B. F. CLEGG SUCCUMBS TO
INFIRMITIES OF AGE
Aged and Respected Citizen Passes
Away After Fortnight’s Illness and
Funeral Will be Held Today
B. F. Clegg, an old and very highly esteemed resident of Pine Bluff, died about 8:20 o’clock last evening, at his home, 1502 Main Street, after an illness which had extended over the past two weeks.
Mr. Clegg was 80 years of age, and his advanced years had so weakened his vitality that when he was stricken ill, it was known to the members of the family and to the attending physicians that there was slight hope of his ability to successfully combat the disease. News of his death last night, while not unexpected, nevertheless was received with many expressions of sorrow and regret.
Mr. Clegg had been a resident of Pine Bluff for the past quarter century, coming here 26 years ago from Rock Springs, Drew County, where he had lived very many years, and where he had held prominent place in the life of the community and county. He was very widely known in Pine Bluff and this section, and was very popular with all who knew him.
Deceased is survived by his widow and by five children, as well as by nine grand children. The children are Mrs. V. S. McLellan, Mrs. M. J. Mead, Mrs. S. C. Farrar and Claud Clegg of Pine Bluff and Mrs. Ione C. Leaming of Little Rock, and the grandchildren are Virgil and James McLellan, Virginius and Curtis Mead, Ione and Nanny Farrar and Elizabeth, Frank and Claud Clegg, Jr. He leaves also one sister, Mrs. McFarland of Little River, Texas, who has just returned home after a visit here with Mr. Clegg, and a nephew, J. West Clegg of Pine Bluff.
The funeral will be held at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon, from the residence, and services will be conducted by Rev. W. C. Watson, presiding elder of the Pine Bluff district of the Little Rock Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mr. Clegg had been an active and consistent member of the Lakeside Methodist Church. The burial will be in Bellwood Cemetery, and the following friends will serve as pallbearers:
J. P. Alexander, W. H. Lauhon, C. C. Handly, Cliff Reeves, Theo Jones, Frank Franey, J. West Clegg and D. B. Niven.
Pine Bluff Daily Graphic
April 24, 1917
Page 3
INFIRMITIES OF AGE
Aged and Respected Citizen Passes
Away After Fortnight’s Illness and
Funeral Will be Held Today
B. F. Clegg, an old and very highly esteemed resident of Pine Bluff, died about 8:20 o’clock last evening, at his home, 1502 Main Street, after an illness which had extended over the past two weeks.
Mr. Clegg was 80 years of age, and his advanced years had so weakened his vitality that when he was stricken ill, it was known to the members of the family and to the attending physicians that there was slight hope of his ability to successfully combat the disease. News of his death last night, while not unexpected, nevertheless was received with many expressions of sorrow and regret.
Mr. Clegg had been a resident of Pine Bluff for the past quarter century, coming here 26 years ago from Rock Springs, Drew County, where he had lived very many years, and where he had held prominent place in the life of the community and county. He was very widely known in Pine Bluff and this section, and was very popular with all who knew him.
Deceased is survived by his widow and by five children, as well as by nine grand children. The children are Mrs. V. S. McLellan, Mrs. M. J. Mead, Mrs. S. C. Farrar and Claud Clegg of Pine Bluff and Mrs. Ione C. Leaming of Little Rock, and the grandchildren are Virgil and James McLellan, Virginius and Curtis Mead, Ione and Nanny Farrar and Elizabeth, Frank and Claud Clegg, Jr. He leaves also one sister, Mrs. McFarland of Little River, Texas, who has just returned home after a visit here with Mr. Clegg, and a nephew, J. West Clegg of Pine Bluff.
The funeral will be held at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon, from the residence, and services will be conducted by Rev. W. C. Watson, presiding elder of the Pine Bluff district of the Little Rock Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mr. Clegg had been an active and consistent member of the Lakeside Methodist Church. The burial will be in Bellwood Cemetery, and the following friends will serve as pallbearers:
J. P. Alexander, W. H. Lauhon, C. C. Handly, Cliff Reeves, Theo Jones, Frank Franey, J. West Clegg and D. B. Niven.
Pine Bluff Daily Graphic
April 24, 1917
Page 3
B. F. CLEGG SUCCUMBS TO
INFIRMITIES OF AGE
Aged and Respected Citizen Passes
Away After Fortnight’s Illness and
Funeral Will be Held Today
B. F. Clegg, an old and very highly esteemed resident of Pine Bluff, died about 8:20 o’clock last evening, at his home, 1502 Main Street, after an illness which had extended over the past two weeks.
