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Obituary
Carnegie Cemetery
Caddo County, Oklahoma
Submitted by:
Lillian Cotton

© Carnegie Herald
Carnegie, Oklahoma
Wednesday, January 27, 1934

Benjamin Franklin Battles
1878 ~ 1934

Funeral services were held at the Carnegie Pentecostal church for Benjamin Franklin Battles whose death occurred Thursday, January 11, at the home of his mother.

C.M. Weaver, pastor of the Pentecostal church, and Rev. Garland Howard, pastor of the Baptist church, conducted the service. Interment was made in the Carnegie cemetery.

Benjamin Franklin Battles was born in Edda Wall county, Alabama, October 16, 1878.

He left home at the age of twenty one and opened a business as contractor in Texas. After a few years he moved to Oklahoma and continued his work there. While living in Oklahoma he married Mollie Utollie Jones and in 1911 moved to Springfield, Colo. During the year 1930 he again returned to Oklahoma and was married to Bertha Trotter.

A few months ago he became ill at his home in Cache and later came to the home of his mother in Carnegie.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Bertha Battles, two daughters, Mrs. Viola Whiteker of Wichita, Kans., and little Nora Jane Battles, and mother, Mrs. T.E. Battles, and five brothers: Jim, Togan and Sam of Springfield, Colo., and Jessie and Grover of Carnegie.

Benjamin Franklin Battles
October 16, 1878 ~ January 11, 1934


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