Death Record Searches for Petty, Murray, and Pritchett - Crandall, Georgia, and Oklahoma

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Search Subject: Death Records and sources of a search centering on the surnames of Petty, Murray, and Pritchett, extended family members of a family in Crandall, Murray County, Georgia, having roots in Union, Gilmer, and Fannin County, Georgia; one branch moved to Oklahoma.

Death Certificate of Nancy Petty Murray, Extract: "Commanche" County, Fletcher township, Oklahoma. Full name: "Nancie K. Murry." Sex: Female; Race: W; Widowed. Date of birth: "Nov 24 1842. Age: 74 yrs, 4 mos, 24 day." Birth place: "North Cariluna." Name of father: "Elija Petty." Birth place of father: "North Carioluna's." Birth place of mother: "North Carioluna." [North Carolina is misspelled and partly illegible, each time]. Maiden name of mother "Nance Pettie" [obviously, here, Elias incorrectly gave his own mother's maiden name, rather than Nancy's mother's name.] "Informant: E.A. Murry. Address: Fletcher." Date of Death: "Apr. 18, 1917." Doctor certifies that he last saw her alive on 19 Feb. 1917, and that death occurred on the date stated above at "Apr. 18 10:30 A.m." Cause of death: "arterioscloroses." Duration, etc.: "Don't know." [Signed by doctor]: Chas W. Joyce M.D., 1917, Fletcher, Okla. Place of burial or removal: Elgin, Okla. Date of burial 4-19*-1917 [difficult to read, could be 4-18-1917]. Address Fletcher. Undertaker J.W.Wisener. Co. Supt. of Publ. Health: E.S. Gooch. [Separate source/Family note: Nancy's body was later removed to the cemetery in Lawton because the one at Elgin wasn't being kept up.].

Death Certificate of Nancy Petty Murray, Extract: "Commanche" County, Fletcher township, Oklahoma. Full name: "Nancie K. Murry." Sex: Female; Race: W; Widowed. Date of birth: "Nov 24 1842. Age: 74 yrs, 4 mos, 24 day." Birth place: "North Cariluna." Name of father: "Elija Petty." Birth place of father: "North Carioluna's." Birth place of mother: "North Carioluna." [North Carolina is misspelled and partly illegible, each time]. Maiden name of mother "Nance Pettie" [obviously, here, Elias incorrectly gave his own mother's maiden name, rather than Nancy's mother's name.] "Informant: E.A. Murry. Address: Fletcher." Date of Death: "Apr. 18, 1917." [Signed by doctor]: Chas W. Joyce M.D., 1917, Fletcher, Okla. Place of burial or removal: Elgin, Okla. Date of burial 4-19*-1917 [difficult to read, could be 4-18-1917]. Address Fletcher. Undertaker J.W.Wisener. Co. Supt. of Publ. Health: E.S. Gooch. [Separate source/Family note: Nancy's body was later removed to the cemetery in Lawton because the graveyard at Elgin wasn't being kept up].

Claud T. Pritchett, married white male, aged 39, born in Georgia; head of household, with wife, Edith I Pritchett, and two children. Census: 1940, Militia District 874, Murray, Georgia.

Orriville Pritchett, white male, aged 17, born in Georgia; son of Stefan I. and Alice Pritchett. Spelling/index variation: Orriville Pritchett, instead of Arvel or Arvil Pritchett. 1920 census, Tenth District, Murray, Georgia.

Arvil H. Pritchett, white male, aged 27, born in Georgia; head of household, with wife, Sudie H. Pritchett. 1930 census, Tenth District, Murray, Georgia.

Sudie Pritchett, white female, aged 17, died 23 Nov 1931, in Crandall, Murray, Georgia. Estimated birth year, 1914; married, wife of A. H. Pritchett. Parents, Bill Headrick and Quincy Davis (both born in Georgia). Informant, Enoch Headrick, Cisco, Georgia. Buried at Calvary Cemetery, 14 November 1931.

Whitfield-Murray Historical Society, "Murray County, Georgia Marriages (Volume II): 1907-1941", p.50, Lents, Elmer (married) Onie Adams on 01 Mar 1925. Book N, p.497.