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Submitted: 1/12/12 • Approved: 9/23/23 • Last Updated: 9/26/23 • R634704-G634704-S3
Alonzo
May 18, 1852 - September 6, 1936
*Obituary
Benton County Democrat
Thursday, September 10, 1936
ANOTHER PIONEER CITIZEN IS CALLED BY DEATH
Funeral services for Haislip Alonzo McGaugh, aged 84, a highly esteemed citizen and successful farmer of Benton County for the past 65 years., who died at his home two miles south of Centerton at 9:15 o’clock Sunday morning, Sept, 6th, 1936, were held Monday afternoon at the New Temperance Hill Baptist Church near his home, conducted by the Rev. T. F. Jones and the Rev. E.F. Rice, Baptist ministers of Decatur and Springdale. The funeral music included two tenor solos by Bill Barker, Mrs. Baker as accompanist.
The pallbearers were Sid Rakes, Newt Harrell, Bruce Sherman, Dave Sherman, John Miller, and J.R. Kincaid, and burial was in the Barron cemetery. The Burns Funeral Home of Bentonville was in charge of funeral arrangements.
Mr. McGaugh was the son of Elliott Hickman McGaugh and Rebecca Haislip McGaugh and was born May 18th, 1852, in Marshall County Tenn. He came from Tennessee to Northwest Arkansas with his parents when he was 19 years of age. The family settled on a farm four miles west of Lowell, this county.
On March 6th, 1873, at Elm Springs, Washington County, Mr. McGaugh was married to Miss Sallie N. Sharp. She passed away April 27th, 1921. On Nov. 3rd, 1921, he married Miss Sallie L Cowan of Lowell.
Mr. McGaugh had lived in the home in which he died for 48 years. He joined the Baptist Church when he was 20 years of age and continued a faithful Christian life until the end. For many ears he had been a member of the Bethlehem Baptist Church. He had been in ill health since November 1932.
He is survived by his wife and by one son, Marvin McGaugh of Cottonwood, Arizona, who was here recently for a visit with his father, and by two daughters, Mrs. Octqa Brown of Lowell and Mrs. Minnie Harrel of near Bentonville. He is survived also by two brothers, Oscar McGaugh of Elk City, Okla., and W.F. McGaugh of Lowell, Ark., and by 15 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Another son, Henry McGaugh, died suddenly at this home southwest of Bentonville on December 20th, 1935.
Sallie
January 6, 1856 - April 27, 1921
*Obituary
Benton County Record
Friday April 29, 1921
McGAUGH, Sallie A. SHARP - Mrs. Sallie McGaugh, wife of Alonzo McGaugh, died at the family home southeast of Centerton Tuesday morning after an illness of some months. Besides a husband she leaves two sons, Henry and Marvin, two daughters, Mrs. Minnie Harrel and Mrs. Octa Brown of near Lowell. She was about sixty-five years of age. Burial was made in the Barron cemetery Wednesday afternoon in the presence of a large number of friends and relatives.
*Obituary
Benton County Record
Friday May 13, 1921
MEMOIR OF SALLIE A. McGAUGH
In Benton' county, Arkansas on Spring creek, near Elm Springs, Sallie A. Sharp was born the 6th day of January 1856. Here she resided until she reached maturity. She was married to H. A. McGaugh on March 6th, 1873. To this union were born seven children. Three of the children preceded their mother to the Spirit Realm, having died in infancy. The other four, Henry, Marvin, Octa and Minnie survive her and were in attendance during her painful illness and demise which occurred near Centerton, April 27, 1921.
The surviving children are deprived of the truest and most affectionate one, they ever knew in this world. The husband has not only lost the real sunshine of his life, but the "better half" of himself has gone to the glory world. The brothers and sisters have lost a safe and sane counselor and a true sympathizer of life's sorrows. Her church has given up one of her most godly and exemplary members. Her community has sustained a great loss in Sister McGaugh's departure.
We now come to look for the clement in Sister McGaugh's life, which made her a queen in her own household, that caused her to be revered by her children, that gave her that intensely sympathetic nature, for others, that made a consistent circumspect church life, her delight, and that gave her the preeminence over many of her contemporaries. That one predominant element is the divine nature wrought in her soul by the operation of God's Spirit, early in life, for we are informed that she professed faith in Christ Jesus at the age of eleven years. Her life was so well lived that when she was informed that she could not recover from her illness, and was asked what she had to say, her reply was, "I have been saying all the time, there is nothing more to say." Soon attar conversion she united with the Baptist church and held membership in different local Baptist churches, the remainder of her lifetime. At We time of her departure she held membership in the Bethlehem Baptist church.
Funeral services were held by her pastor at the Barron cemetery, in the presence of many sorrowing friends and relatives, after which her body was laid to rest. April 27, 1921, to await the resurrection from the dead.
—T. F. Jones
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