William Edward DANSBEE^[1]

1871 - 1924  (53 years)

• Name	William Edward DANSBEE
  Birth	24 Nov 1871	Gentry's Mill, Hamilton County, Texas
  Gender	Male
  _UID	4EC15911DA19494A9B4FD877B1F66BDE2867
  Death	16 Dec 1924	Globe, Gila County, Arizona
  Burial	21 Dec 1924	Cedarvale, New Mexico
  Person ID	I150010	Singleton and Related Families
  Last Modified	23 Mar 2026

  
  

  Family	Martha Isabel BRYAN,   b. 21 Feb 1871, Near Glory, Lamar County, Texas d. 5 Oct 1955, Bayard, New Mexico (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	24 Oct 1893
  _UID	2680B88D6D0740208D4B43B656F52CFF0645
  _UID	2680B88D6D0740208D4B43B656F52CFF0645
  Children	1. Sarah Lusette Isabell ( Belle) DANSBEE,   b. 9 Apr 1895, Lamkin, Hamilton County, Texas d. 1 Dec 1989, Lordsburg, Hidalgo County, New Mexico (Age 94 years)   2. Mary Frances (Fannie) DANSBEE,   b. 10 Jan 1897, Hico, Hamilton County, Texas d. 3 Mar 1931 (Age 34 years)   3. Willie Alvara DANSBEE,   b. 25 Oct 1898, Gentry's Mill, Hamilton County, Texas d. 25 Oct 1898, Gentry's Mill, Hamilton County, Texas (Age 0 years)   4. Lottie May DANSBEE,   b. 18 Dec 1902, Crowell, Foard County, Texas d. 18 Apr 1981, Denver, Denver County, Colorado (Age 78 years)   5. Verona Vay DANSBEE,   b. 5 Aug 1905, Texhoma, Texas County, Oklahoma d. 10 Jul 1995, Stayton, Marion County, Oregon (Age 89 years)   6. Vivian DANSBEE,   b. 10 Apr 1907   d. 4 Apr 2003, Heritage Nursing Home, Soldotna, Alaska (Age 95 years)   7. Eddie DANSBEE,   b. 18 Apr 1909, Pottsville, Hamilton County, Texas   8. Edna DANSBEE,   b. 18 Apr 1909, Pottsville, Hamilton County, Texas d. 1967, Seminole, Seminole County, Oklahoma (Age 57 years)
  Family ID	F102504	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Mar 2026

  
  

• Notes

  Sources : (1) World Family Tree, Volume 15, Tree # 3413. " He became a member of the Church of Christ in May of 1898, at Tonkawa, Texas where he was baptized by Robert James. He loved truth and honesty and lived as he believed before his family and neighbors. He joined the Masonic Order in 1910 and completed the Royal Arch degree at the Rockhouse Lodge of Hamilton, Texas, Hamilton County. He moved with his family to New Mexico in 1921. He left for Miami, Arizona, October 6, 1924 to get work. He was stricken with pneumonia near Globe, Arizona, Gila County, where he was working. He was taken to the Gila hospital on December 13, 1924 and passed away on December 16, 1924. The remains were brought to Cedervale, New Mexico and laid to rest on December 21, 1924. Funeral services were held in his home, nine miles west of Cedervale, by W. K. Twyeffort. Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Roads, Mr. and Mrs. O. V. Wright and baby [Byron] came from Lowell, Arizona to attend the funeral. Besides his wife and daughters, he leaves a father, mother, two brothers and two sisters besides a host of friends to mourn his death. ---By a daughter.[Belle Dansbee Bryan) Card of thanks---"We desire to express our sincere thanks and appreciation to the many friends and neighbors who so kindly and tenderly aided us with sympathy and loving kindness, during the sad trial of losing our beloved husband and father." ---Mrs. W. E. Dansbee and Children--- In 1924 he made a set of miniature blacksmith tools for his grandson Byron, consisting of three blacksmith hammers, four tongs and an anvil. They are now displayed in a shadow box frame along with a picture of him in his gun shop and another in his blacksmith shop.

  
  

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