The Red Oak Sun
Red Oak, Mills Co., Iowa
(Montgomery County, Iowa)
November 11, 1927
Wife of Addison McCray. Married Feb 2, 1856
MRS. VICTORIA McCRAY DEAD.
Funeral services for Mrs. Victoria McCray, 80, widow of Addison McCray, and a highly respected resident of this county for 58 years, who died Friday, Nov. 4, at 1 a.m., at her home, 707 Fifth st., following sickness which lasted over eight months, were held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. from the Methodist church. Rev. Ira Carney, pastor of the Christian church, conducted the services and friends who served as pallbearers were Frank and Day Shires, Frank and Harry Shearer, L. E. Marsden and O. C. Mellott. Interment was in Red Oak Cemetery. Relatives from a distance who were here to attend the funeral included Florence V. Hopkins, Seattle, Wash; Mr. and Mrs. M. A. McCray, Putnam, Tex., Helen M. Wright, Ft. Worth, Tex., Mrs. Theo. Eland, Fairfield; Mrs. Ora Hucheroft and L. P. and M. L. Blake, Mediapolis, and Mrs. Addie Sims and daughter, Miss Myrtle, of Council Bluffs. Victoria Blake was born in Des Moines county, Iowa, Jan. 24, 1847, and was a daughter of Luther and Dolly Blake. She was married there Feb.2, 1856, to Addison McCray and to this union six children were born. They are L. B. McCray, Cartage, Mo.; M. A. McCray, Putnam, Tex., and Florence V. Hopkins, Seattle, Wash. Three children preceded their mother in death.Besides the children she is survived by two brothers, L. P. and M. L. Blake, of Mediapolis. Mr. and Mrs. McCray moved to Montgomery county in 1869 and settled on a farm in Sherman township. They retired from the farm in 1919 and moved to Red Oak, where Mr. McCray died April 1, 1913.Mrs. McCray was a good Christian woman and for more than 40 years she taught in the Sunday schools of the church and assisted in the various departments of the church work, until her health would no longer permit. She was a member of the Methodist church and the W.R.C.
Evergreen Cemetery is the only cemetery located within the city limits of Red Oak, Iowa at 1900 N. 8th Street. It has also been referred to as the Red Oak Junction or Red Oak Cemetery.
Red Oak, Mills Co., Iowa
(Montgomery County, Iowa)
November 11, 1927
Wife of Addison McCray. Married Feb 2, 1856
MRS. VICTORIA McCRAY DEAD.
Funeral services for Mrs. Victoria McCray, 80, widow of Addison McCray, and a highly respected resident of this county for 58 years, who died Friday, Nov. 4, at 1 a.m., at her home, 707 Fifth st., following sickness which lasted over eight months, were held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. from the Methodist church. Rev. Ira Carney, pastor of the Christian church, conducted the services and friends who served as pallbearers were Frank and Day Shires, Frank and Harry Shearer, L. E. Marsden and O. C. Mellott. Interment was in Red Oak Cemetery. Relatives from a distance who were here to attend the funeral included Florence V. Hopkins, Seattle, Wash; Mr. and Mrs. M. A. McCray, Putnam, Tex., Helen M. Wright, Ft. Worth, Tex., Mrs. Theo. Eland, Fairfield; Mrs. Ora Hucheroft and L. P. and M. L. Blake, Mediapolis, and Mrs. Addie Sims and daughter, Miss Myrtle, of Council Bluffs. Victoria Blake was born in Des Moines county, Iowa, Jan. 24, 1847, and was a daughter of Luther and Dolly Blake. She was married there Feb.2, 1856, to Addison McCray and to this union six children were born. They are L. B. McCray, Cartage, Mo.; M. A. McCray, Putnam, Tex., and Florence V. Hopkins, Seattle, Wash. Three children preceded their mother in death.Besides the children she is survived by two brothers, L. P. and M. L. Blake, of Mediapolis. Mr. and Mrs. McCray moved to Montgomery county in 1869 and settled on a farm in Sherman township. They retired from the farm in 1919 and moved to Red Oak, where Mr. McCray died April 1, 1913.Mrs. McCray was a good Christian woman and for more than 40 years she taught in the Sunday schools of the church and assisted in the various departments of the church work, until her health would no longer permit. She was a member of the Methodist church and the W.R.C.
Evergreen Cemetery is the only cemetery located within the city limits of Red Oak, Iowa at 1900 N. 8th Street. It has also been referred to as the Red Oak Junction or Red Oak Cemetery.
