Galveston Daily News. November 6, 1887. Herbert Hoxie, infant son of Mr. Homer Eads, died today (Nov. 5), aged 5 weeks.
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At the time of this little one's birth and death, his father was operator, ticket and freight agent for the International and Great Northern Railroad in Rockdale, Texas. In 1888, Mr. Eads was transferred to San Antonio as commission agent for I&GN. It is assumed that the use of the name Hoxie was in tribute to the man who gave Mr. Eads his start in the railroad business, H.M. Hoxie. That story is told as follows.
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Homer Eads began his railroad career when a very young boy in 1872 as a messenger at Hearne, Texas, in the office of H.M. Hoxie, the well known railroad man, who for many years had charge of the Gould railroad interests in the southwest. Hearne was at that time the southern terminus of the International and Great Northern Railroad, which was being built southwestward through Texas to the Mexican border. When eight years of age Mr. Eads had lost his father and was forced soon afterward to provide for his own support. His people removed to Hearne at the time the railroad was completed there, and he secured a situation in Mr. Hoxie's office, acting first as messenger but soon became a telegraph operator. A Twentieth Century History of Southwest Texas by Lewis Publishing Company
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At the time of this little one's birth and death, his father was operator, ticket and freight agent for the International and Great Northern Railroad in Rockdale, Texas. In 1888, Mr. Eads was transferred to San Antonio as commission agent for I&GN. It is assumed that the use of the name Hoxie was in tribute to the man who gave Mr. Eads his start in the railroad business, H.M. Hoxie. That story is told as follows.
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Homer Eads began his railroad career when a very young boy in 1872 as a messenger at Hearne, Texas, in the office of H.M. Hoxie, the well known railroad man, who for many years had charge of the Gould railroad interests in the southwest. Hearne was at that time the southern terminus of the International and Great Northern Railroad, which was being built southwestward through Texas to the Mexican border. When eight years of age Mr. Eads had lost his father and was forced soon afterward to provide for his own support. His people removed to Hearne at the time the railroad was completed there, and he secured a situation in Mr. Hoxie's office, acting first as messenger but soon became a telegraph operator. A Twentieth Century History of Southwest Texas by Lewis Publishing Company
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Galveston Daily News. November 6, 1887. Herbert Hoxie, infant son of Mr. Homer Eads, died today (Nov. 5), aged 5 weeks.
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At the time of this little one's birth and death, his father was operator, ticket and freight agent for the International and Great Northern Railroad in Rockdale, Texas. In 1888, Mr. Eads was transferred to San Antonio as commission agent for I&GN. It is assumed that the use of the name Hoxie was in tribute to the man who gave Mr. Eads his start in the railroad business, H.M. Hoxie. That story is told as follows.
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Homer Eads began his railroad career when a very young boy in 1872 as a messenger at Hearne, Texas, in the office of H.M. Hoxie, the well known railroad man, who for many years had charge of the Gould railroad interests in the southwest. Hearne was at that time the southern terminus of the International and Great Northern Railroad, which was being built southwestward through Texas to the Mexican border. When eight years of age Mr. Eads had lost his father and was forced soon afterward to provide for his own support. His people removed to Hearne at the time the railroad was completed there, and he secured a situation in Mr. Hoxie's office, acting first as messenger but soon became a telegraph operator. A Twentieth Century History of Southwest Texas by Lewis Publishing Company
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At the time of this little one's birth and death, his father was operator, ticket and freight agent for the International and Great Northern Railroad in Rockdale, Texas. In 1888, Mr. Eads was transferred to San Antonio as commission agent for I&GN. It is assumed that the use of the name Hoxie was in tribute to the man who gave Mr. Eads his start in the railroad business, H.M. Hoxie. That story is told as follows.
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Homer Eads began his railroad career when a very young boy in 1872 as a messenger at Hearne, Texas, in the office of H.M. Hoxie, the well known railroad man, who for many years had charge of the Gould railroad interests in the southwest. Hearne was at that time the southern terminus of the International and Great Northern Railroad, which was being built southwestward through Texas to the Mexican border. When eight years of age Mr. Eads had lost his father and was forced soon afterward to provide for his own support. His people removed to Hearne at the time the railroad was completed there, and he secured a situation in Mr. Hoxie's office, acting first as messenger but soon became a telegraph operator. A Twentieth Century History of Southwest Texas by Lewis Publishing Company
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Inscription
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Herbert
Hoxie
Son of
H. & M. Eads
died Nov. 5, 1887,
Aged 1 Mo.
Here rests the sweetest bud of hope
That e're to human wish was given
If thou would'st know its present state
Repent and seek the flower in Heaven
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