City of San Francisco, wrecked in Nevada last Saturday night, was a
brother of Mrs. Mary
Johnson, negro, of this city.
Approximately 24 were killed in the
train wreck, reported to have been caused by
vandals.
The body was shipped to the home of
his father in Holly Springs, Miss.
Burton had been with the Southern
Pacific Railroad for about 23 years, having
started as a section hand thirteen years of
age.
Surviving him are his wife, a
stepdaughter, father, five sisters and two
brothers.
ATTENDS FUNERAL
Mr. and Mrs. E. E.
Schuler and daughter Roberta; Mr. and
Mrs. Carlos
Parker attended the funeral of Mr.
Schuler’s and Mrs.
Parker’s niece, Mrs. Ruth
Schuler in Evansville, Ind.
The deceased was the wife of Wilburn
Schuler.
Robert
Schuler, Flint, Mich., a brother of Mr.
Schuler and Mrs.
Parker was also in Evansville to attend
the funeral of Mrs. Ruth
Schuler, who was his daughter-in-law.
Robert
Schuler returned to this city for a
visit.
IN MEMORIAM
In memory of Marjorie
Jones,
who passed away August 20th,
1938.
The month of August again is here
To us the saddest of the year.
It was a bitter parting, a shock severe—
To part with one we loved so dear
God took her home.
It was his will
But in our heart she’s with us still.
Mother, Lydia
Jones
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 18 Aug 1939:
Mrs. E. L. Peeler
Mrs. Josephine
Wood Peeler, age 47, passed away at her home in Karnak, Ill.,
Tuesday night at 9:20 o’clock.
Mrs.
Parker had made many friends throughout southern Illinois, having
been employed at the
Wilson Mercantile Store in Karnak for
the past twelve years.
Besides her husband, E. L.
Peeler, she is survived by her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. B. E.
Wood
of Karnak; a daughter, Mrs. Helen
Albright of Marion, Ill.; three sisters,
Ethel
Madden of Seattle, Wash., Dora
Peck
of Karnak, and Hazel
Wilson of Karnak.
Four brothers, Charles
Wood
of Ventura, Calif., Harry
Wood
and Ray
Wood of Karnak, and Earl Wood
of Seattle, also survive her.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church in Karnak Thursday
afternoon at 2 o’clock, Rev.
Wright officiating.
Casket bearers were Vance
Wilson, Lee
Wilson, Ray Hutton,
Leslie
Barnett, Gilbert
Heale,
and Earl
Throgmorton.
Wilson Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
Son-in-law of J. T. Hayden Killed in Auto
Accident
J. T.
Hayden of Valley Recluse has recently received word of the death by
auto accident of his son-in-law, Arthur C.
Heape,
age 37, of La Habra, Calif., which occurred
about two weeks ago, at East Whittier, near
his home.
Mr.
Heape’s wife is the former Mayde
Hayden who left Southern Illinois about twelve years ago to make her
home in California.
He was employed by the Standard Oil
Company as a steam shovel operator and in 15
years’ service had traveled extensively.
Mrs.
Heape and two small children, Beverly and Edward, survive.
Mrs. Walter
Ray
of Anna died of a heart attack in her
apartment Friday, Aug. 11.
It was believed she had been dead
about two hours before she was found.
Mr. and Mrs.
Ray were former residents of Mounds.
(Her death certificate states that
Viola Jane
Turner Ray, practical nurse, was born 4
Aug 1909, in Ware Station, Union Co., Ill.,
the daughter of Louie E.
Turner, a native of Oakville, Ill., and
Lillie
Reed,
a native of Cobden, Ill., died 11 Aug 1939,
in Anna, Union Co., Ill., wife of Walter
Ray,
and was buried in Jonesboro Cemetery.
Her marker there reads:
Lillie wife of Louie
Turner 1894-1912 Viola wife of Walter
Ray
1909-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 25 Aug 1939:
JOHN EDWARD LEVITT SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES
Funeral services for John Edward
Levitt, age 19, who passed away at the
home of his grandmother, Mrs. Mary
Graves, near Villa Ridge, Sunday morning
were held at St. Mary’s Church in Mound City
Tuesday morning and were largely attended.
He had been severely injured June 11,
in a motorcycle crash in Indio, Calif., and
since being removed to Villa Ridge had been
confined in bed.
The requiem high mass was sung by
Rev. C. M.
Taylor, assisted by Leon and Raymond
Levitt, brothers of the deceased.
Rev. Lawrence
Gilmartin delivered the sermon.
The floral offerings were many and
beautiful.
John Ed was the son of the late P. J.
Levitt of Cairo.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs.
Rosanna
Levitt, postmaster of Villa Ridge; a
sister, Rosemary; and two brothers, Leon and
Raymond, all of Villa Ridge.
His grandmother, Mrs. Mary E.
Graves, with whom he made his home, and
many other relatives also survive him.
Casket bearers were Charles
Walder, Jack
Gibson, Harold Schaffer,
J. J.
Travers, Carl
Hunsacker and Edward
Pawlisch.
Interment was made in the family lot
at Calvary Cemetery, Villa Ridge.
Ryan
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
(According to the death certificate,
John Edward
Levitt, motor truck operator, was born
16 Mar 1920, in Cairo, Ill., the son of P.
J.
Levitt, a native of Cairo, Ill., and
Rosanna
Graves, a native of Villa Ridge, Ill.,
died
20 Aug 1939, in Road District 1, Pulaski
Co., Ill., and was buried in Calvary
Cemetery, Villa Ridge, Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker there reads:
John E.
Levitt 1920-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Ray
Mowery was called to Cypress on Tuesday
night to the bedside of her nephew’s wife,
Mrs. Lolo
Peeler, who passed away.
(Beech Grove)
(Her marker in Cypress Masonic
Cemetery reads:
Josephine
Peeler Aug. 27, 1891 Aug. 15, 1939.
Her Social Security application gives
her name as Josephine
Wood
Peeler.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 25 Aug 1939:
John Edward Levitt
John Edward
Levitt, age 19, died at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Mary
Graves, east of Villa Ridge, Sunday
morning, August 20, as the result of
injuries received in Indio, Calif., June 11,
1939.
He had lived in Indio for the past
three years.
John Edward was the son of the late
P. J.
Levitt of Cairo.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs.
Rosanna
Levitt, postmaster of Villa Ridge; a
sister, Rosemary; and two brothers, Leon and
Raymond, all of Villa Ridge; his
grandmother, Mrs. Mary E.
Graves, with whom he made his home; and
many other relatives.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
morning at 9 o’clock in St. Mary’s Church at
Mound City, with Father Lawrence
Gilmartin officiating.
Casket bearers were Charles
Walder, Jack
Gibson, Harold Shaffer,
J. J.
Travers, Carl
Hunsaker, and Edward
Pawlisch.
Interment was made in the family lot
at Calvary Cemetery, Villa Ridge, Villa
Ridge.
Ryan
Funeral Service directed the funeral.
Walter Adams Dies Friday after Lingering
Illness
Walter
Adams, well-known barber of Mounds, who had been sick for many
months, died at his home on Oak Street
Friday afternoon at the age of 56 years.
Mr.
Adams was born in Anna but had resided here for 31 years, having
practiced the barber’s trade for 35 years.
He is survived by his wife and three
brothers, Curtis and Oscar
Adams
of Dongola and Ed of this city.
Funeral services were held at the
Mounds Baptist Church Monday afternoon at 2
o’clock with the pastor, Rev. Earl
Throgmorton, officiating.
Interment was made in the Anna
Cemetery, with Masonic rites at the grave.
G. A.
James
directed the funeral.
Members of the Sunday school class of
which Mrs.
Adams
was a member, served as flower bearers.
He was a member of Trinity Lodge No.
562 A. F. & A. M. and of the Modern Woodmen
of America.
Friends were greatly grieved Sunday at the
news of the death of John Ed
Levitt, who has suffered so intensely the past thirteen weeks since
being injured in an accident while on a
motorcycle in Indio, Calif.
He was removed here by his mother,
Mrs. Rosanna
Levitt, soon after the accident.
The many friends extend deep sympathy
to the family.
Mrs. Sara
Talbots of Freeman’s Spur, Ill., spent
Monday and Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Mary
Graves, called here by the death of John Ed
Levitt.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 1 Sep 1939:
I. J. RUDE DIES
Israel Joseph
Rude, age 84, passed away at his home in Grand Chain Sunday night at
11 o’clock after an illness of two weeks.
Surviving are his wife Catherine;
three children, Myrtle
Watson of Davenport, Ia., Israel
Rude,
Jr., of Olmsted, and Leo
Rude
of Grand Chain.
Mr.
Rude had been a farmer in the vicinity of grand Chain all his life
and a resident of Grand Chain for the past
two years.
He was well known in Pulaski County.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
morning at 9 o’clock at St. Catherine’s
Church in Grand Chain.
Burial was made in the Grand Chain
Cemetery with
Wilson Funeral Service in charge.
(His death certificate states that
Israel Joseph
Rude,
farmer, was born 4 Jul 1855, in Clay Co.,
Ill., died 27 Aug 1939, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill., husband of Katherine
Rude,
and was buried at Grand Chain, Ill.
His marker in St. Catherine Cemetery
at Grand Chain reads:
Israel
Rhude
1855-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 1 Sep 1939:
I. J. Rude
Israel Joseph
Rude, age 84, passed away at his home in Grand Chain Sunday night,
August 27, at 11 o’clock after an illness of
two weeks.
Surviving are his wife, Catherine;
three children, Myrtle
Watson of Davenport, Iowa, Israel
Rude,
Jr., of Olmsted, and Leo
Rude
of Grand Chain.
Mr.
Rude had been a farmer in the vicinity of Grand Chain all his life
and a resident of Grand Chain for the past
two years.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
morning at 9 o’clock at St. Catherine’s
Church in Grand Chain.
Interment was made in Grand Chain
cemetery,
Wilson Funeral Service conducting.
Widow of Civil War Veteran Dies at Age of 92
Years
Mrs. Alpha
Dumas, age 92 years and colored, died Sunday morning at her home in
Cairo. She was born in Ballard, Ky., and was
an eye witness to some of the battles of the
Civil War.
She left Kentucky for Cairo at the
time General
Grant’s
headquarters were established there.
She was the mother of 12 children,
eleven of whom are dead.
Her one surviving child, a daughter,
Mrs. Azalea
Dumas-Cook
is principal of the
Garrison Public School in Cairo.
She was buried in the National
Cemetery, two of her former pastors in the
Cairo Ward Chapel A. M. E. Church, one from
Baltimore, Md., the other from Peoria,
assisting the present pastor in the
ceremonies.
(According to her death certificate,
Alpha
Dumas was born 4 Jan 1847, in Kentucky,
the daughter of Jacob
Rud and Sylvia Willingham,
natives of Kentucky, died 31 Aug 1939, in
Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., widow of David
Dumas, and was buried in U.S. National Cemetery at Mound City, Ill.
The interment record states she was
the widow of David
Dumas,
private, Co. C, U.S. Colored Heavy
Artillery, who was buried in the cemetery 7
Nov 1895.
The interment record lists her death
as 27 Aug 1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Georgia Carnes
Mrs. Georgia
Carnes of Cairo, age 74, died Thursday,
August 24, at an Anna hospital.
Mrs.
Carnes was the widow of the late George T.
Carnes, owner of the dry goods store of that name which was located
at 700 Commercial, Cairo, for many years.
Funeral services were held in Ashley
Saturday afternoon, with burial in Ashley
Cemetery at the side of her husband.
(Her death certificate states that
Georgia
Carnes was born 30 Dec 1864, in Ashley,
Ill., daughter of George
White,
a native of Richview, Ill., and Mary
Gore,
a native of Ashley, Ill., died 24 Aug 1939,
in Road District 5, Union Co., Ill., widow
of George
Carnes, and was buried at Ashley,
Washington Co., Ill.
Her marker in Ashley Cemetery reads:
Georgia
Carnes 1865-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Jackie Dale McClellan
Jackie Dale, 20 months old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Dennis
McClellan, passed away Thursday, August
24, at the home of his parents after a short
illness.
He is survived by his parents, one
brother, G. D.; his grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. James
Dale and Mr. and Mrs. George
McClellan; and other relatives.
Funeral services were held Sunday at
the Baptist church with Rev. W. J.
Ward
officiating.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery with J. T.
Ryan’s
Funeral Service in charge.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 8 Sep 1939:
GIRL REMAINS IN SERIOUS CONDITION
Virginia
Shelton, 19, of Cairo, remains in a serious condition in St. Mary’s
Hospital in Cairo, suffering from a broken
pelvis, spine injuries, and other injuries
of an internal nature.
Miss
Shelton was injured early Sunday morning
when the auto in which she was riding struck
a truck being pushed along the highway near
Tri-City.
Operations have been performed and
blood transfusions have been given Miss
Shelton.
Edgar “Cap”
Stevens, owner and driver of the car, was badly shaken up and
bruised, but was able to leave the hospital
after minor treatments.
The left side of the cab of
Stevens’ car, a coupe, was crashed back
over the seat where Miss
Shelton was sitting, when
Stevens attempted to avoid the crash.
He blamed poor vision because of an
approaching car, and the fact that the truck
straddled the black line, for the wreck.
The owner of the truck, Milton
Wienecke, also of Cairo, denied that the
truck was over the black line.
He and Eugene
Deweese of Cairo were pushing the truck
to Urbandale to obtain gasoline.
MRS. MARYANN JERDON DIES
Mrs. Maryann
Jerdon, age 65, passed away at the home of her son, William
Jerdon in Karnak, last Thursday evening.
Surviving are two sons, Cleatis of
Joppa and William of Karnak; a sister, Mrs.
Martha
Painter, of Springfield; and a brother, John William
Elon
also of Springfield.
Funeral services were held at the
Wilson Funeral Home in Karnak Sunday
afternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev. Earl
Throgmorton of Mounds officiating.
Burial was made in the Grand Chain
cemetery with
Wilson in charge.
(W. M.
Jordan married Mary Ann Elam
on 12 Aug 1894, in Saline Co., Ill.
The death certificate of Mary Ann
Jerdon states she was born 6 Feb 1874,
in Pulaski Co., Ill., the daughter of Bolon
A.
Elam, a native of Boone Co., Ill., and
Mary Ann
Davis,
a native of Vienna, Ill.,
died 31 Aug 1939, in Karnak, Pulaski
Co., Ill., wife of William
Jerdon, and was buried at Grand Chain,
Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her marker in Grand Chain Masonic
Cemetery reads:
Mary Ann
Jerdon 1874-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 8 Sep 1939:
Brother of Luther Hodge Dies Saturday in
Chicago
Harry
Hodge, brother of Luther
Hodge of this city, died on Saturday,
September 2, at his home in Chicago.
He had been seriously ill for some
months and Mr.
Hodge
had visited him a number of times during his
illness.
Mr. and Mrs.
Hodge drove to Anna Tuesday where they met Mr.
Hodge’s sister-in-law, wife of the deceased and from there they went
to Metropolis, the old home of the
Hodge
family, where the funeral was held.
Burial was in the Odd Fellows
Cemetery near Metropolis, with nephews
acting as casket bearers.
Surviving are his wife and a number
of brothers and sisters, all of whom were
present at the funeral except one brother
living in Colorado.
(When he registered for the draft in
World War I, he lived at 518 Metropolis St.,
Metropolis, Ill., and was a grocery clerk
for Consumer Supply Co., on Market St. in
Metropolis.
According to his death certificate,
Harry Orlando
Hodge,
cosmetics salesman, was born 21 Feb 1877, in
Pope Co., Ill., son of John
Hodge, a native of Pope Co., Ill., and Sarah
Bishop, a native of Kentucky, died 3 Sep 1939, in Chicago, Cook Co.,
Ill., husband of Ella
Hodge,
and was buried in Metropolis, Massac Co.,
Ill.
A social Security claim filed in his
name lists his parents as John
Hodge
and Sarah I.
Bishop. John
Hodge
married Sarah Isabel
Bishop on 5 Nov 1865, in Pope Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Paul R. Colp Dies at Home in Marion
Friends of Mrs. Paul R.
Colp, prominent clubwoman of the 25th District
Federation, will be grieved to hear that her
husband died at their home last Sunday
afternoon of a heart ailment.
He had been confined to the home for
several weeks.
Mr. Colp was engaged in the lumber business in Marion, Johnston City
and Pittsburg, Ill.
He is survived by Mrs.
Colp,
one sister, Mary
Colp
Milford of Carterville and five
brothers.
(When he registered for the draft in
1918, he lived at 903 N. Monroe, Marion,
Ill., and was a mine manager for Johnston
City and Deckard Land Co., of Marion, Ill.
His death certificate states that
Paul R.
Colp,
lumber merchant, of Marion, Ill., was born
25 Jan 1879, in Carterville, Ill., the son
of John
Colp,
a native of Franklin Co., Ill., and Dora
North,
a native of Williamson Co., Ill., died 3 Sep
1939, in Marion, Williamson Co., Ill.,
husband of Estelle B.
Colp,
and was buried in Old Rose Hill Cemetery in
Marion, Williamson Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 15 Sep 1939:
JOHN UNDERWOOD DEAD
John
Underwood, who was one of the operators of the Casino some time ago
and later went to McClure, died last week in
St. Louis of cancer.
His funeral last week was at
Carterville and burial was there.
Underwood worked in a coal mine, then operated a pool room, and then
went into the wholesale business in which he
went bankrupt, and later operated road
houses.
He was about 50 years of age.
A grandson survives.
(Daniel
Underwood married Elizabeth
Bradley on 15 Oct 1871, in Williamson
Co., Ill.
This may be the same person as John
W. Underwood, hotel operator at Herrin, Ill., whose death certificate
states was born 13 Dec 1885, in Williamson
Co., Ill., the son of Daniel
Underwood and Elizabeth
Bradley, natives of Tennessee, died 6
Sep 1939, in Herrin, Williamson Co., Ill.,
and was buried in Carterville Cemetery in
Williamson Co., Ill.
His marker in Oakwood Cemetery at
Carterville reads:
John W.
Underwood 1885-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
CAIRO MAN KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT
John J.
Dean, 45, salesman for the Illinois Lumber Yards, was killed Sunday
morning when the car in which he was riding
skidded on the curve north of Cache Village
near the Mobile & Ohio railroad crossing,
and after hitting the guard fence turned
over, completely wrecking the car.
Mrs. Dorothea
Trainor, of Chicago, formerly of Cairo, the other occupant in the
car, was bruised and cut and severely shaken
up.
She was able to leave St. Mary’s
Hospital Monday.
(His Social Security application
states that John Joseph
Dean
was born 29 Oct 1893, and died 10 Sep
1939.
William
Dean
married Elizabeth
O’Loughlin on 27 Jan 1885, in Alexander
Co., Ill.
The death certificate of John J.
Dean,
traveling salesman, of Cairo, Ill.,
states he was born 29 Oct 1893, in
Cairo, Ill., the son of William
Dean
and Eliza
O’Loughlin, natives of Cairo, Ill., died 10 Sep 1939, in Cache,
Alexander Co., Ill., divorced husband of
Ruth
Arey, and was buried in Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge, Pulaski
Co., Ill.
His marker there reads:
John J.
Dean
Oct. 29, 1893 Sept. 10, 1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
J. T. ARMSTRONG, FORMER RESIDENT, CRITICALLY
ILL
J. T.
Armstrong, a lifelong resident of Mound City until about 20 years
ago when he and his family moved to
Carterville, is critically ill at his home
in that city.
