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Doc Capelle

Doc Capelle Died Monday
One Of City’s Pioneers Victim Of Typhoid Fever
The Hugo Husonian August 27, 1914 – transcribed by Ron Henson

    Doc Capelle died at the family home on East Jackson street at 4:50 o’clock Monday afternoon, after a long illness. Direct cause of death was heart failure, superinduced [sic] by seige [sic] of typhoid fever.
    Deceased came to Hugo from Detroit, Texas, more than ten years ago, and has since made this his home. Seven years ago he was united in marrage [sic] to Della, daughter of Willie Springs, and two children, both small, are the result of that union. He was 46 years of age at the time of his death.
    Interment was made Tuesday afternoon at Springs Chapel cemetery.


Ruth Bonner

Mrs. Ruth Bonner Dead
Young Woman Died At Wright Residence Monday Night
The Hugo Husonian September 3, 1914 – transcribed by Ron Henson

    Mrs. Ruth Bonner died at the residence of Henry Wright Monday night at 10:30 o’clock, death being due to kidney trouble. Deceased was 28 years of age and had long been a resident of this county. The body was shipped to Fort Towson, where interment was made Tuesday afternoon.


Mrs. S.J. Clark

Was Ninety Years Old
Aged Resident Of Hugo Died Thursday Morning
The Hugo Husonian September 3, 1914 – transcribed by Ron Henson

    Mrs. S.J. Clark died at the residence of her granddaughter, Mrs. Blevins, 101 North Thomas street, Thursday. Infirmities of old age caused the demise. Mrs. Clark was 90 years of age, and had resided with her grandchildren. Funeral services occurred Friday morning at ten o’clock at the Blevins home, following which interment was made at Mt. Olive cemetery.


S.L. Bloom

S.L. Bloom Died Monday Evening
The Hugo Husonian September 3, 1914 – transcribed by Ron Henson

    S.L. Bloom died at the family residence on East Jefferson street Monday evening, death being due to the result of an accident which occurred sometime previous, he having fallen, sustaining injuries which resulted in complications.
    Mr. Bloom with his wife, son and daughter, came here from Corona, California, a year ago last February, having traded his California property for that owned by J.V. McClish in this city and county. Since that time Mr. Bloom devoted his time to the improvement of his property interests in Choctaw county. He was not in the best of health when he came from the Pacific coast. He had attained the age of 54 years and spent a large portion of his life in the Far West.
    Mr. Bloom was a member of the Masonic order and the Eastern Star. Funeral services were conducted by the first named from the house at 3:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, after which the remains were laid to rest at Mt. Olivet cemetery.


Mrs. J.B. Duncan

Mayhew Woman Dead
Mrs. J.B. Duncan Died At Home North of Boswell
The Hugo Husonian October 1, 1914 – transcribed by Ron Henson

    Every heart was made to feel sad last Saturday morning when it was learned that Mrs. Duncan, wife of J.B. Duncan, who for years had resided at Mayhew, had died Friday night says the Boswell Citizen of the 24th.
    Deceased was 77 years of age and was born and reared in Logan county Kentucky. She, with her husband and children located in Texas some twenty-five years ago, moving from near Honey Grove here.
    She leaves a husband, J.B. Duncan and five children – Messrs. Dill, Witt Harry and Mesdames W.C. Curtis and J.L. Massingale.
    Funeral services were held at the cemetery Saturday afternoon at 4:00 o’clock, conducted by Rev. Ailstock and a score of friends of the family accompanied the body to its last resting place.


Edward Combs

Death of Edward Combs
The Hugo Husonian October 8, 1914 – transcribed by Ron Henson

    Edward Combs, aged 40, died at the family residence two and half miles west of the city Friday, after a short illness. He was a victim of malarial fever, Interment was made at Springs Chapel cemetery this afternoon. Deceased was widely known in Choctaw county and news of his demise will be a painful surprise to a large circle of friends.


Julia Gladdish

Death Of Ervin Woman
Mrs. Julia Gladdish Died Near Ervin Friday Night
The Hugo Husonian October 1, 1914 – transcribed by Ron Henson

    Friday night at the family home near Ervin, Julia, the wife of Lon Gladdish died, death due to puerpal fever. Mrs. Gladdish was but 38 years of age and was favorably known by a large number of people in the Ervin neighborhood.
    Funeral services were held this afternoon, interment being made at the Grant cemetery.


