Hopkins Co. TX - Obit - Johnathon Huckleberry

Submitted by: June E. Tuck  <1224be@neto.com>

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Johnathon Huckleberry - Funeral oration delivered by Rev. J. M. Brooks at
grave of Johnathon Huckleberry, who was interred at the Odd Fellow
cemetery, Sulphur Springs, who died June 1894. For ten years he was an
invalid. He was born in Clark Co., Indiana, Feb. 9, 1814. When quite
young, his parents moved to Sangamon County, Illinois . Here he married
and reared a family of five children, only one of them survives him. In
early manhood, he connected himself with the Methodist Church. He once
lived in the same county with Abraham Lincoln - his recollecting of
Douglas, Henry Clay, Lincoln, and such characters were vivid. (Unmarked
grave in this cemetery)