B. F. Glidewell Passed to His Reward
One of the staunch citizens of this community, one who has been identified with the farming interest of this district for nearly fifty years passed to his reward last Thursday afternoon.  Mr. B. F. Glidewell died at St. Paul's Sanitarium, pneumonia being the immediate cause of death. He had been suffering for a long tie with rheumatism and had been taken to the sanitarium on Tuesday, but pneumonia developed immediately and the end came in a few days.
Benjamin Franklin Glidewell was born in Clinton county, Kentucky, Dec 5, 1864, and died in Dallas Texas, Dec 22, 1932, aged 68 years and 17 days. When twenty years of age he came to Texas and has lived near Carrollton since that time, farming his farm slightly over a mile east of town. At the age of sixteen years he professed religion and united with the Missionary Baptist church. He took as his wife Miss Rissie Dennis of Farmers Branch and to this union seven children were born. The wife died and he took as his second wife, Miss Sarah Sparkman, and to them six children were born; all of the children survive the father; they are Mrs. Eula Hawkins of Lawton, Okla.; Mrs. Rosa Hogan of Roanoke, Texas; Mrs. Dona Rice of Amarillo, Texas, Tommie Glidewell, this place; Mrs. Mona Pool of Irving, Texas; Mrs. Myrtle Summers of Farmers Branch, Texas; B. F. Glidewell of Dallas, Texas; Ernest Walter, Bert Charlie, Gracie and Willie GLidewell of Carrollton, Texas. Mr. Glidewell had three brothers and seven sisters.
Funeral services were held in Carrollton Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, in the Methodist church, Rev. W. N. Vernon conducting the services and assisted by Rev's A. W. Cunningham, and George Thompson. Interment was in Union cemetery northeast of town.
As before stated Mr. Glidewell has been a suffering for a long time and it was with great difficult, at times that he was able to get about. He was an agreeable and likeable man and we have heard many of the neighbors speak of his many good qualities. Relief from intense suffering is to be greatly red, but if it culd .... come to him and himself spared to his family, rather than the relief to com thru death, it would have been pleasing to his children and his many friends. His age was not heavy upon him and it would have been so no... had he been given more years with them. But Gods Will be done.

The Carrollton Chronicle - Friday, December 30, 1932
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

Perry Cemetery, Carrollton, Dallas County, Texas