People in Chapel Hill and surrounding country heard with deep sorrow Sunday of the death of Clay Hogan on his farm four miles northwest of the village. He was gored to death by his bull.
Rising early Sunday morning, he went to the garden to gather vegetables. Then he took an armful of corn shucks out to the stable. His family never saw him alive again. His body was found with the enraged animal standing over it. There were signs of a terrible struggle.
Mr. Hogan was an exceedingly popular man. Famed for his hospitality, he was always entertaining his friends. He built on his place a swimming pool, and it was visited on hot afternoons by the young people from miles around.
He was born 1862 and at 29 was married to Miss Florence Eubanks. They had seven children: E. Glenn Hogan of Florida, Mrs. C. M. Cates of Hillsboro, Miss Lucille Hogan, Jack Hogan, Henry Hogan, Hubert Hogan and Mrs. D.T. Carr. His brother is A.B. Hogan and his two sisters are Mrs. W.B. Thompson and Mrs. W.T. Hogan.
The funeral was held Tuesday morning at Orange Church.
From the front page of the Chapel Hill Weekly, Friday, August 13, 1926
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