Fieldon Oras Bentley

Surnames: BENTLEY, NEELEY, PACE, ROBERTS, DYER, WARREN, JONES, ELLIS, MOSLEY, LEWIS

Fieldon Oras Bentley, b January 8, 1886 near Chilton, Falls County, Texas - was a son of Joseph Summerlin and Catherine (Neeley) Bentley. He atended school at Chilton. When his parents moved to Hunt County, Texas, Fieldon did not like it, and returned to Falls County, where he lived and worked for relatives until he was able to be independent.

On December 16, 1908, Fieldon Oras Bentley was iarried to Sarah Jane Pace (called "Sallie"), b Decemer 17, 1889 in Falls County - a daughter of James Jillis Pace, of Newton, Mississippi who settled in Falls County, Texas, and his second wife, Martha L. (Robrts) Pace, who died January 8, 1893 at Cego, Falls County, Texas.

Fieldon and Sallie farmed in the area of Cego and Blevins until 1929, where he was a Deacon in the Baptist Church for over fifty years, and a member of the School Board at Cego. They lived near the Mooreville area until 1936, when he quit farming to run a country milk route to Borden Company in Waco for twenty years.

Fieldon Oras and Sarah Jane (Pace) Bentley had five children:
Leslie Carroll Bentley, b February 4, 1912 in Falls County, Texas - married first to Ruth Ladine Dyer and had no children; married second on December 21, 1940 to Ruby Gertrude Warren. He is a retired postal station superintendent. Leslie Carroll and Ruby Gertrude had three children.

Ella Merle Bentley, b January 18, 1915 at Blevins - married May 6, 1933 to Ira Dee Jones, who is a retired Dallas District Fire Chief.

Clarence Oras Bentley, b October 14, 1921 in Falls County, Texas - married November 10, 1951 to Mary Jo Ellis, and had two children. He is an attorney in Dallas, and also farms.

Reuben Hollis Bentley, b December 1, 1924 in Falls County, Texas - married Gloria Mae Mosley - a daughter of Robert Jay and Willie Mae (Lewis) Mosley, of Lott, Reuben is a Certified Public Accountant in San Antonio, and a part-time farmer on the Mosley farm near Lott, which his wife's father and grandfather had owned since 1876. Reuben and Gloria Mae are the parents of three children.

Some biographies from "Families of Falls County", compiled and edited by the Falls County Historical Commission.
Permission granted to Theresa Carhart by the Falls County Historical Commission, for use on this page.