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Michigan, County Marriage Records, 1822 - 1940 (Ancestry.com), and Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867 - 1952 (Ancestry.com). The second record shows that this was David's first marriage and Martha's second marriage. It also shows that Martha's maiden name was Lipinski. Finally, it shows that David and Martha were both residents of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois.

Obituary:

Mrs. Fred W DeVault, Jr, 40 died at a local hospital at one o'clock Sunday morning following an illness of several months. She is survived by her husband, Fred W. DeVault, Jr, her mother, Mrs. J. P. Robertson, sister Eleanor V. Robertson, all of Johnson City; another sister, Mrs. S. L. Gray of Fordtown, and one brother, W. B. Robertson of Indian Springs. Funeral services will be conducted from the Central Baptist church at 2 o'clock p.m. Monday, in charge of Dr William R Rigeil, assisted by Chaplain E H Brandon. Brief services will also be held at Buffalo Ridge Memorial at Gray Station and interment will be held in the Gray Station Cemetery. Pall bearers are K. D. Hurley, George P. Rouse, W. P. Crockett, R. C. Phillips, T. H. Kitts, Neal A. Beasley. Flower bearers will be members of the T. E. L. Class of the Central Baptist Church.

OBITUARY - Bethany Republican Clipper, 21 August 1927

OLDEST RESIDENT DEAD

A. C. Broyles passes away here at age of 96 years.

Believed to be oldest man in county, Father of Bethany Physician never wore glasses.

Andrew C. Broyles, the oldest resident of Bethany and believed to have been of greater age than any man living in Harrison county, died here at 1:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the home of his son, Dr. F. H. Broyles. He was a native of Tennessee, having been born at Chuckey Valley on June 22, 1831, the son of Jacob F. and Lucinda Broyles.

Mr. Broyles was a farmer during most of his life, or until his wife died more than 20 years ago. Since that time he had made his home here with his son, although until six years ago he was gone frequently on extended visits among his other children. For six years he had been unable to walk, and his travels ceased although his mind was good until the last, with the exception of a few short lapses of memory during recent months.

He was a well read man who retailned to his final days his interest in public happenings. He perused many newspapers and magazines, and personally attended to large correspondence from which he derived much comfort. It never was necessary for him to use eye glasses.

The first notice of his fatal illness was noticed Wednesday afternoon of last week, about 5:00 o'clock, when he complailned of not feeling well. The next afternoon he had an interval of stomach sickness, but he grew better from that. At 10:00 o'clock Saturday forenoon he became weaker, but at noon drank a glass of milk and commented upon its good taste. Only a short time later he commenced again to fail rapidly.

Short funeral services were held at the Dr. Broyles home at 12:30 o'clock Sunday before the body of Mr. Broyles was taken on the 1:45 o'clock train to Jonesborough, Tenn., for burial. They were conducted by the Rev. Clyde S. Sherman, pastor of the Christian church, and the Rev. Joseph W. Thompson, Methodist church pastor. Miss Irma Kenyon, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Prentiss and S. M. Haas sang " O God, Our Help in Ages Past" and "O How Happy are They Who Our Savior Obey." Mrs. J. G. Hinkle was accompanist.

The body was accompanied to Tennessee by Dr. and Mrs. F. H. Broyles and their daughter, Dr. Elizabeth Broyles. It was their expectation they would arrive at Jonesborough yesterday and perhaps that funeral services and burial would be that afternoon. It was expected the funeral would be preached at a small church where Mr. Broyles worshiped for many years.

Mr. Broyles is survived by the following children who reside at other places than Bethany: Robert Broyles of Maryville, Mo., Mrs. Jacob Hunt of Elk City, Okla., the Rev. Hubert Broyles of Philadelphia, Pa., Mrs. Betty King of New York City, and Mrs. Mollie Ballard of Knoxville, Tenn.

From a letter written by Rev. E. Hubert Broyles to Dorothy DeVault Bicknell dated May 24, 1953:

"Betty and her sister Mollie were married in a double wedding ceremony. Mollie will be 95 next Tuesday the 26th. Not at all well, but still goes around some."

