Mary Lou Crawford

HOLCOMB, Mary Lou CRAWFORD - News readers, many of whom

are friends of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Holcomb, will be pained t o learn of the

death of the latter, which occurred Friday at their home in Fayetteville

and all will sympathize deeply with the husband and children in their

great bereavement. Concerning the deceased the Fayetteville Daily says:

Mary Lou Crawford, daughter of William and Nancy Crawford, was born

at Cane Hill, this county, November 4th, 1870. Died March 12, 1909. She

was married to Bruce Holcomb June 25, 1901. To this union there were

born three children. One, Robert, preceded her to another world, having

died in June 1907 at the age of eighteen months. The others, Crawford,

aged six, and Mary, aged four months, with their father, her aged mother

and one brother, Prof. W.A. Crawford of Russellville, Ark., survive her. Mrs.

Holcomb professed faith in Christ and united with the Cumberland Presbyterian

church at Cane Hill at the age of ten years. After removing to this

city in 1893 she became a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church,

now the Central Presbyterian church of this city and remained a worthy,

consistent member until the day of her death. Mrs. Holcomb was of a sweet,

charming disposition and her friends and admirers were numbered by those

who came to know her. She was a student in the University and later a

teacher in the public schools and whether as student, teacher, wife, mother,

daughter, sister or friend she carried sunshine, happiness and efficiency

into all relations in life. The funeral services, conducted by Rev. M.L.

Gillispie, took place at the residence at 2:30 this afternoon. The interment

was in Evergreen Cemetery. [The Springdale News 3/16/1909]