Mason. "Farewell my wife and children all. From you a Father Christ doth call"

Texas Ranger and a Mason

Parents: Jefferson Warren and Elizabeth Owen
Married Eppie Hubbert, April 6, 1865, San Saba, Texas

Name: Private Benjamin Goodin Ben Warren
Department: Texas Rangers
Department State: Texas
Date of Incident: 10 Feb 1885
Death Location: Texas
End of Watch Date: 10 Feb 1885
Age: 42
Birth Year: abt 1843
Tour of Duty: 10 Months
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Weapon: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect: Sentenced to life
Notes: Private Benjamin Warren was shot and killed in Sweetwater, Texas, in an attempt to keep him from testifying in a trial involving fence cutting. Private Warren had obtained warrants against several men for cutting barbed wire fences around ranches so they could graze their cattle on property belonging to other cattlemen. As Private Warren was sitting in a hotel office, talking with friends, a shot was fired from outside. The shot struck him in the head, killing him instantly. Three men who had originally been charged with fence cutting were charged with Private Warren's murder. Two of the men were convicted and sentenced to life in prison. However, one of the convictions was overturned. It is not known if the third suspect was ever charged. Private Warren had served as a Texas Ranger for Company E, Frontier Battalion, for 10 months. He was survived by his expectant wife and eight children. His ninth child was born eight months after his murder.
Source Information:
Ancestry.com. United States, Officer Down Memorials, 1791-2009 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.

U.S., Confederate Soldiers Compiled Service Records, 1861-1865
about Benjamin Goodwin Warren
Name: Benjamin Goodwin Warren
Birth Date: abt 1843
Age: 19
Enlistment Date: 1862
Military unit: Twenty-fourth Cavalry (Wilkes' Regiment; Second Lancers; Second Regiment, Carter's Brigade) [Texas]