Samuel N. McCray Obituary, Saline County, AR *********************************************************** Submitted by: Kathy Jean Bevills Small - not-related Date: Jan 10,2004 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** Samuel N. McCray Dec 12,1929 Benton Courier Samuel Newton McCary aged fifty-nine years, passed away last Saturday afternoon at 5:00 pm at the home of his daughter, Mrs. N.A. McDaniel on cross street, after an illness of thirteen days, though he had been in failing health for the past five years. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. T.M. Lee, assisted by Rev. J.O. Cothran at the McDaniel home, where a large circle of friends gathered to pay respect to his memory. Burial was at Rosemont Cemetery. The pallbearers were W.H. Jennings, R.L. Hopkins Louis Praytor, Jehu Crow, J.W. Brown,and M.H Holleman...Flowergirls were Misses Eria Mae Jennings, Virginia Stone, Lee Ann Witherspoon and Nancy Steed. Mr McCary was born in Benton August 8 1870, in a log house which stood where the La Grand Hotel now stands. He was the son of John Franklin and Lou Homan McCray. He was the oldest of four children. He was married to Miss Ella Milham Feb 2, 1896. To this union five children were born, four of whom survive him. His wife passed away in 1918 and in July 1923, Frank his son, was killed in an automobile train wreck. He is survived by two daughters...Mrs N.A. McDaniel and Miss Elizabeth McCray...two sons Barry McCray of Little Rock and Ben Marshall McCry, a student in the University of Arkansas.....also by his mother's sister Mrs. Saphronia Shoppach and two grandchildren. Mr.McCray was buried with the ashes of his mother, Mrs. Lou Holmen McCray, who passed away at the home of her daughter Mrs. Cecile M. Whitthorne in long Beach Calif. in June 1926, and was cremated and her ashes sent back here to her son, who kept them and expressed that they be buried with him. .