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Henry Thurman Wade

Male 1903 - 1957  (53 years)


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  • Name Henry Thurman Wade 
    Born 4 Oct 1903  Rossville, Shawnee County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 22 Jun 1957  Lamesa, Dawson County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 27 Jun 1957  Rossville Cemetery, Rossville, Shawnee County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I6847  Rossville
    Last Modified 21 Nov 2019 

    Father William Walter Wade,   b. 1858, Austin, Travis County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Dec 1933, Silver Lake, Shawnee County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years) 
    Mother Rhoda Ann Thurber Wade Harder,   b. 4 Oct 1875, Kansas City Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Apr 1935, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 59 years) 
    Married 1892 
    Family ID F2480  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Anna Mae Driver Seay Wade Redding Hagler,   b. 28 Aug 1914, Berwyn, Carter County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Sep 1990  (Age 76 years) 
    Children 
    +1. Henry T Wade, Jr.,   b. 1 Jan 1947, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Mar 1983, Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 36 years)
    Last Modified 8 Nov 2017 12:03:37 
    Family ID F5693  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Notes 
    • I am not sure when Henry married Anna. But Henry T. Jr.'s obit lists Zora as a half-sister.
    Children 
     1. Zora Faye Wade Nicodemus,   b. 15 Jan 1942
    Last Modified 8 Nov 2017 15:49:08 
    Family ID F5700  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
    Obituary- Wade, Henry 1
    Obituary- Wade, Henry 1
    Henry T. Wade
    Few men leave a community so quickly and are such a great loss as was Henry T. Wade. At an age when most men are beginning to live comfortably and are planning to semi-relax for their remaining lives, Henry Wade was buried this week.

    Marshal Wade was known in the community not only as the law enforcer but recognized by the community people as a friend. He represented the community with a smile. His good manners were many times carried away by visitors who required his help and visitors who will always remember Rossville as a friendly community.

    Marshal Wade stood for loyal and enthusiastic support of the community. His every appearance before the public was one more proof to the community of his ever loyal support for the community welfare. If Mr. Wade spoke harshly, he spoke in what the community stood for, fair law enforcement and a right to be safe on the public streets.

    His duty to the community sprang from something more than duty as a law enforcer. Mr. Wade treated men of ill-moral well. He always did his best to stear a wrong-doer in the right direction. An arrest to Mr. Wade was not only a call of duty but an attempt to set a wrongful person on the right road of correction. Few law enforcing persons carry their duties along beside such friendliness, moral building, and community service as did Henry Wade.

    God's benediction came down quickly with the day, dropping from the skies, the day Mr. Wade left. His invocation and promise, “Peace on earth, good will to men.”
    Obituary- Wade, Henry 2
    Obituary- Wade, Henry 2
    Marshal Wade killed in vacation accident

    CLOSED FOR FUNERAL
    Rossville business places closed for one hour Thursday morning in respect to Henry Wade whose funeral was held at 9 am.


    The Wade family was vacationing in Texas visiting relatives when the accident occurred Wade had been the Marshal here for nearly four years and was on his annual leave of duty. Horace Holder, of this city was temporarily on duty as Marshal during the vacation time.

    Funeral services were held today at 9 am at the St. Stanislaus Catholic Church with burial in Rossville Cemetery. The Rosary was recited at 8 pm Wednesday at the Hurley Funeral Home. Pallbearers were Howard Stiles, Laverne Spears, Chris Viergever, Horace Holder, Homer E. Harris, and Dorrell Harris. The Rev. A. H. Shulz. SJ, was in charge of the service.

    He was born October 4, 1903, at Rossville. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Anna Wade: a daughter, Zora Wade, and a son, Henry Wade Jr., all of the home; two stepsons, Ira Joe Seay, Fort Worth, Texas, and Leroy Seay, Midland, Texas; and two brothers, Ben Wade, Rossville, and James Wade, Ogden, Utah.

    Henry T. Wade, 53, marshal of
    Rossville and deputy sheriff of
    Shawnee County, was fatally injured Saturday in a head-on collision in a borrow ditch 14 miles south of Lamesa, Texas, on State Highway 349. Eight others in the collision were injured including slight injuries to Mrs. Wade and two children.

    Texas highway patrolmen said the car in which Wade was riding swung out into the ditch when its driver saw he couldn’t make it around a truck The driver of the oncoming car had the same idea as he sought, to avoid the smashup.

    Marshal Wade died in Lamesa General Hospital shortly after arrival. The car in which he was riding was driven by his stepson, Lee Roy Seay, 27, of Midland, Texas. Also in the Seay car were Mrs. Seay, 25. and their son Johnny Lee. 13 months, and Mrs. Wade, his son, Henry T. Wade Jr., 9, and daughter, Zora Faye Wade, 15.