THE FLAGLER TRIBUNE
Bunnell, Florida
Tnursday, December 23, 1920

 

William H. Cochran has passed out of this life and his body has been cosigned to its last resting place in Espanola Cemetery.

Death occurred Saturday shortly after nine o’clock. He had been confined to his bed for nearly three weeks but had been in ill health for several months previously, suffering with the dread Blight’s disease.

Mr. Cochran had every care and attention of a devoted family and expert medical attention and his last days were made as comfortable as science and skill are capable of, but time had struck and hand of man was powerless against that of the grim reaper.

W. H. Cochran was a native of  Georgia, have been born and reared in Paulding County of that state.  With his family he moved to Bunnell in 1909, and has been one of the leading figures in this section for nearly eleven years. He was universally known and liked, was an honest, upright citizen, and his death will be regretted by hundreds of friends and acquaintances in Flagler county.

Besides his most estimable wife, Mr. Cochran leaves seven daughters: Mrs. J. M. Council of Americus, Ga., Mrs. J. W. Brown of Cowpens, S. C., and the Misses Lillian, Allie, Bailey, Frances, and Mary Sheffield, to mourn his departure. Also a brother, Mr. P. G. Cochran of Louisiana, and two sisters, Mrs. J. B. Mathis of Atlanta, Ga., and Mrs. J. Hutchinson of Madisonville, La.

The funeral services were held from the home of the deceased, Rev. R. L. Ramsey of Atlanta, a former minister of Bunnell, officiating. The oration, beginning shortly after 2:30 o’clock, was a most fitting and beautiful tribute to the “husband, the father and the friend.”

At the close of prayer “Rock of Ages” was sung by a select choir, and at 3:30 the body was borne to the hearse by the pallbearers: Messrs. Carter, Sullivan, Byrd, J. F. Lambert, Moody, Fields, Jones and E. Johnston. The handsome metallic casket was covered by a beautiful floral piece of the most elegant white and cream roses and carnations reaching the length of the casket, while many trays of floral offerings and handsome set pieces accompanied it to the sarcophagus at Espanola Cemetery.

More that thirty cars of friends and acquaintances accompanied the sorrowing family to the cemetery, where Reverend Ramsey read the simple by impressive burial ceremony of the Methodist church, offered the final prayer, and all that was mortal of a good citizen and neighbor was consigned to its last earthly home.

The Bunnell lodge of Masons attended the service in a body but took no active part in the ceremony.

Large number of friends from different sections of the county were in attendance.