Volume 13 , Issue 39

Great Uncle Charley McGill

Gr-Uncle Charley and Gr-Aunt Sis still rest underneath the shade of the two overgrown cedar trees in a NW Oklahoma Cemetery located in Woods County. The grave marker where Charles Robert McGill is buried with his wife, Elizabeth Nelson-Kidd McGill, are in the Capron Cemetery, Block 2, Lot 33, Plot 3 & 2, Woods County, Oklahoma.

According to Gr-Uncle Charley's Obit, Charles R. McGill was born in McPherson, Kansas, Sept. 5, 1884. Gr-Uncle Charley came to Alva, Woods County, O.T. with his parents in 1895. He attended the Goshen School District, Northwestern State Normal School. In 1905 Charley was the teacher at the Bethel School. He also taught school at Manila rural school and Gate, Oklahoma.

In 1909, Charley gave up teaching to become owner/operator of the McGill Drug Company & Garage in Capron, Oklahoma before entering the service in 1917 (WWI). According the the 1911 edition of The Capron Hustler, 9 June 1911, Charles married Elizabeth Nelson-Kidd (dau. of Captain John Nelson and Eliza Jane Boggess) at the home of the Presbyterian pastor (Rev. Kirkpatrick) in Woodward, Oklahoma.

Elizabeth Nelson (a.k.a. Aunt Sis) was born Feb. 19, 1871. She died Nov. 8, 1952. Elizabeth had a son by a previous marriage to her first husband, Daniel Kidd.

Gr-Uncle Charley and Gr-Aunt Sis still rest their ancestral bones beneath the shade of the old cedar trees. Their grave marker is located under two, overgrown cedar trees, east of the Kidd family markers. The cemetery photo above was taken looking east towards the blacktop road that runs in front of Capron cemetery, in NW Oklahoma.   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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