Death of Dr. J. W. Ashford July 11th chronicled the death of Dr. J. W. Ashford, an old La Grange (Ga.) Boy, the far away Oregon. Dr. Ashford was 59 years of age at the time of his death, was born and reared in Troup county and was one of the kindest and noblest men Georgia ever produced. He leaves a widow and son in the far west, a brother, Dr. Hugh Boyd, of Atlanta, and a noble, pious and heroic old mother, Mrs. M. A. Boyd, of College Park. Dr. Ashford was the son of Dr. J. W. Ashford, who was surgeon of the 41st Ga. Regiment, and many old soldiers will remember the untiring efforts and self-sacrificing labors of the elder Dr. Ashford in his desire to aid and relieve the sick and wounded soldiers. Indeed, I heard an old comrade say that Dr. Ashford had sacrificed his own life by fatigue and exposure in his efforts to relieve the sick and wounded. Dr. Ashford, (Will, as his friends called him,) is kindly and affectionately remembered by many of the elder citizens. They no doubt will recall his beaming face and his warm and sympathetic hand-shake. No one who ever met Dr. Will Ashford, can forget his inimitable cordiality. I never met a man, who so impressed me with his warm hand-clasp and smiling face, showing that his heart was full of love for his fellow-man. He followed in the foot-steps of his father and entered the medical profession and settled in Oregon. Often over snowy mountains and through dangerous gorges for 50 miles or more he would go to visit his sick patients, when his devoted wife would try to persuade him not to undertake so perilous a journey, but that sympathy for the suffering, which was a part of his very nature, would not let him consult his own safety or convenience, when the sick were calling for medical aid. Dr. Ashford was buried in Canyon City, Oregon, on July 12, 1916. His funeral attendance was the largest ever held in that city, evidencing the high esteem in which he was held by his friends and neighbors. Transcribed from a clipping pasted in a Merck/Wing scrapbook; no dates visible. Information in parenthesis has been inserted for clarification. Ellipses (...) indicate that not all of the article has been transcribed. Some information omitted for clarify and brevity.