Monroe Pettigrew Obituary, Hempstead County, AR *********************************************************** Submitted by: Cara Flinn - None Date: 8/19/2006 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** Monroe Pettigrew April 25, 1924 The Fulton County Democrat The Fulton County Democrat Friday, April 25, 1924 Vol. XXXIII, No. 37 Page 1 A Good Man Gone! Monroe Pettigrew, aged 76, died suddenly last Tuesday night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Newt Blagg, at Hope, Hempstead county. He had not been complaining very much and was the same jovial, good humored soul to the end. Mr. Pettigrew as a member of the G.A. R. post here, also of three lodges of the Masonic order, Knights Templar, Royal Arch Chapter and Blue Lodge. He came to this country with Dr. M.L. Bush, deceased, thirty years ago, and made this country one of its real good citizens. He raised his family here, a family we are all proud of, all girls. He is survived by five daugyters [sic]: Mrs. Ed. H. Johnson, Hot Springs; Mrs. Dora Tyler, Denver, Colo.: Mrs. P.N. Blagg, Hope; Mrs. Fred Robertson, Fr. Worh [sic], Texas, and one sister, Mrs. E.M. Woodford, Burlington, Kans. The body arrived here Saturday afternoon on train No. 104, and was kept in the Masonic hall until noon Sunday, when it was placed in the M.E. Church, South, where the funeral service was conducted by Rev. Allen D. Stewart, the pastor, under the auspices of the three Masonic lodges. After the funeral service in the church the procession was taken up to the Masonic cemetery at Fryatt, a plot of ground at Fryatt dedicated to the Masons by that grand old citizen, Wm. Fryatt. ------------------------ Page 4 The funeral at the Methodist church and the burial in the Fryatt cemetery last Sunday of Monroe Pettigrew were both well attended.