Mr. John W. COOK, a prominent citizen of Pomona, and a leading member of our church at Muir’s Chapel, on the West Greensboro charge, passed away suddenly at his home on last Saturday night.  Mr. COOK was an ex-sheriff of Guilford county and a man of large influence and popularity in the community.

The circumstances of his death were peculiarly sad.  He had been apparently in his usual health and his wife had gone to a neighbor’s for the night to assist in watching at the bedside of one who had been very ill.  Mr. COOK and his ten-year-old daughter were at home alone.  The little girl awoke early Sunday morning and finding the lights still burning went in search and found the dead body of her father in the lavatory where he had been stricken suddenly with heart failure the night before.

The deceased was a good man and will be greatly missed.  The funeral was conducted on Monday at the residence and the body laid to rest at Guilford College.  May God greatly comfort the stricken family.

Source: NC Christian Advocate, 4 March 1915.  Available online at the Internet Archive.

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