Beulah Elizabeth Carlton

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Name: Beulah Elizabeth Carter
Death Date: 24 Sep 1957
Death Place: Hemphill, Sabine, Texas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Death Age: 63 years 6 months 28 days
Estimated Birth Date:
Birth Date: 26 Feb 1894
Birthplace: Texas
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name:
Father's Name: John Carlton
Father's Birthplace: Texas
Mother's Name: Pharby Jane Strickland
Mother's Birthplace: Texas
Occupation: Restaurant Owner
Place of Residence: Hemphill, Sabine, Texas
Cemetery: City Cemetery
Burial Place: Hemphill, Texas
Burial Date: 25 Sep 1957
Additional Relatives:
Film Number: 2135869
Digital Film Number: 4163603
Image Number: 2478
Reference Number: 51418
Collection: Texas Deaths, 1890-1976


Wednesday, September 25, 1957 (Unknown newspaper)

MRS. B. CARTER of HEMPHILL, DIES

Services Will Be Held At 2 P.M. Today at Baptist Church

HEMPHILL, Sept. 24 (Spl) - Funeral services will be held at the First Baptist Church at 2 p.m. Wednesday for Mrs. Beulah E. Carter, 63, who died at 8:46 a.m. Tuesday after a short illness. Services will be under the direction of the Starr Funeral Home with the Rev. Clarence Howell officiating, assisted by Ronald Spears. The body will remain at the residence until time for services. Burial will be in Hemphill Cemetery. Pallbearers will be C. C. Rice, D. B. Speights, George Morris, Phillip Gandy, O. S. Chambers, Willie Self, Julian Smith, and J. H. Minton. Mrs. Carter was a member of the Baptist Church.

She and her husband, Brad Carter, owned and operated Carter's Caf? here since 1937, and leased it only two months ago when she became ill. Prior to this, they owned and operated the Streetcar-Barn Caf? in Beaumont from 1935 to 1937. Besides her husband, she is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Myrtle Horton and Mrs. Lucille Melding, both of Hemphill; two brothers, Benton Carlton of Hemphill and Alfred Carlton of Ranger, Tex.; one sister, Mrs. Ollie Chops of Houston; two grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Born 26 Feb 1894, died 24 Sept 1957

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txsabine/obituaries/TXSabine_Obits_Surname-C.htm

Beulah married John Bradford Carter in Oct 1909 in Pine Hill, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas. John (son of Benjamin Bradford Carter and Della Mary Russell) was born in May 1884 in Sabine Parish, Louisiana; died on 27 May 1973 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She appears to have remarried, as in 1963 she was referred to as "Mrs. Myrtle HORTON of Hemphill."

Family/Spouse: Edward Richmond Frost. Edward was born before 1913; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She is likely their daughter, "Mrs. C. A. McBride, who died in 1938."

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Lucille Carter Melde, 92, of Hemphill, died Thursday night in the Sabine County Hospital. Lucille was born in Hemphill to John Bradford and Beulah Carlton Carter. Lucille was married to the late Swede Melde, together they owned and operated Swede's Grocery and Service Station at the corner of Hwy 87 and FM 944. Lucille was a life resident of Hemphill and a member of the First Baptist Church.

Lucille is survived by her son Charles Melde and his wife Kathy of Hemphill and her niece Tina Butler of Hemphill. She was preceded in death by her husband Swede Melde and her sister Myrtle Horton.

Visitation will be from 6:00PM until 8:00PM, Friday, August 30, 2013, in the Starr Funeral Home, 510 Starr St., Hemphill, Texas. Funeral services will be at 10:00AM, Saturday, August 31, 2013, in the Starr Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in the Hemphill Cemetery.

www.starrfuneralhome.com
Print edition in The Sabine County Reporter, September 4, 2013, Page 12

Family/Spouse: Charles L. "Swede" Melde. Charles was born on 3 Jun 1918; died on 2 Aug 1975; was buried in Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Living married Living [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]