Mary Katherine Large ^{2 3 4 5 6 7}

   Other names for Mary were Katie Large, Katy Large, Mary C. Large, Mary Kathern Large, Mary Kathryn Large and Mary Katherine Large Wills.

  Research Notes:

1880 U.S. Census records have:
b. abt. 1876 in Kansas, daughter of Richard Large.

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Possibly the most accurate source is Mary Jane Power McCarty (http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.martin/2944.1/mb.ashx ):

Children of Richard Joseph and Mary Jane Large:
Mary Kathern (Large) Fish, Wills b. 5-6-1874, St. Paul, Neosho County, Kansas. Buried GAR Cemetary, Miami, Oklahoma, died 8-14-1939. ( Her last husband was BOB WILLS, of BOB WILLS and the TEXAS PLAYBOYS)

DDora Rena (Large) Thomas b. 2-4-1875, Platt County, Missouri. Married Donald Thomas, they had one son, Nathan Thomas.

Della Therisia (Large) Carnal, Boggs: b. 12-23-1879, in St.Paul, Neosho County, Kansas. Died 8-12-1956, buried GAR Cemetary, Miami, Okahoma, under the name of DELLA CARNAL.

Thomas James Large: b. 8-23-1882, Bourbon County, Kansas. d. 10-5-1932.

John Henry Large: b. 7-8-1885, Bourbon County, Kansas, now Ft. Scott, Kansas. He married Allie F. Brand, 10-3-1914, Miami, Oklahoma. He died 10-16-1935, of T.B., at the time of his death he lived in Douthat, Oklahoma. He is buried in the GAR Cemetery, Miami, Oklahoma. Funeral Records are held by Jim Thomas Funeral Home, Miami, Oklahoma, services were conducted by Lane Funeral Home.

Bertie Samuel Large: b. 3-24-1891, Baxter Springs, Kansas, Cherokee County. died 8-25-1930. Twin of Gertrude Elnora Large.

Gertrude Elnora (Large) Long, b. 3-24-1891, Baxter Springs, Cherokee County, Kansas. Married Kenneth Long, had three children, Pearl Herbert, Glenn Long. Gertrude died 1931 or 1932, in Hollister California.

Herman Leroy Large: b. 5-23-1893, Indian Territory, Quapaw Reservation, Quapaw, Oklahoma.

Nathan Landon Large, b. 5-9-1888, Seneca, Newton County, Missouri. Married Alta Florence Rinehart, 3-12-1911. North Miami, Oklahoma. He died 12-8-1922, Douthat, Oklahoma of pneumonia, buried at Melrose Kansas, Fairview Cemetery.
Green-Stephens Undertaking Co. handled Funeral services.(of Picher, Oklahoma)

  Birth Notes:

May have been 1876

  Death Notes:

Obituary from Miami Daily News Record, August 13, 1939 - Page 2:

Mrs. Mary Wills

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Katherine Wills, 63 years old, who died Friday night [August 11, 1939] at her Devil's promenade home, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the Miami Catholic church. Father Leonard Parmented will officiate.

Mrs. Wills, widow of the late Jack Fish, a full-blood Quapaw Indian, had been a resident of this district since 1891. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Della Boggs of Douthat, and six grandchildren.

Burial will be in G.A.R. cemetery under the direction of the Lane Funeral Home.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Residence, 1895, Wyandotte, (Ottawa), Indian Territory, (Oklahoma), (United States).

Mary married Leander Jackson Fish, son of Chief Paschal Fish and Jane Quinney, on 20 Jan 1895 in (Muscogee), Indian Territory, Oklahoma, (United States).¹ The marriage ended in divorce. (Leander Jackson Fish was born on 7 May 1852 in (Wyandotte), Indian Territory (Kansas), United States, died on 20 Nov 1914 in [near Quapaw], Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States and was buried in G.A.R. Cemetery, Miami, Ottawa, Oklahoma, United States ⁹.)

Mary next married Bob Wills after 1912.