NameEmma Belle BENTLEY
Birth16 Oct 1875, Ohio
Death11 Oct 1961, Oklahoma, Garvin County, Wynnewood
Burial14 Oct 1961, Oklahoma, Kay County, Tonkawa, IOOF Cemetery
Spouses
Marriage13 Oct 1895, Oklahoma Indian Territory, Perry
HNS Narrative notes for Emma Belle BENTLEY
BENTLEY, EMMA BELL, born 16-OCT-1875 in Ohio. She grew up In Wichita, Kansas, She met BURRTON GLENN WOODRUFF in a downtown laundry. She and Daisy were together. Daisy made the remark that he must be half soldier and half cowboy, because he had on part of his Home Guard uniform and Cowboy boots and hat. After a Courtship, he went to Bliss, Oklahoma to work for THE WETHERSPOON CATTLE COMPANY AND RANCH, later she went to Bliss on the train with Mr. and Mrs. John Swacker and they were married on 13-Oct-1895 in Perry, Oklahoma. After the death of BURRTON, she maintained her home in Tonkawa, Okla. until her death. She died on 11-0ct-1961 in Wynnewood, Garvin County, Okla. and is buried In IOOF Cemetery at Tonkawa, Oklahoma