1918 Sep 12– Mrs Albert Lindsey died Sunday after a long illness. The funeral was held on<\/p>\n
Monday.<\/p>\n
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1918 Sep 19– D J Adkison died at his home Saturday morning from typhoid and was buried<\/p>\n
Sunday at the Pleasant Ridge cemetery with Masonic honors.<\/p>\n
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Wilhelm<\/strong> Schmidt<\/strong>, age 82, a German, who lived the life of a hermit was found dead<\/p>\n in his cabin last Friday (September 13, 1918).\u00a0 Charles Garrett found the body. The old man had not been<\/p>\n seen for the past 2 or 3 weeks and no foot tracks were noticed abt his place.\u00a0 He came<\/p>\n to this part of Florida abt 30 yrs ago and his only confidants were Mr & Mrs Leight<\/strong>.<\/p>\n He homesteaded 160 acres on Freeport road, build a shack and lived alone. His wife<\/p>\n having died in Germany before he came to America.\u00a0\u00a0 He had no family\u00a0 in this country,<\/p>\n and left, by will, all his property to Mr & Mrs Leight.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1918 Sep 26– W D Williams<\/strong> of Westville died Wednesday of last week and was buried there<\/p>\n on Thursday. Mr Williams was an old newspaper man, establishing the Advertiser,<\/p>\n now published by his son, E A Williams<\/strong>, at Bonifay, at Cerro Gordo in 1902.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mrs James<\/strong> Booth<\/strong> died at Dorcas Thursday (September 26, 1918) from Spanish influenza. The funeral was<\/p>\n held Saturday, by Rev Daniel<\/strong> Anderson<\/strong>, her first cousin, preaching the sermon.<\/p>\n Mrs Booth was reared in the Sandy Creek neighborhood was 60 yrs of age and was<\/p>\n the daughter of Norman<\/strong> L Anderson<\/strong>. She removed to Covington Co Ala with her<\/p>\n parents where she married Mr Booth and then to Florida.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Contributed by Lois Danley and Sharon Watson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1918 Sep 12– Mrs Albert Lindsey died Sunday after a long illness. The funeral was held on Monday. 1918 Sep 19– D J Adkison died at his home Saturday morning from typhoid and was buried Sunday at the Pleasant … Continue reading