The Longview Daily News, Fri., Oct. 25, 1940:

Funeral services were held at 4 PM Friday from the Rains & Talley chapel for Hugh ECHOLS, 71, life long resident of Gregg county, who was burned fatally in his home on the Gladewater highway late Thursday night.

Mr. Echols was born in Gregg county and formerly was connected with the Longview Cotton Oil Company mill.

Rev. F. A. Fugartie of the First Presbyterian church was to have charge of the funeral 
services. Burial was to be in Memory Park.

Mr. Echols is survived by five sons, Hugh of Goose Creek, Kenneth and Francis of San Antonio, and Leon and Paul of Austin; a brother, R. T. Echols of Chicago, Ill.; five sisters, Mrs. Fay Echols of McAlester, OK, Mrs. Sam Shipp of Lebanon, TN, Mrs. E. O. McWhorter, Miss Fannie Echols and Miss Ameila Echols, all of Longview, and four grandchildren.