Delta Co. TX - Obit for James White Slough

From: June E. Tuck  <jparks@neto.com>

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Slough, James White - He was born in Cabarras Co., N.C., and died Nov.
1913. He dropped dead on the northeast corner of the public square. He
had been suffering some smothering spell with his heart. His family
physician had given him a tonic and made him rest in the drug store., and
told him when he got home to rest. He visited Mr. White for his
purchases, telling Mr. White he had another smothering spell. Mr. White
invited him to take an easy chair and rest, but he was ambitious and did
not want to be dependent, so insisted that he could go home. After
getting a cigar he walked to where his horse and buggy were in front of
the Cooper Mercantile Co^Òs store. Uncle Jake Hurley had just walked up
to shake his hand when without warning he fell dead. The body was carried
to the North Side Pharmacy, but physicians pronounced him dead. His body
was moved to Smith Bros. Undertaking Parlor. Then removed to home of Mr.
Eugene Slough where services were conducted, with interment in the
I.O.O.F. cemetery. Mr. Slough was taken by his parents to Shelby Co.,
Tenn. When the civil war broke out, he enlisted in Co. C, 13th Tenn. He
was wounded twice, once at Franklin Co.; Tenn., and once at Corinth,
Miss. While home on furlough, suffering from a wound, he married Miss
Sallie Ellen, Jan. 5, 1865. After his discharge they lived at Oxford
until 1885 when he moved to Delta County. Nine children were born to this
union, five sons and four daughters. A widow, five sons and three
daughters survive. The children are: Elmer Slough of Ardmore, Frank of
Willington, Eugene and Will of near Cooper, Mrs. Albright and Mrs. Harris
McIntosh of Waxahachie, and Mrs. J.J. Pope