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Mary Jane Oakman

Posted 2016-12-25 by Judy Wight Branson
Prescott Evening Courier, Prescott, Arizona Territory
Thursday, March 22, 1906, page 3, column 6

Local News -

Mrs. Mary J. Oakman, mother of George Oakman and Frank McKinley, who died Monday evening last at the hospital, was a native of Toronto, Canada, aged 75 years. Mrs. Oakman had been ill several months.

Her son, George Oakman is at present in Allegheny, Penn. Her son Frank McKinley is a resident of Prescott.

The funeral will take place from the chapel of Frank Nevin's at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon, March 23, 1906.

Interment in Citizens' Cemetery.
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Weekly Arizona Journal Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory
Wednesday, March 28, 1906, page 7

Death Of Mrs. Oakman

(From Wednesday's Daily)

Mrs. Mary J. Oakman, aged about 75 years, died at the hospital last evening at 8 o'clock after an illness of two months. She resided in this section for a number of years, and leaves surviving her two sons, Frank Oakman, a resident of this city, and George Oakman, a resident of Philadelphia.

The remains were taken in charge by the F.F. Nevin undertaking parlors, from where the funeral will take place as soon as her son in Philadelphia, who has been notified, is heard from.

The deceased was married twice, none of her husbands surviving her. It is said that her first husband, whose name was McKinley, was a cousin of the martyred President.


Transcriber's note: Mrs. Oakman is buried in an unmarked grave at the Citizens Cemetery in Prescott, Arizona.




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