OBITUARY -- Weatherford Democrat - "Mrs. Rumage's Funeral Services at 2:30 P.M. - Mrs. Mattie V. Rumage, who operated the Rumage Dry Goods Company for a number of years following the death of her husband, J. W. Rumage in 1917, passed away Thursday morning at her home on South Alamo Street. Her death was due to a stroke which she suffered Tuesday afternoon, and period of ill health of the past several years. She never regained consciousness after she was stricken and passed peacefully away at 10:30 o'clock Thursday. She was born in Johnson County, near Rio Vista on September 4th, 1870, the daughter of Sam and Susan Cooper, pioneers of that section of Texas. She was therefore 69 years and 4 months of age at the time of her death.
The family moved to Parker County in the Buckner Community, when she was three years of age and she grew to young womanhood there. She taught school for several years, both in Parker and Hood Counties, and was then married to J. W. Rumage in 1897. Mr. Rumage was a railroad man and they went to Oklahoma for a few years in 1891, returning in 1908. In 1914, Mr. Rumage engaged in the dry goods business which he conducted until his death in 1917, when Mrs. Rumage assumed management of the business and operated it until her health began to fail in 1929 when she retired to private life at 808 S. Alamo Street in Weatherford. Mrs. Rumage was a fine and noble woman who loved and was beloved by many friends and neighbors and who sought to find ways and means to be of help and material benefit to her fellowman. She was of the Baptist faith and until her health failed, was very active in Eastern Star work and in the Woodman Circle. J.W. and Mattie had no children. Mattie died January 11, 1940. They are buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in Weatherford."
Contributor: Evelyn Walters
The family moved to Parker County in the Buckner Community, when she was three years of age and she grew to young womanhood there. She taught school for several years, both in Parker and Hood Counties, and was then married to J. W. Rumage in 1897. Mr. Rumage was a railroad man and they went to Oklahoma for a few years in 1891, returning in 1908. In 1914, Mr. Rumage engaged in the dry goods business which he conducted until his death in 1917, when Mrs. Rumage assumed management of the business and operated it until her health began to fail in 1929 when she retired to private life at 808 S. Alamo Street in Weatherford. Mrs. Rumage was a fine and noble woman who loved and was beloved by many friends and neighbors and who sought to find ways and means to be of help and material benefit to her fellowman. She was of the Baptist faith and until her health failed, was very active in Eastern Star work and in the Woodman Circle. J.W. and Mattie had no children. Mattie died January 11, 1940. They are buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in Weatherford."
Contributor: Evelyn Walters
OBITUARY -- Weatherford Democrat - "Mrs. Rumage's Funeral Services at 2:30 P.M. - Mrs. Mattie V. Rumage, who operated the Rumage Dry Goods Company for a number of years following the death of her husband, J. W. Rumage in 1917, passed away Thursday morning at her home on South Alamo Street. Her death was due to a stroke which she suffered Tuesday afternoon, and period of ill health of the past several years. She never regained consciousness after she was stricken and passed peacefully away at 10:30 o'clock Thursday. She was born in Johnson County, near Rio Vista on September 4th, 1870, the daughter of Sam and Susan Cooper, pioneers of that section of Texas. She was therefore 69 years and 4 months of age at the time of her death.
The family moved to Parker County in the Buckner Community, when she was three years of age and she grew to young womanhood there. She taught school for several years, both in Parker and Hood Counties, and was then married to J. W. Rumage in 1897. Mr. Rumage was a railroad man and they went to Oklahoma for a few years in 1891, returning in 1908. In 1914, Mr. Rumage engaged in the dry goods business which he conducted until his death in 1917, when Mrs. Rumage assumed management of the business and operated it until her health began to fail in 1929 when she retired to private life at 808 S. Alamo Street in Weatherford. Mrs. Rumage was a fine and noble woman who loved and was beloved by many friends and neighbors and who sought to find ways and means to be of help and material benefit to her fellowman. She was of the Baptist faith and until her health failed, was very active in Eastern Star work and in the Woodman Circle. J.W. and Mattie had no children. Mattie died January 11, 1940. They are buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in Weatherford."
Contributor: Evelyn Walters
The family moved to Parker County in the Buckner Community, when she was three years of age and she grew to young womanhood there. She taught school for several years, both in Parker and Hood Counties, and was then married to J. W. Rumage in 1897. Mr. Rumage was a railroad man and they went to Oklahoma for a few years in 1891, returning in 1908. In 1914, Mr. Rumage engaged in the dry goods business which he conducted until his death in 1917, when Mrs. Rumage assumed management of the business and operated it until her health began to fail in 1929 when she retired to private life at 808 S. Alamo Street in Weatherford. Mrs. Rumage was a fine and noble woman who loved and was beloved by many friends and neighbors and who sought to find ways and means to be of help and material benefit to her fellowman. She was of the Baptist faith and until her health failed, was very active in Eastern Star work and in the Woodman Circle. J.W. and Mattie had no children. Mattie died January 11, 1940. They are buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in Weatherford."
Contributor: Evelyn Walters
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Evelyn Cooper Walters sent request name be changed from Martha, which was a name change from Mattie by someone else.
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