BERTHA MAE ARMOUR PERSON
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C1     BERTHA MAE ARMOUR PERSON was born February 17, 1891 at Mount George, 
Yell
County, Arkansas. She was the first child of  Shelby Lee and   Susie George Armour.
Some time after her birth the family moved to old Liberty Hall community. Their
home was on the Buck Armour farm at one corner set aside for them. She attended
school at the Bennett school house just across the road from what is now known as
the Liberty Hall church house in 1988.
    
Around 1900 the family moved to Lakeview from Carden Bottom. On February 16, 
1900,
her father, Shelby Lee, died of spinal meningitis. She was 9 years old and her
brother,  Clarence, was 7 years of age. Their mother, unable to farm, moved to a
little house in the yard of  Frank and   Jennie Armour George's home at old Neely.
The children attended school at old Neely near the Arkansas river.
    
On July 3, 1901   Susie Armour married  Frank Hulsey. Her family moved to Carden
Bottom near Fowler with his family. The children attended school at Lakeview when
the field work was done. After the Hulsey children were born, it was Bertha's duty
to care for them.
    
Life allegedly was not pleasant in the home of the stepfather for Bertha and
Clarence. Bertha had an organ and learned to play some numbers well. A favorite
childhood sweetheart of hers was Cassius Brook.
    
 John Person, who had moved to Carden Bottom to work, started dating Bertha. On
September 1, 1907, they were married by Justice of the Peace Dover Tate who lived
in Stubbs on the Bradley farm at the end of Black Lane. They lived at Fowler after
their marriage.
    
 Bertha lived most of her life in Yell County except the time spent in Van Buren
County, Arkansas from 1914 to 1925. A history of her family is listed with  John
Andrew Person in this book. She was the mother of  James,  Lola,  Orra,  Pad,
Raymond,  Lucille and  Johnie Mae.
      
She joined the Baptist Church at the age of 15 and the Order of the Eastern Star in
Carden Bottom Chapter #240 on October 2, 1926. Her last home was at Elberta, near
Dardanelle, Arkansas. She had the pleasure of living there from September 1, 1951
until her death May 18, 1959. Soon after moving there, she had a serious operation
for gallstones. Peritonitis set in but was controlled with modern drugs. The date
of the operation was April 2, 1955. About two years before her death she complained
of a serious pain in her right hip and leg. She thought it to be arthritis but the
pain grew so serious an examination showed her to have malignancy. The 
examination
showed her to also have a growth on her left lung which was malignant. She took
X-ray treatment in Tulsa, Oklahoma which arrested the pain enough to alleviate some
of her suffering.
 
While staying at the home of a daughter,  Johnie, in Tulsa, she received word of
the death of a half-brother,  Herbert Hulsey, on January 6, 1959 in Amarillo, Texas
of bone cancer.

After returning to her home from Tulsa she remained in bed about three months
before her death on May 18, 1959 at the age of 68 years, 3 months and 1 day old.
Her funeral was held in the Presbyterian Church in Dardanelle, Arkansas by Rev.  O.
D. Peters on May 20, 1959. Interment was in Brearley cemetery east of the main
gate. Nephews serving as pallbearers were  H. A. Dean,  Joe Vinson,  Tommy Lee
Armour,  Duard Finkenbinder,  Roy Tillman, Jr. and  Neal Person.
 
Life for her was mixed with many pleasures and hardships but she never complained
with her lot at any time.
 
She grieved for her mother who passed away at an early age just as we do for her.


"Time takes away the edge of grief,
But memory turns back every leaf,
A memory of by gone days, a sigh
For a face unseen; but God alone
Knew best what might have been."