Edward T. Hoadley - Lakeside Cemetery, Eagle Lake, TX - Woodmen of the World Grave Markers/Monuments on Waymarking.com

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Edward T. Hoadley
Born
June 13, 1882
Died
July 14 1912

Gone but not forgotten.

From the link listed below, we find that his full name was Edward Temple Hoadley and he was known by the nickname "Ned".


From the Colorado County TXGenWeb Project (visit link) we learn the tragic story of the passing of Edward Hoadley.

Hoadley, Edward Temple

Man Burns to Death.

Eagle Lake, Texas, July 15.--Ned Hoadley, a prominent young citizen and rice planter of this community, met death yesterday evening. He had gone to one of his rice wells and down into the pit, taking a lantern with him. The engine had been leaking and gas had formed in the pit, which became ignited by the lantern he was carrying.

The explosion blew a large gasoline tank for fully 200 feet into the air, and clouds of black smoke, coming out in heavy rings, emerged from the burning well.

After the explosion, which happened when Mr. Hoadley was about half way down in the pit, he, with all his clothing afire, climbed out of the pit and walked a distance of one mile to his home where he died. His face and body were horribly burned and his clothing was completely burned off, all that remained being two cuffs of his shirt, a leather belt around his waist, under which were some small pieces of his trousers, and his shoes, his socks having been burned down to his shoetops.

He leaves a wife and one child, a widowed mother and three sisters. [Interment in Lakeside Cemetery]

Weimar Mercury, September 19, 1912, page 8

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