He was stricken Tuesday evening with
a paralytic stroke which had, by Wednesday
morning, nearly paralyzed the entire left
side. His speech, by that time, had become
very thick.
He was reported Wednesday afternoon
to be in a coma from which there was little
chance of him rousing, the report said.
Mr.
Armstrong worked for years in the shipyard and then later had a
jewelry store.
All of his family, Harry, Miss
LaVern, and Ray and Tom, were born here and
attended school here.
His son, Ray, who is a doctor, was to
arrive Wednesday at his bedside and the
other children probably came in yesterday.
Mr.
Armstrong sold his jewelry store and stock about six months ago.
He was about all the time and the
afternoon he was stricken he had been
driving his car.
G. V. LANE DIES
G. V.
Lane,
a well-known colored resident of Mound City,
passed away at 9:15 o’clock Thursday,
September 7, at his home in this city.
He has been in failing health for
several years.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Etta
Lane,
three daughters and one son.
Mr.
Lane was 80 years of age and had been a resident of Mound City for
more than 60 years.
He served as Captain of Co. L, 8th
Illinois Volunteer Regiment in the Spanish
American War.
For many years he was very active in
Republican politics among the colored race.
He was county commissioner for three
years and had taught in the schools of the
county under the superintendency of Hester
M. Smith.
Funeral services were conducted
Monday afternoon at the A. M. E. Church in
Mound City by the pastor, Rev. C. Wesley
Stratton and interment was made in the
National Cemetery at Mound City.
The Negro Masonic Lodge, of which he
was a member, conducted their services at
the grave side after which taps were sounded
by Rudolphus
Pryor.
G. A.
James was in charge of the arrangements.
(George V.
Lane married Laura J. Riley
on 30 Mar 1884, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
The death certificate of George V.
Lane
states that he was born 4 May 1859, in
Giles Co., Tenn., died 7 Sep 1939, in Mound
City, Pulaski Co., Ill., husband of Etta
Lane,
and was buried at Mounds, Ill.
His widow’s application for a
military headstone states he was a captain
in Co. L, 8th Illinois
Volunteers, enlisted 28 Jun 1898, was
discharged 3 Apr 1899, and was buried in
Mound City National Cemetery. —Darrel
Dexter)
HENRY ULRICH DIES AT WHEEL WHILE DRIVING CAR
Henry
Ulrich, age 49, Grand Chain farmer, died
Saturday night of heart attack while driving
his car from Mounds toward Mound City.
Ulrich and two friends, Theodore
Ruether and Tom Gore,
both of Grand Chain, had motored to Mounds
Saturday night to the Carnival.
While the three men were walking
around the carnival grounds, Lewis
Easter, another from Grand Chain, joined
the group.
Easter said he was going to Cairo, and
planned to catch the bus, but
Ulrich offered to take
Easter as he said he wanted to go to
Cairo himself.
Ruether, Gore, and
Easter got into
Ulrich’s car with Ruether
in the front seat by
Ulrich.
The men said
Ulrich had driven about a mile when they noticed he had slumped over
the wheel with one hand resting near the
floor.
Ulrich’s car began to edge over the black line.
Ruether noticed a car approaching from
the south.
The driver of the oncoming car, aware
that
Ulrich’s car was in his lane, blew the horn.
Ruether grabbed the wheel and pulled the
car back out of danger.
As he did so,
Ulrich’s body fell across his lap.
Ruether turned off the ignition and let
the car coast to a stop near the old road to
Mounds.
The men lifted
Ulrich from the car out into the air where they hoped to revive him,
but to no avail.
Ulrich’s body was taken to
James Funeral Home in Mounds, where Otis
Hudson held an inquest, pronouncing
heart disease the cause of the death.
Henry
Ulrich was a resident of Pulaski County for many years and was a
World War veteran with an outstanding
record.
He had made many friends in Pulaski
County.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs.
Mary
Ulrich of Grand Chain, with whom he
resided; three brothers, Edward of Minckley,
Ill., Lex of Grand Chain, and Mike of Ullin;
four sisters, Mrs. Rose
Wilmer of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mrs. Lean
Schoenborn of Grand Chain, Mrs. Germain
Dezonia of Dallas, Tex., and Mrs. Rella
Coory
also of Cincinnati.
Funeral services were held at St.
Catherine’s Church in Grand Chain Tuesday
morning at 10:00 o’clock, conducted by
Father Joseph
Peco.
Interment was made in the Grand Chain
cemetery with the
James
Funeral Service in charge of arrangements.
(Michael
Ulrich married Mary Agner
on 8 Mar 1886, in Jasper Co., Ill.
When he applied for the draft in
1917, Henry stated he was born 24 Oct 1890,
in Boos, Ill., was a farmer at Grand Chain,
Ill., and claimed exemption from service
because he could “do more good on farm.”
According to his death certificate,
Henry William
Ulrich, farmer, was born 24 Oct 1889, in
Jasper Co., Ill., the son of Michael
Ulrich, a native of Jasper Co., Ill., and Mary
Egner, a native of Kentucky, died 9 Sep 1939, in Road District 7,
Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill., and was buried at
Grand Chain, Pulaski Co., Ill.
The application for a military
headstone in St. Catherine Cemetery at Grand
Chain states he was a private in Co. G, 119th
Infantry, 30th Division,
enlisting 22 Feb 1918, and was honorably
discharged 14 Apr 1919.—Darrel
Dexter)
S. A.
Bankson passed away at the home of his
son, Everette
Bankson, Tuesday evening at 6 o’clock.
(Bryan)
(According to his death certificate,
Samuel Alonzo
Bankson, invalid, was born 24 Sep 1858,
in Pulaski Co., Ill., the son of George W.
Bankson and Sarah
Kennedy, died 12 Sep
1939, in Road District 2, Pulaski Co., Ill.,
widower of Joyce
Bankson, and was buried in Road District
2, Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker in Liberty Cemetery reads:
Samuel Alonzo
Bankson Sept. 2, 1859 Sept. 12,
1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Ben
McRaven and son Fred were killed Monday
afternoon when Mr.
McRaven was learning to drive and missed
a bridge and had about a fourteen foot drop
into a ditch of four feet of water near Mill
Creek.
(Beech Grove)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 15 Sep 1939:
Indicted
George
Gore, Jr., of Cape Girardeau, Mo., indicted recently by a grand jury
investigating the death of his stepmother,
Mrs. Nancy
Gore of Benton, has repudiated the purported confession which he
gave officers when he was held in jail.
Gore
is held in the Benton jail without bond.
Grand Chain Farmer Dies While Driving Car
(Contributed)
Henry “Harry”
Ulrich, age 49, Grand Chain farmer, died suddenly of a heart attack
Saturday night about 8:30 while driving his
car from Mounds
en
route to Cairo.
Ulrich and two friends, Theodore
Ruether and Tom Gore,
both from Grand Chain, had driven to Mounds
Saturday night to attend the carnival.
While they were walking around the
grounds, Lewis
Easter, also of Grand Chain, joined the
group.
Easter told his friends that he had
started to Cairo and would have to catch a
bus, but
Ulrich said that he would take
Easter, because
Ulrich wanted to go to Cairo.
The men got into
Ulrich’s car with
Ruether sitting beside Ulrich
in the front seat.
After they had gone about a mile
Ruether noticed that
Ulrich was lying over the steering wheel
with his hand resting near the floor, but he
supposed that he was fixing something under
the dashboard so he didn’t pay particular
attention until he saw a car approaching
from the south.
During this interval
Ulrich’s automobile had begun to edge
over the black line and the driver of the
oncoming car, aware that a crash was
inevitable unless
Ulrich’s auto got back into its own
lane, blew the horn as he approached.
The men in the car now thoroughly
aware that something was wrong told
Ulrich to pull back into his lane, but
they got no response, so
Ruether grabbed the wheel and pulled the car back out of danger.
As he did so,
Ulrich’s body fell across his lap,
making it impossible to place his foot on
the brake, so
Ruether turned off the ignition and let the car coast to a stop near
the old road to Mounds.
They immediately got
Ulrich out into the air, but to no
avail.
The body was taken to
James’ Funeral Home in Mounds where Coroner Otis
Hudson held an inquiry pronouncing the
cause of death as heart disease.
Ulrich, a World War veteran with an outstanding record, has many
friends in Pulaski County and the
surrounding territory.
He is survived by his mother, Mrs.
Mary
Ulrich of Grand Chain, with whom he
resided; three brothers, Edward of Minckley,
Lex of Grand Chain and Mike of Ullin; four
sisters, Mrs. Rose
Wilmer of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mrs. Lean
Schoenborn of Grand Chain, Mrs. Germain
Dezonia of Dallas, Texas, and Mrs. Rella
Coory
also of Cincinnati.
Funeral services were held at St.
Catherine Church in Grand Chain, Tuesday
morning at 120:00 o’clock.
They were conducted by Father Joseph
Peco.
Interment was made in the Grand Chain
cemetery with the
James
Funeral Service in charge of arrangements.
Marion Editor Dies
Samuel Knox
Casey,
74, editor of the
Marion
Evening Post and assistant secretary of
the Illinois State Teachers’ Pension Fund,
died Sept. 12.
Editor
Casey was stricken with an attack of heart disease about two weeks
ago at Springfield and returned to his home
in Marion Sept. 10.
A second, fatal attack occurred
Tuesday.
He became affiliated with the
Egyptian Press, a weekly paper, in
Marion in 1895, and was one of the founders
of the
Evening Post, a daily, in 1905.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Laura
Belle
Skaggs, of Marion, and two
grandchildren.
(Samuel Knox
Casey married Anna B. Stilley
on 16 Feb 1887, in Williamson Co., Ill.
According to the death certificate of
Samuel Knox
Casey, newspaper editor, of Marion, Ill., he was born 6 Mar 1865, in
Lake Creek, Ill., the son of Jesse m.
Casey
and Cynthia
Binkley, natives of Lake Creek, Ill.,
died 12 Sep 1939, in Marion, Williamson Co.,
Ill., husband of Annie Belle
Stilley Casey, and was buried in Rose
Hill Cemetery at Marion, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Sister of Mrs. W. L. Toler Dies at Home of
Daughter
Mrs. Mary Ada
Whitney, widow of Manley L.
Whitney of Grayville, died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. James
Andrus, in Mt. Carmel early Monday morning, Sept. 11.
Some ten years ago she fell on an icy
street and broke her hip.
Since that time she had been unable
to walk and had spent her days in a wheel
chair.
Her fortitude was great; she met life
and even death with a smile and without
complaint.
She is survived by three daughters,
Mrs. James W.
Andrus of Mt. Carmel, Mrs. Clarence Lee
Nancy
of Grayville and Mrs. LeRoy
Brown
of Deming, New Mexico; two sons, Wallace
Whitney of Crawleyville, Ind., James
Whitney of Grayville, and seven
grandchildren; also one sister, Mrs. W. L.
Toler
of Mounds, who is the last remaining member
of a family of seven whose parents were Mr.
and Mrs. Sylvester Henry
Blood
of Grayville.
Funeral services were held in
Grayville Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock
with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery.
(Manley L.
Whitney married Mary A. Blood
on 28 Mar 1883, in Edwards Co., Ill.
The death certificate of Mary A.
Whitney states she was born 18 Aug 1862,
in Grayville, Ill., daughter of Sylvester H.
Blood
and Prudence J.
Hicks,
natives of New York, died 11 Sep 1939, in
Mount Carmel, Wabash Co., Ill., widow of
Manley L.
Whitney, and was buried in Oak Grove
Cemetery in Grayville, Edwards Co., Ill.
Her marker there reads:
Mary Ada
Whitney 1862-1939 Manley L.
Whitney 1860-1928.—Darrel
Dexter)
S. A. Bankson
S. A.
Bankson, age 81, died Tuesday evening, Sept. 12, at the home of his
son near Olmsted.
Mr.
Bankson had been an invalid for a number
of years.
Surviving are one son, N. E.
Bankson of Olmsted; a daughter, Mrs.
Muriel
Bunch
of Cairo; and a sister, Mrs. Jane
Royall of Villa Ridge; also seven
grandchildren and several nieces and
nephews.
Funeral services were held in the
Christian church at Pulaski Thursday
afternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev.
Norris officiating.
Interment was made in Liberty
Cemetery with George
Crain
Funeral Service in charge of arrangements.
Capt. G. V. Lane
Capt. G. V.
Lane (Colored) died at his home in Mound City Thursday night at 9
o’clock at the age of 80 years.
He had been a resident of Mound City
for more than 60 years.
He served as captain of Co. K, 8th
Illinois Volunteer Regiment in the
Spanish-American War, and was very active in
Republican politics among the colored race.
Funeral services were conducted
Monday afternoon at the A. M. E. church in
Mound City by the pastor, Rev. C. Wesley
Stratton and interment was made in the
National Cemetery.
The colored Masonic Lodge of which he
was a member conducted their services at the
grave side after taps were sounded by a
bugler.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Titus,
Mrs. G. E.
Chance, Mrs. Seth Titus
and Mrs. Dewey
Mahoney were called to Fulton, Ky.,
Thursday on account of the death of a Mr. Milster, who formerly lived on Spencer Heights.
Death was due to injuries sustained
at Reel Foot Lake Sunday, Sept. 3.
(According to his death certificate,
Delbert M.
Milster, messenger for United Fruit
Dispatch, of 509 Eddings St., Fulton, Ky.,
was born 5 Jan 1900, in Perry Co., Mo., son
of Leonard
Milster and Elizabeth Zykiksi,
natives of Missouri, died 6 Sep 1939, in
Fulton Hospital in Fulton Co., Ky., of
fracture of 4th and 5th
cervical vertebrae, while diving struck his
head at a public swimming beach in Lake Co.,
Tenn., husband of Anna
Spring, and was buried at Cape
Girardeau, Mo.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 22 Sep 1939:
J. T. ARMSTRONG DIES
J. T.
Armstrong, age 71, passed away at his home in Carterville Sunday
night after a short illness following a
stroke of paralysis.
Mr.
Armstrong was a resident of Mound City until about 17 years ago when
he and his family moved to Carterville.
He worked for years in the shipyard
in Mound City and later established a
jewelry store.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Dora
Hunter Armstrong; three sons Harry, an
optometrist in Champaign, Ray, a physician
in Champaign, and Tom, an attorney in
Decatur, Ill.; one daughter, Miss LaVern, an
instructor in the commercial department of
the Carterville High School; a sister, Mrs.
G.
William of Pasadena, Calif.; and one
brother, Charlie, of Peoria; besides three
children.
Funeral services were held at the
home Tuesday at 2:00 o’clock.
Interment was made at Beech Grove
Cemetery, Mounds, at 4:00 o’clock.
After leaving Mound City, where both
he and his wife were born, Mr.
Armstrong conducted a jewelry store in
Carterville and continued this until some
six months ago when he retired.
His health had been failing for a
number of years and he had suffered several
light strokes before the final one fell on
Tuesday of last week.
The
Armstrong family kept up their friendships here in Mound City after
leaving here.
At the cemetery friends of the family
and relatives from Charleston and Memphis
gathered to pay their respects.
This is the first death in the
Armstrong family and had he lived until
Dec. 30 of this year, they could have
celebrated their golden wedding.
The remains of Paul
Burgess, 19, were brought here from
Vienna September 16, and interred in Mt.
Pisgah Cemetery.
Paul was born and raised here
(Wetaug).
He was killed by falling rock at a
quarry near Vienna.
(A death certificate states that Paul
Sissom
Burgess, common laborer, was born 7 Jun
1915, in Illinois, the son of Charles
Francis
Burgess and Myrtle
Sissom, natives of Illinois, died 14 Sep 1939, in Road District 5,
Massac Co., Ill., and was buried in Road
District 10, Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
There were more than 600 attended a double
funeral of Ben and son, Fred,
McRaven, who were killed on Monday of last week on the Elco and Mill
Creek Road.
The funeral was held Wednesday
afternoon in the Methodist church in Elco.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
Mumford, George
Mumford and Mrs. Frank Dexter
attended the funeral of S. A.
Bankson in Pulaski, Thursday afternoon.
WILBUR JACKSON
Wilbur
Jackson, age 28, passed away at his home
in Mound City Thursday night at 10:30
o’clock following a prolonged illness.
Mr.
Jackson was born and reared here and received his education in Mound
City.
He was a valuable member of the Crain
Manufacturing Co. in this city for some
time.
He was later connected with the
Tri-City Transportation Co., but for the
past few years his health has kept him from
his duties.
Surviving are his wife, Mildred; a
daughter, Marilyn Ruth; his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Horace
Jackson; and three sisters, Mrs. Helen
Painter of Conchas Dam, New Mexico, Mrs. Bertha
Crain
of Mound City, and Mrs. Lottie
Bright of Rising Sun, Ind.
Funeral services were held at the
First Methodist Church in Mound City Sunday
afternoon at 2:00 with the pastor, Rev. J.
W.
Henderson, officiating.
Interment was made in the Thistlewood
Cemetery.
The following served as casket
bearers:
Ray
Jackson, Walter E. Schnaare,
Glenn
Jackson, Carl
Layton Harry
Layton and Lawrence Paul.
G. A.
James
was in charge of arrangements.
(According to his death certificate,
Wilbur
Jackson, laborer, was born 7 Sep 1911,
in America, Ill., the son of Horace
Jackson and Minnie
Britt, natives of America, Ill., died 14 Sep 1939, in Mound City,
Pulaski Co., Ill., husband of Mildred
Jackson,
and was buried at Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. ADDIE GREER
Mrs. Addie
Greer, age 72, passed away at her home in Karnak, Friday afternoon
after an illness of three months.
Mrs.
Greer
had made her home in Karnak for the past 50
years.
Surviving are two nephews, S. E.
Culver and Roy
Culver, of Metropolis; and two nieces, Mrs. N. T.
House
of Grand Chain, and Mrs. William
Halstonberg of Karnak.
Funeral services were held at the
Karnak Methodist church Sunday morning at
10:00 o’clock with Rev. S. E.
Wright officiating.
Interment was made in the I. O. O. F.
Cemetery at Belknap.
Pallbearers were Fred
Reed,
O. A.
Davis, Owen
Kean, J. T. Roller,
Ambrose
Keistler and Louis
Johnson.
Wilson Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
(T. A.
Greer married Adda Culver
on 1 Mar 1888, in Johnson Co., Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Addie
Greer was born 8 Sep 1867, in Johnson
Co., Ill., the daughter of John
Culver, a native of Kentucky,
died 15 Sep 1939, in Karnak, Pulaski
Co., Ill., widow of F. A.
Greer,
and was buried in Road District 10,
Johnson Co., Ill.
Her marker in Belknap Masonic
Cemetery in Johnson Co., Ill., reads:
Wife Addie
Greer
1868-19
Husb’d Asberry
Greer 1860-1933 Gone, but not forgotten.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 22 Sep 1939:
Wilbur Jackson
Wilbur
Jackson, age 28 years, died Thursday night, Sept. 14, at his home in
Mound City after a long illness.
He is survived by his wife, Mildred;
a daughter, Marilyn Ruth; his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Horace
Jackson; and three sisters, Mrs. Helen
Painter of Canchas, Dam, New Mexico,
Mrs. Bertha
Crain
of Mound City, and Mrs. Lottie
Bright of Rising Sun, Ind.
Funeral services were held at the
First Methodist Church, Mound City, Sunday
afternoon at 2 o’clock, Rev. James
Henderson, pastor, officiating.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery, Mounds, with G. A.
