Woodruff-Stone History - Person Sheet
Woodruff-Stone History - Person Sheet
NameAnna Helen BACK 
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1Birth19 Apr 1885, Missouri, Cooper County, Boonville
Death23 Aug 1955, Oklahoma, Kay County, Ponca City
BurialAug 1955, Oklahoma, Kay County, Tonkawa, IOOF Cemetery
OccupationAbsentee Farmer After William’s Death
Education1903 University Preparatory School, Tonkawa, OK On 12-Jun-1903 In Commercial Education
ReligionFirst Christian Church, Tonkawa, Oklahoma
FlagsAncestry Site
FatherPhilip Gottfried BACK (1858-1922)
MotherLouise Magdalena MEISBURGER (1857-1938)
Spouses
Marriage11 Jul 1907, Oklahoma, Noble County,Billings
ChildrenCatherine Louise (Died as Infant) (1908-1909)
Helen Nadine (1910-1993)
William Philip (1918-1963)
Virgil Eugene (1923-1978)
Notes for Anna Helen BACK
She worked for some time for a judge in Perry, Oklahoma. Returned to Billings where she and her sister, Nadine, lived together. Nadine was a fine dressmaker and Anna clerked in stores. One time for Cooper Clothing and later for Aaron and Sadie Cades. Both girls were members of the Sopoctum Club. She was a Rebecca also.
Obituary notes for Anna Helen BACK
Funeral Thursday for Mrs. Anna Stone, 70
TONKDAWS, Aug. XX -- Mrs. Anna Stone, 70, 801 North 7th died at Ponca City hospital Tuesday following surgery while two pints of emergency blood plasma was being rushed to her from Arkansas City.
There was blod on hand at the hospital, and three donors standing by. The additional blood was being brought as a precautionary measure.
Born April 19, 1885, at Booneville, Mo., Mrs. Stone had lived in the Tonkawa vicinity since 1923. Prior to that she lived at Billings and Marland.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Christian church. Rev. Bruce Dimmitt, associate pastor, officiating, with burial to be at the Tonkawa I. O. O. F. cemetery under direction of the McCafferty funeral home.
Survivors are two sons, Bill Tuscon, Ariz., and Virgil, Tonkawa; a daughter, Mrs. Helen Woodruff, Hutchinson, Kans.; borther, Emil Back, Billings.
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Obituaries
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Anna Helen Stone
Ann [sic] Helen, eldest daughter of Philip Godfrey and Louis Magdalina Back, was born April 19,1885 at Boonville, Mo., and died Aug 28, 1955 at the Ponca City hospital.
She was united in marriage with William Thomas STone, July ??1907 at Billings. To this union four children were born: Catherine Louise, Helen Nadine, William Philip and Virgil Eugene.
The early part of their marriage was spent on a farm near Marland. They moved to Tonkawa in 1923 where they made their home.
Mrs. Stone was baptized in the Christian church in her early youth and took an active part in church activities throughout her life.
She was preceded in death by a daughter, Catherine Louise, Jan 22, 1909, and by her husband, June 10, 1935.
Survivors include two sons, William, of Tucson, Ariz., and Virgil, Tonkawa; one daughter, Helen, Hutchinson, Kan.; a brother, Emil Back, Billings, five grandsons, many nieces and nephews and a host of friends. Funeral services were held at the First Christian church of Tonkawa at 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 25. Rev. Bruce Dimmitt officiated and burial was in the Tonkawa IOOF cemetery.
TONKDAWS, Aug. XX -- Mrs. Anna Stone, 70, 801 North 7th died at Ponca City hospital Tuesday following surgery while two pints of emergency blood plasma was being rushed to her from Arkansas City.
There was blod on hand at the hospital, and three donors standing by. The additional blood was being brought as a precautionary measure.
Born April 19, 1885, at Booneville, Mo., Mrs. Stone had lived in the Tonkawa vicinity since 1923. Prior to that she lived at Billings and Marland.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Christian church. Rev. Bruce Dimmitt, associate pastor, officiating, with burial to be at the Tonkawa I. O. O. F. cemetery under direction of the McCafferty funeral home.
