Alice M. Meadows Peace (1862-1948) - Find a Grave Memorial

Alice M. Meadows Peace

Birth

16 Oct 1862

Stewart County, Georgia, USA

Death

1 May 1948 (aged 85)

Chickasha, Grady County, Oklahoma, USA

Burial

Fletcher Cemetery

Fletcher, Comanche County, Oklahoma, USA Show Map

Plot

Block 12, Lot 3, Space 3

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Fletcher, May 1[, 1948] -- Services are set here Monday [03 May 1948] for Mrs. John W. Peace [Alice], 85, longtime local resident who died at 3 pm Saturday [01 May 1948] in a Chickasha[, Oklahoma] hospital. In ill health for several years, she had been seriously ill with a heart ailment the past three weeks.
Born Alice Meadows in Stewart County, Georgia [on] Oct[ober] 16, 1862, she moved to Longview, Texas with her parents as a young girl. She was married to John W. Peace there [on] Dec[ember] 28, 1886.
The couple left Texas in 1908, moving to Brinkman, Okla[homa]. They came to Fletcher in 1911 and had maintained the family home here since that time.
Mrs. Peace was a member of the Fletcher Methodist Church where last rites will be held at 2:30 pm Monday [03 May 1948]. Rev. Leroy Simmons, pastor, will officiate with burial in [the] Fletcher Cemetery [under the] direct[ion] of Wisener Funeral Home.
Mrs. Peace and her husband, prominent residents of this community, had 11 sons and daughters, seven of whom survive. They include A. E. Peace and Mrs. Russell Constant [of] Fletcher[, Oklahoma], R. F. Peace [of] Pacific Grove, Calif[ornia], J. S. Peace [of] Siloam Springs, Ark[ansas], Mrs. John Cost [of] Riverside, Calif[ornia], Mrs. Julia Davis [of] Guymon, Okla[homa], and Mrs. Lorena Johnson [of] Santa Rosa, [New Mexico].
Survivors in addition to the husband and children include 27 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Mrs. F. L. Birdsong [of] Kilgore, Texas; and Mrs. Julia Robinson [of] Longview, Texas; three brothers, M. C. and Charles Meadows of Longview[, Texas] and Sam Meadows [of] Long Beach, Calif[ornia] will attend the rites.
Selected bearers are Ed Newcomb, P. B. Shumate, Marvin Peacock, E. C. Johnson, Jim Weaver, and R. L. Beam.
Source: The Lawton Constitution; Lawton, Oklahoma; Sunday, 02 May 1948; pages 1 and 2.
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