Hopkins Co., TX - Obit: Hattie Carroll
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Hattie Carroll -
Col. J. O. Livesay of Foreman, Ark., arrived in Cumby and told this story to
the Rustler office. 13 or 14 years ago there lived in the Palestine community
a young couple who had just wed in the hills of sunny Tennessee. Albert Barrs
led to the alter Miss Hattie Carroll, and soon came to Texas. She was young
and beautiful, but her marriage failed, seeking a divorce from Barrs and took
her maiden name back She came to Cumby with a sad heart and found a temporary
home with G. M. Morton and family. Mr. Morton was then, and now, the editor of
the Rustler. Later he had wrote of the death of Hattie Carroll. Miss Carroll
remained in Cumby for some time. Later she went to Dallas and found employment
at the Oriental hotel as assistant housekeeper. In the early part of 1904, a
fatal illness seized her and she died in a hospital in that city. Some of her
friends in Cumby had her body brought back to Cumby and buried her there.
(Cumby Rustler, Nov. 3, 1916)