Mr. Clegg was 80 years of age, and his advanced years had so weakened his vitality that when he was stricken ill, it was known to the members of the family and to the attending physicians that there was slight hope of his ability to successfully combat the disease. News of his death last night, while not unexpected, nevertheless was received with many expressions of sorrow and regret.
Mr. Clegg had been a resident of Pine Bluff for the past quarter century, coming here 26 years ago from Rock Springs, Drew County, where he had lived very many years, and where he had held prominent place in the life of the community and county. He was very widely known in Pine Bluff and this section, and was very popular with all who knew him.
Deceased is survived by his widow and by five children, as well as by nine grand children. The children are Mrs. V. S. McLellan, Mrs. M. J. Mead, Mrs. S. C. Farrar and Claud Clegg of Pine Bluff and Mrs. Ione C. Leaming of Little Rock, and the grandchildren are Virgil and James McLellan, Virginius and Curtis Mead, Ione and Nanny Farrar and Elizabeth, Frank and Claud Clegg, Jr. He leaves also one sister, Mrs. McFarland of Little River, Texas, who has just returned home after a visit here with Mr. Clegg, and a nephew, J. West Clegg of Pine Bluff.
The funeral will be held at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon, from the residence, and services will be conducted by Rev. W. C. Watson, presiding elder of the Pine Bluff district of the Little Rock Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mr. Clegg had been an active and consistent member of the Lakeside Methodist Church. The burial will be in Bellwood Cemetery, and the following friends will serve as pallbearers:
J. P. Alexander, W. H. Lauhon, C. C. Handly, Cliff Reeves, Theo Jones, Frank Franey, J. West Clegg and D. B. Niven.
Pine Bluff Daily Graphic
April 24, 1917
Page 3
INFIRMITIES OF AGE
Aged and Respected Citizen Passes
Away After Fortnight’s Illness and
Funeral Will be Held Today
B. F. Clegg, an old and very highly esteemed resident of Pine Bluff, died about 8:20 o’clock last evening, at his home, 1502 Main Street, after an illness which had extended over the past two weeks.
Mr. Clegg was 80 years of age, and his advanced years had so weakened his vitality that when he was stricken ill, it was known to the members of the family and to the attending physicians that there was slight hope of his ability to successfully combat the disease. News of his death last night, while not unexpected, nevertheless was received with many expressions of sorrow and regret.
Mr. Clegg had been a resident of Pine Bluff for the past quarter century, coming here 26 years ago from Rock Springs, Drew County, where he had lived very many years, and where he had held prominent place in the life of the community and county. He was very widely known in Pine Bluff and this section, and was very popular with all who knew him.
Deceased is survived by his widow and by five children, as well as by nine grand children. The children are Mrs. V. S. McLellan, Mrs. M. J. Mead, Mrs. S. C. Farrar and Claud Clegg of Pine Bluff and Mrs. Ione C. Leaming of Little Rock, and the grandchildren are Virgil and James McLellan, Virginius and Curtis Mead, Ione and Nanny Farrar and Elizabeth, Frank and Claud Clegg, Jr. He leaves also one sister, Mrs. McFarland of Little River, Texas, who has just returned home after a visit here with Mr. Clegg, and a nephew, J. West Clegg of Pine Bluff.
The funeral will be held at 3:30 o’clock this afternoon, from the residence, and services will be conducted by Rev. W. C. Watson, presiding elder of the Pine Bluff district of the Little Rock Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mr. Clegg had been an active and consistent member of the Lakeside Methodist Church. The burial will be in Bellwood Cemetery, and the following friends will serve as pallbearers:
J. P. Alexander, W. H. Lauhon, C. C. Handly, Cliff Reeves, Theo Jones, Frank Franey, J. West Clegg and D. B. Niven.
Pine Bluff Daily Graphic
April 24, 1917
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