Hill Co. Tx - Obit for Willaim Adolphus Cronin Submitted by: Wanda Purcell wpurc25758@aol.com ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** William Adolphus Cronin, son of William Alexander Cronin and Mary Brady Cronin, was born December 22, 1883, in Hill County, Texas, and passed from this life January 27, 1957, at the age of 73 years, 1 month and 6 days at the Sayre Municipal hospital. He came with his stepfather, W.B. Sprowls and family, to Old Oklahoma in 1888. They moved to Roger Mills county in 1896. He graduated from the pioneer schools of his day and completed his education at Hills Business college in Dallas, Texas. He was an early day freighter prior to the building of Sayre and Elk City. He also worked with his brothers and sepfather buying cattle and breaking horses. He homesteaded in 1904. He was united in marriage to Anna Ethel Stephens February 5, 1908. They settled on the home place near Cheyenne in 1909. To this union were born three children, Leonard William, Ethel Frances, and Doris Helen. Mr. Cronin was a member of the mayfair Heights Methodist church in Oklahoma City. He had served as member of the board of stewarts of the Methodist churches in Square Top, Gotebo, and Cheyenne and on school boards and other community representative groups. He resided in Gotebo from 1928 to 1930, and in Cheyenne from 1925 to 1928 and 1944 to 1955. In 1955 he moved to Oklahoma City which was his home at the time of his death. Mr. Cronin, known as Bill to his friends both old and young, was fond of children and youth, and spent a great deal of time in cultivating their friendship. His favorite motto was "When the one great Scorer comes to wirte against your name, He writes not that you won or lost, but how you played the fame.". He was preceded in death by his wife and daughter, Ethel Frances. He is survived by his daughter, Doris Cronin of 3244 NW 30th Terrace, Oklahoma City; son and wife, Rev. and Mrs. Leonard W. Cronin of Sayre; granddaughter Anne Cronin of OCU, and a host of other relatives and friends. Funeral services were in the Cheyenne Methodist church at 2:30 Wednesday, conductede by Rev. Gerald Main, pastor, and Dr. Rufus Walker, District Superintendent of Clinton District Methodist church. Pallbearers were Leroy Vick, Claude Triplitt, J.D. Thompson, Lee Tosh, J.W. Dooty and Monte Reger, Interment was in the Cheyenne cemetery, Cheyenne, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma with the Moore Funeral Home of Sayre in charge. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK