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CREED ENGLISH, AGE 3tt ANDWEIGHT 364 DIED FRIDAY.Death Resulted From Su perilous Flesh; Interment Sunday; Burial by W oodmen 01 W orld.Creed English, aged 36 years, died at the home of his parents, Mr, and Mrs, P. B. English, in Hendersonville Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Interment was made in Oakdale cemetery Sunday afternoon, the Woodmen of World being in chargeof the burial ceremonies.Mr. English weighed 364 pounds at the time of his death. He had weighed 390 pounds. He had suffered by reason of superfluous flesh and it is understood to have resulted in his death. While he had suffered for four or five years, his condition was not considered serious anu as late as Wednesday of last week he was on the streets.The deceased had eight brothers and three sisters all of whom were present for th^ burial except Clyde, who is in the army in the Philippines. Claude and Paul of Fort Caswell arrived just before burial.Mr. English was a member of the Methodist church. He was a good and popular man and his father requested the Hustler to state for the information and comfort of his friends that Creed was annarently well prepared to meet his Maker.
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The French Broad Hustler
Hendersonville, North Carolina, US
Thu, Dec 20, 1917
Page 4
Full Page
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Sullivan C.
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