PYEATT,
Mary Ollie
The Arizona Republic - Tuesday, Dec 20, 1949
Mary Pyeatt, Huachuca Area Pioneer Dies
Bisbee, Dec. 19(AP) Mrs. Mary Ollie Pyeatt, 79 years old, who once attended school with Billy Clanton, one of the principals in the Earp-Clanton feud during Tombstone's frontier days, died Sunday in Tombstone.
A native of San Antonio, Tex., she came to Arizona with her family in 1880. She was married at Charleston in 1887 and since that time the family lived in the Huachuca mountain area and Tombstone. She was acquainted with Doc Holliday, the McLowery family, Sheriff John Slaughter and other famous Tombstone characters of its heyday.
Surviving are four sons, Seth Pyeatt of Florence, Lon of Tombstone, Irvin of Fry, Russell, Nogales, Roland of Elgin; two daughters, Mrs. J. G. Hanley of Bisbee and Mrs. Luella Cooper, Tucson; and brother Dave Kelly, Petersburg, Tex., 33 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.
Graveside rites are scheduled at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Black Oak Cemetery near the ranch at Canelo in the shadow of the Huachucas.
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