Person:Esther Herring (1)

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Esther Herring
b.16 Nov 1893 Tennessee Valley, Bell Co., Texas, United States
d.Feb 1940 Galveston Co., Texas, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 6 Sep 1891
  1. Esther Herring1893 - 1940
  2. Newton L. Herring1895 - 1966
  3. Hazel H. Herring1899 - 1981
  4. Millard Fillmore Herring1906 - 2004
  5. Catherine Herring1910 - 1981
  6. Mayoleen Herring1916 - 1917
  7. Juanita Herring1918 - Bef 1963
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m. 28 Mar 1917
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Facts and Events
Name Esther Herring
Gender Female
Birth? 16 Nov 1893 Tennessee Valley, Bell Co., Texas, United States
Marriage 28 Mar 1917 Tennessee Valley, Bell Co., Texas, United Statesto Dr. John William Pittman
Death? Feb 1940 Galveston Co., Texas, United States

from Jody Dillard:

from... Temple Daily Telegram.. Temple, Texas ESTHER HERRING PITTMAN

"Prominent Woman Died In Galveston Wednesday After Long Illness" BELTON, Jan 31,1940.---Mrs. J.W. Pittman 46, a prominent Belton woman who was a leader of social and civic affairs here before her health failed, died at 1 A.M. Wednesday in a Galveston hospital. Funeral services will be held at her home, at 3 P.M. Thursday, conducted by Orval Filbeck, local Curch of Christ minister, and R.B. Sweet of College Station, former minister of the Belton Church of Christ. Pallbearers will be Charles Duke, L.E. Bush, W.H. Garner, Raymond Morgan, W.E. Wicker and Frank Kraner. Burial will be in the North Belton cemetery with Eads & Son in charge. Mrs. Pittman was born in Bell county Nov 16,1893, and had lived in the county all her life. She was Esther Herring before her marriage to Dr. Pittman on March 28, 1917. She received her college education at Southwest Texas State Teachers college at San Marcos and taught school for several years in Bell County. She had been a member of the Church of Christ for the past 28 years, and was a leading member of nearly all the civic and social clubs of Belton for a number of years, including the Civic League, board of directors of the Carnegie library, study clubs and others. She was also a member of the Bell County Medical auxiliary. Surviving are her husband, Dr. J.W. Pittman; her mother, Mrs. Minnie C. Herring; three brothers, N.L, H.H., one M.F. Herring, and one sister, Mrs. Leland Duke, all of Belton.

Note on her birth location: TENNESSEE VALLEY, TEXAS. Tennessee Valley was on the Leon River five miles northwest of Belton in northwestern Bell County. The community was founded in 1851 by a party of settlers who originated in the Tennessee valley and named the new settlement for their former home. The Tennessee Valley school had some seventy-two pupils in 1896. There was a commercial pecan orchard at Tennessee Valley in the 1920s, and in 1948 the community had two churches and two businesses. In the mid-1950s the site of the community was inundated by Lake Belton. Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "," (accessed November 29, 2007).

References
  1.   Obituary
    Obit of her father.
  2.   Rootsweb chart of Jody Dillard: James C. Dillard Family wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi op GET db jody44.
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