One of the loveliest of child characters was lost to this community in the passing last Saturday morning at the Harmon Sanitarium at Houston, of Anna Lois McCrary, who, with her mother and younger brother, had made her home for the past several years with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J.A.L. McFarland of this place.
Mrs. McCrary and the two children were on a visit with relatives near Houston when, at the home of the grandmother, Mrs. Joel McCrary, on the McCrary plantation about thirty miles south of Houston, Anna Lois grew ill with what was at first supposed to be malaria. She grew rapidly worse and was taken to the sanitarium where the case was diagnosed as the dread meningitis. Little hope was held for her recovery from that time though some slightly favorable indications developed, and at about 3:30 o'clock on Saturday morning the pure spirit took its flight.
The body was taken to the Oliver Lewis Chapel from which place the funeral procession left at 3:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon for Richmond where services were held at 4:30, Rev. Morgan of Richmond officiating. Burial was made at that place beside the grave of the little girl's father, who had preceded her in death nine years ago.
Anna Lois was eleven years old, one of the most popular of the younger girls. Fair of face, perfect in body, sweet and sunny in disposition, she drew to herself the affection of all who knew her. Even from babyhood she had given evidence of the development of an exceptional personality, an exquisite, wistful charm, which peeped from the blue eyes, flashed in the expression of the lovely mobile face, showed in the very gesture of the unaffected, modest girl. Proof of the high place she held in the affections of her associates was the memorial service held at the Methodist Church here, of which she was a member.
Mrs. McCrary and the two children were on a visit with relatives near Houston when, at the home of the grandmother, Mrs. Joel McCrary, on the McCrary plantation about thirty miles south of Houston, Anna Lois grew ill with what was at first supposed to be malaria. She grew rapidly worse and was taken to the sanitarium where the case was diagnosed as the dread meningitis. Little hope was held for her recovery from that time though some slightly favorable indications developed, and at about 3:30 o'clock on Saturday morning the pure spirit took its flight.
The body was taken to the Oliver Lewis Chapel from which place the funeral procession left at 3:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon for Richmond where services were held at 4:30, Rev. Morgan of Richmond officiating. Burial was made at that place beside the grave of the little girl's father, who had preceded her in death nine years ago.
Anna Lois was eleven years old, one of the most popular of the younger girls. Fair of face, perfect in body, sweet and sunny in disposition, she drew to herself the affection of all who knew her. Even from babyhood she had given evidence of the development of an exceptional personality, an exquisite, wistful charm, which peeped from the blue eyes, flashed in the expression of the lovely mobile face, showed in the very gesture of the unaffected, modest girl. Proof of the high place she held in the affections of her associates was the memorial service held at the Methodist Church here, of which she was a member.
One of the loveliest of child characters was lost to this community in the passing last Saturday morning at the Harmon Sanitarium at Houston, of Anna Lois McCrary, who, with her mother and younger brother, had made her home for the past several years with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J.A.L. McFarland of this place.
Mrs. McCrary and the two children were on a visit with relatives near Houston when, at the home of the grandmother, Mrs. Joel McCrary, on the McCrary plantation about thirty miles south of Houston, Anna Lois grew ill with what was at first supposed to be malaria. She grew rapidly worse and was taken to the sanitarium where the case was diagnosed as the dread meningitis. Little hope was held for her recovery from that time though some slightly favorable indications developed, and at about 3:30 o'clock on Saturday morning the pure spirit took its flight.
The body was taken to the Oliver Lewis Chapel from which place the funeral procession left at 3:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon for Richmond where services were held at 4:30, Rev. Morgan of Richmond officiating. Burial was made at that place beside the grave of the little girl's father, who had preceded her in death nine years ago.
Anna Lois was eleven years old, one of the most popular of the younger girls. Fair of face, perfect in body, sweet and sunny in disposition, she drew to herself the affection of all who knew her. Even from babyhood she had given evidence of the development of an exceptional personality, an exquisite, wistful charm, which peeped from the blue eyes, flashed in the expression of the lovely mobile face, showed in the very gesture of the unaffected, modest girl. Proof of the high place she held in the affections of her associates was the memorial service held at the Methodist Church here, of which she was a member.
Mrs. McCrary and the two children were on a visit with relatives near Houston when, at the home of the grandmother, Mrs. Joel McCrary, on the McCrary plantation about thirty miles south of Houston, Anna Lois grew ill with what was at first supposed to be malaria. She grew rapidly worse and was taken to the sanitarium where the case was diagnosed as the dread meningitis. Little hope was held for her recovery from that time though some slightly favorable indications developed, and at about 3:30 o'clock on Saturday morning the pure spirit took its flight.
The body was taken to the Oliver Lewis Chapel from which place the funeral procession left at 3:00 p.m. Sunday afternoon for Richmond where services were held at 4:30, Rev. Morgan of Richmond officiating. Burial was made at that place beside the grave of the little girl's father, who had preceded her in death nine years ago.
Anna Lois was eleven years old, one of the most popular of the younger girls. Fair of face, perfect in body, sweet and sunny in disposition, she drew to herself the affection of all who knew her. Even from babyhood she had given evidence of the development of an exceptional personality, an exquisite, wistful charm, which peeped from the blue eyes, flashed in the expression of the lovely mobile face, showed in the very gesture of the unaffected, modest girl. Proof of the high place she held in the affections of her associates was the memorial service held at the Methodist Church here, of which she was a member.
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