Freestone Co, Tx - Obit of William Hemphill McCreary 
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Freestone Co, Tx - Obit of William Hemphill McCreary 


[William Hemphill McCreary b 25 Aug 1842 in Wilcox Co., AL. m 22 Sep 1868 F.C. 
 TX. h/o Arabella Williams Bonner d 4 Feb 1893.]

Dallas Morning News
February 7, 1893

     Mortuary

    W. H. McCreary
    
  MEXIA, Tex., Feb. 6 - W. H. McCreary of Steward's mill, Freestone county, 
died suddenly Saturday while on his way home from Fairfield.

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Fairfield Recorder newspaper - Feb 20, 1893 edition 

Death of Wm. H. McCreary
He Died Suddenly While Returning Home From Fairfield in a Buggy 

Mr. William H, McCreary, near Stewards Mill, died suddenly last Saturday
evening while on his return home from Fairfield.  He and Mr. J. T. Steward had
been to town that day and started back home in a buggy together about sunset.
Mr. McCreary just before leaving complained of feeling a little unwell, saying
he feared an attack of colic which had had a week or two before.  After going a
short distance, he seemed to have gotten better and was soon laughing and
talking.  About two miles from town he suddenly became quiet and fell over
against Mr. Steward, who soon realized that something serious was the matter.
He hurried onto the residence of Mr. S. J. Talley and there got assistance and
took Mr. McCreary out of the buggy and laid him on the gallery with a pillow
under his head.  He gave one or two gasps and was dead.  His death the doctors
say was from apoplexy.

The deceased was an old resident of our county, a man about 51 years old and
was held in high esteem by all that knew him.  Jovial, pleasant, full of
merriment, he had many friends and was liked by everyone.  His death, sudden as
it was and coming when in apparent health, was a shock to all his friends and a
terrible blow to his family who have the sympathy of our entire community.  Two
of Mr. McCreary's daughters were off at school, one at Sherman and one at
Huntsville.  They were summoned home by telegraph and attended the
funeral here last Monday.  The remains were interred in Fairfield cemetery,
Rev. W. L. Patterson officiating.  A large number of people attested their
respect of the dead by attendance at the burial.  In his death, Freestone has
lost a good and valuable citizen, one who will be long missed in the
neighborhood in which he lived.  Besides his wife and a large family of
daughters, he leaves to mourn his loss, an aged mother, one sister, Mrs. G. T.
Bradley of Stewards Mill.