Listed as, Miss Stites, which is her mother's second husband's name. No one seems to know why she ended up in New Mexico. I did find out that Myrell's sister, Susanna Martin and her husband, John Wesley White, had a son, Jacob White, who was living in Raton in 1892. She could have went there to stay with the Whites. There is also a story that she left with a William Shaw from the Galena Kansas area. There is a W. M Shaw, born in 1873 and dying the same year 1908, buried in the same cemetery as she is. Also I've heard she was married to a Hispanic man, and died in childbirth. Any theory is she was ill with a lung disease and was sent to Raton for her health. Raton is in the mountains near Santa Fe.
Listed as, Miss Stites, which is her mother's second husband's name. No one seems to know why she ended up in New Mexico. I did find out that Myrell's sister, Susanna Martin and her husband, John Wesley White, had a son, Jacob White, who was living in Raton in 1892. She could have went there to stay with the Whites. There is also a story that she left with a William Shaw from the Galena Kansas area. There is a W. M Shaw, born in 1873 and dying the same year 1908, buried in the same cemetery as she is. Also I've heard she was married to a Hispanic man, and died in childbirth. Any theory is she was ill with a lung disease and was sent to Raton for her health. Raton is in the mountains near Santa Fe.
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