Typed and spelled as written: Kay Cunningham

The Daily Democrat
Marlin, Texas Monday, June 29, 1931

Pioneer Texas Resident
Expires at Advanced Age

Member of Prominent Southern Family
Who Settled in This State
Sixty Years Ago.

Mrs. Mary McCauley Torbett, age 85, pioneer resident of Texas, died at 12:30 this morning in the Torbett Sanitarium following an illness of several weeks. Her husband, J. C. Torbett, died in Marlin in 1919.
Since he husband's death, Mrs. Torbett has lived with a son, Dr. Oscar Torbett, in Marlin. In 1923 she suffered a stroke of paralysis from which she never fully recovered. Recently she has been confined to the hospital.
Mrs. Torbett is survived by the following sons and daughters: J. S. Torbett of Gatesville, Mrs. J. W. Cook of Little Rock, Ark., Dr. J. W. Torbett, Dr. Oscar Torbett, and Frank Torbett of Marlin, and Mrs. Ada Armstrong of Bethany, Okla., Another son, Dr. Bert Torbett, died here in 1916. She is also survived by one sister, Mrs. Vinie Prince, of Frafford, Alabama, sixteen grandchildren and a number of great-grand-children.
Before he marriage she was Miss Mary Elizabeth Armstrong and was born at Ringold, Georgia, December 12, 1846. She was married February 5, 1865 to J. C. Torbett, a Confederate soldier, who served with the 11th Alabama regiment and was wounded at Gettysburg.
In 1870 Mr. and Mrs. Torbett moved to Jacksonville, Texas, later moving to The Grove, Coryell county, where they loved many rears and the children grew up. In 1908 they moved to McGregor, and were living there when Mr. Torbett died, since which time Mrs. Torbett has lived in Marlin.
Funeral services were announced for this afternoon at five o'clock at the funeral home.

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