Harrison County MsArchives News....."Hayward Sprinkel not dead" 1910
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David Sprinkle JSpri24340@aol.com March 28, 2010, 11:53 pm

Daily Herald Newspaper, Biloxi, MS 1910
Daily Herald March 9, 1910 Biloxi, Miss.
 
Hayward Sprinkel not dead
 
He arrived in Biloxi with his wife and children and very much surprised at  
the news.
 
It was thought that he was dead at Cottondale.  
 
Relatives and friends had been expecting a corpse at Biloxi since last 
Sunday morning - undertaker waits in vain. 
 
Biloxi, March 9, a mysterious case of the dead returning to life, or  one 
with similar aspects, developed in Biloxi yesterday afternoon upon the  
receipt of a telegram announcing that Hayward Sprinkels, of this  place 
was alive in New Orleans. A telegram received by relatives in this city 
last Saturday announced that he was dead at Cottondale, Florida, relations 
of supposedly the dead man, local Woodman of the World and an undertaker 
had been waiting for the corpse ever since Sunday morning.

Hayward Sprinkels, his wife and two children arrived in Biloxi last night  
when it was learned that Edward Shauff, Sprinkel's brother-in-law, was dead. 

The misunderstanding occurred through the telegram which stated 
"Brother dead." Mrs Harvey thought it was her own brother dead.
Edward Shauff, who was seven-teen years of age, fell from a bakery wagon 
in New Orleans, and received a fracture of the base of the skull, having been 
carried to Charity Hospital there where he died shortly afterward, on March 2. 
The wheel of the  wagon caught the body and turned it round and round, it is 
reported 
Shauff was the driver of the wagon. The victim of the accident was  buried 
in New Orleans.

When Mr. Sprinkel's arrived in this city last night, he did not know of the  
rumor that he was dead, and was completely taken aback by the nature of 
the surprises exhibited by his acquaintances, some of whom  asked him how 
it was he was actually alive. Upon reaching the home of his folk here, Mr 
Sprinkels found his Mother,  Mrs. E. Sprinkel,  in a state of great excitement 
and  
prostration. The old lady had been much wrought up by the news of her son's 
supposed 
death, and she had almost fainted at the railroad station
upon an expected arrival of the body. His sister, Mrs Harvey, was also  
suffering from the strain from which neither have as yet recovered.

Additional Comments:
Note: Uncle Hayward Sprinkle died some 55 years later in 1965, at 91 years of 
age.
 
 
David Sprinkle,  JSpri24340@aol.com 
Alabama

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