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$1.50 PER YEAR. -BRISON WILLEYBrison Willey (lied at his home in Bethel township Monday morning at 8:30 o’clock, aged 66 years, 5 months and 24 days. Mr. Willey had been in poor health for some time and had been under treatment at the Phelps hospital. After having been informed by the physicians that he could not get well he expressed a desire to die at home where he was brought last week. Funeral srevices were held at the home Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock Rev. George McKee officiating. Interment was made in the Blackburn cemetery in Schuyler county.Brison, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Willey, was born Jan. 12, 1851, in Bethel township, this county,' and spent the greater part of his life in that vicinity. He was united in marriage to Sarah Frakes, who survives him. He was a minister of the Union Baptist church, as well as following the occupation of farming and was a member ofi )that church for thirty-five years. He is survived by three children, Lonnie Blanche, Mattie, and Chester Herbert, at home; two brothers, Lincoln Willey of Summers, Ark., and Howard Willey of Oklahoma; two sisters, Lucinda Frakes and Mrs. Thomas Pierson, both of Oklahoma.bus gra a p thrlt; was bro tunof s oneingtert1theTutIVof t nou Mrs Netrnoiof I Tecyea:reinCoohelcmormeithatNuelWeiandcini
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Industry Press
Industry, Illinois, US
Thu, Aug 09, 1917
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