One of her school friends, Mr. Harvey Spiller, said of Ida, "She was so pretty that the fellers said it hurt their eyes to look at her."
At the age of seventeen, she married James Littleton McCan. They made their home in Dickey, where Jim was post master. Ida ran their general store while Jim was away as a chicken peddlar.
Ida bore eleven children between 1891 and 1916. Her first daughter, Maggie, died at the age of two months. Her fourth child, Georgia, died at the age of two, as did her sixth child, Ida Florence (Hallie). Another child, Andrew Buron, died in a Sinclair Refinery fire in Houston at the age of sixteen, and son Lester Carroll died at age six. Her life saw much sadness.
Ida was a reader. She was never without a book in her hand, and she taught her children to love books also.
Ida and Jim were fishermen. They enjoyed taking their family to a local lake on fishing trips, spending the nights in a tent and frying fish over the campfire. As a result of these early experiences, all their children loved fishing.
A few years after the family moved to Houston, Ida was left widowed. Her children contributed to her support, and she supplemented her income by taking in boarders, usually family members. Rare, then, was the cherished fishing trip. However, she was on just such a trip with a daughter and family in 1954 when she lost her footing on an embankment and slid down to the water's edge. A broken hip led to pneumonia, and Ida lived only a few days afterwards.
She was buried next to Jim and son Buron in Hollywood Cemetery in the Heights.
One of her school friends, Mr. Harvey Spiller, said of Ida, "She was so pretty that the fellers said it hurt their eyes to look at her."
At the age of seventeen, she married James Littleton McCan. They made their home in Dickey, where Jim was post master. Ida ran their general store while Jim was away as a chicken peddlar.
Ida bore eleven children between 1891 and 1916. Her first daughter, Maggie, died at the age of two months. Her fourth child, Georgia, died at the age of two, as did her sixth child, Ida Florence (Hallie). Another child, Andrew Buron, died in a Sinclair Refinery fire in Houston at the age of sixteen, and son Lester Carroll died at age six. Her life saw much sadness.
Ida was a reader. She was never without a book in her hand, and she taught her children to love books also.
Ida and Jim were fishermen. They enjoyed taking their family to a local lake on fishing trips, spending the nights in a tent and frying fish over the campfire. As a result of these early experiences, all their children loved fishing.
A few years after the family moved to Houston, Ida was left widowed. Her children contributed to her support, and she supplemented her income by taking in boarders, usually family members. Rare, then, was the cherished fishing trip. However, she was on just such a trip with a daughter and family in 1954 when she lost her footing on an embankment and slid down to the water's edge. A broken hip led to pneumonia, and Ida lived only a few days afterwards.
She was buried next to Jim and son Buron in Hollywood Cemetery in the Heights.
Family Members
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Maggie L. McCann
1891–1892
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Clemmie K Shadoan
1894–1971
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James Matthew "Buddy, Massie" McCann
1897–1954
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Georgia McCan
1899–1902
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Kenneth Kyle McCann
1902–1973
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Ida Florence "Hallie" McCan
1904–1907
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Andrew Buron McCan
1909–1925
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Lester Carroll "Carroll" McCan
1912–1919
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Connie Ford McCann
1914–1998
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Mossie McCann Bova
1916–1982
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