CARTHAGE WEEKLY PRESS
Week of May 13, 1909
TOO PROUD HE DIES A PAUPER
A. O. Stafford Reveals Identity When Near Life's End
Because he left home 15 years ago and met with many financial reverses, A. O. Stafford, formerly of Webb City was too proud to call upon relatives for assistance and died Saturday evening in the county poor house two miles south of this city, of which he has been an inmate for some time.
Death resulted from tuberculosis.
During the time the deceased was at the county farm he refused to tell John Parker, superintendent, where his relatives were located until Friday night, when he feared that the end was near. Then he said that his brother, Clark Stafford, was a prominent merchant at Leesville, MO.
A message to that brother brought him to Carthage by the first train and he was shocked to learn that his brother was at the poor farm. The sick man died just an hour after his brother's arrival.
Clark Stafford said that his brother had left home 15 years ago and none of his relatives knew his whereabouts, or they would gladly have assisted him, had they known of his physical and financial conditions. For many years the deceased was a hack man in Webb City. He was 41 years of age.
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at four o'clock, burial occurring at Park Cemetery.
Week of May 13, 1909
TOO PROUD HE DIES A PAUPER
A. O. Stafford Reveals Identity When Near Life's End
Because he left home 15 years ago and met with many financial reverses, A. O. Stafford, formerly of Webb City was too proud to call upon relatives for assistance and died Saturday evening in the county poor house two miles south of this city, of which he has been an inmate for some time.
Death resulted from tuberculosis.
During the time the deceased was at the county farm he refused to tell John Parker, superintendent, where his relatives were located until Friday night, when he feared that the end was near. Then he said that his brother, Clark Stafford, was a prominent merchant at Leesville, MO.
A message to that brother brought him to Carthage by the first train and he was shocked to learn that his brother was at the poor farm. The sick man died just an hour after his brother's arrival.
Clark Stafford said that his brother had left home 15 years ago and none of his relatives knew his whereabouts, or they would gladly have assisted him, had they known of his physical and financial conditions. For many years the deceased was a hack man in Webb City. He was 41 years of age.
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at four o'clock, burial occurring at Park Cemetery.
CARTHAGE WEEKLY PRESS
Week of May 13, 1909
TOO PROUD HE DIES A PAUPER
A. O. Stafford Reveals Identity When Near Life's End
Because he left home 15 years ago and met with many financial reverses, A. O. Stafford, formerly of Webb City was too proud to call upon relatives for assistance and died Saturday evening in the county poor house two miles south of this city, of which he has been an inmate for some time.
Death resulted from tuberculosis.
During the time the deceased was at the county farm he refused to tell John Parker, superintendent, where his relatives were located until Friday night, when he feared that the end was near. Then he said that his brother, Clark Stafford, was a prominent merchant at Leesville, MO.
A message to that brother brought him to Carthage by the first train and he was shocked to learn that his brother was at the poor farm. The sick man died just an hour after his brother's arrival.
Clark Stafford said that his brother had left home 15 years ago and none of his relatives knew his whereabouts, or they would gladly have assisted him, had they known of his physical and financial conditions. For many years the deceased was a hack man in Webb City. He was 41 years of age.
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at four o'clock, burial occurring at Park Cemetery.
Week of May 13, 1909
TOO PROUD HE DIES A PAUPER
A. O. Stafford Reveals Identity When Near Life's End
Because he left home 15 years ago and met with many financial reverses, A. O. Stafford, formerly of Webb City was too proud to call upon relatives for assistance and died Saturday evening in the county poor house two miles south of this city, of which he has been an inmate for some time.
Death resulted from tuberculosis.
During the time the deceased was at the county farm he refused to tell John Parker, superintendent, where his relatives were located until Friday night, when he feared that the end was near. Then he said that his brother, Clark Stafford, was a prominent merchant at Leesville, MO.
A message to that brother brought him to Carthage by the first train and he was shocked to learn that his brother was at the poor farm. The sick man died just an hour after his brother's arrival.
Clark Stafford said that his brother had left home 15 years ago and none of his relatives knew his whereabouts, or they would gladly have assisted him, had they known of his physical and financial conditions. For many years the deceased was a hack man in Webb City. He was 41 years of age.
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at four o'clock, burial occurring at Park Cemetery.
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