Obit: Sam Houston Hoss Sr, Caddo Par., Louisiana
Submitted by Margaret Carlson (E-mail - Margalic@aol.com)
Date: Sept. 1998
Source: Shreveport Times Thursday, Nov. 18 1917



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Reproduced from the Shreveport Times Thursday, Nov. 18 1917, Page 1. 

SAM HOSS SHOT IN HUNTING ACCIDENT...
PLANTER INSTANTLY KILLED WHILE
SHOOTING DUCKS WEDNESDAY.

Sam Hoss, age 30, a prominent planter of Hosston, was accidentally
killed at 7:30 Wednesday morning by E.L.Fields, with whom he was duck
hunting on Poston Lake in Bossier parish. Three months ago his
brother, H.M. Hoss, was accidentally killed by being struck by a
baseball during a game in Hosston.

Wednesday morning the two men were in a blind together. Hoss left
it to get a better shot at some ducks that had settled among his
decoys. He shot once and missed and walked around a tree to get
another shot as the ducks flew off. Fields, who remained in the blind,
raised his gun for a shot at the ducks and as he pullled the trigger
Hoss walked from behind the tree and received the entire charge of
shot, dying almost instantly.

Hoss is married and is survived by his wife, Mrs. Viola Roberson
Hoss, and two children, a boy three years old and a girl six months
old.  A brother, J. M. Hoss, also survives him. 

The funeral will take place from the Baptist church in Hosston
Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock; Interment in the family cemetery.