This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Loucks Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RRB.2ACE/6136 Message Board Post: This is from a scrapbook, so there is no date or newspaper information. Heading: Clarence C. Loucks Subheading: A Promising Life Cut Short by Death "Sudden deaths have occurred many times in this village and deaths marked by elements of peculiar sadness but few have taken place during the passing years that have brought such a terrible shock to our community and caused such sincere and universal sorrow as that of Clarence C. Loucks which occurred on Tuesday Sept. 7th, 1909, at the home of Melville Farrar, after a fearfully brief illness, measured by hours rather than by days, from cerebro-spinal meningitis. Last week in his usual vigorous health, on Saturday afternoon a headache, on Monday under a physicians care, on Tuesday a corpse. Thus runs the short but terrible story. The deceased lacked still a few months of his 21st birthday. Coming here some five years ago with his parents, Rev. and Mrs. Albert Loucks, his ability, activity and bright personality made him at once a leader among the young people of his age. He was an excellent student and was graduated with honor from the Machias High School in the Class of 1907. During the most of the time since he has been employed in the railroad office at Machias Junction where he gave excellent satisfaction. His preparations had been completed to take a four years course of study in Brown University at Providence and he was to leave for that city on Saturday of this week. He was a young man of high moral character, peculiarly free from the evil habits of the average young man of to-day and his superior ability and energetic and ambitious disposition rendered a bright future for him almost a certainty. The extremely contagious nature of the disease from which he died and the fact that his parents are at present residing at West Dighton, Mass., have rendered the time of the funeral somewhat uncertain, but we are advised that his father will reach here on the 5:18 train, that the burial will be in Maple Grove Cemetery this evening and that the funeral services will take place from the Methodist Episcopal Church on to-morrow (Friday) morning at 11 o'clock."