FUNERAL SERVICES TO BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY MORNING

Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning for Paul Aldridge, well known Lawrence County resident, whose body was found in woods near his home Monday night. Coroner J.H. Highsmith, who investigated, said death apparently was at the victim's own hand.

Aldridge, who was 35 years of age, had been in ill health several weeks, left his home on Trinity route one about 3:30 o'clock Monday afternoon.

When evening arrived and he did not return, members of the family became alarmed and a searching party was sent out to look for him. Aldridge was wearing a pair of high top boots which made a plain indentation on the earth, softened by recent rains, and tracking was not difficult.

Half a mile from the residence, in a clump of woods, the searchers came upon the lifeless body, lying face down.

Aldridge's left hand was under him and held the end of the barrel of a .20 gauge shotgun. His right hand was near the trigger guard. The load had taken effect in the right side of the neck and death apparently was instantaneous.

It was estimated that Aldridge had been dead several hours when the gruesome find was made about eight o'clock.

Officers were notified and Coroner Highsmith conducted an investigation.

The deceased is survived by his wife; two sons, Dwight and Frank; his parents, Rev. and Mrs. W.W. Aldridge; four brothers, Walter, Parker, Grady and Hewlett; three sisters, Mrs. Ethel Bridges, Mrs. Mattie Owen and Mrs. Edna Brown.

Funeral services will be conducted at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning at Morris Chapel by Rev. W.L. Morris and Rev. W.L. Barker and interment will be made there, Drinkard and Howell directing.

The following will be pallbearers: Lowell Brown, Birch Aldridge, Dee Owen, Howard Yancey, Hudson Sivley and Windell Aldridge.

The deceased was widely known in Morgan and Lawrence counties and his untimely death shocked hundreds of friends in the two counties.

DECATUR DAILY – October 26, 1937