OBITUARY - The Knoxville News Sentinel, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, June 11, 1957, page 7

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MRS MARY BALLARD WAS 99 LAST MONTH

Mrs. BALLARD DIES IN HER 100TH YEAR

Only two weeks after celebrating her 99th birthday, Mrs. Mary Broyles Ballard died at 3 a.m. this morning at her home, 2336 Woodbine Avenue. She was the widow of the late S. H. Ballard.

Mrs. Ballard had recovered from a broken hip, suffered five years ago. She was walking on her own six months after surgery. Mrs Ballard was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.

She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Annie Sarrett, Knoxville; granddaughters Mrs. Jack Joyner, Knoxville; Mrs. J. A. McKay, Fayetteville, N.C., four great-granddaughters, one great-grandson; sister, Mrs. W. R. King, Church Hill, Tenn; brother, Dr. E. H. Broyles, Philadelphia, Pa.

The body is at Mann's where the family will receive friends at 9 p.m. tomorrow.

Mary's brother, Rev. Herbert Broyles, said about her, "Mollie has been quite a Bible student, and until two or three years ago, taught a Bible class in her Church at Knoxville, in spite of her 90's."

Paul Sarrett says that Mary was also known as "Big Mama," and her daughter was called "Little Mama."

OBITUARY - Bethany Republican Clipper, Nov 1937

Funeral Rites Friday for Dr. Franklin H. Broyles

Funeral services for Dr. F. H. Broyles were conducted last Friday morning at 10:00 at the Broyles home by the Rev. W. W. Marvin of Vandalia, Mo., assisted by the Bethany Christian church.

Music was furnished by a quartet coomposed of Mrms. W. H. Hass, Mrs. Raleilgh Bartlett and L. C. Casady. Miss Ruth Ida Butler sang "More Love to Thee."

Following services here the funeral party left for Auburn, Nebr., where graveside services and burial rites were held at four o'clock in the afternoon.

Pallbearers were P. M. Place, Joe Maxey, Ed Slatten, Charles John, Claude Prentiss and Mark Butler. The floral escort was composed of Mrs. Mark Butler, Mrs. P. M. Place and Mrs. C. M. Propst.

Among those from out of town here to attend services were a brother-in-law R. S. Ramsey of Maryville, Miss Frances Broyles and Dr. Elizabeth Broyles of Boston, Mass., Dr. and Mrs. G. H. Broyles, Kansas City, Miss Marie French, St. Joseph and Mrs. Charlena Ramsey, Auburn.

LETTER FROM DR. FRANKLIN H. BROYLES TO JOHN FAIN ANDERSON

Dr. Franklin H. Broyles

Bethany, Missouri

February 7th, 1925

Mr John Fain Anderson

Washington College.

Tennessee.

Mr Dear Mr Anderson;-

While I have never had the pleasure of knowing you personally, I have known of you since I was but a small lad. I am the oldest son of A. C. Broyles, and am writing for him. He has tried to answer your letter received a few days ago, but his hand is feeble and trembly, and it is dificult for him to write although he has several correspondents, who seeme to have little trouble to read his letters. I know this is true, for when he asks questions, they are always answered. If they could not read his letters the questions would not be answered. Father will be 94 yeares old the 22nd of June. Three and a half yeares ago, he had a very severe sickness, and for weeks we little to encourage us to think he could get well, but he finally recovered, and since then has had good health, considering his advanced age, but has never walked since that spell of sickness. I believe if he had tried very hard to walk, he could have done so, but I was afraid he might fall and hurt himself, so let him have his way. His reason for not trying to walk was that his feet hurt so much when he tried to walk that he could not stand on them. He gets up at 6 A.M. and retires at 9 P.M. of course he takes several little naps during the day. Moves about his roome in his chair, and goes to the hall and toilet in his chair, and waits on himself. I always help him dress when at home. He takes the Herald and Tribune, the Pathfinder and two Methodist papers, and reads almost every line in them, and is always ready for the next copies of these papers. He eats and sleeps well and very fond of company. His mind is remarkable clear, but of course he is living more in the past than present. Does not remember recent events as well as those of yeares ago. We often talk of the people we used to know from Horse Creek to Embreville, and a large circle of country on either side of the river, but since I have been away from that country forty three yeares most of those I knew are gone.

