was 18 years old and a waitress in a cafe in Springfield, she was boarding with the Hawkins family .She later married Willard Glud , living in Minnesota and later moving to North Highway St, Hidalgo, Hidalgo Co., Texas where Joe lived with them and worked as a truck loader on April 8, 1940. Myrdith married again to a Smith.
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Transcription from DC.
Name: Joe Franklin Asberry
Birth Date: 3 Jun 1922
Birth Place: Hutton Valley, Missouri
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Clarksville, Red River, Texas
Father: John Franklin Asberry
Mother: Lora May Ball
Age at Death: 18
Death Date: 6 Jul 1940
Death Place: Clarksville, Red River, Texas, USA
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OBIT: DEPORT TIMES 11 Jul 1940,
Thursday, from microfilm in the Clarksville Library:
Injuries sustained in the Fourth of July rodeo at Clarksville proved fatal to Joe Asberry, 18, of Edinburg at midnight Saturday.
Death was attributed to a concussion, caused when the youth was thrown from his horse in a bronc riding exhibition. Asberry, an orphan, was an amateur rider, having gone there for the performance from Avery, where he was employed in the tomato harvest. The body was sent to West Plains, (Howell Co )Mo., where his parents are buried, for interment.
His only survivors are a sister, Mrs. Lonnie Anderson of Campbell, Minn., and a half sister, Mrs. Willard Glud of Edinburg.
JMB
was 18 years old and a waitress in a cafe in Springfield, she was boarding with the Hawkins family .She later married Willard Glud , living in Minnesota and later moving to North Highway St, Hidalgo, Hidalgo Co., Texas where Joe lived with them and worked as a truck loader on April 8, 1940. Myrdith married again to a Smith.
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Transcription from DC.
Name: Joe Franklin Asberry
Birth Date: 3 Jun 1922
Birth Place: Hutton Valley, Missouri
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Clarksville, Red River, Texas
Father: John Franklin Asberry
Mother: Lora May Ball
Age at Death: 18
Death Date: 6 Jul 1940
Death Place: Clarksville, Red River, Texas, USA
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OBIT: DEPORT TIMES 11 Jul 1940,
Thursday, from microfilm in the Clarksville Library:
Injuries sustained in the Fourth of July rodeo at Clarksville proved fatal to Joe Asberry, 18, of Edinburg at midnight Saturday.
Death was attributed to a concussion, caused when the youth was thrown from his horse in a bronc riding exhibition. Asberry, an orphan, was an amateur rider, having gone there for the performance from Avery, where he was employed in the tomato harvest. The body was sent to West Plains, (Howell Co )Mo., where his parents are buried, for interment.
His only survivors are a sister, Mrs. Lonnie Anderson of Campbell, Minn., and a half sister, Mrs. Willard Glud of Edinburg.
JMB
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