Obit of DeFever, Anna Florence McKay - Alfalfa County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 18 Sep 2005 Return to Alfalfa County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/alfalfa/alfalfa.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Surnames: DeFever, McKay, Lewter Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/6135 Services were held for Mrs. Woodson DeFever Thursday morning, July 12, 1951 at the Friends Church at Cherokee, Oklahoma, with W.A. Keller officiating. Singers were Mrs. L.P. Holiday, Mrs. M.E. Henderson, Willard Coppock and Homer Carpenter. Mis Nadra Jane Andree was accompanist. Casket bearers were Cephas DeFever, Herbert DeFever, Bill Huchison, George McKay, Kenneth Brown, and James Brown, gradsons and nephews. Interment in M.W.A. cemetery was under the direction of the Hodge Funeral Home, Cherokee, Oklahoma. Anna Florence McKay, daughter of Alexander and Anna Jane McKay, was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, January 28, 1870, and departed this life at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W.A. Lewter, Hammon, Oklahoma, July 10, 1951, at the age of 81 years 5 months and 12 days. She came to Kansas with her parents when she was ten years of age. The family located at Stafford, where the deceased grew to womanhood, and on May 9, 1892, was united in marriage with Woodson DeFever. To their union the following children were born: Gladys, Alec, Lee and Marion, all of whom survive their mother. Following their marriage Mr. and Mrs. DeFever continued to make their home at Stafford until the opening of the Cherokee Strip to settlelment on September 16, 1893. Mr. DeFever made the race for a claim and made homestead entry on a quarter section of land three miles southeasr of Cherokee. That section of the country hads been their home since the opening of the country. Mrs. DeFever became a Christian early in life and for the past 45 years she has been a member of the Friends church at Cherokee. Mrs. DeFever was another member of that group of faithful pioneer women who labored zealously through storm and strife to make the new country a worthy place for family life --they established the homes; organized the schools and founded the church that their children might become worthy citizens of a greatt nation. Mr. and Mrs. DeFever would have celebrated the sixieth anniversaary of their marriagee next year. They celebrated their golden anniversay in 1942. Surviving are her husband, Woodson DeFever, Cherokee; a daughter, Mrs. W.A. Lewter, Hammon, Oklahoma; three sons, Alec and Lee, Bell, California, and Marion, White Deerr, Texas; 14 grandchilden and 4 great grandchildren; many other relatives and friends who join the immediate family in its bereavement. The Hammon Advocate, Hammon, OK 19-Jul-1951 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Alfalfa County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/alfalfa/alfalfa.htm