Father and Mother were married in 1856 instead of 54, Mother passed away in 1906, at Monmouth Illinois and was buried in Jonesboro Tenn. I was in Jonesboro a few hours the day we laid her to rest, the last time I have been there. I appreciate your writing Father, and hope if it is not too great a task for you to write, the he may heare from you again. He has read your letter over several times, and remarks how glad he is that you wrote him. He says he would be so glad if he could only have a long visit with you. His children are scattered from Oklahoma to New York, but they come to see him and write him often. It seemes best the children all think for him to live with me, since we are very centrally located, and have a splendid home, with every convenience for his comefort, and that I can watch his health better than any of them. The Broyles family so far as I know have had few if any very black sheep, and I and my family are trying to maintain the reputation of the family. I have been very successful professionally and financially, and wife and I have raised three children of whom we are very proud. Two sons and one daughter. We have given them every opportunity they desired, all are university graduates, and graduates in Medicine. The oldest son is practiceing Medicine in Kansas City, the second son is practiceing Medicine in Saint Louis, and the daughter has just located in Saint Joseph Mo, where she has a nice office, and I am sure in a few yearses will be one of the leading Physicians there. The oldest son is 36, the second 30 and the daughter 26 yeares old. They are all three fine looking, healthy and happy, and all are good Christians. The boys were both commissioned officers in the world war. The oldest a major in the Medical service and the second one a Lieut, and both saw HELL in France, but only the youngest was wounded. That was three days before the armistis was signed, when he received a slight scalp and hand wound, but at the same time had three holes shot through his legs above the knees and the calf of his left leg shot off. He lay in a French hospital for four months before he was able to be sent home The wounds give him very little trouble now. The sons are married but the daughter is single.

Please pardon the personal part of this letter, but I wanted you to know this part of the Broyles family is trying to do good and if posible leave this world at least a little better when we are no more.

We have had I believe he nicest winter I have ever seen in this western country. Have not had a blizzard this winter, and now it is very much like spring. We had snow and ice for about six weeks and cold, temperature rangeing from 30 degrees above to twenty six degrees below zero. The snow was not over six inches deep, and not drifted.

If we could pick out the few real statesmen in the congress, and hang the rest of its members on the back yard fence, how wonderful this country might become, but it almost looks like the American people has not enough sense to be self governed. We hope for the best. With the best personal good wishes, from Father and myself, I am,

Sincerely yours.

F. H. Broyles. M. D.

Bethany, Mo.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE

WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM OLD FRIENDS

The following letter was received a few days ago from Dr. Franklin Broyles, Bethany, Missouri:

“Editor Herald and Tribune

Dear Sir:

I am writing for my father, A. C. Broyles to ask you to advance his subscription to the Herald and Tribune one year and am enclosing his check to pay for same.

Father, tho feeble, is enjoying good health. He will soon be ninety-four years old. He send the season’s greetings to all of his old friends in Jonesboro and Washington County. He would be glad to receive a letter from anyone or all of them.

Note – Mr. Broyles is still interested in Jonesboro and the people of Washington county. Every year he sends us check for the old home paper in order to hear from us each week. Let many of his old friends write to him. It will give him pleasure to hear from you. Editor.

LETTER FROM DR. FRANKLIN H. BROYLES TO ROBERT FRANKLIN "FRANK" DeVAULT

DR. FRANKLIN H. BROYLES

BETHANY MISSOURI

May 8th, 1933.

R. Frank DeVault

Morganton N. C.

Dear Cousin Frank:

Your letter was received the latter part of March, and should have been answered sooner. Excuses are always at hand, but really I have been rather busy professionally, besides business has called me up to Iowa once, to St. Joseph, Mo. twice, and to Kansas City twice, besides one trip to our farms in South East Nebraska. We have to go to Kansas City again soon, as well as to the farms. The price of corn is advancing and when we think the right time comes will go out and sell the few thousand bushels we have cribed on the farms.

