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James Henry Hunt (Sept. 28,1909 - Sept. 28, 1909) (Find-A-Grave # 25834520) was the first born son of William Lewis Hunt and Anna Leita Guthrie Hunt.
Stephenville Empire-Tribune 11/6/1953
"Rites Held Saturday for W.L. Hunt,67"
Funeral services were held at 3:00 o'clock Saturday afternoon in the First Baptist Church for William Louis Hunt,67, who died shortly after noon Thursday in the Stephenville Hospital from a gunshot wound suffered at his home on Riverside Drive around 8 a.m. that day. Justice of the Peace, W.T. Graves rendered an inquest verdict of death from self-inflicted gunshot wounds in the case.
Rev. Felix Gresham, pastor of the First Baptist Church, officiated and burial followed in the Huckabay Cemetery under the direction of Stephenville Funeral Home.
Mr Hunt was born near the Exray community north of Stephenville and had been a farmer in recent years. At the time of his death, he was employed as a part-time janitor at the Erath County Vocational School.
In 1907, he was married to the former Miss Anna Guthrie and they became parents of three children. She preceded him in death in 1925.
He was married in 1938 to Jewel Heckel and four children were born of this union.
Survivors are his widow; seven children, J.L. Hunt of Ralls, Joe Hunt of the U.S. Navy in Virginia, Mrs. Dan McInroe of Kermit and William Charles, Kenneth Wayne, Barbara Elizabeth and Carolyn Ann Hunt of the home; three brothers, Charles Hunt of Stephenville, Herman Hunt of Exray and Joe Hunt of Dalhart; and one sister, Mrs. M.M. Singleton of Irving.
Pallbearers were Charlie Ross, Ed Emmett, J. E. Burnett, Ed Moon, A.L. Graves and J. W. Heaton.
Mrs. Jewell Elizabet6h Hunt, wife of the shooting victim, said the couple was listening to the radio at 8:3o a.m. when her husband excused himself and left the house. She said she had turned off the radio at 8:30 and a few minutes later decided she would go out to the garden, where she thought her husband had gone to see if she could help him.
On returning from the garden, she noticed her husband lying in a storage shed at the rear of their house and fearing that he had suffered a stroke, went to him and turned his body, when she notice the injury.
Bryan Hale, a neighbor, was then summoned and they called an ambulance.
The Hunts have four children at home, Charles,11,Kenneth,9; Barbara 7, and Carolyn 6. He also has three older children, one daughter, Mrs.Dan McInroe of Kermit and two sons, Joseph Hunt who is in the Navy and John Hunt, who teaches school at Ralls.
Chief Moore said that evidently Hunt was standing by a storage bin in the shed when the shot was fired, as the gun was lying in the bin and the victim had fallen away from the storage bin.
At Rest in Huckabay, Texas
Annotated Cemetery Transcript
Local History Project - Huckabay School 8th grade - 2000-2001
James Henry Hunt (Sept. 28,1909 - Sept. 28, 1909) (Find-A-Grave # 25834520) was the first born son of William Lewis Hunt and Anna Leita Guthrie Hunt.
Stephenville Empire-Tribune 11/6/1953
"Rites Held Saturday for W.L. Hunt,67"
Funeral services were held at 3:00 o'clock Saturday afternoon in the First Baptist Church for William Louis Hunt,67, who died shortly after noon Thursday in the Stephenville Hospital from a gunshot wound suffered at his home on Riverside Drive around 8 a.m. that day. Justice of the Peace, W.T. Graves rendered an inquest verdict of death from self-inflicted gunshot wounds in the case.
Rev. Felix Gresham, pastor of the First Baptist Church, officiated and burial followed in the Huckabay Cemetery under the direction of Stephenville Funeral Home.
Mr Hunt was born near the Exray community north of Stephenville and had been a farmer in recent years. At the time of his death, he was employed as a part-time janitor at the Erath County Vocational School.
In 1907, he was married to the former Miss Anna Guthrie and they became parents of three children. She preceded him in death in 1925.
He was married in 1938 to Jewel Heckel and four children were born of this union.
Survivors are his widow; seven children, J.L. Hunt of Ralls, Joe Hunt of the U.S. Navy in Virginia, Mrs. Dan McInroe of Kermit and William Charles, Kenneth Wayne, Barbara Elizabeth and Carolyn Ann Hunt of the home; three brothers, Charles Hunt of Stephenville, Herman Hunt of Exray and Joe Hunt of Dalhart; and one sister, Mrs. M.M. Singleton of Irving.
Pallbearers were Charlie Ross, Ed Emmett, J. E. Burnett, Ed Moon, A.L. Graves and J. W. Heaton.
Mrs. Jewell Elizabet6h Hunt, wife of the shooting victim, said the couple was listening to the radio at 8:3o a.m. when her husband excused himself and left the house. She said she had turned off the radio at 8:30 and a few minutes later decided she would go out to the garden, where she thought her husband had gone to see if she could help him.
On returning from the garden, she noticed her husband lying in a storage shed at the rear of their house and fearing that he had suffered a stroke, went to him and turned his body, when she notice the injury.
Bryan Hale, a neighbor, was then summoned and they called an ambulance.
The Hunts have four children at home, Charles,11,Kenneth,9; Barbara 7, and Carolyn 6. He also has three older children, one daughter, Mrs.Dan McInroe of Kermit and two sons, Joseph Hunt who is in the Navy and John Hunt, who teaches school at Ralls.
Chief Moore said that evidently Hunt was standing by a storage bin in the shed when the shot was fired, as the gun was lying in the bin and the victim had fallen away from the storage bin.
