Dallas Morning News
August 29, 1947

Funeral Rites Held for B.F. Elliott

Special to the News 
Sherman, Texas , Aug 28- Funeral Services were held Thursday afternoon at the Walnut street Church of Christ for Benjamin Franklin Elliott, 74, who died Wednesday. Burial was in Friendship Cemetery.
Elliott was born in 1872 at Tom Bean and had lived in Grayson County all his life. He was employed by the Frisco Railroad for twenty-eight years in the maintenance of ways department.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs Ada Elliott; four sons, George M. and Richard C. Elliott of Sherman, Arthur Frank Elliott and Colquitt D. Elliott of Houston; a daughter, Mrs Bessie Jackson of Sherman; a step-daughter, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.