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Hugh Samuel “Sam” Franklin

Birth
Mississippi, USA
Death
11 Mar 1893 (aged 40)
Waco, McLennan County, Texas, USA
Burial
Waco, McLennan County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Hugh Samuel Franklin was born May 6, 1852, in Mississippi, the son of Thomas D. and Mary Jane Smith Franklin. Hugh Samuel Franklin and Anna Elizabeth Blankenship were married 8 May 1873 in Hopkins, Texas.

He used the name H. Samuel Franklin and went by Samuel or "Sam". Grandpa Franklin worked in the woolen industry as his family did in England. Grandma and Grandpa Franklin lost a son, Hayneal Franklin, who was born in 1879 and died in 1885 per Franklin Family Bible Records.

Anna Elizabeth Blankenship Franklin is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Waco, McLennan County, Texas. She died on the Whitfield homestead in Erath Community near China Spring in the home of my Grandmother, Zola V Whitfield Yankie. Also with her at the time was her daughter, Martha Jane Franklin Whitfield, my Great Grandmother.

NOTE: Fall & Puckett Funeral Records, Central Texas Geological Society, Genealogical Library, Waco, McLennan, Texas, Page number: 180

(Information provided by GG Granddaughter of Hugh Samuel Franklin and Martha Jane Whitfield Franklin. My father Hugh A. Yankie was named after his Great Grandfather Hugh Franklin. Nancy Yankie.)

NOTE:
(The name H. S. Franklin (Hugh Samuel) was found in Early Waco Obituaries and Various Related Items 1874-1908, compiled and edited by John M. Usry. (Thank you from our family to Old Waco.)
Hugh Samuel Franklin was born May 6, 1852, in Mississippi, the son of Thomas D. and Mary Jane Smith Franklin. Hugh Samuel Franklin and Anna Elizabeth Blankenship were married 8 May 1873 in Hopkins, Texas.

He used the name H. Samuel Franklin and went by Samuel or "Sam". Grandpa Franklin worked in the woolen industry as his family did in England. Grandma and Grandpa Franklin lost a son, Hayneal Franklin, who was born in 1879 and died in 1885 per Franklin Family Bible Records.

Anna Elizabeth Blankenship Franklin is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Waco, McLennan County, Texas. She died on the Whitfield homestead in Erath Community near China Spring in the home of my Grandmother, Zola V Whitfield Yankie. Also with her at the time was her daughter, Martha Jane Franklin Whitfield, my Great Grandmother.

NOTE: Fall & Puckett Funeral Records, Central Texas Geological Society, Genealogical Library, Waco, McLennan, Texas, Page number: 180

(Information provided by GG Granddaughter of Hugh Samuel Franklin and Martha Jane Whitfield Franklin. My father Hugh A. Yankie was named after his Great Grandfather Hugh Franklin. Nancy Yankie.)

NOTE:
(The name H. S. Franklin (Hugh Samuel) was found in Early Waco Obituaries and Various Related Items 1874-1908, compiled and edited by John M. Usry. (Thank you from our family to Old Waco.)

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