Survivors are two sons, Bill Tuscon, Ariz., and Virgil, Tonkawa; a daughter, Mrs. Helen Woodruff, Hutchinson, Kans.; borther, Emil Back, Billings.
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Obituaries
(right edge of clipping is missing in the photocopy--two to three letters. I completed it with plausible information-BGWIII).
Anna Helen Stone
Ann [sic] Helen, eldest daughter of Philip Godfrey and Louis Magdalina Back, was born April 19,1885 at Boonville, Mo., and died Aug 28, 1955 at the Ponca City hospital.
She was united in marriage with William Thomas STone, July ??1907 at Billings. To this union four children were born: Catherine Louise, Helen Nadine, William Philip and Virgil Eugene.
The early part of their marriage was spent on a farm near Marland. They moved to Tonkawa in 1923 where they made their home.
Mrs. Stone was baptized in the Christian church in her early youth and took an active part in church activities throughout her life.
She was preceded in death by a daughter, Catherine Louise, Jan 22, 1909, and by her husband, June 10, 1935.
Survivors include two sons, William, of Tucson, Ariz., and Virgil, Tonkawa; one daughter, Helen, Hutchinson, Kan.; a brother, Emil Back, Billings, five grandsons, many nieces and nephews and a host of friends. Funeral services were held at the First Christian church of Tonkawa at 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 25. Rev. Bruce Dimmitt officiated and burial was in the Tonkawa IOOF cemetery.
Marriage Certificate notes for Anna Helen BACK
They were married by George F. Demis, minister.
Medical notes for Anna Helen BACK
She died during surgery correcting “female problems.”
News item
Funeral Thursday for Mrs. Anna Stone, 70
Tonkawa Aug ?? -- Mrs. Anna Stone, 70, 801 North 7th died at Ponca City hospital Tuesday following surgery while two pints of emergency blood plasma was being rushed to her from Arkansas City.
There was blood on hand at the hospital, and three donors standing by. The additional blood was being brought as a precautionary measure.
News item
Funeral Thursday for Mrs. Anna Stone, 70
Tonkawa Aug ?? -- Mrs. Anna Stone, 70, 801 North 7th died at Ponca City hospital Tuesday following surgery while two pints of emergency blood plasma was being rushed to her from Arkansas City.
There was blood on hand at the hospital, and three donors standing by. The additional blood was being brought as a precautionary measure.
Narrative notes for Anna Helen BACK
November 29, 2007
Originally transcribed by Phyllis Marguerite Koeller Lea, daughter of Phillip and Marguerite (Stephenson) Koeller, from copied documents provided by Helen Stone Woodruff, daughter of Anna Back Stone. The copy of the original was provided by Betty Ruark Stone, the wife of William Philip Stone, Anna’s son.
The original transcription noted: Note in margin at top of document: “Anna W. Back Stone - Original around my Belly Stove – Tucson, Ariz.”
Proofread and compared to original August 13, 2019
Names are as written by Anna Back Stone
Italicized material added by editor
Anna Helen Back (died August 23, 1955)
Transcript of notes written by Anna Back Stone.
Note: Oklahoma was the Oklahoma Indian Territory until November 16, 1907
Phillip Gottfried Back (Anna’s Father), owned a little store and Post Office at Arnold, , Noble County – Four miles S.E. of billings. Established November 27, 1893 – and named for John D. Arnold. The name was changed to Whiterock December 14, 1894– named for Richard M. White. It was discontinued September 31, 1915.
Anna’s words:
Page 1
Philip Gottfried Back was the oldest child of eight children, of Anton and Wilhelmina (Geuer-umlauted “u”) Back and was born in Boonsville, Missouri on January 1, 1858. Louise Magdalena Meisburger was the oldest child of eight of John Meisburger, and Mary Magdalena (Diringer) Meisburger. She was born December 25, 1857 in Florence, Missouri. Parents on both sides of the house came from Germany. The Backs were married in Germany and the Meisburgers came across on the same boat but wasn’t even sweet hearts when they came across. [They were acquainted, and fell in love years later.] Phillip Back and Louise Meisburger were married by John A. Hoffmann, pastor of the S. S. Peter and Paul church in Boonville, MO on April 29, 1884. They made their home in Boonville, mo. where Mr. Back had a wood yard and sold fuel. He had a fuel wagon drawn by horses that delivered oil and gas over town. He maintained (narrative does not complete sentence.)
