The Cleburne New Era Issue of Saturday, October 28, 1899
DIED - Mr. David A. O'Keefe died at the home of his mother, Mrs. S.E. Bell, in Heflin, on Monday, October 23rd, of spinal meningitis. The deceased was born in Randolph County, Alabama on January 17, 1853 and went to Texas at the age of nineteen years and has resided in that State continuously since, his recent home being at Colorado City. About the first of the present month he arrived here on a visit to his mother and about two weeks ago was stricken with the malady of which he died. All was done to relieve his suffering and prolong his life that medical skill could suggest or loving hands administer but these means were all insufficient and in the prime of his manhood, this affectionate son and noble cherished brother yielded up his life. In his far off western home he had by diligence, industry and energy, built a handsome competency and came back here to minister to the comfort of his mother, out of his ample means, thus demonstrating his affection for her. He had never married and at the time of his death his bedside was surrounded by his mother and two brothers, C.A. and J.E. O'Keefe who had been summoned from their Texas home, and two of his sisters, besides other relatives and friends of the family. While he died far from his home, and except his own family, comparatively among strangers, yet as his body was borne from the church were the funeral services had been performed by Rev. R.B. Baird, to its last resting place in Heflin, Cemetery, it was followed by almost the entire population of the town and in each heart was tender sympathy with the sorrowing family in their great bereavement.
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DIED - Mr. David A. O'Keefe died at the home of his mother, Mrs. S.E. Bell, in Heflin, on Monday, October 23rd, of spinal meningitis. The deceased was born in Randolph County, Alabama on January 17, 1853 and went to Texas at the age of nineteen years and has resided in that State continuously since, his recent home being at Colorado City. About the first of the present month he arrived here on a visit to his mother and about two weeks ago was stricken with the malady of which he died. All was done to relieve his suffering and prolong his life that medical skill could suggest or loving hands administer but these means were all insufficient and in the prime of his manhood, this affectionate son and noble cherished brother yielded up his life. In his far off western home he had by diligence, industry and energy, built a handsome competency and came back here to minister to the comfort of his mother, out of his ample means, thus demonstrating his affection for her. He had never married and at the time of his death his bedside was surrounded by his mother and two brothers, C.A. and J.E. O'Keefe who had been summoned from their Texas home, and two of his sisters, besides other relatives and friends of the family. While he died far from his home, and except his own family, comparatively among strangers, yet as his body was borne from the church were the funeral services had been performed by Rev. R.B. Baird, to its last resting place in Heflin, Cemetery, it was followed by almost the entire population of the town and in each heart was tender sympathy with the sorrowing family in their great bereavement.
Source: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/gnw173newspape.txt
Contributor: MVLambert
The Cleburne New Era Issue of Saturday, October 28, 1899
DIED - Mr. David A. O'Keefe died at the home of his mother, Mrs. S.E. Bell, in Heflin, on Monday, October 23rd, of spinal meningitis. The deceased was born in Randolph County, Alabama on January 17, 1853 and went to Texas at the age of nineteen years and has resided in that State continuously since, his recent home being at Colorado City. About the first of the present month he arrived here on a visit to his mother and about two weeks ago was stricken with the malady of which he died. All was done to relieve his suffering and prolong his life that medical skill could suggest or loving hands administer but these means were all insufficient and in the prime of his manhood, this affectionate son and noble cherished brother yielded up his life. In his far off western home he had by diligence, industry and energy, built a handsome competency and came back here to minister to the comfort of his mother, out of his ample means, thus demonstrating his affection for her. He had never married and at the time of his death his bedside was surrounded by his mother and two brothers, C.A. and J.E. O'Keefe who had been summoned from their Texas home, and two of his sisters, besides other relatives and friends of the family. While he died far from his home, and except his own family, comparatively among strangers, yet as his body was borne from the church were the funeral services had been performed by Rev. R.B. Baird, to its last resting place in Heflin, Cemetery, it was followed by almost the entire population of the town and in each heart was tender sympathy with the sorrowing family in their great bereavement.
Source: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/gnw173newspape.txt
Contributor: MVLambert
DIED - Mr. David A. O'Keefe died at the home of his mother, Mrs. S.E. Bell, in Heflin, on Monday, October 23rd, of spinal meningitis. The deceased was born in Randolph County, Alabama on January 17, 1853 and went to Texas at the age of nineteen years and has resided in that State continuously since, his recent home being at Colorado City. About the first of the present month he arrived here on a visit to his mother and about two weeks ago was stricken with the malady of which he died. All was done to relieve his suffering and prolong his life that medical skill could suggest or loving hands administer but these means were all insufficient and in the prime of his manhood, this affectionate son and noble cherished brother yielded up his life. In his far off western home he had by diligence, industry and energy, built a handsome competency and came back here to minister to the comfort of his mother, out of his ample means, thus demonstrating his affection for her. He had never married and at the time of his death his bedside was surrounded by his mother and two brothers, C.A. and J.E. O'Keefe who had been summoned from their Texas home, and two of his sisters, besides other relatives and friends of the family. While he died far from his home, and except his own family, comparatively among strangers, yet as his body was borne from the church were the funeral services had been performed by Rev. R.B. Baird, to its last resting place in Heflin, Cemetery, it was followed by almost the entire population of the town and in each heart was tender sympathy with the sorrowing family in their great bereavement.
Source: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/gnw173newspape.txt
Contributor: MVLambert
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