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Almira Minerva <I>Dent</I> Hemphill-McGowen

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Almira Minerva Dent Hemphill-McGowen

Birth
Rankin County, Mississippi, USA
Death
9 Jul 1942 (aged 102)
Lovelady, Houston County, Texas, USA
Burial
Lovelady, Houston County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Old A Row 2 lot 171
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McGOWAN, Mrs. A. M.
Mrs. A. M. McGowan Buried at Lovelady
Lovelady, Texas, July 15. - Funeral services for Mrs. A. M. McGowan, 102, Houston County's oldest resident, were held at Lovelady, with burial in the Lovelady Cemetery. A native of Mississippi, Mrs. McGowan early in life was a schoolteacher. After her late husband, a physician, joined the Confederate forces during the Civil War, she took up nursing. She had been a resident of Lovelady for more than fifty years. Survivors include a nephew, former District Judge Ben F. Dent of Crockett, and several grandchildren in Mississippi and Texas.
[Dallas Morning News(Dallas, TX), July 16, 1942, Part 1, Page 5 - Transcribed By AFOFG]
McGOWAN, Mrs. A. M.
Mrs. A. M. McGowan Buried at Lovelady
Lovelady, Texas, July 15. - Funeral services for Mrs. A. M. McGowan, 102, Houston County's oldest resident, were held at Lovelady, with burial in the Lovelady Cemetery. A native of Mississippi, Mrs. McGowan early in life was a schoolteacher. After her late husband, a physician, joined the Confederate forces during the Civil War, she took up nursing. She had been a resident of Lovelady for more than fifty years. Survivors include a nephew, former District Judge Ben F. Dent of Crockett, and several grandchildren in Mississippi and Texas.
[Dallas Morning News(Dallas, TX), July 16, 1942, Part 1, Page 5 - Transcribed By AFOFG]

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