The first year of their marriage he (Philip) served on the police force. Then he went into the fuel business. . He had a wood yard where he sold wood and coal. Also a fuel wagon drawn by horses that delivered oil and gas over town. He maintained this business until August 1893.
Mr. Back, with his brothers-in-law Frank Meisburger and Dominic Barnert made the race together in a heavy cart made out of the back
Page 2
Note at top of page: “The horses names were Dutch and Tony after his two brothers.”
wheels of a wagon. They drove 2 grey horses that had been shipped from the west and wasn’t even halter broke when they were unloaded out of the car. They went to Guthrie in August and broke and drove the horses until the day of the race.
Note at side of page: “It took 7 men to hitch the team as they were young and full of life and they hitched them so tight.”
They made the start in Orlando. Mr. Back got a place two miles east of Billings, now owned by his son, Mr. Meisburger, the farm adjoining it on the east and Mr. Barnett the one now owned by Mr. Pitts south of Billings. Mr. Back dug a well on the left side of the place [on the bank of a boyau(sic)] on the west side of his place the same afternoon. He built a two room house 16 X 32 the first winter and the family moved out from Mo in February 1904.
He had a small store on Red Rock the first winter and a Post Office called Arnold and while trying to make a living had a man to contest the farm. He bought the contestant off and he moved two miles north and bought a place so everyone was happy. Mr. Charles French was the contestant.
The land was sod was broke by Ad and Joe Brown with a team of oxen. Watermelons grew well on the sod, also Kaffir corn [Kafir corn is a South African variety of sorghum and is a taboo word]. There were very few lights to be seen at night as so many neighbors lived in dug outs and half dugouts. Fuel was very scarce. Wood was hauled from Red Rock about six or seven miles. You would buy a tree and then have to cut it up in stove lengths. Our chicken house was made of sod. The coyote were plentiful at night and made a very doleful sound.
Page 3
The first school house was moved from Perry and Mary Brown was the first teacher. Her father was a homesteader. The term was three months and the salary was 20 dollars. Two dollars was the price a teacher paid a week for board. Silk undies were a thing not known then. The underwear was made of flour sacks and you could sometimes still tell the brand of flour when they were on the [clothes] line. Later S.S. [(Sunday School)] was started in the school house and for social activity. Literacy and what debates. Some of the phrases still stand out in my mind, such as “Procrastination is the theif (sic) of time” and I recall so many times of seeing my father dressed as an old darky and singing “Old Black Joe”. We drove a cart and Old Dutch and went to Freedom and Lone Star to Literacy. Our home school was Summit. The first time we ever took eggs to market the cart seat fell off and broke our first delivery of eggs. How well I remember stripping cane and hauling it to the sorghum miller two miles away. Mr. Lusk ran the mill and what good sorghum that was. Castor beans and broom corn were two more crops were of the early day. Bins were made of hard ground and the beans put out to dry and where they opened they could well be called jumping beans.
Originally transcribed by Phyllis Marguerite Koeller Lea, daughter of Phillip and Marguerite (Stephenson) Koeller, from copied documents provided by Helen Stone Woodruff, daughter of Anna Back Stone. The copy of the original was provided by Betty Ruark Stone, the wife of William Philip Stone, Anna’s son.
The original transcription noted: Note in margin at top of document: “Anna W. Back Stone - Original around my Belly Stove – Tucson, Ariz.”
Proofread and compared to original August 13, 2019
Names are as written by Anna Back Stone
Italicized material added by editor
Anna Helen Back (died August 23, 1955)
Transcript of notes written by Anna Back Stone.
