{"id":1565,"date":"2012-06-28T07:05:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T13:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waltoncountyheritage.org\/wp\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2012-06-28T07:05:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T13:05:22","slug":"the-defuniak-herald-january-1917-obituaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/2012\/06\/the-defuniak-herald-january-1917-obituaries\/","title":{"rendered":"The DeFuniak Herald – January 1917 – Obituaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 1917 Obituaries<\/span><\/p>\n

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1917 Jan 4– Henry Wilkerson<\/strong> died on Friday, Dec 29th<\/sup> in Juniper Bay community.\u00a0 Old uncle Henry<\/p>\n

was nearing the age of 74 yrs. He arranged his own funeral service.\u00a0 Survivors are widow<\/p>\n

and children. Burial in Gum Creek Church Cemetery.<\/p>\n

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9 January 1917– \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The body of the little OWENS<\/strong> girl, who was drowned over a week ago by the collapsing of a bridge across Shoal river, was found Tuesday, January 9, about 2 miles above the railroad bridge.<\/p>\n

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1917 Jan 11–\u00a0 Mrs Henry<\/strong> Rochoff<\/strong> (nee Sadie<\/strong> Donaldson<\/strong>) died in Jacksonville, Florida. She was on<\/p>\n

her way to her home in Cuba after spending several weeks in Philadelphia visiting her<\/p>\n

husband\u2019s relatives.\u00a0 She became very ill while waiting to change train cars in Jacksonville<\/p>\n

and was carried to St Luke\u2019s hospital.\u00a0\u00a0 A message on Friday to her sister Mrs John<\/strong> Richardson<\/strong>,<\/p>\n

informed of her serious illness and Saturday a message followed revealing condition of<\/p>\n

pneumonia and other complications. Mrs Richardson left on train Saturday but her sister had<\/p>\n

passed away early Sunday morning. Funeral will be held Wednesday in Parker, Fla where the<\/p>\n

body will be laid to rest by side of her parents.\u00a0\u00a0 She leaves a husband and little son, 3 sisters,<\/p>\n

two brothers and a host of friends.<\/p>\n

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Contributed by Lois Danley and Sharon Watson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

January 1917 Obituaries   1917 Jan 4– Henry Wilkerson died on Friday, Dec 29th in Juniper Bay community.\u00a0 Old uncle Henry was nearing the age of 74 yrs. He arranged his own funeral service.\u00a0 Survivors are widow and children. Burial … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,10,14],"tags":[831,935,1329,1462],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1917-01-january","category-deaths","category-herald","tag-henry-wilkerson","tag-january-1917","tag-mrs-henry-rochoff","tag-owens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}