The Breeze – October 13, 1910 – Page 4

Last Monday night the body of Mr. F. M. Hoyt, one of the best and well thought of citizens of DeFuniak was brought here for interment, the funeral taking place Tuesday evening at 3:30 and the body being laid to rest in the City cemetery.

Mr. Hoyt left here some time ago for Thayer, Mo., for treatment and at which place he died. Some years ago he was badly bruised in a mill wreck and had never fully recovered and which in his older day told on him. Mr. Hoyt bore the reputation at one time as being the strongest man in town and who followed the pursuit of a carpenter. His death will be a loss to our community and his many friends who read this account of it will be greatly grieved.

Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt came here about thirty years ago from Michigan and since that time have been among DeFuniak’s most highly respected citizens. He was 59 years old at the time of his death and leaves a wife to mourn his loss but was childless. those who were called here to attend the funeral were Misses Mary Newcomb and Hanna Robinson both of whom were his wife’s sisters.

A large crowd of friends attended the funeral and followed the body to its last resting place to pay their last honor to the one they all loved.

THE BREEZE takes this means of expressing its sympathy in this hour of darkness to the bereaved ones.

[Contributed by Michael Strickland]

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