Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
(Year MIssing) - Number 95
Marlin, Texas, August 21, 1931

FATHER OF FORMER MARLIN
SUPERINTENDENT EXPIRES

Erath County Man Heard of Family
Active in Texas Educational
Circles.

       C. E. Ferguson, age 78, father of A. C. Ferguson, former superintendent of Marlin public schools, died at his in Stephenville Thursday.  He had lived in Erath county 72 years and was the father of five Texas college officials.
       Three if his sons are deans, A. C. Ferguson holding that position with the East Texas State Teachers College at Commerce; G. O. Ferguson of John Tarleton College, Stephenville, and T. E. Ferguson, with Stephen F. Austin State Teachers College, Nacogdoches, while Miss Nettie Ferguson is an instructor of fine arts at John Tarleton.  Other survivors of deceased include his widow, two sons and two daughters.
       A native of Missouri, Mr. Ferguson moved to Texas at the age of five.  He claimed the distinction of not having been out of Erath county more than a dozen times since establishing his residence there.
       Funeral services for Mr. Ferguson were held at Stephenville this afternoon with burial in the Stephenville cemetery.
       Mrs. Frank Peacock, Jr., is a granddaughter of deceased.

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