Wavie Etchison McCrady

12-28-1979

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

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Yewed - Mrs. Wavie McCrady, 98, died in a Cherokee hospital Tuesday morning after a weeks illness. She was born may 22, 1881, in Indianapolis, Indiana, the oldest daughter of George Allen and Elizabeth Etchison.

In 1885, she moved with her parents to Sharon, Kansas, where they lived several years before moving to Hazelton, Kansas. In March 1898, her parents moved a general merchandise store on a hay frame and forded the Nescatunga River, settling in what is now Alfalfa County.

Her father named the town after Col. Dewey, an officer in the Spanish American War. He sent the name into the state and since there was already one Dewey, they reversed the spelling and named the town Yewed. Her father was the first Postmaster and a pioneer merchant there.

Mrs. McCrady had been a member of the Methodist Church since early childhood, remaining active in the church the remainder of her life.

She and John H. McCrady were married in Alva September 12, 1900. They established a home a mile south of Yewed, on his father's homestead. They farmed and traded livestock before establishing the J. H. McCrady Grain Company in 1914.

Mrs. McCrady remained active in the management of the farming and green business until her last illness, having gone to the office the day she was stricken a week before she died.

She had lived her entire married life within a three – mile area. Her only daughter, Miss Parthena McCrady, survives. In addition, she is survived by five nieces and seven nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband September 15, 1947.

Funeral services for Mrs. McCrady will be at 2:30 PM Sunday in the United Methodist Church at Cherokee with the Rev. William R Chace officiating. Burial will be in the Cherokee Municipal Cemetery, under the direction of the Goodwin Funeral Home.

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