Collin Co., - Newspapers - Mrs. Mary Lewis GRAVES *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Karen Beda Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************** 34 Farm Union Members Prepare Widow’s Land Recently thirty-four members of the Melissa Farm Labor Union Local with twenty-nine teams, twenty-three turning plows and five busters went to the home of Mrs. Mary Lewis GRAVES, a widow in the Throckmorton community northwest of Melissa and prepared her land for another crop. Mrs. GRAVES has eight children all in school and she had already begun her farm work doing the plowing herself. The Melissa Local has membership of 80. R. B. ADAMSON is president, R. A. LONG, vice president, and A. B. LITTRELL, secretary. (From The McKinney Examiner. Dec. 28, 1922, Vol. 37, No. 7)