William Corkran was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, March 16, 1840, and died in Salem, Missouri, January 23, 1913, age 72 years, 10 months and 7 days. He came to America in 1858 and in 1861 Boston, Massachusetts, he enlisted in the United States Navy, was on the Minnesota, discharged in 1864 but soon re-enlisted in the Third Missouri Cavalry, remaining till the close of the civil war. He was married March 2, 1866, to Miss Mary Owensby, in Murphysboro, Illinois and the following Year with his wife came to Missouri, where they have since resided, living most of the time in Dent County, at Stone Hill and Salem. Of nine children only one sister Mrs. C. Collins of Joliet, Illinois still survives him; and of his own family his wife and six children, of nine - Mrs. Mary McDuffey, Mrs. Tina Reno, William A. Corkran, Ida Reno, John. T. Corkran, Miss Edith Corkran. All were present except John, whose address, the friends do not know. Besides these there are 18 grandchildren living.

Mr. Corkran Was a man of unusual health and vigor, his only serious sickness, that of which he died-heart complication - dating only from last August. He was a man clear and firm in his convictions, social in his nature, having many friends, and aimed, as he understood his duty to be loyal and true to home, country, his brother and God. Although in religion a professed Catholic, he was ever liberal and cheerfully charitable to those differing from him. Saturday, 2 P. M. after brief, simple, impressive funeral services at his late residence, his body was borne to its final rest in Cedar Grove cemetery.