This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CUMMINGS, McCRARY, McCRORY Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xd.2ADE/1506 Message Board Post: [From the Columbus, Georgia, Enquirer newspaper, Sunday, 28 MAR 1875, p.3] “Mrs. F. D. CUMMINGS Dead: She Was a Well Known Lady of Harris County “News reached the city yesterday of the death of Mrs. Fletcher Davis CUMMINGS, the wife of Mr. T. J. CUMMINGS, which occurred at their home in Harris county, near Grimes, Ga., about 5 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, after an illness of five weeks. The deceased was a member of the Missionary Baptist church, and was well known in this city, having many friends here who will be pained to learn of her sad death. Besides her heart-broken husband the deceased is survived by eleven children, six sons and five daughters, two of which are twins [sic] sons five weeks old, and one brother, Mr. William McCRORY [McCRARY], of this city. The funeral took place at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, the interment being at the Shippey burying ground, seven miles north of the city.” [From the "Columbus, Georgia, Daily Enquirer-Sun," Friday morning, 07 JUL 1899, p. 8. Mrs. Fletcher Davis (McCRARY) CUMMINGS, 21 OCT 1861-05 JUL 1899, wife of Thomas Jefferson “Jeff” CUMMINGS, is kin to me indirectly by marriage. – jml]