Reginald Henry Hargrove

Reginald Henry Hargrove

• Father: Oswald Henry Hargrove
• Mother: Nettie Leonard

• Reginald Henry Hargrove was born on 6 October 1894 in Marshall, Harrison County, Texas.
• Reginald Henry Hargrove registered for the draft on 21 May 1917 in Pulaski County, Arkansas, while single and a student at the US Citizens Training Camp at Fort Logan H. Roots, Arkansas, permanent address 1900 Creswell, Shreveport, Louisiana.
• He married Hallie Hall Ward, daughter of Robert Hodges Ward and Florence O'Leary, on 25 August 1917 in Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
• The following appeared on 27 August 1917 in The New Orleans Item: En route to Pensacola, where he will be temporarily stationed, Lieutenant and Mrs. Reggie Hargrove, whose wedding Saturday was a social event at Shreveport, are in New Orleans at the Monteleone hotel. They leave in a few days. Mrs. Hargrove was Miss Hallie Hall, only daughter of City Commissioner Ward. Lieutenant Hargrove recently received his commission after training at Fortress Monroe.
• Robert Hodges Ward and Florence O'Leary appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, at 1114 Mildred Street. Other members of the household included Reginald Henry Hargrove, Robert Hodges Ward Jr., Mildred Cornelia Harrington, Hallie Hall Ward and Robert Clyde Hargrove.
• He was employed as a real estate manager, according to the 1920 census.
• Reginald Henry Hargrove and Hallie Hall Ward appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, at 1103 Boulevard. Other members of the household included Robert Clyde Hargrove, James Ward Hargrove and Joseph Leonard Hargrove.
• He was president of a gas & fuel company, according to the 1930 census.
• Reginald Henry Hargrove and Hallie Hall Ward appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, at 909 Unadillla. Other members of the household included Robert Clyde Hargrove, James Ward Hargrove and Joseph Leonard Hargrove. In 1935 the family was living in Houston, Harris County, Texas.
• He was vice president of an oil & gas company, according to the 1930 census.
• His wife Hallie Hall Ward became a widow at his death.
• Reginald Henry Hargrove died on 10 January 1954 at age 59 in Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
• The following appeared on 12 January 1954 in the Baton Rouge State Times Advocate: Shreveport took time from its official mourning period today to begin burying the victims of a plane crash that killed 10 prominent businessmen and two pilots.
       Funeral services for sever victims were scheduled today, five of them in Shreveport.
       Thomas Braniff, president of Braniff International airways, will be buried tomorrow in Dallas, Tex., and Reginald Hargrove, president of Texas Eastern Transmission Co. tomorrow in Shreveport.
       Chris Abbott, wealthy Hyannis, Neb., businessman and cattleman, will be buried at Hyannis Thursday after brief services today at Omaha.
       The party was returning from a three-day duck hunting trip in the south Louisiana marshes aboard a private plane owned by United Gas Co.
       Ivy Pool, night manager of the Shreveport airport, said the plane radioed:
       "Couldn't gain altitude . . . all controls frozen . . . ice forming on wings . . . losing altitude . . . going to try to land on lake."
       The last word was at 5:49 p.m. (CST). The next communication was that the plane had crashed and burned at Wallace Lake, about 10 miles south of Shreveport.
       Leon H. Tanguay, chief of the Civil Aeronautics Board at Fort Worth, Tex., is here with several assistants to investigate the crash.
       He said he would continue his investigation several days and that his report would be studied by the CAB in Washington before the official cause of the accident was announced.
       Today's funeral services here were for Justin R. Querbes, Sr., and his brother, Randolph Querbes, Sr., wealthy Shreveport businessmen; E. Bernard Weiss, a clothing store executive; J. P. Evans, an oilman; and Walter Clyde Huddleston, a pilot.
       Milton Weiss, a Dallas clothing store executive and brother of Bernard Weiss, will be entombed late today at Dallas and Edgar Tobin, a businessman, buried at San Antonio, Tex., his home.
       Services were scheduled tomorrow for Louis Rock Schexnaydre, a pilot, at Paulina, La., and John B. Atkins, a businessman, at Shreveport.

• Last Edited: 16 May 2013