Dallas Morning News
November 20, 1939

SOUTHWEST DEATHS
(Special to The News)

BRUTON - Sherman, Texas, Nov. 19 - Sam Edward Bruton, 72, died at his home on Sherman Route 4.  Funeral services were held Saturday at the Friendship Cemetery, west of Sherman.  Born in Burkesville, Ky., he had been a resident of Grayson County sixteen years.

Surviving are his wife, eight sons: Dennie, Seymour; Gus, Portland, Maine; Roscoe, Pueblo,. Colo.; John, Colorado City; Travis, Burkesville; and Neill, Ralph and Rollin Bruton, Sherman; three daughters, Miss Jessie, Miss Lela and Miss Essie Bruton, all of the home address; two brothers, Jess Burton, Goree; and Jim Bruton, Burkesville; and five sisters, Mrs. W.S. Garner, Seymour; Mrs. W.S. Bristow, Albany; Mrs. John Garner, Green Road, Ky.; Miss Agnes Bruton, Highway, Ky.; and Mrs. Edna Neighbors, Oleny,Ky.; and sixteen grandchildren.