CLEVELAND COUNTY HERALD, CLEVELAND COUNTY, AR 1903 Obituaries ------------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CLEVELAND COUNTY HERALD, CLEVELAND COUNTY, AR 1903 Obituaries File provided by Belinda Winston, Cleveland County Library All copyrights reserved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- August 13, 1903 MR. J.W. PUCKETT Died at his home about 5 miles south east of Toledo Monday morning Aug. 10th 1903 after an illness of about four weeks, Mr. J.W. Puckett, age 67 years. He was a native of Mississippi but came to Arkansas before he had reached his majority and settled near Mr. Elba. He has since resided in Smith township. When the war broke out Mr.Puckett was among the first volunteers. He joined Capt. Ben Taliaferro's company and was later with Capt. V.M. McGehee who said of him that he was one of the bravest of the brave. He was wounded in the hand once but was soon in service again and remained to the close of the war. Mr. Puckett was married twice. He first married Miss Jane Wardlaw and after her death he married Miss Francis Rogers. He was for years a strict member of the Baptist Church. He leaves a wife five boys and three daughters to mourn their loss. We extend sympathy to the bereaved relatives. He was buried Tuesday evening at Macedonia with masonic honors. Rev. J.H.W. Overton performed the last sad rites. ------------------ September 3, 1903 DR. D.H. THOMASSON The Passing of a Good Man Last Wednesday afternoon at three o'clock, Dr. David Horace Thomasson died at his home near Annover, Cleveland County, after an illness lasting through several months. Dr. Thomasson was born in South Carolina eighty four years ago and came to Arkansas some time in the fifties. He was an honor graduate of the Medical Department of the University of Philadelphia and since graduating had practiced continuously. In 1858 he was married to Miss Chilonas Bell and Monticello, Ark. During the Great War he gave his services to the Southland, and grieved at the impotency of her efforts. Since the end came and the cycle of Time has come and many times, his work has been in the interest of his fellow man. To write of him now, while he sleeps in the earth's great silence, free from the cares which he so willingly assumed, and the suffering which he bore without complaint, I am well assured of his infinite peace. He was a physician of eminence and his intellectuality surpassing many, was inferior to none. The call of duty stirred his soul as the bugle call the soldier's; never a falter, never a halt, but up and doing for God and humanity. His heart, grand and good knew no evil, and he was ever the good Samaritan to those whom he found by the way side; nor did he refuse help to any of God's creatures. The great Christ was his leader, and he kept near Him always. Denied children of his own he took others who were left alone and helpless, wrapped them about with his love, making bright and joyful the heart of the orphan. A physician of the soul as well as the body, the world is better that he has lived. The secular world has benefitted by his knowledge and mental powers and the Christian world by his simple faith and noble example. His dear wife, the beloved of his soul, is left to mourn him, and only God can comfort her. Maggie A. Burks, Pine Bluff, ARk. Sept. 1st 1903 ------------------ September 10, 1903 W.J. CUTHBERSON We regret to learn of the death of Mr. W.J. Cuthberson who died at his home near Kedron, Sunday, Sept. 6th 1903. Mr. Cuthberson was more than fifty years of age and had spent most of his life within the present limits of Cleveland County. He married a Miss McSwain with whom he lived happily. He leaves a wife and several sons and daughters to mourn their loss. To them we extend sympathy. ------------------ September 17, 1903 SAM WADE Young Sam Wade, watchman for the Amis Mill was found dead on the trussle at the Saline River Saturday. The supposition is that he was struck by a train while it was running rapidly. His body was mangled. ------------------ October 1, 1903 BENJ. H. TALIAFERRO Died at the home of Mr. J.L. DeLoney, in Little River county, Wednesday night, Sept. 23rd, 1903, of Swamp Fever, in the 23rd year of his life, Mr. Benj. H. Taliaferro. He was the son of the late Mrs. Jas. H. Taliaferro who died at Toledo in 1889. Ben was born and reared near Toledo where he always enjoyed a host of friends. He was a "big hearted fellow" who was ever ready to do all in his power for his friends. He went to Litle River county with his cousin, Mrs. DeLoney nee Brewer, last spring and has since resided in that county. Had he been spared but a short time longer he would have been back among the friends of his boyhood days, for he had so determined but his system was filled with malaria and a week before his death he was taken with swamp fever. For several days after he was taken his suffering was intense, then he apparently grew better and his friends were hopeful, but the disease was deeply rooted and death followed. Three of his brothers, Ed, Mack and Jim, and one sister, Mrs. S.J.T. Wynn and his cousin, Nick T. Brewer, were with him in his last days and ministered to his every want. They brought his remains here and laid them to rest in the cemetery at Bethlehem, near Lehigh. Rev. S.W. Rainey performed the last sad rites. He leaves two sisters, five brothers and a host of friends, of whom this writer is one to mourn their loss. ------------------ October 8, 1903 ARTHUR McCULLOUGH The destroying angel has again flapped his dark wings over a peaceful home and claimed as his victim the mother's eldest born____?___ a son in whom her dearest hopes were centered, and on whom a sweet young wife lavished her tenderest affections. Our departed friend, Arthur McCullough was born Aug 7th 1882, was married to Miss Lizzie Linsey Jan. 18th 1903, and went home to his reward Oct 1st 1903. Though sick for several months he never seemed impatient or discouraged, and when his real condition was made known to him he never complained. A few hours before death forever sealed his lips, he called the different members of the family to him and bade them good bye and assured them that he was not afraid to enter the realms of the great Unknown. His father enjoyed the very uncommon but sweet consolation of saying to his dying boy "You have ever been an obedient and dutiful son." His brother Woodmen conducted the obsequies and laid his body to rest in Prosperity graveyard. To the bereaved parents and sisters, to the lonely and brokenhearted wife we would say: Weep not for him who now is lain To sleep beneath the broken sod, For your loss is but his gain Who sleeps at peace with his dear God. A Friend ------------------ October 15, 1903 MR. BENJ. CURRY We regret to learn of the death of Mr. Benj. Curry. He died at his home in Hurricane township Wednesday October 7th 1903. He was a popular young man and will be greatly missed in the community where his entire life has been passed. ------------------ October 29, 1903 BOY BUSSEY Saturday Oct 24th the death angel, after hovering several days over the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Bussey, claimed and bore away their loving and only boy, barely three years old. He was a sweet precious child __?__ Oh how hard it was for his parents to give him up. God let him stay long enough for the __?__ strongly attached to him then took the dear little bud unto himself, where it will bloom a sweet rose forever. The Lord gave and Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Weep not dear parents, strange as it may be, to __?__ seeks the fairest flower and the most shining __?__ earth. Angels come and __?__ them on their snowy wings __?__ sun bright clime of __?__ city where sin and sorrow and death can never come. He __?__come to you, but you can __?__ A Friend