Bert Watson
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DEATH OF BERT WATSON Postmaster S. H. Watson received a telegram from his brother, Dr. H. S. Watson, from Jacksonville, Fla., today stating that the latter's son, Bert, died at the military hospital at Camp Cuba Libre yesterday morning and would be brought home on the L & N train tomorrow for interment in the family burying ground at Woodlawn. He was a member of Co. K Ninth Regiment, and had only been sick five or six days. A message reached Dr. Watson last Thursday from Jacksonville announcing the serious condition of his son which was the first intimation that had reached the family of his illness. His father left at once for the bedside of the sick soldier and was with him when he died. Deceased was twenty-two of age an volunteered as a private in Co. K at the outbreak of the late war. For a period of two years, during the superintendency of Dr. Walter Watson, he was an attendant at the Central Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville.The funeral will probably take place at Woodlawn sometime tomorrow. Dr. and Mrs. Watson have the sympathy of the entire community in the misfortune which has befallen them in the death of their only son.
Source: Mt. Vernon Register News |
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