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Nellie Cleveland Haney DeJarnette

12 Sep 1890 – 23 Jul 1954

Birth12 Sep 1890
Death23 Jul 1954
CemeteryWanette Cemetery
Wanette , Pottawatomie County , Oklahoma , USA
Added byMindy on 28 Sep 2007
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12140457

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Double w/ C. C. DeJarnette, her husband

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Nellie Cleveland "Nell" Haney was born 12 Sep 1890 in Arkansas to the parents of William Henry "Bill" Haney and Sarah Alice Dodson. The family moved to the Eason Twp, Wanette / Adell, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma community before 1900. In Feb 1907 in Adell, Okla., Miss Nellie Haney won the cake for the best looking girl during "Literary Friday night box supper". She raised $19.55. She became a teacher in the Tecumseh Schools in Sep 1910 and also clerked on Saturday's at the recently opened Weaver and Montgomery Dry Goods Ladies Gents Furnishings and Notion's store in Wanette. By Nov 1910, Miss Nellie Haney was clerking on Saturday's for the the F. C. LaReau Dry Goods and Groceries Market in Wanette. In Apr, 1911, she was found boarding at W. A. Crook's. By Nov 1911, Miss Nellie Haney was employed as a clerk in the L. E. Denny "The Big Store" Dry Goods, Gents and Furnishings in Wanette. The Wanette Woodmen of the World organization held a box supper in Feb 1912, which a large crowd was present. After the box supper, the "Most Popular Lady" contest was put on. Nell Haney was entered as one of the nominees in the contest which proceeds raised $31.80. On Jan 17, 1915, she married Christopher Columbus DeJarnette in Shawnee, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma, USA. She was living in Trousdale and he in Wanette at time of marriage. Afterwards they lived in Eason, Pottawatomie, Oklahoma near Wanette. In April of 1933, the Ladies of the Sunshine Club met with the Happy Workers club at Wanette at the home of MRS. C. C. DEJARNETTE. MRS. A. A. TROUSDALE won a large chocolate Easter egg for singing the best song; MRS. ADA ROE was also a prize winner. A member of the methodist church of Wanette, she had been a resident of that community for 60 years. Nell died on a Friday in a Purcell hospital after a short illness on 23 Jul 1954. Burial services were held in the Methodist church on a Sunday afternoon with Rev. E. H. Underwood, Jr., of Cushing officiating. Interment was made in the Wanette cemetery with the Yoakum funeral home in charge.

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