Beckham County, OK - Obits: Mattie M. Creswell, 1927
Friday, 21 Dec 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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CRESWELL, MATTIE M.
(7 Apr 1927, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Mrs. Mattie M. Zinn Creswell was born in Carroll County, Mo., June 18,
1854.  Died at the home of her oldest son, Tom, in Hammon, Okla., April 1,
1927.  Age 72 years, 9 months, 13 days.
She was married to John Creswell February 28, 1875, to which they
celebrated their golden anniversary.  To this union was born ten children,
three of whom died in infancy, and a daughter, Mrs. Ella Price, who died
in 1917.  She left five sons, Tom, Joe and Oscar of Hammon, Dave of Long
Beach, Calif., and Jim of Elk City, and one daughter, Mrs. Molly
Carpenter, of Hico, Texas.  She was grandmother to twenty children, and
twice great-grandmother.
Thirty-eight years ago she came with her family to the Indian Territory,
locating near what is now Purcell.  When Oklahoma was opened for
settlement in 1889, they filed on a claim near Bessie.  They moved to Elk
City in 1919.
When she was 18 years old she was converted and joined the Baptist Church,
of which she was a faithful member.  She was preceded in death by her
husband one year and one day.
Funeral services were held Friday, April 1, at the First Baptist church
and was buried beside her husband in Fairlawn Cemetery.

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