I think this means he died Dec 2 1897 and his death was published in the Fayetteville Observer, page 3 column 5. Fayetteville is Lincoln Co TN Regina Roper On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Leslie (Bridges) Kohler wrote: > Hi all, > > While searching this morning, I ran across this entry in TN. The DOD I > understand, but the second entry, I do not. (A guess would be that the > death occured in Fay or Fayette County. But, I do not know about TN > counties except for a few.) I just hope that the information will help > someone on our list. > > 2 Dec 1897 FayObs p:3,c:5 Francis E. Bridges > > Leslie (Bridges) Kohler > ShandyBeast@starlink.com > Phoenix, AZ-"Valley of the Sun"-Metro Area > Homestate=MISSOURI > ................................................................... > Battle, Fox, Bridges, Clinkscales, Vestal, > McMurry, Mantlo, Neumann, Harris, Fort, > Barnes, Hoffman, McKnight, Foster,Vickery, > Loud, Berry, Floyd, Holman, Letzy, Trotter, > Horn, Scott, Mitchell, Isom, Barnes, Pitt, > Hundley, O'Rear, Koehler/Kohler and others > .................................................................... > >