St. Clair County Obits

JAMES WALKER MAYFIELD

Clinton, Missouri newspaper
April 1937
James Walker Mayfield, whose home was in Deepwater, died March 31, 1937, at the Research Hospital, Kansas City, where he underwent an operation for stomach ulcers the preceding Thursday. He had been ill about a week. He was born July 6, 1901, at Buffalo, Mo., and moved to Deepwater in 1914 with his parents, Mrs. and Mrs. J. H. Mayfield. Soon after he got employment at the W. S. Dickey Clay plant, where he since worked. He married Miss Clara Smith, June 27, 1925, and to this union were born three children, the youngest, James Perry, is left to comfort his mother. Deceased was an industrious young man, striving to surround his family with the best he could, encompassing their young son with a father's love mode more intense through the loss of two other little ones. He was devoted to his wife and sought to assist his mother, bereft of her husband about eight years ago. He is survived by his wife and five-year-old son, his mother, Mrs. J. H. Mayfield, a sister, Miss Edna and brothers Arvil and Leaford, all of Deepwater. Funeral services were conducted at the home at 2:30 p.m. Friday, by Rev. Amos B. Christian of Appleton City. Burial was at Brownington.