Gwinnett County GaArchives News.....Mrs. M'Elroy Passes Her 97th Birthday February 15 1912
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The Constitution, Atlanta, GA
February 15, 1912
Mrs. M’Elroy Passes Her 97th Birthday
Norcross, Ga., February 14.—(Special.)—Mrs. Margaret M. McElroy celebrated her 
ninety-seventh birthday on Monday, February 12, at the home of her eldest son, 
S. F., McElroy, surrounded by her children, grandchildren and great-
grandchildren.  Her three living children are S. T. McElroy, J. E. McElroy and 
Mrs. Nathan M. Lankford, all present at the dinner served on the occasion.

The event fell suitably on Georgia day for Mrs. McElroy, known and loved 
as “Granny” McElroy, is one of the pioneers of Georgia, having moved to 
Georgia from Pendleton, S.C., when 11 years old.  Soon thereafter she joined 
old Prospect Methodist church, in DeKalb county, and has kept her membership 
there continuously, and is in all probability the oldest Methodist in Georgia, 
and bids fair to pass the 100th-mile post in life.  Mrs. McElroy is in full 
possession of her faculties, and converses intelligently of the early events 
in Georgia history.

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