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Note: From: Autumn01@@aol.com <mailto:Autumn01@@aol.com> [mailto:Autumn01@@aol.com] <mailto:[mailto:Autumn01@@aol.com]> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 10:57 PM To: Eugene.Brezany@@fema.gov <mailto:Eugene.Brezany@@fema.gov> Subject: Oscar info
OSCAR W. HACKWORTH (Democrat), Representative from Wayne county, was born January 26, 1889 near Piedmont, MO. He was educated in the public schools of Wayne County, and in the high school at Piedmont. He was married July 3, 1910 to Miss Osa Clark at Williamsville MO. He is a traveling solicitor, and resides at Piedmont. He has never held public office before. He was a member of the Committees on Eleemosynary Institutions; Immigration; Militia; Official Salaries and Fees; Railroads and Internal Improvements, and Roads and Highways. He was chairman of the Sub-Committee on roads and Highways, in charge of "General Revision of Road Laws."
... his [second] "marriage" announcement as it appears on a clipping (probably from the Wayne county Journal Banner - no date) Married in California. The news of the marriage in Hollywood, California, in May, 1925, of Judge O. W. Hackworth, former prominent citizen of Wayne County, to Miss Gertrude J. Wileman, member of a pioneer Chicago family, has just reached here. Although Judge Hackworth has visited Piedmont two or three times during the past year he gave no intimation to his friends that he had become a benedict. Until his removal from Piedmont a few years ago, Judge Hackworth was one of the leading citizens of the county, having been a member of the State Legislature and also Presiding Judge of the County Court. He is now engaged in business in Chicago, where he and Mrs. Hackworth reside at 7100 South Shore Drive.
# # # O.W. removed to California in 1921 on the death of his first wife, Osa Oaks Clark. Three children by this marriage, were placed in the perpetual care of relatives residing in Missouri and Kansas. In mid-life O.W. had only one arm -- having lost the other, from the forearm down, following a hunting accident in which he was shot. After a too lengthy drive for treatment, the limb had to be amputated. It is reported that he could do quite well with one arm: tie shoes, tie; even turn upright in a handstand on the arm of a chair. Living to the age of 70, O.W. passed on on September 29, 1959 in California where he had had real estate ventures in Venice. Interred on the north side of Cahuenga Mountain, overlooking the Warner Brothers and Disney Studios in Forest Lawn Cemetery -- Hollywood, may he rest in peace.
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