Elmer Beene Sr. 
Elmer was born on December 23rd, 1907 in Freestone County, Texas. Elmer 's father was William Thomas Beene and his mother was Mamie Allen Beene. His paternal grandfather was Reuben Warren Beene and his paternal grandmother is Mary Elvira Lindsey. He had four brothers and five sisters, named Ovin, Thomas, Ernest, Lester, Emma Lee, Ruth, Ruby, IN D. and Grace. He was the fourth oldest of the ten children. He died at the age of 95 on September 14th, 2003.Death Notes
Mexia Daily News - Sept 16, 2003 edition-Obituary
Elmer Beene, Sr.
Elmer Beene, Sr., 95, longtime and well-known farmer/rancher and Tax Assessor/Collector for 22 years in the Groesbeck Independent School District, died Sunday in Parkview Regional Hospital.
Mr. Beene, born in Freestone County on Dec. 23, 1907, was reared in that county and moved to Shiloh in 1936. He moved in 1941 to Groesbeck, where he lived until moving to Mexia in 1996.
A member of the Groesbeck Church of Christ, Mr. Beene was preceded in death by his parents, William Thomas and Mamie Beene, pioneer Freestone County residents; by his wife of 76 years - Ima Jane Beene, who died in March of this year; by four brothers - Ovin, Roy, Lester and Ernest Beene, and by two sisters- Emma Lee Rogers and Ruth Pipkin.
Family visitation is scheduled for this evening from 6 until 8 o'clock at Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home.
Memorials may be made to the Groesbeck Church of Christ or to the First Baptist Church's Christian Life Center.
Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday morning at 10:30 in Groesbeck Church of Christ, with Minister Richard Williams officiating. Burial will be in Mexia Cemetery, under direction of Blair-Stubbs.
Surviving are a son and daughter-in-law, Elmer and Martha Beene, Jr., of Mexia; a grandson, Brett Beene and wife Chana of Mexia; great-grandchildren, Blair and Chet Beene of Mexia, and two sisters, Ruby Day of Fairfield and and Grace
Hester of Grand Prairie.
Pallbearers are Holloway Martin, Harold Nussbaum, Billie M. Beene, Billy Jim Day, William Lee Hester, Ken Neyland, Horace Prather and Kent Kendall.
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- b.03 May 1764 in Pittsylvania, British America (Currently Common Wealth of Virginia) d.17 Nov 1824 in Sweetens Cove, Marion, Tennessee, United States
- b.05 Feb 1782 in Fort Watauga, Marion, Tennessee, United States d.1849 in Itawamba, Mississippi, United States
- b.20 Mar 1758 in Amelia County, Virginia, United States of America d.17 Nov 1845 in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States of America
- b.20 Oct 1808 in Tennessee d.28 Oct 1892
- b.1792 in South Carolina d.1870
- b.12 Feb 1837 d.15 Jun 1912
- b.1811 in Tennessee d.Jun 1888
- b.01 Aug 1877 in Freestone County, Texas d.02 Aug 1958
- b.23 Dec 1907 in Freestone County, Texas d.14 Sep 2003
- b.28 Jan 1881 d.28 Jul 1971
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Details of Elmer 's family with Ima Jane (Baty) Beene
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