Mother Gravley Dies at Her Home Early Thursday

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD TODAY (FRIDAY) AT 3 O'CLOCK AT METHODIST CHURCH

Mrs. John L. Gravley died early Thursday morning at her home after a long illness. She was 85 years old and had been confined to her bed for the past several years.

A nurse, Miss Cora King, stayed with her all the time and says that Mrs. Gravley had awakened about midnight, but had gone back to sleep without any trouble.

Miss King awoke around 3:00 and investigated when she didn't hear "Aunt Lou" breathing. Grandmother Gravley went to sleep and never awakened, it is assumed.

Mrs. Gravley came with her family to Texas 64 years ago from Pickens, South Carolina, when Jake, their eldest son, was 6 weeks old, and settled at Letot and never lived out of this vicinity afterward.

She is survived by four sons, Earl, Will, Jake and Roy, one daughter, Mrs. Walter Kennedy, the other daughter, Mrs. John Cook, having died at Perryton last January, twenty grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren.

"Uncle John" died about four years ago.

Funeral arrangements a re being handled by Rhotons, with the service set for 3 o'clock this afternoon (Friday) at the Methodist church here, Rev. Felix R. Kindel, pastor, officiating, aided by Rev. N. W. Oliver, former pastor here now pastor of the Lewisville Methodist church.

Burial  will be at Frankford cemetery.

The Carrollton Chronicle - Sep 22, 1944
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

LULA BAKER GRAVLEY

Born December 28th 1859, in Pickens County South Carolina, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Baker.

She was married to J. L. Gravley on January 30, 1879, and came to Texas in December of 1880. They settled in Lamar county, near Paris, and lived there one year. Then they moved to Dallas county near Cochran chapel and both she and her husband, John L. Gravley, who preceded her in death on July 15th in 1940, spent the rest of their lives in Dallas county, except for eight years spent in Denton county. They resided in Carrollton since December of 1919.

Mrs. Gravley joined the Baptist church when about 14 years of age and later, after her marriage, joined the Methodist church with her husband.

She is survived by two brother, Richard E. Baker, of Pickens, South, Carolina, and Tony Baker, somewhere in Georgia.

The Carrollton Chronicle - October 6, 1944
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

GRAVLEY
LULA M. GRAVLEY - DEC. 28, 1859 - SEPT. 21, 1944
JOHN L. GRAVLEY - DEC. 13, 1856 - JULY 15, 1940

Frankford Cemetery, Dallas, Collin County, Texas