Ancestors

Mildred Ann Brown

Mildred Ann Brown was born on 27 November 1931 in Oklahoma. Her parents were Rufus Harrison Brown and Stella Mae Brown of Barnsdall, an oil town in Osage County. In 1940 she was eight and living at Barnsdall with her parents and her brothers and sisters Rowena, Leroy, Juanita, Mary E., Gladys and Earl. Her sister Cleta Mae, born in 1923, had been at home in 1930.

On 5 August 1948, at sixteen, she married Cole Bill Saunders, who was 23, at Pawhuska before a justice of the peace. Her father signed his consent to the marriage, and he and her mother were the witnesses. In April 1950 she was eighteen and living with him at Pawhuska, with their baby daughter Margaret Ann. Their son Billy Earl was born at Barnsdall on 3 September 1951. Betty Joyce, Dixie, Joyce, Tommy and Jimmy Wayne followed. Jimmy was born at Barnsdall in 1958.

Cole Bill died at Yale, in Payne County, in 1988. Mildred stayed at Yale. In 2003 she was named as the grandmother of Becky Ann Saunders Waters, who died at Pawnee. In 2006 she was listed as Mildred Saunders of Yale among the survivors of her sister Cleta Mae Farney.

Mildred died at Yale on 22 April 2010, aged 78. She is buried beside Cole Bill at Ethel Reece Cemetery in Barnsdall, under the stone they share.

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Researched October 2026. Cite: Heirology, "Mildred Ann Brown (1931-2010)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/mildred-ann-brown-1931-2010-50115b.