Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  Mrs. William J. Stephens

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The Hominy News
Friday, Nov. 18, 1949
Vol. 44, No. 53
Page 1

Stephens Rites Held Thursday

Services fro Mrs. William J. Stephens, 82, were conducted last Thursday 
afternoon in the First Baptist church with the Rev. R. H. Miller, pastor of 
the Oak Hill Baptist church, and the Rev. Roe Rock, Bartlesville, 
officiating.  Interment was in the Osage cemetery under the direction of 
the Powell Funeral home.

Mrs. Stephens died in a Blackwell hospital November 8.  At the time of her 
death she was making her home with a daughter, Mrs. Alice Morgan, in 
Blackwell.

She was born near Bentonville, Ark., September 9, 1867, and was married to 
William J. Stephens at Cove City, Ark., in September 1886.  In 1904 they 
moved to Oklahoma and she continued to make her home in this state.  She 
was a member of the Baptist church for the past 60 years and at the time of 
her death was a member of the First Baptist church in Hominy.  Her husband 
and four children preceded her in death.

She is survived by 74 direct descendants, including two daughters, five 
sons, 29 grandchildren and 38 great grandchildren.  The daughters are 
Mrs. Morgan of Blackwell and Mrs. A. K. Parks of Holtville, Calif.  The 
daughters are Mrs. Morgan of Blackwell and Mrs. A. K. Parks of Holtville, 
Calif.  The sons are Bill Stephens, Perkins, Bert Stephens, Woodward, Elmer 
Stephens, Wynona, and Marion Stephens and John, both of Holtville, Calif.  
Other survivors in clued two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Nichols, Hominy, and 
Mrs. Ethel Wymore, Spanway, Wash.