Hunt Co., TX - Obituaries - John M. Franklin
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John M. Franklin Dead
Passed Away at an Early Hour Yesterday Morning
John M. Franklin died at his home on North Saint John
Street at 5:00 AM, January 13, 1910, from pneumonia. Mr.
Franklin was born in Alabama near Birmingham in 1854 and
was brought to Texas when but a child. His father was one
of the pioneers of North Texas and settled on the Franklin
farm, six miles from Farmersville, where the deceased was
reared to manhood. In 1889, he married Miss Ada Croft at
Celeste, who was a sister of Mrs. Mock, mother of H. B. Mock.
Mr. Franklin was in business a while in Mineral Wells, and
afterward at Ardmore, Oklahoma, moving from there to Leonard,
where he engaged in business until some ten years ago when on
account of poor health he bought a farm near the McWright Cemetery.
A month ago Mr. Franklin moved to this city. About the first of
January, he was taken with the grippe, which developed into
pneumonia from which he died.
His wife and a son, Bryon, eighteen years old, survive him.
Also, surviving are two sisters and four brothers, J. B. Franklin of
Dallas, W. J. Franklin of Durant, Oklahoma, Joe Franklin of Dike, Ben
Franklin of Llano County, Mrs. Todd of San Francisco, California, and
Mrs. Burgess of New Mexico and other relatives to mourn his death.
He was a member of the Masons and the Woodmen of the World. The Kellogg
camp performed the last sad rites.
The family have the sympathy of their large circle of friends.
(January 14, 1910, The Greenville Messenger)