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Mike Wall
(1846-1911)
Wilhelmina D. Garlipp
(1853-1917)
Thomas L. Denniston
(1859-1935)
Francis Ann Franklin
(1858-1931)
Theodore Benjamin Wall
(1881-1948)
Mary Viola Denniston
(1882-1964)
Ralph William Wall
(1910-1934)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Eula Mae Watters

Ralph William Wall 2 3 4

  • Born: 1 Oct 1910, Double Horn Community, Burnet County, Texas 5 6
  • Marriage (1): Eula Mae Watters on 20 Jul 1928 in Bertram, Burnet County, Texas 1
  • Died: 5 Jul 1934, Marble Falls, Burnet County, Texas at age 23 6 7
  • Buried: 7 Jul 1934, Marble Falls City Cemetery, Marble Falls, Burnet County, Texas 6 8

   Cause of his death was shock due to injury (dynamite explosion).6

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  General Notes:

At the time of the 1930 census, Ralph was living on a farm on the Spicewood-Marble Falls road in Burnet County, Texas. He was a laborer on a general farm.

He operated a jack hammer. He died in an explosion while drilling at Granite Mountain. Dynamite was used to split the marble rock before modern machinery. While drilling, he hit some old dynamite that was left there.

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  Additional Information:

• Death Certificate Image: here.

• FindAGrave: Memorial# 35586921.


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Cotton married Eula Mae Watters, daughter of Chesley Watters and Edna Sparks, on 20 Jul 1928 in Bertram, Burnet County, Texas.1 (Eula Mae Watters was born on 27 Sep 1908 in , Menard County, Texas,9 died on 24 Mar 2002 in McKinney, Collin County, Texas 10 and was buried in Restland Memorial Park, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas 11.)


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Sources


1 LaVerne Harrell Clark, The Bunte Family History.

2 1920 United States Federal Census, Justice Precinct 5, Burnet, Texas; Roll 625_1782; Page: 5B; ED: 26; Image: 1085. Repository: Ancestry.com.

3 1930 United States Federal Census, Precinct 4, Burnet, Texas; Roll 2303; Page: 3A; ED: 11; Image: 215.0. Repository: Ancestry.com.

4 Dolores Fasel Bozeman, compiler, The Wall Family, 1849-1996, Repository: Herman Brown Free Library, 100 E Washington Street, Burnet, Texas 78611, Call Number: 3 7370 10037597 5.

5 Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997, Roll Number: 1910_0009; Certificate Number: 35201. Repository: Ancestry.com. Unnamed on birth index.

6 Death Certificate (Official Document), Certificate Number: 30993.

7 Texas Death Index, 1903-2000, Certificate Number: 30993. Repository: Ancestry.com.

8 FindAGrave.com, Memorial# 35586921.

9 Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997, Roll Number: 1903_0029; Certificate Number: 106706. Repository: Ancestry.com.

10 U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 (Database online), Number: 449-62-4060; Issue State: Texas; Issue Date: 1955. Repository: Ancestry.com.

11 FindAGrave.com, Memorial# 25401044.


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