This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bronte, Huff, Mercer, Couch, Hamilton, McLean Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADE/812 Message Board Post: From the Woodruff County Monitor-Leader-Advocate, McCrory, Arkansas, Wednesday Dec 10, 2003 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. James Milton Huff of McCrory died Saturday, Dec. 6, 2003 at Conway Regional Medical Center. He was 80 years of age. Services were held Dec. 8 at McCrory United Methodist Church with Rev. Steven Waggoner, pastor of the church, officiating. Interment was in Fakes Cemetery with Thompson-Wilson Funeral Directors of McCrory in charge of arrangements. Mr. Huff was the son of the late Daniel Milton Huff and Ora Watson Huff. Dr. Huff lived his life in McCrory on the farm that was deeded to the Huff Family in the original United States Land Grant in 1864 [ed. note: should be 1854]. He was proud to be a descendent of the early settlers of McCrory. He graduated from Auburn University in 1946 with a degree in Veterinary Medicine. He was in private practice for five years and worked for the USDA for 37 years as a large animal disease epidemiologist. He was a member of the McCrory United Methodist Church. He was preceded in death by his wife, Betty Kelley Huff. Survivors are one son, Milton Huff and wife Teresa of Conway; three daughters, Mary Pat Cullum of McCrory, Jayme Huff of Burbank, SD, and Kelley Stinnet and husband Scott of Siloam Springs; and eight grandchildren. Memorials may be made to the United Methodist Church, McCrory.