Margaret Harris Hancock 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
     Birth Date: 9 May 1893 - Valley Mills, Texas
    Christening: 
          Death: 23 Jan 1950 -  ( at age 56)
         Burial: in Pecan Cem., south of Purvis, Erath Co., Texas 3
 Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children 
1. *William Henry Reese (12 Feb 1871 - 7 Nov 1957) 1 
       Marriage: Abt 1918
       Children:
                1. Marion E. Reese (1919-2001)
                2. William Newton Reese (1921-1996)
                3. Faye Allene Reese (1929-2019)
                4. Henry Alvin Reese (1931-      )
Notes
General:
According to her death certificate Margaret Hancock was born in Valley Mills, Texas. Valley Mills is a small town partly in Bosque Co. and partly in McLennan Co. The date of her marriage to William Henry Reese is a guess based on the birth date of their (presumably first) child Marion.

TEXAS DEATH CERTIFICATE 1766:

Margarette Harris Reese, white, female, married
Died: January 23, 1950, aged 59 yrs 8 mos 14 days
Place of death: Erath Co., Route #8, Dublin #2
Length of stay: 20 years
Place of residence: Route #8, Dublin, Texas
Born: May 9, 1890 in Valley Mills, Texas
Father: Marion Hancock
Mother: Bettie Cousin
Usual occupation: housewife
Informant: W. H. Reese
Cause of death: myocardial degeneration
Burial: Pecan, near Dublin, Texas
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Sources

1 Shirley B. Cawyer & Weldon I. Hudson, Erath County, Texas Cemetery Inscriptions, Vol 1, pg 112. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.

2 McLennan Co., Texas Births -- 1929, http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/mclennan/vitals/births/1929/mclen29c.txt.

3 "Find-a-Grave," Memorial # 25540497.

4 Erath County, Texas -- Births 1931, http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/erath/vitals/births/1931/erathb31.txt.

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