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Submitted: 3/23/12 • Approved: 3/24/12 • Last Updated: 7/23/12 • R666854-G666853-S3
Born January 8, 1887, Roane County, Tennessee.
Died March 30, 1950, Oxford, Izard County, Arkansas.
Daughter of Frank K. & Ida Cook Ellis.
Married Henry Melvin Ferguson, January 6, 1907, Oxford, Izard County, Arkansas.
Calico Rock Progress, Calico Rock, Arkansas, April 7, 1950:
Mrs. Henry Ferguson Dies at Oxford
Mrs. Bertha Mae Ferguson, wife of Henry M. Ferguson of Oxford, died at their home there on March 30 at the age of 63. Mrs. Ferguson was born in Roane County, Tennessee, a daughter of Frank K. and Ida Cook Ellis, but had lived for 54 years at Oxford.
She was married at Oxford in 1907 to Henry M. Ferguson. He and two of their three children, Mrs. Brada Mae Bone and Coy Derrell Ferguson survive. Four brothers and two sisters are also survivors. Mrs. Ferguson was a Methodist.
The Ministers Hugh Cooper and Stuart Keylon conducted funeral services in the Oxford Methodist Church last Friday afternoon. Interment was in the Oxford cemetery.
(Photo courtesy of Vera Reeves)
Contributed on 3/23/12 by maxparnell
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