Elizabeth has been very seriously sick in Boston since February. We were advised of her sickness but told her condition was not serious and that she was doing all right, and no need for us to come to her, but we were not satisfied and the 15th of March I took her mother as far as St. Louis on her way to Boston. She found Elizabeth better but still in a more serious condition than we were led to believe when she was at her worst. Her trouble started with a septic sore throat with a generalized joint infection. Her mother was with her six weeks. She is just now beginning to look after her patients. I may not have told you she has been Resident Physician at Wellesey College for eight years. And has just been reappointed for five more years at a salary of five thousand dollars per year but only works nine months each year and during those nine months has one vacation of ten days and another of twenty days. Well her mother left her able to be up and she reports a continued improvement. She will be home for her three months vacation in seven weeks. She drives a Studebaker car and drives home early in June. Our little eleven year old grandson is going to Boston for a visit with his aunt and will come home with her. This trip and the anxiety was rather hard on my wife, and she has not gotten rested yet.

We have had a dry cold spring but rains have reached us and the sun is warming things up nicely the last two days.

I am glad to have the information you gave me about your brothers and sisters, Cousin Sophia and I corresponded many many years ago but I turned the correspondence over to a chum, and I don't know what became of it. I left home in 1882 and was not at home when your father visited there in 1883. I think Will spent a summer with the folks soon after that. So I have never seen any of your family. You spoke about yourself and youngest brother living on the old home place. Am I to understand you are two old bachelors? You say nothing about any family. If you are may God have mercy on you for I have none for either of you. Your father's recollection concerning his family is mostly wrong and I will give you a correct genealogy on another sheet of paper, altho I can only go back to your grandfather Henry DeVault.

I visited Uncle Michael K. DeVault in Illinois more than fifty years ago but had not corresponded with any of them for fifty years but once in a while I would send Cousin Laura a birthday card, or a picture of some place of interest I visited but never heard from her. Just this last Christmas I sent her a Christmas card, and two or three weeks later I received a letter from her niece saying her Aunt Laura died three years ago. That her grandparents, her father and her uncle and aunt were all dead and that as far as she knew one brother was the only living relative she had on earth and that if I was a friend of the family or knew any thing about the DeVault family she would be glad to hear from me. I went back to her great, great, grandfather and gave her a quite complete history down to herself, so complete should she wish to join the D.A.Rs she can do so. Although I stopped with the birth and death of my own mother of that branch of our family. I will give this to her in another chapter. I have not heard from her since I sent her that letter, and she has no idea she and I are second cousins. It is too bad relatives get so scattered they loose all trace of each other, but I can I think understand how it is she knows not of her father's family. Uncle Michael DeVault was one of the best men I ever knew, and his wife was just as good as long as she was boss and every one bowed to her, but when they did not she was a regular she devil. Their oldest son Elbert married a young lady his mother had taken a dislike for and I heard her say she never wanted to see him again and that she never wanted to look in her face either in life or death. This marriage took place at the time I visited them, and it is my opinion he gave his family a wide bearth and told his children nothing about them, altho the rest of the famiy never said a word in my presence against the young lady Elbert married. The other two children never married. I know cousin Larua had an opportunity to marry a young man who has made a splendid success of his life, and her mother was willing that he and Laura marry, provided they would move right in and live with or very near her for he would would not be domineered over by her and Laura did not want to live with her for she knew no one could do so in peace, but at the same time she said she could never marry with out her mother's consent and if she did not marry this particular young man she would never marry any. That decided the young man to break the engagement and some years later married a jewel of a young woman. None of the children were at all like their mother in disposition but seeing the heart aches caused by her brother's disobedience caused her to sacrifice a happy married life with a home and children of her own. Yes I would love to meet and talk with you, I meet so few of my own boyhood friends and relatives. I have wondered off here in northwest Missouri not because I like it better than Nebraska but this is or has not been as healthy a country as Nebraska and consequently this has been a better place for a physician. We have 245 acres of fine Nebraska land and there is no mortgage on it neither is there on any thing we have.

I drove over to Maryville three weeks ago and spent a night with Bob. He wrote me he had fallen and fractured his leg and I went over at once to see him. He reports doing fine.

