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Anna Chesterfield Hendrix Burleson

Birth
Franklin County, Arkansas, USA
Death
6 Nov 1939 (aged 78)
Wagoner, Wagoner County, Oklahoma, USA
Burial
Wagoner, Wagoner County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
Plot
South Main
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Unmarked Gravesite

Birth: Jul. 22, 1861
Death: Nov. 6, 1939

Born in Clarksville, Franklin County, Arkansas on July 22, 1861, died Nov. 6, 1939 in Wagoner, Oklahoma. Daughter of Sara Anne Tully and William Harmon Hendrix. One sibling, William Harmon Hendrix Jr. She married Joseph Powell Crabtree in Stone County, MO on July 24, 1879. They had one son named William Isaac Crabtree, born July 6, 1880 in Barry County, MO. Anna married John E. Burleson in Carroll County, Arkansas on November 20, 1882. They had two children, a son James Lee Burleson and a daughter Nora Burleson. Anna lived in an around Wagoner, Oklahoma most of her life and at one time had a cafe there. She never had any schooling and her husband John Burleson taught her to read and write. She had a good head for business and did well in the accounting department. She never allowed anyone else to handle or manage the money. Like a lot of southern women of her time she chewed tobacco or smoked a corncob pipe. After her husband died she never remarried. She died alone in her little house in Wagoner. They found her on the floor where she had either tripped and fallen, striking her head on the leg of the stove, or perhaps she had a stroke and fell. It was a day before she was found.
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Family information provided by: Mary Crabtree Meyers

Unmarked Gravesite

Birth: Jul. 22, 1861
Death: Nov. 6, 1939

Born in Clarksville, Franklin County, Arkansas on July 22, 1861, died Nov. 6, 1939 in Wagoner, Oklahoma. Daughter of Sara Anne Tully and William Harmon Hendrix. One sibling, William Harmon Hendrix Jr. She married Joseph Powell Crabtree in Stone County, MO on July 24, 1879. They had one son named William Isaac Crabtree, born July 6, 1880 in Barry County, MO. Anna married John E. Burleson in Carroll County, Arkansas on November 20, 1882. They had two children, a son James Lee Burleson and a daughter Nora Burleson. Anna lived in an around Wagoner, Oklahoma most of her life and at one time had a cafe there. She never had any schooling and her husband John Burleson taught her to read and write. She had a good head for business and did well in the accounting department. She never allowed anyone else to handle or manage the money. Like a lot of southern women of her time she chewed tobacco or smoked a corncob pipe. After her husband died she never remarried. She died alone in her little house in Wagoner. They found her on the floor where she had either tripped and fallen, striking her head on the leg of the stove, or perhaps she had a stroke and fell. It was a day before she was found.
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Family information provided by: Mary Crabtree Meyers


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