| DEATH CLAIMS |
| CAPT. McCLUNG |
URE PASSES FROM SCENES OF EARTHLY ACTIVITY. Captain J. C. McClung, for twenty years a highly respected resident of Huntington, died at Kezsler's at 1:15 this morning. Captain McClung was taken to the hospital several weeks ago, his family and friends hoping that the treatment might restore his rapidly failing health. It was soon found, however, that he was hopelessly ill, and despite all that medical science and devoted nursing could do, he failed steadly until the end came this morning. Captian McClung, who was sixty-nine years old the day before he died, was a native Virginian. He was born in Augusta county near Staunton and spent his childhood and young manhood in that locality. When the trying days of the Civil War came, he donned the grey uniform and marched bravely to the front and enlisted in the Confederate ranks. He served gallantly throughout that memorable struggle, and when the war was over returned to his native state. For twenty years he was a baggage- man on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, and while in this capacity he received an injury from which he never recovered and which, it is believed was the ultimate cause of his death. Quiet, unassuming and thoroughly friendly in his bearing, Capt. McClung naturally made many devoted friends. His love of children was almost proverbial, and this splendid trait found a faithful echo in the kindly dictates of a narure in which there was nothing of harsness and naught but gentleness. For his many excellent traits, for his devotion to family and friends, Capt. McClung will be long remembered and greatly missed. He was an exemplary citizen, a brave soldier and a lovable companion. He is survived by a wife and two daughters, Mrs. Asa W. Adkins and Miss Hallie McClung. The funeral arrangements have not yet been announced. -The Huntington Dispatch, Sunday Morning, July 19, 1908 |
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