Jones County, TX - Obituary - Sharon Morlene Pritchard **************************************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm **************************************************************************** The Jones County Observer Anson, Jones County, Texas Friday, October 20, 1939 While Mrs. C.P. Pritchard attended to household tasks, her nine month old daughter toddled to the back porch of their Tuxedo farm home west of Stamford. That was Tuesday afternoon. Moments later Mrs. Pritchard found the child drowned in a five-gallon bucket of water. The baby, Sharon Morlene Pritchard, was born January 30, 1939, in Stamford, Texas. Surviving: her parents; 2 sisters: Mrs. H.M. Phillips, Jr. of Stamford and Helen Pritchard of Tuxedo; 2 brothers: Edwin and Bill Pritchard of Tuxedo; grandfathers: J.H. Rivers of Tuxedo, J.H. Pritchard of Fort Worth.