RANSOM, Mrs. Mary M., Beeville Bee or Picayune, Thursday, 11 Mar 1948, front page:

Mrs. Mary RANSOM Dies After Long Illness Wednesday. 
Funeral Services For Native Bee Countian Thursday Afternoon

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary M. Ransom will be held in the First Methodist Church this (Thursday) 
afternoon at 4 o'clock with her pastor, Rev. Walter W. Lipp and her former pastor Rev. H. S. Goodenough, 
conducting the rites. Galloway Mortuary will have charge of the arrangements; interment will be in the 
Glenwood Cemetery. The following have been named active pallbearers; Alex Cowie, J. T. Hall, Clarence 
Miller, R.A. Guase, George H. Atkins, J. P. Forgeson, F. W. Heldenfels, Sr. and Dr. L. N. Connally.

Mrs. Ransom died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Clifford Kornegay, in this city at 11:06 a. m. Wednesday, 
March 10th. She had been ill for the past five months and her condition had been critical for several weeks.

Mrs. Ransom was a native of Bee County, having been born at Papalote, March 22, 1859. Her parents were 
Timothy and Mary Ann HART and were among the earliest settlers in that section of the county. She married 
Richard Bowman Ransom in Corpus Christi on May 28, 1882. Five children came to bless this union, 
four daughters and one son. Mrs Annie Babb, 2nd youngest and Dudley Ransom preceded their mother in death.

Surviving children are Mesdames John Q. Adams, Winters, Texas, and Mesdames, Clifford Ramsey and Grover 
C. Heldenfels, Beeville.  Also surviving are three grandchildren, Crawford Babb, Laredo, Mrs. Henry Thorp, 
San Angelo, and Captain Richard R. Heldenfels, now stationed at Hampton, Virginia, and three great-grandchildren.

Mrs. Ransom had been a member of the Methodist Church for fifty years and faithful in attendance upon its 
service until recently. She and her late husband resided in Hillsboro and Elm Mott during the early years of 
their marriage. Following his death in 1897, Mrs, Ransom came with her children to Beeville to make their home here.