ADRIAN HAGAMAN MCRAE, 83, was born Dec. 30,
1908. She came to Ranger, TX from Tennessee after the
death of her mother & attended Ranger High School while
living with her grand-parents, M.H. Hagaman family. She
married Hamilton E. McRae and they lived in Midland,
TX & had a daughter, Mary Ann McRae Myer of Midland.
Hamilton E. McRae died in Midland in 1991. Adrian
died there Oct. 26, 1992. She taught home economics
at RHS during the early 1930s.
DAUGHTER: MARY ANN MCRAE, 81, was born on
Nov. 23, 1934, at Ranger, TX to Hamilton E. McRae, Jr.
& Adrian Hagaman McRae (RHS-1927). My father, a graduate
of The University of Texas School of Law, was practicing
law with his uncle John D. McRae in Eastland, TX, and my
mother was a graduate of the College of Industrial Arts
in Denton, TX with a degree in Costume Design & taught
home economics at Ranger High until she and my father
married in 1933. We lived in Eastland until 1936 when
we moved to Midland, TX where my father started a law
firm with Frank Stubbeman & Tom Sealy and was engaged
in the practice of law there until his death in 1991.
My parents built a house at 406 South L Street in 1937.
It was on an unpaved street and a cornfield was cleared
to build the house. Soon afterwards the Tom Sealy family
built a house next door on the corner of L and Holloway
Streets.
I attended public schools in Midland, graduating Saluta-
torian from John M Cowden Junior High School and then
graduating again as Salutatorian from Midland High School
in 1952. I received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1955
from Southern Methodist University, majoring in Spanish
with a minor in Comparative Literature. At SMU I was a
member of Kappa Alpha Sorority, along with many Spanish
and English honoraries. I graduated from SMY Magna Cum
Laude in 1955. After graduating from SMU, I worked for
the law firm of Stubbeman, McRae and Sealy until my
marriage to Thomas Menzies Sloan, the son of Thomas
Nettleton Sloan and Mary Frances Menzies Sloan, also
of Midland.Of that union two children were born, Thomas
McRae Sloan and Mary Katherine Sloan in 1961. Thomas
Menzies Sloan and I divorced in 1985, and I studied at
Midland College to obtain an Associate Degree as a Legal
Assistant, obtaining my certification as a Certified
Legal Assistant in 1987 & began work as a Legal Assistant
with the firm of Kerr, Fitzgerald, Kerr and later for the
McRae Management Trust.
In 1993, I began a relationship with John Edward Meyer
who had moved to Midland with his parents from Wichita,
KS, where he was born. We married at the MacRae Castle,
Eileen Donan at Dornie by Kyle, Scotland in Aug. of 2000,
where my ancestors had been christened and married for
hundreds of years, attended by two of my MacRae family
who now own the castle. John & I the joined the Millenium
Gathering of Clan MacRae and traveled with that group
for two weeks. Then, when that Clan Gathering was over,
we traveled to the Outer Hebrides for two weeks.
I have owned and operated a sporting goods business by
the name of Comanche Outfitters, selling all manners of
hunting, fishing, and camping supplies. For many years,
I even held a Federal Firearms License in my own name in
the 1970's and 1980's. I was active in work with the
Buffalo Trails Council of the Boy Scouts of America and
served as a merit badge counselor for many years, and
with a great deal of research in hiking and canoeing,
was able to establish the Grand Comanche War Trail as a
hiking trail for the Boy Scouts of America. I have enjoyed
hunting, fly fishing and camping for many years, and sold
Grumman and Old Town Canoes. I have enjoyed skeet shooting
at the Midland Gun Club for many years.
My memberships include the Episcopal Church, Kappa Alpha
Theta Sorority, the Clan MacRae Society of North America,
of which I am now a Director Emeritus, the Clan MacRae
Society of Scotland, the Clan Macleod Society, the Celtic
Heritage Club of the Permian Basin, the Scottish Heritage
of the Permian Basin, and the Republican National Committee.
I am survived by my husband, John Edward Meyer. My descendants
include my son, Thomas McRae Sloan and grandson, Thomas Sneed
Sloan of Midland, Texas, my daughter Katie Sloan Goggans and
her husband, Chris Goggans, of Gun Barrel City, Texas, and
her son Christopher Ross Cherryhomes of Midland and Sarah
Michelle Cherryhomes of Dallas, TX; great-grandchildren Like
and Rose; my brother, Hamilton E. McRae III and his wife,
Betty Hawkins McRael (formerly of Midland) now living in
Paradise Valley, Arizona, and their children & grandchildren
as follows: Beth McRae and husband Bill Doherty, Stephanie
and Todd Campbell & their two children, Cole McRae Campbell
and Lauren McRae Campbell, and Scott Hawkins McRae and his
three children, Alex, Chris, and Bradley, all of Paradise
Valley, AZ.
My first cousin, Suzanne McRae Clay lives in Jackson, MS and
her children Mark and his wife, Dixie, and their family as
well as my father's brother Bryan and Jamie Clay and their
children also in Jackson, MS. My other McRae first cousins
are Adrienne Doss Ford and her son Robert Lyndle Garrett,
and Dudley Doss; also a second cousin Katherine Clancy Olson
and her husband Sean Olson of California.
I have numerous McRae cousins and double cousins in Arkansas
and North Carolina as well as my cousins from the Hagaman
family, Betty Lou Hagaman Doebbler (RHS-1952) & her family,
& Patrick Horrigan of New York City. Note: Patrick passed
away on Jan. 11, 2024.