Minnie Etta Withers

1882-1965 · Maine

Born 1882, Moline, Elk County, Kansas

Died 1965

Father: Willard G. Withers

Mother: Polly G. Booth

Children include Viola

Minnie Etta Withers was born on 7 January 1882 at Moline, in Elk County, Kansas. Her family moved south to Ingalls, in Payne County, Oklahoma Territory. Her parents were Willard G. Withers and Polly G. Booth, named in her own Social Security record. Her father died at Ingalls in 1899, the year she married, and her sister May died the next year at fourteen. Both are buried in the Ingalls Cemetery.

In 1899 Minnie married James William Focht, an Iowa-born farmer. The census of 1900 found them in Clayton Township with their first child, William. Many more followed: Elva, Charles, Madge, Viola, Orval, Albert, Addie, Martha and Velma Pearl. The family moved to Glencoe when Viola was small, and in 1920 seven children were still at home.

Minnie and James spent the rest of their lives around Glencoe, in Rose Township, where the censuses of 1940 and 1950 found them. James died in 1956. Minnie died in 1965 and was buried beside him in the Glencoe Cemetery.

Parents

Polly G. Booth (1863-1909)

Willard G. Withers (1850-1899)

Children

Viola Rose Focht 1912-2001

Sources

Stillwater News Press, May 2001, obituary of Viola Rose Langley; transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 74570922.

Glencoe Cemetery, Payne County, Oklahoma; photograph on Find a Grave memorial 27443115, added 2016.

United States census, 1920, Payne County, Oklahoma (FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:MN1N-42R and ark:/61903/1:1:MN1N-4LM).

Find a Grave memorial 27443138; United States census 1900, 1920, 1940 and 1950 (with her husband); obituary of her daughter Viola Rose Langley, 2001; Find a Grave memorials 26039642 (Willard G. Withers) and 26039632 (May Withers), Ingalls Cemetery. Social Security application and claims record (FamilySearch ark:/61903/1:1:6K7N-DJXQ).

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