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Profile Born: 7 Aug 1883 Springfield, MO Died: 2 Aug 1981 Fort Worth, TX Parents: Miley B. Wesson and Alice Bush Proctor Spouse: Edward F. Eitelman (m.1905) Children: Alice Elizabeth, Mary Helen, Edward Frederick, Jr. Occupation(s): Mother, Housewife Mary's Report Cards Ed and Mary's Gallery

Mary was the middle child of three born to Miley B. Wesson, Sr., and Alice Bush Proctor. Born in Springfield, MO, in 1883, Mary's mother died when she was only 4 years old. Her father worked as a land surveyor for the railroads. (This photo, and his own hand-made buckskin outfit he's wearing, is a part of the permanent display of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and Natural History.) Miley Sr. contracted tuberculosis late in life and, owing to the practice of the times, was "kept" more or less in quarantine in a shed behind the house at 1816 College Ave where he died in 1910. Mary's older brother, Miley B. Wesson, Jr., graduated from the school of medicine at Johns Hopkins University and was one of the founders of the American Urological Association. Family legend has it that he treated Gen. "Black Jack" Pershing for venereal disease during the general's campaign in pursuit of Pancho Villa. Her younger brother was Proctor Bush Wesson. Mary married Ed Eitelman in 1905, with whom she had three children: Alice Elizabeth (born 1907), Mary Helen (born 1910), and Edward Frederick, Jr., (born 1911). The family lived at 1510 S. Jennings in Fort Worth until about 1920, when Ed's mother Lizzie 'ordered' them to move into the house at 1812 College Ave., next door to Grumpa and Lizzie's house at 1816. [according to Fred Stockdale, Jr., Ed's grandson]. She resided there for several years after Ed's death in 1961. Devout Christians, Ed and Mary were members of various Presbyterian and other churches before founding, along with a handful of others, the McKinney Memorial Church in 1954. The first meetings of this new congretation met in their home on College Ave. In 1958, the congregation moved into its permanent home. The church is now one of the largest independent churches in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and is currently (2003) building on their third new site. (www.mckinneychurch.com) ... to be continued. Please check back soon. Prepared by: Steve Stockdale, great-grandson

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