Her life in Burdette Twp., Hand Co., South Dakota was in the true tradition of pioneer women, rearing a family, sustaining religion and bringing culture to the new and wild country. She was a member of the Methodist Church at Burdette, and her hobby was painting.
She suffered from tuberculosis and had gone to Arizona to regain her health, where she died in 1908. Mary's half-sister, Alice (Stewart) McDonald and husband Louis, took the youngest boy, Carroll, and raised him from the age of four. George Bottum kept his other four boys together and raised them.
*From family bio in Bring On The Pioneers-1978
Her life in Burdette Twp., Hand Co., South Dakota was in the true tradition of pioneer women, rearing a family, sustaining religion and bringing culture to the new and wild country. She was a member of the Methodist Church at Burdette, and her hobby was painting.
She suffered from tuberculosis and had gone to Arizona to regain her health, where she died in 1908. Mary's half-sister, Alice (Stewart) McDonald and husband Louis, took the youngest boy, Carroll, and raised him from the age of four. George Bottum kept his other four boys together and raised them.
*From family bio in Bring On The Pioneers-1978
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