AUGUST 31, 1903
Aunt Martha Degraffenreid, as she is known to every old settler in the Country, died at her home east of Denison this morning and was laid to rest in the home burial grounds at the Langford cemetery this afternoon She had been in poor health several years and quite feeble the past 6 months, yet her death was quite a shock to her friends, few of whom knew of her sickness. She was 78 years of age.
Mrs. Degraffenreid was among the first settlers of Grayson County, she and her first husband, William Langford, settling on the Langford farm so far back that it was unsafe to leave the house unarmed to attend stock or get a supply of fire wood. Many were the thrilling stories she told of hair breadth escapes from the Indians who at that early day infested all the border counties.
Aunt Martha Degraffenreid, as she is known to every old settler in the Country, died at her home east of Denison this morning and was laid to rest in the home burial grounds at the Langford cemetery this afternoon She had been in poor health several years and quite feeble the past 6 months, yet her death was quite a shock to her friends, few of whom knew of her sickness. She was 78 years of age.
Mrs. Degraffenreid was among the first settlers of Grayson County, she and her first husband, William Langford, settling on the Langford farm so far back that it was unsafe to leave the house unarmed to attend stock or get a supply of fire wood. Many were the thrilling stories she told of hair breadth escapes from the Indians who at that early day infested all the border counties.
AUGUST 31, 1903
Aunt Martha Degraffenreid, as she is known to every old settler in the Country, died at her home east of Denison this morning and was laid to rest in the home burial grounds at the Langford cemetery this afternoon She had been in poor health several years and quite feeble the past 6 months, yet her death was quite a shock to her friends, few of whom knew of her sickness. She was 78 years of age.
Mrs. Degraffenreid was among the first settlers of Grayson County, she and her first husband, William Langford, settling on the Langford farm so far back that it was unsafe to leave the house unarmed to attend stock or get a supply of fire wood. Many were the thrilling stories she told of hair breadth escapes from the Indians who at that early day infested all the border counties.
Aunt Martha Degraffenreid, as she is known to every old settler in the Country, died at her home east of Denison this morning and was laid to rest in the home burial grounds at the Langford cemetery this afternoon She had been in poor health several years and quite feeble the past 6 months, yet her death was quite a shock to her friends, few of whom knew of her sickness. She was 78 years of age.
Mrs. Degraffenreid was among the first settlers of Grayson County, she and her first husband, William Langford, settling on the Langford farm so far back that it was unsafe to leave the house unarmed to attend stock or get a supply of fire wood. Many were the thrilling stories she told of hair breadth escapes from the Indians who at that early day infested all the border counties.
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