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The Farmerville Gazette
Wednesday, 14 Sept 1898, page 3, column 2

"CAPT. T. WOODIE LEE DEAD. Monday afternoon the sad intelligence was received over 
the telephone that Capt. T. Woodie Lee had died early that morning in West Monroe, 
after several days illness with typhoid fever. The disease was contracted while 
stationed at Miami and Jacksonville, Fla., with the troops of the First Louisiana 
Regiment. When Capt. lee was first taken sick he went home on a furlough, where the 
best medical treatment and tenderest nursing was given him; but, alas! the malarial 
germ of Miami had so filled his system that it was impossible to eradicate it, and 
after being confined to a sick bed a little over three weeks he succumbed to the attack.
Capt. Lee was the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Lee, Jr. He was born in Farmerville 
on November 4, 1873, and hence was in his 27th year at the time of his death. He was 
graduated about 2 years ago at the State University of Baton Rouge with high honors. 
Was elected captain of a military company at Baton Rouge, and at the outbreak of the 
Spanish-American war, answering to the call of his country, he joined his company 
which was mustered in the First Louisiana Regiment for army service. While in that 
service he contracted the fever that ended his young life. Mr. Lee was a promising 
young man with many noble traits of his character, well fitted for the duties of life. 
His untimely death is a severe blow to his relatives and many friends. To them THE 
GAZETTE extends sincere sympathy in their sad bereavement."

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