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Emma Cosby

From the research of
Jean Kyle

 
Emma Cosby
 
El Reno News - 18 Nov 1898
 
Last Friday evening Mrs. A. A. Cosby, wife of sheriff elect Cosby, died at the Cosby home in El Reno.  Mrs. Cosby had been sick for several days though it was thought not dangerously until a day or two prior to her death.
 
Mrs. Cosby was still a young woman.  Her untimely death comes as a sad blow to her husband and two young daughters who are left to mourn her loss.
 
She was buried Sunday.  The services were held at the residence having been conducted by Rev. Smith of the Baptist church.  The remains were laid away in the Frisco cemetery near the old home of the family.
 
Additional Info:  Her husband was Alonzo or "Lon" who homesteaded the NW 1/4 of Sec 23, Twp 13 Rg 6.  The First Territorial Census of Oklahoma 1890 - list a daughter Lily and son Walter as her children.  Info from family - Her husband Alonzo died in Aug 1945 in Falfurias, Texas where he was buried.
 

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