George Wayne Benton, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Benton of near Cato’s Spring, died this morning at seven o’clock, of typhoid fever, after an illness of 47 days. He was seventeen years old and leaves one brother and four sisters. The interment will take place at Rieff’s Chapel at 2 o’clock tomorrow, Tuesday, afternoon.
—The Fayetteville Daily, Oct. 10, 1904, page 3