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Author: joni4ta
Surnames: DENTON, KENT, ROBLEY
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DENTON, Claude
CLAUDE DENTON DEAD 24 HOURS
War Veteran and Native is Found in Room Sunday - Burial Monday A.M.
Funeral services for Claude DENTON, 56, veteran of the Spanish American war, found dead in
bed, were held yesterday morning from the Goodwin Funeral Home at ten o'clock. Burial
was in Bunnell Cemetery. Mr. DENTON, formerly a patient in a number of government
hospitals for veterans in various parts of the United States, lived at the Lockwood hotel
and it was there his body was found the middle of Sunday afternoon. James KENT, county
coroner, said that he believed DENTON had been dead about twenty-four hours. According to
KENT, on Saturday evening about 5 o'clock, DENTON, who weighed more than two hundred
pounds, was assisted to his room on the third floor by Joe ROBLEY, proprietor. Mr. DENTON
was a sufferer from asthma and complained of being ill Saturday evening. However, he told
those who took him to his room that he would feel better after resting and as his
condition did not appear serious, no physician was summoned. Attaches at the hotel never
awakened him on Sunday as i!
t was his custom to sleep late, but when he had not been seen by the middle of the
afternoon, the door was opened and DENTON's body was found on the bed in the position
he was in when friends left him the night before. The coroner said that his information
was that DENTON had probably not moved after reclining on the bed. He was born in
Frankfort March 17, 1880 and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. John DENTON. His early life was
spent in Frankfort and his military service was with Company I of the 38th Volunteer
Infantry. His father was town marshal of Frankfort for many years, and died about twenty
years ago. A brother, Earl (Coxey) DENTON, a world war veteran and member of the Frankfort
Fire Department, died several years ago after a brief illness. There is a sister, now
engaged in Salvation Army work whose address is unknown.
Tuesday, Jul. 14, 1936 edition of the "Frankfort Times."
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