Daughter of Samuel DeHart Beavers & Elizabeth Jane 'Eliza' Gibson Beavers
Married Robert Randolph "Ran" Hudson, May 26, 1912, Marion County, Arkansas
(The gravestone gives a birth year as 1897, but other information indicates that she was born in March 1893. The newspaper article below about her death gave her age as 46.)
The Mountain Echo, Yellville, Arkansas, November 10, 1937:
Mrs. Ran Hudson
Killed by Auto
Jonesboro, Nov. 7th--Mrs. R. R. Hudson, 46 of Rush, near Yellville, died in a hospital here today as the result of injuries suffered when struck by an automobile near Leachville.
The Hudsons were returning to Leachville after attending a carnival. They had lived in Leachville only a few weeks, being employed as cotton pickers.
According to reports, Mrs. Hudson darted across the highway into the path of an automobile driven by Sam Key of Michigan, formerly of Manila.
Witnesses told officers the accident was unavoidable. Mr. Hudson suffered a fractured knee, being struck after the automobile had knocked his wife's body to the pavement. Their three children were not hit. --Arkansas Gazette.
The above article was a great shock to the many friends of the Hudson family in Marion county, as it was the first news received here. Her relatives have the sympathy of many friends in their sorrow.
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The Baxter Bulletin, Mountain Home, Arkansas, November 19, 1937:
BUFORD
Mrs. Ran Hudson who was killed on the Highway near Blytheville was buried in the Heiskill cemetery last Monday. Why don't our lawmakers do something to slow up our speed demons.
Married Robert Randolph "Ran" Hudson, May 26, 1912, Marion County, Arkansas
(The gravestone gives a birth year as 1897, but other information indicates that she was born in March 1893. The newspaper article below about her death gave her age as 46.)
The Mountain Echo, Yellville, Arkansas, November 10, 1937:
Mrs. Ran Hudson
Killed by Auto
Jonesboro, Nov. 7th--Mrs. R. R. Hudson, 46 of Rush, near Yellville, died in a hospital here today as the result of injuries suffered when struck by an automobile near Leachville.
The Hudsons were returning to Leachville after attending a carnival. They had lived in Leachville only a few weeks, being employed as cotton pickers.
According to reports, Mrs. Hudson darted across the highway into the path of an automobile driven by Sam Key of Michigan, formerly of Manila.
Witnesses told officers the accident was unavoidable. Mr. Hudson suffered a fractured knee, being struck after the automobile had knocked his wife's body to the pavement. Their three children were not hit. --Arkansas Gazette.
The above article was a great shock to the many friends of the Hudson family in Marion county, as it was the first news received here. Her relatives have the sympathy of many friends in their sorrow.
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The Baxter Bulletin, Mountain Home, Arkansas, November 19, 1937:
BUFORD
Mrs. Ran Hudson who was killed on the Highway near Blytheville was buried in the Heiskill cemetery last Monday. Why don't our lawmakers do something to slow up our speed demons.
Daughter of Samuel DeHart Beavers & Elizabeth Jane 'Eliza' Gibson Beavers
Married Robert Randolph "Ran" Hudson, May 26, 1912, Marion County, Arkansas
(The gravestone gives a birth year as 1897, but other information indicates that she was born in March 1893. The newspaper article below about her death gave her age as 46.)
The Mountain Echo, Yellville, Arkansas, November 10, 1937:
Mrs. Ran Hudson
Killed by Auto
Jonesboro, Nov. 7th--Mrs. R. R. Hudson, 46 of Rush, near Yellville, died in a hospital here today as the result of injuries suffered when struck by an automobile near Leachville.
The Hudsons were returning to Leachville after attending a carnival. They had lived in Leachville only a few weeks, being employed as cotton pickers.
According to reports, Mrs. Hudson darted across the highway into the path of an automobile driven by Sam Key of Michigan, formerly of Manila.
Witnesses told officers the accident was unavoidable. Mr. Hudson suffered a fractured knee, being struck after the automobile had knocked his wife's body to the pavement. Their three children were not hit. --Arkansas Gazette.
The above article was a great shock to the many friends of the Hudson family in Marion county, as it was the first news received here. Her relatives have the sympathy of many friends in their sorrow.
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The Baxter Bulletin, Mountain Home, Arkansas, November 19, 1937:
BUFORD
Mrs. Ran Hudson who was killed on the Highway near Blytheville was buried in the Heiskill cemetery last Monday. Why don't our lawmakers do something to slow up our speed demons.
Married Robert Randolph "Ran" Hudson, May 26, 1912, Marion County, Arkansas
(The gravestone gives a birth year as 1897, but other information indicates that she was born in March 1893. The newspaper article below about her death gave her age as 46.)
The Mountain Echo, Yellville, Arkansas, November 10, 1937:
Mrs. Ran Hudson
Killed by Auto
Jonesboro, Nov. 7th--Mrs. R. R. Hudson, 46 of Rush, near Yellville, died in a hospital here today as the result of injuries suffered when struck by an automobile near Leachville.
The Hudsons were returning to Leachville after attending a carnival. They had lived in Leachville only a few weeks, being employed as cotton pickers.
According to reports, Mrs. Hudson darted across the highway into the path of an automobile driven by Sam Key of Michigan, formerly of Manila.
Witnesses told officers the accident was unavoidable. Mr. Hudson suffered a fractured knee, being struck after the automobile had knocked his wife's body to the pavement. Their three children were not hit. --Arkansas Gazette.
The above article was a great shock to the many friends of the Hudson family in Marion county, as it was the first news received here. Her relatives have the sympathy of many friends in their sorrow.
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The Baxter Bulletin, Mountain Home, Arkansas, November 19, 1937:
BUFORD
Mrs. Ran Hudson who was killed on the Highway near Blytheville was buried in the Heiskill cemetery last Monday. Why don't our lawmakers do something to slow up our speed demons.
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