Marcus McLemore Obit 1941 OK
OBITUARIES
Marcus McLemore
Marcus McLemore, a pioneer of the Addington community, closed the pages of his life's record as lived among us here, July 29, 1941 at the family home where he had resided since 1901.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the Addington Baptist church conducted by Rev. Prestridge, and internment was in the family lot in the Addington cemetery where he sleeps with loved ones.
Mr. McLemore was born October 10, 1867, in the county of Monroe, Tennessee, and later moved to Greenfield, Missouri, where he was married to Miss Florence Myers in 1892. The family moved to Pryor, Oklahoma, and here Mrs. McLemore passed away in 1896. Left with three small children, the youngest a baby son, 8 months old, Mr. McLemore took on the duties of being father and mother both to the motherless children. His mother made her home with him and together the reared the children until 18 years ago on the exact date of his death, his mother passed away. By this time his family was grown.
In 1897 Mr. McLemore and his children and their grandmother moved to Indian Territory and settled on a farm east of what is now Addington. The family moved to Addington in 1901 and settled in the home in which Mr. McLemore passed away.
Known and loved throughout this section of Oklahoma, this fine old gentleman, who had borne the heat and burdens of the day in pioneering, has passed to his reward.
He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Hattie DeWitt of Eatonville, Washington, by his sons, Clyde and Earnest of Addington and seven grandchildren.