OBITUARY
MRS. GRANNY MASTERS, WIDON OF CIVIL WAR VET, DIES AT 97
ROTAN- July 23 (RNS) - Mrs. William (Granny) Masters of Hobbs community, who would have been 98 an Aug 28, died at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Frank Aaron.
Mrs. Aaron lives eight miles southwest of Rotan. Mrs. Masters had been bedridden for a number of years.
She was born Mary Louise Olney in New Madrid, Mo. on Aug 28, 1856. She was reared near St. Joseph's Bayou, which empties into the Mississippi River.
In 1872 she moved to Texas with her parents Mr. & Mrs. J.C. Olney, settling on the old Charlie Goodnight ranch in Palo Pinto County. Later they moved near Albany.
In 1876, she was married to a Civil War Vetern, William Masters, then a construction foreman for the Texas Central Railway.
The couple moved to Comanche to farm in 1909. Later they moved to Fisher County, farming in various communities before settling in the Hobbs area.
As a widow of a Civil War veteran, Granny's pension grew from $8 after her husband's death in 1927 to the $100 she was receiving monthly at the time of her death.
Four years ago, she was one of the six surviving widows of Confederate soldiers.
Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Rotan Church of Christ. James F. Pleasants, minister of the Roby Church of Christ, is to officiate.
Burial is to be in Hobbs Cemetery under direction of Weathersbee Funeral Home of Rotan.
Grandsons will be the pallbeares.
Her survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Aaron and Mrs. Lee Williams, both of the Hobbs communities, four sons, Lon and Ed of Rotan, Charlie of Weatherford, and Tom of Abilene, 21 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.
MRS. GRANNY MASTERS, WIDON OF CIVIL WAR VET, DIES AT 97
ROTAN- July 23 (RNS) - Mrs. William (Granny) Masters of Hobbs community, who would have been 98 an Aug 28, died at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Frank Aaron.
Mrs. Aaron lives eight miles southwest of Rotan. Mrs. Masters had been bedridden for a number of years.
She was born Mary Louise Olney in New Madrid, Mo. on Aug 28, 1856. She was reared near St. Joseph's Bayou, which empties into the Mississippi River.
In 1872 she moved to Texas with her parents Mr. & Mrs. J.C. Olney, settling on the old Charlie Goodnight ranch in Palo Pinto County. Later they moved near Albany.
In 1876, she was married to a Civil War Vetern, William Masters, then a construction foreman for the Texas Central Railway.
The couple moved to Comanche to farm in 1909. Later they moved to Fisher County, farming in various communities before settling in the Hobbs area.
As a widow of a Civil War veteran, Granny's pension grew from $8 after her husband's death in 1927 to the $100 she was receiving monthly at the time of her death.
Four years ago, she was one of the six surviving widows of Confederate soldiers.
Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Rotan Church of Christ. James F. Pleasants, minister of the Roby Church of Christ, is to officiate.
Burial is to be in Hobbs Cemetery under direction of Weathersbee Funeral Home of Rotan.
Grandsons will be the pallbeares.
Her survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Aaron and Mrs. Lee Williams, both of the Hobbs communities, four sons, Lon and Ed of Rotan, Charlie of Weatherford, and Tom of Abilene, 21 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.
OBITUARY
MRS. GRANNY MASTERS, WIDON OF CIVIL WAR VET, DIES AT 97
ROTAN- July 23 (RNS) - Mrs. William (Granny) Masters of Hobbs community, who would have been 98 an Aug 28, died at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Frank Aaron.
Mrs. Aaron lives eight miles southwest of Rotan. Mrs. Masters had been bedridden for a number of years.
She was born Mary Louise Olney in New Madrid, Mo. on Aug 28, 1856. She was reared near St. Joseph's Bayou, which empties into the Mississippi River.
In 1872 she moved to Texas with her parents Mr. & Mrs. J.C. Olney, settling on the old Charlie Goodnight ranch in Palo Pinto County. Later they moved near Albany.
In 1876, she was married to a Civil War Vetern, William Masters, then a construction foreman for the Texas Central Railway.
The couple moved to Comanche to farm in 1909. Later they moved to Fisher County, farming in various communities before settling in the Hobbs area.
As a widow of a Civil War veteran, Granny's pension grew from $8 after her husband's death in 1927 to the $100 she was receiving monthly at the time of her death.
Four years ago, she was one of the six surviving widows of Confederate soldiers.
Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Rotan Church of Christ. James F. Pleasants, minister of the Roby Church of Christ, is to officiate.
Burial is to be in Hobbs Cemetery under direction of Weathersbee Funeral Home of Rotan.
Grandsons will be the pallbeares.
Her survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Aaron and Mrs. Lee Williams, both of the Hobbs communities, four sons, Lon and Ed of Rotan, Charlie of Weatherford, and Tom of Abilene, 21 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.
MRS. GRANNY MASTERS, WIDON OF CIVIL WAR VET, DIES AT 97
ROTAN- July 23 (RNS) - Mrs. William (Granny) Masters of Hobbs community, who would have been 98 an Aug 28, died at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Frank Aaron.
Mrs. Aaron lives eight miles southwest of Rotan. Mrs. Masters had been bedridden for a number of years.
She was born Mary Louise Olney in New Madrid, Mo. on Aug 28, 1856. She was reared near St. Joseph's Bayou, which empties into the Mississippi River.
In 1872 she moved to Texas with her parents Mr. & Mrs. J.C. Olney, settling on the old Charlie Goodnight ranch in Palo Pinto County. Later they moved near Albany.
In 1876, she was married to a Civil War Vetern, William Masters, then a construction foreman for the Texas Central Railway.
The couple moved to Comanche to farm in 1909. Later they moved to Fisher County, farming in various communities before settling in the Hobbs area.
As a widow of a Civil War veteran, Granny's pension grew from $8 after her husband's death in 1927 to the $100 she was receiving monthly at the time of her death.
Four years ago, she was one of the six surviving widows of Confederate soldiers.
Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Rotan Church of Christ. James F. Pleasants, minister of the Roby Church of Christ, is to officiate.
Burial is to be in Hobbs Cemetery under direction of Weathersbee Funeral Home of Rotan.
Grandsons will be the pallbeares.
Her survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Aaron and Mrs. Lee Williams, both of the Hobbs communities, four sons, Lon and Ed of Rotan, Charlie of Weatherford, and Tom of Abilene, 21 grandchildren, 22 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.
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