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Submitted: 5/26/11 • Approved: 5/27/11 • Last Updated: 8/9/12 • R534220-G0-S3
Born October 17, 1884, Mulberry, Lincoln County, Tennessee.
Died January 8, 1949, Batesville, Independence County, Arkansas.
Son of Robert Alexander Buchanan & Emily Jane Rowe Buchanan.
Married Minnie Hamilton, September 23, 1906, Sharp County, Arkansas.
Obitaury for E. B. Buchanan (source of obituary is unknown):
January 13, 1949 – Funeral Services For E. B. Buchanan Held at Violet Hill
Elija Bascum Buchanan, 66, died in a Batesville Hospital Saturday. He had been in ill health for the past few months.
Mr. Buchanan was born in Tennessee, but moved to Arkansas at an early age. He moved to Melbourne from near Violet Hill two years ago. He was a member of the Baptist Church.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Minnie Buchanan of Melbourne; one son, J. O. Buchanan of Little Rock: one brother, T. W. Buchanan of Mammoth Spring; and three sisters, Mrs. Vona Butler of Sallisaw, Oklahoma, Mrs. Lillie Wear of Fort Smith, Arkansas and Mrs. Louise Berry of Jackson, Michigan.
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Hugh Cooper at the Violet Hill Church Sunday afternoon with burial in the cemetery at that place. Crouch Funeral Home had charge of arrangements.
(Note: Gravestone has a birth date of 1885; however, when he registered for the World War II Draft, he indicated that he was born October 17, 1884, in Mulberry, Tennessee.)
(Photo courtesy of Vera Reeves)
Contributed on 5/26/11 by maxparnell
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