Collin Co., TX - Obituaries - Malcolm .C. McMahan
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~McKINNEY GAZETTE-July 1932~
~Aged McKinney Citizen Died Monday A.M.~

"M.C. McMahan- Confederate Veteran in 91st. Year" 
One of the oldest residents of Collin County, Malcolm .C. McMahan, 90
years, 4 months, and 7 days old, died at 3:30 o'clock this Monday
morning at his residence on Short Street in McKinney after several
years of blindness and decrepitude incident to advanced age.
Funeral services were held at 4 o'clock this afternoon by Rev. E.B.
Jackson and Elder R.C. Horn at the White's Grove Methodist Church,
four miles southwest of McKinney, of which Church  the deceased was a
Charter Member. Interment followed in Pecan Grove Cemetery with the
Sam J. Massie and Son Funeral Home in charge. Active Pallbearers
were:  P.R. Westmoreland, John H. Hollomon, A.W. Milstead, J.A.
McMahan, Vernon Williams and W.E. Williams.
Confederate Soldier:
The deceased was born March 18, 1842 in Giles County Tennessee, where
he was reared and where he entered the Confederate service. Soon after
the War he came to Texas and engaged in farming. He was first married
at Weston, this county, but his wife only lived a very short time
thereafter. A second marriage was to Miss Annie Lovejoy, daughter of
George W. Lovejoy and sister of the late John L. Lovejoy, Presiden of
the First National Bank when he died a few years ago. They had no
children, but they reared several orphans, among them being Mrs. Edna
E. Nale, whose address is now 1030 Kings Highway, Dallas, Tx. His wife,
Ann Lovejoy McMahan died March 6, 1926. About 4 or 5 years afterwards he
remarried Miss Eva Holloman, wo survives. He was an upright , honorable
citizen who had been a member of the Methodist Church since young
manhood. He was held in high esteem  by his neighbors who respected him
for his worthy life and good citizenship. He had been blind for the past
eight years. In recent years he made his home in McKinney, but most of
his active life was spent  in the White's Grove Community.
He is survived by one brother, Henderson McCammish McMahan, now of El
Paso, Tx. but who formerly lived many  years in the White's Grove
Community.

My Note~Malcolm C. McMAHAN was son of Lauritta CAMPBELL & Sanders
McMAHAN Sr. of Cocke Co. Tennessee.

KMN-12 Dec. 2002