 West Hill Cemetery Sherman, Texas
 H. Frank Todd 7 April 1880 - 8 January 1905 Austin American-Statesman
Sunday, January 8, 1905 pg.2 Special to The Statesman. Sherman, Texas, January 7 - Shortly before noon today a colored employee at Kregear's brick works in the woodland north of the Frisco shops came upon a gruesome sight. The body of a youth lay on the ground hidden from the pathway by a clump of brush. Across his breast rested a single barreled shotgun and crouching at his side a small yellow dog was piteously whining. A closer investigation showed the body to be rigid and cold. On the back of the head and neck there was a fearful wound and about the neck and down on the breast and back were powder burns and stains. The sheriff's office was also notified and deputies, accompanied by the coroner, went out and returned with the body, which was placed in a morgue, when it was visited by a great many people before it was identified as that of Frank Todd, the15-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Todd of East Jones street. The father of the dead youth made the following statement: "Yesterday about noon my son and the son of one of my neighbors went out hunting. The other boy came back home last evening, but Frank did not come with him, and he said that they had gotten lost from each other in some woods north of the city. We expected our boy in all last night and this morning became apprehensive. This feeling was to some extent offset by the fact that my father lives north of the city and it did not seem improbably that he might have gone over to his grandfather's and spent the night." West Hill Cemetery Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |
