{"id":1591,"date":"2012-07-03T11:36:34","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T17:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waltoncountyheritage.org\/wp\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2012-07-03T11:36:34","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T17:36:34","slug":"the-defuniak-herald-february-1918-obituaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/2012\/07\/the-defuniak-herald-february-1918-obituaries\/","title":{"rendered":"The DeFuniak Herald – February 1918 – Obituaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

1918 Feb 14– Mrs D D McCaskill<\/strong> died Saturday in Pensacola at her home. The remains were brought<\/p>\n

to Miami where burial to place.\u00a0 While removing muffins from the gas oven, her apron caught<\/p>\n

in one of the burners and soon enveloped her in flames. Mr McCaskill<\/strong> who was home, was<\/p>\n

burnt pretty badly about the arms while trying to extinguish the flames. She was immediately<\/p>\n

taken to hospital but her suffering ended several hours later when she succumbed.\u00a0 Before<\/p>\n

her marriage she was Miss Myrtle<\/strong> Willard<\/strong> and was a DeLand resident, later the family<\/p>\n

moved to Miami.\u00a0 She leaves a mother father, 2 sisters, and a brother and husband.<\/p>\n

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1918 Feb 21– William<\/strong> E Douglass<\/strong> died last Thursday in Pittsburgh.\u00a0 Young man was attending King\u2019s<\/p>\n

School of Oratory and Expression. The body arrived here Sunday morning.\u00a0 His father left<\/p>\n

here to rush to his bedside having arrived some few hours before his death.\u00a0 Mr Douglas was a<\/p>\n

young man of 27 yrs, and for a number of years he was effected with defective speech and<\/p>\n

his course of 17 months in Dr King\u2019s school had done much toward curing him. He leaves a<\/p>\n

father, mother and sister Mrs Chas<\/strong> Morris<\/strong> of Laura, Miss.\u00a0 His uncle from Pensacola, Mr Rice<\/strong>,<\/p>\n

attended as did an aunt of the same place.<\/p>\n

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Mrs J A McCall<\/strong> died last Friday night, February 15, 1918.\u00a0 She was a lady of 66 years, moving here from Alabama some 20 yrs ago and a mother of 12 children, 3 of which have preceded her in death, one boy and two girls.\u00a0 Survivors are Mrs Holmes<\/strong>, Mrs Danford<\/strong>; Mrs Marzoni<\/strong>; Mrs Green<\/strong>, Mrs Murray<\/strong>, Miss Gussie<\/strong>, Hugh<\/strong>, Sam<\/strong> & \u201cJeff<\/strong>\u201d McCall.\u00a0 Services were Saturday with interment in city cemetery.<\/p>\n

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Mrs Marguarite<\/strong> Shugart<\/strong> died at her home on Saturday (February 16, 1918) and was laid to rest in city cemetery on Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mrs. Shugart came here f rom Nebraska some 20 yrs ago and since the death of her husband a few years past has lived a quiet life.\u00a0 She leaves a daughter, Mrs Zimmerman<\/strong> of Kilsey, Canada, a son Will<\/strong> C Shugart<\/strong> of Portland, Oregon, a sister Mrs Lucind<\/strong> Harris<\/strong> of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.<\/p>\n

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

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