Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


The Mexia Daily News - Sunday, January 10, 1965 - Page: 2

Funeral Services Set Sunday For Freestone Native 

Funeral services for Robert Crenshaw, 69, of the Shiloh, Freestone County, will be 
held [problems with paper] Sunday at 2 p.m. in Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, Plum 
Creek community. A native of Freestone County, Mr. Crenshaw died Friday at 4:30 
a.m. in the Freestone County Hospital at Fairfield. 

He was a farmer and a member of Prince Hall Masonic Lodge.  Mr. Crenshaw was a
Baptist and a veteran of World War I. Officiating will be the Rev. J. E. Williams,
pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church. Burial will be in Brown Chapel Cemetery, Freestone
County, under direction of the Dorsey-Keatts Funeral Home. Surviving are his wife
of Rte. 3, Oakwood; three daughters, Mrs. Lois Gilford, Mrs. Ruthie Mae Colbert
and Mrs. Annie Ruth Cunningham, all of Route 3, Oakwood; five sons, Amos L. 
Crenshaw, John L. Crenshaw and Alton Crenshaw, all of Fort Worth, Engram Crenshaw
and Leonard C. Crenshaw, both of Route 3, Oakwood; three sisters, Mrs. Daisy
Styles of Austin, Mrs. Marie Townsend of San Mater, Calif., and Mrs. Georgia,
Roberts of Palo Alto, Calif.; five brothers, Sylvester Boyd and Oscar Boyd, both
of Austin, Johnnie Boyd of San Mater, Calif., Jimmie Crenshaw and Jasper Crenshaw,
both of Chicago; and 19 grandchildren.