Hello listers, We got a couple new researchers who joined our list this week. We must be very close to 50 subscribers now. I encourage the newer subscribers to write us and tell us about their line. Here's another tidbit I got from the PML service. Hope someone can se. --Celia, List Admin ----- Original Message ----- > Source: GC-Webster Co. Ky Obituaries > URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ky/WebsterObits?read=2312 > Subject: Mrs. Frances (Fannie) McDowell obituary - 1947 > > > Surname: McDowell, Gregory, Alderson, Kerns, Egner, Mullen, Brown, Messamore > ------------------------- > > Mrs. Frances (Fannie) McDowell, 78, died at 12:30 a.m. Thursday in her > home in Providence. She suffered a stroke on Nov. 24 while visiting her > son in Evansville and was returned to her home here where her condition > remained critical. > Mrs. McDowell spent most of her life in Crittenden county until five years > ago when she moved to Providence. She was married in 1898 to S.D. McDowell > who died in 1917. One son, Carl, died as an infant in 1909. > Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Virginia Gregory, Shady Grove; three sons, > Owen, of Clay, Cleo , of Evansville, and Ezra McDowell, Providence; three > stepdaughters, Mrs. Lena Alderson, Providence, Mrs. Vide Kerns, of Akron, > Ohio, and Mrs. Evelyn Egner, of Paducah; a brother, James Mullen, Paducah; > fifteen grandchildre; and nine great-grandchildren. > Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Friday in the Shady Grove Methodist > church, with the Rev. R.S. Richardson and the Rev. C.G. Oliver, of Marion, > officiating. > Pallbearers were grandsons, James Gregory, Carlos Gregory, Ray Gregory, > Junior McDowell, Hayden Brown, and Jewell Messamore. Granddaughters were > flower girls. > Burial was in Shady Grove cemetery. > > Providence Journal-Enterprise > Providence, Kentucky > Thursday, December 18, 1947 > used with permission > > > > Link: Webster County KyGenWeb Page > URL: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~kywebste/>