Margaret K (Aderhold) & James Emmett "Peck" McClellan
Tombstone Photo
Silent Home Cemetery
Roll, Roger Mills County, OK

Photos © Karen Harman

James E. "Peck" McClellan

© Cheyenne Star

about June 1973

Submitted by: Jean Beals Whiteneck

Funeral services were held Saturday for James E. "Peck" McClellan, Elk City resident who died Thursday, June 21, 1973 morning in Town Hall Estates Nursing Home in Sayre, following an extended illness.

Interment was in Silent Home Cemetery, Roll, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of Rose Chapel in Sayre.

Mr. McClellan was born October 7, 1882 in Hillsdale county in Michigan.

He moved with his parents to Oklahoma in 1904 and homesteaded four miles east of Roll.

On January 25, 1913, he married Margaret Aderhold and in 1914 the couple moved to Strong City where he was the Ford dealer.

They moved to Elk City in 1930 where he was employed as parts manager for Herring and Young then Sprowls, Cronin and Randall Companies for 47 years until his retirement at age 80.

He was a member of the Baptist Church and a former member of the Masonic Lodge and Odd Fellows.

Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Ray Hassell of Palestine, Texas; and Mrs. Raymond Jarvis of Borger, Texas; four sons, C. E. "Bud" McClellan of Phoenix, Arizona; Warren of Houston, Texas; Kermit of Borger, Texas; and Johnny of Sayre; one sister, Mrs. Lula Emmitt; nineteen grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife; one son, Ralph; one daughter, Annie; his parents, and six brothers.