Frain, Anna and Lloyd Hoadley
Anna was born in Lacon, Ill. on Jan. 21, 1901 to Luke Frain and Elizabeth
Bird. She married Lloyd Hoadley on Feb. 23, 1920 at Lacon. She died on April 16,
1974 at Mountain Home, Idaho and is buried in the Mountain View Cemetery, there.
She was shown as attending her mother's funeral on 11/2/51 and that she lived in
Emmit, Idaho at that time.
Lloyd Hoadley was born Nov. 28, 1898 and died March, 1971 in Mountain Home, Idaho, confirmed
by Social Security Death Index.
Lloyd's grand nephew Larry Hoadley, b. July 15, 1958, e-mailed
me. He is the son of Raydon Hoadley's cousin Marvin Hoadley
who was present at the tragedy reported in the newspaper article
shown below. He shared some information about the Hoadley
family with me. Lloyd's father was William Henry Hoadley b.
1857 and d. 1939. His mother was Martha Ann McGee, b. 1879 and
d. 1939.
Anna was Baptist.
When Anna attended her father's funeral in 1939, she still lived in New
Mexico.
While her brother Joe was at the 411th Air Force Base in Alliance, Nebraska
he sent an Easter card to his mother who was staying with Anna and Lloyd. This
would be about 1942 or 1943. She may have been visiting because of the
death of her grandson, Raydon Hoadley as described in the newspaper article
below.
An inscription on the back of a photo showing Luke and Elizabeth Frain with
children Patrick and Florence indicates that Florence was Anna's oldest daughter
and she passed away in 1972. She and Lloyd had eight children.
Next picture shows grandma Frain, Elizabeth,, with Anna, her daughter, with the
Hoadley family, then with just Anna and Lloyd. Fourth picture is of Robert
Chester Hoadley b. 1932 - 2nd grade, 9 yrs old in Clovis, New Mexico.
She had lived in Clovis, New Mexico at one time where the following tragedy
was recorded.
CLOVIS, NEW MEXICO, NEWS JOURNAL
(This article was cut and saved but unfortunately the date was not included.
Given Raydon's age an approximate birth date of 1930, the event woulld have
happened about 1943.)
'Clovis Youth Loses Life in Cave When Sand Slides'
'Old Red Sand Pit is Scene of Tragedy'
A two hours' fight to save the life of 13-year-old Raydon Loyd (sic)
Hoadley ended in failure Friday afternoon after workers recovered the boy's body
from the side of a sand pit where a slide had trapped him. Artificial
respiration administered for an hour after the body was found failed to revive
him.
What had begun as a carefree picnic outing for four Clovis boys thus
ended in tragedy. Three companions, Richard and Marvin Hoadley, 917 Walnut,
cousins of Raydon and Homer Burns of 416 Ash, had gone to the sand pit three
miles southwest of Clovis for their outing. The boys began playing in the sand
walls, digging holes which went about five feet back from the outside.
Two of the boys were in the hole, but one crawled out before the
cave-in. "it's caving in!" he shouted, but it was too late and Raydon was buried
under the heavy sand.
Men working at a nearby rock crusher and highway department workers
were summoned by one of the boys. A telephone call from a farmhouse reached the
city hall and police and sheriff's officers rushed to the scene.
"We excavated the sand for about 45 minutes before we found the
body," said State Policeman Roy Vermillion. Artificial respiration was
immediately administered by Vermillion and Fire Chief George Maddox, and kept up
for an hour, but efforts to revive the boy were futile.
Raydon's Mother, Mrs. Anna Hoadley lives at 1001 East Fourth in
Clovis. His father L. E. Hoadley, arrived Saturday from Arizona to aid in
funeral arrangements.
Coincident with the disclosure of the tragedy, state, county, and
city officers warned Clovis parents Saturday to keep children away from the
treacherous sand pits in an attempt to avert further disasters. Several other
holes in the sand walls gave evidence that other persons had been playing in the
sand pit. The sand is heavy and very fine-grained and it only takes a light
pressure to cause a slide or cave-in they warned.
Men working at the rock crusher who gave valuable assistance in the
excavation included Aubrey Snedegar, O'Donnell Elmore, K. Barnett, A. F.
Williams, Marck Vance, D. L. Withers and Ed Saulchenko. Highway department men
who also gave all possible help were J. and Floyd Beck and F. T. Cummins.
The accident happened about 2 o'clock Friday afternoon and the boy's
body was not found until nearly three. After artificial respiration, the body
was taken to Steed's Funeral Home. Funeral arrangements were made after arrival
of some relatives who were not in Clovis.
The following was contributed by Sue Boldman, Anna Frain Hoadley's
granddaughter. She saw this web site on the internet and sent this via
e-mail.
Here is info on my grandparents. LLoyd Hoadley and Anna Frain
were married in
Lacon, Illinois on Feb. 23, 1920. They had eight children.
Florence Elizabeth Hoadley b. July 17, 1921
Alice Louise Hoadley b. Feb. 5, 192?
Evelyn Berniece Hoadley b. Nov. 11, 1925
Billie Jean Hoadley b. April 3, 1928
Raydon Lloyd Hoadley
Robert Chester Hoadley b. March 31, 1932
Goldie Anna Hoadley b. Dec. 25, 1935
Mary Martha Hoadley b. Feb. 3, 1938
My Parents are Billie Jean Hoadley and Allie Mac Pennington.
I have five children of my own.
Photos from Sue
This next picture was taken by Katherine Frain
Glazebrook in July 1962 at her brother Joe Frain's house in Tovey, IL.
From top left is Katherine's husband Dick, a son of Hattie and Earl Warren (my
stepsister and her husband), Hattie, Joe Frain with wife Louise, Anna Frain
Hoadley and Katherine's niece Mary Martha (Anna's daughter) is sitting on the
ground. Katherine, Joe and Anna are sisters and brother. Joe Frain
is my father and Louise is my stepmother.
Written on the back of the photograph:
Cecelia holds Patrick Michael. Kathryn holds Alice Louise Hoadley and
Florence Hoadley sucks her thumb. (Kathryn's doll)
Cecelia and Kathryn are Anna's sisters and Patrick is Anna's brother.
Also, this from Sue:
Hi Joe, Sorry this took so long. I really enjoyed our visit the
other
day. I do hope our families can get together some time. Grandma
never talked about her family, even to her kids. My Mom has told me
some things, like they grew up
pretty poor. I guess Grandpa never made a very good living,
then he would leave her
alone a lot.
I do know that they lived at Anderson Ranch Dam in Idaho about
1945. I don't know when they lived in Emmett. I'll have to ask
my Mom.
I remember Grandma as being very strict with kids. Never mean
though. I would stay
with her for a week at a time in the summer and I just loved it. She
had
rules and you obeyed them. That was just the way it was. but I still
enjoyed
staying with her. I guess some rules are good. They never hurt me.
I hope this
picture goes through. It says Alice, Ann, and friend Hilda. I don't
know who the guy
is. It looks like it was taken before Grandma was married.
They all look
pretty happy.
Better go for now and get ready for work tomorrow.
Thanks Sue
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