Jones Co., TX - Obituaries - Mrs. Martha Frances Major *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************** Mrs. Martha Frances Major Mrs. Martha Frances Major, 78, died in Stamford early last Saturday morning. Body was prepared for burial at the Barrow Funeral Home and taken overland to Itasca. Funearl was at Itasca Saturday at 4 p.m. with interment at Covington cemetery near Itasca. Mrs. Major made her home with her son, W.J. Major in the New Hope community. She had lived in that community 10 years, going there from Bell county. Mrs. Major has been a faithful member of the Baptist church from young womanhood. Her husband died in1904. Surviving: 4 sons - W.J. Major of New Hope; B.G. Major of Itasca; H.B. Major of Milford; R.F. Major of Beaumont; 4 daughters - Mrs. Redwine of Seymour; Mrs. G.A. Callahan of Temple; Mrs. H.L. Davis of Houston; Mrs. G.A. Dishman of Houston. The Stamford American Volume 7, Number 45 Friday, February 20, 1931