The sad bereavement that has come to Mr. and Mrs. J. Talbot Johnson of Aberdeen through the death of their 4-year-old son, James Talbot Johnson Jr., which occurred at Baltimore, Md., last Friday, has brought a feeling of profound sorrow to this section of Moore County where the Johnson family and little “Toby” were so well known.
On the 8th of April Mr. and Mrs. Johnson took little Toby to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for examination and treatment for an aggravated case of anemia. The treatments failed to arrest the progress of the disease and little Toby passed away on Friday night.
The funeral service took place at the Johnson home in Aberdeen on Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Rev. V.R. Gaston, minister of the Presbyterian Church in Aberdeen conducted the service. The interment was at Bethesda Cemetery. It was an unusually large funeral, and it was not alone sympathy for Mr. and Mrs. Johnson that brought so many people to the funeral service, but a genuine affection for little Toby who was known and loved by every one in this section of the county. He was a bright lovable child and will be greatly missed.
It must be some consolation to Mr. and Mrs. Johnson in their sad bereavement to know that their little boy in four short years had won for himself such a host of real friends.
From the front page of the Sandhill Citizen, Southern Pines, N.C., Friday, April 18, 1924
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