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Obituary
Celestial Gardens Cemetery
Caddo County, Oklahoma
Submitted by: Cokeman2
Chickasha, Oklahoma
14 July 2003
Arthur Thomas "A. T." "Heavy" McGinnis
According to his WWI Draft Registration card, which he filled out when he was 23, he was of medium height, stout build, with blue eyes and dark brown hair. He was a farmer.
On the 1920 census record for Cement, Caddo, Oklahoma, Arthur is listed at age 26 with wife, Lena age 23 and son Lofton age 4. His occupation is Laborer at an Oil Well.
He and his father were born in Texas, his mothers place of birth is simply US. Lena was born in Mississippi, as were both her parents, and Lofton was born in Oklahoma.
On the 1930 census record for Cement, Caddo, Oklahoma, Arthur is listed at age 35 with wife, Lena age 34 and children, Lofton age 14 and Beulah age 8. Lena's sister Minnie age 22 and her husband Homer Blevins age 23, are also living with them. Arthur's occupation is driller at an oil field.
Obituary
Celestial Gardens Cemetery
Caddo County, Oklahoma
Submitted by: Cokeman2
Lena Mae [Harris] McGinnis
Lena Mae McGinnis, 80, a resident here since 1910, died at 2:55pm Monday in an Anadarko hospital after a brief illness.
Funeral will be at 2pm Wednesday in the Assembly of God Church with Rev. Frank Pollard, pastor, and Rev. Charles Abney, pastor of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Celestial Gardens Cemetery under the direction of Robbins Funeral Home, Fletcher.
Mrs. McGinnis was born Feb. 2, 1896 in Jackson, Miss. She moved first to Jackson County, then here.
She married A. T. McGinnis on May 23, 1915 at Cement.
Survivors in addition to her husband of the home include one daughter, Mrs. Thelma Jackson, McAlester: four sisters: Mrs. Lillie Swarts and Mrs. Minnie Wainscott, both Cement; Mrs. Nancy Niday and Mrs. Letha Young, both California; two brothers: Tom Harris, Cement, and Bill Harris, Phoenix, Ariz.; three grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
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