Henry was the son of Robert David & Margaret Amanda Holland. He married Alice Erlene Mitchell 14 September 1946. They had two sons: Henry Lee and Jimmie Eugene and were later divorced.
Raymondville Man Killed-Struck By Auto
Henry Cole, 30-year-old Texas countian, who had been employed at Brighton, Illinois, for the past nine months, was killed instantly Friday midnight when he was struck by a car about eight miles north of E. St. Louis, as he was crossing Highway 40.
Cole and his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin DeWitt, were returning home to spend the weekend. They had stopped for a sandwich and Cole was walking across the highway when the accident occurred. He died of a crushed chest and a head injury. It was not learned whether charges had been filed against the driver.
DcWitt and Cole had been working for the Moss Tie Co.
Cole's father, Dave Cole, resides at Hartshorn. Henry was born near Montauk but had lived most of his life near Raymondville. He was a veteran of World War II.
In addition to his father, he is survived by two sons; three sisters, Mrs. Melvin DeWitt and Mrs .Nellie DeWitt, of Hartshorn, and Mrs. Pearlie Gorman, of McFarland, California; a grandmother, Mrs. Nancy C. Cole, of Joy, Mo.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at the Cole cemetery on Pigeon Creek, by Mrs. /Ray C. Miles, with the Elliott Funeral| Home in charge.
The Houston Herald, Thursday, May 26, 1949 re later divorced.
Raymondville Man Killed-Struck By Auto
Henry Cole, 30-year-old Texas countian, who had been employed at Brighton, Illinois, for the past nine months, was killed instantly Friday midnight when he was struck by a car about eight miles north of E. St. Louis, as he was crossing Highway 40.
Cole and his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin DeWitt, were returning home to spend the weekend. They had stopped for a sandwich and Cole was walking across the highway when the accident occurred. He died of a crushed chest and a head injury. It was not learned whether charges had been filed against the driver.
DcWitt and Cole had been working for the Moss Tie Co.
Cole's father, Dave Cole, resides at Hartshorn. Henry was born near Montauk but had lived most of his life near Raymondville. He was a veteran of World War II.
In addition to his father, he is survived by two sons; three sisters, Mrs. Melvin DeWitt and Mrs .Nellie DeWitt, of Hartshorn, and Mrs. Pearlie Gorman, of McFarland, California; a grandmother, Mrs. Nancy C. Cole, of Joy, Mo.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at the Cole cemetery on Pigeon Creek, by Mrs. /Ray C. Miles, with the Elliott Funeral| Home in charge.
The Houston Herald, Thursday, May 26, 1949 re later divorced.
Henry was the son of Robert David & Margaret Amanda Holland. He married Alice Erlene Mitchell 14 September 1946. They had two sons: Henry Lee and Jimmie Eugene and were later divorced.
Raymondville Man Killed-Struck By Auto
Henry Cole, 30-year-old Texas countian, who had been employed at Brighton, Illinois, for the past nine months, was killed instantly Friday midnight when he was struck by a car about eight miles north of E. St. Louis, as he was crossing Highway 40.
Cole and his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin DeWitt, were returning home to spend the weekend. They had stopped for a sandwich and Cole was walking across the highway when the accident occurred. He died of a crushed chest and a head injury. It was not learned whether charges had been filed against the driver.
DcWitt and Cole had been working for the Moss Tie Co.
Cole's father, Dave Cole, resides at Hartshorn. Henry was born near Montauk but had lived most of his life near Raymondville. He was a veteran of World War II.
In addition to his father, he is survived by two sons; three sisters, Mrs. Melvin DeWitt and Mrs .Nellie DeWitt, of Hartshorn, and Mrs. Pearlie Gorman, of McFarland, California; a grandmother, Mrs. Nancy C. Cole, of Joy, Mo.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at the Cole cemetery on Pigeon Creek, by Mrs. /Ray C. Miles, with the Elliott Funeral| Home in charge.
The Houston Herald, Thursday, May 26, 1949 re later divorced.
Raymondville Man Killed-Struck By Auto
Henry Cole, 30-year-old Texas countian, who had been employed at Brighton, Illinois, for the past nine months, was killed instantly Friday midnight when he was struck by a car about eight miles north of E. St. Louis, as he was crossing Highway 40.
Cole and his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin DeWitt, were returning home to spend the weekend. They had stopped for a sandwich and Cole was walking across the highway when the accident occurred. He died of a crushed chest and a head injury. It was not learned whether charges had been filed against the driver.
DcWitt and Cole had been working for the Moss Tie Co.
Cole's father, Dave Cole, resides at Hartshorn. Henry was born near Montauk but had lived most of his life near Raymondville. He was a veteran of World War II.
In addition to his father, he is survived by two sons; three sisters, Mrs. Melvin DeWitt and Mrs .Nellie DeWitt, of Hartshorn, and Mrs. Pearlie Gorman, of McFarland, California; a grandmother, Mrs. Nancy C. Cole, of Joy, Mo.
Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at the Cole cemetery on Pigeon Creek, by Mrs. /Ray C. Miles, with the Elliott Funeral| Home in charge.
The Houston Herald, Thursday, May 26, 1949 re later divorced.
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