{"id":1626,"date":"2012-07-14T11:26:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T17:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waltoncountyheritage.org\/wp\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2012-07-14T11:26:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T17:26:52","slug":"the-defuniak-herald-february-1921-obituaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/2012\/07\/the-defuniak-herald-february-1921-obituaries\/","title":{"rendered":"The DeFuniak Herald &#8211; February 1921 &#8211; Obituaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1921 Feb 24&#8211; <strong>Alexander<\/strong> <strong>Douglass<\/strong> <strong>McKinnon <\/strong>was born in Walton Co on May 6 1842, one of 13 children born to his parents, <strong>John<\/strong> L &amp; <strong>Catharine<\/strong> McKinnon.\u00a0 Only one brother survives, Daniel L <strong>McKinnon<\/strong> of Marianna.\u00a0 Mr McKinnon was twice happily married, first to Miss <strong>Ella<\/strong> D <strong>Speight<\/strong> of Washington Co on March 13, 1873, this marriage resulted in 4 children, Dr <strong>Clarence<\/strong> <strong>McKinnon<\/strong> of Jacksonville, Mr <strong>Curtis<\/strong> <strong>McKinnon<\/strong> of Atlanta, Mr. <strong>Joseph<\/strong> A <strong>McKinnon<\/strong> and Mrs <strong>Annie<\/strong> <strong>McKinnon<\/strong> <strong>Davis<\/strong> of this place.\u00a0 On Jan 17 1907 he was married to <strong>Laura<\/strong> <strong>Hannah<\/strong> of Pensacola who also survives him. He was a Confederate soldier and passed away suddenly on Saturday Feb 19, 1921 in Pensacola where he spent most of his time in the past months.\u00a0 Services held Monday Feb 21 in DeFuniak with burial in Euchee Valley cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vernan<\/strong> <strong>Bethany<\/strong> <strong>Alford<\/strong>, the 13 yr daughter of Mr J B <strong>Alford<\/strong> of Alaqua, died Saturday (February 19, 1921)\u00a0 at the hospital in Pensacola where she was carried for appendicitis. The body was brought to DeFuniak and buried at Alaqua on Monday. (card of thanks in Apr 7 paper shows J B &amp; <strong>Homer<\/strong> B Alford)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Contributed by Lois Danley and Sharon Watson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1921 Feb 24&#8211; Alexander Douglass McKinnon was born in Walton Co on May 6 1842, one of 13 children born to his parents, John L &amp; Catharine McKinnon.\u00a0 Only one brother survives, Daniel L McKinnon of Marianna.\u00a0 Mr McKinnon was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/2012\/07\/the-defuniak-herald-february-1921-obituaries\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[96,10,14],"tags":[239,1789],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1921-02-february","category-deaths","category-herald","tag-alexander-douglass-mckinnon","tag-vernan-bethany-alford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","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=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wcgs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}