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Aubrey Gene Eastwood
April 12, 1930 – July 4, 2013

Aubrey Gene Eastwood, 83, of Matagorda passed away Thursday, July 4, 2013, at Matagorda Regional Medical Center in Bay City, Texas.

He was a long- time resident of Matagorda and a commercial fisherman.

Aubrey was born on April 12, 1930, in Waco, Texas to parents Buford Lee and Lilly Mae McCartney Eastwood.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother, James Eastwood, and by a grandson, Troy Henderson.

He is survived by his wife, Joyce Gonce Eastwood; two sons, Gary Wayne Eastwood and Clayton Ray Eastwood; two daughters, Glenda Schaefer and Shelia Sammons; two sisters Patsy Sterling and Fanny Barnes; grandchildren, Larry Lowe, Patricia Rodarte, Robin Edwards, Maxwell Eastwood, Hope Eastwood, and Gary Eastwood, Jr.; as well as two great-grandchildren.

A graveside service will be held at the Matagorda Cemetery at 2 p.m. on Friday July 5, 2013 with the Rev. Donald Brdecka officiating.

Services are under the direction of Bay City Funeral Home.

Bay City Tribune, July 10, 2013
 

Eugene Eidlebach

Photo courtesy of Faye Cunningham
 

Henry Eidelbach

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Henry Eidelbach Dead
Prominent Planter Killed While Hunting

From Tuesday’s Daily.

Henry Eidelbach, a prominent planter and business man of Bay City, met with a horrible death yesterday morning while snipe hunting on his farm near Chalmers, seven miles north of Bay City. He had visited his tenants yesterday morning and took his gun and went to a nearby snipe pond. The tenants thought nothing of his absence yesterday, but when night came they began to grow uneasy. Early this morning one of the men decided to go to a ‘phone to make inquiries about him, but had not gone far until he discovered the lifeless body near his gun and hat on a barb wire fence.

It is supposed that Mr. Eidelbach had attempted to go through the fence when the gun was discharged, as his body when found was ten or twelve feet from the gun and hat, it being thought that he struggled that far after receiving his death wound. The entire load entered directly into the heart.

Immediately upon hearing of the death Sheriff Carr, Attorney Davant and others went to the scene and brought the body to town. So far as known the whole sad affair occurred about as stated, but, of course, no one will ever know just how it did happen.

Henry’s untimely end is universally deplored. He was well liked and very popular, honest as the day was long, big-hearted, a good business man and a friend to everybody. If he had an enemy in the world no one knows him. He was one of the most extensive farmers in the county, and was in good shape financially. He was a tireless worker and a good citizen, the kind that any town can ill afford to lose. He had only recently purchased the farm on which he was hunting when his end came.

Matagorda County Tribune, March 28, 1919
 

J. H. Ellerkamp

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Madie L. Ellerkamp

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William Elliott, Sr.

Photos courtesy of Gale French
 

William & Gertrude Elliott

Photos courtesy of Paige Fontaine