Margaret Mary was born September 12, 1893, at Papa and Mama's home near Scott City, Kansas, while Papa was lined up to make the run for their claim of a homestead in Oklahoma at noon on September 16th.. Mary died on December 20, 1895 at the Homestead while Papa was again away on a trip. One report has it that she died of typhoid, but another says diptheria.
Little Mary's body was placed in a snowbank to preserve it until Papa could get home and give her a proper funeral and burial on the homestead. Such was life on the frontier.
At some later time, she was reinterred at the Odd Fellows Cemetery near Maramec, Oklahoma.
See Mary's gravestone on the Odd Fellows Cemetery page: |
