HUTSON, Thomas E. - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Crawfordsville, Ind Nov 27 – Thomas Edward Huston, 82, editor and publisher of the Waveland Independent more than 40 years died late Monday at his home following a cerebral hemorrhage. He was ill only one day.  Mr. Huston bought the Independent in 1900 and published it continuously until his retirement in 1944.  During these years he established the Independent as one of the outstanding weekly newspapers in Indiana.  He had lived at Cannelton where he published the Cannelton Enquirer six years before going to Waveland.  Mr. Huston was a member of the Waveland Christian Church.  He was a graduate of Central Normal College at Danville with a degree of bachelor of science in civil engineering. The widow, a daughter, Mrs. Nela Huston Lamb of Poplar Bluff, Mo and a son James Clark Huston of Ann Arbor, Mich survive.  Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Thursday in the Waveland Christian Church with burial at Troy. - kbz