CLAY COUNTY

OBITUARIES

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    Word reached the city on Tuesday of the death of T.P. Vandiveer at the Asylum at Anna, where he had recently been removed on account of a violent turn of his malady.  His extreme age and long continued illness bad prepared his friends in a measure for news of his demise.  And yet the intelligence cast a gloom over this entire community where he had so long been a familiar figure, and where his list of friends embraced every man, woman and child in the city and surrounding country.
    The remains reached Flora on Wednesday, and the interment too place from the old family homestead on Thursday, Rev. Dr. Thrall of the M.E. church conducting the service.  The Masonic fraternity of which he was for so many years an honored member, had charge of the burial.  Obituary will appear next week.    Southern Illinois Journal Friday, May 10, 1907