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Note: * Obituary * Jailer Hendricks's Mother Dead Prominent Old Lady Passes Away At the Age of Seventy Six Paralyzed Three Years Ago And Had Been An Invalid Since Mrs. Missouria Hendrick, mother of Jailer Lee G. Hendrick, of this city died last Saturday afternoon at three o'clock at the home of her son W. C. Hendrick, six miles west of Cadiz. Mrs. Hendrick suffered a stroke of paralysis about three years ago and had not been well since . Since last fall her condition had been regarded as critical most of the time. She was taken for the worse about noon on the day of her death and died three hours later. Mrs. Hendrick was born in trig county seventy six years ago last September, and had lived all her life here. She was a daughter of Mickens Cunningham and was the last survivor of a family of nine children. After reaching young womanhood she was united in marriage to George Hendrick who has been dead a number of years and the following children survive: Lee O. Hendrick, � C. Hendrick, Mrs. Pinkney Boyd and Mrs. Arch Boyd. At the age of sixteen, Mrs. Hendrick united with the Baptist church and ever afterward lived a true follower of her Lord and Master. She was a splendid old lady, devoted to her family and friends and until over taken by declining health was always aiding and helping those in distress and need and many there who have been the recipients of so many deeds of loving kindness. The remains were buried Sunday afternoon at the old Hendrick burying ground near her home. (The Cadiz Record, February 7, 1920, Cadiz, Kentucky)
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