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Name: Samuel Caldwell Poteet Birth: Dec. 8, 1872 in Rowan County North Carolina, USA Death: Jan. 22, 1963 in Ralls, Crosby County, Texas, USA Father: Joseph Newton Mother: Laura Elizabeth Litaker Poteet of Cabarrus County, North Carolina. Husband of Mary Savage Hill Poteet. Brother of John Franklin Poteet, Madison County, TX Joseph Lee Poteet, Madison County, Texas. Info submitted by Bobby Smith
Obituary notice, Ralls Banner
Crosby Pioneer's Rites Are TodayRALLS (Special) - Last rites for Samuel Caldwell Poteet, 90, Crosby County pioneer, will be at 2 p.m. today at the Ralls First Baptist Church with the Rev. C.M. Fields, pastor, officiating.
Burial will be in Ralls Cemetery under direction of Carter Funeral Home.
Poteet, a native of Charlotte, N.C., died Thursday morning in Crosbyton Hospital. He had been in ill health the past several years.
A retired farmer, he and his wife moved to Crosby County in 1919 from Hall County. The couple celebrated their 67th wedding anniversary in November, 1962.
Survivors are his wife, Mary; six sons, M.H., Needmore; Horace, Mineral Wells; Sam, Abilene; Olan, Lockney; J.N., Levelland, and Odell, Ralls; three daughters, Mrs. John Willis, and Mrs. Lester Bounds, Ralls, and Mrs. Olan Hughs, Springfield, Colo.; 40 grandchildren; 56 great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren.
Grandsons will be pallbearers and great grandsons will be honorary pallbearers.
Lubbock Avalanche Journal, January 1963
From the records of Thelma Kimmel Scott
Mary Poteet
Services for Mrs. Mary Poteet, 92, were at 3 p.m. Thursday in the First Baptist Church of Ralls with the Rev. Floyd Haddock, pastor, and the Rev. Jerry Poteet, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Abilene, officiating. Burial was in the Ralls Cemetery with arrangements by Carter Funeral Home.Mrs. Poteet died about 7:45 p.m. Wednesday in Ralls Convalescent Home following a lengthy illness.
A native of Madison County, she had been a Ralls area resident since 1919, when she moved here from Hall County. She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star.
Survivors include six sons, Milton of Farwell, Horace of Graham, Sam of Merkel, Olan of Lockney, J.N. of Levelland and Odell of Lubbock; two daughters, Mrs. Lester Bownds of Ralls and Mrs. Olan Hugs of Springfield, Colo.; a brother, J.L. Hill of Arlington; three sisters, Mrs. J.H. Gibson of Abilene, Mrs. Mesa Andrew of North Zulch and Mrs. K.M. Rankin of Houston; 40 grandchildren; 70 great grandchildren and nine great great grandchildren.
Ralls Banner, September 1, 1971
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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