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- Name: Grable Austin BENHAM
- Birth: 23 SEP 1879 in Marblehill, MO
- Death: 16 SEP 1951 in Afton, Dickens County, Texas
- Burial: Afton Cemetery, Afton, Dickens County, Texas
- Father: John T. BENHAM
- Mother: Maggie SMITH
- Marriage 1 Susie Edna WELLS
- Married: 21 MAY 1905 in Gurdon, Clark County, Arkansas
- Birth: 28 FEB 1888 in Gurdon, Clark County, Arkansas
- Death: 30 AUG 1971 in Afton, Dickens County, Texas
- Burial: AUG 1971 Afton Cemetery, Afton, Dickens County, Texas
- Father: James Ira WELLS b: 10 AUG 1827 in Decatur, Blount County, Alabama
- Mother: Elizabeth Eliza HILL b: 23 MAR 1854 in Somerville, Fayette County, Tennessee
- Children:
- Martille BENHAM b: 25 JUN 1906
- Lucille BENHAM b: 15 May 1908, Prescott, AR married Howard FLOYD 2 Apr 1927 d. 6 Mar 2001 buried in Seagraves, TX
- Etoyle S. BENHAM RASBERRY b. 2 Feb 1911
- Hazel BENHAM CLARK b: in Texas
- Juanita Josephine BENHAM b. 16 Nov 1912 married J.F. ANDREWS 14 December 1928 at Dickens
- Grable Austin BENHAM , Jr. b. 26 Dec 1925
Funeral services for Grable Austin Benham, 72, were held at the Methodist Church, Afton, Monday, September 17, 1951.
Benham was born in Marblehill, MO. on September 23, 1879 and moved to the Afton community in Dickens county in 1925. In 1905 he was married to Miss Susie Wells in Gurdon, Ark. He was converted to the Christian religion early in life and was a member of the Methodist church.
Rev. Wayne Parmenter of McLean, Texas, officiated at the funeral, assisted by Rev. Vaughn of Matador. Interment was in the Afton Cemetery with Chandler Funral Home in charge.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Susie Benham of Afton; three daughters, Mrs. Martile Laney of Brownfield, Mrs. Lucille Floyd of Seagraves, and Mrs. Hazel Clark of Afton; two sisters, Mrs. Maggie Parks and Mrs. Lizzie Walker both of Borger; and two brothers, F. A. Benham and M. G. Benham both of Seymour. He had 20 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren.
His grandsons served as pallbearers.
©The Texas Spur, September 20, 1951
Mrs. Susie E. Benhan, 84, died about 2:30 p.m. Monday in Seagraves Hospital following several days' illness. She was the mother of Mrs. Howard Floyd, and had been a resident of Seagraves for 15 years.
Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Church of the Nazarene here, with the Rev. Burle DeBord, pastor, officiating. Burial will be at 4 p.m. in Afton Cemetery, directed by Webb Funeral Home of Seagraves.
A native of Gurdon, Ark., Mrs. Benham was born Feb. 29, 1887. She had lived at Seymour until 15 years ago when she came to make her home with her daughter and her family.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Floyd of Seagraves, and Mrs. Bobbie Chipman of Leachville, Ark.; 22 grandchildren, 50 great grandchildren, and four great-great grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be grandsons.
The former Miss Susie Wells was married in 1905 to G.A. Benham. The couple moved to Seymour from Gurdon in 1911, and to Afton in 1926. Her husband died a number of years ago. Mrs. Benham came to Seagraves 15 years ago from Afton.
Obituary courtesy of Sue Currie, from Gaines County News
Submitted by Penny Hayes
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