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Submitted: 9/28/12 • Approved: 9/30/12 • Last Updated: 10/4/12 • R761473-G0-S3
May 12, 1874, Iowa
February 9, 1936, Wideman, Izard County, Arkansas
Son of Dr. Theodoric L. & Luella B. Barker Schenck
Married Mamie Ethel Porterfield, May 9, 1915, Izard County, Arkansas
Calico Rock Progress, Calico Rock, Arkansas, February 14, 1936:
Jos. A. Schenck
Jos. A. Schenck, aged and highly respected citizen of this section, died at the home of O. G. Davis 4 miles north of Wideman, Sunday night, after a long illness from rheumatism and complications of old age. He was 74 years of age.
[Note: Gravestone has death date of 1932; however, the obituary indicates that he died February 9, 1936.]
(Photo courtesy of Vera Reeves)
Contributed on 9/28/12 by maxparnell
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