Alef May Buckley: Strong McLemore Ancestry

Generation: 1

Alef May Buckley was born on 24 Apr 1897 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; died on 24 May 1997 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas.

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The Sabine County Reporter
May 28, 1997, Page 14

Alef May Seale

Alef May Seale, 100, of Hemphill died at 11:20 a.m. Saturday, May 24, 1997, at Hemphill Care Center.

She was born April 24, 1897, in Hemphill as a daughter of the late Fannie Rowena (White) and William Archibald Buckley and was a lifelong area resident. Mrs. Seale was a retired seamstress.

Survivors: six grandchildren, Hugh Byars of Nacogdoches, Stephen Simcoe and William Simcoe, both of Lufkin, Jane Sutherland of Newark, Texas, and Patty Cornwell and Vera Vess, both of Rhome, Texas; a sister, Clemence Erwin of Hemphill; and eight great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son, Hugh Marble, and a daughter, Maxine Cornwell.

Funeral services were held at s p.m. Monday at the chapel of Starr Funeral Home Inc. in Hemphill with Bro. Clarence Howell and Bro. Vance R. Purtell officiating. Interment followed at Hemphill City Cemetery.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, March 2011)