Beckham County, OK - Obits: Fanny McGrady, 1926 
23 August 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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MC GRADY, FANNY
(21 Oct 1926, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Born February 24, 1862, in Clinton County, Missouri, she died at Long
Beach, California, last Saturday, October 16, 1926, being 64 years, 7
months and 22 days old.
When a small girl her parents moved to Wise County, Texas, where Mrs.
McGrady grew to young womanhood.  This was a pioneer community and the
quality of her home life and rearing is no better shown than by the fact
that her father was a Presbyterian elder and was the means of organizing a
Presbyterian church then, which still goes by his name - Green Chapel.
Mrs. McGrady as a young woman came to Oklahoma to teach school, locating
near Port, south of our town.  There she met her husband, Daniel McGrady,
to whom she was married in June of 1902.  Their home continued to be on
the McGrady farm near Port until Mr. McGrady died in December of 1922.
Mrs. McGrady was a church member since her girlhood.
The body was sent to Elk City, the funeral being held at 2 o'clock
Wednesday at the Ural Cemetery, Rev. John A. Tracy, pastor of the
Presbyterian Church of Elk City, officiating.

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