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William Henry Bellamy

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William Henry Bellamy

Birth
Carnesville, Franklin County, Georgia, USA
Death
29 Jan 1937 (aged 75)
Medicine Mound, Hardeman County, Texas, USA
Burial
Quanah, Hardeman County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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ES-10-A-04
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Mr. Bellamy's funeral was held at the Medicine Mound Baptist Church. Rev. Clyde Price, pastor of the Fargo Baptist Church, Rev. Ira L. Parrick, pastof of the Chillicothe Baptist Church & Rev. N. N. Fincher of Medicine Mound officiated. Pallbearers wers: W. A. Atkinson, J. T. Barnes, S.A. Ferguson, S.Z. Bailey, T. L. Walser, and J. Robert Young. He died at home in Medicine Mound after an illiness of more that 16 years, four years of which he was bedfast.

He brought his family to Hardeman County 31 years prior from DeWitt County, TX. He bought consideralble acreage of land and was instrumental in developing southeast Hardeman County; in securing the townsite of Medicine Mound and in helping other families acquire land. He donated the land for the first school after the townsite was surveyed and which was the site of the school at the time of his death. For many years, he was President of the Medicine Mound school board and was the town's first postmaster.

In addition to farming, he was also a cotton buyer. He named the town of Medicine Mound in honor of Big Mound, which was well known by the Comanche Indians, to have healing herbs and gypsum water.

Obit furnished by Jeanene Stermer
Mr. Bellamy's funeral was held at the Medicine Mound Baptist Church. Rev. Clyde Price, pastor of the Fargo Baptist Church, Rev. Ira L. Parrick, pastof of the Chillicothe Baptist Church & Rev. N. N. Fincher of Medicine Mound officiated. Pallbearers wers: W. A. Atkinson, J. T. Barnes, S.A. Ferguson, S.Z. Bailey, T. L. Walser, and J. Robert Young. He died at home in Medicine Mound after an illiness of more that 16 years, four years of which he was bedfast.

He brought his family to Hardeman County 31 years prior from DeWitt County, TX. He bought consideralble acreage of land and was instrumental in developing southeast Hardeman County; in securing the townsite of Medicine Mound and in helping other families acquire land. He donated the land for the first school after the townsite was surveyed and which was the site of the school at the time of his death. For many years, he was President of the Medicine Mound school board and was the town's first postmaster.

In addition to farming, he was also a cotton buyer. He named the town of Medicine Mound in honor of Big Mound, which was well known by the Comanche Indians, to have healing herbs and gypsum water.

Obit furnished by Jeanene Stermer

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