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Submitted: 5/9/10 • Approved: 9/12/14 • Last Updated: 9/15/14 • R320313-G0-S3
March 18, 1965 - June 28, 1912
FORREST CITY TIMES NEWSPAPER
JUNE 28,1912
DEATH OF MR.LEE DOUGHERTY
The harvest of the Grim Reaper in Forrest City this week has been appalling. This morning, June 28,1912, death entered the home of Mr.& Mrs.Lee Dougherty and claimed the body of the former, leaving the good wife broken-hearted and distraught in the anguish of grief and bitter dispair. Lee Dougherty, prior to the fatal illness, brought on by a complication of diseases, by which he was laid low a couple of months ago, had served the people and business men of this city as Night Marshall for over four years. By all his friends, and they were many, he was recognized as a man of high courage and a stranger to fear. At the time of his death, the deceased was forty six years of age. When a boy of seventeen, he took up the life of a railroad man-first as a fireman, then as a locomotive engineer, and later as a steam shovel man, and at various times he had worked for the old Little Rock & Memphis Railroad, the Illniois Central, and the Rock Island. At one time he was affiliated with the B. Of R.T. and the Elks lodges, and at the time of his death was a member in good standiing of the Woodmen of the World, Odd Fellows, and the Woodmen Circle. R.L. (Lee) Dougherty was born at Spring Creek, Phillips county, Arkansas, and was married fifteen years ago to Miss Mattie Tyler, of this county. The remains will be laid to rest at the Forrest City cemetery Sunday under the auspices of the Geo.P.Taylor Lodge No.196 I.O.O.F. Religious services by Rev.E.T.Mabley.
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