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Benjamin Franklin Cutbirth

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Benjamin Franklin Cutbirth

Birth
Bosque County, Texas, USA
Death
24 Oct 1945 (aged 88)
Breckenridge, Stephens County, Texas, USA
Burial
Breckenridge, Stephens County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Son of Captain Elijah "Cuthberth" Cutbirth and Annie Odle. Ben married his first-cousin, Sarah Jane Cutbirth on 20 Nov 1878 in Bosque County, Texas.

Together they had the following children:

• Rosie Lee Cutbirth Sidwell
• George Samuel Cutbirth
• Alvin Cutbirth
• Mamie (Mary Louise) Cutbirth
• Annie Narcissus Cutbirth Breeding
• Otho Smith Cutbirth
• Sarah Franklin Cutbirth Greenhaw

Ben was a beloved son, husband, father and grandfather.

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Notes by Searchers of Our Past:

1880 Eastland, Texas census
Benjn F. Cutbirth, head, 23
Sallie, wife, 22
Rosa L., dau, 9 months

1920 Precinct 1, Stephens County, Texas census
Benjamin F. Cutbirth, head, 62
Sarah, wife, 65
Alvin, son, 36
Mamie, dau, 33

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Obit:

Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.)

Services Are Held for B. F. Cutbirth

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 3:30 for B. F. Cutbirth, 88, who passed away at his residence, 815 Pecan, early Wednesday morning. The service was at the Kiker Chapel, Rev. Truman Aldredge officiating. Interment was in the Breckenridge Cemetery.

Cutbirth was a native of Valley Mills. His wife died March 18, 1939. He was survived by two daughters, Mrs. Lee Greenhaw, California and Mrs. J. W. Sidwell, Tularosa, N. M. Three sons, George and Alvin of Breckenridge and Otho of Carlsbad, N. M. One sister, Mrs. M. M. Pool, Clifton, Texas. Fourteen grandchildren and twenty-four great-grandchildren also survive. Mrs. Neal Green, a granddaughter, is well known in Breckenridge.

Pall bearers were Neal Green, Roy Breeding, C. O. Breeding, Lawrence Rodgers, G. W. Funderberg [sic] [Funderburg] and a Mr. Kirk.

Work Cited: Hall, C. M., editor. Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 196, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 1945, Newspaper, October 26, 1945; digital images, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth132440/ : accessed October 17, 2012), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Breckenridge Library, Breckenridge, Texas.

Son of Captain Elijah "Cuthberth" Cutbirth and Annie Odle. Ben married his first-cousin, Sarah Jane Cutbirth on 20 Nov 1878 in Bosque County, Texas.

Together they had the following children:

• Rosie Lee Cutbirth Sidwell
• George Samuel Cutbirth
• Alvin Cutbirth
• Mamie (Mary Louise) Cutbirth
• Annie Narcissus Cutbirth Breeding
• Otho Smith Cutbirth
• Sarah Franklin Cutbirth Greenhaw

Ben was a beloved son, husband, father and grandfather.

~
Notes by Searchers of Our Past:

1880 Eastland, Texas census
Benjn F. Cutbirth, head, 23
Sallie, wife, 22
Rosa L., dau, 9 months

1920 Precinct 1, Stephens County, Texas census
Benjamin F. Cutbirth, head, 62
Sarah, wife, 65
Alvin, son, 36
Mamie, dau, 33

~
Obit:

Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.)

Services Are Held for B. F. Cutbirth

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 3:30 for B. F. Cutbirth, 88, who passed away at his residence, 815 Pecan, early Wednesday morning. The service was at the Kiker Chapel, Rev. Truman Aldredge officiating. Interment was in the Breckenridge Cemetery.

Cutbirth was a native of Valley Mills. His wife died March 18, 1939. He was survived by two daughters, Mrs. Lee Greenhaw, California and Mrs. J. W. Sidwell, Tularosa, N. M. Three sons, George and Alvin of Breckenridge and Otho of Carlsbad, N. M. One sister, Mrs. M. M. Pool, Clifton, Texas. Fourteen grandchildren and twenty-four great-grandchildren also survive. Mrs. Neal Green, a granddaughter, is well known in Breckenridge.

Pall bearers were Neal Green, Roy Breeding, C. O. Breeding, Lawrence Rodgers, G. W. Funderberg [sic] [Funderburg] and a Mr. Kirk.

Work Cited: Hall, C. M., editor. Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 196, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 1945, Newspaper, October 26, 1945; digital images, (http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth132440/ : accessed October 17, 2012), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, http://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Breckenridge Library, Breckenridge, Texas.



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