Hopkins Co. Tx - Obit for Mrs. Medora Cranford

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Cranford, Medora, Mrs. - The wife of John W. Cranford died at her home
last Tuesday, October 11, 1898. She had been at death^Òs door the last
eighteen months. One operation was performed upon her in Washington City
last winter and for a few weeks some hope was entertained for her
recovery, but the second operation, Tuesday morning, proved too much for
human endurance and she died some eight or ten hours later. Burial took
place in the Sulphur Springs City cemetery. Mrs. Cranford was born June
10, 1863, and was married to John W. Cranford, September 26, 1880. She
was the mother of five children, four living and one dead. She professed
religion while attending school at Trinity University in 1872, and united
with the Cumberland Presbyterian church. Mrs. Cranford^Òs maiden name was
Medora Ury. She was born near Sulphur Springs and grew to womanhood here
and in this city married Hon. John W. Cranford, then a rising young
lawyer of this bar. She leaves her husband, three boys and one girl.