Freestone County, Texas Obituaries Fairfield Recorder - Dec. 1916 issue Death of Mr. Dan Roper News was received here Tuesday afternoon of the death of Mr. Dan Roper which had just occurred at his home at Powell. His remains were interred in the Driver Cemetery, six miles from Fairfield the following day. Mr. Roper had been in bad health for several years. He leaves a wife, and a brother Sheriff J. F. Roper. Dan Roper, during his life, had the happy faculty of making friends, possessing an affable manner and a genial disposition and it is with much sorrow that we record his death as the writer cherished him as a friend.