Potter, Martin Cilvester 5/19/1859 12/6/1954 Born: Brownwood, Tx. Father: Marion POTTER Mother: ? DALTON Survivors: wife, Demerris P., 4 dau, 3 sons, 21 gc, 2 ggc, 1 gg gc. Source: Adams Funeral Home Transcribed by Bettye Odom Potter, Demerris P.* 9/8/1863 1/23/1957 Born: San Saba, Tx. Father: Jesse POE (b.Mississippi) Mother: Fannie STEPHEN (b.Mississippi) Survivors: 4 dau, 3 sons, 21 gc, 24 ggc, 2 gg gc. Came to Crosby Co. in 1886. Crosbyton in 1950. Source: Adams Funeral Home Transcribed by Bettye Odom
Funeral services for Mrs. M. C. Potter, 93, early Crosby County settler and wife of one of the county's first commissioners, were held at 3:00 p.m. Friday in the First Methodist Church. Rev. Wilbur F. Gaede, pastor, assisted by Rev. George Turreentine of Denver City, officiated.
Burial was in Crosbyton Cemetery under direction of King Funeral Home.
Mrs. Potter died at 11 p.m. Wednesday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. O. B. Hefner, following an illness of about three months. She had been active until only a few months before her death.
Born in San Saba in 1863, Mrs. Potter moved to Crosby County with her husband in 1886. Their first home here was in a dugout.
Potter was named to the first county commissioners court when the county was organized. The couple subsequently moved to Floyd County where Potter was a deputy sheriff.
The couple later established residence in Briscoe County where Potter was postmaster at Quitaque. They moved to Silverton in 1914 where he served as tax assessor and collector for a number of years.
In 1950 they moved to Crosbyton where they had since made their home. Mr. Potter died two years ago, but Mrs. Potter maintained her home here until about three months ago.
Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Hefner, Mrs. N. R. Honea of Jordan, N. Mex., Mrs. Bert Hawkins of Quitaque, and Mrs. S. F. Conner of Floydada; three sons, Allen of Denver, Colo., M. M. of Wichita, Kan., and E. F. of Jordan, N. Mex.; 21 grandchildren, 24 great grandchildren, and two great great grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Bill Nickson, Garnet Jones, D. A. Edwards, Hubert Curry, Jack P. Martin and Weldon Dendy.
The Crosbyton Review, Thursday, January 31, 1957
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