Volume 8 , Issue 30

Claud McCrory...

"I have a little information about Claude McCrory. It will likely be biased as it was written by his daughter, Theta McCrory Hall. She wrote: 'One more child had been born to Edith and Claude before his health broke in 1911. He had been failing for several years but the doctors had been unable to diagnose the real trouble, most of them believing it to be consumption. Claude's friends and family finally persuaded him to give up his strenuous campaigns and public life and when Governor Haskell cooperated by offering him a job as legal council (sic) for the State Institution at Granite, he accepted. In 1911 he removed to a state owned house in Granite, Oklahoma. In 1912, another girl was born to them. By then Claude's health was entirely broken. He died a year later.'

No mention of subpoenas, or of anyone trying to locate him, but as I say, this may have been only one side of the story. His wife, Edith, was a sister of my grandfather, Joseph T. Fash." -- Barbara Walters Hodges
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