At Rest in Huckabay, Texas
Annotated Cemetery Transcript
Local History Project - Huckabay School 8th grade - 2000-2001
Woodmen of the World memorial
James Henry Hunt (Sept. 28,1909 - Sept. 28, 1909) (Find-A-Grave # 25834520) was the first born son of William Lewis Hunt and Anna Leita Guthrie Hunt.
Stephenville Empire-Tribune 11/6/1953
"Rites Held Saturday for W.L. Hunt,67"
Funeral services were held at 3:00 o'clock Saturday afternoon in the First Baptist Church for William Louis Hunt,67, who died shortly after noon Thursday in the Stephenville Hospital from a gunshot wound suffered at his home on Riverside Drive around 8 a.m. that day. Justice of the Peace, W.T. Graves rendered an inquest verdict of death from self-inflicted gunshot wounds in the case.
Rev. Felix Gresham, pastor of the First Baptist Church, officiated and burial followed in the Huckabay Cemetery under the direction of Stephenville Funeral Home.
Mr Hunt was born near the Exray community north of Stephenville and had been a farmer in recent years. At the time of his death, he was employed as a part-time janitor at the Erath County Vocational School.
In 1907, he was married to the former Miss Anna Guthrie and they became parents of three children. She preceded him in death in 1925.
He was married in 1938 to Jewel Heckel and four children were born of this union.
Survivors are his widow; seven children, J.L. Hunt of Ralls, Joe Hunt of the U.S. Navy in Virginia, Mrs. Dan McInroe of Kermit and William Charles, Kenneth Wayne, Barbara Elizabeth and Carolyn Ann Hunt of the home; three brothers, Charles Hunt of Stephenville, Herman Hunt of Exray and Joe Hunt of Dalhart; and one sister, Mrs. M.M. Singleton of Irving.
Pallbearers were Charlie Ross, Ed Emmett, J. E. Burnett, Ed Moon, A.L. Graves and J. W. Heaton.
Mrs. Jewell Elizabet6h Hunt, wife of the shooting victim, said the couple was listening to the radio at 8:3o a.m. when her husband excused himself and left the house. She said she had turned off the radio at 8:30 and a few minutes later decided she would go out to the garden, where she thought her husband had gone to see if she could help him.
On returning from the garden, she noticed her husband lying in a storage shed at the rear of their house and fearing that he had suffered a stroke, went to him and turned his body, when she notice the injury.
Bryan Hale, a neighbor, was then summoned and they called an ambulance.
The Hunts have four children at home, Charles,11,Kenneth,9; Barbara 7, and Carolyn 6. He also has three older children, one daughter, Mrs.Dan McInroe of Kermit and two sons, Joseph Hunt who is in the Navy and John Hunt, who teaches school at Ralls.
Chief Moore said that evidently Hunt was standing by a storage bin in the shed when the shot was fired, as the gun was lying in the bin and the victim had fallen away from the storage bin.
At Rest in Huckabay, Texas
Annotated Cemetery Transcript
Local History Project - Huckabay School 8th grade - 2000-2001
James Henry Hunt (Sept. 28,1909 - Sept. 28, 1909) (Find-A-Grave # 25834520) was the first born son of William Lewis Hunt and Anna Leita Guthrie Hunt.
Stephenville Empire-Tribune 11/6/1953
"Rites Held Saturday for W.L. Hunt,67"
Funeral services were held at 3:00 o'clock Saturday afternoon in the First Baptist Church for William Louis Hunt,67, who died shortly after noon Thursday in the Stephenville Hospital from a gunshot wound suffered at his home on Riverside Drive around 8 a.m. that day. Justice of the Peace, W.T. Graves rendered an inquest verdict of death from self-inflicted gunshot wounds in the case.
Rev. Felix Gresham, pastor of the First Baptist Church, officiated and burial followed in the Huckabay Cemetery under the direction of Stephenville Funeral Home.
Mr Hunt was born near the Exray community north of Stephenville and had been a farmer in recent years. At the time of his death, he was employed as a part-time janitor at the Erath County Vocational School.
In 1907, he was married to the former Miss Anna Guthrie and they became parents of three children. She preceded him in death in 1925.
He was married in 1938 to Jewel Heckel and four children were born of this union.
Survivors are his widow; seven children, J.L. Hunt of Ralls, Joe Hunt of the U.S. Navy in Virginia, Mrs. Dan McInroe of Kermit and William Charles, Kenneth Wayne, Barbara Elizabeth and Carolyn Ann Hunt of the home; three brothers, Charles Hunt of Stephenville, Herman Hunt of Exray and Joe Hunt of Dalhart; and one sister, Mrs. M.M. Singleton of Irving.
Pallbearers were Charlie Ross, Ed Emmett, J. E. Burnett, Ed Moon, A.L. Graves and J. W. Heaton.
Mrs. Jewell Elizabet6h Hunt, wife of the shooting victim, said the couple was listening to the radio at 8:3o a.m. when her husband excused himself and left the house. She said she had turned off the radio at 8:30 and a few minutes later decided she would go out to the garden, where she thought her husband had gone to see if she could help him.
On returning from the garden, she noticed her husband lying in a storage shed at the rear of their house and fearing that he had suffered a stroke, went to him and turned his body, when she notice the injury.
Bryan Hale, a neighbor, was then summoned and they called an ambulance.
The Hunts have four children at home, Charles,11,Kenneth,9; Barbara 7, and Carolyn 6. He also has three older children, one daughter, Mrs.Dan McInroe of Kermit and two sons, Joseph Hunt who is in the Navy and John Hunt, who teaches school at Ralls.
Chief Moore said that evidently Hunt was standing by a storage bin in the shed when the shot was fired, as the gun was lying in the bin and the victim had fallen away from the storage bin.
At Rest in Huckabay, Texas
Annotated Cemetery Transcript
Local History Project - Huckabay School 8th grade - 2000-2001
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