Joseph Benjamin Rich

I had just turned 14 when my grandfather died of cancer. Because we didn't live so close we didn't see him often, so my memory of my grandfather is limited. I remember him as a tall (don't know how tall) and slender. My best Christmas ever was visiting him as a child--the year I received a wind-up train set with an engine and three train cars. I don't have a clear memory of personal interaction with him. My grandfather was a farmer but never owned any land, he was share cropper during his lifetime. I've collected whatever I could find about him in the table below. The items are in no certain order, more or less as I found them. He was often referred to as JB Rich or Jodie Rich.


Aunt Bunk Bradford Joseph Benjamin Rich Lydia Bradford Rich Aunt Bunk and Lydia were sisters Hico, Texas	Uncle Aubry was my grandfather's brother and I saw him several times. It appears they were living near Hico, Texas at this time, even if my mother was born on the Bradford farm in Glen, Texas which was near Afton.	Jodie Rich Lydia Bradford Rich and baby Jewel Rich, my mother About 1925

My grandfather was treated for cancer several years before he died.	I never realized my grandfather fought cancer for at least 10 years before he died of cancer.	Backside of the the statement to the left.

Jodie Benjamin Rich Lydia Bradford Rich Jenk Stephenson's grandparents	Joseph Benjamin Rich Jewel Etha Rich Stephenson Jenk Stephenson's grandfather and mother	My grandfather apparently went to an auction and bought an animal.

Joseph Benjamin Rich Clad Bradford Jenk Stephenson's grandfather and great grandfather.. Clad was the father of my grandmother Lydia Bradford	JB Rich Ford Motor Company Recipt 1950	Joseph Benjamin Rich Lydia Bradford Rich Jewel Etha Rich

Joseph Benjamin Rich Lydia Bradford Rich Grandparents of Jenk Stephenson	Joseph Benjamin Rich rationing card for World War II	Backside of the gasoline rationing card

I'm not sure what this means. Did my grandfather get fired from his job with the railroad company???	Apparently my grandfather sold a Jersey Cow at auction in 1952.	Benjamin Joseph Rich, Ira Bradford with the cap, and unknown children

Joseph Benajmin Rich according to my sister Carolyn Cooper, Texas	My grandfather, Joseph Benjamin Rich, as I remember him	Joseph Benjamin Rich Lydia Bradford Rich Jewel Etha Rich Stephenson Jenk Stephenson's grandparents and mother

Jenk's grandparents Joseph Benjamin Rich Lydoia Mae Bradford Rich	Selective Service Registration for World War I	Selective Service for Wordl War II Joseph Benjamin Rich

Selective Service 1943 Joseph Benjamin Rich	Joseph Benjamin Rich Grandfather of Jenk Stephenson	Jodie Rich with wagon team
	1920 Census Joseph Benjamin Rich With his father Robert A. Rich
Jody Rich, Unknown, Unknown	My grandfather with his family in 1920	Leverne, Bill, Potts, Bernie Jenk's aunt's and uncle's Early 1940s
	Lyda May Bradford Rich Death Certificate
Lyda Bradford Rich Jenk Stephenson's grandmother	Death Certificate of Jenk Stephenson's grandmother	Rich - Bradford girls

Rich Wagon		Was my granfather looking for work?

Was my grandfather looking for work?	Uncle Hubert Rich - my mom's uncle Unknown Joseph Benjamin Rich	Velma Bradford Joseph Benjamin Rich Lydia Bradford Rich

Velma Bradford	Joseph Benjamin Rich World War I Draft Registration