James
directing.
Casket bearers were Ray
Jackson, Walter E.
Schnaare, Glenn Jackson,
Carl
Layton, Lawrence
Paul
and Harry
Layton.
Mrs. Addie Greer
Mrs. Addie
Greer, age 72, passed away at her home in Karnak Friday afternoon,
Sept. 15, after an illness of three months.
Mrs.
Greer
had made her home in Karnak for the past
50 years.
She spent the last four winters at
her home in Florida.
Surviving are two nephews, S. E.
Culver and Roy
Culver, of Metropolis; and two nieces, Mrs. N. T.
House
of Grand Chain and Mrs. William
Halstenberg of Karnak.
Gene
McGill made his home with family during
their stay at Karnak.
Funeral services were held at the
Karnak Methodist Church Sunday afternoon at
10 o’clock with Rev. S. E.
Wright officiating.
Interment was made in the I. O. O. F.
Cemetery at Belknap.
Pallbearers were Fred
Reed,
O. A.
Davis, Owen
Kean, J. T. Roller,
Ambrose
Keistler and Louis
Johnson.
Wilson Funeral Service had charge of
arrangements.
J. J. Shafter
Funeral services for J. J.
Shafter, 42, formerly of Cairo, who died
Tuesday at Eldorado as the result of
injuries received while he was working with
switching crew for the Illinois Central
Railroad there, were held Friday at East St.
Louis and were largely attended.
High Mass was conducted at St.
Patrick’s Church by Fr. Peter
Byrns,
assisted by Fr. John
Hays
of Cairo and Fr. George
Lally,
formerly of Cairo.
Fr.
Bernard
Pender of Cairo preached the sermon.
Burial was in Mt. Carmel Cemetery at
East St. Louis.
The pallbearers were his fellow
railroad workers and the floral offerings
were many and beautiful, being sent from
Cairo, Carbondale, East St. Louis, Benton
and Eldorado.
His aged father, J. J. Shafter, Sr.,
and his sister, Mrs. Frances
Hogancamp, returned to Cairo today.
His son, Joe Jim
Shafter, Cairo High School student, who
broke his shoulder Monday, was unable to
attend.—Cairo
Evening Citizen
(Jacob
Shafter married Mary Grant
on 8 Feb 1887, in Alexander Co., Ill.
According to his death certificate,
Joseph J.
Shafter, veteran and brakeman, of East St. Louis, Ill., was born 5
Oct 1897, in Cairo, Ill., the son of Jacob
J. Shafter, a native of Illinois, and Mary A.
Grant, a native of Ireland, died 12 Sep 1939, in Eldorado, Saline
Co., Ill., husband of Clara
Shafter, and was buried in Mt. Carmel
Cemetery, at East St. Louis, St. Clair Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 29 Sep 1939:
CARL CHOSSIER KILLED
Carl
Choisser, former state representative from this district, an
attorney and publisher of the
Benton
Evening News at Benton, was shot and
killed by his uncle, Dr.
Gore Monday morning at Benton.
Choisser was the attorney for Dr.
Gore’s
son, who is charged with killing Dr.
Gore’s
wife and his stepmother.
Choisser was a nephew of Dr.
Gore’s first wife.
The killing is said to have been due
to a difference of opinions between
Choisser and Dr. Gore on
the defense of the son.
Dr.
Gore
is said to have objected and refused to pay
and
Choisser is said to have intended to
conduct the defense as he saw it.
Dr.
Gore came from behind an automobile and fired five times, inflicting
wounds which brought
Choisser’s death a few hours later.
Now both father and son are in jail,
the father for killing his nephew and
attorney of his son and the son in jail for
killing his stepmother, the wife of his
father.
(His World War I draft registration
in 1917 states he was born 10 Jul 1894, in
Ozark, Ill., and was a farmer at Newton,
Ill. A Social Security application states
that William Carl
Choisser was born 10 Jul 1894, and died
25 Sep 1939.
Nancy
Gore, the second wife of Dr. George
Gore,
was shot to death 23 Jul 1939, while
sleeping on her porch. Her stepson,
George W.
Gore,
Jr., aged 32 years, confessed to the
murder.)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 29 Sep 1939:
William Calvin Wilson
William Calvin
Wilson, age 70 years, died Sunday morning, Sept. 24, at his home in
the Drainage District, following an illness
of several months.
He had been night watchman for the
Bruce Lumber Company for the past 15 years.
Surviving are his wife, Eva L.
Wilson; four children, Mrs. Bryan
Roberts of Cairo, Oscar
Wilson of Cairo, Mrs. Arthur
Tucker of Mounds, and Mrs. Frank
Lowery, of Evansville, Ind.; two
brothers, Newton
Wilson of Tyler, Texas, and Jerry
Wilson of Billings, Okla.; nine
grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Funeral services were held at the
Karcher Funeral Home in Cairo Tuesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev. Wyley
Lankston, pastor of the Assembly of God
Church of Perks, officiating.
Burial was in Spencer Heights
Cemetery, Mounds.
S. M. Campbell
S. M.
Campbell, age 80 years, died Saturday, Sept. 16, at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Earl
Walker in Murphysboro.
Mr.
Campbell, a former resident of Mounds, is survived by five sons,
Oscar and E. E.
Campbell of Arlington, Ky., John of
Delta, Ill., Clyde of Mounds, and Sid
Campbell of Olive Branch; also two
daughters, Mrs. Grace
Gammon of Mounds and Mrs. Earl
Walker of Murphysboro; thirty-nine
grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Monday
following at the First Baptist Church at
Delta with burial in the Delta Cemetery.
T. J. Lackey of Ullin Dies in Hospital
Sunday
T. J.
Lackey of Ullin, age 66 years, died Sunday afternoon, Sept. 24, at
the Hale-Willard Hospital in Anna.
He had been in failing health for
more than a year.
Mr.
Lackey was born near Ullin and had lived in that vicinity all his
life.
He is survived by his wife, Helen
Hess
Lackey; one brother, W. P.
Lackey of Ullin; and one sister, Mrs.
Ora
Wright of Crescent City, Ill.
Funeral services were held at the
family residence in Ullin Tuesday afternoon
at two o’clock, the Rev. R. J.
Weiss
of the Ullin Methodist Church officiating,
assisted by the Rev. Wilbert V.
Snider of Pulaski.
Interment was made in the Jonesboro
Cemetery.
(William M.
Lackey married Mary J. Palmer
on 26 May 1867, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
According to his death certificate,
Thomas Jefferson
Lackey, farmer, of Ullin, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., was born 2 Feb 1873, in Ullin, Ill.,
the son of William
Lackey and Mary
Palmer, natives of Mounds, Ill., died 24 Sep 1939, in Anna, Union
Co., Ill., the husband of Helen
Lackey, and was buried in Jonesboro
Cemetery.
His marker there reads:
Thomas J.
Lackey Feb. 2, 1873 Sept. 24, 1939 Helen
I.
Lackey April 25, 1885 Oct. 29,
1972.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 6 Oct 1939:
DEATH CLAIMS J. A. CONNELL
James A.
Connell, age 65, passed away in a hospital in Tampa, Fla., Thursday,
September 28.
Mr.
Connell was born in Marion, Ill., from there he moved to Mound City.
Here his father edited the
Pulaski Enterprise from 1878 to 1903.
It was Mr.
Connell’s father that gave the paper the name that it now has,
The
Pulaski Enterprise.
He discontinued his schooling at an
early age and entered into the newspaper
business with his father in this city, and
learned the newspaper business by actual
experience.
Later he obtained a position with the
Batton Publishing House in New York, where
he did newspaper work for several years.
While in New York he was married to
Bessie
Hogg
of Vienna, Ill., who passed away in 1926.
In 1936 Mr.
Connell moved to Mounds with his wife whom he had married in New
York in 1929.
Here he resided for several years.
Later he moved to Tampa, Fla., where
he made his home until death.
Besides his wife, Oliver, and his
granddaughter, Alice
Stout,
who were with him at the time of his death,
he is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Paul
Stout
of Mound City; three brothers, Dana of
Miami, Fla., W. I. and Roy of Mounds; one
sister, Mrs. V. F.
Reader of San Antonio, Texas; and a
stepmother, Mrs. Mary
Dishinger of Mounds, and a great aunt,
Mrs. Alice
Connell
Barton of Chicago.
Mr.
Connell was a member of the Paramount Lodge No. 1015 A. F. & A. M.,
Royal Arch Masons, Order of the Eastern
Star, and a member of the International
Typographical Union, Local No. 16, Chicago.
Funeral services were held at the Bay
Shore Methodist Church in Tampa, Fla., at
3:00 o’clock Saturday afternoon.
Interment was made at the Orange Hill
Cemetery by the Masonic Order.
Pallbearers were from a local
typographical union.
ALDRICH NOT INJURED
Carl
Aldrich escaped any serious injuries last Thursday when the truck
which he was driving collided with another
car near Memphis, Tenn., killing four
Annapolis cadets.
The word received here is that Mr.
Aldrich was not blamed for the wreck,
but was exonerated by the coroner’s jury.
CAIRO BANKER DIES
Herbert C.
Steinel, 54, assistant cashier at the First Bank and Trust Company
of Cairo, died suddenly Monday, October 2,
of a heart attack at noon.
In 1906, he was given employment at
the old City National Bank and in 1907, when
that institution and the Enterprise Savings
Bank were merged with the First Bank and
Trust Company, he accepted a position with
that bank, remaining 32 years.
He was active in work in the Cairo
Baptist Church.
He was a member of the Elks and
Masonic lodges.
He is survived by his widow and a
daughter, Mrs. H. R.
Stone.
(His World War I draft registration
states that Herbert Carl
Steinel, of 2607 Elm, Cairo, Ill., bank
teller at First Bank & Trust Co., at 8th
& Washington, Cairo, Ill., was born 20 Sep
1885.
A Social Security death claim states
he died 2 Oct 1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
WILLIAM A. SCHNEIDER DIES
William A.
Schneider, age 42, passed away suddenly at his home in Detroit,
Mich., this morning at 4:30 o’clock
following a heart attack.
Mr.
Schneider was born and reared in Mound City and received his
education in the Mound City schools.
He obtained a position after
graduation in the office of the New York
Central in Cairo.
He was transferred in 1919 by the New
York Central to Cleveland, where he
continued in the service of the company.
Two years ago he was again
transferred this time to Detroit, where he
resided at death.
He is survived by his wife, Beulah
Parker, formerly of this city; one
daughter, Miss Merita of Detroit; his
mother, Mrs. Mary
Schneider of Mound City; a sister, Mrs. John
Starks of Cairo; and a brother, Charles of Cleveland.
Funeral services were held at the
First Methodist Church in Mound City
Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock.
Burial was made in Mounds cemetery.
G. A.
James
was in charge of arrangements.
(An application for a military
headstone for Thistlewood Cemetery at Mounds
states William A.
Schneider enlisted 23 Sep 1918, and was
honorably discharged 13 Jan 1919, as a
corporal from Co. C, 4th
Battalion Repl. & Training Camp, and died 3
Oct 1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 6 Oct 1939:
Prominent Cairo Citizen Dies Suddenly Monday
Herbert C.
Steinel, age 54, assistant cashier of First Bank & Trust Company of
Cairo, died instantly at noon Monday from a
heart attack.
Mr.
Steinel was born in 1885 in South Bend, Ind., moving to Cairo with
his parents in 1887.
He attended the Cairo public schools
and was graduated from the Cairo High School
in 1904.
In 1906 he went to work for the old
City National Bank, which later merged into
the First Bank & Trust Company and had been
employed there ever since.
He was a member of the Cairo Baptist
Church where he took an active part, and was
a member of Lodge No. 237 A. F. & A. M.,
Chapter 71 R. A. M., Past Commander of No.
13 Knights Templar, Ainad Temple A. D. M. S.
and secretary Elks Club for nearly 30 years.
On June 27, 1912, he was married to
Miss Ruth
Easterday of Cairo.
Surviving, besides his wife, are his
daughter, Mrs. H. Roy
Stone;
his mother, Mrs. Henry C.
Steinel; a sister, Miss Lola
Steinel; a brother, Henry G.
Steinel; and an aunt, Miss Ida
Hasse,
all of Cairo.
Funeral services were held at the
home Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock with
the Rev. Wesley
Pearce officiating. The
following employees of the First Bank &
Trust Co. served as casket bearers:
Harry E.
Emmerson, Victus Brown,
Harry
Brown, Shirley
Abell,
Hallie
Brooks, Carl Edmonds,
James
DeMayo, and Eugene
Marshall.
Interment was made at Thistlewood
Cemetery, Mounds.
Former Mounds Resident Dies in Tampa,
Florida
James A.
Connell, brother of W. I.
Connell and half-brother or Roy C.
Connell, died Thursday, September 28, in
a hospital in Tampa, Florida.
Mr.
Connell was a printer in
Chicago for many years.
Upon his retirement from active work
he moved to Mounds and lived here several
years.
Following the 1937 flood, he and his
wife and granddaughter, Alice, moved to
Florida, where they have since resided.
He was the son of J. F.
Connell at one time a resident of Mound City and editor of the
Pulaski Enterprise.
Surviving are his wife, one daughter,
Mrs. Paul
Stout
of Mound City; one granddaughter; two
brothers, Dana of Miami, Fla., W. L. of
Mounds; one sister, Mrs. V. F.
Reader of San Antonio, Texas; a
half-brother, Roy C., of Mounds; and a
step-mother, Mrs. Mary
Dishinger of Mounds.
Interment was made Saturday at Tampa,
Fla.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 13 Oct 1939:
JUANITA MUSCOVALLEY DIES
Juanita
Muscovalley, 17 year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George
Muscovalley, of St. Louis, Mo., formerly of this city, passed away
suddenly Sunday morning at a hospital in St.
Louis.
Juanita was a bright and attractive
young lady and made many friends in the
groups in which she circulated.
She was a senior in high school.
Surviving besides her parents are one
sister, Mrs. Katie Helen
Miklas; and two brothers, George Thomas
and Milton, all of St. Louis.
Mr.
Muscovalley operated the Mound City
ferry for many years.
They moved to St. Louis about five
years ago.
The large number of floral pieces and
the great number of friends who attended the
funeral be-spoke the high esteem in which
Juanita was held.
Funeral services were held Tuesday at
2 o’clock in the Methodist Church.
Interment was made in the Park Lawn
Cemetery.
(Her marker in Park Lawn Cemetery in
Lemay, St. Louis Co., Mo., reads:
Juanita
Muscovalley Oct. 18, 1922 Oct. 8, 1939.
She was the daughter of Capt. George
Muscovalley and Lottie
Thomis.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 13 Oct 1939:
IN MEMORIAM
Wilkerson, H. B., who passed away Oct. 15, 1936.
Loving and kind in all his ways
Upright and just to the end of his
days;
Sincere and true in his heart and mind
A beautiful memory he left behind.
Sadly missed by his wife and children
Carrie L.
Wilkerson
Eva May
Reagan
Raymond L.
Wilkerson
Henry L.
Wilkerson
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 20 Oct 1939:
MRS. EMILY WENDELL DIES
Mrs. Emily
Wendell passed away Friday in a hospital in Los Angeles, following a
several months’ illness.
Mrs.
Wendell was the daughter of the late Fred and Annie
Gherkin.
Mrs.
Gherkin was before her marriage, Miss
Annie
Stoltz, a member of one of the oldest
and most highly respected families having
lived in this city.
Mrs.
Wendell was an accomplished and talented musician, being a very fine
pianist.
She was a writer as well as a
composer and many of her articles and
compositions appeared in issues of the
well-known music magazine, “The Etude.”
She also originated the “Block”
method for teaching music to children, which
has been meeting with fine success.
She is survived by three aunts, Mrs.
Emma
Johnson of Los Angeles, who was for many
years a resident of Cairo, Mrs. Lillian
Handley of St. Louis and Mrs. George
Betts of this city; and several cousins.
Funeral services were held Saturday
at 1 o’clock at the Brown Mortuary.
Interment was made at Angeles Abby
Mausoleum Crypt.
DEATH CLAIMS MRS. MARGARET JANE HILEMAN
Mrs. Margaret Jane
Hileman passed away at her home near
Olmsted Sunday morning at 8:10 o’clock.
Mrs.
Hileman fell at her home Tuesday,
October 10, fractured her hip and received
other injuries; pneumonia set in.
Mrs.
Hileman was born in Thebes, but had lived in Pulaski County for over
80 years.
She was one of the oldest residents
of the county and would have celebrated her
ninetieth birthday in January.
Surviving are, one nephew, Charles
Abbott of Arkansas; a brother-in-law,
Henry
Hileman of Pulaski; two nieces, Mrs.
Daisy
Walker of Pulaski and Mrs. Florence
House
of this city; four great-nephews, Talmadge
Eddie
of Buffalo, N.Y., Albert
Walker of Grand Chain, Ester
Walker of Hammond, Ind., and Harry
Walker of Olmsted.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the residence
where she had lived since her marriage.
Rev.
Beaty, pastor of the Olmsted Methodist Church, officiated.
Burial was made in the Concord
Cemetery by the side of her husband, Thomas
B.
Hileman.
G. A.
James
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
(Thomas
Hileman married Jane Cline
on 14 Jan 1872, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Her death certificate states that
Margaret Jane
Hileman was born 30 Jan 1850, in Thebes, Ill., the daughter of John
Cline
and Mary Jane
Henghey, natives of North Carolina, and
died 15 Oct 1939, in Pulaski Co., Ill.,
husband of Thomas B.
Hileman.
Her marker in Concord Cemetery near
Olmsted, Ill., reads:
Thomas Benton
Hileman 1848-1924 Margaret Jane
Hileman 1850-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 20 Oct 1939:
J. H. McBride
James Hunter
McBride, age 62, died at his home in Olmsted Saturday morning,
October 14, at 11:10 o’clock after an
illness of several weeks.
Mr.
McBride was taken to the Baptist
Hospital in Memphis the Tuesday before was
removed to his home Friday.
Mr.
McBride had been section foreman for the Big Four Railroad for the
past 37 years.
He was a member of the Olmsted
Methodist Church.
Besides his wife, Lettie; he is
survived by a brother, Alfred; a sister,
Mrs. Nellie
Buckles; and two nieces and a nephew, whom he reared, Violet
Burd,
Kathleen and John
Holcomb of Olmsted.
Funeral services were held in the
Methodist church at Olmsted Tuesday
afternoon, Rev. Mr.
Beatty officiating.
Interment was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery, Mounds.
G. A.
James
in charge.
Pallbearers were employees of the Big
Four Railroad at Olmsted.
(Isaac N.
McBride married Julia M.
Sanders on 26 Sep 1867, in Williamson
Co., Ill.
According to his death certificate,
James Hunter
McBride, railroad section foreman, of Olmsted, Pulaski Co., Ill.,
was born 9 Nov 1877, the son of Isaac
McBride,
died 14 Oct 1939, the husband of Lettie
McBride, and was buried at Mounds,
Pulaski Co., Ill.
His
marker in Spencer Heights Cemetery reads:
James Hunter
McBride 1877-1939 Lettie H.
McBride 1885-1974.
A Social Security claim lists his
birth as 9 Nov 1878, in Vienna, Johnson Co.,
Ill.
This is the date on his World War I
draft registration in 1918, which lists his
occupation as railroading for the C. C. C. &
St. Louis Railway at Olmstead, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Alice Day
Mrs. Alice
Day, age 76, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. M.
O’Hara, in Ullin, Friday morning, Oct.
