San Antonio Express May 9, 1936
Coahuila Rancher Dies At Eagle Pass
Eagle Pass, Texas, May 8. Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Benjamin R. (Cheeter) Tarver, 49, Coahuila ranchman who died at the home of Dr. Lea Hume here Thursday night, 10 minutes after being rushed from La Maroma Ranch, south of Piedras Negras. He had been ill several months.
Survivors include the mother, Mrs. Charles Tarver, San Antonio; widow, Mrs. Sophie Collins Tarver; two daughters, Virginia Lea and Doris May; and four sisters, Mrs. David Porcher, El Paso; Mrs. C.W. Hadden, Houston; Mrs. R.B. Moss, San Antonio; Mrs. E.V. King, Eagle Pass.
Born June 20, 1887 at Rosalia, Coahuila, Tarver moved to Eagle Pass with his parents. Being educated in local schools and obtaining his first job as a clerk for the Mexican National Railway in Piedras Negras, later becoming traveling agent for Wells Fargo Express Company between Piedras Negras and Durango. He helped construct a railroad for the Brazilian government in 1910, staying three years in Brazil. He entered the contracting business in Eagle Pass in 1913, ten years later leasing the San Isidro plantation for farming, then taking over a large acreage of La Maroma Ranch, which he held at his death.
Coahuila Rancher Dies At Eagle Pass
Eagle Pass, Texas, May 8. Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Benjamin R. (Cheeter) Tarver, 49, Coahuila ranchman who died at the home of Dr. Lea Hume here Thursday night, 10 minutes after being rushed from La Maroma Ranch, south of Piedras Negras. He had been ill several months.
Survivors include the mother, Mrs. Charles Tarver, San Antonio; widow, Mrs. Sophie Collins Tarver; two daughters, Virginia Lea and Doris May; and four sisters, Mrs. David Porcher, El Paso; Mrs. C.W. Hadden, Houston; Mrs. R.B. Moss, San Antonio; Mrs. E.V. King, Eagle Pass.
Born June 20, 1887 at Rosalia, Coahuila, Tarver moved to Eagle Pass with his parents. Being educated in local schools and obtaining his first job as a clerk for the Mexican National Railway in Piedras Negras, later becoming traveling agent for Wells Fargo Express Company between Piedras Negras and Durango. He helped construct a railroad for the Brazilian government in 1910, staying three years in Brazil. He entered the contracting business in Eagle Pass in 1913, ten years later leasing the San Isidro plantation for farming, then taking over a large acreage of La Maroma Ranch, which he held at his death.
San Antonio Express May 9, 1936
Coahuila Rancher Dies At Eagle Pass
Eagle Pass, Texas, May 8. Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Benjamin R. (Cheeter) Tarver, 49, Coahuila ranchman who died at the home of Dr. Lea Hume here Thursday night, 10 minutes after being rushed from La Maroma Ranch, south of Piedras Negras. He had been ill several months.
Survivors include the mother, Mrs. Charles Tarver, San Antonio; widow, Mrs. Sophie Collins Tarver; two daughters, Virginia Lea and Doris May; and four sisters, Mrs. David Porcher, El Paso; Mrs. C.W. Hadden, Houston; Mrs. R.B. Moss, San Antonio; Mrs. E.V. King, Eagle Pass.
Born June 20, 1887 at Rosalia, Coahuila, Tarver moved to Eagle Pass with his parents. Being educated in local schools and obtaining his first job as a clerk for the Mexican National Railway in Piedras Negras, later becoming traveling agent for Wells Fargo Express Company between Piedras Negras and Durango. He helped construct a railroad for the Brazilian government in 1910, staying three years in Brazil. He entered the contracting business in Eagle Pass in 1913, ten years later leasing the San Isidro plantation for farming, then taking over a large acreage of La Maroma Ranch, which he held at his death.
Coahuila Rancher Dies At Eagle Pass
Eagle Pass, Texas, May 8. Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Benjamin R. (Cheeter) Tarver, 49, Coahuila ranchman who died at the home of Dr. Lea Hume here Thursday night, 10 minutes after being rushed from La Maroma Ranch, south of Piedras Negras. He had been ill several months.
Survivors include the mother, Mrs. Charles Tarver, San Antonio; widow, Mrs. Sophie Collins Tarver; two daughters, Virginia Lea and Doris May; and four sisters, Mrs. David Porcher, El Paso; Mrs. C.W. Hadden, Houston; Mrs. R.B. Moss, San Antonio; Mrs. E.V. King, Eagle Pass.
Born June 20, 1887 at Rosalia, Coahuila, Tarver moved to Eagle Pass with his parents. Being educated in local schools and obtaining his first job as a clerk for the Mexican National Railway in Piedras Negras, later becoming traveling agent for Wells Fargo Express Company between Piedras Negras and Durango. He helped construct a railroad for the Brazilian government in 1910, staying three years in Brazil. He entered the contracting business in Eagle Pass in 1913, ten years later leasing the San Isidro plantation for farming, then taking over a large acreage of La Maroma Ranch, which he held at his death.
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