Obituary of Sarah McBee
6 January 1982
The Miami Tribe Archives
S. L. Darling, Editor
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Death Claims Sarah McBee

Sarah Emma Gordon McBee, 92, 901 B northwest, died
Wednesday at Miami Baptist Hospital.

Mrs. McBee was born Sept. 3, 1889,, in La Cygne, Kan., 
and had lived in Miami most of her life, moving here
from Kansas.  She was the second oldest member of the 
Miami Tribe of Indiana and was an adopted member of
Quapaw tribe.

A mine on her Quapaw allotment, called the Emma Gordon,
was one of the oldest and richest developments in the
Tri-State mining district.  She still owned part of the
original allotment at the time of her death.

Services will be Friday at 10 a.m. at the First Methodist 
Church with the Rev. Charles McBee officiating.

Burial will be in GAR Cemeter under the direction of
the Cooper Funeral Home.  Grandsons will be pallbearers.