Individual Details

Death

Margaret Louisa Moore (Mrs. Margaret Furr) was born at Xenia, Ohio, on May 14, 1849, and died Thursday morning, August 20, 1936, at her home in Lawton, Oklahoma. Aged 87 years, three months and six days. When she was only six years of age her family moved from Ohio to Davenport, Iowa, where she spent her early girlhood and received her education. After completing her education she devoted six years of her life to public school teaching. On October 5, 1870, she was married to S. B. Furr, at Aledo, Illinois, and immediately went to their new home at Chatsworth, Illinois, where they lived for 36 years, and where all of the children were born. In 1906 the family moved from Illinois to Lawton, Oklahoma, where they located on a farm east of that city. In 1915 Mr. Furr died. Mrs. Furr continued to live on the farm until 1919 when she moved into the city of Lawton, where she made her home until the time of her death. Three of her children preceded her in death, Daisy Furr Marple, Ina L. Holt and Isaac Goodwin Furr. Those who survive are four daughters, Mrs. W. B. Scott, Mrs. Ed Bertram, Miss Sylvia Furr and Miss Margaret Furr, all of Lawton; also five grandchildren, John G. Holt of Tulsa; Joe E. Holt, Paul J. Holt, Dorothy Furr and Margaret Bertram, all of Lawton, together with two nieces and three nephews and other relatives. Early in life Mrs. Furr united with the Presbyterian church and when she came to Lawton she placed her membership in the First Presbyterian church, where it remained up to the time of her death. For 30 years Mrs. Furr has been a part of the Lawton community and has contributed her part as a Christian woman, a devoted mother and a faithful and loving wife, to the development of the better in this new country. A large circle of friends mourn departure and sincerely sympathize with the bereaved family.
The Lawton Constitution, Lawton, Oklahoma, August 25, 1936