The Marshall News Messenger reported -- BODY OF MISSING NEGRO FOUND
"Jefferson, Texas -- The body of a Negro man, ALF FLOYD, missing since November 20 last year when he left home to go hunting, was found a quarter-mile above the T.P. Railroad bridge here Tuesday about noon by Ned Harper, a Negro trapper. Floyd was identified by his wife, Myrtle Floyd, of Cason, who is a teacher in Mount Pleasant. Investigation into the cause of death was being made. A verdict has not been announced."
Burial arrangements managed by Emmett Cooper, of Jefferson, Texas, as undertaker.
Sources ~ Newspaper Article Published in the Wednesday, January 1941 Edition of The Marshall News Messenger [Texas Newspaper]; and Texas Death Certificate 04089; Texas County Marriage Ledger & Index; and the 1900-1940 census records of Texas
Notes:
First wife - Mrs. Mascellina Brown (Peters) Floyd {m. 1906 - preceded him in death}
Second wife - Mrs. Myrtle Spearman Floyd {survived him in death}
Alfred Spearman Floyd (son with Myrtle) died March 12, 1993 in Los Angeles, California.
The Marshall News Messenger reported -- BODY OF MISSING NEGRO FOUND
"Jefferson, Texas -- The body of a Negro man, ALF FLOYD, missing since November 20 last year when he left home to go hunting, was found a quarter-mile above the T.P. Railroad bridge here Tuesday about noon by Ned Harper, a Negro trapper. Floyd was identified by his wife, Myrtle Floyd, of Cason, who is a teacher in Mount Pleasant. Investigation into the cause of death was being made. A verdict has not been announced."
Burial arrangements managed by Emmett Cooper, of Jefferson, Texas, as undertaker.
Sources ~ Newspaper Article Published in the Wednesday, January 1941 Edition of The Marshall News Messenger [Texas Newspaper]; and Texas Death Certificate 04089; Texas County Marriage Ledger & Index; and the 1900-1940 census records of Texas
Notes:
First wife - Mrs. Mascellina Brown (Peters) Floyd {m. 1906 - preceded him in death}
Second wife - Mrs. Myrtle Spearman Floyd {survived him in death}
Alfred Spearman Floyd (son with Myrtle) died March 12, 1993 in Los Angeles, California.
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