Obit of Matilda L. Dawson (d250) - Caddo County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Sandy Miller 30 Jan 2000 ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ===================================================================== Surnames: Dawson The Anadarko Tribune Jan. 11, 1923 Matilda L. Dawson died Jan. 08, 1923 DEATH OF MRS. MATILDA DAWSON Mrs. Matilda L. Dawson died in the hospital of the Union Soldiers' Home January 8, 1923, at four o'clock p.m. Mrs. Dawson had been a member of the Home since March 5, 1922. Her illness was of two weeks' duration, and at no time was there prospect of recovery. Apparently, the sands in the hour glass of life had run out. Two of her three children---Mrs. Frank Chandler, her only daughter, and J.W. Dawson, one of her two sons---both of Jennings, Kansas, arrived at the Home at six-thirty o'clock Monday morning. At no time during their short stay of some ten hours with their mother was she conscious of their presence. One other son, Wilbur Dawson, was unable to be at the bedside of their mother. The hospital authorities of the Home did all in their power to prevent undue suffering by the patient. The body of the deceased was shipped to Anadarko, Okla., Tuesday, and was accompanied there by her son and daughter from the Soldiers' Home. Arrangements had been made for the burial of Mrs. Dawson beside the remains of her husband, H.M. Dawson, which took place about five o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the Anadarko Cemetery. Representatives of the Ladies' Circle, G.A.R., of which order she was a member, met the remains of Mrs. Dawson at the Rock Island station in Anadarko. The remains were at once conveyed to the cemetery. Here, short services were held by Rev. W.E. Robinson, pastor of the M.E. Church of which denomination Mrs. Dawson had long been a member. Matilda L. Dawson was born in Buchanan county, Missouri--May 2, 1849, near St. Joseph. She was united in marriage in 1865 to H.M. Dawson, who passed away at Anadarko, January 29, 1913. He was a splendid soldier, and belonged to William McKinley Post, No. 98, Department of Oklahoma, G.A.R. at Anadarko. They had moved from Smith county, Kansas at the time of the opening in 1901, moved to a piece of land near Sickles, Caddo county, Okla., where they carved out a farm. From the farm they moved to Anadarko in 1906, where both lived until after the husband's death, and where she continued to make her home the most of the time until her admission to the Soldiers' Home.