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Sherman Democrat
December
15, 1938
Mrs.
Belle Clement
Denison
- Mrs. Belle Clement, 72,
lifelong resident of the
Pottsboro community,
died at her home at 2:25 p.m.
Wednesday after a year's
illness.
Funeral services will be
held at 3 p.m. Friday at
the
residence, with the Rev. Kirk
Beard of Wichita Falls and the
Rev. A.H.
Logan of Pottsboro officiating.
Burial will be in
Georgetown
cemetery, directed by Short and
Murray.
Mrs.
Clement had lived in Texas all
the 72 years of her life.
She was
born in a covered wagon, drawn
by oxen, as her parents, Mr. and
Mrs.
Robert Daniels, were enroute to
the Lone Star state from
Independence,
Mo., on July 25, 1866. She
was reared near Pottsboro and
was
married in 1883 to Issac
Clement, who was mayor of
Pottsboro and was in
charge of the first Red River
Valley fair, held at Pottsboro.
Mr.
Clement died Nov. 20, 1929.
Surviving
are four of five children, R.F.
and Owen Clement of Pottsboro,
Mrs.
R.W. Jones of Denison and Mrs.
S.H. Loughmiller of Parsons,
Kas.; three
brothers, Robert Daniel of
Plainview, S. Daniel of
Abernathy and Albert
Daniel of Denison; a sister,
Mrs. Louisa Crabtree of
Hagerman; 18
grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Clement was a member
of the Presbyterian church.
Her hobbies were fishing
and playing 42.
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