People here have been hit badly by this depression but here is much more confidence and we hope for better times but it is no secret that this as well as every other nation is in a serious condition.

I am remembering where Hugh's boys are in Kansas and I might be through their town some time and if so will stop and shake hands with them. I will be glad to hear from you when you find time to write. I have strung out a rather long letter and said very little.

Remember me to all the relatives you see.

Sincerely your cousin

F. H. Broyles.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE - Bethany Republican Clipper, July 1933

FAMILY OF DOCTORS WAS IN REUNION HERE SUNDAY

The spacious residence of Dr. and Mrs. F. H. Broyles on Oakland avenue was the scene of a happy reunion Sunday, when all of their children and grandchildren were present to enjoy a delicious dinner prepared by Mrs. Broyles.

Dr. Broyles, his two sons and daughter are all actively engaged in the practice of medicine. He received his medical education in Kansas City and proudly states that the first babies he brought into the world are a half century old this year. Dr. Glen H., who is located in Kansas City, has a large following in the city and is known as one of the prominent physicians there. Dr. Watkins has a general practice in Eagleville and the northern part of Harrison county. His place in the community is vital, as he is "Doc" to a large percentage of the citizens. Their sister, Dr. Elizabeth, has served as resident physician at Wellesley college in Massachusetts for eight years and has been reappointed to serve in this capacity for the ensuing five years.

Dr. Elizabeth received her higher education in the medical department of the university of Nebraska, while her brothers were students at the university of Kansas.

Mrs. Glen H. Broyles and son Lloyd of Kansas City, Mrs. Watkins Broyles and children Frances and Watkins Ramsey of Eagleville were also present for the dinner and reunion Sunday. Frances who attended high school in Bethany last winter, hopes to devote her life to the practice of medicine, according to an essay which she wrote in citizenship class. Lloyd and Watkins Ramsey have made no definite plans for their future.

LETTER FROM FRANKLIN HUNT BROYLES TO RACHEL SOPHIA (DEVAULT) MCLEAN - December 18, 1933

Dr. Franklin H. Broyles

Bethany, Missouri

December 18th, 1933.

Mrs Rachel Sophia McLean;-

Gobsonville, North Carolina,

My dear Cousin;-

Takeing people by surprise has always been a pleasure to me. In looking through an old album yesterday I found a picture of yours which you sent me more than fifty yeares ago. When looking at your picture, I just promised myself I would send you a surprise in the way of a short letter. If this reaches you, and you are interested enought to answer, I will be glad to write you a longer letter. I have done a great deal of letter writing during the past years, traceing the history of the DeVault family. I want our daughter to become a member of the D.A.R. and I am very sure have all necessary records which will give her triple record, through the McGrews, DeVault and Broyles families. This is all I am going to write at this time, for it may never reach you, nor interest you should be so fortunate as to reach you. I wish for you all the happiness and all the good things posible at the christmas time. The last letter received from you was written in 1883. Hope to heare from you. Your Cousin

F. H. Broyles

LETTER FROM FRANKLIN HUNT BROYLES TO RACHEL SOPHIA (DEVAULT) MCLEAN - February 19, 1934

Dr. Franklin H. Broyles

Bethany, Missouri

February 19th, 1934,

Mrs Sophia McLean,

Gibsonville, N,C,

My Dear Cousin;-

When I sent you a note some weeks ago, I hardly expected to ever heare from you, Do you remember it has been more than fifty yeares since a letter has passed between us, I believe I turned over correspondence over to one of my friends, and as we were soon separated I dont know how long that correspondence was kept up, I have had a few letters from you brother Frank, but we have not exchanged letters for a few months, I must write to him soon, It was through him I learned you had married, your name and where you are liveing, I want to assure you I was so pleased to receive your letter, but regretted to know how sorely sorrow has entered your home, After two people have lived to gather for so long, and one is taken the home never seemes the same, The children may do every thing hmanly posible but there is a place they cant fill in the home life, You have my deepest sympathy in the loss of both husband and son, I may have seen an account of your sons death, for four daily papers come to our home, but I am sure the DeVault part of his name was not given, Of course my experience in air plaines is limited, and I intend it shall remain so, Of course I see one or more plains every day, and the government is locateing a landing field here, but they have no special attraction for me, I know your children are a source of much pleasure, and especially so, since they are not far from you, If one of my boys had an aviator bee in his bonnet, I would do my best to knock it out, From Franks letters you brothers and sisters never wondered as far from the old home, as my brothers and sisters have, You wanted to know about my brothers and sisters,

