August 1915 Obituaries
1915 August 5– Bud Penton, injured on the Harbeson’s skidder last Tuesday, died Thursday and the
body was shipped to his home in Mississippi that night for burial. His mother came wednes-
day, but he did not recognize her.
1915 August 5– Mr S M McEachern of Ponce de Leon on Sunday was taken ill with a servere headache,
for which he took patent headache tablets. Getting no relief he took two aspririn tablets. Still
no relief so physician gave him a dose of morphine. Soon after he dropped into a deep sleep,
it being impossible to rouse him from this stupor, he died Tuesday forenoon.
Compiled by Lois Danley and Sharon Watson