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Published in the Huntsville Daily Times, Huntsville, Alabama, Wednesday, June 12, 1929
Hugh Craft was found murdered. Wounds In Head Proved Fatal.
R. Hugh Craft, aged 54, a deputy sheriff of Madison County, and a man who in recent years had been particularly active in searching out and prosecuting violators of the liquor laws, was found dead shortly after 7 o'clock this morning, in a densely wooded section of highway on the brow of Esslinger Mountain between Owens Cross Roads and Gurley slumped over the side of his automobile with bullet wounds in his head, a victim of assassins, who have not yet been apprehended by members of the sheriff's forces who are scouring the country for traces of them.
Mr. Craft had for more than 25 years been an officer in this county and for years had been vigorous in the seeking out of persons guilty of violating laws, particularly those who violated the liquor laws. It is understood that this activity on his part embittered many against him.
Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Lura Cornelia Haden Craft; one son, Earl Craft; and one daughter, Miss Gertrude Craft, both of Birmingham, and one sister, the wife of Judge Carter [Cora Lee Craft Carter] of Guntersville.

Birth	6 Feb 1875	Madison County, Alabama
Marriage	1898	Lura Cornelia Haden
Death	12 Jun 1929	Madison County, Alabama

Spouse	Lura Cornelia Haden (1880 - 1949)
Child	Gertrude Craft (1901 - 1979)
Child	Robert Earl Craft (1904 - 1966)