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Henry Jackson

Henry Jackson Killed By Negro Last Friday
The Boswell News April 21, 1932
Transcribed by Ron Henson for OKCHOCTA

    Henry Jackson is dead.

    The second victim of a Negro assailant to occur in Choctaw county within the past few weeks.

    Mr. Jackson died at the Paris sanitarium Sunday afternoon at about 3 o’clock, after valiantly fighting the wounds received by the bullet from the Negro’s gun.

    Up until the time of his death, Mr. Jackson still told his friends that “I’m going to get well.” Physicians at the sanitarium operated Saturday to extract the bullet which fractured his spine, and which caused paralysis of the legs.

    Funeral services were held at the Baptist church at Boswell Monday afternoon, conducted by Reverend Ward. Interment was made at the Mount Olivet cemetery here.

    The body was brought to Hugo in a Snow hearse and the body held at the funeral home until funeral services. His hundreds of friends in Hugo called by Monday up until noon when the body was moved to Boswell for the funeral to pay last tribute to their friend.

    Surviving Mr. Jackson are his widow, Mrs. H.H. Jackson, three children, Irene, Wayne and Arval; his mother, Mrs. Sarah Jackson, of Weathers, Okla.; two brothers, W.H. Jackson, Clovis, N. Mexico, and D.A. Jackson, Okemah, Okla.; four sisters, Mrs. Tim Griffin, Weathers, Okla.; Mrs. Frank Cantress, Bard, N. Mexico; Mrs. Wiley Yarbrough, Clovis, N. Mexico, and Mrs. John Wright, of Spencerville.

    Mr. Jackson was born July 1889 in Murphysboro, Arkansas. He had been working with the Indian service in this state for many years.

    According to word from the Snow funeral home the pall bearers at the funeral were O.L. Watson, Boswell; R.H. Adair, Boswell; C.E. Ryburn, Hugo; Clark Guthrie, Hugo; H.H. Rorrie, Hugo; Dan Stormont, Muskogee, and Dan Blackshear, Hugo.

    Mr. Jackson received the wound which caused his death Friday morning when he and three other federal officers were on a still said in the Frogville community.

    Mr. Jackson and Joe Pruegert had arrested Robert Smith, and were taking him to their car to bring him to Hugo, when Mr. Jackson told Pregert to take a short cut to it and meet them at a certain place on the road.

    After he had left, according to a statement from Mr. Jackson, made at the Paris sanitarium late Saturday, Jackson asked Smith if he was armed. The negro replied that he was not. Jackson then asked him what the bump under his coat was, after the Negro had gotten in front of him after being told to do so.

    Smith, then replied that he would show him what he had, and reached in his pocket and pulled the gun, firing it at Jackson.

    The bullet entered the left side and struck the spine before it emerged on the right side.

    Pruegert who heard the shot returned to the place where he had left the two and soon found Mr. Jackson wounded lying in the middle of the trail.

    He went for help and found the third man of the raiding party, Pat Cummings searching for whiskey at Roy Morrison’s house about a quarter of a mile away. The two officers and the negro, then carried Mr. Jackson about 100 yards to the car and started him on his way for first aid.

    It was later learned that Smith, after firing the shot into Jackson’s body hid in the home of Roy Morrison and that Cummings might have been shot if a Negro woman had not prevailed on Smith not to shoot him. After Cummings left in aid in bringing Jackson to the car, Smith, according to those who were at the house, left by the back door, heading west. This is last time that he has been heard of, according to officers today.

    Blood hounds which were brought to Hugo Friday night from the State Penitentiary at McAlester failed to pick up any trail left by the Negro.

    Saturday and Sunday federal officers who had been working on the case continued searching the haunts of the Negro, when he lived in Lamar county, while the sheriff’s forces of this and McCurtain county continued to scour the bottoms on the Oklahoma side of the river. – Hugo Daily News.

Card of Thanks
The Boswell News April 21, 1932
Transcribed by Ron Henson for OKCHOCTA

    We are very grateful to our neighbors for their kindness and sympathy during our recent bereavement. For the kind words and unselfish loyalty we are deeply appreciative.

    May God’s richest blessings rest upon each of you, throughout the years of life, is our prayer.

    Mrs. Henry Jackson and children, Irene, Wayne and Arval.

    W.H. Jackson, Clovis, N.M., D.A. Jackson, Okemah, Okla., Mrs. Tim Griffin, Weathers, Texas, Mrs. John Wright, Spencerville, Mrs. Wiley Yarbrough, Clovis, N.M. and Mrs. Frank Cantrell, Baird, N.M.