Obit of Saxton, Minnie McCraw - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 14 Dec 2008 Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Berlin Cemetery--Berlin OK Surnames: Saxton, McCraw, Martin, Trent, Wallace, Marriott Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/7872 SERVICES ARE SET FOR MRS. SAXTON AT BERLIN CHURCH Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie Saxton, 93, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Berlin Methodist Church Mrs. Saxton, a pioneer of the Berlin community died Wednesday May 5, 1964 in an Elk City hospital. Rev. Richard Gibbens, Elk City Methodist church minister, and Rev. Elbert Johnson, Berlin pastor, will conduct the services and burial will be at the Berlin cemetery, Berlin, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. Mrs. Saxton was born May 26, 1870 in Gilmore, Texas and was married to John L. McCraw in 1884 at Decatur, Texas. Shortly after her first husband's death in 1901 she came to the Berlin area and on September 23, 1907 was married to W.O. Saxton in Sayre. She was preceded in death also by three daughters, including Mrs. Ben Mart of Elk City, six sisters and two brothers. Survivors are three sons, E.W. McCraw of Sayre and Ava McCraw of Elk City, two daughters, Mrs. L.. Trent, Follet, Texas, and Mrs. Willie Mae Wallace of Elk City, one sister, Mrs. Cora Marriott, Van Buren, Ark., 21 grandchildren, 55 great grabdchildern and 13 great great grandchildren. 8-May-1964 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html