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Bio: Bessie was the second wife to her husband who was divorced 1-25-1888, after their marriage, they moved to Grant City, MO, Iola, IA then settled in South Haven or Hunnewell, Sumner Co, KS by 1892 (birth of first child, Royal in Anthony, KS), where James' elder brother, Samuel M., had moved in 1889. James had worked in Samuel's butcher shop in Henry, IL in years past.
See her husband's Bio for full family history.
Bessie's Obituary
Bessie Orpha Olmstead Croft, was born in Marshall County, IL, died at 9 o'clock Friday morning, August 9, 1935 at the home of her daughter Mrs. E. X. LeCounte, Ponca City, at the age of 68 years and 5 months.
On December 2, 1888, she was married to James H. Croft in Marshall County. The couple had 5 children.
She and her husband came to the community, nine miles northwest of Blackwell the opening of the Cherokee strip. They moved to Grant County in 1902 and to Blackwell in 1931. Following the death of her husband, August 15, 1934, she went to Ponca City to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. Lecounte. She was a member of the Christian Church.
She is survived by four sons, Arthur Croft, Ponca City; Royal Croft, Huston Kansas; H. E. Croft ,Jefferson; and Sam Croft, Nardin; and one daughter Mrs. LeCounte. Also a Stepson I. N. Croft, Varna Il. and one brother Edwin Olmstead, Colorado Springs, Co, and 18 Grandchildren.
Mrs. Croft was the first woman in the community where she and her husband homesteaded and was known to all of her friends as possessing those fine qualities of the real pioneer woman; faithfulness, courage and fortitude.
She was a philosopher, in the living sense of the word. She looked upon life as being ordered by the Lord, took things as they came and made the best of them with out complaint.
Death, to her, was just another event of life and she spoke of it with the same calm assurance that she had of life itself. In her last weeks of illness, she often expressed a desire to depart and be with her Lord.
Bio: Bessie was the second wife to her husband who was divorced 1-25-1888, after their marriage, they moved to Grant City, MO, Iola, IA then settled in South Haven or Hunnewell, Sumner Co, KS by 1892 (birth of first child, Royal in Anthony, KS), where James' elder brother, Samuel M., had moved in 1889. James had worked in Samuel's butcher shop in Henry, IL in years past.
See her husband's Bio for full family history.
Bessie's Obituary
Bessie Orpha Olmstead Croft, was born in Marshall County, IL, died at 9 o'clock Friday morning, August 9, 1935 at the home of her daughter Mrs. E. X. LeCounte, Ponca City, at the age of 68 years and 5 months.
On December 2, 1888, she was married to James H. Croft in Marshall County. The couple had 5 children.
She and her husband came to the community, nine miles northwest of Blackwell the opening of the Cherokee strip. They moved to Grant County in 1902 and to Blackwell in 1931. Following the death of her husband, August 15, 1934, she went to Ponca City to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. Lecounte. She was a member of the Christian Church.
She is survived by four sons, Arthur Croft, Ponca City; Royal Croft, Huston Kansas; H. E. Croft ,Jefferson; and Sam Croft, Nardin; and one daughter Mrs. LeCounte. Also a Stepson I. N. Croft, Varna Il. and one brother Edwin Olmstead, Colorado Springs, Co, and 18 Grandchildren.
Mrs. Croft was the first woman in the community where she and her husband homesteaded and was known to all of her friends as possessing those fine qualities of the real pioneer woman; faithfulness, courage and fortitude.
She was a philosopher, in the living sense of the word. She looked upon life as being ordered by the Lord, took things as they came and made the best of them with out complaint.
Death, to her, was just another event of life and she spoke of it with the same calm assurance that she had of life itself. In her last weeks of illness, she often expressed a desire to depart and be with her Lord.
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Bio: Bessie was the second wife to her husband who was divorced 1-25-1888, after their marriage, they moved to Grant City, MO, Iola, IA then settled in South Haven or Hunnewell, Sumner Co, KS by 1892 (birth of first child, Royal in Anthony, KS), where James' elder brother, Samuel M., had moved in 1889. James had worked in Samuel's butcher shop in Henry, IL in years past.
See her husband's Bio for full family history.
Bessie's Obituary
Bessie Orpha Olmstead Croft, was born in Marshall County, IL, died at 9 o'clock Friday morning, August 9, 1935 at the home of her daughter Mrs. E. X. LeCounte, Ponca City, at the age of 68 years and 5 months.
On December 2, 1888, she was married to James H. Croft in Marshall County. The couple had 5 children.
She and her husband came to the community, nine miles northwest of Blackwell the opening of the Cherokee strip. They moved to Grant County in 1902 and to Blackwell in 1931. Following the death of her husband, August 15, 1934, she went to Ponca City to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. Lecounte. She was a member of the Christian Church.
She is survived by four sons, Arthur Croft, Ponca City; Royal Croft, Huston Kansas; H. E. Croft ,Jefferson; and Sam Croft, Nardin; and one daughter Mrs. LeCounte. Also a Stepson I. N. Croft, Varna Il. and one brother Edwin Olmstead, Colorado Springs, Co, and 18 Grandchildren.
Mrs. Croft was the first woman in the community where she and her husband homesteaded and was known to all of her friends as possessing those fine qualities of the real pioneer woman; faithfulness, courage and fortitude.
She was a philosopher, in the living sense of the word. She looked upon life as being ordered by the Lord, took things as they came and made the best of them with out complaint.
Death, to her, was just another event of life and she spoke of it with the same calm assurance that she had of life itself. In her last weeks of illness, she often expressed a desire to depart and be with her Lord.
Bio: Bessie was the second wife to her husband who was divorced 1-25-1888, after their marriage, they moved to Grant City, MO, Iola, IA then settled in South Haven or Hunnewell, Sumner Co, KS by 1892 (birth of first child, Royal in Anthony, KS), where James' elder brother, Samuel M., had moved in 1889. James had worked in Samuel's butcher shop in Henry, IL in years past.
See her husband's Bio for full family history.
Bessie's Obituary
Bessie Orpha Olmstead Croft, was born in Marshall County, IL, died at 9 o'clock Friday morning, August 9, 1935 at the home of her daughter Mrs. E. X. LeCounte, Ponca City, at the age of 68 years and 5 months.
On December 2, 1888, she was married to James H. Croft in Marshall County. The couple had 5 children.
She and her husband came to the community, nine miles northwest of Blackwell the opening of the Cherokee strip. They moved to Grant County in 1902 and to Blackwell in 1931. Following the death of her husband, August 15, 1934, she went to Ponca City to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. Lecounte. She was a member of the Christian Church.
She is survived by four sons, Arthur Croft, Ponca City; Royal Croft, Huston Kansas; H. E. Croft ,Jefferson; and Sam Croft, Nardin; and one daughter Mrs. LeCounte. Also a Stepson I. N. Croft, Varna Il. and one brother Edwin Olmstead, Colorado Springs, Co, and 18 Grandchildren.
Mrs. Croft was the first woman in the community where she and her husband homesteaded and was known to all of her friends as possessing those fine qualities of the real pioneer woman; faithfulness, courage and fortitude.
She was a philosopher, in the living sense of the word. She looked upon life as being ordered by the Lord, took things as they came and made the best of them with out complaint.
Death, to her, was just another event of life and she spoke of it with the same calm assurance that she had of life itself. In her last weeks of illness, she often expressed a desire to depart and be with her Lord.
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