Murtle was full-blood Delaware (Lenape) Indian. Her family's cemetery is in McAlister OK on private property.
Why was she buried in Cameron MO?
She had 4 or 5 children who were sent to the Mission School at White Church KS (Indian orphanage) upon her death.
According to an online family tree, Murtle (Myrtle)'s lineage is:
generation#1: Lewis & Elizabeth (Ziegler) Ketchum who chose to stay in Wyandotte Co KS when the govt relocated the Delaware people to Cherokee land in Eastern OK
generation #2: Silas & Cora (Neville) Ketchum
generation #3: Murtle Ketchum m.G Henry McAuliffe
generation #4: Sam (aka Walter), Edith, Cora (1887-1964), Ted
There is a Theodore R McAuliffe of the right age (1904-1961) buried in KS #3660179. Could this be Myrtle's son?
Why was she buried in Cameron MO?
She had 4 or 5 children who were sent to the Mission School at White Church KS (Indian orphanage) upon her death.
According to an online family tree, Murtle (Myrtle)'s lineage is:
generation#1: Lewis & Elizabeth (Ziegler) Ketchum who chose to stay in Wyandotte Co KS when the govt relocated the Delaware people to Cherokee land in Eastern OK
generation #2: Silas & Cora (Neville) Ketchum
generation #3: Murtle Ketchum m.G Henry McAuliffe
generation #4: Sam (aka Walter), Edith, Cora (1887-1964), Ted
There is a Theodore R McAuliffe of the right age (1904-1961) buried in KS #3660179. Could this be Myrtle's son?
Murtle was full-blood Delaware (Lenape) Indian. Her family's cemetery is in McAlister OK on private property.
Why was she buried in Cameron MO?
She had 4 or 5 children who were sent to the Mission School at White Church KS (Indian orphanage) upon her death.
According to an online family tree, Murtle (Myrtle)'s lineage is:
generation#1: Lewis & Elizabeth (Ziegler) Ketchum who chose to stay in Wyandotte Co KS when the govt relocated the Delaware people to Cherokee land in Eastern OK
generation #2: Silas & Cora (Neville) Ketchum
generation #3: Murtle Ketchum m.G Henry McAuliffe
generation #4: Sam (aka Walter), Edith, Cora (1887-1964), Ted
There is a Theodore R McAuliffe of the right age (1904-1961) buried in KS #3660179. Could this be Myrtle's son?
Why was she buried in Cameron MO?
She had 4 or 5 children who were sent to the Mission School at White Church KS (Indian orphanage) upon her death.
According to an online family tree, Murtle (Myrtle)'s lineage is:
generation#1: Lewis & Elizabeth (Ziegler) Ketchum who chose to stay in Wyandotte Co KS when the govt relocated the Delaware people to Cherokee land in Eastern OK
generation #2: Silas & Cora (Neville) Ketchum
generation #3: Murtle Ketchum m.G Henry McAuliffe
generation #4: Sam (aka Walter), Edith, Cora (1887-1964), Ted
There is a Theodore R McAuliffe of the right age (1904-1961) buried in KS #3660179. Could this be Myrtle's son?
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