The spirit of W.A. McKay took flight to its eternal home from his residence, Tuesday night, September 26, 1911. The funeral was conducted the following afternoon at 2 o'clock at Tap Cemetery and all that was mortal of the long afflicted father, was tenderly given back to the clasp and kiss of earth. The sorrow on the faces of the crowd that stood around his grave told more plainly than words can, how his friends felt the loss of one of their characters.He was the son of J.F. McKay and was born in Robertson county, Texas Oct. 21, 1879, but had lived in Dickens county several years before his death. He was married to Miss Alice Smith December 31, 1899.
He leaves her and three children, Walter, Paul and Burton, four brothers and two sisters to mourn his loss.
He was ever cheerful and considered life real and earnest. He loved his friends and was true to them. He held on the hope of life and the restoration of health until the last, but when he realized that death was inevitable he held on to the brittle thread as it were and said "that death had no sting" and " that he was willing and ready to go." The sunshine of love could not warm his life, nor the affections of friends and loved ones beguile him from drooping. His breath went out like exhalation of a sweet fragrant mission of the woodland, and in his stead was left a holy and beautiful memory, a memory that will last and sanctify as long as acquaintances are in existence.
May God's purest angel guard his slumbers and may his friends remember that he is with Jesus and ever beckoning for them to follow on.
©The Texas Spur, October 27, 1911
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