Ruth Evelyn Houston
1882 - 1956 (73 years)-
Name Ruth Evelyn Houston Born 20 Oct 1882 Sarepta, Webster Parish, Louisiana, USA 
Gender Female Died 3 Jun 1956 Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas, USA Buried 5 Jun 1956 Cotton Valley Cemetery - Cotton Valley, Louisiana, USA Person ID I1541 Cody LeBlanc's Family Tree Last Modified 6 May 2025
Father Lazarus Lafayette Houston, b. 2 May 1847, Cuthbert, Randolph County, Georgia, USA , d. 4 Mar 1931, Sarepta, Webster Parish, Louisiana, USA (Age 83 years) Mother Frances Viola Campbell, b. 1 Sep 1854, Rocky Mount, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, USA , d. 24 Jul 1931, Sarepta, Webster Parish, Louisiana, USA (Age 76 years) Married 16 Mar 1871 Webster Parish, Louisiana, USA Family ID F592 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family George Egan Hodges, b. 4 Oct 1879, Cotton Valley, Webster Parish, Louisiana, USA , d. 22 Dec 1942, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, USA (Age 63 years) Married 15 Feb 1906 Hope, Hempstead County, Arkansas, USA Last Modified 13 Apr 2015 Family ID F851 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Event Map 
Born - 20 Oct 1882 - Sarepta, Webster Parish, Louisiana, USA 
Married - 15 Feb 1906 - Hope, Hempstead County, Arkansas, USA 
Died - 3 Jun 1956 - Fayetteville, Washington County, Arkansas, USA 
Buried - 5 Jun 1956 - Cotton Valley Cemetery - Cotton Valley, Louisiana, USA = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Photos 
Ruth Evelyn Houston Hodges 
Houston Siblings
Taken in 1948 at Isaac Newton Houston's House on Mansfield Road in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Back Row: Vester Houston, Isaac Newton Houston, Lonnie Houston.
Front Row: Lee Lazarus Houston, Ruth Houston Hodges, Grace Houston Pugh, Gertie Houston Cochran
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Ruth Evelyn Houston Hodges
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1920 Lazarus and Fannie Houston Family
First row: Fannie Elizabeth Houston, Newell Osteen Pugh, Earl Lafayette Houston, Lester Ennis Houston, Elizebeth Houston, Francis Nevel Houston, Ottis Gilmer Houston, Frances Elizabeth Houston, Vernia Margaret Pugh, Margaret Elsie Houston, Stephen Bannerman Pugh Jr.
Middle Row: Lilly Ruth Houston, Artie Eleanor Braswell Houston, Van Lazarus Houston, Dr. William Martin Houston, Frances Viola "Fannie" Campbell Houston, Ruth Evelyn Houston, Lazarus Lafayette "Lat" Houston, Mary Eleanor Houston, Frances Eloise "Smokie" Houston
Back Row: Lonnie Houston, Cora Bell Dance Houston, Isaac Newton Houston, Hattie Jane Hollis Houston, Vesta Edgar Houston, Grace Elizabeth Houston Pugh, Lucile Dance Houston Maurer, Fannie Lou Houston, Gilbert Orren Houston, Ada Verlie Houston, Sybil Garnett Houston, William Aubrey Houston, Lonnie Gordon Houston
Houston Home in Sarepta, Louisiana
The house of Lazarus Lafayette Houston and Fannie Viola Campbell Houston in Sarepta, Louisiana where they raised all of their children.
1900 Houston Family Picture
Taken at the home of Lazarus and Fannie Houston in Sarepta, Louisiana.
Documents 
Houstons Called to the Bedside of their Father
Published in The Shreveport Journal on March 4, 1931
Death Certificate for Ruth Evelyn Houston Hodges
Name: Ruth Houston Hodges
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 74
Birth Date: 22 Feb 1882 [20 Oct 1882]
Birth Place: Sarepta, La.
Death Date: 3 Jun 1956
Death Place: Fayetteville, Washington, Arkansas, USA
Father: L. L. Houston, Sr.
Mother: Francis Viola Campbell [Frances Viola Campbell]
Certificate Number: 13783
Obituary of Ruth Evelyn Houston Hodges
Published in The Shreveport Times on June 5, 1956
Obituary of Ruth Evelyn Houston Hodges
Published in The Ruston Leader on June 7, 1956
Headstones 
Headstone of Ruth Evelyn Houston Hodges
Cotton Valley Cemetery - Cotton Valley, Louisiana, USA
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Notes - Obituary:
Mrs. Hodges Rites Today In Springhill
Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday in Springhill for Mrs. Ruth Hodges, 73, of Springhill and formerly of Shreveport, who was killed Sunday in a highway accident near Fayetteville, Ark., while returning from graduation exercises at the University of Arkansas.
Dr. James W. Middleton pastor of the First Baptist Church of Shreveport, where Mrs. Hodges had been a member for several years, will officiate at the services at the Central Baptist Church of Springhill. The Rev. Dean Elkins, pastor of the church, will assist. Burial is to be in Cotton Valley.
The accident occurred during a rainstorm. Mrs. Hodges had attended the graduation of a niece, Miss Thelma Houston of Sarepta, driver of the car in which she was riding. Miss Houston and two sisters, also from Sarepta, were injured slightly.
Mrs. Hodges was the widow of G. Egan Hodges, founder of the Hodges Storage Co. of Shreveport. A native of Sarepta, she moved here about 38 years ago, and last year moved to Springhill to live with a sister, Mrs. Gertie Cochran.
Other survivors include a sister, Mrs. Grace Pugh, Sarepta; and two brothers, V. E. Houston, Shreveport and Lee Houston, Sarepta.
Pallbearers will be Earl, David and Lonnie Houston, Newell Pugh, Houston Adkins and Melbourne Cochran.
(Published in The Shreveport Times on June 5, 1956)
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Mrs. Ruth Hodges, Accident Victim Buried Tuesday
Last rites were held Tuesday in Springhill for Mrs. Ruth Hodges, 73, of Springhill, widow of G. Egan Hodges, who was killed in a highway accident near Fayetteville Ark., on Sunday.
Mrs. Hodges, whose late husband founded the Hodges Storage Company of Shreveport, was the sister-in-law of Mrs. T. L. James, Sr., of Ruston.
Funeral services were conducted from Central Baptist Church in Springhill at 3 o'clock Tues. afternoon with Dr. James W. Middleton, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Shreveport, officiating. Mrs. Hodges had been a member of the Shreveport church for a number of years. Rev. Dean Elkins, pastor of the Springhill church, assisted, and burial was in Cotton Valley.
The fatal accident occurred during a rainstorm Sunday afternoon as Mrs. Hodges was returning from graduation exercises at the University of Arkansas. She had attended the graduation of a niece, Miss Thelma Houston of Sarepta, driver of the car in which she was riding. Miss Houston and two sisters, also from Sarepta, were injured slightly.
A native of Sarepta, Mrs. Hodges moved to Shreveport about 38 years ago, and last year moved to Springhill to live with a sister, Mrs. Gertie Cochran.
Other survivors include a sister, Mrs. Grace Pugh of Sarepta; and two brothers, V. E. Houston of Shreveport, and Lee Houston of Sarepta.
(Published in The Ruston Leader on June 7, 1956)
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