Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Poulk, J. J.  July 8 1909
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The Cairo Messenger, Friday, July 30, 1909
And Still They Pass On -- On
The old people keep going.  One after another, men and women from among our 
very best citizens, old, elderly, middle aged, and younger, turn aside from the 
highway of life into divergent, shadowy paths that lead to open graves.  The 
noisy procession moves forward, apace -- keeps moving; but more and more 
frequently comes the breakaway, as friend after friend passes on by the gloomy 
trail of death, into the awful stillness, the ineffable silence, of the tomb.  
And, now, the hand that has during the months past registered the decease of so 
many from among the beloved and honored of our community must record another.

Mr. J. J. Poulk, whose home, during his entire life of sixty-four years, was 
less than five miles distant from Cairo, died, after a brief illness, at the 
residence of his son, in Oklahoma, on the 8th day of the present month (July).

Mr. Poulk had been in a somewhat enfeebled physical condition, for some time, 
and had only recently removed his residence to Oklahoma, in the hope of 
substantial recuperation following upon the pleasure of a happy reunion with 
his son and family.  But, alas! the hope was vain.  Within a few weeks after 
the sweet meeting with his boy in the distant West, the hand of God touched him 
and he passed away.  And now his body lies out there in that alien soil, two 
thousand miles away.

"Little John" Poulk, as he was affectionately called by many of the friends who 
knew him best, was one of our most worthy citizens.  Quiet, unobtrusive, 
absolutely inoffensive, yet faithful, honest and firm in the rectitude of his 
character, he was a model citizen, whose life was a benediction to the 
community in which he dwelt.  He had been a consistent member of the Methodist 
church, for about forty-five years and he possessed the universal confidence of 
his brethren.

Mr. Poulk's wife had been a helpless invalid, for a number of weary years 
preceding his death, and, now, sad and lonely she survives.  The only other 
members of his immediate family left living are his son, Willie Poulk, of 
Oklahoma, and his daughter, Mrs. W. J. Hurst, of this (Grady) county.  They and 
other beloved relatives have in their bereavement, the sympathy of many devoted 
friends, and numbers beside this writer feel that they can wish for his 
grandchildren no better boon that, each, to live such a life as their 
grandfather lived.
Robert H. Harris   

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