Martha Jane Scott Gibbs Rose: Claremore, Oklahoma Obit.

Received this photocopy by email from a Louise in response to a query I left on a message board looking for an obituary for Martha Jane Scott Gibbs Rose. The Obituary for Martha is the very last one. I've transcribed the piece about Martha below the image, including spelling errors.

Sent: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 8:22 pm
Subject: Obit for Martha Gibbs Rose

Connie,

I am a genealogy volunteer at the Will Rogers Library in Claremore, Rogers Co., OK. I received your request on October 26, 2007, and did some microfilm work this evening and found a 'blurb' in the Claremore Messenger, dated Friday, March 5, 1920. The Claremore Messenger was a weekly paper at this time and has not been in existence for some time.

I am scanning the portion of the page that had the 'item' regarding Mrs. Rose's death. I looked through the rest of March to see if there was any other mention of Mrs. Rose, i.e. a Card of Thanks, etc., but did not find anything else. I hope that it will be of some help to you.

Mrs. Rose, mother of Joe Gibbs, of this city, who died at her western home las week, wa buried in this city Sunday and the funeral was largely attended by friends of the family: Chas A. Gibbs, of Sapulpa, Frank Gibbs and family of Sand Springs, Mrs. Etta Snyder of St. Louis, Mrs. Tony Matney, of Kansas City, Mr. Russell of Muskogee, Mrs. Etta Snyder of St. Louis, Miss Victorine Fry of Edmund and Miss Mary Fry of Pittsburg, Kansas.

Family Plot at Woodlawn Cemetery

After visiting the cemetery several years ago I wrote to see what information they held and this is the letter I received

Martha Jane Scott Gibbs Rose, Fruita, Colorado Obit.

I have several queries on the internet seeking info. or contact with different family lines. Over the past 2 years I have been very fortunate to have family of my great great grandmother Martha Jane Scott Gibbs Rose contact me. It is very exciting when this happens. Besides finding family members this way, I have been extremely fortunate to come across genealogy angels, these are wonderful people who have taken their time to look for information for me in locations that I am unable to travel to. In the last month one of these wonderful angels, Mrs. Denton of Colorado, found the Newspaper Obituary for Martha. There wasn't much information in it, but it helps to place her. This is an image of the Obit I received.