My mother died while on a visit with sister Birdie in Monmouth Ill, in 1906, and was buried at Jonesboro Tenn, After her death father lived with the children, comeing and going at his pleasure, untill the infirmities of age farbade his doing so, Then he come here to us, and spent the rest of his life here, He died in 1927, at the age of 97 yeares, His mind was active and his eye sight good up to the time of his death, We took his body to Tenn, and buried him by mothers side, God never made two better people then they were,

Sister Mollie married a Prof Ballard, and they live in Knoxville Tenn, They never had but one child, who now is a widow, and lives with then, She has two daughters, both nurses, but one married a physician and lives in Penn, I believe, The other I think is unrseing [nursing] in Baltimore.

Bettie married Jacob Hunt, and moved to Oklahoma, They have three boys, One a lawyer in Tulsa Okla, and the other two farmers, Jake left Bettie well provided for, Their children are such they can be proud of, Jake died several yeares ago, He was considerable older than Bettie,

Birdie married Rev W.K.King, a presbyterian minister, and they live in N.Y. City, King is quite a noted preacher, They have one son, married and has two children, He is an electrical engineer/employed by some big firm in Cleveland, Ohio,

Robert married a Miss Crumley, Several yeares later moved to Nebr, and later to Maryville Mo, They raised a large family, but several of the children are dead, The others scattered, Their oldest daughter married a tailor and lives in Maryville, Mo, another daughter married the Secretary of the Nebraska Farmers Insurance Co, and lime in Omaha, One son is a surveyor and is with some highway development company, another son is principle of a school in Mo, and another is in business in Kansas,

Will married a Miss Perryman [This is a typo. Will married Julia Clements. The rest of the information about Will's wife is correct.] of St Louis, a very noted young woman, and they lived in Denver Colo, Some friends was visiting them, and she was going to take them for a drive over the city, and in some way fell on some stone steps, and was severly injures, internally, the trouble finally developing into a cancerous condition, which caused her death, in I think 1912, Her people were catholics, and she was an only child, and Will allowed them to bury her in a catholic cemetery in St. Louis, Will never recovered from her death, and finally give up his business and come to us, where he lingered a few yeares, and died in 1920, and I buried him in a beautiful Cemetery at Auburn Nebraska, He was a member of the Christiran Church, and refused to be buried in a catholic cemetery, altho he worshiped his wife, They had no children.

Hubert married a Miss Perryman of Tulsa Okla, Is a presbyterian minister in Philadelphia, They have a nice home, Have on daughter who I think finishes college this yeare,

This briefly is the history of my brothers and sisters, We are so scattered we are not to gather very often, and some times are careless about our correspondence, Not that I do not do a lot of writing, I have been trying to trace our ancestry back to the revolutionary war, and have it completed, So if you or your children wish I can furnish them all the information to membership in the Sons or daughters of ther respective S.A.R. or D.A.R. A little more than a yeare ago I received a letter from a woman in Ills, saying a christmas card had come for her aunt Laura DeVault, with my name signed to it, and that she supposed I must be a friend of the family, That her aunt, uncle, father and grandparents were all dead, and that so far as she knew, she was the only liveing member of that family, and that if I knew the family, she would love to heare from me, We have had quite a correspondence, and had had, before I ever told her she and I were second cousins, I have written her pages of information, and sent her pictures of several of her cousins, your picture among the rest, Yes I had kept your picture all these yeares, The reason she knew nothing about the family, her grandmother had the meanest disposition of any woman I ever knew, and she did not want her son to marry the mother of this woman, not that there was any reason for him not doing so, except she just for some reason objected, but he did the right thing, and married to suit himself, and his mother never forgave him, and as she out lived his father (Who was your uncle Mike DeVault) - she disinherited him, and before her death fixed it so her property would to to a cemetery association,

