Meriwether-Dekalb-Fulton County GaArchives Obituaries.....(Dr.) William Rufus McCrary January 17 1927
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Atlanta Journal 18 January 1927
Knight’s Scrapbook  vol. 29 [at Ga. State Archives & History]

From Atlanta Journal 18 January 1927

Dr. William Rufus McCrary, Alvaton Georgia Founder, Claimed By Death

    Dr. William R. McCrary, prominent retired physician of 407 Sycamore Street, 
Decatur, former resident of Meriwether County, Georgia died Tuesday morning at 
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Luther Hill Randall Sr., 2106 Ponce de Leon 
Avenue, N.E.
    Dr. McCrary was born December 15, 1861, and resided for the greater part of 
his life in Senoia, Georgia and Alavaton, Georgia where he was a physician and 
likewise had large farming interests.
    On June 12, 1890, he married Miss. Frances Helena “Lena” Pinkston, of 
Greenville, Georgia. She survives him, as well as a son, Alva Pinkston McCrary; 
his daughter 
Mrs. Randall; two grandchildren, Helen McCrary Randall and Luther Hill Randall 
Jr., and two brothers, John Alva McCrary, a director of the federal reserve 
bank of Atlanta, and Joseph B. McCrary.
    Dr. McCrary was instrumental in interesting the A. B. & A Railway in 
running their lines through his section of Meriwether County, and he was the 
founder of Alvaton, located on his property and named after his son.
    He was a member of the Senoia Methodist church, where the funeral services 
will be held at 1:30 Wednesday afternoon. Dr. J. W. Quillian will officiate and 
internment will be in the churchyard.

**From G2Granddaughter Helena-Suzanne Shreve: Papa McCrary passed-away from a 
terrible cold he got from going to get ice cream for his granddaughters 
birthday party; Alvaton is named after his son Alva McCrary (Uncle Bubba) for 
he was the first Caucasian child born in that particular area**


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