UNDERWOOD, MARY M. - Wheeler County, Texas | MARY M. UNDERWOOD - Texas Gravestone Photos

Mary M. UNDERWOOD

Wheeler Cemetery
Wheeler County,
Texas

August 26, 1875-May 16, 1943

*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley

*Obituary
Funeral Services for Mrs. W.W. Underwood, 68 year old Wheeler county resident, were conducted at the Wheeler Baptist Church, Monday afternoon. Mrs. Underwood, resident of the Wheeler community for 31 years, passed away at her home just west of Wheeler, Sunday May 16 at 6 p.m.

Rev. A.C. Wood, assisted by Rev. O.O. Holloday, conducted the last rites. Pallbearers were Johnnie Reed, Evert Goad, Jinx Hill, Harold Hill, Clarence Hallman and Marl Jaco. Flower attendants were Marie Clark, Adadel [sic] Goad, Odella Honey, Jimmie Fay Clark, and Sybil Toon.

Miss Mary Melissa Trostle was born August 26, 1875 in Blain, Kansas and at the age of four years she moved with her parents to Cane Hill, Arkansas. She was married to W.W. Underwood at Cane Hill, Arkansas, Nov. 3, 1896 [sic]. To this union were born six children, all of whom are living and are Mrs. Ola Hill, Marvin and Mae Underwood, Wheeler; Isaac of Hedley, Lewis of Camp Campbell, Kentucky and Nora Taliaferro, Perryton, Texas.

At the age of sixteen she was converted and joined the Methodist Church, but later she, with her husband, joined the Baptist Church at Wheeler, always applying the teachings of Jesus in her life.

Besides the husband and children, other survivors are seventeen grandchildren, one great grand child, three brothers, Will Trostle of Cherokee, Oklahoma; Charlie Trostle, Los Angeles, Calif. and Elmer Trostle of Shamrock, and one sister, Mrs. Eva Wilbur, Westmoreland, Kansas.

Mrs. Underwood had been a resident of Wheeler since 1912.

Interment was in the Wheeler cemetery with the Hunt Funeral Home in charge.

(Published in The Wheeler Times, Volume X-Number 23, Wheeler, Texas, Thursday, May 20, 1943, Page 1)
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Card of Thanks
We wish to take this method of thanking our friends and neighbors for their kindness and sympatty during the illness and death of our wife and mother. Especially we extend our sincere gratitude to Dr. H.E. Nicholson.

W.W. Underwood and children

(Published in The Wheeler Times, Volume X-Number 23, Wheeler, Texas, Thursday, May 20, 1943, Page 4)
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Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
Name: Mary M Trostle
Gender: Female
Age: 22
Birth Year: abt 1875
Residence: Boonsboro, Washington, Arkansas
Spouse's Name: W W Underwood
Spouse's Gender: Male
Spouse's Age: 28
Spouse's Residence: Boonsboro, Washington, Arkansas
Marriage Date: 3 Nov 1897
Marriage License Date: 28 Oct 1897
Marriage County: Washington
Event Type: Marriage
FHL Film Number: 1034252

Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Mary M. Underwood
Death Date: 16 May 1943
Death County: Wheeler
Certificate: 25033

Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Mary M Underwood
[Mary M Trostle]
Birth Date: 26 Aug 1875
Birth Place: Blain, Kansas
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas
Father: Trostle
Age at Death: 67
Death Date: 16 May 1943
Death Place: Precinct 1, Wheeler, Texas, USA

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