James David Leslie McKinney
28 September 1857 - 6 October 1932
Sarah Margaret Bradley McKinney
24 July 1857 - 8 November 1936
Pioneer passes away at
Van Alstyne, Texas
Stricken
three weeks ago with heart trouble, Mrs.
J.D.L. McKinney, prominent
pioneer of this community, died at her home
here, at 4 p.m.
Monday. Funeral services were to be held
Tuesday at 4 p.m. at the
First Methodist Church, the Rev. C.H. Campster
officiating.
Internment in the Van Alstyne Cemetery was to
be directed by
Fox-Fanning.
Mrs. McKinney was born
at Murphreesboro, Tennessee, July 24,
1857. She came to Texas in
1866, locating at Jefferson, Texas, there she
remained two years before
moving to Mantua. As Miss Maggie
Bradley, she was married to the
late J.D.L. McKinney Dec. 1, 1878.
Mrs.
McKinney joined the Methodist church in
childhood and was actively
engage in woman's work of the church until her
death. She was the
last surviving charter member of the Van
Alstyne Methodist Woman's
Missionary Society. She served as its
first president and in
every office of the organization and was
chairman of local work for 20
years.
She is survived by a
brother,
Dr. R.L. Bradley of Roswell, New Mexico; five
children, Sewell McKinney
of Tom Bean, Mrs. Eula Ferris, Mrs. Charles
Sherill and Minson McKinney
of Dallas, and Mrs. Clyde Eagleton of Palo
Alto, California; six
grandchildren - Margarete Ferris Poindexter of
Mansfield, Louisiana,
David and Margaret Ann McKinney of Tom Bean,
Clyde Eagleton, Jr. of
Palo Alto, California, Sarah Ann Sherrill and
Billy Burt McKinney of
Dallas; and one great-grandchild, Virginia Ann
Poindexter.
Pallbearers
were to be her nephews - R.S. Fulton and Zack
Emerson of Van Alstyne,
Jerome McKinney of Denison, Ernest McKinney of
Henrietta, Oklahoma,
Marcellus Ellison of Sherman, and Robert Drye
of New York City.