James Lee Robert McCrory 1844-1926

MCCRORY PHIPPS ARCHER

Posted By: Nick Cimino (email)
Date: 12/12/2009 at 23:38:34

!OBITUARY: Onawa Sentinel, Onawa, Iowa, Thursday, July 29, 1926; OBITUARY OF J.L. McCROY (sic)--- J.L. McCroy was born in Newton of the Willows on November 5, 1844, and died at Kenebec (sic), Iowa, on July 25, 1926, aged 81 years, 8 months and 20 days. He was married at Red Oak, Iowa, on August 25, 1874. Six children were born to this union, three boys and three girls. The boys all preceded their father in death. The girls are Mrs. Bird Archer and Mrs. George Archer of Whiting, and Mrs. Grace Phipps who lives two miles west of Kenebec on his father's farm. The mother, who for near 52 years shared with her husband the joys of married life, lives with Mr. and Mrs. Phipps. Much of the married life of these people has been spent near Castana. Funeral services were conducted from the Castana Community Church by the pastor Wm. Baker on Tuesday afternoon and interment was made in the family burying lot in the Jordan cemetery.