The Red Oak Sun
Red Oak, Mills Co., Iowa
(Montgomery County, Iowa)
November 11, 1927
Wife of Addison McCray. Married Feb 2, 1856
MRS. VICTORIA McCRAY DEAD.
Funeral services for Mrs. Victoria McCray, 80, widow of Addison McCray, and a highly respected resident of this county for 58 years, who died Friday, Nov. 4, at 1 a.m., at her home, 707 Fifth st., following sickness which lasted over eight months, were held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. from the Methodist church. Rev. Ira Carney, pastor of the Christian church, conducted the services and friends who served as pallbearers were Frank and Day Shires, Frank and Harry Shearer, L. E. Marsden and O. C. Mellott. Interment was in Red Oak Cemetery. Relatives from a distance who were here to attend the funeral included Florence V. Hopkins, Seattle, Wash; Mr. and Mrs. M. A. McCray, Putnam, Tex., Helen M. Wright, Ft. Worth, Tex., Mrs. Theo. Eland, Fairfield; Mrs. Ora Hucheroft and L. P. and M. L. Blake, Mediapolis, and Mrs. Addie Sims and daughter, Miss Myrtle, of Council Bluffs. Victoria Blake was born in Des Moines county, Iowa, Jan. 24, 1847, and was a daughter of Luther and Dolly Blake. She was married there Feb.2, 1856, to Addison McCray and to this union six children were born. They are L. B. McCray, Cartage, Mo.; M. A. McCray, Putnam, Tex., and Florence V. Hopkins, Seattle, Wash. Three children preceded their mother in death.Besides the children she is survived by two brothers, L. P. and M. L. Blake, of Mediapolis. Mr. and Mrs. McCray moved to Montgomery county in 1869 and settled on a farm in Sherman township. They retired from the farm in 1919 and moved to Red Oak, where Mr. McCray died April 1, 1913.Mrs. McCray was a good Christian woman and for more than 40 years she taught in the Sunday schools of the church and assisted in the various departments of the church work, until her health would no longer permit. She was a member of the Methodist church and the W.R.C.
Evergreen Cemetery is the only cemetery located within the city limits of Red Oak, Iowa at 1900 N. 8th Street. It has also been referred to as the Red Oak Junction or Red Oak Cemetery.
Red Oak, Mills Co., Iowa
(Montgomery County, Iowa)
November 11, 1927
Wife of Addison McCray. Married Feb 2, 1856
MRS. VICTORIA McCRAY DEAD.
Funeral services for Mrs. Victoria McCray, 80, widow of Addison McCray, and a highly respected resident of this county for 58 years, who died Friday, Nov. 4, at 1 a.m., at her home, 707 Fifth st., following sickness which lasted over eight months, were held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. from the Methodist church. Rev. Ira Carney, pastor of the Christian church, conducted the services and friends who served as pallbearers were Frank and Day Shires, Frank and Harry Shearer, L. E. Marsden and O. C. Mellott. Interment was in Red Oak Cemetery. Relatives from a distance who were here to attend the funeral included Florence V. Hopkins, Seattle, Wash; Mr. and Mrs. M. A. McCray, Putnam, Tex., Helen M. Wright, Ft. Worth, Tex., Mrs. Theo. Eland, Fairfield; Mrs. Ora Hucheroft and L. P. and M. L. Blake, Mediapolis, and Mrs. Addie Sims and daughter, Miss Myrtle, of Council Bluffs. Victoria Blake was born in Des Moines county, Iowa, Jan. 24, 1847, and was a daughter of Luther and Dolly Blake. She was married there Feb.2, 1856, to Addison McCray and to this union six children were born. They are L. B. McCray, Cartage, Mo.; M. A. McCray, Putnam, Tex., and Florence V. Hopkins, Seattle, Wash. Three children preceded their mother in death.Besides the children she is survived by two brothers, L. P. and M. L. Blake, of Mediapolis. Mr. and Mrs. McCray moved to Montgomery county in 1869 and settled on a farm in Sherman township. They retired from the farm in 1919 and moved to Red Oak, where Mr. McCray died April 1, 1913.Mrs. McCray was a good Christian woman and for more than 40 years she taught in the Sunday schools of the church and assisted in the various departments of the church work, until her health would no longer permit. She was a member of the Methodist church and the W.R.C.
Evergreen Cemetery is the only cemetery located within the city limits of Red Oak, Iowa at 1900 N. 8th Street. It has also been referred to as the Red Oak Junction or Red Oak Cemetery.
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