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- Died of cancer.
From Lola McFarland's book, p. 93.
NANCY ELIZABETH MCFARLAND -wife of H. Edgar FULLER - was the second child, born October 23, 1874. She was a delicate child "weighing only fifteen pounds at fifteen months." She graduated Kidd-Key College in Sherman, Texas, where she was recognized as an excellent student and a person of excellent character. She was an excellent teacher and with her first salary bought a beautiful oak secretary as a gift to her father. She played the piano and was especially successful in teaching kindergar¬ten. She was married in 1907 in the First Christian Church in Ladonia. Lived in Konawa, Oklahoma for a few years. She had a child, Edgar McFarland Fuller who died at three months. They moved back to Ladonia and lived next door to her mother until her death in 1931. She, her husband and baby are buried on the McFarland lot in the Ladonia Cemetery.
Obituary: July 10, 1931
LADONIA LOSES PIONEER WOMAN
Friday shortly past the noon hour, death, so often a friend to man, came in mercy to release a gracious, kindly spirit from a tired, frail body, and that which is immortal took its flight back to the Giver of all Life and we said, "She is dead," but He said, "She has entered into everlasting life."
Mrs. H.. Fuller, as Nancy Elizabeth McFarland, was born as the first daughter of the late Mr. J.F. and Mrs. McFarland on the farm near Ladonia, and all the years of her life except some five of the first years of her married life when she lived in Konawa, Oklahoma, she spent in and near Ladonia. Her parents, eager to educate and train their children, sent her to Kidd-Key College at Sherman, from which she graduated with commendable honors.
For several years she taught school, having been a teacher in the Ladonia schools at one time.
In 1908 she was married to Mr. H.E. Fuller and to them was born a little son, Edgar Junior, who died at the age of three months, the only child of this union.
Mrs. Fuller has led a busy active life among Ladonia people. Because of her great love for children and her natural talent for storytelling and teaching, she has for a number of years been superintendent of the primary department of the Christian Sunday school. She was also active in other phases of church life, and at the time of her death was president of the Women's Missionary Society. In club life she was an able worker, being a charter member of the Southern Literary Club, the pioneer study club of Ladonia.
She added to these activities a kindly graciousness, and ever ready spirit to help and an unfailing faith, which virtues added indeed a "crown of righteousness" to her entire life.
She is survived by her mother, Mrs. Mary Jane McFarland, two brothers, J.R. and J.A. McFarland of Ladonia, a sister, Mrs. W.P. Jennings of Lubbock, three sisters, Mrs. H.L. Graves, Mrs. W.M. Williams, and Mrs. Joe M. Hill, two brothers, S.J.. A McFarland of Dallas.
Funeral services were conducted by her beloved pastor, Rev. E.B. Chancellor, in the church which she had served so faithfully, Sunday morning at 8:30, attended by a large crowd of relatives and friends.
Mrs. Fuller was a lovely Christian character and her going home on leave loneliness and sorrow for those who are left behind, but her loved ones are sustained in this hour of grief by the heritage she leaves and by her faith, which is also theirs, that God in his own infinity do with all things well.
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1874 - 1931 (56 years)
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