Typed and spelled as written: Kay Cunningham
The
Daily Democrat
Marlin, Texas Monday, June 29, 1931
Pioneer Texas Resident
Expires at Advanced Age
Member of Prominent Southern Family
Who Settled in This State
Sixty Years Ago.
Mrs. Mary McCauley Torbett, age 85, pioneer
resident of Texas, died at 12:30 this morning in the Torbett Sanitarium
following an illness of several weeks. Her husband, J. C. Torbett, died in
Marlin in 1919.
Since he husband's death, Mrs. Torbett has lived with a son, Dr. Oscar Torbett,
in Marlin. In 1923 she suffered a stroke of paralysis from which she never fully
recovered. Recently she has been confined to the hospital.
Mrs. Torbett is survived by the following sons and daughters: J. S. Torbett of
Gatesville, Mrs. J. W. Cook of Little Rock, Ark., Dr. J. W. Torbett, Dr. Oscar
Torbett, and Frank Torbett of Marlin, and Mrs. Ada Armstrong of Bethany, Okla.,
Another son, Dr. Bert Torbett, died here in 1916. She is also survived by one
sister, Mrs. Vinie Prince, of Frafford, Alabama, sixteen grandchildren and a
number of great-grand-children.
Before he marriage she was Miss Mary Elizabeth Armstrong and was born at
Ringold, Georgia, December 12, 1846. She was married February 5, 1865 to J. C.
Torbett, a Confederate soldier, who served with the 11th Alabama regiment and
was wounded at Gettysburg.
In 1870 Mr. and Mrs. Torbett moved to Jacksonville, Texas, later moving to The
Grove, Coryell county, where they loved many rears and the children grew up. In
1908 they moved to McGregor, and were living there when Mr. Torbett died, since
which time Mrs. Torbett has lived in Marlin.
Funeral services were announced for this afternoon at five o'clock at the
funeral home.
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