Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries, Memorials, and Death Notices



[It is not known where Ben Riley is buried. He is likely in an unmarked grave
 in Freestone County, Texas.]

The Fairfield Recorder - Friday, September 11, 1896 Page: 4

Mr. Ben Riley a well known citizen of our county, who traveled about and sold 
patent medicines died last week at the residence of Mr. A. T. Prowell, in the 
Nip-and-Tuck neighborhood. He died very suddenly of hemorrhage of the lungs. He 
had been playing the fiddle for some time, and he stepped out of the house to go 
to his medicine wagon. While out there, it seems he made some exclamation of pain, 
which was heard in the house, but by the time some one could go to his relief he 
was dead. Justice Carley, of the Brewer precinct, held an inquest over the remains 
and it was decided that death resulted as above stated.