Marshall County AlArchives Obituaries.....Hardeman, Mr. & Mrs. W. I. August 1938
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"The Cleburne News"
Heflin, Cleburne Co., Alabama

NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, AUGUST 25, 1938

RAT POISON FATAL TO MAN AND WIFE

Albertville, Ala., Aug. 19

Mr. and Mrs. W.I. Hardeman of near Albertville were dead today from the same 
cause and were the same age to the day when they died. They were killed by 
rat poison which became inadvertantly mixed with the food they ate 
Wednesday. Mrs. Hardeman told authorities she had mixed the cereal with the 
poison to get rid of rats at her home and that when she was preparing 
breakfast yesterday she used the box containing the mixture by mistake. Her 
husband, she said, ate a large of portion and was taken violently ill. He 
died late in the afternoon. Mr. Hardeman, a prominent farmer, died a few 
hours after eating the poison. His wife died early today. At the time of 
their deaths they had both reached the age of 67 years, 9 months and 24 
days. They had been married 41 years.

Funeral services for the couple will be held Saturday at 11 o'clock at the 
New Harmony church at Albertville, with burial in the church cemetery. The 
Rev. Melvin Johnson will officiate. Surviving are two sons, J.B. and W.C. 
Hardeman and a daughter Mrs. Arthur M. Galloway.

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RELATIVES OF MRS. GLASGOW

Mrs. A.H. Glasgow and son Wilmer, attended the funeral last Saturday of Mr. 
and Mrs. W. I. Hardeman near Albertville. Mrs. Hardeman was the sister of 
Mrs. Glasgow's mother and was well known before her marriage in Cleburne 
county as Miss Levia Walker. Mr. and Mrs. Hardeman were the unfortunate 
couple who ate the cereal which had previously been mixed with rat poison 
and was cooked through a mistake.

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