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Melton, Mary Caroline Gray

Carnegie Herald, May 27, 1936

Funeral Rites for Aged Mother, 21st
   Funeral services were held at the Alfalfa Baptist
church Thursday for Mrs. Wm. M. Melton, a resident of
this state for more than 30 years, who passed away
Wednesday after a serious illness of about two weeks.
Rev. W.A.R. Lovell, Christian minister, conducted the
service and interment was made in the Alfalfa Cemetery
under the direction of the Pitcher Funeral Home.
   Mary Caroline Gray was born Feb. 22, 1849, died May
20, 1936, aged 87 years, two months and 28 days.
   She was born in Warren county, Tennessee, but moved
to Searcy county, Arkansas, when just a child. In 1869
she was married to William M. Melton; to this union
was born 10 children, two of these died in childhood.
Those living are:
   J.A. Melton, Manford, Okla.; Mrs. J.W. Reece,
Carnegie; J.M. Melton, Hot Springs, Ark.; Mrs. W.S.
Treece, Leslie, Ark.; C.H. Melton, Fort Cobb; Mrs.
M.F. Cornuwell, South Gate, Calif.; J.G. Melton and
G.H. Melton, Carnegie.
   She was a member of the Primitive Baptist church.
She and her husband moved to Oklahoma in 1902. Her
husband preceded her in death, having died Jan. 30,
1931. She leaves to mourn her passing besides the
eight children, 40 grand-children, 56 great
grand-children, two sisters, Mrs. John Riggins of
Cordell and Mrs. J.H. Jones of Carnegie; two brothers,
Mack Gray, Oklahoma City, and W.G. Gray, Carnegie, and
a host of friends.