Rosco THOMAS

© The Standard-Sentinel

April 16, 1925

Submitted by: Wanda Elliott

Rosco THOMAS, 23 years of age, died last Thursday night in this city after an illness of several days the result, presumably, of being bitten by a puppy several months old and it is believed his affliction was the rabies, as he had several convulsions before death occured.

His remains were interred in New Hope Friday afternoon.
Rev. YANCEY, conducted funeral service at the home.

His widow is being treated, she having been bitten, as was little W.D. DAUGHERTY, Jr., grandson of L.D. BLAKEMORE, who was given serum to prevent possible tragic consequences of the dog bite.
The Daugherty child was successfully treated, and it is thought that Mrs. THOMAS is beyond danger, though the treatment has not yet been completed.

The community deeply sympathizes with the widow, almost a girl, whose cup of sorrow seems cruelly full, only recently having lost her father, and friends and neighbors have ministered every possible kindness, attentive while the husband was suffering with his dread affliction and ever solicitous since the shadow of death cast its appalling darkness over her young life.

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