Stone transcribed by Nick Lorette:
Age 51

THE RIGHTOUS SHALL BE
IN EVERLASTING REMEMBRANCE
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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 - Feb 20, 1893

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."
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Associate Reformed Presbyterian newspaper - 22 Feb 1893

"We were greatly shocked when on Sabbath, the 4th, at Richland by the announcement that Mr. W.H. McCreary was dead. He belonged, as you know, to my [W.L. Patterson] Harmony congregation. Earlier had three years of continued ill health, but seemed better...On trip to Fairfield he told a friend that he was sick and took a dose of laudanum. After a little he seemed asleep, but his friend found that it was not natural sleep, and so they turned into a house and asked for help...[but he was soon dead.] What a shock it must have been to his wife and eight girls at home and two away at school to be told "your husband - your papa is dead."
Mr. McCreary is the only son of Mrs. Mary McCreary, wife of Rev. Joseph who was killed on the "Lucy Walker" explosion, a long time ago."

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Fairfield Recorder - Aug. 19, 1904

The remains of W. H. McCreary, who died and was buried in the Fairfield cemetery about eleven years ago, were exhumed and carried to Corsicana Monday for reinterment, by the side of his wife, who died last year.