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Mary Katherine <I>Large</I> Wills

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Mary Katherine Large Wills

Birth
Neosho County, Kansas, USA
Death
11 Aug 1939 (aged 62)
Ottawa County, Oklahoma, USA
Burial
Miami, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, USA GPS-Latitude: 36.9081306, Longitude: -94.8797226
Plot
Block 3, Lot 20, Grave 6
Memorial ID
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Mrs. Mary Wills

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Katherine Wills, 63 years old, who died Friday night at her Devil's promenade home, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the Miami Catholic church. Father Leonard Parmented will officiate.

Mrs. Wills, widow of the late Jack Fish, a full-blood Quapaw Indian, had been a resident of this district since 1891. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Della Boggs of Douthat, and six grandchildren.

Burial will be in G.A.R. cemetery under the direction of the Lane Funeral Home.

Miami Daily News Record
August 13, 1939 - Page 2

Family notes: She married a Bob Wills after Jack Fish. She is buried under the name Wills at the GAR Cemetery. Neither Jack Fish or Bob Wills are buried next to her.

Volunteer Notes: Although her gravestone has her birth year as 1876, the 1900 U.S. Census taken on June 7, 1900, in Vinitia, Oklahoma, gives her birth month and year as May 1877 and her age as 23.
Mrs. Mary Wills

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Katherine Wills, 63 years old, who died Friday night at her Devil's promenade home, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the Miami Catholic church. Father Leonard Parmented will officiate.

Mrs. Wills, widow of the late Jack Fish, a full-blood Quapaw Indian, had been a resident of this district since 1891. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Della Boggs of Douthat, and six grandchildren.

Burial will be in G.A.R. cemetery under the direction of the Lane Funeral Home.

Miami Daily News Record
August 13, 1939 - Page 2

Family notes: She married a Bob Wills after Jack Fish. She is buried under the name Wills at the GAR Cemetery. Neither Jack Fish or Bob Wills are buried next to her.

Volunteer Notes: Although her gravestone has her birth year as 1876, the 1900 U.S. Census taken on June 7, 1900, in Vinitia, Oklahoma, gives her birth month and year as May 1877 and her age as 23.


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