Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Bruce, Joseph January 5 1919
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The Cairo Messenger, Friday, January 10, 1919 
Death and Funeral of Mr. Joseph Bruce

Mr. Joe Bruce died at the home of his sister, Mrs. Odie Jordan at Gordon 
Heights last Sunday night about 11:30 o'clock.

He returned from Camp Hancock on Monday previous to his death.  He was a little 
ill at this time.  Tuesday he seemed worse and a doctor was summoned and he 
found that he was suffering from pneumonia, which he proved not able to 
withstand.

He was 22 years of age.  During the summer of 1918, while on a visit to his 
uncle, Rev. Reynolds, in Alabama, he professed Jesus Christ and was received 
into the Baptist church by his uncle.  A few weeks later he was drafted into 
the army service.  He was a genuine Christian boy, a devoted son to his old 
widowed mother.  He possessed splendid morals.  He was also a member of the 
Woodmen of the World.

The funeral services were held at Long Branch Cemetery Monday afternoon at 
three o'clock Rev. W. C. Jones and Rev. Reynolds conducting the services.

Besides his aged mother, he leaves three sisters and four brothers to survive 
him.

They are Mesdames Henry Knight, Odie Jordan, Kedar Pyles, Messrs. Claude and Ed 
Bruce of this county, Tom Bruce of Thomasville and Chas. Bruce of Tennille, Ala.

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