Madison County AlArchives Obituaries.....Milligan, W. G. January 1936 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace (Teal) Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net February 4, 2007, 11:29 am "The Cleburne News" Heflin, Cleburne Co., Alabama NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, JANUARY 30, 1936 MILLIGAN RITES HELD TUESDAY AT ANNISTON Anniston, Ala., Jan. 26 W.G. Milligan, 77, a Heflin resident for many years, died at 9:30 o'clock Saturday night in a Pensacola, Fla., hospital. Surviving are his wife of 2015 Leighton Avenue and a daughter Mrs. George H. Leyden of this city. The body will be brought to Anniston on Monday. Funeral services are to be announced later by Usrey Funeral Home. Mr. Milligan was born August 15, 1859 in Madison county and received his early education at Huntsville and Gadsden schools, later attending Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tenn. For some time, he was engaged in the mercantile business at Heflin until because of ill health, he went to Florida. A son Marcus, Worth Texas, was killed during the World War. WELL KNOWN HERE Funeral services for Mr. Milligan who was well known in Heflin were conducted Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock at the home of his daughter Mrs. George Leyden in Anniston, the Rev. Melton Clark of the First Presbyterian church officiating. Burial was in Edgemont Cemetery. Pallbearers were Dr. Frank Layden, J.O. Owens, J.A. Morgan, S.A. Russell, Dr. T.C. Neal and E.L. Turner. Surviving Mr. Milligan are his widow and daughter of Anniston. For many years, Mr. Milligan was engaged in the mercantile business here at at one time he and W. Owen Black were editors and publishers of the Cleburne New Era, a newspaper etablished in Heflin in 1890 by the late W.A. Porter. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/madison/obits/m/milligan834gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb