Submitted by: Cathy Millburn

 

 

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SPRINGFIELD

 

 

 

Benjamin Franklin Springfield, b October 4, 1879 in Limestone County, Texas, d September 14, 1938 in Marlin, Falls County, Texas and buried in Calvary Cemetery ‑was the thirteenth child of Aaron Springfield, b 1822 in South Carolina, d ca 1912 in Limestone County, Texas, and his third wife, Jessie Mae (Euliss) Springfield, b ca 1845 in Arkansas ‑ a daughter of J. S. Euliss, b 1805, in Georgia.

Benjamin Franklin Springfield (called "Frank"), married on November 13, 1904 to Effie Irene Wyche, b September 19, 1885 in Kaufman County, Texas, d 1971 in Marlin and buried by her husband ‑ a daughter of Robert and Norah Ann (Davenport) Wyche of Montgomery County, Alabama.

Frank and Effie farmed, and lived in Kaufman and Limestone Counties, and in the Reagan area of Falls County, Texas. He later entered the "Barber" trade, and the family moved to Marlin, where Frank worked as a Barber at the new Hilton Hotel ‑later the Falls Hotel. It was here that he became ill, and died. Benjamin Franklin and Effie Irene (Wyche) Springfield were the parents of six children:

Hansel Albert Springfield, b May 29, 1907 ‑ married and moved to Jacksonville, Texas.

Nora Grace Springfield (changed her name to Nora Grays, and later to Nora Gray), b September 21, 1909, did not marry.

Robert Wyche Springrield, b September 23, 1911 ‑ married Ellamay McClain ‑daughter of Reverend T. M. and May (O'Kelley) McClain. "Wyche" was associated with the Model Laundry in Marlin, Texas until his retirement, and Ellamay came to Falls County in 1935 as a teacher in the Chilton Independent School District and from 1938 to 1977, as an English and Latin teacher in Marlin Independent School District in Marlin High School. Their son, Robert Howard Springfield, b December 7, 1948, married Rebecca Margaret Flynn of Fresno, California; and they reside in Los Angeles, California, where their son, Christopher Charles Springfield, was born June 5, 1985.

Ruth Springfield, b August 17, 1913 ‑ married Raymond Patton, and moved to Wharton, Texas.

Benjamin Franklin Springfield, Jr., b June 29, 1915, lives in Dallas, Texas.

Oscar Springfield, b December 18, 1917, lives in Dallas, Texas.

 

 

Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart 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 Commission, page 425 column 2.  
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