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TX Death Cert #66175
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Obituary: Bridgeport (TX) Index, 23 Aug 1973
MARGARET ANN (JENNINGS) BARKSDALE
(1900 – 1973)
Dau of: Thomas Napoleon & Ida O (Hartsfield) Jennings
Spouse: Carl Clifton Barksdale
Source: Bridgeport (TX) Index, 23 Aug 1973
Funeral services were held Friday at 2 p.m. for Margaret Barksdale, 72, who accidentally drowned in a stock tank Wednesday afternoon.
She and her husband, Carl Barksdale, were on a homemade barge setting out minnow traps when the accident occured according to Justice of the Peace Leon Wilkerson. The tank is located on the couple's land, south of the Texas Industries plant, Wilkerson said.
"They were on a barge floating on barrels when the barge tipped up and the barrels slipped out from under it, " Wilkerson said. The two were about 20 feet from shore at the time, he added. The accident occurred between 5:15 and 5:30.
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TX Death Cert #66175
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Obituary: Bridgeport (TX) Index, 23 Aug 1973
MARGARET ANN (JENNINGS) BARKSDALE
(1900 – 1973)
Dau of: Thomas Napoleon & Ida O (Hartsfield) Jennings
Spouse: Carl Clifton Barksdale
Source: Bridgeport (TX) Index, 23 Aug 1973
Funeral services were held Friday at 2 p.m. for Margaret Barksdale, 72, who accidentally drowned in a stock tank Wednesday afternoon.
She and her husband, Carl Barksdale, were on a homemade barge setting out minnow traps when the accident occured according to Justice of the Peace Leon Wilkerson. The tank is located on the couple's land, south of the Texas Industries plant, Wilkerson said.
"They were on a barge floating on barrels when the barge tipped up and the barrels slipped out from under it, " Wilkerson said. The two were about 20 feet from shore at the time, he added. The accident occurred between 5:15 and 5:30.
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