Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1909 — COULDN'T ENJOY HIS FORTUNE [ARTICLE]

COULDN'T ENJOY HIS FORTUNE

Sergeant, Who Contracted Leprosy In Cuba, Dead In Hi* Cabin. Savannah, Dec. 14. —First Sergeant C. O. Mix, who became afflicted with leprosy while campaigning in Cuba, 1* dead in his lonely cabin on the Fort Screver reservation. Recently Mix’s father died, leaving the soldier $40,000. This money and the sergeant’s accumulated pay he could not enjoy as he never was permitted to leave the immediate vicinity of bls hut.