BROWN COUNTY TX- OBITUARY- Laura Evans Horton

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Friday June 1, 1945



Mrs. Laura (Evans) Horton, 86, Blanket Area Pioneer,  is Buried



Funeral services for Mrs. Laura Ann (Evans) Horton, 86, Route 2,

Blanket, were held at Salt Creek Church Thursday at 4:30 pm with Rev. D.

A. Barnes officiating.  Buriel was in Salt Creek Cemetery, with London &

Burton Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.



Mrs. Horton, who was a native of Marlin, died at her home in Blanket

Wednesday at 3:45 p.m.



Born Dec. 13, 1858,  Mrs. Horton had lived on the farm where she died

for the past 55 years.  She was the last of a family of seven children.

She had been a member of the Blanket Methodist Church for 75 years.



Her husband and five children preceded her in death.



Survivors are three sons, Tom Horton and Sam Horton of Big Springs and

Bert Horton of Waco.  Three daughters, Mrs. Roxie Price of Abilene, Mrs.

Amanda Hughes of Blanket, and Mrs. Mabel Byrd of Lometa, and several

grandchildren and great-grandchildren.



Pallbearers were Luther Henderson, Wallace Price, Neil Davis, Roy Davis,

Charlie Tongate, and Norris Doss.



(Death cert: states that her Father was Cowan Evans, born in Alabama,

and her Mother was Amanda White, born in Texas)