Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries




[This is Mary Eliza Bonner wife of William Evans Richards.  b 22 Jan 1869
  Freestone County, Texas; m 27 Dec 1892 Freestone County, Texas; d 26 Sep
  1904 San Antonio, Bexar Co., Texas.]
  
Dallas Morning News
September 29, 1904


Funeral of Mrs. Richards
Laid to Rest at Fairfield with Impressive Ceremonies

Special to The News
Fairfield, Tex., Sept 27 - The burial at the Fairfield cemetery here this
evening of Mrs. Mary Richards, wife of W. E. Richards, was the close of one of
the saddest occurrences that has visited this town.  Last Friday night she 
escaped from her attendant at Dr. Moody's private sanitarium in San Antonio, 
where she was temporarily staying for treatment, and her dead body was found in
the San Antonio River. Her body was not recovered until yesterday morning.
 Mrs. Richards was the daughter of late Dr. Jas. L. Bonner, one of the oldest 
and best families of the county, and was a member of the M.E. Church here. She
had been instrumental, largely, in the erection, after the storm of two years 
ago, of the new and modern church building here, and beautiful and impressive
services were held there by the pastor, Rev. J.E. Russell.  She leaves, besides
her husband, a little daughter 10 years of age, her mother, and two sisters and
brothers, Mrs. W.B. Robinson of Palestine, Mrs. A.D. Anderson of Fairfield and
J.A. Bonner of Eureka and W.P. Bonner of Hillsboro, all of whom arrived for the
funeral.