A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Carrie Alice Curtis
Gaylon Gathright listed her birth as being in Smith, KS, but I think it was probably Smith Co., KS (more in the note for John Henry Kanouse). Some other sources say she was born in Gaylord, KS, but it might really have just been near Gaylord, KS.
From Smith County Pioneer (15 Jul 1897, p. 8, obtained from Ancestry.com):
On Monday, July 5, at the residence of the bride's parents, B. M. Curtis and wife in the presence of a large company of guests, Mr. John Kanouse and Miss Carrie Curtis were united in marriage, Elder J. F. McClure officiating. A sumptuous wedding dinner was served, and the newly married couple received many handsome and useful presents. We were promised full particulars of the wedding, together with a list of the presents and donors, but it was not received in time for this week's paper.
Obituary from unknown newspaper, obtained from David and Wilma Gathright, April 2015:
MRS. CARRIE ALICE KANOUSE
Funeral services for Mrs. Carrie Alice Kanouse, 83, 320 North 12th, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the chapel of Sevier's Funeral Home.
Mrs. Kanouse died about 12:05 today in a city nursing home.
She was born March 2, 1880, in Gaylord, Kan., and moved to Oklahoma in 1911. She moved to Chickasha from Anadarko in 1938 and was a member of Pentacostal Holiness Church. Her husband, J. H. Kanouse, died in April of 1952.
Survivors include one son, Bennie W. Kanouse, Verden; four daughters, Mrs. Elmer Gathright, Dill City; Mrs. Elizabeth Selvidge, Fullerton, Calif.; Mrs. Alma Baker, Gracemont, and Mrs. Myrtle Fletcher, Lawton; 21 grandchildren; 51 great-grandchildren; three brothers, Ace Curtis, Kansas; John Curtis, Clay Center, Kan.; and Roll Curtis, Wichita, Kan., and three sisters, Mrs. Harriett [sic] Andrews, Mrs. Ann Thomas and Mrs. Hazel Ayers, all of Wichita.
Interment will be in Gracemont cemetery.
The name on her death certificate is Carrie Alice Kanouse. Cause of death was congestive circulatory failure. She died at Massey Rest Home.
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