Mrs. W.H. Bonds

Mrs. W.H. Bonds Dead
Prominent Resident of Boswell Died The Twenty-Second
The Hugo Husonian October 1, 1914 – transcribed by Ron Henson

    The Boswell Citizen of the 24 says:
    Our little city was shocked when the death of Mrs. W.H. Bonds was announced, who died at 12:30 Tuesday morning.
    She ate supper Monday night and retired about 9:00 o’clock feeling as well as usual, but at 11:00 o’clock she was taken very ill and lasted only one hour and thirty minutes; heart trouble being the cause of death. She had been having heart trouble for the last ten years but it had not been considered of a serious nature.
    She leaves one son and two daughters; Mr. Eugene Bonds and Mesdames B.H. and B.S. Woolbright. She was 64 years of age.
    Just 16 months and 16 days ago, her husband, W.H. Bonds died after a long, lingering illness, and the wife was buried beside him at 5:00 o’clock Tuesday afternoon.


Riggs infant

The Hugo Husonian October 15, 1914 – transcribed by Ron Henson

    The twenty months old infant of Mr. and Mrs. F.M. Riggs died at the family home near Old Goodland yesterday afternoon. Interment will be made this afternoon, funeral services being held from the residence.


Otto Hopp

Otto Hopp Died This Afternoon
The Hugo Husonian October 15, 1914 – transcribed by Ron Henson

    (From Friday’s Daily)
    Otto Hopp, the young German who was injured in a runaway Thursday afternoon, October 1st, died this afternoon shortly after two o’clock.
    The young man had been in this city for several months in the employ of the Kranter Bakery. He was driving a young horse, breaking it to work, when it became uncontrollable. It began to kick and one of its hoofs struck the young man in the forehead, crushing the skull against the brain. He has been unconscious for several days, and succumbed this afternoon.
    Mr. Hopp was a native of Germany, having been in this country only about a year. He spent about nine months at Corbin, Oklahoma, near McAlester, and had been here about three months. He was about 24 years of age, and no relatives in this country.
    The funeral will take place tomorrow morning at Springs Chapel, from the home of Carl Krauter [sic] on East Jackson street, where he has been during his illness.


Samuel Cahill

DURANT DAILY DEMOCRAT August 28, 1983 – contributed by Rhonda Cahill

    Funeral will be held 2:30 p.m. Monday at the Boswell Assembly of God Church for Samuel Cahill, 61, rural Colbert, who died Saturday at a Sherman hospital.
    Ralph Dierkson, assisted by W.C. Baker, will officiate. Burial will be in Boswell Restland Cemetary.
    Cahill was born July 5, 1922, at Boswell. He spent all his life in Bryan and Choctaw Counties.
    A farmer and factory worker, Cahill was a veteran of WWII in the Army, a member of the DAV and member of the Assembly of God Church.
    He married on Aug. 24, 1949, at Paris, Tex. to Dean Barcheers, who survives.
Also surviving are two sons, Dwayne, Colbert and Paul, Howe, Tex; three daughters, Deanna Harrison, Durant; Kathy Ledbetter, Richardson, Tex.; and Diane Cahill, Colbert; three sisters, Leona Smith, Denison; Josephine Manor, Boswell; and Violett Harris, Mangum, Okla.
    The family will be at the Dalton-Holmes Funeral Home here from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. this evening to greet friends and relatives.


Dollie Stell

DURANT DAILY DEMOCRAT April 18, 1983 – contributed by Rhonda Cahill

    Mrs. Dollie Evelyn Stell, 101, Calera, died Sunday in a Durant hospital.
    Service will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the Calera Baptist Church with the Rev. Eugene Morrison and Rev. Harold Blankenship officiating. Burial will be in Calera cemetery under the direction of Coffey Funeral Home.
    Mrs. Stell, born in 1882 in Miller County, Mo., lived most of her life in Bryan County and was a member of the Calera Baptist Church. She married Wiley A. Stell in 1918 at Boswell.
    She is survived by her husband Wiley; a son Lois Bean of Calera; daughters Edith Shults of Durant, Hazel Thomas of Quitman, Tex., Gladys Blassingame of Fort Worth and Pauline Trevino of Calera; 34 grandchildren, 88 great grandchildren and 28 great-great grandchildren.
    The family will be at Coffey Funeral Home from 7-8 p.m. today.

[contributor's note: This is my great grandmother, Dollie Evelyn (Brown) Bean Stell. Is says she spent most of her life in Bryan, but she spent a lot of he life in Choctaw too]

 

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