Obit: Samuel Houston Hoss, Sr, Caddo Par., Louisiana
Submitted by: G. T. Kellogg, Jr.
Date: Sept. 1998


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Samuel Houston Hoss, Sr., Maternal Grandfather, Caddo Parish
Date and Source of Newspaper Article Unknown

SAM HOUSTON HOSS, SR.

IN MEMORIUM

Sam H. Hoss was born September 18, 1887, and on the morning of November 7,
1917, his spirit departed to be with his savior and loved ones gone before.
Sam was in full bloom of young manhood, just a few weeks more than thirty
years of age.  He possessed every quality that is in the makeup of a good man. 
He had been a member of the Baptist Church at Hosston the past six years and
at the time of his death was serving his Master as Clerk of the church, as
teacher of the young men's class in Sunday school, as group captain in the B.
Y. P. U., and had been elected as deacon -- the ordination to have been the
following Sunday.
His friends were numerous, for to know him was to love him.  He had a smile
and a pleasant word for all, and his many deeds of charity were known only to
himself.
Knowing Sam and his brother Tim so well, how closely their lives were
interlinked, how every desire of the one was also the wish of the other, how
that in every business transaction, social function and religious duty they
seemed of one mind, baptized into membership of the church at the same time,
held the same offices in the church, married the same year:  how at the last
both met with such tragic deaths, while engaged in innocent sports, and that
within the space of a few weeks.
On August 16, 1917, at the age of twenty-seven years and twenty-seven days,
Tim passed away, having been hit with a baseball two days previous.  All that
loving hands and surgical skill could do to restore him to his dear ones was
done, but it was the Father's will to take him home.
On November 17, 1917, while out duck hunting, Sam was accidentally shot by a
fellow huntsman and staunch friend and died instantly.  Such a shock to his
loved ones and friends!  
During 1912 both young men married into prominent families of Bossier parish
-- Sam to Miss Viola Roberson and Tim to Miss Minnie Banks.  Sam leaves a son,
Sam, Jr., aged four years and a daughter, Martha Helen.......(Not Legible)

A friend and former teacher
Madie Dickson Worley.
Hosston, La., Nov. 22, 1917