Mike I have contacted the person I gave the obit to & asked her for a copy when she finds it. Will get back to you if she ever finds it. Have you tried working the people living around your Benjamin Franklin Pruitt? I have had good luck working on the families living around the people I am searching for. No man was an island back in those days. There always appear to be some family or old neighbors around them. I have proven this time again with many different families. I always work on the families living around someone I am having a problem with. Hard to believe you can not find a death cert. as late as 1949 so I am with you on the spelling of the name. It is either that or he went to live with one of his kids in some place you have not looked. Also could he have died in a hospital in a much larger place like Dallas or Houston? Have you checked Navarro Co for a death cert. they had a pretty large hospital in that county that lots of families used. I see the Hayne/Haney name all the time but have not worked on it at all. There is a bunch of Reed families on the east side of Limestone Co that is very near the Freestone Co line. Could Kessaih Reed have come from Limestone Co. ? I will check my Reed bunch & see what I have. Pat Oates in TX At 09:29 AM 1/31/2005 -0500, you wrote: >Yes Pat. I collect old Obits on all my ancestors. I have collected some 100 >to 125 >on my ancestors and sometimes they will reveal much needed info...I will >certainly take any obits on the Whitman family or any other Pruitt family....At >this time I am working on the Benjamin Franklin Pruitt side. I am trying to >prove or disprove that the following Benjamin F. Pruitt is my line or not: > > BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PRUIETT was born 1867, and died 1949. He married LECKIE >HANEY, daughter of HIRAM HANEY and KESSAIH REED. She was born Aug. 13, 1872 and >died June 30, 1945 in Fairfield, Freestone Co., Tx > >Children of BENJAMIN PRUIETT and LECKIE HANEY are: > >1 LEVIA M.2 PRUIETT. > >2 JAMES PRESTON PRUIETT, SR.. > >3 LENOR PRUIETT, b. August 10, 1893, Freestone Co., Texas; d. 1971, Freestone >Co., Texas. > >4 JOHN ARCHIE PRUIETT, SR., b. May 03, 1899, Freestone Co., Texas; d. January >03, 1985, Dew, Freestone Co., Tx.. > >Both, Benjamin and Leckie, are buried in Fairfield Cemetary but the Fairfield >Cemetary Association, "Roy Hill's secretary", doesnot have the original >records on them only what is on their tombstone. Their tombstone only give their >birth year and death and not the day and month. I have found her death >certificate but cannot find his in Freestone, Limestone, or other counties around >that area. > >Benjamin's granddaughter states he died on Nov. 15, 1949 but the state >doesnot find the death certificate. The funeral home, Capps Memorial Chapel, states >that their records only go back to Nov. 1950 so this was no help. I know that >I cannot find his death because of the different spelling of Pruitt. > >Mike Pruitt