Obituary of Nancy Matilda Kuykendall Pendergrass from the Alamogordo News, NM Saturday March 10, 1906:
MRS. PENDERGRASS DEAD
  Mrs. Matilda Pendergrass died here Wednesday at a few minutes past 2 o'clock pm at the home of Mrs. Delia Brown, aged 58 of kidney disease.  .....A husband and 7 children survive. The deceased had lived with her husband and family in this section for 18 years, coming here from Comanche county, Texas. Funeral and burial took place Thursday afternoon at La Luz.