This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Vandal, McAlester, House, Bull Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADE/890 Message Board Post: Published in the Arkansas Central Leader Thursday, February 6, 1936. Woodruff County, Arkansas Provided by Gary Telford Family Roots Woodruff County Monitor McCrory, Arkansas wgt@centurytel.net Mrs. Elizabeth House, Widow of Confederate Soldier, Died Sunday Mrs. Normanda Elizabeth House, age 81 years, ten months and seventeen days, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ethel Bull, in McCrory Sunday night at 10:10, February 2, 1936. She was born in Corinth, Miss., March 15, 1851, her maiden name being Vandal. While a small child, she came to White County, Arkansas with her parents in a covered wagon, locating at West Point. There she received her education and as a young lady married J.H. McAlester. To this union four children were born. After the death of her husband, she later married T.T. House and again after some years of happy companionship she was left a widow. The deceased first united with the Baptist Church early in life, but after her marriage to Mr. House, whom she was the means of his becoming a Christian, she united with the Methodist Church and so continued until her death. Mrs. House was of the Old South, being the widow of a Confederate soldier. She heard the gunfire of the Battle of Whitney Lane near Searcy, and with her mother and four sisters was left homeless and foodless when the Northern soldiers took their supplies, she possessed relics and prized possessions of the days of the War Between the States. Mrs. House came to McCrory in 1911 where she has made her home with her daughter, Mrs. Bull. Surviving besides Mrs. Bull are a son, Mr. B.F. McAlester of Little Rock; two grandchildren, T.C. Bull of McCrory and Mrs. Clyde Baber of Memphis, Tenn., and a great-grandchild, Jimmie Baber. Funeral services were conducted at the home, Monday afternoon by Rev. W.L. Oliver, pastor of the First M. E. Church South of McCrory. burial was in the Fakes Cemetery with Funeral Directory Walter W. Raney in charge. Pallbearers were: Paul Bronte, Tal Harris, Jim Miller, Gerald Morris, Guss Warring and John Bryan.