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Benjamin "Ben" Willard

3 Jul 1857 – 18 Jul 1943

Birth3 Jul 1857
Death18 Jul 1943
CemeteryLake Chapel Cemetery
Fairfield , Freestone County , Texas , USA
Added byEric Wood on 17 May 2017
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/73929388

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1860 Cannon Co., TN. census; 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930 Precinct 1, Freestone Co., TX census; 1894, 1909-1912, 1914-1916, 1918, 1924 FC TX jury list as Ben Willard; --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marriage Licenses - Freestone Co., TX.  (Book III 1880-1887) Freestone County Genealogical Society, Copyright Ben Willard  Miss N. E. Yates  3 July 1884  by Elder J. D. Williams p. 158 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Worked as farmer. Ran cotton gin, sawmill, and grist mill at different points of his life. Lived in Lake Chapel area of Freestone Co., TX. He celebrated his marriage's 50th anniversary on 3 July 1934. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Obituary - Fairfield Recorder - July 22, 1943 "LONG TIME RESIDENT OF COUNTY PASSES SUNDAY Ben Willard, a long time resident of the Lake Chapel community, and well known farmer of the County, died at his home Sunday evening. Burial was in the Lake Chapel cemetery Monday afternoon under the direction of the Burleson Funeral Home following religious services by Rev. H. L. McKissack, assisted by Rev. Frank McElroy. Mr. Willard was born in Tennessee in 1857, moving to Freestone County with his parents when 12 years old, and spent the rest of his life in the neighborhood where he died. He was a substantial citizen and a successful farmer. Near surviving relatives are his wife and nine children: Kirk Willard of Palestine, Mrs. T. R. Bonner of Fairfield, Vernon Willard of Ward Prairie, Mrs. Paul Bonner of Stewards Mill, Colon Willard of Fairfield, Tommie Willard of Lake Chapel, Mrs. Leon Childs of Houston, Mrs. Mattie Ritter of Lake Chapel and Joe Willard of Houston; thirty-one grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Eliza Moore of Lake Chapel and Mrs. John Seale of Groesbeck."

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