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EMELINE BETTS (MRS.)

Newspaper: "The Indian Citizen-Democrat"
Atoka, Oklahoma,
January 10, 1929, page 4

Mrs. Emeline Betts was born near Ripley, Mississippi in 1838, died at her home in the Ward’s Chapel community on December 29, 1928 at the age of 90 years. Mrs. Betts was converted and united with the church when just a girl of which institution she has been a faithful member for seventy years, 32 years of which she was a member of the Baptist Church at Ward’s Chapel. She was laid to rest in the Ward’s Chapel cemetery on Sunday, December 30, the funeral services being conducted by Reverend L. B. Smith of Atoka. Thus "Another useful life has been brought to a close at a ripe old age."

Submitted by Carl Phillips Carl@jps.net

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