Mary Francis Blake Lakey

© Carmen Headlight

04-25-2013

Submitted by: Richard Lakey

Submitted & © by Martha Nakai

Mary Francis Blake was born April 27, 1851 in Saline County, Illinois and departed from this life at her home in Carmen April 16, 1913, aged 62 years, 11 months and 10 days. She was converted and united with the Cumberland Presbyterian church at the age of 14. She was united in marriage to M.C. Lakey, November 18, 1866 and united with him in the M.E. church of which she was a faithful member to the day of her death. In the early spring of 1876 she removed with her husband to Kansas and became a charter member of the first M.E. church that was organized in Kingman County, Kansas. In 1894 she removed with her husband to Woods county and became a charter member of the first M.E. church that was organized in that part of Oklahoma, which is now the Carmen Church. The Sunday school of Carmen was organized in her home in the early spring of 1894 and has ever been green in her memory since. She was the mother of thirteen children, four of them passed on before her and were waiting to welcome her inside the beautiful gates, and three sons and six daughters, her husband and a number of relatives and friends are left behind to mourn her departure. Also her husband remarried in 1914.

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