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Submitted: 10/1/12 • Approved: 12/3/23 • Last Updated: 12/6/23 • R762290-G0-S3
April 22, 1856 - June 26, 1926
*Obituary
Rogers Democrat
Thursday, July 1, 1926
FRANCIS, Joe - (from Cloverdale) This neighborhood was greatly shocked on last Thursday when the news came over the telephone that Uncle Joe Francis had been found dead by Mrs. Carl Rounds. When he failed to come to supper when they called him she went to look for him and found him lying dead in the potato patch, his hands folded across his breast, his hoe by his side. He had told friends a few days before that he would be found in the road some day. His health had been poorly for several months past but was not that to be of a serious nature. He was for years a great lover of bees and nothing suited him better than to wander over the hills to locate a bee tree or watch them as they worked in their hives. He also loved his old violin and many an hour he would play for friends and especially to amuse the small tots who were very fond of him. On his last visit to his nephew he gave his favorite violin to their son at his death, which the little fellow prizes very highly. Uncle Joe will be missed by many in this neighborhood where he has always been a resident, only for a short time he would visit his son, Dick, who for years has been stationed at Carthage, Mo. and came that night by auto when the message came that his father was gone. The entire sympathy of this community goes out to this son in the death of his father who was both father and mother to him, having raised him from a small boy. Uncle Joe came to this country when a lad of eleven years and grew up with Arkansas. He leaves besides his son a brother, John Francis, and two half-sisters, Mrs. Guill and Mrs. Williams. The body was laid to rest at Rogers Friday.
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