Mary Jane McCurdy
Sex: F
Individual Information
Birth Date: 2 Aug 1855 - Washington Co., Ar
Christening:
Death: 23 Jan 1942 - Deming, Luna Co., NM 2
Burial: in Mountain View Cem., Deming, Luna Co., NM
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: James Donnel McCurdy (1831-1875) 3
Mother: Judah Ann Kifer (1834-1927) 4
Spouses and Children
1. *Thomas Columbus Collins (19 Mar 1850 - 20 May 1878) 5
Marriage: 19 Mar 1871 - Washington Co., Arkansas 6 7
Children:
1. George Oliver Collins (1872-1964)
2. Ira Neal Collins (1875-1928)
3. Thomas C. Collins (1878-1952)
2. John Green Weaver (28 Jun 1857 - 14 Nov 1932)
Marriage: 26 Apr 1883 - Fannin Co., Texas 9
Children:
1. Luther Edgar Weaver (1884-1950)
2. Nellie Ann Weaver (1887-1970)
3. Alonzo Claude "Lonnie" Weaver (1890-1942)
4. Myrtle Ethel Weaver (1895-1989)
5. Virgil Everett Weaver (1897- )
Notes
General:
CENSUS:
In 1880 Mary Collins is living in the household of her mother Juda McCurdy in Denton Co., Texas.
OBITUARY:
Deming Headlight, Friday, Jan. 23, 1942:
Mrs. Mary Jane Weaver
Mrs. Mary Jane Weaver passed away this morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs Wayne Darling. Funeral arrangements are pending.
The sympathy of the community is extended to the Weaver family in their second bereavement of the week, as Lon Weaver, son of the deceased, was buried only Monday.
Obituary in the Borger Daily Herald, January 28, 1942, copied from Find-a-Grave:
"Mrs. J.E. Early and children, Ferrill, Tommy and Ethellea, have just returned from Deming, N.M., where they were called by the sudden death of Mrs. Early's mother, Mrs. M.J. Weaver.
Mrs. Weaver, who spent a number of her later years at Stinnett, was affectionately known as "Grandma."
The 86-year-old Mrs. Weaver died while sitting in her rocking chair in the yard of another daughter, Mrs. Wayne Darling, in Deming. A son Virgil Weaver, in addition to Mrs. Darling, were with her.
Survivors include four sons, George Collins of Tucumcari, N.M., Tom Collins of Albuquerque, N.M., Ed Weaver of Bayard, N.M., Virgil Weaver of Silver City, N.M.; two daughters, Mrs. Darling and Mrs. Early.
Twenty-three grandchildren and a dozen great-grandchildren are also among survivors. Four of the grandsons are fighting with General MacArthur's forces in the Philippines and two grandsons, Ferrill and Cleland Early, are in service in the United States.
Mrs. Weaver was interred beside her husband who passed away in 1932.
This was the second time in less than a week Mrs. Early had been called to Deming by death. On Jan. 15, she received a message calling her to the bedside of her brother, Lon Weaver, who died Jan. 18."
UNBROKEN CIRCLE:
A few years before her death Mary Jane Weaver told the story of her life to her daughter-in-law Minnie Dee Weaver, who took it down in shorthand and then produced a typewritten copy. It had the title "Eighty-five Years of Living". I have a copy which I made from a copy that I got in the early 1980's from my cousin Cleland Early. In 1986 "Eighty-five Years of Living" was published as a book by Mary Jane Weaver's granddaughter E. Jane Robison and her daughter Jeri Robison-Turner with the title Unbroken Circle. A limited edition of 1000 copies was printed by Plain View Press, 1509 Dexter, Austin, Texas.
