"MARSE HENRY" IS DEAD.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 15774, 15 March 1922, Page 3

"MARSE HENRY" IS DEAD.

FAMOUS SOUTHERN EDITOR SUDDENLY CALLED AWAY-

JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 22. Col. Henry. Watterson, known to the American people as one of tho List surviving members of the old school of journalism, and to his friends as "Marse v Henry," died early to-day at a hotel ' here.

Death came peacefully, the venerable editor retaining consciousness almost to the end and conversing during his last half-hour with his wife, son, and. daughter. . _., v .

Col. Watterson came to Jacksonville several weeks ago in accordance ■ with his annual custom of spending the winter in Florida, usually at Fort Myers." He contracted a slight cold on Tuesday, and while seated in a chair yesterday morning, soon after breakfast, he suffered an acute bronchial attack and was ordered to his bed by his physician. His condition' grew worse during jzhe day and night, and the end came'at 6.15 o'clock this morning. The immediate cause of his death, his physician said, was heart failure superinduced by congestion of the lungs. Thus "Marse Henry"' passed to "that beautiful shore," where, last October, he told his comrades of the Confederate army, he was .sure ."the bonnio blue-flag will bo playing 'Dixie' on parade, and the pretty girls will bo distributing 'the Chattanooga Rebel' to groups of ragged, red-nosed angels who have not forgotten the, rebel yell."