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DeSoto County News
June 1, 1906


              REV. JOSEPH LEMUEL DURRANCE
              
              Our community was saddened last week when the
            report was circulated that the above named man
            was dead. He had been a minister in the Methodist
            and Baptist churches respectively, for about twenty
            years, and at the age of forty-six, while in the
            prime of life, and in the midst of a useful career,
            the Lord called him up higher.
            
              Our God honors those who honor him, and the good
            man dies well.
            
              Your reporter was informed that this brother
            died of nervous prostration in the New Hope
            settlement near Zolfo.
            
              The interment took place last Friday in the old
            family burying ground at Pisgah, two miles from
            Bowling Green, Rev. E. J. Hardee, pastor of the
            Methodist church at Wauchala, assisted by Rev.
            Hancock, of Fort Meade, officiating.
            
              Deceased leaves a devoted wife, five sons,
            four daughters, two grandchildren, and a host of
            friends to mourn his departure.
            
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