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A Story OfMore Than 206 YearsOne hundred and one (almost 102) birthdays for Mrs. Nancy Modena McCown, left, of Honey Grove and 105 birthdays for her sister, Mrs. Mollie Ruetna Yeager of Waurika, Oklahoma, sitting primly on the right. Hie occasion for the two sisters being photographed together is not an unusual one, but happened to be the 105th birthday celebration of Mrs. Yeager in her home in Waurika.Her “little sister had traveled across the “Big Red' River to be there again on her older sister’s birthday. There have been many trips across the river for both sisters to visit and perhaps there will be many more.Each year has a special meaning for these two and it is not usual to find two members of family who have reached the century mark.Yeager remarked during our Bicentennial year in 1976, ‘Well, here we go into the second one. She does not remember much about the first one, but to have lived through two centennial celebrations is remarkable!Both sisters were born in Delta County near Cooper, Texas, daughters of a Civil War Captain, John Gahrin Hensley and Nancy Jane Taylor. There were six children in all, but only one other almost made it to the century mark. She was buried the day before her 99th birthday. Mollie and Modena have spent as much time as possible together during their retirement, as well as the many visits throughout the years with their own families. Being together is a time of joy for them both.Mrs. McCown has lived most of her adult years or. the home farm near Dial, in the house their father built for his family when she was nine years old. After her marriage to Wilson McCown of Ladonia. they bought the farm from her brother and sisters and she was happy and content to live there, even after the death of her husband in 1960. She lived alone until she was 94, then chose to move herself to Grove Manor in Honey Grove. She has memories of two families on this farm her father and brother cleared — as a child playing and growing up with her sister, Mollie, and the older children — and then again as a wife and mother of her own children. Her son, Lt. Hensley McCown was killed in World War II and her daughter, Mrs. Don Blacketer, lives near the homepiace.
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Honey Grove Signal Citizen
Honey Grove, Texas, US
Fri, Jul 04, 1980
Page 8
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Jimmy L.
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