CLAUDE FRANKLIN MITCHELL

Claude Franklin Mitchell, b May 22, 1884 in Blue Ridge, Falls County, Texas, d September 21, 1950 in Marlin, Texas and buried in Calvary Cemetery ‑ was a son of William Henry and Margaret Lucinda (Cham­berlain) Mitchell. Claude attended Sam Houston State Normal Institute at Huntsville, Texas, after which he was a bookkeeper in Marlin, Texas for a time. He then worked in Perry, Texas as an executive in the Farmers State Bank, until it was voluntarily liquidated. Claude then moved to Mexia, Texas in a partnership operation of a bottling plant, where he remained until the early 1930's, when he returned to Falls County and resumed farming enterprises. For a time, Claude and his family shared the Mitchell with his mother, and then later lived there again until they purchased a "rock house" east of Marlin, which had been built by the Vann family.

On February 7, 1904 in Falls County, Claude married Julia Williams, b September 26, 1884 in Falls County, Texas, d August 10, 1968 and buried in Blue Ridge Cemetery ‑ a daughter of James W. and Aramantha (Millerman) Williams. They had two children: An Infant Son Mitchell who was stillborn in 1904; and Lois Estelle Mitchell, b January 17, 1906 who married Thomas W. Wagner.

Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart and her volunteers for printing the biographies of these Falls County Families to this web page. “Families of Falls County”, compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Department, pp. 309-310.