Jesse Scarborough

Jesse Scarborough obituary, The Rosebud News, Rosebud, Texas, 14 December 1905.
The many friends of Miss Jesse Scarborough will feel sad to learn of her death and the family have our heartfelt sympathies. She died at Waco, Texas, last Friday morning about 4 o’clock. She had typhoid fever.
Later in the same issue.
Died at Waco.
Miss Jesse Scarborough, [...]

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Rebecca Bull Scarborough

Rebecca Scarborough obituary, The Rosebud News, Rosebud, Texas, 14 December 1905.

Old Grandma Scarborough is seriously ill at her son J. S. Scarborough.
LATER MONDAY: Grandma Scarborough died Sunday night about 8 o’clock. Was burried at Powers Chapel Monday evening.

Later in the same issue.

Grandma Scarborough Dead.
Grandma Scarborough, aged 78 years, died at the home of her son, [...]

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Mary Jane Jutson Jordan Denson

Mary Denson obituary, The Rosebud News, Rosebud, Texas, 8 December 1933.

Pioneer Woman Passes Away in City Tuesday
Mrs. Mary Jane Jordan Denson, mother of Mrs. D. V. Barry of this city, and one of the beloved pioneer women of Williamson county, passed away at the Lehman home in this city, Tuesday night after an illness of a few [...]

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Martha Bull Jordan

Martha Jordan obituary, Williamson County Sun, Georgetown, Texas, 1 April 1909.

Mrs. Martha Jordon
Granger, March 21. Mrs. Martha Jordon, better known as Grandma Jordon, died at the home of her son-in-law, J. H. Denson, on Saturday morning after a stroke of paralysis and three week’s illness. Mrs. Jordon was 86 years of age the day of [...]

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Daniel Miller Bull

Daniel Bull obituary, Plumas National Bulletin, Quincy, California, 29 November 1900, page 3, column 4.
SUDDEN DEATH OF D. M. BULL
A telegram was received by the Masonic Lodge in this place Wednesday announcing the death in Oakland that morning of a well-known former citizen of Plumas, Daniel M. Bull. This news came as a great surprise [...]

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