13, at 11:45 o’clock.
She had made her home with Mrs.
O’Hara for the past twenty years.
Mrs.
Day was born in Ullin and had lived there all her life.
She had been ill for the past year,
but had been bedfast only the past month.
Surviving are three sons, Hubert,
Albert and John, all of Ullin; three
daughters, Mrs. Kittie
McNeish of Marion, Ill., Mrs. Kate
Staudacher and Mrs. Grace
O’Hara of Ullin; 20 grandchildren; 12
great-grandchildren; two brothers, Marshal
Brown
and Edward
Brown
of Ullin; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held at the
Ullin Baptist Church Sunday afternoon at 2
o’clock with Rev. Hobart
Peterson of Dongola officiating.
Interment was made in Butter Ridge
Cemetery.
Pall bearers were the following
grandsons of the deceased:
Herbert
Day,
Fred
Day, John
Day, Norman Staudacher,
Lawrence
O’Hara, and Clarence
McNeish.
W. J.
Rhymer Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
(John W.
Day
married Alice
Brown
on 4 Jun 1882, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
William
McNeish, 33, of Ullin, mechanic, born in Glasgow, Scotland, son of
James
McNeish and Anna
Garner, married on 8 May 1901, in
Pulaski Co., Ill., Kittie N.
Day,
16, born in Ullin, Ill., daughter of John
Day
and Alice
Brown.
Her death certificate states that
Alice
Day was born 12 Feb 1864, in Ullin,
Pulaski Co., Ill., the daughter of Lewis
Brown
and Martha
Dunn, natives of North Carolina, died 13 Oct 1939, in Ullin, Pulaski
Co., Ill., and was buried in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
Her marker in Butter Ridge Cemetery
near Ullin reads:
Alice M.
Day
1876-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Margaret J. Hileman
Mrs. Margaret Jane
Hileman died at her home near Olmsted
Sunday morning, Oct. 15, at 8:10 o’clock.
Mrs.
Hileman fell at her home Tuesday,
October 10, fractured her hip and received
other injuries; pneumonia set in.
Mrs.
Hileman was born in Thebes, but had lived in Pulaski County for over
80 years.
She was one of the oldest residents
of the county and would have celebrated her
ninetieth birthday in January.
Surviving is one nephew, Charles
Abbott of Arkansas, a brother-in-law,
Henry
Hileman of Pulaski; two nieces, Mrs.
Daisy
Walker of Pulaski and Mrs. Florence
House
of Mound City; four great-nephews, Talmadge
Eddie
of Buffalo, N.Y., Albert
Walker of Grand Chain,
Ester
Walker of Hammond, Ind., and Harry
Walker of Olmsted, besides a large
number of friends she had made during her
life.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o’clock at the residence
where she had lived since her marriage, Rev.
Beatty, pastor of the Olmsted Methodist
Church officiating.
Burial was made in Concord Cemetery
by the side of her husband, Thomas B.
Hileman, G. A.
James
Funeral Service conducting.
William McClellan
William
McClellan, age 70, passed away at the home of Mrs. Maude
Chandler, 704, 34th Street,
Cairo, Friday morning, October 13, following
a short illness.
He is survived by one sister, Mrs.
Pernecia
Mathews of Carbondale; one brother, J.
H.
McClellan of Mounds; and many other
relatives.
Mr.
McClellan was a member of the Christian Church of Pulaski.
Funeral services were held at the
Berbling Funeral Home at 1:30 o’clock
Saturday, with Rev. O. L.
Angel,
pastor of the Christian Church, officiating.
Burial was made in the family lot in
Rose Hill Cemetery near Pulaski.
(John P.
McClelland married Martha C.
Priddy on 7 Sep 1865, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
His death certificate states that
William Marcus
McClellan was born 21 Feb 1869, in Pulaski Co., Ill., the son of
John Pinckney
McClellan, a native of North Carolina,
and Martha
Priddy, a native of Pulaski Co., Ill.,
died 13 Oct 1939, in Cairo, Alexander Co.,
Ill., and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery
at Pulaski, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 27 Oct 1939:
ETHEL MAY STATEN DIES
Ethel May
Staten, age 1 year, passed away at the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John
Staten, of this city Monday morning
following a brief illness of pneumonia.
Surviving besides her parents are
five brothers, Vernon, Freddie, Tommy, John
Jr., and Frank; two sisters, Marjorie and
Elizabeth; her maternal grandmother, Mrs.
Ruth
Oliver; and her paternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary Jane
Staten.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at 3 o’clock at the residence,
with Rev. Charles
Montgomery of the First Methodist Church officiating.
Burial was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery.
G. A.
James Funeral Service was in charge of arrangement.
(Her death certificate states that Ethel May
Staten was born 19 Oct 1938, in Mound
City, Ill., the daughter of John
Staten, a native of Unity, Ill., and
Libby
Oliver, a native of Illinois, died 23
Oct 1939, in Mound City, Ill., and was
buried at Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Dexter were Sunday afternoon guests of
Charles
Bundschuh of Ullin, who is seriously ill
with dropsy.
His daughters from Flint, Mich., were
called here, Mrs. Albert
Dexter, Mrs. Harvey Parker
and Mrs. Dewey
Cruse.
(Beech Grove)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 27 Oct 1939:
Mrs. Malinda Powell Dies at the Age of 71
Mrs. Malinda
Powell, age 71 years, died at her home on First Street Saturday
morning, October 21, at eight o’clock after
a lingering illness.
For many years Mrs.
Powell and family lived on the
Thistlewood Farm west of Mounds, moving to
town in later years.
She is survived by one son, Henry
Powell; three daughters, Mrs. Daisy
Wright and Mrs. Flora
Britt
of Mounds, Mrs. Hattie
Curtis of Shafter, Calif.; three
grandchildren; two brothers, Jeff and
Charles
Keller of Dongola; a half-brother, Artie
Jones of East St. Louis; and two sisters, Mrs. Cora
Sheffer of Dongola and Mrs. Amanda
Smith
of Cairo.
(Calvin T.
Powell, 29, miller, of Dongola, Ill., born in Cumberland Co., N.C.,
the son of Daniel
Powell and Margaret
Philips,
married on 5 Oct 1884, in Union Co.,
Ill., Malinda
Keller, 17, of Dongola, Ill., born in
Union Co., Ill., daughter of Alfred
Keller and Catharine Groner.
Her death certificate states that
Malinda
Powell was born 7 Dec 1867, in Dongola,
Ill., died 21 Oct 1939, in Mounds, Pulaski
Co., Ill., widow of C. T.
Powell, and was buried at Mounds,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Ethel May Staten
Ethel May
Staten, age 1 year, died Monday morning, Oct. 23, at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Staten, in Mound City following a brief
illness of pneumonia.
Surviving, besides her parents, are
five brothers, Vernon, Freddie, Tommy, John
Jr., and Frank; two sisters, Marjorie and
Elizabeth; her maternal grandmother, Mrs.
Ruth
Oliver; and her paternal grandmother,
Mrs. Mary Jane
Staten, all of Mound City.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
afternoon at 3 o’clock at the residence with
Rev. Charles
Montgomery of the First Methodist Church officiating.
Burial was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery, G. A.
James
Funeral Service directing.
Father of Mrs. D. Winchester Dies Suddenly
October 17
Lewis E.
Etherton died suddenly Tuesday, October
17, at his home near Murphysboro of a heart
attack.
His age was 74 years.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary
E.
Etherton; two daughters, Mrs. Dallas
Winchester of Carbondale, formerly of
Mounds, and Mrs. Charles
Launsberry of West Frankfort; two sons, Elbert
Etherton of Murphysboro and Carl
Etherton of Mt. Vernon and other relatives.
Funeral services were held at the
home Thursday afternoon, October 19, and
Rev. Mr.
Abbott, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Murphysboro
officiating.
Burial was in the new Memorial
Cemetery near Murphysboro.
In August, Mr. and Mrs.
Etherton celebrated their 54th
wedding anniversary.
Attending the funeral from here were
Mr. and Mrs. H. H.
Melton and daughter, Jane Evelyn, and
Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Edwards. Mrs.
Melton and Mrs.
Edwards are granddaughters.
(Lewis
Etherton married Mary
Etherton on 16 Aug 1885, in Jackson Co.,
Ill.
His death certificate states that
Lewis
Etherton, farmer, of Murphysboro, Ill., was born 14 Feb 1865, in
Jackson Co., Ill., the son of George W.
Etherton and Anna
Crawshaw, a native of England, died 17
Oct 1939, in Murphysboro, Jackson Co., Ill.,
husband of Mary
Etherton, and was buried in Pleasant
Grove Memorial Cemetery at Murphysboro,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Benedictine Fathers at Wetaug or the
Cluny Priory
By Mrs. Anna M.
Bader
Spence and W. N.
Moyers
At my request, Mrs.
Spence prepared that portion of this
story extending from 1881 to 1901.
Mrs.
Spence lived at or near Wetaug for the
entire period covered by her write up.
She was herself a member of the
little Catholic church on the hill, and a
very intelligent woman—now deceased.
For the reminder of the facts, I am
indebted to older residents at or near
Wetaug, and to my own personal knowledge of
the old Priory.—W. N.
Moyers.
In the summer of 1881 the Benedictine
Fathers
Augustine and
Englebert, came to Wetaug, Pulaski
County, Illinois, and purchase from A. W.
Hight
a farm about a mile south of town.
They paid four thousand ($4,000.00)
dollars cash for this farm.
The money for it was given by Mrs.
Elizabeth
Leist.
Mrs.
Leist
was the mother of Father Englebert.
She is buried in the Catholic
cemetery on the hill.
This farm was occupied by a tenant
whose lease did not expire for nearly two
years, so they lived in a small house in
town, on the hill, until the spring of 1882,
when they bought the “old Sam
Hill
place,” a farm just across the road from
where they had bought.
They then lived on that until their
other place became vacant.
They bought a small herd of cattle
and a drove of hogs, teams and farming
implements, and began a general farming
system, for their order requires that they
labor as well as study and meditate.
They brought blooded, registered,
breeding stock from Pennsylvania to improve
their cattle and hogs.
They also brought many colonies of
bees so they would have their own honey and
wax for their needs.
Father Augustine was soon sent to
Mexico and Father Sylvester came, also
several monks, lay brothers and laborers.
They established a brick yard to make
bricks for their needs, quarried stone, put
up a sawmill on Crooked Creek, for A. W.
Hight
had given them all the adjacent bottom
lands on Crooked and Big creeks (about 900
acres of woods) with the understanding that
they were to establish a branch of St.
Vincent’s Abbey at Wetaug.
Mr.
Hight
also donated a part of the hill in town for
a church and cemetery site.
The church was built in 1882 on top
of the hill.
It was built entirely for cash, Mr.
Hight
paying part and St. Vincent’s paying the
balance.
The monks of St. Vincent’s also sent
a beautiful hand-carved altar for it, and
some other friends donated a fine bell.
The church was torn down in 1929.
The altar is in a church in
Shawneetown.
The whereabouts of the bell are
unknown.
The order brought much money to the
merchants at Wetaug, for the home abbey in
Pennsylvania paid all the bills for their
maintenance.
The venture was a losing one,
however—sickness, continual overflows of the
road to town and all their bottom lands.
No revenue of any kind and continued
losses of their livestock discouraged them.
The fathers ministered to the
Catholic churches in Anna, Cobden and
Sandusky without a salary—just the
collection on Sunday—so the strain on the
treasury of the home abbey in Westmoreland
County, Penn., was considerable.
In the summer of 1892 came a change
in management.
Most Rev. Oswald
Moosmuller (who is buried in the
Catholic cemetery on the hill) came to take
charge of the colony as its first prior.
Prior
Moosmuller brought his personal fortune, a large and valuable
library and much furniture with him.
He deposited some of his money in the
Alexander County Bank in Cairo at a reserve
capital.
The balance he invested in lumber
cutting, building and generally maintaining
his school and junior seminary which he had
established at Cluny, the name he had given
to his priory, and which is registered at
Springfield, I believe, in 1892 or ’93, the
year the present old house was erected.
The material for it was all produced
on their own land, excepting windows, doors,
finished lumber and such extras.
Mr. Levi
Hoffner of Union County was the
contractor to get out the timber and saw the
lumber.
The saw mill was just below the big
barn on Crooked Creek.
Andrew
Klee
of Wetaug was the contractor for the
erection of the house.
The brothers quarried the stone and
made the bricks.
Mr.
Mangold of Anna erected the barn.
Beginning then, in 1892, the school
and seminary had many students, scholastics,
from the U. S. and also from Germany.
When they finished their courses at
Cluny, Most Rev. Bishop
Jansen of Belleville conferred minors
orders on them.
They were then sent to higher seats
of learning to complete their studies for
the priesthood.
These scholastic boys and young men,
ranged in age from fourteen years to mature
manhood.
The brothers or monks did most of the
manual labor.
The family were Friends.
Most Rev.
Moosmuller was one of nature’s noblemen, a linguist, being master of
nine languages, and a world-wide
correspondent; a performer of music and a
violinist of much talent.
He often arranged musical and
dramatic entertainments to which the general
public was invited.
He, himself, his students and faculty
were the performers.
Also Prof.
Terpinitz of Anna often brought his band
to Cluny to asset on the program.
Most Rev.
Moosmuller was an author and historian.
Many of his works are extant and
highly value.
While at Wetaug he edited and
published a religious magazine, “Die
Legende.”
It was devoted to historical sketches
and biographies of the lives of the Saints.
It was printed in Chicago, sent by
freight to Wetaug and mailed from there to
thousands of subscribers in this and foreign
countries.
The first of three issues was sent
out in October 1893 and continued as long as
he lived.
He had planned to erect a printing
press at Cluny and print “Die
Legende” and some of his other works
there, but died in January 1901.
Several years after his death the
Benedictines sold their holdings, took their
personal belongings and went to Canada to
establish a new colony at Munster, which is
said to be prospering.
On March 25, 1893, the monastery was
so far completed as to hold choir services
and on Easter Sunday, April 2nd,
the building was completed and occupied.
On May 22nd, 1893, the
monastery was legally incorporated with
Fathers Oswald
Moosmuller, Bruno
Riess
and Marcarius
Schmitt as sponsors.
Soon after that date the doors were
opened to Protestant boys as an Academy for
all regular courses.
Boys were permitted to select their
courses and Prof. John
Balford, of Cairo was employed as
preceptor for such boys.
The names of a dozen such pupils are
recalled by the older citizens of Wetaug and
the community.
James and George
Gleason, sons of John
Gleason; Arthur and Ward
Bird,
sons of George
Bird;
Albert and Ed
Winstead, sons of Dr.
Winstead; Perry
Mowery, son of Henry Mowery;
Jack
West, Will
Victor and Sam Thompson,
and Mary Meline now Mrs. Mary
Evers
of Grand Chain, with two colored boys,
Leonard
Clemons and Charles Southern.
I have not been able to learn the
names of others.
Father
Oswald was buried in the little Catholic cemetery on the hill, south
of Wetaug.
Walter
Hight,
who lives at Wetaug, says that in 1920 his
remains were disinterred and shipped to the
new home in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Frank
Kolick, who worked with the fathers as a farm hand, says that his
brother came from Germany and took his
remains back to that country.
It is tolerably well established that
Rev.
Moosmuller was a scion of the German
nobility, and that there was some talk of
canonizing him—making him a saint.
It is quite well understood that he
was the greatest scholar who ever trod the
hills of Pulaski County.
The monastery main building was 56 by
70 feet outside measurement, with a large
basement and two and a half stories high.
On the west end there was cut off a
hall 8 feet by the entire 56 feet.
This was a kind of entrance hall.
Next to that was a chapel or
classroom 30 feet wide by 56 feet long, and
beyond that was the dining room, in which
the cooking was also done in the northeast
corner by a large colored man.
The dormitories were on the second
story and in the attic.
It was named Cluny and was known
locally as the Cluny Priory.
A very large barn was built, 70 feet
by 140 feet.
It was on a rather steep hillside,
and was cut down to a level base, which made
the lower story sort of a half basement.
Above that was a high 16 to 18 feet
hay mow with hay fork at south end.
When completed this was said to be
the largest barn in Illinois.
Certainly it was and is the largest
in Pulaski County.
In August 1902, I was employed by Fr.
Matthias
Steger to survey the land and divide
them into 40-acre tracts, the purpose being
to offer them for sale in small tracts.
There were 950 acres.
Only four forties were sold off.
The balance was transferred to Father
Peiper, priest at Grand Chain, and later he sold it to
Scott
and Darnell, land dealers in Ohio.
They built a substantial residence
house and secured a good farmer as tenant.
Mr.
Darnell committed suicide on account of bad health.
Mr.
Scott
sold the land to the
Eichenseer Brothers, Mike, John and
Will.
Mike had a family and lived on the
farm, in the old priory.
John was a bachelor and sold his
interest to the other brothers and went to
Indiana, where he still lives.
They had a heavy government loan on
the lands, which they were never able to
meet.
Mike worked himself to death trying.
Will is a lawyer who lives in St.
Louis.
He traded their equity to a Jew, Mr.
Fischel, who tried to farm with little success.
He died in a few years and the wife,
Mrs.
Fischel farmed with little better
success.
Later she sold her equity to a Mr.
Lee
of Anna, who is now operating the farm.
After the priests left the farm came
to be known as “The Priest Farm” and by that
name it was still known.
Different theories have been
suggested as to the cause of the failure of
the Benedictine Order at Wetaug.
The buildings are on a low hill some
30 to 40 feet above the surrounding low
lands.
They are easily seen from the I. C.
R. R. or from U. S. Route 51.
To the north is a creek bottom which
is uncleared.
To the south is a swamp, being
cultivated this year for the first time.
In earlier days great swarms of
mosquitoes and flies came from the low
lands, with much malaria and fever.
Rats and mice infested the buildings.
The roads were poor and little effort
was made to mend that condition.
But an older citizen of Wetaug thinks
that the recall of Father
Engelbert was the beginning of the end.
Fr.
Englebert was a large, husky German, who
would pull on a pair of boots and go out in
the lowlands to look after the stock.
He sometimes drove bunches of cattle
or hogs to Cairo or the eight trains to East
St. Louis stock yards with car loads of
stock.
He looked after the stock and crops
to the neglect of his ecclesiastical duties.
No other available priest could be
found to take his place.
Father Matthias
Steger was 5 ft. 8 in. tall and weighed
about 150 lbs.
He was the only monk ever to be
raised to the priesthood from the Cluny
Priory.
He was a very companionable man, and
no doubt a good priest, but knew nothing
about farming.
Most of the men who sent their sons
to Cluny were business men of Wetaug, and
they had two main reasons for patronizing
the school.
First, they hoped it might become a
popular seat of higher learning, and be an
asset to the community.
Second, they hoped to court the favor
of the priests and thereby secure their
trade.
There are many older citizens of
Pulaski County who felt that Capt.
Hight
pulled a raw deal—overreached those
Benedictine Fathers by locating them on
lands so unsuited to their purpose.
There were many good locations in the
county where they might have prospered.
Editor’s Note:
The large barn on the Priory Farm,
described in the above article, was
completely destroyed by fire Sunday night,
October 22, at about 8 o’clock.
Mr. Claude E.
Lee of Anna, owner, estimates the total loss of building and
contents at $12,000.
The contents included 350 tons of
hay, 2,000 bushels of corn, valuable new
farm machinery and 11 head of horses and
mules of which five head of horses were of
blooded stock and high value. The origin of
the fire was reported unknown.
