Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


[This is Joshua H. Burleson buried at Cotton Gin Cemetery.
    06-21-1862 to 04-17-1927]


The Fairfield Recorder - Apr 1927 Issue

FORMER BUSINESS MAN DIED IN TEAGUE RECENTLY

J. R. Burleson, age 65, life-long resident of Freestone Ash Street, between 
Fourth and county, died at his home on Fifth Avenues, last Sunday afternoon
at 3:00 o'clock, following a long illness due to a nervous breakdown.

Many years abo [sic] Mr. Burleson lost the sight of one eye, and last year
year ["year" was repeated] the sight of his other eye gradually went away, 
and it was believed by his friends that the knowledge he would soon be blind
contributed largely toward the nervous breakdown.

Mr. Burleson was born in Freestone county, near the present location of the
town of Streetman, Jun 11, 1862. He was a member of the Missionary Baptist
Church, a devout Christian, upright during his long and useful life, highly 
esteemed by all who knew him. His church membership was in the Eighth Avenue
Baptist Church of Teague.

Funeral and burial services were conducted at the Cotton Gin cemetery Monday
afternoon at 3:00 o'clock by Rev. G. H. Vaughan, Baptist minister of 
Jacksonville, in the presence of a large assembly of sorrowing relatives and
lifelong friends. - News.