| Obit For | Henry Thomas Mitts |
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| Headline | HENRY MITTS |
| Text - Outline | Henry Thomas Mitts was born October 3, 1910 and died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Sills at Roaring River, December 27, 1927, aged seventeen years two months and fourteen days. He was stricken December 25 with influenza, and all that medical skill and loving hands could do were of no avail. When only five weeks old he was adopted onto the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sills. Being a very frail child he required more than ordinary care but with the untiring efforts of Mrs. Sills and the tender devotion of other members of the family, he grew to be reasonable strong, and was a promising young man. They loved him as their own and to them he was ever a true affectionate son and brother. Henry was strictly moral and was always ready to render any assistance possible to young or old. To him the knowledge of right was at once his duty to obey, and though isolated from religious worship he was provided with religious literature in the home, and to the religious lessons in school he was ever an attentive listener. He was preparing to enter his third year of high school work, having completed his first two years in the Roaring River School. An impressive sermon was preached by Revered C. E. Henderson at the Sill?s home on Wednesday afternoon. A special quarter from Corinth Church rendered some beautiful and appropriate music. The funeral was under the direction of Mr. Burckhalter of Oklahoma, and the remains was laid to rest in the Corinth Cemetery. When the Christmas fires start glowing, Shedding their crimson light, While holly wreath were typed, And all was gay and bright, When youthful hearts were filled, With hopes of love and charm, Beholding the rosy dawning, Of another glad New Years, The Angel of Death came, And claimed one for his own, And a home that once warm, Is today so sad and lone, And the vale where he often wandered, Is shrouded over the gloom, And we miss his smiling, Gone from our dear school. Research Note: Missouri Death Cert. # 35884 Name: Henry Thomas Mitts Born: Oct. 3, 1910, MO Parents: Bill and Emma (Justes) Mitts Died: Dec. 27, 1927 in Mineral Twp., Barry Co., MO Burial in Corinth Cemetery, Barry Co, MO |
| Newspaper or Funeral Home | Cassville Democrat |
| Date | Jan. 28, 1928 |
| Death Cert Link | Death Certificate |
| Resource | - |
| Submitted by | Barbara Erwin |
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