(The article includes a photograph of
the Cluny Priory.
The “little Catholic cemetery on the
hill” was St. Joseph’s Cemetery.
A marker there reads:
Elisabeth
Leist Born 1803 Died Nov. 20, 1891 Requeseat in peace.
A marker in St. Peter’s Abbey
Cemetery in Muenster, Prince Albert,
Saskatchewan, Canada, reads:
Adm. Rev. R. Osualdus
Moosmueller Jan. 26, 1832 Jan. 10, 1901.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 3 Nov 1939:
C. G. BUNDSCHUH DIES
C. G.
Bundschuh, age 77, passed away at his home in Ullin Saturday morning
at 2:!5 o’clock.
He is survived by his wife, Mary; and
eleven children:
Mrs. Lily
Shourd, Mrs. Cassie
Dexter and Mrs. Edna
Mowery of Flint, Mich., W. A. of Long
Beach, Calif., Mrs. Zelma
Lackey of Olive Branch, Ms. Iva
Parker and Carl
Bundschuh of Flint, Mich., Mrs. Jessie
Blasdel of Centralia, Mrs. Eula
Crews
of Flint, Mich., Mrs. Katie
Bruce
of Ullin, and Mrs. Opal
Bucher of Mounds.
Two sister, Mrs. Ollie
Lentz of Orange, Calif., and Mrs. Lizzie
Richey of Olmsted,; and two brothers, J. W. and C. S. of Thermal,
Calif., also survive him.
Mr.
Bundschuh had been a member of the Methodist Church since boyhood.
He had been a resident of Ullin and
community for the past 75 years.
He was also a member of the M. W. A.
Lodge of Ullin.
Funeral Services were held Monday
afternoon.
Interment was made in Ullin Cemetery.
Wilson Funeral Service was in charge of arrangements.
(Charles G.
Bundschuh married Mary M.
Eastwood on 12 Mar 1882, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
According to the death certificate,
Charles Guy
Bundschuh was born 6 Sep 1862, in Ohio, the son of August
Bundschuh, a native of Germany, and
Catherine
Lilly,
a native of Illinois,
died 28 Oct 1939, in Ullin, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., the husband of Mary M.
Bundschuh, and was buried
at Ullin, Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker in Ullin Cemetery reads:
Charles G.
Bundschuh 1862-1940 Mary M.
Bundschuh 1864-1950.—Darrel
Dexter)
MATE ON DREDGE BOAT DIES
Edward E.
Willis, age 63, first mate on the
U.S.S. Taber, now dredging at this city, died suddenly Friday
afternoon about 5:40 p.m., while walking up
the levee at the shipyard
en
route from work.
Mr.
Willis, a river veteran of 20 years, had been under the care of a
local doctor since his arrival here six
weeks ago.
Death was attributed to heart
ailment.
Mr.
Willis, a very successful mate, had supervised the
Taber’s
dredging operations for three years under
the captaincy of Ben
Rice,
who is well known in this territory.
Mr. and Mrs.
Willis made their home, while in this city at John
Atwood’s residence on Poplar Street.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Julia
Willis; two sons, Claude of Cincinnati
and Carl of Washington, D.C.; one daughter,
Mrs. Katie
Bean
of Bedford, Maine; one brother, Sam
Willis of Florida; one sister, Mrs. Lena
Ramsey of Beaufort, North Carolina, also
the home of Mr.
Willis; and six grandchildren.
(His death certificate states that
Edward E.
Willis, mate on
H. S.
Tabor boat, was born 13 Aug 1876, in
Beaufort, S.C., the son of Samuel
Willis,
died 27 Oct 1939, in Mound City, Pulaski
Co., Ill., husband of Julia
Willis,
and was buried in Cincinnati,
Ohio.—Darrel
Dexter)
DEATH CLAIMS J. R. POYNTER SR.
John R.
Poynter, age 88, passed away Saturday evening at 10:50 o’clock at
the home of his son, C. T. in America, Ill.,
where he had been removed eleven days prior
to his death.
He had been bedfast for the past
seventeen months and had suffered a stroke
Tuesday.
Mr.
Poynter was born in Sharon, Tenn., November 17, 1851, and has spent
his entire life there with the exception of
the last five years when he made his home
with a son, Clarence R., who is now
critically ill.
The illness of his son, necessitated
the removal of Mr.
Poynter to America.
His wife, Willie Love
Poynter, preceded him in death ten years
ago.
Surviving are four sons, W. C. of
Oklahoma City, Okla., John R. Jr., of
Sharon, Tenn., R. C. of Martin, Tenn., and
C. T. of America; one granddaughter, Miss
Imogene
Poynter of Sharon and seven grandsons
and two great-granddaughters.
The body was taken to the
Windsett Funeral Home in Martin, Tenn.,
where it remained until time for the burial
in the Woodlawn Cemetery at Sharon.
(According to his death certificate,
John Roberts
Poynter, retired, of Martin City,
Weakley Co., Tenn., was born 17 Nov 1851, in
Sharon, Tenn., the son of William
Poynter, a native of Virginia, died 28
Oct 1939, in Mound City, Pulaski Co., Ill.,
the husband of Willie
Poynter,
and was buried at Sharon, Weakley Co.,
Tenn.
He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in
Sharon, Tenn.—Darrel
Dexter)
ROBERT E. REICHERT DIES
Robert Edward
Reichert, 3 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram
Reichert of Flint, Mich., passed away at
his parents’ home Thursday morning.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 2:00 o’clock at the home of his
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E. A.
Reichert, in Olive Branch.
Burial was made in the Grand Chain
Cemetery.
G. A.
James was in charge of arrangements.
(His marker in Grand Chain Masonic
Cemetery reads:
Robert E.
Reichert –Darrel Dexter)
FRANCIS J. SCHULTE DIES
Mrs. Agnes
Westerman has received word of the death of her brother, Francis J.
Schulte, age 80, at his home in Chicago.
The passing of Mr.
Schulte leaves Mrs.
Westerman the only survivor of a family
of nine children who came to this county
from Germany in 1864.
Mrs.
Westerman is quite well and active and
has completely recovered from a broken
pelvis bone sustained in a fall two years
ago.
(According to his death certificate,
Francis J.
Schulte, book publisher,
was born 9 Sep 1859, in Hanover,
Germany, son of Bernard
Schulte and Agnes
Luehrman, natives of Germany, died 25
Oct 1939, in Hinsdale, DuPage Co., Ill.,
husband of Katharine
Schulte, and was buried in Bronswood Cemetery, York Township, DuPage Co.,
Ill.
His marker there reads:
Francis J.
Schulte Sept. 9, 1859 Oct. 25, 1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 3 Nov 1939:
C. G. Bundschuh
C. G.
Bundschuh, age 77, passed away at his home in Ullin Saturday
morning, October 28.
He had been in failing health for
some time.
He is survived by his wife, Mary; and
eleven children:
Mrs. Lily
Shroud, Mrs. Cassie
Dexter and Mrs. Edna
Mowery of Flint, Mich., W. A. of Long
Beach, Calif., Mrs. Zelma
Lackey of Olive Branch, Mrs. Iva
Parker and Carl
Bundschuh of Flint, Mrs. Jessie
Blasdel of Centralia, Mrs. Eula
Crews
of Flint, Mrs. Katie
Bruce
of Ullin, and Mrs. Opal
Bucher of Mounds; two sisters, Mrs.
Ollie
Lentz of Orange, Calif., and Mrs. Lizzie
Richey of Olmsted.
Two brothers, J. W. and C. S. of
Thermal, Calif., also survive him.
Mr.
Bundschuh had been a member of the Methodist Church since boyhood.
He had been a resident of Ullin and
community for the past 77 years, making his
home in Mounds at one time.
He was also a member of the M. W. A.
Lodge of Ullin.
Funeral services were held in the
Methodist church of Ullin Monday afternoon
at 2 o’clock.
Interment was made in Ullin Cemetery,
Wilson Funeral Service conducting.
Infant Son Dies
Robert Edward
Reichert, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram
Reichert of Flint, Mich., died Thursday, October 26, and was brought
to Grand Chain for burial.
Funeral services were held at the
home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E. A.
Reichert of Olive Branch, before the little body was taken to the
Grand Chain cemetery.
G. A.
James
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangement.
Mrs.
Reichert, mother of the baby, was formerly Miss Loretta
Bour,
daughter of Mrs. Clara
Bour
of Mounds.
J. R. Poynter
John R.
Poynter, age 88, passed away Saturday evening, October 28, at 10:50
o’clock at the home of his son, C. T.
Poynter, in America, Ill., where he had
been removed eleven days prior to his death.
He had been bedfast and had suffered
a stroke the previous Tuesday.
Mr.
Poynter was born in Sharon, Tenn., November 17, 1851, and had spent
his entire life there with the exception of
the last five years when he made his home
with a son, Clarence R., who is now
critically ill.
The illness of his son necessitated
the removal of Mr.
Poynter to America.
His wife, Willie Love
Poynter, preceded him in death ten years
ago.
Surviving are four sons, W. C. of
Oklahoma City, Okla., John R., Jr., of
Sharon, Tenn., R. C. of Martin, Tenn., and
C. T. of America; one daughter, Mrs. Zehahr
Berryhill of Jackson, Tenn.; one granddaughter, Miss Imogene
Poynter of Sharon; seven grandsons and
two great-granddaughters.
The body was taken to the
Windsett Funeral Home in Martin, where
it remained until time for the burial Monday
afternoon in the Woodlawn Cemetery at
Sharon.
Amiziah Smith
Amiziah
Smith, age 74, died at the home of his sisters, Mrs. Allie
Gleaner and Mrs. Catherine
Dillow, of Karnak, Friday afternoon,
October 27.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.
Fred
Reed and Mrs. Alma
Farris of Karnak, besides his sisters.
Mr.
Smith was a member of the I. O. O. F. Lodge and had been a resident
of Karnak for 40 years.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church of Karnak Sunday afternoon
at 2 o’clock with Rev. S. C.
Wright officiating.
The casket bearers were Ray
Belford, John
Evers, Bon Boyke, J. H.
Taylor, E. L.
Peeler and W. S. Brown.
Burial was made in Anderson Cemetery
with
Wilson Funeral Service in charge.
(Amaziah
Smith married Mary Payne
on 26 Jan 1886, in Massac Co., Ill.
His death certificate states Amiziah
Smith,
farmer, of Karnak, Pulaski Co., Ill., was
born 26 Jun 1865, in Massac Co., Ill., the
son of Daniel B.
Smith
and Sarah
Thompson, natives of Ohio, died 27 Oct
1939, in Karnak, Pulaski Co., Ill., widower
of Mary
Smith,
and was buried in Massac Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Mary Lebell
Mrs. Mary
Lebell, age 74, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. E.
Crown,
near Villa Ridge, Friday morning at 9
o’clock.
She had been ill for six months
following a stroke.
Surviving are three daughters, Mrs.
Crown,
Mrs. Harley
Butler, of Mounds and Mrs. Bertha
Smiley of St. Charles, Ark., 18
grandchildren and four nieces.
Funeral services were held at the
home in Villa Ridge Sunday afternoon at 2
o’clock with Rev. ___ officiating.
Interment was made in Spencer Heights
Cemetery, J. T.
Ryan
Funeral Service conducting.
Judge Renders Verdict in Favor of Defendant
The jury in the civil case of Jean
Christian and others vs. Frank
Grandy
returned a sealed verdict in favor of the
defendant after eight hours of deliberation
in circuit court at Mound City.
The case went to the jury about 4:00
p.m. Thursday, Oct. 26, and agreement was
not reached until about midnight.
The administrator of estates of three
deceased persons namely, Jean
Christian, Elizabeth
Brush
and Lisha
Green,
asked for judgment of $10,000 each against
Mr.
Gandy, contractor of the bridge near
Perks on which the three persons met death.
It was alleged that the faulty
construction of the bridge had been the
cause of the accident.
The plaintiffs were represented by
Attorney Joe
Crain
of Mound City and W. E.
Cummins of Cairo.
The defendant was represented by
Charles
Feirich of Carbondale and Charles
Rice
of Cairo.
The Peter Samuel Jaccard House
The house pictured above was built by
Peter Samuel
Jaccard, who was born in Switzerland in
1796 and died in this house in 1847.
The tract of land on which he later
built the house was purchased from the
Government in 1834.
By tradition and the word of older
people who knew him,
Jaccard was in Napoleon’s Army and was
at the Battle of Waterloo.
He came to this country with
considerable wealth and at one time had a
tannery at Jonesboro.
The “Old
Jaccard House,” as the building is still called, was built of
handmade bricks burned on the premises.
Limestone rocks were hauled from the
quarry north of Ullin and were burned on
great log heaps.
Jaccard sawed out the finishing lumber with a whipsaw and dressed it
with hand tools.
This house which stands almost
exactly one mile due west of Dam 53, is a
hundred yards west of old Caledonia and
Grand Chain Road.
A wide avenue reaches from the front
gate to the house and there is ample room to
turn a car.
The house proper is of the type of
the French would have called a “fortin”
or little fort.
The walls are 18 inches thick with
the original windows four feet above the
floor.
A later owner remodeled the windows
and they are now about two and a half feet
above the floor.
There are two stories with two rooms
below and three above.
There are five fireplaces in both
downstairs rooms and in the two end rooms in
the upper story.
The window jams slope inward at an
angle of 45 degrees.
A man could stand back of the thick
walls and fire at an Indian within a wide
space.
The window panes are small and the
original doors were handmade and put
together without nails.
Two of these original doors are still
in place.
The house stands as true today as if
built but yesterday.
Many of the bricks are 16 inches long
and the mortar between them has not
weathered at all—so much for handmade
mortar.
In the two downstairs rooms there are
mantel pieces hand sawed, hand dressed and
hand carved.
These alone are well worth seeing.
All woodwork was put together with
wooden pegs.
A later owner of the old house,
Robert
Calvin, built on an ell to the north
wide for a kitchen and dining room.
These rooms are but one story high,
with a wide porch to one side.
Peter Samuel
Jaccard was related to that old
Jaccard, the founders of the Mermod-Jaccard jewelry business in St.
Louis.
Peter had a son killed in the Civil
War; while out looking for deserters, he
himself was shot.
This happened near Wetaug.
He had a great-grandson in aviation
during the World War.
Miss Mildred
Jaccard, living in Mound City, is his
great-great-granddaughter.
The date and the place of his birth
and the date of his death are on his
tombstone, which I have seen.
(The article contains a photograph of the
Peter Samuel
Jaccard home. William
Jaccard was killed 11 Dec 1863, while
attempting to arrest deserters in the Keller
neighborhood of Dongola, Ill.
He is said to be buried in Jaccard
Cemetery in Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 10 Nov 1939:
HUNTER SHOOTS SELF
___ S.
Brooks of East St. Louis, accidentally shot himself while hunting
geese last Sunday morning near Horse Shoe
Lake.
The
charge tore his arm nearly off and
inflicted ___est wound.
The loss of blood and the shock was
too much, and he died Tuesday morning
despite efforts to save him with blood
transfusions.
(According to the death certificate
of Ellis L.
Brooks, hardware merchant, of East St.
Louis, St. Clair Co., Ill., he was born 2
Aug 1902, in East St. Louis, Ill., the son
of Andrew
Brooks and Martha
Spitzer, natives of Germany, died 7 Nov
1939, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., husband
of Kathyrn
Brooks, and was buried at Belleville,
St. Clair Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
DR. HOMER CHAMBLISS DIES
Dr. Homer
Chambliss, well known colored physician
of Cairo, age 40, passed away at the
Passavant Hospital in Chicago, Wednesday
evening about 9 o’clock.
He had been ill for about three
weeks.
Dr.
Chambliss has practiced medicine in Cairo for the past 13 years.
Surviving are his widow, Anna Bell; a
daughter, Miss Geraldine
Chambliss of Mounds; a son, Homer; two
brothers, Virgil Lee and Hugo of Mounds; two
sisters, Christine of Mounds and Gwendolyn
of Mound City.
Funeral arrangements have not yet
been made.
(Homer
Chambliss lived in Mounds, Ill., in 1918 when he registered for the
draft.
He was then a student at Rodan
Williams University in Nashville, Tenn.
According to his death certificate,
Homer
Chambliss, physician, of Cairo, Ill.,
was born 22 Sep 1899, in Huntington, Tenn.,
the son of Haywood
Chambliss and Nolie
Humble, natives of Huntington, Tenn.,
died 8 Nov 1939, Chicago, Cook Co., Ill.,
husband of Anna Belle
Chambliss.—Darrel
Dexter)
HARDWARE MAN DIES
H. R.
Johnson, hardware man of Cairo, prominent in business and social
affairs, died at his home Tuesday afternoon
of heart trouble after a short illness.
All of his life he has been in the
hardware business in one connection or
another and had a prominent part in the
business affairs of the city.
(When he registered for the draft in
1917, Hugh R.
Johnston worked as a salesman for
Woodward Hardware Co. Jobbers in Cairo, Ill.
William J.
Johnston married Miss Bennett
on 30 Apr 1889, in Alexander Co., Ill.
The death certificate for Hugh
Russell
Johnston, merchant, of Cairo, Ill.,
states that he was born 15 Mar 1890, in
Cairo, Ill., the son of William J.
Johnston, a native of Anna, Ill., and
Mamie
Bennett, a native of Cairo, Ill., died 8
Nov 1939, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill.,
husband of Elizabeth
Eldred Johnston, and was buried at
Mounds, Ill.
His marker in Green Lawn Memorial
Gardens near Villa Ridge reads:
Hugh R.
Johnston March 15, 1890 Nov. 7,
1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
ACQUITTAL OF MURDER CASE OF TOM BUTLER
The jury, after deliberating some
five hours or more, freed Ida Belle
Allen,
colored, for killing Tom
Butler, colored constable, on Wednesday.
Butler, who once killed a colored man at
Olmsted and who had been in trouble with a
number of his own race, was hated and feared
by those of his own color.
That he had escaped trouble with a
number of persons is due to the common
belief that he had a “stand in” at the
courthouse, which was true.
He had been used to assist in arrests
and to run down a number of crimes.
The testimony of Ida Bell
Allen
was that she killed
Butler in self-defense and that she did
not lie in wait for him.
He wanted her to go into his home
that night and on her refusal in the fight
that ensued, she drew a gun and shot him.
All the seats in the court room were
taken during the trial and sympathy was
clearly for the defendant.
When the jury’s verdict was read,
applause broke forth and Ida Belle
Allen,
who has been in jail and out and then in for
quite a time, walked out of the courthouse a
free woman.
J. Kelley
Smith
defended with Joseph
O’Sullivan state’s attorney, and Charles
Rice
prosecuting.
The cost of this murder trial on the
county will probably amount to $300 or more,
not counting the time of the court and
stenographer.
There were special bailiffs for the
women, colored and white, and for the men,
colored and white.
That made four bailiffs, for the case
lasted for three days.
JURY ACQUITS SECOND WOMAN OF MURDER CHARGE
Bessie
Meals, charged with murdering her husband, was acquitted by the jury
Wednesday night in a sealed verdict opened
by Judge
Spann Thursday morning in circuit court.
This is the second colored woman to
be acquitted on a murder charge in court
this week, the first being Ida Belle
Allen
for killing Tom
Butler, on her plea of self-defense.
The plea of the
Meals
woman was the same.
In the case of Ida Belle
Allen, she killed her lover and in the case of Bessie
Meals,
her husband.
