Eva Donohoe
of Navarro County, Texas


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EVA SPEED DONOHOO
NOV. 18, 1877
OCT 12, 1929
KILLED BY AL BARNES CIRCUS ELEPHANT

Oakwood Cemetery - Corsicana, Navarro Co., TX

October 13, 1929

Eva Donohoe

Funeral services for Mrs. Eva Donohoe, 52, of Kerens, who was trampled and tusked to death Saturday afternoon by a maddened elephant at a circus, will be held here Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock with burial in Oakwood Cemetery.
The services will be conducted by the Rev. F. P.
Culver, pastor of the First Methodist Church here.
Mrs. Donohoe was a well-to-do land owner of Kerens community and was a member of the Daughter of the American Revolution, United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Eastern Star. Surviving Mrs. Donohoe are one daughter, two brothers and one sister.
 

 

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