Lincoln County, OK - Obits: Edmond McCleary
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                  Lincoln County Republic Newspaper
                        Chandler,Oklahoma
                       Wednesday,Oct.6,1948

Edmond McCleary - Services Thursday For Sparks Resident. Funeral services for
Edmond McCleary, 85, oldest Sparks resident, who died at his home there last
Wednesday, were held in the Sparks Baptist church Thursday afternoon, conducted
by Rev.A. W. James, assisted by Rev. A.D. Patrick.Burial was in the family plot
in Oak Park cemetery, Chandler. He had been seriously ill for several months.

McCleary was born March 1,1863, at Fayetteville,Ark. He was married to Susie
Ann Miller in 1880. To them four children were born. In 1898, several years
after the death of his wife, he was married to Viola Graham. They were parents
of seven children. She and three of these children preceded him in death. The
family came to Lincoln County in the early days and had made their in the
Sparks and Chandler areas since.

Survivors are four sons, Samuel, of Seymour,MO., Mack, of Waynesville,MO.,
Otis, of Quincy,Kans., and Chester, of Sparks; four daughters, Mrs. Crissie
Anderson of Elmont, Calif.; Mrs.Sarah Graham, of Waynesville, MO.; Mrs.Ella
Davis and Mrs.Kathryn Graham, both of Sparks; and 25 grandchildren.
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NOTE: His parents were William McCleary who died when Edmond was six years old.
I have been told, that his mother remarried someone else. Edmond was left on
his own and the Samuel Potter family took him in.
  By: Lovena Norton
  Nov. 27, 2003