The Palatka news and advertiser., 1915-08-20
CRESCENT CITY NEWS
Mr.. Cheatham's Sudden Death.

The death of few men would cause
that following the unexpected and
sudden demise of Mr.. Chas. A. Cheat
ham, whose death occurred at Rog-
ers' Sanitarium in Jacksonville at
noon last Thursday, the 18th inst.
His death followed an operation for
appendicitis. The operation had been
DELAYED too long and the poison of
gangrene which was found present
made his recovery next to impossible.
The first news of his illness reach
ed this place early Thursday morn
ing, summoning his aged mother and
his brother to his bedside. They left
with Mr.. E. L. Mathis, cousin of
the deceased, in his powerful Norwalk
motor car with Tom Russell at $50
a. m. and reached Jacksonville short
ly after l p. M, making but one stop
en- route, half hour at Hastings to
telephone and oil up and replenish
gasoline. But they were too late;
Mr.. Cheatham's death occurred at
noon.
Mr.. Cheatham was in his usual
health on Saturday night, so well, in
deed that he went out on his favorite
sport of a fox hunt. On Sunday he
felt the attack coming on and went
Immediately to the Rogers sanitarium.
On Monday it was apparent to the
physicians that an operation must be
made and it was made with the result
that gangrene was found. The pa
tient was advised to send for his mo-
ther, but thinking to spare her anX-
iety he declined to do so; not until he
was told on Thursday morning that
his recovery was next to impossible.
! The body was brought to the home
here on the night train and the funer-
al was held at the Catholic church on
Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, Rev.
j. D. LaPlante, c. S. ", officiating.
The interment was in the Catholic
cemetery on Oakwood avenue There
were many beautiful floral tributes
brought to the home during the day
the body was held. and the funeral
was generally attended, all attesting
to the esteem in which the deceased
was held by the people of this place,
and the deep sympathy felt for his
aged mother, whose love for him was
fully reciprocated as shown by the
many acts of devotion and tender
care through all the long years of her
widowhood.
Chas. A. Cheatham, familiarly call
ed Gus" by the ~eople here, came
with his mother from South Carolina
to Crescent City in the early SOS as
little boy; after livir~ here a short
time he went back to Edgefeld, S. c.,
for his schooling, and later was in
the real estate business in Atlanta.
But he had always looked upon this
place as his home and during all the
intervening years has made frequent
visits here to his mother. She was
his first care and her comfort his first
thought. He came to Jacksonville
from Atlanta soon after the big fire
in 1900, and in the real estate bust
Eess had amassed much valuable prop
erty. But like many others, the re-
cent slump in realty values in Jack
sonville caught him and his estate is
said to have suffered much. Mr..
Cheatham was to have been married
the first of the coming month and it
was his purpose to make his home
from that event on in this place,
where only year or more ago he
built magnificent home.
Mr.. Cheatham was wholesome,
most loveable character-a winsome
personality. He not only bestowed
his goods to feed the poor and needy,
but he was charitable in thought as
well as deed; the charity "that vaunt-
eth not itself, is not puffed up, doth
not behave itself unseemlv, thinketh
no evil" He loved his fellow me-.
His death is sore bereavement to
his aged mother and other members
of her family, and in their sorrow
they have the deep sympathy of all
in Crescent City.