The Missouri Telegraph:1899
W. Thompson Ficklin, who carried the mail from Fulton to Reform was thrown from his buggy near Bud Finley's on the Mokane Road about three miles south of Fulton and almost instantly killed. The horse ran all the way to Fulton and was caught on Broadway.
Thompson Ficklin was a good man in every sense of the word.
The writer had known him since childhood and knew him to be a man of morals and sterling character. He never knew riches, but was always in straightened circumstances, yet he accepted his lot with patient and satisfied air that made him a veritable Job.
During the Civil War Mr. Ficklin served with the Confederates and with them he met their encampment last year.
W. Thompson Ficklin, who carried the mail from Fulton to Reform was thrown from his buggy near Bud Finley's on the Mokane Road about three miles south of Fulton and almost instantly killed. The horse ran all the way to Fulton and was caught on Broadway.
Thompson Ficklin was a good man in every sense of the word.
The writer had known him since childhood and knew him to be a man of morals and sterling character. He never knew riches, but was always in straightened circumstances, yet he accepted his lot with patient and satisfied air that made him a veritable Job.
During the Civil War Mr. Ficklin served with the Confederates and with them he met their encampment last year.
The Missouri Telegraph:1899
W. Thompson Ficklin, who carried the mail from Fulton to Reform was thrown from his buggy near Bud Finley's on the Mokane Road about three miles south of Fulton and almost instantly killed. The horse ran all the way to Fulton and was caught on Broadway.
Thompson Ficklin was a good man in every sense of the word.
The writer had known him since childhood and knew him to be a man of morals and sterling character. He never knew riches, but was always in straightened circumstances, yet he accepted his lot with patient and satisfied air that made him a veritable Job.
During the Civil War Mr. Ficklin served with the Confederates and with them he met their encampment last year.
W. Thompson Ficklin, who carried the mail from Fulton to Reform was thrown from his buggy near Bud Finley's on the Mokane Road about three miles south of Fulton and almost instantly killed. The horse ran all the way to Fulton and was caught on Broadway.
Thompson Ficklin was a good man in every sense of the word.
The writer had known him since childhood and knew him to be a man of morals and sterling character. He never knew riches, but was always in straightened circumstances, yet he accepted his lot with patient and satisfied air that made him a veritable Job.
During the Civil War Mr. Ficklin served with the Confederates and with them he met their encampment last year.
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