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- April 25 1954. Cottonwood Falls, Chase County Kansas. Chase County Leader News. Final Rites for Mrs. Margaret Graham. 87-Year Old Woman Had Been Resident Of Cottonwood Falls Kansas For Over 50 Years. She had been ill six weeks. Mrs. Margaret Graham 87, a resident of Cottonwood Falls Kansas for over fifty years died in her home Sunday following an illness of six weeks. During her illness she had been hospitalized several times. Funeral rites were held Tuesday afternoon, April 27, at 2:30 o'clock at the Brown Funeral Home. The Rev. Willard P. Thompson of the Presbyterian Church was in charge. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Bell Sr., Robert Way and Mrs. Guy Murdock sang, accompanied by Miss Marlabelle Simmons. The pall bearers were E. R. Yoakem, Paul White, Ed Boles, Charles Hager, Ralph Holderman and Wilbur Mann. Interment was at Prarie Grove Cemetery. Margaret Jane Graham, daughter of George W. Crouthers and Elizabeth J. Crouthers, was born August 30, 1873, at Gary Indiana, and passed away April 25, 1954. She came to Kansas with her parents as a child, traveling the entire distance in a covered wagon. Her first home in Kansas was a dug-out in Jewell county, Kansas. Later the family moved to Lyon, County, Kansas. She was united in marriage December 25, 1891, to James Milton Graham at Emporia Kansas and they settled in Cottonwood Falls over fifty years ago. To this union five sons and three daughters were born, She was preceded in death by her husband, two sons and two daughters. Surviving her are her children, George M. Graham of Lyons, Frank C. Graham of Florence, Earl P. Graham of El Dorado, Mrs. Eva Kier, Mrs. Dorothy Crumrine and Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, all of El Dorado; 11 grandchildren, 6 great grandchildren: two brothers, John Crouthers of Iola and Henry Crouthers of Salina; three sisters, Katie Morton, Sadie Sublett and Elizabeth Thomason, all of El Dorado, several nieces, nephews and cousins and a host of friends.
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1873 - 1954 (80 years)