I have said nothing of myself and family, but will in a future letter if I heare from you again, This letter is already too long,

We have had almost spring weather all winter, Not enough snow to cover the ground, and it has been a very healthy winter, which makes no money for physicions, and I am still in active practice, You say you are 68 yeares old, That is nothing, I am 74 yeares young, so I have you bested six yeares, If you want to listen to personalities, in a future letter I can tell you a good many things that have transpired in the last fifty yeares, There has been a lot of water ran under the bridge of life during thise yeares, I am going to stop now, If this letter does not tire you out write again, for I want to heare from you, With the best posible good wishes, and a prayer for God to bless you and yours, I am, Your Cousin,

F. H. Broyles

LETTER FROM FRANKLIN HUNT BROYLES TO SOPHIA MCLEAN - June 25, 1924

Dr. Franklin H. Broyles

Bethany, Missouri

June 25th, 1924

Mrs Sophia McLean

Gibsonville, N.C.

My Dear Cousin Sophia:-

Your letter of the 21st' just received and I hasten to express to you and your family my deepest sympathy, in the loss of a son, brother and husband, at a time of such sorrow there is after all so little one can say or do, but it is always some pleasure to know there are those who are feeling deeply for you in time of sorrow, I have such a horrow of air planes, and have never indulged in thay way of traveling but once, and have no desire to indulge farther, The necessity for doing so, would certainally have to be very urgent, Just such tragedies should compell people to make preperation to meet their God, and what a comefort it is to you to know David had made this preperation, When we read of so much sin in the world, and see how many people are rushing on to meet their God, all unprepared, it is enough to make ones blood stand still, It seems you have had more than your portion of sorrow in the space of a few months, but remember cousin, God will take care of you, and if you keep the faith, some day you will be reunited with those you have loved and lost for a little while, My prayer is that God will give you strength to meet every sorrow, I will answer your letter soon, Our daughter, Dr, Elizabeth Broyles, and our garndaughter Frances Broyles, left Boston Mass, in their car Friday noon, and we are expecting them to drive in this evening, May God Bless you, Your cousin,

F. H. Broyles

OBITUARY - St. Joseph News Press, Nov 17, 1937

Dr. F. H. Broyles, Bethany, Dies at Age of Seventy-Nine

(Special to the Gazette.)

BETHANY, Mo., Nov. 17. - Dr. F. H. Broyles, seventy-nine years old died here today. Funeral plans will not be completed until the arrival tomorrow night of a daughter, Dr. Elizabeth Broyles of Wellesley, Mass. Burial will be at Auburn, Neb.

Doctor Broyles was a native of Tennessee and had practiced at Auburn before coming to Bethany thirty-seven years ago. He had served as president of the board of education, city and county health officer and as a member of the Christian Church board.

Besides his wife, he is survived by two sons, Dr. Glen Broyles, Kansas City, and Dr. W.A. Broyles, Bethany, and the daughter, who is house physician at Wellesley College.

Doctor and Mrs. Broyles observed their golden wedding Oct. 27.

OBITUARY - The Maryville Daily Forum, 28 May 1942

ROBERT S. BROYLES, DIES AT HOME IN MARYVILLE

Robert Summerfield Broyles, 79 years of age, died at 5:30 o'clock this morning at his home, 521 South Market street. He had been in failing health the past three years and had been confined to his bed since the first of the year.

Mr. Broyles, who was born May 26, 1863, in Washington county, Tenn., the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Andrew C. Broyles, had resided in this city since 1917. For several years he was in charge of a dry cleaning business here.

He was married August 29, 1886, to Miss Ella May Crumley, who died in December, 1936. Mr. Broyles was a member of the Methodist church.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Winifred Turner, Sacramento, Calif., and Mrs. Lucile Millington, Trumbull, Neb., three sons, W. S. Broyles, Miami, Okla., Robert A. Broyles, Maryville and E. H. Broyles, Poplar Bluff, Mo., and four grandchildren.

Burial will be in the Miriam Cemetery but other funeral arrangements have not been completed.