Obituary of Kenneth H Hanger, Pulaski Co, AR

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Arkansas Gazette, Friday, June 2, 1967.

LAST ARKANSAS IN EARLY FAMILY DIES AT AGE 82
Kenneth Harrow Hanger, aged 82, the last Little Rock member of the Hanger
family, one of the city's founding families, died Thursday norming of his
second heart attack in two days.  He had suffered the first heart attack
Wednesday at his home at 1010 Scott Street.

Mr. Hanger was born at Little Rock August 29, 1884, a son of the late
Frederick and Frances Harrow Hanger.

A great-grandfather, Dr. Matthew Cunningham, was Little Rock's first
resident physician and became its frist mayor when the city was
incorporated. His wife, Eliza Wilson Cunningham, Mr. Hanger's great-
grandmother, was the first white woman to become a permanent resident of
Little Rock.

A grandfather of Mr. Hanger's, Peter Hanger, a state representative from
Chicot County in 1837, the year of the state's first General Assembly,
owned a great deal of real estate and operated a stagecoach line and
steamboat line on the Arkansas River.

Mr. Hanger's mother, who died in 1945, was a prominent clubwoman, active in
community and charitable affairs. She was one of the nine members who
founded the Arkansas History Commission and was of Colonial Virginia
Ancestry.

After the death of his father in 1900, Mr. Hanger joined the office staff
of the old Chactaw Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad and soon became section hand
at Dallas, TX. He became a civil engineer and was later made chief engineer
of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad in St. Louis, a position he held
until his retirement 12 years ago. His wife, the former Ree Winslow, died
in 1946.

Mr. Hanger attended public schools in Little Rock. After his retirement
from M.K.T., he returned to Little Rock and took up residence in the
family's ancestral home at 1010 Scott with his brother, Albert Eugene
Hanger, who died in 1956.  The Hanger home is part of the Quapaw Quarter,
an area of historic preservation.

Mr. Hanger was a communicant of Christ Episcopal Church and a life member
of the American Society of Civil Engineers.  During the years of his
retirement, he was interested in historical affairs and worked closely with
the Arkansas Territorial Restoration Commission.

He is survived by a son, Frederick W. Hanger of San Antonio, TX, a lawyer
who is the last living member of the Hanger family.

Funeral Arrangements will be announced by Healey & Roth.