The week has been reported as field
day for J. Kelley
Smith,
defending attorney, and while acquittal or
hung jury was a foregone conclusion in the
case of Ida Belle
Allen,
in the
Meals
case it was not.
KILLING AND LABOR TROUBLES IN CAIRO
The killing of Fletcher
Reichert, formerly of Grand Chain,
Wednesday as he attempted to pass pickets at
the Roberts Cotton Oil Co., the escape of
his father and the assault on Harry
Bolen
either by pickets or strike sympathizers,
has thrown Cairo into a period of tension
that worries authorities and is having its
effect on business.
Cairo is threatened with genuine
labor troubles with the Valley Steel,
Roberts Cotton Oil and the Cairo Cake & Meal
Co., out on strikes and with organization of
these men due to be completed yesterday and
Thursday night.
Some have been striking for a week.
Reichert, who now lives at Charleston, Mo., and is a deputy sheriff,
came to Cairo with his father who is better
known as “Chickenfritz”
Reichert, to get a load of cotton seed
meal or some product of the plant.
Description of what followed is not
complete, other than the story which the
senior
Reichert tells, and he got away.
He got out to remove the barrier so
they could drive to the mill over the
protests of the pickets.
Fletcher remained in the car.
Whether Fletcher
Reichert drew his pistol to threaten anyone who molested him or his
father is not known, but it is known that
from back in the crowd of colored men, for
the labor there is nearly all colored,
someone fired, and Fletcher
Reichert was hit in the back or side of
the head and killed.
His father fled.
That happened between 3 and 4
o’clock.
Sometime that afternoon Harry
Bolen,
major in the National Guard and president of
the Cairo Chamber of Commerce, was at the
Inland Steel and was hit in the eye or mouth
by a colored man.
About 1 o’clock yesterday morning a
force of special deputies, city and from the
sheriff’s office, visited the picket fires
and ordered them to disburse, put out the
fires and scattered the men.
If any arrests were made, it was not
learned, but the tension was high for it was
known that following the killing of
Reichert, heavy purchases had been made
of ammunition at stores as it became
apparent that race trouble could easily
start.
Cairo had a mob two years ago when
they rioted at the relief office
and when Elmer
Leidigh, state patrolman, had his pistol
taken from him, was forced down and came
very near being killed as his own pistol was
pointed at him.
There were several state police in
Cairo Wednesday night, possibly four, for
the situation was quite grave.
The strikes, so far as learned, are
for more pay.
The steel workers are all paid 30
cents an hour and the work is semi-skilled
and they are asking an increase.
The workers in the mills get 30 cents
an hour now, but one mill is said to be
paying 40 cents.
It is working without any troubles.
Reports were that other places might
come out, but these were unconfirmed.
The situation, however, is quite
tense and underneath is literally red hot
with labor and race furnishing the fire.
Only cool heads on all sides will
hold it down, and those heads are working
hard.
Reichert has an uncle here whose name is Loren
Stevers, a driver for the Tri-City Transportation Co., and had many
relatives in the county and round Grand
Chain.
On the jury here at the time of the
killing was a sister of
Reichert, Mrs. Gladys
Pulliam, and an aunt, Mrs. Lola
Andermat.
Neither were informed of the affair
until after the verdict of the jury had been
handed in last night because the news would
have disrupted the jury and made further
consideration of the guilt or innocence of
Jesse
Meals impossible.
The jury, incidentally, acquitted
him.
A further addition to the story of
the killing at Cairo is that the police car,
in going to the scene soon after, was picked
up, turned around and the police sent back
when the crowd around the car appeared
hostile.
Picket fires were and have been
burning for some time and the general
impression is that some pickets are armed,
some have clubs and weights while others are
unarmed.
Now that they were dispersed, it
remains to be seen if they will gather again
or will conduct the strike in a different
manner.
(According to his death certificate,
Horace Fletcher
Reichert, farmer, was born 20 Jul 1910,
in Grand Chain, Ill., the son of Fritz J.
Reichert and Lucy
Stevers, natives of Grand Chain, Ill., died 8 Nov 1939, in Cairo,
Alexander Co., Ill., husband of Irene Ruth
Reichert,
and was buried in Charleston, Mo.
His marker there in Calvary Cemetery
reads:
Fletcher
Reichert July 20, 1910 Nov. 8, 1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
KILLED IN CAR WRECK
W. T.
Jaco, operator of a store between Olive Branch and Thebes was killed
when the car in which he was riding, owned
and driven by Tommy
Twente of Thebes, overturned down a
steep embankment about one mile west of
Mounds last Friday afternoon.
(This may refer to William Pinckney
Jaco,
who was born 17 Apr 1880, in Alexander Co.,
Ill., and died in 1939 in Illinois.
His marker in Rose Hill Cemetery near
Thebes, Ill., reads:
Lilly D.
Jaco
1886-1956 William P.
Jaco
1879-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
OREN COLEMAN DEAD
Oren
Coleman, former sheriff of Williamson County who gained much
notoriety in breaking up the
Birger Gang, died of an appolextic
stroke on Wednesday evening as he was
entering his car at the Carterville State &
Savings Bank at Carterville.
Coleman lived at Herrin, but was
president of the Carterville Bank.
Coleman was active in Republican politics for years and continued to
his death.
He had taught school, farmed and
engaged in politics and later went into the
financial field.
He was never married.
He was known over quite a wide area
and known to many in this county.
Coleman was in the early fifties.
(W. J.
Coleman married Mary Reed
on 3 Jan 1886, in Williamson Co., Ill.
In 1917 when Oren
Coleman registered for the draft, he
lived at 1310 W. Main St., Marion, Ill., and
was superintendent of Marion Township High
School.
According to his death certificate,
Oren
Coleman, bank president, was born 7 Oct 1886, in Williamson Co.,
Ill., the son of William
Coleman and Mary
Reed,
a native of Williamson Co., Ill., died 1 Nov
1939, in Carterville, Williamson Co., Ill.,
and was buried at Herrin, Williamson Co.,
Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
H. S. PARKER DIES
Howard Samuel
Parker, 49 years of age, of near Olmsted, passed away in Holden
Hospital at Carbondale Sunday afternoon
about 3 o’clock following an operation.
He is survived by his wife, Penecia;
seven sons, Lee of Coney Island, N.Y.,
Howard of St. Louis, Harold, Andy, Billy and
Roy Earl of Olmsted; one daughter, Betty Lou
also of Olmsted; two uncles, A. J.
Hornberger and W. F.
Bradshaw of Miller City.
Mr.
Parker was en route
Thursday from his home to DuQuoin to get a
load of apples and became suddenly ill at
Carbondale where he entered Holden Hospital.
An operation was performed in the
hope of saving his life, but to no avail.
He was a member of the Lake Milligan
Baptist Church of Miller City.
The body remained at
Berbling’s Funeral Home until Wednesday
afternoon at 4 o’clock when it was removed
to the home of his uncle, A. J.
Hornberger.
Funeral services were held at the
Lake Milligan Baptist Church in Miller City
Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock.
Rev. S. F.
Reeves officiated.
Burial was made in Bumgard Cemetery.
Berbling Funeral Service was in charge
of arrangements.
(According to his death certificate,
Howard Samuel
Parker, farmer, of Olmsted, Ill., was
born 14 Oct 1890, in Alexander Co., Ill.,
the son of George
Parker and Ida
Bradshaw, died 5 Nov 1939, in Carbondale, Jackson Co., Ill., husband of
Penecia
Parker, and was buried in Bumgard
Cemetery in Alexander Co., Ill. His marker
there reads:
Howard Samuel
Parker 1890-1938.—Darrel
Dexter)
People of Ullin High School were shocked to
hear of the recent death of their last year
teacher, Mr. Fred
Poor,
who was teaching in the northern part of the
state.
Several from Ullin attended the
funeral.
(Beech Grove)
(His death certificate states that
Fred C.
Poor,
school teacher, of Eureka, Olie, Woodford
Co., Ill., was born 14 Oct 1910, in Lawton,
Okla., the son of Claud V.
Poor,
a native of Winfield, Kan., and Oleavia
Capps,
a native of East Peoria, Ill., died 29 Oct
1939, in Peoria, Ill., and was buried in Fon
du Lac Township Cemetery in East Peoria,
Tazewell Co., Ill.
His marker there reads:
Freddie C.
Poor 1910-1939.—Darrel Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 10 Nov 1939:
Howard Samuel Parker
Howard Samuel
Parker, age 49, whose home was near Olmsted, died in Holden
Hospital, Carbondale, Sunday afternoon, Nov.
5, following an operation.
Mr.
Parker left his home Thursday afternoon
to go to DuQuoin for a load of apples and
grew suddenly ill at Carbondale.
He entered the hospital and an
operation was performed in an effort to save
his life, but to no avail.
Funeral services were held Thursday
afternoon at the Lake Milligan Baptist
Church of Miller City, of which he was a
member, Rev. S. F.
Reeves officiating.
Burial was made in Bumgard Cemetery.
Killed in Auto Accident West of Mounds
W. T.
Jaco, age 60, operator of a store between Olive Branch and Thebes,
was instantly killed about 5 p.m. Friday,
Nov. 3, when the car in which he was riding,
owned and driven by Tommy
Twente of Thebes, overturned and rolled
down a steep embankment near the
Moses
farm about one mile west of here.
The impact broke
Jaco’s
neck, but
Twente was not injured.
According to
Twente, the accident was caused by a broken radius rod that resulted
in his loss of control when the car swerved
off of the road.
Jaco is survived by his wife, three children, Louie, Leroy and Ray,
all of Thebes; two stepsons, Eulis and
Charles
Blanchard of Metropolis; three sisters, Mrs. Sarah
Wright of Commerce, Mo., Mrs. Ellen
Wright of Robbs, Ill., and Mrs. Beulah
Morris of Eddyville, Ill.; one brother,
Charles, of California.
The body was brought to
Ryan
Funeral Home.
Funeral services were held at Beech
Grove Cemetery Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock
with Reverend
Fite officiating.
Interment was in Thebes Cemetery with
Ryan’s
Funeral Service in charge.
Member of Pioneer Family Dies Saturday
Evening
John Howard
Atherton died suddenly Saturday evening, November 4, at his home one
and one half miles west of Villa Ridge.
His age at death was 82 years.
While in failing health for some time
his death came quite unexpectedly.
Mr.
Atherton was a member of a pioneer family in Southern Illinois, his
great-grandfather having purchased the
Atherton farm from the Government in
1815—the same farm on which the family have
lived and died.
He was the son of Asa C. and
Elizabeth J.
Atherton and was born November 5, 1857,
thus lacking only one day of rounding out 82
years.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Emma Judy
Craig
Atherton; a daughter, Mrs. Henry
Stern
of Mounds; two sons, Hugh, who with his
family lives on the farm with his parents,
and Harry C., of Chicago.
Also surviving are a sister, Mrs.
Ellen E.
Mathis of Anna; four grandchildren, and
two great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at Shiloh
Church Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock with
Rev. W. J.
Ward
and Rev. H. B.
Atherton officiating.
Interment was made in Shiloh Cemetery
with G. A.
James
Funeral Service directing.
(Asa C.
Atherton married Elizabeth Jane
Kelly on 16 Dec 1856, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
Asa Coleman
Atherton, 50, miller at a saw mill, of Hodges Park, Alexander Co.,
Ill., born in Pulaski Co., Ill., son of
Aaron and Elizabeth
Atherton, married 2nd on 27
Jun 1883, in Union Co., Ill., Mrs. Emily
Alvina
Brown, 43, of Hodges Park, Ill., born in St. Louis, Mo., daughter of
Samuel
Music
and Elizabeth
Walker.
John H.
Atherton married Emma Craig
on 25 Dec 1884, in Alexander Co., Ill.
His death certificate states that
John Howard
Atherton, farmer, of Pulaski Co., Ill.,
was born 5 Nov 1857, in Villa Ridge, Ill.,
the son of Asa C.
Atherton, a native of Villa Ridge, Ill.,
died 4 Nov 1939, in Road District 1, Pulaski
Co., Ill., husband of Emma J.
Atherton,
and was buried at Villa Ridge.—Darrel
Dexter)
Origin and History of the First State Bank
of Mounds
The first bank established in this
town was called “The Bank of Beechwood,” for
at that time the town was called Beechwood.
This bank was organized in 1903 with
Dr. C. J.
Boswell as president and John D.
Bristow as cashier, and was a private
bank.
The Illinois Central Railroad would
not recognize the name of Beechwood, naming
the railroad station “Mounds.”
The post office was called Beechwood.
This made so much confusion that,
since the mountain would not go to Mahomet,
Mahomet went to the mountain and the
beautiful name of Beechwood was sacrificed
for the name of Mounds, which has ever since
been confused with Mound City by those away
from this section, who cannot realize there
could be two towns of like names within a
distance of three miles.
The Bank of Beechwood had a capital
stock of $25,000.
It occupied the Horney Building, now
the Blum Building, where Rhodes-Burford is
now located on Front Street.
In 1906 the First State Bank of
Mounds was organized absorbing the Bank of
Beechwood.
C. J.
Boswell was made president of this bank and served from 1906 until
his death in 1921.
Dr. W. C.
Rife was elected president in 1921 and served until his death in
1925.
Dr. O. T.
Hudson was elected president in 1925 and is still serving in that
capacity.
Cashiers
John L.
Bristow, cashier, 1906-1907
Thomas N.
Karraker, cashier 1907-1918
Clyde D.
Harris, cashier, 1918-1920
H. C.
Moore, cashier, 1920-
The present building was erected in
1906.
The Security State Bank, which
occupied the Quarles Building on Front
Street, was taken over by the First State
Bank in 1914 and the capital stock was
increased to $50,000.
The First National Bank, which
occupied the old First National Bank
Building on Front Street, was taken over by
the First State Bank in 1932.
Thus the first State Bank of Mounds
has become the strongest bank in Pulaski
County and one of the strongest in Southern
Illinois.
(The article includes a
photograph of the First State Bank
building.—Darrel
Dexter)
Prominent Cairo Man Dies Suddenly Tuesday
Hugh R.
Johnston of Cairo, 51, died suddenly Tuesday afternoon at 1:15 at
his home, 2403 Washington Ave., following a
heart attack.
Mr.
Johnston was a native of Cairo, where he had lived during his entire
lifetime.
He was educated in the Cairo schools
and at Lake Forest College.
He had been brought up in the
hardware business under the tutelage of his
father, the late, William J.
Johnston, president of the Woodward
Hardware Company.
At the time of his death, he was
proprietor of the Cairo Hardware Co.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Betty
Johnston and two sons, Hugh R., Jr., of
Cairo, and William J., a sophomore at the
University of Illinois.
He was active in the civic life of
Cairo.
Hunter Fatally Wounded
The first hunting accident of the
year in this locality occurred Sunday
morning near Horseshoe Lake when L. S.
Brooks, 38, owner of the State Hardware
Store in East St. Louis, was fatally wounded
by his own gun.
He was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital,
Cairo, where strenuous efforts were made to
save his life, but in vain.
In explaining the accident
Brooks said he believed what happened
was that as he lifted his gun the hammer
caught on the log on which he was sitting
and was pulled partly back, then as it
cleared the log the hammer fell and struck
the firing pin with enough force to
discharge the shell.
The load of shot struck him under the
right arm, blowing the arm nearly off and
making a large and deep wound in his side
and shoulder.
Brooks lost much blood as there was no way in which a tourniquet
could be used to stop the flow.
A number of blood transfusions were
given him, but he lost consciousness late
Sunday afternoon and died early Tuesday
morning.
He leaves a wife and one child.
(“L. S.”
Brooks is the same person as
“Ellis” L.
Brooks.—Darrel
Dexter)
Oil Field Promoter Dies in Cairo
P. V.
Collier, age 51, whose home was in Long Beach, Calif., died suddenly
at the Hotel Cairo while alone in his room.
When he was found by a porter, who
entered his room, he had been dead several
hours.
An inquest was held resulting in the
verdict that death came from a heart attack.
Mr.
Collier had come to this section to start drilling a test oil well
in this county.
It is said that the drilling was to
have started within two weeks.
R. L.
Sheehan, formerly of Pulaski County, had
been instrumental in getting him to come
here and it was understood he had the
backing of wealthy oil men in California,
geologists having reported extensive
information indicative of oil in this
county.
In appearance, Mr.
Collier closely resembled Gov. _____ had
been nicknamed _____er.”
(The
Torrance Herald of 9 Nov 1939, reported the Pinkney V.
Collier was born in Carthage, Miss., and
was buried in Inglewood Memorial Park.
He left his wife, a son, P. V.
Collier, Jr., of Long Beach, Calif.; a
daughter and son-in-law, Guy and Mary Louise
Kelley; two grandchildren, three
brothers and four sisters.
His marker in Inglewood, Los Angeles
Co., Calif., states he was born Feb. 1888
died 5 Nov 1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
East Prairie School Teacher Killed by Truck
Miss Barbara
Guillion, 17, of East Prairie, Mo., died in St. Mary’s Hospital,
Cairo, Saturday evening, where she had been
taken following an accident in which she
suffered fatal injuries.
Miss
Guillion was on her way to the house of a friend, Miss Lilly
Young,
about two miles south of East Prairie, with
whom she was to spend the night.
She made the trip on the grocery
truck of Ernest
Atkinson and as she alighted, started to cross the highway when she
was hit by a truck approaching from the
opposite direction.
The victim was a teacher of a country
school near East Prairie, was a graduate of
the East Prairie High School and had
attended the State Teachers’ College at Cape
Girardeau,
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 17 Nov 1939:
WILLIAM O’HARE DIES
William
O’Hare, age 67, lifelong resident of Mound City, passed away at the
Anna State Hospital Sunday evening at 7
o’clock.
He is survived by an uncle, James
O’Sullivan, of Mound City; a
sister-in-law, Mrs. Cora
O’Hare of Marion, Ill.; and a number of
cousins.
Funeral services were held at St.
Mary’s Catholic Church Tuesday morning at
8:30 o’clock.
Father Lawrence
Gilmartin officiated.
Interment was made in St. Mary’s
Cemetery at Mounds.
G. A.
James
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
(His 1917 passport application made
in Paducah, McCracken Co., Ky., states that
William
O’Hare was born 15 Jan 1871, in Mound City, Ill., the son of Frank
O’Hare, who immigrated from County Cork,
Ireland about 1 Jan 1861, and was
naturalized at Danville, Ill.
He was going to France for
construction work with the U.S. Engineer
Corps.
According to his death certificate,
William
O’Hare, ship caulker, of Mound City,
Pulaski Co., Ill., was born 15 Jan 1871, in
Pulaski Co., Ill., the son of Frank
O’Hare and Mary
O’Sullivan, natives of Ireland, died 12
Nov 1939, in Union Co., Ill., and was buried
in St. Mary’s Cemetery at Mounds, Pulaski
Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. MARGARET SIMPSON DIES
Mrs. Margaret O.
Simpson, 78 years of age, widow of Dock
Simpson, died at her home in South
Columbus at 2:30 a.m. Sunday.
She had suffered a stroke during last
week after which her condition had become
steadily worse.
Funeral services were conducted from Zion
Methodist Church at 1 o’clock this afternoon
with the pastor, Rev. W. E.
Lovett, in charge.
Surviving are three sons, Howard
Simpson, Hickman County, Ernest
Simpson, Paducah, and Raymond
Simpson of Hickman County; and two
daughters, Mrs. Jane
Morse
and Mrs. John
Adams.
Sher also leaves two grandchildren
and two great-grandchildren.
(According to her death certificate,
Margaret O.
