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Submitted: 6/5/14 • Approved: 6/8/14 • Last Updated: 6/11/14 • R1010002-G0-S3
April 11, 1861 - September 8, 1909
*Obituary
Rogers Democrat
Wednesday, September 9, 1908
DALTON, Jay - Jay Dalton, former mayor of Rogers and one of the best known and most popular men the city has ever known, died yesterday afternoon at two o'clock at his home on North Fifth Street in this city. Funeral services will be held at the residence this evening at four o'clock and will be conducted by Rev. J.P. Dillon, assisted by Rev. Killbourne and Rev. Thompson. The K. of P. and W.O.W. lodges of Rogers and Bentonville are expected to attend in a body. The funeral was placed at this late hour to allow the arrival of relatives who will come on the evening trains. The death of Mr. Dalton has brought to a close one of the hardest struggles for life that the writer has ever known. It was just about last Thanksgiving time that Mr. Dalton first knew that what had supposed to be a gum boil, resulting from the toothache, was in reality a malignant cancer. He left at once for Decatur, Illinois to enter a hospital and was away several months, returning home only when the doctor declared the case hopeless. Undaunted however by these experiences, Mr. Dalton and his wife, who has been constantly with him during the entire fight, continued the treatment at home. His sufferings have been intense and death was the only release. For this alone the friends are relieved for his sake that it is over. Mr. Dalton had always enjoyed the best of health before and had never before been sick a day in his life. Jay Dalton was born in Roswell, Georgia April 11, 1861. His father J.R. Dalton of Maysville, came to Benton county nearly thirty-five years ago, living first south of Bentonville and then on Prairie Creek. In 1880, a year before Rogers was started, Mr. Dalton's father bought the place southeast of Rogers now owned by Rev. Jordan and long known as the old Dalton place, and built the old house. Here Jay Dalton lived for a year after his marriage November 9, 1890 to Miss May Lunsford, and then they moved in town where they have since resided. To them were born four children, three of whom are still living: Fred, Mable and Jack. Besides his father Mr. Dalton leaves five sisters, Mrs. W.H. Fowler and Mrs. R.S. Thomas of this city; Mrs. Jas. Simms of Maysville; Mrs. W.B. McMillin of Pierce City, Mo.; and Mrs. Bettie Hall of Tennessee. He also left two brothers, Rev. John Dalton of Muskogee and Robt. Dalton of Maysville. All were here but Mesdames Fowler and Hall. By the death of Mr. Dalton the community loses one of its most useful and valued citizens. Mayor of Rogers during 1906-7, he also served several years as city recorder and has worked faithfully at all times for what he considered the best interests of the city. For a number of years he had been the local representative of the Waters Pierce Oil Company. The Democrat joins with the entire community in extending its deepest sympathy to the bereaved wife and mother, and to the fatherless children.
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