Obit of Hough, Joe - McCurtain County, Oklahoma

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::Denison Cemetery--Idabel OK

Obituary: McCurtain County, Oklahoma
Dated:     Wednesday, April 25, 1990
 
       LAWMAN, HISTORIAN JOE HOUGH IS DEAD
 
Joe Hough, the youngest sheriff ever, elected in McCurtain County and one 
of the oldest historians of he early years when Smithville was a day's 
journey, died Tuesday afternoon. He was 84. He served as county sheriff 
from 1936 through 1942, serving at the end of the depression years and 
the beginning of World War II.

He was born in Indian Territory and was a schoolboy, mule-skinner,
cattleman, horse trader, farmer, sheriff and historian. Hough was there 
when Broken Bow became a city. His father handled the sale of much of the 
cut-over timber land around the county when the Dierks family helped set 
up the new village.

He was the third generation of the Hough's. The first Joe Hough was a
doctor. His son, J. E. C. Hough, was Joe's father. He and Ruth Jewel 
Wilson were married in Valliant in 1936.

Other survivors, the fourth generations of the Hough's, include three
daughters, Betty Ayres, Los Lunas, N.M., Mary Hill and Virginia Kemp,
both > of Broken Bow, and a son, Joe Hough, Jr., of Carthage, Texas. 
Another son, Joe Erick Hough, preceded his father in death in 1927.

Also surviving are a brother John D. Hough, Tulsa and a sister, Bess
Grigory, Broken Bow, nine grandchildren , eight great grandchildren and
several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at Lukfata Baptist Church,
conducted by Rev. Cletus Hawkins and Rev. Glen Matock. Burial will be in
Denison Cemetery.

Lukfata is the community where the Hough's lived when Broken Bow was
established.  It was here that Joe's grandfather Touchstone, gave him a .38
calibre Colt revolver. Hough kept that firearm at his side for all these
years.

Nation Funeral Home of Broken Bow is in charge.
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