Norfolk County MA Archives Obituaries.....Peterson, John L. September 1931
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"The Cleburne News"
Heflin, Cleburne Co., Alabama 

NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, OCTOBER 1, 1931

PETERSON RITES HELD SATURDAY AT MUSCADINE

Funeral services for John L. Peterson, 71, who died suddenly at the home 
here, were conducted from the Methodist church in Muscadine at 2:30 p.m. 
Saturday, the Rev. W.A. Murphree of Birmingham and the Rev. L.S. Wessinger 
of Heflin, officiating. Interment was made in Muscadine cemetery with 
Masonic honors.

Surviving are the widow, a son Joe L. Peterson; Misses Esther and Alice 
Peterson of this city; a sister Mrs. A.G. Johnson of Quincy, Mass.

He was born at Axmar, Sweden on December 19, 1870 and came to the United 
States in May 1884. Was naturalized and took an oath of allegiance in 1891; 
educated in the grammar schools of Sweden and Connecticut, later attending 
Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. He was married in 1897 to Ina J. 
Westerlund in Quincy, Mass. By trade he was a granite cutter, being a member 
of the Granite Cutter's International Union until the time of his death. He 
moved to Alabama in 1901 and settled at Muscadine where he lived until 1928 
when he moved to Heflin. He was a member of the Congregational Church. 
Active pallbearers were W.J.Henry, J.J. Wager, C.J. McCraven, A.L. Black, 
J.M. Crumpton and J.H. Lambert.


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