Mrs. Mary Holderman, widow of the late Marion Holderman and widely known in this section, died suddenly Sunday night at the home of Mrs. M. Walker, in the south part of town, where she had been visiting recently. She was age 85 years and 7 months and is survived by a son, Henry Holderman, Vinita and two daughters, Mrs. Pearl Leap living southwest of Chetopa, and Mrs. Nellie Fuller of Tahlequah, Okla. Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at the Presbyterian church, Rev. Miller of Pittsburg officiating and burial being in Oak Hill cemetery. Mary Elizabeth Covel was born August 23, 1844, at Park Hill Mission, near Tahlequah, in what was then Indian Territory. Her father, Caleb Covel, had gone from Maine to Georgia as an independent teacher among the Cherokee Indians. When the Cherokees migrated to Indian Territory about 1839 he came with them and founded a school at Park Hill. Upon her father's death, when she was 6 years old, Mary Covel was given to the missionaries, who reared her to womanhood in the Presbyterian faith and to that church she clung throughout her life, giving generously of both spiritual and material things. Three sons, Lemuel, Bert and C.E. Holderman, preceded her in death. Bert Holderman died as a result of disease contracted during his service as orderly to Col. Theodore Roosevelt, commander of the famous Rough Riders in the Spanish-American war and afterwards president of the United States. Mrs. Holderman's husband was a member of the Sixth Kansas cavalry during the civil war, serving three and a half years. Source: Chetopa Advance-Clipper, February 27, 1930
Mrs. Mary Holderman, widow of the late Marion Holderman and widely known in this section, died suddenly Sunday night at the home of Mrs. M. Walker, in the south part of town, where she had been visiting recently. She was age 85 years and 7 months and is survived by a son, Henry Holderman, Vinita and two daughters, Mrs. Pearl Leap living southwest of Chetopa, and Mrs. Nellie Fuller of Tahlequah, Okla. Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at the Presbyterian church, Rev. Miller of Pittsburg officiating and burial being in Oak Hill cemetery. Mary Elizabeth Covel was born August 23, 1844, at Park Hill Mission, near Tahlequah, in what was then Indian Territory. Her father, Caleb Covel, had gone from Maine to Georgia as an independent teacher among the Cherokee Indians. When the Cherokees migrated to Indian Territory about 1839 he came with them and founded a school at Park Hill. Upon her father's death, when she was 6 years old, Mary Covel was given to the missionaries, who reared her to womanhood in the Presbyterian faith and to that church she clung throughout her life, giving generously of both spiritual and material things. Three sons, Lemuel, Bert and C.E. Holderman, preceded her in death. Bert Holderman died as a result of disease contracted during his service as orderly to Col. Theodore Roosevelt, commander of the famous Rough Riders in the Spanish-American war and afterwards president of the United States. Mrs. Holderman's husband was a member of the Sixth Kansas cavalry during the civil war, serving three and a half years. Source: Chetopa Advance-Clipper, February 27, 1930
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