The Houston Chronicle, Tuesday, October 27, 1908, Page 11
The funeral of John F. Hudson, who met such a tragic death last week, was held Tuesday morning from the Wright & Co. parlors with interment in the Hollywood cemetery.
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Mr Hudson was assaulted with a hatchet at his office at the Dixie Loan Company on Congress Avenue on Thursday, October 21, 1908 and died of his wounds on Friday morning at the Houston Infirmary.
He was survived by a sister, Mrs Harry Manning of St Joseph, Missouri, and a nephew, Dr Hartwell Cocke of Columbus, Mississippi, according to a long article about his death in the Houston Chronicle on Sunday, October 25, 1908. The survivors' names and contact information were found from letters in Mr Hudson's trunk. It was unknown if he had any other close survivors.
According to the article, a couple of people were being held and questioned about his death, a "colored" lady known by Mr Hudson and with whom he'd had trouble when they both previously lived in Galveston, and a loan customer, Charles Shipman, who had gotten behind in his payments and had been threatened by Mr Hudson on October 18, 1908, to be reported to his employer, the I. & G. N. Railroad, if he did not arrange to make the payments.
The lady, Aureta Anderson, had stated that Mr Hudson was supposed to have called at her home 1018 Bingham Street on Thursday night, but never appeared. She had called his office Friday to see if he was sick and was told by an employee that he had been mortally wounded Thursday night.
Neither suspect had been charged at the time of the article.
The article also stated that an employee of the loan company in Waco who had information that would likely have bearing on the case, would probably be brought to Houston.
He does not have a death certificate and neither cemetery records nor the article about his death show Mr Hudson's age, but according to the Aug 12, 1860 census of Columbus, Lowndes County, MS, he was age 4, born in 1856. The 1880 census shows he was 20, born in 1860.
The funeral of John F. Hudson, who met such a tragic death last week, was held Tuesday morning from the Wright & Co. parlors with interment in the Hollywood cemetery.
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Mr Hudson was assaulted with a hatchet at his office at the Dixie Loan Company on Congress Avenue on Thursday, October 21, 1908 and died of his wounds on Friday morning at the Houston Infirmary.
He was survived by a sister, Mrs Harry Manning of St Joseph, Missouri, and a nephew, Dr Hartwell Cocke of Columbus, Mississippi, according to a long article about his death in the Houston Chronicle on Sunday, October 25, 1908. The survivors' names and contact information were found from letters in Mr Hudson's trunk. It was unknown if he had any other close survivors.
According to the article, a couple of people were being held and questioned about his death, a "colored" lady known by Mr Hudson and with whom he'd had trouble when they both previously lived in Galveston, and a loan customer, Charles Shipman, who had gotten behind in his payments and had been threatened by Mr Hudson on October 18, 1908, to be reported to his employer, the I. & G. N. Railroad, if he did not arrange to make the payments.
The lady, Aureta Anderson, had stated that Mr Hudson was supposed to have called at her home 1018 Bingham Street on Thursday night, but never appeared. She had called his office Friday to see if he was sick and was told by an employee that he had been mortally wounded Thursday night.
Neither suspect had been charged at the time of the article.
The article also stated that an employee of the loan company in Waco who had information that would likely have bearing on the case, would probably be brought to Houston.
He does not have a death certificate and neither cemetery records nor the article about his death show Mr Hudson's age, but according to the Aug 12, 1860 census of Columbus, Lowndes County, MS, he was age 4, born in 1856. The 1880 census shows he was 20, born in 1860.
The Houston Chronicle, Tuesday, October 27, 1908, Page 11
The funeral of John F. Hudson, who met such a tragic death last week, was held Tuesday morning from the Wright & Co. parlors with interment in the Hollywood cemetery.
___________________
Mr Hudson was assaulted with a hatchet at his office at the Dixie Loan Company on Congress Avenue on Thursday, October 21, 1908 and died of his wounds on Friday morning at the Houston Infirmary.
He was survived by a sister, Mrs Harry Manning of St Joseph, Missouri, and a nephew, Dr Hartwell Cocke of Columbus, Mississippi, according to a long article about his death in the Houston Chronicle on Sunday, October 25, 1908. The survivors' names and contact information were found from letters in Mr Hudson's trunk. It was unknown if he had any other close survivors.
According to the article, a couple of people were being held and questioned about his death, a "colored" lady known by Mr Hudson and with whom he'd had trouble when they both previously lived in Galveston, and a loan customer, Charles Shipman, who had gotten behind in his payments and had been threatened by Mr Hudson on October 18, 1908, to be reported to his employer, the I. & G. N. Railroad, if he did not arrange to make the payments.
The lady, Aureta Anderson, had stated that Mr Hudson was supposed to have called at her home 1018 Bingham Street on Thursday night, but never appeared. She had called his office Friday to see if he was sick and was told by an employee that he had been mortally wounded Thursday night.
Neither suspect had been charged at the time of the article.
The article also stated that an employee of the loan company in Waco who had information that would likely have bearing on the case, would probably be brought to Houston.
He does not have a death certificate and neither cemetery records nor the article about his death show Mr Hudson's age, but according to the Aug 12, 1860 census of Columbus, Lowndes County, MS, he was age 4, born in 1856. The 1880 census shows he was 20, born in 1860.
The funeral of John F. Hudson, who met such a tragic death last week, was held Tuesday morning from the Wright & Co. parlors with interment in the Hollywood cemetery.
___________________
Mr Hudson was assaulted with a hatchet at his office at the Dixie Loan Company on Congress Avenue on Thursday, October 21, 1908 and died of his wounds on Friday morning at the Houston Infirmary.
He was survived by a sister, Mrs Harry Manning of St Joseph, Missouri, and a nephew, Dr Hartwell Cocke of Columbus, Mississippi, according to a long article about his death in the Houston Chronicle on Sunday, October 25, 1908. The survivors' names and contact information were found from letters in Mr Hudson's trunk. It was unknown if he had any other close survivors.
According to the article, a couple of people were being held and questioned about his death, a "colored" lady known by Mr Hudson and with whom he'd had trouble when they both previously lived in Galveston, and a loan customer, Charles Shipman, who had gotten behind in his payments and had been threatened by Mr Hudson on October 18, 1908, to be reported to his employer, the I. & G. N. Railroad, if he did not arrange to make the payments.
The lady, Aureta Anderson, had stated that Mr Hudson was supposed to have called at her home 1018 Bingham Street on Thursday night, but never appeared. She had called his office Friday to see if he was sick and was told by an employee that he had been mortally wounded Thursday night.
Neither suspect had been charged at the time of the article.
The article also stated that an employee of the loan company in Waco who had information that would likely have bearing on the case, would probably be brought to Houston.
He does not have a death certificate and neither cemetery records nor the article about his death show Mr Hudson's age, but according to the Aug 12, 1860 census of Columbus, Lowndes County, MS, he was age 4, born in 1856. The 1880 census shows he was 20, born in 1860.
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