Clark County MO Archives Obituaries.....Hecox, Samuel Goodsel January 6, 1913 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/mofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Woody Lee Franklin wlfranklin@iname.com October 7, 2006, 10:24 am Clark County Courier 10 January 1913 Clark County Courier Kahoka, Mo. 1-10-1913 Page 5 Samuel Hecox Killed by Cars Dr. Samuel Hecox was run down and killed by the west-bound K & W, passenger train while crossing the track in his automobile at Wayland last Monday morning at 10:30 o’clock. Dr. Hecox, who is a veterinarian, had had a call to the Graham place near Winchester and hurriedly left home in order to make the trip before dinner, planning to go to Keokuk in the afternoon. He stopped at the store of Sam Taylor to get his friend, C.C. Snively, to make the trip with him, but fortunately for Mr. Snively, he was not there. Mr. Hecox speeded up his machine, going south to the track past the livery barn of M. Tall. Whether the side curtains hid the train from his view, whether he thought it had already gone by, as it was more than an hour late, or whether he was just intent on his trip are mere matters of conjecture. The train running about 18 miles per hour caught his machine just behind the front wheels, swerving the car around and dragging it along the track for 150 feet. At that point the wheels of the automobile struck the switch and disengaged it from the pilot, and it fell to the right hand. The train ran its length past the auto before it was brought to a stop. Mr. Hecox was found between the track and the automobile, his skull fractured and his right arm torn off, death no doubt having been instantaneous. Dr. H.S. Reese, former coroner, took charge in the absence of Coroner F.A.S. Rebo, who arrived later and held the inquest at 1:30 p.m. Witnesses to the accident were Sam Bates and Peter Baker, who were in front of the livery barn, and W. Cooey and F. Sheets, who were on the depot platform several hundred feet distant. It appears that the train had whistled after passing the grade at sand ridge and also a second or so before striking Mr. Hecox. F.D. Watson was the conductor in charge of the train and A.A. Ong, the engineer. Atty. Palmer Trimble and Dr. Kinneman, of Keokuk, and Atty. J.A. Whiteside, of Kahoka, representing the C.B. & Q., were present at the inquest. The verdict of accidental death did not attach any blame of the company. The funeral services were held at the Baptist church, Wayland, at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 8, conducted by Rev. F.M. Baker. The interment was in the Frazee cemetery. Dr. Samuel Hecox was born in Clay Township, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Goodsel Hecox, and was 50 years and 4 days of age at the day of his death. He was united in marriage to Miss Laura Strong, three children being born to the union. Surviving are the wife and two daughters, Mrs. Lutie Hand and Mrs. Winnie Wilsey, of Wayland. Dr. Hecox is also survived by two brothers and two sisters. The relatives have the deepest sympathy of the community. Clark County Courier Kahoka, Mo. 1-10-1913 Page 5 Local & Personals Train No. 40, west-bound, due in Kahoka at 9:37 a.m. was delayed above Keokuk an hour last Tuesday morning by a wreck. A freight car jumped the track two miles above Keokuk and crashed into the shack used as a telegraph station at the cross-over from the old to the new track. The operator, named Wilson, had just left the building but was injured by flying timbers. No. 40 is making a bad start, having killed Dr. Hecox its first trip, Monday, and being delayed by this wreck Tuesday. Clark County Courier Kahoka, Mo. 1-17-1913 Page 7 Hecox Samuel Goodsel Hecox, son of Goodsel Hecox and wife, was born in Clark Co., Mo., 4 miles southeast of Wayland, Jan. 2, 1863. He departed this life Jan. 6, 1913, aged 50 years and 4 days. On Oct. 5, 1887, he was untied in marriage to Laura Strong. To this union were born three children, one a son, having died in infancy. Deceased had been a resident of Clark Co. all of his life, and for the past twenty years had been a practicing veterinary surgeon of ability. He never made a profession of Christianity but for the past few months had seemed inclined to that sort of life. His death was very sudden and unexpected, reminding us of the uncertainty of life and as God says, “There is but a step between me and death.” Deceased leaves to mourn his untimely departure, his beloved wife, two daughters, Mrs. Cora Wilsey and Mrs. Lutie Hand, of Keokuk, Iowa, two sisters, Mrs. Mary Mouldin of Denver, Ill. and Miss Lura Hecox, of Wayland, Mo., two brothers, George Hecox, of Tonkawa, Okla., and Frank Hecox, of Alexandria, Mo. and a large number of relatives and friends. Deceased was a loving husband, a kind father and a true neighbor. The home and community will feel deeply their loss. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday, Jan. 8. 1913, by Rev. F.M. Baker of Wyaconda, in the presence of a large concourse of friends, after which his remains were laid to rest in Frazee Cemetery. The bereaved have the sympathy of the entire community in their sorrow. May they remember the Lord, the real source of comfort, in their affliction. F.M.B. Clark County Courier Kahoka, Mo. 4-5-1912 page 5 Wilber Hecox, Deceased On last Saturday Wilber Hecox died at his home at Alexandria, aged about 37. Interment Sunday in Frazee cemetery. He was a nephew of Mrs. J.A.W. Smith of Kahoka. Clark County Courier Kahoka, Mo. 11-126-1915 Page 5 Obituary HECOX Wilber Chester Hecox was born in Adams, Co., Ill, Apr. 23, 1847. His home was at Parsons, Kas., and while on a journey back to Missouri to visit relatives, he departed this life suddenly in the depot at Kansas City, Nov. 19, 1915, at 5:30 a.m., stricken with heart failure, aged 68 years, 6 months and 26 days. He was united in marriage to Fannie Minton in 1870. To this union were born two sons, Burton and Ervin. After five years of married life, she preceded him in death, leaving the two little children motherless. In 1886, Apr. 10, he was united in marriage to Alice Chapman. To this union were born four children, three of whom preceded him in death. In the year 1886, he was converted and baptized into the fellowship of the New Woodville Baptist Church. Four years ago he was elected and ordained to the office of deacon in the Baptist church of Parsons, Kas., and remained faithful until death. He was a good man, a kind father, a devoted husband. He loved his Bible and the Lord’s people, and it was a joy to him to talk of heaven and his sure and steadfast hope. He leaves to mourn his departure his devoted wife and three sons, Burton, Ervin and Glen, all of Parsons, Kas.; also one brother, Mark Hecox, of Wayland, Mo., and two sisters, Mrs. Emma Trout, of Alexandria, Mo. and Mrs. Martha Elick, of LaBelle, Mo. Besides these he leaves a very large number of other relatives and friends who extend their sympathy in this hour of sorrow. Funeral services were conducted from the Gorin Baptist Church by the Rev. F.M. Baker, of Wyaconda, Mo. At 2 p.m., Nov. 20, 1915. A large number of friends came to pay their last tribute of respect. Following the service his remains were interred in the Gorin cemetery under the direction of G.V. Baskett, undertaker. What a blessing it is to “die in the Lord” and what a comfort to know, that on the other shore, we shall meet and together shall sing the great redemption song. F.M.B. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mo/clark/obits/h/hecox91gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mofiles/ File size: 7.9 Kb