The Oklahoman (archives)
01-16-1929
p.21
Prominent Creek Woman Is Dead
BROKEN ARROW, Jan.15 -(AP)-
Funeral services were held Tuesday for Mrs Lydia Childers, 78 years old prominent fullblood Creek Indian woman, who died Sunday of burns suffered Saturday when her clothing caught fire while she was at work about an open fire in the yard of her home.
Mrs Childers, a graduate of the Carlisle Indian school of Pennsylvania was born in Broken Arrow, the daughter of a Creek Indian who rode into the territory with the Reverend Louchridge, pioneer Presbyterian Indian missonary, on the back of a mule when the Creek nation was transferred from Alabama to Oklahoma. Her family was one of the oldest and most prominent of the Creek nation. Mrs Childers was a close friend to Miss Alice Robertson, the only woman who ever respresented Oklahoma in congress.
01-16-1929
p.21
Prominent Creek Woman Is Dead
BROKEN ARROW, Jan.15 -(AP)-
Funeral services were held Tuesday for Mrs Lydia Childers, 78 years old prominent fullblood Creek Indian woman, who died Sunday of burns suffered Saturday when her clothing caught fire while she was at work about an open fire in the yard of her home.
Mrs Childers, a graduate of the Carlisle Indian school of Pennsylvania was born in Broken Arrow, the daughter of a Creek Indian who rode into the territory with the Reverend Louchridge, pioneer Presbyterian Indian missonary, on the back of a mule when the Creek nation was transferred from Alabama to Oklahoma. Her family was one of the oldest and most prominent of the Creek nation. Mrs Childers was a close friend to Miss Alice Robertson, the only woman who ever respresented Oklahoma in congress.
The Oklahoman (archives)
01-16-1929
p.21
Prominent Creek Woman Is Dead
BROKEN ARROW, Jan.15 -(AP)-
Funeral services were held Tuesday for Mrs Lydia Childers, 78 years old prominent fullblood Creek Indian woman, who died Sunday of burns suffered Saturday when her clothing caught fire while she was at work about an open fire in the yard of her home.
Mrs Childers, a graduate of the Carlisle Indian school of Pennsylvania was born in Broken Arrow, the daughter of a Creek Indian who rode into the territory with the Reverend Louchridge, pioneer Presbyterian Indian missonary, on the back of a mule when the Creek nation was transferred from Alabama to Oklahoma. Her family was one of the oldest and most prominent of the Creek nation. Mrs Childers was a close friend to Miss Alice Robertson, the only woman who ever respresented Oklahoma in congress.
01-16-1929
p.21
Prominent Creek Woman Is Dead
BROKEN ARROW, Jan.15 -(AP)-
Funeral services were held Tuesday for Mrs Lydia Childers, 78 years old prominent fullblood Creek Indian woman, who died Sunday of burns suffered Saturday when her clothing caught fire while she was at work about an open fire in the yard of her home.
Mrs Childers, a graduate of the Carlisle Indian school of Pennsylvania was born in Broken Arrow, the daughter of a Creek Indian who rode into the territory with the Reverend Louchridge, pioneer Presbyterian Indian missonary, on the back of a mule when the Creek nation was transferred from Alabama to Oklahoma. Her family was one of the oldest and most prominent of the Creek nation. Mrs Childers was a close friend to Miss Alice Robertson, the only woman who ever respresented Oklahoma in congress.
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