Simpson, widow, was born 27 Jan 1861 in
Jefferson Co., Ky., the daughter of John R.
Woodrow and Jane
Smith, died 12 Nov 1939, in Columbus, Hickman Co., Ky., of paralysis
from cardiac insufficiency, and was buried
in Zion Cemetery.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Cora
O’Hare of Marion, Ill., was here Tuesday
for the funeral of her brother-in-law,
William
O’Hare.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 17 Nov 1939:
Gene Miller Dies Suddenly Wednesday Morning
Gene
Miller, age 50 years, died suddenly at his home here Wednesday
morning, November 15, at about 8:45 o’clock.
He was uptown as usual on Monday, but
took sick Tuesday with the flu.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Sarah
Jane
Miller, with whom he made his home; a
daughter, Mrs. Irene
Parker of Roxanna, Ill.; a son, Virgil,
of Missouri; and a sister, Mrs. Drusie
Ebbert, of Dongola.
Funeral services will be held this
(Friday) afternoon at two o’clock, at Mt.
Pisgah Church in Wetaug with Rev. Earl
Throgmorton of the Mounds Baptist Church
officiating.
Interment will be made in Mt. Pisgah
Cemetery with G. A.
James in charge.
Dr. Homer Chambliss
Dr. Homer
Chambliss of Cairo died Wednesday night, November 8, in Passavant
Hospital, Chicago, where he had been taken
for treatment, having been ill several
weeks.
Dr.
Chambliss widely known colored physician, had practiced medicine in
Cairo for a number of years.
His home was formerly in Mounds.
He is survived by his wife, a son,
Homer Jr., who is a medical student;
daughter, Miss Geraldine, a student at the
Carbondale Normal University; two brothers,
Hugo, of Mounds, and Virgil L., of Cairo;
two sisters, Christine of Mounds and
Gwendolyn of Mound City.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at the 19th St. Baptist
Church of Cairo, at which there was a large
concourse of people in attendance.
Burial was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery, Mounds.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 24 Nov 1939:
HENRY GRAVES DIES
Samuel Henry Graves, age 43, passed away at his home in Rock Island, Ill.,
Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock following a
heart attack.
Mr.
Graves, the son of Mrs. Mary E.
Graves of Villa Ridge, was born and raised in Villa Ridge, a member
of a prominent family.
He was connected with the John J.
Levitt Drug Store in Cairo in 1920
before purchasing his own store in East
Moline and Rock Island, where he has been in
business for the past 15 years
Surviving are his wife and seven
children, his mother, Mrs. Mary E.
Graves; two brothers, F. L. of Villa
Ridge and John of Ajo, Arizona; three
sisters, Mrs. Rosana
Levitt of Villa Ridge, Mrs. Frank
Lendrum of Indio, Calif., and Sister M.
Rosana of Manchester, Mo., besides many
other relatives.
The funeral was held in Rock Island
Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock. Mr. and Mrs.
F. L.
Graves, Mrs. Mary E. Graves,
Mrs. Rosana
Levitt and Miss Rosemary
Levitt of Belleville, Ill., attended the
funeral.
(According to his death certificate,
Samuel H.
Graves, druggist, was born 6 Jun 1896,
in Villa Ridge, Ill., son of F. E.
Graves and Elizabeth
Kenker, natives of Illinois,
died 19 Nov 1939, in Rock Island, Ill.,
husband of Rosalie B.
Graves,
and was buried at Rock Island, Ill.
He has a marker in Calvary Cemetery
in Rock Island, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The funeral of Eugene
Miller was held at Mt. Pisgah Church,
Wetaug, and Friday afternoon.
Rev. Rue
Reid,
pastor of the M. E. Church of Mounds,
officiated.
Interment yeas made in Mt. Pisgah
Cemetery.
(Mounds)
(According to his death certificate,
Lafayette Eugene
Miller, railroad brakeman, was born 8
Dec 1879, in Pulaski Co., Ill., the son of
John L.
Miller, a native of Illinois, and Sarah
J.
Rider, a native of North Carolina, died
15 Nov 1939, in Mound City, Pulaski Co.,
Ill., husband of Annie
Miller, and was buried at Wetaug,
Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 24 Nov 1939:
Rev. J. A. Taylor Dies at Age of 88 Years
Rev. J. A.
Taylor, age 88 years, died Saturday night, November 18, at the home
of his daughter, the former Blanche
Taylor, in Benton, where he had made his
home a number of years.
The Rev. Mr.
Taylor, a retired Methodist minister, had served as pastor in the
larger churches in the Southern Illinois
Conference and also as District
Superintendent of both the Carbondale and
Mount Carmel districts.
He was known for his kind heart and
lovable disposition.
(His death certificate states that
John Andre
Taylor, Methodist minister, was born 7
Dec 1852, in Greenup Co., Ky., the son of
James H.
Taylor and Sophia
Andre, natives of Ohio, died 18 Nov 1939, in Benton, Franklin Co.,
Ill., and was buried in College Hill
Cemetery, Lebanon, St. Clair Co., Ill.
His marker there reads:
Rev. John A.
Taylor Dec. 7, 1852 Nov. 18, 1939 Mary A.
Taylor Sept. 19, 1859 Sept. 26, 1913.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Walter Warder
Mrs. Dora
Bain Warder passed away at her home, 2315 Holbrook Avenue, Cairo,
Thursday morning, Nov. 16, at 9:25 o’clock
following a brief illness.
Mrs.
Warder was born in Vienna, Johnson County, Illinois, January 24,
1854, the daughter of John and Winifred
Bain,
a well-known pioneer family of Southern
Illinois.
Her father was a prominent merchant
of Johnson County and was long identified
with the business and political life of the
community.
She attended McKendree College at
Lebanon, Ill., three years.
On May 24, 1876, she married Walter
Warder, an attorney, and they moved to
Cairo in 1880.
Mr.
Warder preceded her in death August 17,
1938.
Mrs.
Warder was always active in the religious, charitable and social
life of Cairo.
She attended the Episcopal Church,
becoming a member November 7, 1910, and was
a most devoted Christian.
She was one of the earliest members
of the Cairo Woman’s Club and was its
president two years and in 1912 was delegate
to the National Convention of the General
Federation of Women’s clubs.
She was named as hostess for the
Illinois Commission at the St. Louis
Exposition and resided in the Illinois
Building, greatly enjoying the social life
of the fair.
She always attended the sessions of
the General Assembly at Springfield during
the years her husband was a member of the
legislature at the capitol.
Her only daughter, Winifred Fairfax
Warder, died suddenly in Bordeaux,
France, October 12, 1918, having volunteered
as a member of the mobile unit of the
American Suffrage Association for service in
the World War.
Mrs.
Warder was the last of the
Bain children, the others being Frances
P.
Jackson, Siddie B.
Harker, William B.
Bain,
and John C.
Bain. She leaves one
son, Walter B.
Warder, and a number of nieces and
nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews.
Funeral services were held at the
Church of the Redeemer Saturday afternoon at
1:30 o’clock.
Interment was made at Marion, Ill.
The pall bearers were her nephews, O.
A.
Harker, Harry
Jackson, Walter H. Jackson,
Frank M.
Hewitt, Walter W.
Parks,
Hosie V.
Ferrell and Fred Stotlar.—Cairo
Citizen.
(The death certificate of Dora
Bain
Warder, of Cairo, Ill., states she was
born 24 Jan 1853, in Vienna, Ill., the
daughter of John
Bain,
a native of Kentucky, and Winifred
Harrell, died 16 Nov 1939, in Cairo,
Alexander Co., Ill., widow of Walter B.
Warder, and was buried at
Marion, Williamson Co., Ill.
Her marker in Rose Hill Cemetery in
Marion, Ill., reads:
Dora
Bain
Warder Jan. 24, 1854 Nov. 16,
1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
Former Cairo Pastor Dies in Indiana Nov. 15
Rev. C. Robert
Dunlap, for 27 years pastor of the Lutheran Church of Cairo, died
Wednesday, Nov. 15, in Leesburg, Ind., from
bronchial pneumonia.
Failing health caused him to resign
his Cairo pastorate.
Interment was made Sunday in York,
Pa., where Mr.
Dunlap was born.
He was a prominent member of the
Cairo Rotary Club, in fact was one of the
organizing members.
For something like 25 years he served
as a park commissioner for Cairo without any
remuneration whatever.
He made friends in all walks of life
and was truly a useful citizen of Cairo.
Mrs.
Dunlap, upon her return from York, Pa., will make her home at 1208
Beacon Street, East Chicago, Ind.
(His marker in Prospect Hill Cemetery
in York, York Co., Pa., reads:
Charles R.
Dunlap Lutheran Pastor 1879-1939 Ella M.
Dunlap 1885-1950.—Darrel
Dexter)
Son of Mrs. Mary E. Graves Dies at Rock
Island Home
Samuel Henry
Graves, age 43, died at his home in Rock Island, Ill., Sunday
afternoon, Nov. 19, at 4 o’clock following a
heart attack.
Mr.
Graves the son of Mrs. Mary E.
Graves of Villa Ridge, was born and
reared in Villa Ridge, a member of one of
the prominent families of the community.
A druggist, he was connected with the
John J.
Levitt Drug Store in Cairo in 1920
before purchasing his own store in East
Moline and Rock Island where he had been in
business for the past 15 years.
Surviving are his wife and seven
children; his mother, Mrs. Mary E.
Graves; two brothers, F. L. of Villa
Ridge and John of Ajo, Arizona; three
sisters, Mrs. Rosana
Levitt of Villa Ridge, Mrs. Frank
Lendrum of Indio, Calif., and Sister M.
Rosana of Manchester, Mo., also many other
relatives.
The funeral was held in Rock Island
Wednesday morning at 9 o’clock.
Mr. and Mrs. F. L.
Graves, Mrs. Mary E.
Graves, Mrs. Rosana
Levitt and Miss Rosemary
Levitt attended the funeral.
Former Ullin Resident Dies in Reno, Nevada
John J.
McIntosh, brother of Mrs. J. W.
Sichling of Ullin and himself a former resident of Ullin where he
was born and reared, died in Rome, Nevada,
Sunday, November 12, at the age of 65 years.
Burial was in Reno.
Mr.
McIntosh is also survived by two other sisters, Mrs. W. H.
Ballard of Jonesboro, Ill., and Mrs. W.
S.
Whitmore of Oakland, Calif.; and one
brother, Jackson
McIntosh of Reno.
Before going to the West, Mr.
McIntosh taught school for several years
near Wetaug.
(John W.
Sichling married Iva Nora
McIntosh on 23 Sep 1883, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
Eugene
Steers married Oleva
McIntosh on 29 May 1890, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
William H.
Ballard, 47, carpenter and sculptor, of
Jonesboro, Ill., born in Montgomery Co.,
N.C., son of James C.
Ballard and Miss
Webb, married 1 Mar 1895, in Anna, Union Co., Ill., Mrs. Olevia
Steers, 22, born in Ullin, Ill.,
daughter of John J.
McIntosh and Miss
Lasater.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 1 Dec 1939:
MRS. CLARA A. BEEDLE DIES
Mrs. Clara Arnatta
Bedle,
age 84, passed away at her home in Mounds
Tuesday morning at 6:05 o’clock.
She had been a resident of Mounds for
the past 33 years.
Surviving her are two daughters, Mrs.
John
Marty of Atwood, Ill., and Mrs. E. C.
Buchanan of Mounds; two sons, Everett
and Clarence of Mounds; fourteen
grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren
besides many other relatives.
(According to her death certificate,
Clara Arnetta
Beedle was born 9 Mar 1855, in Douglas
Co., Ill., the daughter of John
Wilson, died 28 Nov 1939, in Mound City,
Ill., the widow of John
Beedle,
and was buried at Mound City, Ill.
Her interment record states she was
buried in the same grave with her husband,
who was a Civil War soldier, who was
honorably discharged 16 Feb 1863, as a
private in Co. K, 79th Illinois
Infantry.
John
Beedle, 18, farmer, born in Coles Co.,
Ill., enlisted 24 Aug 1862, in Douglas Co.,
Ill., and was discharged for disability 16
Feb 1863, at Nashville, Tenn.—Darrel
Dexter)
CORA HALE DIES
Miss Cora Palestine
Hale,
age 30 years, passed away Saturday night at
8:40 o’clock at her home in Olmsted,
following a short illness.
She is survived by four nieces, Mrs.
Mark
Talley of Mounds, Mrs. John
Maxwell and Mrs. Harve
Calvin of this city and Mrs. Clarence
Smith
of Chicago; three nephews, Charles
McDaniel of Cincinnati, Ohio, Ben
McDaniel of Los Angeles, Calif., and
Wilson
McDaniel of San Pedro, Calif., besides
many other relatives.
Miss
Hale was a member of the Pentecostal Church of Olmsted.
The body was removed to the residence
and then later to the Pentecostal Church in
Olmsted Monday afternoon at 2:30, where
funeral services were held with Rev. W. F.
Lankston of Perks, Ill., officiating.
Burial was made in the family lot
at Concord Cemetery near Olmsted.
The following friends served as
Casketbearers:
George
Hearld, John
Atherton, Fred Koch,
George
Lilly,
Tom
Sauerbrunn, and Chilton
Ramsey.
Berbling Funeral Service was in charge
of arrangements.
(According to her death certificate,
Cora Palestine
Hale
was born 18 Jan 1889, in Olmsted, Ill., the
daughter of Jeff
Hale and Nancy Ford,
died 25 Nov 1939, in Olmsted, Pulaski
Co., Ill., and was buried in Road District
4, Pulaski Co., Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
MRS. FLORA P. ARDERY DIES
Mrs. Flora
Price Ardey, known in Mound City as Flora
Price Willard, died
Thursday, November 6, at her home in
Oklahoma City, Okla., after a long illness.
She was 71 years of age and for 43
years had been an educator in Oklahoma.
A small energetic woman, she
established the Ardery College for girls at
Guthrie in 1896.
In 1910 she moved the school to
Oklahoma City and in 1917, during the World
War, she changed the school to the Ardery
College and Military School.
Although childless, Mrs.
Ardery took care of and educated 17
homeless children during her active life.
Her business associate, Miss Donna M.
Ward, same address, said most of them completed their education and
moved to widely separated geographical
points.
One of her protégés was graduated
from the naval academy at Annapolis, another
is an assistant manager of a chain of resort
hotels and several became musicians.
Born near Wheeling, W. Va., Flora
Price,
later Mrs.
Willard, then Ardey,
attended finishing schools in the East and
became a musician.
She sang on the Chautauqua circuit
and in concert.
She went to Oklahoma Territory from
Illinois in 1896 as a music teacher.
The same year she established her
school for girls.
In 1897 she was married to H. F.
Ardery.
He died in 1921.
They had no children and after her
husband’s death, Mrs.
Ardery adopted a son,
Olen Ward
Ardery, who is now 11 years old, and to
whom, it is reported, she gave the greater
part of her estate.
The year the state capitol was moved
from Guthrie to Oklahoma City, in 1910, she
moved her school to Oklahoma City.
The first location was where the
Hubard Hospital is now, at 1501 Northeast
Sixteenth and later near Stiles Park.
She was an active member of the
Eastern Star, Amaranth, Rebekah Lodge, and
Kappa Kappa Iota.
She was a member of the Episcopal
Church.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 1 Dec 1939:
Mrs. John S. Hacker
Mrs. Fanny
Posey Hacker, wife of Captain John S.
Hacker, of 415 Washington, Ave., Cairo, died Wednesday evening,
November 22, at eight o’clock following an
illness of several months.
She was born Feb. 25, 1855, in
Henderson County, Ky., the daughter of
Fayette Washington
Posey and Hannah (Sublette)
Posey.
She was of Revolutionary ancestry.
Her paternal great-grandfather was
General Thomas
Posey,
the first territorial governor of Louisiana
in 1812, later governor of Indiana and
lieutenant governor of Kentucky.
He was one of George
Washington’s aides and is accredited the
leading heroic role in the engagement of
Stony Point.
On her mother’s side was Judge
Towles, a learned jurist.
Fanny
Posey was educated in the schools of Henderson County, Ky., and in a
preparatory school at Evansville, Ind.,
graduating in 1872.
She was married to John S.
Hacker, March 19, 1877, and they have
lived at the same location in Cairo since
that time—more than 62 years.
Mrs.
Hacker held the position of superintendent of schools of Alexander
County for one term beginning in 1921.
She was a member of the Cairo Women’s
Club and Library Association and a charter
member of the Egyptian Chapter D. A. R., she
was also a life member of the Wickliffe,
Ky., Woman’s Club.
Surviving are her husband and five
daughters, Mrs. L. Fay
Danforth, Miss Daisy
Hacker, Mrs. Hannah
Fowler, Miss Alice
Hacker of Cairo and Mrs. Shannon
Richmond of Mexico City, Mex.; also five grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
Private funeral services were held
Friday morning with the Rev. S. L.
Hagan,
rector of the Church of the Redeemer,
conducting.
Interment was made in the family lot
in Jonesboro, Ill.
(John S.
Hacker married Fanny S. Posey
on 19 Mar 1877, in Cook Co., Ill.
Her marker in Jonesboro Cemetery
reads:
Fanny
Posey
Hacker 1878-1939 Member D. A. R.—Darrel
Dexter)
Mrs. Clara A. Beedle Dies at Age of 85 Years
Mrs. Clara A.
Beedle, age 85 years, died at her home on South Delaware Tuesday
morning, November 28, at 6 o’clock following
an illness of several weeks.
Clara Arnetta
Wilson was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
Wilson and was born in Cartwright, Douglas County, Illinois.
She moved to Southern Illinois 41
years ago and had lived in Mounds 33 years.
At the age of 10 years she united
with the Methodist Church at Cartwright,
later moving her membership to the Mounds
Methodist Church.
Her husband, John
Beedle, a Civil War veteran, died in
1928.
Three daughters had also preceded her
in death.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.
Nora
Buchanan of Mounds and Mrs. Ann
Marty
of Atwood, Ill.; two sons, Everette and
Clarence
Beedle of Mounds; a sister-in-law, Mrs.
Edna
Wilson of Arthur, Ill.; fourteen
grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at the
Methodist church Thursday afternoon at 1:30
o’clock with J. C.
Mench,
for many years secretary of the R. R. Y. M.
C. A., officiating, assisted by the pastor,
Rev. J. Rue
Reid.
Mr.
Mench
conducted the funeral services for Mr.
Beedle and by request of the family,
used the same text.
Three songs used at the funeral of
Mr. Beedle were sung, namely:
“Will the Circle Be Unbroken,” “Going
Down the Valley,” and “The Old Rugged
Cross.”
Harry
Windland, Mac Ferrill,
Holloway and Harold
Melton, Joe
Biggerstaff, and Ray
Mahoney, young men, neighbors served as
casket bearers.
Members of the Cheerful Workers class
of the Methodist Sunday school were flower
girls.
Burial was in the National Cemetery
by the side of her husband, with G. A.
James
Funeral Service in charge.
Cora Hale
Miss Cora Palestine
Hale,
age 50, died Saturday night, November 25, at
her home in Olmsted, following a short
illness.
She is survived by four nieces, Mrs.
Mark
Tally of Mounds, Mrs. John
Maxwell, and Mrs. Harve
Calvin of Mound City, and Mrs. Clarence
Smith
of Chicago; three nephews, Charles
McDaniel of Cincinnati, Ohio, Ben
McDaniel of Los Angeles, Calif., and
Wilson
McDaniel, of San Pedro, Calif.
