Keith, I'm sorry but we got busy at the Genealogical room Sunday and I forgot. Please forgive me. Ann Farnsworth has been putting the obits up from the Teague chronicle and she did one S. W. Beene. Here it is: Freestone County Obituaries A new message, "S.W. Beene," was posted by Ann Farnsworth on Wed, 08 Nov 2000 Surname: --- NAME: Ann Farnsworth EMAIL: [email protected] DATE: Nov 08 2000 URL: http:// QRYTEXT: No relation to me. The Teague Chronicle Nov. 30, 1917 S.W. BEENE Samuel W. Beene, aged 77 years, died at the family residence in the city Monday evening of asthma, from which he had suffered for many years. The remains were laid to rest in Salem cemetery four miles south of Teague Tuesday afternoon. Eld. J.L. Walker conducted the religious ceremony and the local Masonic lodge performed the ceremony of the order according to the written request of deceased made on his death-bed. Mr. Beene leaves a wife and seven children, three daughters and four sons, besides several brothers and other relatives. The following statement was made by Mr. Beene a few days before he died. part of it was written in his own hand and the remainder was dictated to his brother, Eld. J.L. Beene: "Some information for my family and others: Samuel W. Beene, son of Samuel and Mary Beene, born in Marion county, Tenn., March 15, 1840. Joined Co. H, 4th Regiment, Confederate Army in the year 1861. The writer professed faith in Christ at the age of 32 years, Sept. 11,1872, and united with the Baptist church at Morristown soon afterwards; was ordained a deacon in the Baptist church in 1882 at the Irvin Chapel church house near Poolville, Parker county, Texas. It is my request to receive Masonic burial and be buried as nearly to my brother Obadiah, as possible. S.W. Beene" . This is an automatically-generated notice. <http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/FreestoneObits?admin> Sorry that it doesn't have the page number. Catherine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Beene" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 3:58 PM Subject: [TXFREEST] Need Newspaper Act of Kindness > Posted on: Freestone County Queries > Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Freestone/469 > > Surname: BEENE > ------------------------- > > I need someone to help me lookup an obit in the local Teague newspaper. > My ancestor, Samuel W. BEENE died in Teague in 1917. He is buried in the > Salem Cemetary near Teague, Freestone Co. I have the actual obituary clipping, > but whomever clipped the obituary did not get the page or newspaper info. > I really would like this for my source documentation. Can you help me out? > SW BEENE dod: 25 Nov 1917....buried 26 Nov 1917. Looking for name of newspaper > and the page it appeared on and on what date it appeared. Thanks! > > > > ==== TXFREEST Mailing List ==== > Please send complaints to listowner [email protected] not to the list. > > ============================== > The easiest way to stay in touch with your family and friends! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST1 >