BOSTON FAMILY
John Boston, b. 1816 NC, wed 1839 Sarah
Louanna Repult They lived in Lee Co., Miss. and are buried in the Unity
Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Lee Co., Mississippi.
Their son was John Calvin Boston b. 20
Feb 1851 Itawamba Co., Miss. - died 24 Sep 1927 in Whitesboro, Grayson,
Texas.
He wed Rebecca Ann Leeper on 29 Nov 1876
Lee Co., Miss. She, b. 10 Oct 1856 Miss - died 30 Dec 1928 in Hale Center, Hale
Co., Texas, was the daughter of W. & Susan Jamison Leeper.
Children of John Calvin Boston & Rebecca Ann Leeper -
Ethel Susan Boston b. 28 Dec 1877
Mississippi - 24 May 1954 buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Whitesboro, Tx.
Obituary: Mrs. Ethel Colwell, Whitesboro,
Tx. Funeral Services were held Wednesday in the Richards-Beck Chapel for
Mrs. Ethel Colwell, 76, who died Monday in Texarkana, Burial was in the
Whitesboro Cemetery. Mrs. Colwell was a native of Mississippi. She was a daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Boston and wife of the late J. M. Colwell. She is survived by one son , Carl Colwell of Texarkana; four brothers,
Frank Boston and Sam Boston of Whitesboro; Je Boston of Dallas and Will
Boston of Canyon; two sisters, Mrs. Wiley Henderson of Dallas and Mrs.
Leslie Porter of San Francisco, Calif. ; eight grandchildren and a number
of great-grandchildren. -
William George Boston 16 Dec 1879
Mississippi - 9 Jun 1962 died in Canyon, Randall Co., Tx. He wed Grace Kelso Gordon
who was
b. in Tennessee. 31 Jul 1883 - died 21 Feb 1958, dau of Monroe & Mary
Hale Gordon. William & Grace are both buried in the Dixie Cemetery.
Children: John b. 1904, Velma b. 1905 bur. in Dixie Cemetery Murrane? b. 1907,
Howard b. 1909 Juanell b. 1913 Frances (a daughter) b. 1915 David b.
1918 William G. b. 1919 -
Sarah Zaydee Boston b. 23 Jan
1882 Tupelo, Miss. - 30 Aug 1936. She married John J. Barfield in 1912 and
she is buried in the Oakwood Cemetery in Whitesboro.
Obituary: Dallas Man's Sister Buried
at Whitesboro. Sherman, Texas Sep 1, Mrs. Sarah Zaydee Barfield , 53, died
Monday at her residence in Whitesboro following a stroke of paralysis.
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon at the Whitesboro Presbyterian
Church. Burial was in Oakwood Cemetery. Mrs. Barfield was born in Mississippi. Survivors are three children; Miss Rebecca Barfield, Mrs. Ethel
Lou Barfield and Stephen Barfield all of Whitesboro, six brothers, Will,
Sam, Frank, and Percy Boston of Whitesboro, Ralph Boston of Kansas City
and Joe Boston of Dallas, and three sisters, Mrs. Jim Culwell of Whitesboro,
Mrs Wiley Henderson of Durant and Mrs. Lucile Porter of Plainview. -
Laura Louella Boston b. 6 Feb 1884
Miss. - 25 Jan 1958 Napa, Cal.
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John Franklin Boston b. 5 Feb 1887 Miss
- 17 May 1962, he married Evelyn V. ___ who was b. in Tx 17 Jan 1889 - died
12 Apr 1984. Both are buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Whitesboro.
Children: Clifford b. 1910 Hazel b. 1915. -
Samuel Preston Boston b. 17 Mar 1889 Mississippi -
14 Oct 1983 buried in the Oakwood Cemetery with his wife Mattie in Whitesboro,
Tx. He married Mattie P. Reagan who was born in Arkansas 22 Mar 1892 - 9 Mar
1941.
Children: Loyd Raymond Boston b. 30 Apr 1915 - died 29
Jul 1974. He worked for a tractor co. in Whitesboro and died of cancer
of the spine. He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery. Lillian E. Boston b. 1918
Ralph L. b. 26 Mar 1923 died -3 Mar 1981. He was in the Army in WWII
and buried in Oakwood Cemetery. Ralph married Freda ___ 23 Mar 1944. She was
b. 17 Sep 1924. Children: James Ronald Boston
15 May 1945 - 17 Mar 2005 Gordonville. Sam Preston Boston married
second 7 Feb 1946 to Oda Mae Devault b. 9 Aug 1895 - 16 Feb 1983, dau.
of William Frank Davault and Mary Ann Mathews. She was wed to a William
Simpson Pyles first. -
Joseph Clide Boston b. 17 Apr 1890
Mississippi - 25 Jan 1969, buried Hillcrest Cemetery, Dallas, Tx.
Obituary: Funeral services for Joe C.
Boston Jr. , 78, of 4127 Courtshire, retired vice-president of the
Texas Wholesale Grocery Co., will be held at 4 pm Monday in the Sparkman
Hillcrest Funeral Chapel, 7405 W. Northwest Highway. Entombment will be
in the Hillcrest Garden Mausoleum. Boston, a Whitesboro, Grayson County, native, died here Saturday. A Dallas resident since 1913, he was a member of the Highland Park
Presbyterian Church, Hella Temple Shrine and was a 32 degree Mason. Boston
retired from the Texas Wholesale Grocery Co., in 1961 when it was a subsidiary
of the old Wyatt Food Store chain. Survivors; two daughters, Mrs. Charles D. Kirkham Jr. of Dallas
and Mrs. William C. Revercomb Jr. of Charleston, W. Va.; A sister, Mrs.
Wylie Henderson of Lake Dallas, and six grandchildren. -
Ralph Leeper Boston 14 Oct 1895 - 10 Jan
1936. He is buried in the Oakwood Cemetery, Whitesboro, Tx.
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Ruth Rebecca Boston 17 Nov
1892 Miss - 8 Jan 1878 buried in the Oakwood Cemetery in Whitesboro, Tx.
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Jack Percy Boston b. 25 Sep 1900
Miss - 12 Dec 1953 in Dallas, buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Whitesboro, Tx.
Whitesboro HistorySusan Hawkins
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