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Susie Ida Elizabeth <I>Key</I> Montgomery

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Susie Ida Elizabeth Key Montgomery

Birth
Death
1949 (aged 87–88)
Burial
Canute, Washita County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
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Married :October 9, 1890 in Little River County, Arkansas

"In late 1894, Lindsey Powell Carpenter (L.P.C.) and Susie Elizabeth Montgomery, with five children: Tom, Allen, Ione, Fannie, and Sam, started from Greenville, Texas for Indian Territory. They loaded their few belongings in a covered wagon and made a trail by fording all the streams, including the Red River, to a claim northwest of Foss ,Oklahoma, near Foss Lake, where L.P.C.'s mother had made the run a few years earlier, and staked a claim. The family, lived in a half-dugout in the Edwardsville community.Three additional children were born to the Montgomerys: Lucy, Mrs. Parven Hickey of Cheyenne, Oklahoma; Alice, Mrs. John Marcum of Sayre, Oklahoma; and Joe Montgomery of Visalia, California.They were buried side-by-side in Edwardsville, Oklahoma, and when the Foss Dam was constructed, the Edwardsville cemetery was relocated to the cemetery in Canute, Oklahoma.
Married :October 9, 1890 in Little River County, Arkansas

"In late 1894, Lindsey Powell Carpenter (L.P.C.) and Susie Elizabeth Montgomery, with five children: Tom, Allen, Ione, Fannie, and Sam, started from Greenville, Texas for Indian Territory. They loaded their few belongings in a covered wagon and made a trail by fording all the streams, including the Red River, to a claim northwest of Foss ,Oklahoma, near Foss Lake, where L.P.C.'s mother had made the run a few years earlier, and staked a claim. The family, lived in a half-dugout in the Edwardsville community.Three additional children were born to the Montgomerys: Lucy, Mrs. Parven Hickey of Cheyenne, Oklahoma; Alice, Mrs. John Marcum of Sayre, Oklahoma; and Joe Montgomery of Visalia, California.They were buried side-by-side in Edwardsville, Oklahoma, and when the Foss Dam was constructed, the Edwardsville cemetery was relocated to the cemetery in Canute, Oklahoma.

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Double stone with Lindsey



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