Miss
Hale was a member of the Pentecostal Church of Olmsted.
Funeral services were held at the
Pentecostal church in Olmsted Monday
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock with Rev. W. F.
Lankston of Perks officiating.
Burial was made in the family lot at
Concord Cemetery near Olmsted.
The following friends served as
casket bearers:
George
Hearld, John
Atherton, Fred
Koch, George Lilly, Tom
Sauerbrunn and Chilton
Ramsey.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 8 Dec 1939:
DIES
Dr. James A.
Naismith, 78, who invented the game of basketball 48 years ago and
lived to see it draw the largest attendance
of any scholastic sport in America, died
last week in Lawrence, Kan.
VICTORIA’S DAUGHTER DIES
Princess Louise Duchess of Argyll,
eldest of three surviving children of Queen
Victoria, died Sunday, Dec. 3, in her
Kensington Palace apartment, London, after a
long illness.
She was 91 years old and was a
great-aunt of King George VI.
Princess Louise, sixth of the nine
children of Queen Victoria and Prince
Albert, was born in Buckingham Palace, March
18, 1848, and was reared under the strict
discipline of her father until his death
when she was 13.
In 1871 the Princess married the
Marquess of Lorne, who later became the
Ninth Duke of Argyll.
He died in 1914.
There were no children.
Surviving children of Queen Victoria
are the Duke of Connaught, 69, and Princess
Beatrice, 82, widow of Prince Henry of
Battenberg, and mother of ex-queen Victoria
Eugenia of Spain.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 15 Dec 1939:
DEATH CLAIMS E. F. BERGMAN
Edward Frederick
Bergman passed away at his home in Cairo
Sunday morning at 7:20 o’clock following an
illness of three weeks.
Mr.
Bergman was born in this city, but later moved to Cairo in June
1919.
He was employed by the Illinois
Central R. R. for twenty years.
He was a member of St. Patrick’s
Catholic Church.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mary
Bergman; three daughters, Mrs. Emil
Beno,
Miss Agnes
Bergman, and Mrs. Albert Hall
of Detroit; two sons, Edward and George, of
Cairo.
Two brothers, Frank of this city and
Henry of Greenville, Miss.; a sister, Mrs.
Harry
Lathrop of Greenville; and 11
grandchildren and other relatives also
survive him.
Funeral services were held at St.
Patrick’s Church Tuesday afternoon at 1:30
o’clock with Rev. Bernard
Pender officiating.
Interment was made in Calvary
Cemetery at Villa Ridge.
Karcher Brothers were in charge of
arrangements.
(According to his death certificate,
Edward Frederick
Bergman, of 327 8th St.,
Cairo, Ill., was born 31 Jul 1872, in Mound
City, Ill., the son of Frederick
Bergman and Marguerite
Neichum, natives of Germany,
died 10 Dec 1939, in Cairo, Alexander
Co., Ill., husband of Mary
Bergman,
and was buried in Calvary Cemetery at
Villa Ridge, Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker there reads:
Edward F. Bergman 1871-1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
D. E. ROSE, FORMER STATE REP, DIES IN
CALIFORNIA
D. E.
Rose, aged 72 years, passed away at a hospital in Oakland, Calif.,
his death being caused by internal cancer.
He was seriously ill for about one
month.
He is survived by his brother-in-law,
S. L.
Wamack, one of the only surviving Civil
War veterans living in Southern Illinois;
three nieces, Mrs. Anna
Douglas, Karnak, Mrs. Berea
Shields, Long Beach, Calif., and Mrs.
Carrie
Wilson, Harrisburg, Ill.; one nephew,
James L.
Womack, Karnak, and other relatives and
friends.
Mr. D. E.
Rose was formally a banker and merchant of Carmi in White County,
Illinois, at which time his many friends
desired him to be a candidate for the
Legislature of the 50th District
to which he was elected several terms.
He then was appointed to the Illinois
Tax Commission for some time.
In making his canvas for election to
the legislature, brought him into west
Massac County, where at the time about 30
years ago, was a large swamp called
Hackberry Pond.
Mr.
Rose saw a great future for this swamp, and bought some of this land
about 160 acres, at that time.
He spent plenty of money to have same
cleared and tiled also dug ditches for the
tile to drain into.
The results surprised even Mr.
Rose.
The land produced bumper corn crops.
He bought more land until he had a
farm of 440 acres, one of the finest in
Southern Illinois, and where sleek new
tractors now run and farm this land, where
he used new ground plows and double shovels
and hoes, sometimes working fifty men, he
himself being among them about fourteen
hours a day.
The writer knows as he was among
them.
Two tractors and two teams now
cultivate this same farm.
But about 1929 during the Depression,
Mr.
Rose left this farm to his creditors,
having financial reverses , losing his farm
and most of his other possessions, and went
out West to California to start life over.
He bought a service station, which he
operated until his health gave way.
Pulaski and Massac counties can
always be grateful to Mr.
Rose
for having located here and setting a pace
for others to follow in developing the
agricultural resources in Southern Illinois,
which is in evidence around Karnak and Boaz
at the present time.
While Mr.
Rose
had the misfortune to have to leave his
farm, it will always stand as a memory to
his labors and for others to see and admire.
May it always be called “The
Rose
Farm,” as it is today and probably always
will.
He was buried at Anderson Cemetery
near Karnak, Ill., beside his wife who
passed away about thirty years ago.
(The California Death Index states
that Daniel E.
Rose
died 26 Nov 1939, in Alameda,
Calif.—Darrel
Dexter)
O. M. MASON DIES
Oscar Marion
Mason, age 80, successful and prominent Pulaski County farmer,
passed away at his home near America Friday
night at 8:00 o’clock.
Mr.
Mason was born at Monmouth, Illinois, moving with his parents to the
community in which he died at the age of six
years.
He served one term as Pulaski County
commissioner and several terms as school
director and road commissioner.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Mary
Steers of America and Mrs. Rose
Leidigh of Jackson, Mo.; one brother, W.
C.
Mason of America, besides several
nieces, nephews and other relatives.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Rev. S. L.
Hagan,
pastor of the Church of the Redeemer of
Cairo, officiated.
Interment was made in the Thistlewood
Cemetery.
G. A.
James
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
(O M.
Mason married Catherine Deale
on 21 Dec 1893, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
His death certificate states that
Oscar Marion
Mason, farmer, was born 1 Apr 1859, in Monmouth, Ill., the son of
Benjamin F.
Mason
and Elizabeth
Campbell, natives of Indiana, died 8 Dec
1939, in Pulaski Co., Ill., husband of
Catherine
Mason, and was buried at
Mounds, Ill.
His marker in Beechwood Cemetery
reads:
Catherine
Mason
Feb. 19, 1860 July 30, 1935 Oscar M.
Mason
April 1, 1859 Dec. 8, 1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 15 Dec 1939:
Pulaski County Pioneer Dies Friday Night
Oscar M. Mason
Oscar Marion
Mason, whose farm home was near America, died at his home Friday
night, December 8, at the age of 80 years.
Mr.
Mason was born at Monmouth, Illinois, coming with his parents to
America community in 1865, at the age of six
years.
He became a successful farmer and a
prominent member of the community, having
served one term as county commissioner,
several terms as road district commissioner
and as school director.
He is survived by one brother, W. C.
Mason,
of America; two sisters, Mrs. Mary
Steers of America and Mrs. Rose
Leidigh of Jackson, Mo.; also several
nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held at the
family residence Sunday afternoon, December
10, at two o’clock with the Rev. S. L.
Hagan,
pastor of the Church of the Redeemer of
Cairo, officiating.
Interment was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery, Mounds, with G. A.
James
Funeral Service directing.
CARD OF THANKS
We desire to express our sincere
thanks to our friends and neighbors for
their kindness during the illness and
following the death of our dear mother, Mrs.
Clara
Beedle. We also wish to
thank Mr. J. C.
Mench,
the Rev. J. Rue
Reid
and the Rev. Earl
Throgmorton; those who sang, the donors
of the beautiful flowers and those who
offered the used of their cars.
All your kindnesses will be held in
grateful remembrance.
THE CHILDREN
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 22 Dec 1939:
L. E. Endicott Killed by Bull Last Saturday
L. E.
Endicott, a farmer of Villa Ridge, 70 years of age, was killed by a
Jersey bull sometime after 10 o’clock last
Saturday morning.
No one saw the tragedy and it was not
until noon when Mr.
Endicott did not come to the house, that
search was made and his mangled and beaten
body
was found in a pasture in which a
Jersey bull was kept.
The tragedy which had happened is
easy to picture.
The bull made a rush, knocked him
down, and then kneeling butted and gored him
until hardly a bone was left unbroken in his
body.
Mr.
Endicott has nearly always kept Jersey
bulls, and some of them have been vicious,
and the one that he had at this time was not
considered a gentle animal.
A younger man might have dodged or
have fled the charge of a bull, but once
down, a bull is quick to take advantage to
crush and gore the life from anyone.
Mr.
Endicott was a prominent farmer at Villa Ridge.
He has lived there all of his life
and taken interest in community affairs.
His wife and one daughter, Miss
Margaret; and one son, Orval; survive, along
with two brothers who live at Villa Ridge,
C. W. and R. B.; a third brother at
Saskatchewan, Canada, E. C.; and one sister,
Mrs. D. M.
Redden of Detroit.
Funeral series were held Wednesday
afternoon at Villa Ridge with Rev. James
Tucker officiating.
Nephews served as casket bearers and
interment was in the Thistlewood Cemetery.
(Louis E.
Endicott married Martha E. Redden on 20 Dec 1899, in Pulaski Co.,
Ill.
His death certificate states that
Louis Eugene
Endicott, farmer, was born 15 Aug 1869,
in Villa Ridge, Ill., the son of George W.
Endicott, a native of Ohio, and Martha
Endicott, a native of Illinois, died 16
Dec 1939, in Pulaski Co., Ill., husband of
Mattie
Endicott, and was buried
at Mounds.
His marker in Beechwood Cemetery at
Mounds, Ill., reads:
Louis E.
Endicott 1869-1939
Martha E.
Endicott 1876-1963.—Darrel
Dexter)
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank our many friends who
helped in the last sad rites of our
brother-in-law and uncle, Daniel E.
Rose.
The minister, Rev.
Right
of Karnak, for his kind words of sympathy
and encouragement, the singers for the songs
of hope and consolation, and to all who
helped in any way, may you in similar
trouble receive the same loving
consideration.
S. L.
Womack and Family
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 22 Dec 1939:
L. E. Endicott of Villa Ridge Killed
Saturday by Bull
L. E.
Endicott, well-known farmer of Villa Ridge, was killed Saturday,
December 16, in a pasture on his farm, gored
to death by a vicious Jersey bull.
Mr.
Endicott, age 70, had attended to his farm duties as usual that
morning.
At about ten o’clock he went to the
mailbox and then to the barn.
Members of his family did not see him
afterward and when he failed to come to the
house at the noon hour, they began to search
for him.
It was about 12:30 o’clock when they
found his body in the pasture with nearly
every bone broken.
A member of a prominent family of the
Villa Ridge community, Mr.
Endicott was a son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. G. W.
Endicott, pioneer farmers.
He was born and reared in the
neighborhood where he lived and died.
Surviving are his wife, one daughter,
Miss Margaret, and one son, Orville W.
Endicott of Villa Ridge; a sister, Mrs. D. M.
Redden of Detroit, Mich.; three brothers, Edward C. of Prince
Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada, Charles W. and
Robert B. of Villa Ridge.
Funeral services were held at the
residence Wednesday afternoon, having been
delayed awaiting the arrival of his brother
from Canada.
The Rev. James
Tucker, pastor of the Villa Ridge Union
Church officiated.
Nephews served as casket bearers.
Burial was made in Thistlewood
Cemetery, Mounds, with G. A.
James
Funeral Service in charge.
The Pulaski Enterprise,
Friday, 29 Dec 1939:
GORDON EDWARDS KILLED WHEN HIT BY AUTOMOBILE
Gordon
Edwards, age 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil
Edwards, formerly of this city, but now of Mounds, was killed
Christmas Day about 6 o’clock when he
attempted to cross the street near
Britt’s
Garage in Mounds where he was hit by a car
driven by Robert
Matson of Lafayette, Ind.
Gordon, with a companion, Carl
Brocksmith, were on their way to the
Roxy Theatre when the accident occurred.
Eye witnesses to the accident said
the boys were aware of the approaching car,
but Gordon, thinking he could cross ahead of
the car, started across.
Those who saw the accident say that
the car was going in excess of the speed
limit.
Matson stopped and with some help, took the little boy in search of
a doctor.
As soon as the victim had started for
St. Mary’s Hospital,
Matson left.
The jury recommended that the driver
of the car that struck and killed the boy be
apprehended and held for action of the grand
jury, because he had not reported the
accident to the authorities.
Gordon was known throughout the
country for his splendid entertainment in
tap dancing and also as a musician.
He was in the fourth grade at Mounds
School.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Baptist
church, with Rev. W. J.
Ward
officiating.
The following playmates served as
casket bearers:
Harry
Rice, Junior Bridwell,
James
Palmer, George
Chenai, Glenn
Varner and Bobby Cruse.
Classmates served as flower girls.
(His death certificate states that
Gordon
Edwards was born 30 Oct 1930, in Mound
City, Ill., the son of Virgil
Edwards and Helen
Reed,
natives of Mound City, Ill., died 25 Dec
1939, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill., and was
buried in Spencer Heights Cemetery at
Mounds, Pulaski Co., Ill.
His marker there reads:
Son Gordon Reed
Edwards Aug. 30, 1930 Dec. 25, 1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
From the appearance of the docket, there
will be a number of important criminal
cases.
In case of Martin
Henderson of Olmstead, colored, for murder, is one of considerable
interest and is the second trial for him.
The Mounds Independent,
Friday, 29 Dec 1939:
C. E. Hodges
Charles E.
Hodges, known to many as “Uncle Charlie,” passed away at his home,
512 Commercial Avenue, Cairo, Friday evening
at 7:10 o’clock after an illness of several
months.
He was 80 years old and had lived
practically his entire life at Hodges Park,
going to Cairo a year ago to make his home.
He is survived by a half-brother,
Herbert
Hodges of Cairo; two nephews, Howard
Hodges, student at the University of
Illinois, and Fred
Hodges of Unity; an uncle, George
Hodges of Unity; and other relatives.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at Unity Baptist Church, Hodges
Park, Rev. W. P.
Pearce, pastor of the Cairo Baptist Church, officiating.
Interment was made in the family lot
at Unity.
(Charles E.
Hodges married Alice Murry
on 22 Sep 1886, in Pulaski Co., Ill.
The death certificate of Charles E.
Hodges, of 512 Commercial Ave., Cairo,
Ill., states he was born 30 May 1859, in
Illinois, the son of John
Hodges, a native of Illinois, and
Josephene
Wicker, a native of Missouri, died 22
Dec 1939, in Cairo, Alexander Co., Ill.,
widower of Alice
Hodges, and was buried in Unity Cemetery in Unity, Alexander Co., Ill.
His marker reads:
Charles E.
Hodges May 30, 1859 Dec. 22, 1939.—Darrel
Dexter)
R. M. Yoder
Rufus M.
Yoder, age 86, passed away at the home of his nephew, Homer
Beegle, west of here Saturday, Dec. 24,
of apoplexy.
He is survived by one sister, Mrs.
Elizabeth
Beegle; one brother, Rev. S. B.
Yoder
of Lindsey, Calif.; and many other
relatives.
He has made his home with Mr.
Beegle for the past 14 years.
Funeral services were held Monday and
interment was made in Morrison Cemetery near
Brookport, Ill.
J. T.
Ryan
Funeral Service was in charge of
arrangements.
(Rufus M.
Yoder
married Martha J.
Bonifield on 8 Mar 1881, in Massac Co.,
Ill.
Rufus
Yoder
married Rebecca Ann Hall
Henly
on 27 Jan 1886, in Massac Co., Ill.
His death certificate states that
Rufus M.
Yoder,
retired farmer,
was born 22 Nov 1853, in Tennessee, the
son of Pink
Yoder,
died 23 Dec 1939, in Pulaski Co., Ill.,
widower of Becky Ann
Yoder, and was buried at
Brookport, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
R. E. Serbian
Robert E.
Serbian, age 55, passed away at his home, 512 Twentieth Street,
Cairo, Monday morning at 3:30 o’clock.
Mr.
Serbian was a contractor by trade.
He was born in Cairo and had always
lived there
Surviving are his wife, Fay; a son,
Robert Frank; a sister, Mrs. Frank
Fitzgerald; a brother, Harry, all of
Cairo; and other relatives.
Funeral services were held at the
funeral home Wednesday afternoon at 1
o’clock with the Rev. C. A.
Jacob
of the Lutheran Church, assisted by the Rev.
MacVey pastor of the First Methodist
Church, officiating.
Interment was made in Beech Grove
Cemetery, Mounds.
Casket bearers were Andrew
Serbian, Harry
Serbian, Otto Serbian,
Henry
Serbian, Carl
Oehler and Carl
Grindler.
(His death certificate states that
Robert Ernest
Serbian, contractor, of 512 20th
St., Cairo, Ill., was born 9 Feb 1884, in
Cairo, Ill., the son of Julius
Serbian, a native of Poland, and Carrie
Grindler, a native of Milwaukee, Wis.,
died 25 Dec 1939, in Cairo, Alexander Co.,
Ill., husband of Fay
Serbian, and was buried in Thistlewood
Cemetery, Mounds, Ill.—Darrel
Dexter)
Nine-Year-Old Boy Killed by Auto on
Christmas Day
Gordon
Edwards, nine-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil
Edwards, of North McKinley Avenue, met
death Christmas afternoon at about six
o’clock when struck by an automobile while
attempting to cross the highway at the
intersection of First Street and in front of
Britt’s
Garage.
With him was another boy, Carl
Brocksmith, but Gordon evidently thought
he could make the crossing in time to avoid
the car, according to eye witnesses of the
tragedy.
The car was driven by Robert
Matson of Lafayette, Ind., and with him
was his bride, the former Shirley
Kaplan of Peoria, whom he had married
that day.
They were
en
route to New Orleans.
Matson stopped his car and with the assistance of Carmean
Parker, who saw the accident, went in
search of a doctor.
Finding none, the boy was taken to
St. Mary’s Hospital, Cairo, in
Ryan’s ambulance, where he was pronounced dead from a broken neck.
Matson, who was said to have been exceeding the speed limit, then
proceeded on his way south.
It was later reported that he had
been arrested in Memphis, Tenn., for failing
to report the accident to the local
authorities.
Gordon was a student in the fourth
grade of the Thistlewood School and was well
known in Mounds and vicinity as an
entertainer.
He had excelled in tap dancing and
singing and had won a number of contests
here and in Cairo.
Funeral services were held Wednesday
afternoon at three o’clock at the Frist
Baptist Church with the Rev. W. J.
Ward
of Dongola, assisted by the Rev. Earl
Throgmorton, officiating.
Harry
Rice, Junior Bridewell,
James
Palmer, George
Cheniae, Glynn
Varner and Bobby Cruse,
playmates, served as casket bearers.
Classmates served as flower girls.
Burial was in Spencer Heights
Cemetery, James T.
Ryan
conducting.
IN MEMORIAM
In loving memory of our Dear Husband
and Father we dedicate these lines.
Chris H.
Bauer,
born April 28, 1887 – died Dec. 29, 1937.
Mrs. Dollie
Bauer Eleanor and Harry
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