Dallas Morning News
4 January 1913
McLain - Denison,Tex., March 31. - Mrs. Addie McLain, aged 36 years,
wife of Mahlon McLain, died south of Denison of inflamatory rheumatism.
The funeral will be held Tuesday with burial in the Simon Cemetery.
Texas Death Certificate
Name : Mrs. Addie Eldora McLain
Father : William Whitacre, born Tennessee)
Mother : Rebecca Bonfield, born Iowa
Birth : 2 February 1877, Indiana
Death : 30
March 1912
Dallas Morning News
9 July 1953
M. M. McLain's Rites to be held Thursday
Denison, Texas, July 8 - Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m.
Thursday in the Church of Jesus Christ with the Rev. Roy Graves of Sherman
officiating.
McLain, a resident of Denison for forty-two years, was found dead
under a tree on his farm southwest of here where he apparently had laid
down to rest after mowing with a team. Justice of the Peace C.B. Carroll
returned a verdict of death from natural causes.
McLain was born in Indiana and married Addie Eldora Whiteacre, who
died in 1912.
He married Bessie Faye Pacely in Denison in 1913.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, M.P. McLain and W.H. McLain,
both of Denison; two daughters, Mrs. Guy Lewis and Mrs. Mary Caperton
both of Los Angeles, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Navin of Terre Haute,
Ind. and Mrs. Nellie McClellan of Champaign, Ill. Eleven grandchildren
and seven great - grandchildren.
Texas Death Certificate
Name : Mahlon May McLain
Father : Hannigan McLain, born Indiana
Mother : Mary Jane Black, born Indiana
Occupation farmer
Birth : 23 Nov 1871, Wallace, Indiana
Death : 6 July 1953
Cause of death : "natural causes"; "dead on my arrival (per coroner)
Burial : "Old Simons Cemetery"
