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Jesse Franklin Counts

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Jesse Franklin Counts

Birth
Jacksboro, Jack County, Texas, USA
Death
18 Nov 1958 (aged 66)
Lancaster, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Burial
Lancaster, Los Angeles County, California, USA Add to Map
Plot
History Section: 11-A-14
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COUNTS, JESSIE F.

Lockney, Nov. 19 (Special)-Jessie Franklin Counts, 66, of Lancaster, Calif., was killed this morning in an automobile accident at Lancaster. His wife was critically injured.
Mr. Counts farmed in the Lockney area from 1919 until 1934 when he moved to California.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Church of Christ at Lancaster.

Mr. Counts was born Nov. 27, 1891, in Jacksboro and came with his family to Petersburg in 1901. The family lived in Abilene for several years before moving to Lockney in 1919.

Survivors include the wife; four brothers, Jim and W. T. Counts of Fort Worth, Hugh Counts of Lockney and Amos Counts of El Centro, Calif.; four sisters, Mrs. Edna Weed of El Paso, Mrs. Lorena Lynch of Las Cruces, N. M., Mrs. Lora Mae Matthews of Lames and Mrs. Myrtle Duty of Abilene.

(Source: Newspaper unknown, dated Nov. 20, 1958; transcribed by Susan Geist)


Photo courtesy of the Antelope Valley Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution
COUNTS, JESSIE F.

Lockney, Nov. 19 (Special)-Jessie Franklin Counts, 66, of Lancaster, Calif., was killed this morning in an automobile accident at Lancaster. His wife was critically injured.
Mr. Counts farmed in the Lockney area from 1919 until 1934 when he moved to California.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Church of Christ at Lancaster.

Mr. Counts was born Nov. 27, 1891, in Jacksboro and came with his family to Petersburg in 1901. The family lived in Abilene for several years before moving to Lockney in 1919.

Survivors include the wife; four brothers, Jim and W. T. Counts of Fort Worth, Hugh Counts of Lockney and Amos Counts of El Centro, Calif.; four sisters, Mrs. Edna Weed of El Paso, Mrs. Lorena Lynch of Las Cruces, N. M., Mrs. Lora Mae Matthews of Lames and Mrs. Myrtle Duty of Abilene.

(Source: Newspaper unknown, dated Nov. 20, 1958; transcribed by Susan Geist)


Photo courtesy of the Antelope Valley Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution


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