Col. Elam B. Carlton, mayor of Wauchula, who recently went to Asheville, N. C. for his health, while returning home last Saturday died in Jacksonville, cause of his death being heart failure and Bright’s disease. He was a lawyer and real estate dealer, and was one of the best known, citizens of this county. A conspicuous member of the extensive Carlton family of this county, he leaves many relatives as well as friends to mourn his loss.


ELAM B CARLTON DEAD; THE CHAMPION 10/1/1908;

The news of the death of Elam B. Carlton will come as a shock to the friends and acquaintances throughout the County, where he has always made his home. Comparatively few members out of the family, and Wauchula, where he lived, knew that he was in ill health. The shock was therefore the ____ when telegraphic news came that Sunday morning the body would be sent to Arcadia for burial.

Carlton was forty-four years of age. The youngest of a family that consisted of eleven sons and one daughter, the first to pass to the Bourne from the traveler returns. Only a few knew that they father passed away. He won friends easily and attained business success in Wauchula, where he has lived for several years, being a prominent attorney, real estate agent and mayor of that city, where he probably did his best life work in building up a city.

The sister who survives him is Mrs. James Whidden, of Arcadia. The brothers are C.W. of Tampa, S. J. and Wm. Of Arcadia, Wright, Alderman, James and Jerry of Nocatee, Albert and Louis of Wauchula, and Reuben of Ft. Pierce. He also left a son, 13 years of age. Mr. Carlton died reroute home from Asheville, where he had been for some weeks. When it was seen that the mountain climate did not benefit him he started home, and died at Jacksonville, and on Sunday, September 27, the remains were buried in the Joshua Creek cemetery, beside those of his wife, Rev. Baker, pastor of the Baptist Church, of Arcadia, preached the funeral at three o’clock at the Joshua Creek Church, and amidst the sorrowing friends and relatives who were there gathered, the last mark of respect was paid to one who in his early prime was laid low by the shaft of death. Peace to his ashes.

THE TAMPA TRIBUNE (TAMPA, FLORIDA) 10/1/1908

The body of Elam Carlton, Mayor o Wauchula, was brought here Sunday from Jacksonville, where he died on his way home from Asheville, where he had been for his health. He was buried at Joshua Creek Cemetery Sunday afternoon.