Edith Elma ROWE

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NameEdith Elma ROWE

Birth16 Jun 1888, La Crosse, Rush County, Kansas

Death2 Apr 1981, McAlester, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma

BurialOak View Memorial Park, Antioch, Contra Costa County, California

Spouses

1Ray Wilson STEELE

Birth23 Dec 1883, Texas, USA

Death17 Dec 1951, Imola, Napa County, California

BurialOak View Memorial Park, Antioch, Contra Costa County, California

FatherJohn STEELE (1842-1918)

MotherEmma Lamond MORGAN (1850-)

ChildrenMary Emma (1907-2004)

Notes for Edith Elma ROWE

Courtesy of KG,

Find A Grave Memorial# 7029634

My great grandmother Edith was the daughter of Mary Ann (Miller) and Henry Harrison Rowe. Edith married Ray Wilson Steele 23 June 1906 in Dow, Indian Terrifory, Oklahoma. Edith & Ray had 4 children: Mary Emma, Jessie Margaret, Clifford Alice, & Robert Ray Steele.

When her husband Ray was unable to work in the coal mines of Oklahoma due to illness, Edith supported her family by farming. She also worked at the boarding house owned and operated by her sister-in-law "aunt Wheeler". Through the years, Edith supported her family by selling her hand made clothes sewn on her peddle operated sewing machine during the early 1900's.

Sources:

1910 Okla. Census, Dow, Pushmataha Co.
1920 & 1930 Oklahoma Census, Tuskahoma, Pushmataha County
Book - A Coal Miner's Son, by her son Robert R. Steele

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