James and Isabella's son, Charles, called Charlie, manager of the Del Rio Ray Ranch, came North to his sister Elizabeth's funeral and, upon returning South to Del Rey, he, too, contracted the devastating germ, influenza, and fifteen days after his sister's death he too lay dead amid the wildly cheering and intoxicating excitement of Armistice (end of WW 1), and he also had his funeral services said for him in the once happy drawing room.
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James and Isabella's son, Charles, called Charlie, manager of the Del Rio Ray Ranch, came North to his sister Elizabeth's funeral and, upon returning South to Del Rey, he, too, contracted the devastating germ, influenza, and fifteen days after his sister's death he too lay dead amid the wildly cheering and intoxicating excitement of Armistice (end of WW 1), and he also had his funeral services said for him in the once happy drawing room.
Source: https://oaklandwiki.org/James_Smilie?&redirected_from=james%20a%20smilie
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