Note: Oklahoma was the Oklahoma Indian Territory until November 16, 1907
Phillip Gottfried Back (Anna’s Father), owned a little store and Post Office at Arnold, , Noble County – Four miles S.E. of billings. Established November 27, 1893 – and named for John D. Arnold. The name was changed to Whiterock December 14, 1894– named for Richard M. White. It was discontinued September 31, 1915.
Anna’s words:
Page 1
Philip Gottfried Back was the oldest child of eight children, of Anton and Wilhelmina (Geuer-umlauted “u”) Back and was born in Boonsville, Missouri on January 1, 1858. Louise Magdalena Meisburger was the oldest child of eight of John Meisburger, and Mary Magdalena (Diringer) Meisburger. She was born December 25, 1857 in Florence, Missouri. Parents on both sides of the house came from Germany. The Backs were married in Germany and the Meisburgers came across on the same boat but wasn’t even sweet hearts when they came across. [They were acquainted, and fell in love years later.] Phillip Back and Louise Meisburger were married by John A. Hoffmann, pastor of the S. S. Peter and Paul church in Boonville, MO on April 29, 1884. They made their home in Boonville, mo. where Mr. Back had a wood yard and sold fuel. He had a fuel wagon drawn by horses that delivered oil and gas over town. He maintained (narrative does not complete sentence.)
The first year of their marriage he (Philip) served on the police force. Then he went into the fuel business. . He had a wood yard where he sold wood and coal. Also a fuel wagon drawn by horses that delivered oil and gas over town. He maintained this business until August 1893.
Mr. Back, with his brothers-in-law Frank Meisburger and Dominic Barnert made the race together in a heavy cart made out of the back
Page 2
Note at top of page: “The horses names were Dutch and Tony after his two brothers.”
wheels of a wagon. They drove 2 grey horses that had been shipped from the west and wasn’t even halter broke when they were unloaded out of the car. They went to Guthrie in August and broke and drove the horses until the day of the race.
Note at side of page: “It took 7 men to hitch the team as they were young and full of life and they hitched them so tight.”
They made the start in Orlando. Mr. Back got a place two miles east of Billings, now owned by his son, Mr. Meisburger, the farm adjoining it on the east and Mr. Barnett the one now owned by Mr. Pitts south of Billings. Mr. Back dug a well on the left side of the place [on the bank of a boyau(sic)] on the west side of his place the same afternoon. He built a two room house 16 X 32 the first winter and the family moved out from Mo in February 1904.
He had a small store on Red Rock the first winter and a Post Office called Arnold and while trying to make a living had a man to contest the farm. He bought the contestant off and he moved two miles north and bought a place so everyone was happy. Mr. Charles French was the contestant.
The land was sod was broke by Ad and Joe Brown with a team of oxen. Watermelons grew well on the sod, also Kaffir corn [Kafir corn is a South African variety of sorghum and is a taboo word]. There were very few lights to be seen at night as so many neighbors lived in dug outs and half dugouts. Fuel was very scarce. Wood was hauled from Red Rock about six or seven miles. You would buy a tree and then have to cut it up in stove lengths. Our chicken house was made of sod. The coyote were plentiful at night and made a very doleful sound.
Page 3
The first school house was moved from Perry and Mary Brown was the first teacher. Her father was a homesteader. The term was three months and the salary was 20 dollars. Two dollars was the price a teacher paid a week for board. Silk undies were a thing not known then. The underwear was made of flour sacks and you could sometimes still tell the brand of flour when they were on the [clothes] line. Later S.S. [(Sunday School)] was started in the school house and for social activity. Literacy and what debates. Some of the phrases still stand out in my mind, such as “Procrastination is the theif (sic) of time” and I recall so many times of seeing my father dressed as an old darky and singing “Old Black Joe”. We drove a cart and Old Dutch and went to Freedom and Lone Star to Literacy. Our home school was Summit. The first time we ever took eggs to market the cart seat fell off and broke our first delivery of eggs. How well I remember stripping cane and hauling it to the sorghum miller two miles away. Mr. Lusk ran the mill and what good sorghum that was. Castor beans and broom corn were two more crops were of the early day. Bins were made of hard ground and the beans put out to dry and where they opened they could well be called jumping beans.