Press: Apology

PRESS

The Huntsville, Ala. Mercury ("The Community Builder") announced:

"The report in this paper last week on the death of Gil Jones was hurriedly written and some errors crept into it which the Mercury cheerfully corrects.

"The Mercury said Gil Jones and his name was Gilbert and that his age was 93 and it was only 39. His wife's name was printed as Hannah and Susannah was correct.

"That he had two sons and both the boys were girls—and that he lived at Madison Cross Roads and it was Owens Cross Roads; that he left many...

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