Volume 9 , Issue 33

Obit - June 4, 1955, James A. McGill

[Oklahoman-Times Northwest Bureau] - Alva -- Services for James A. McGill, Woods county pioneer farmer and Alva merchant who died Thursday, will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the Hill funeral chapel.

McGill, who would have been 8f3 years old June 11, was born in Dayton, Tenn., in 1872. He homesteaded a farm four miles south of Alva when the Cherokee Strip was opened for settlement and lived there for seven years before moving to Alva in 1900.

He opened a furniture store here in 1906, and with his brother, William McGill, operated the store for almost half a century.

survivors are two brothers, William of Alva and Charles of Ardmore, a sister, Mrs. Spencer Erskine, Alva.
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