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Submitted: 10/30/13 • Approved: 6/24/19 • Last Updated: 6/27/19 • R14023-G0-S3
February 15, 1884 - September 25, 1885
Daughter of Peter Columbus Hargis and Lydia Mary Ellen Taylor Hargis
Notations;
Peter Columbus Hargis "Lum" and 1st wife Lydia, along with other Marble, Arkansas people decided to move to Idaho in 1884-1885. The route to be taken was across Oklahoma, thru the Texas Panhandle, to Aztec, New Mexico where they would winter over before continuing up the east side of the Rockies the next spring. In New Mexico, Lydia delivered a baby girl and died shortly after childbirth. Lum Hargis lost interest in going on, so packed Lydia in her coffin and he started back to Marble, Arkansas with the Kendall's. At Coffeyville, Kamsas, the baby girl Minnie Ethel Hargis died and she was put into the coffin with her mother. So one version of the story went and that they were buried at the Taylor Cemetery at Marble. Actually Lydia, the mother, was buried in New Mexico. Minnie is buried in Kansas as these photographs prove. So both mother and daughter were buried in the states where they passed away, not in Arkansas. Also please see the notes below regarding Minnie's date of birth, she was born in 1885, not 1884 as the headstone states. And this is where the confusion begins since as you can see from this memorial page and headstone.
Photo Courtesy Of Leon Barton
Contributed on 10/30/13
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Record #: 14023