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Note: Note: Was in the 1920 Jones, Scott County, Arkansas Census with a Ross Harris and wife Lois. She is listed as mother-in-law, 58, wd., born in Alabama, father Mississippi, mother in Mississippi, no occupation. This family is enumerated next to her daughter Dora.
1920 Scott County, Arkansas ED 120 Jones Township Enumerated by Chas. Harrell January 9-15, 1920 #65/67 Harris, Ross H m w 27 M AR AR AR Lois W f w 25 M AR AR AR Avadell D f w 3 S AR AR AR Oller, Marry ML f w 58 W AL MS MS
April 5, 1940 Arkansas Gazette Mrs. Mary Oller, 79, died at the home of her son Ira Oller at Tulsa, OK Wednesday. Other survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Dora Garner of Tulsa, OK; Mrs. H.G. Monroe of Parks; Mrs. Bascom Monroe of Harvey; and Mrs. Robert Yandell of Fort Smith; and two sons, Rex of Booneville and Otis Oller of San Antonio, TX. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scott Chancery Court - Oct. Term 1905
Millie Yandell, Plaintiff V*� Answer and Cross Complaint of Mary Oller Viola Yandell & Others, Defendants.
Mary Oller, asking leave of the Court to appear and be made a party Defendant in the above entitled cause, says she has Homestead and Dower interests in the lands described in the Pleadings, and has not been a party to or summoned in this case and that further proceedings herein without the settlement of her interests aforesaid would be unjust to her and render further litigation necessary. That the facts on her Homestead and Dower rights aforesaid rest are these: 1st That C. C. Griffith died seised and possessed of said lands as set forth in the Plaintiffs Complaint leaving two heirs, with the further facts that he also left a widow: that he died in 1861: that his widow and said two heirs who were then minors living with said widow who was their mother, had Homestead rights in said lands, and said widow in 1865 married T. B. Jones who lived with her and said heirs on said land till 1884. That one of said heirs married Defendant Lee Jones, and the other married this Defendant, who is the mother of the Plaintiff James H. Griffith, the husband of this Defendant and father of Plaintiff bought the half interest of his sister, Lee Jones wife, in said land and paid half the purchase money and their mother T. B. Jones wife, verbally gave him her homestead and dower interests in said land and he established his home on the same and lived thereon till about one year before his death when being in bad health and persuaded that a change of location would probably benefit him, he moved with his family to another farm located on the opposite side of Fourche river and died there but had not and did not abandon the land in question as a home but was struggling to finish paying his sister for her share of it which he had bought as aforesaid, and after his death this defendant paid $40 more of said purchase money, expecting to return to said land and continue the home that her said husband established there, but married her present husband L. A. Oller, before returning and thereupon her first husbands mother, Mrs. Millie Jones, reasserted her homestead right to said land and took possession of it and this Defendant being a married woman did not sue for possession of her Homestead, but her present husband, a nephew of said Millie Jones, rented it of her and moved there with this defendant and submitted to her alleged authority as life tenant of the premises and said Millie Jones held the same till her death about two years ago. But Mary Jones, wife of the Defendant Lee Jones, died about five years after having in the attempt to carry in to effect the contract of sale she had made to her brother as aforesaid, by conveying her said half interest in said land to his daughter, the plaintiff Millie Yandell, by fee which is in the possession of the Plaintiff but is not of record and not in the power of this Defendant to produce, and this Defendant alleges that the Plaintiff is the owner in fee of the entire estate in said land, all by inheritance, subject to the homestead and dower right of this Defendant and not by purchase of any part of it, not withstanding the deed executed to her as aforesaid by her aunt, Mary Jones, deceased, and that the other Defendants herein have no share or interest whatever in said land. Wnd (2nd?) This Defendant by way of further cross-complaint against the Plaintiff alleges that the Plaintiffs father, and husband of this Defendant, died seized and possessed of another tract of land, to-wit, N. W. � of N. E. � of Sec.1 Township 2 N. Range 26 W. containing 40 acres which has remained in the possession of this Defendant from his death to the present time and her dower in it has not been assigned, though she, through her present husband, has made valuable improvements on it, and it is not connected with the land described in Plaintiffs Complaint, and is not a part of the homestead aforesaid, but belongs solely to the plaintiff, subject to the dower of this defendant. Wherefore Defendant, Mary Oller, prays that the partition heretofore made by Commissioners in this cause be not confirmed but set aside, and that Plaintiff and the other Defendants be required to answer this Cross Complaint and that on final hearing this Defendants homestead right in the lands described in Plaintiffs complaint be quieted, and that dower be assigned her in all the lands aforesaid and for all necessary or proper relief.
A. G. Leming, Attorney for Mary Oller
My Notes: Persons included and their relationship to me (These persons are from my father's mother's family): 1. C. C. Griffith - Christopher Columbus Griffith - 3rd great grandfather. (He died in the hospital during the Civil War on December 17, 1862). 2. Millie Ann Oller Griffith Jones - 3rd great grandmother. 3. Thomas Benton Jones - Millie's second husband. He was the uncle of her son-in-law. He was my 3rd great granduncle. 4. Mary Elizabeth Griffith Jones - my 2nd great grandmother. 5. James H. Griffith - son of Millie and C. C. Griffith. My 2nd great granduncle. 6. Levi Benton "Lee" Jones - my 2nd great grandfather, husband of Mary Elizabeth Griffith. 7. Mary Adeline Hall Griffith Oller - wife of (1) James H. Griffith and (2) Lorriane Arthur Oller. 8. Lorraine "Raine" Arthur Oller - second husband of Mary and nephew of Millie Ann Oller. His parents were Harrison Oller and Mary Augusta Keeler. My 1st cousin 4 times removed. 9. Harrison Oller was the son of Arthur Oller and Rebecca (maybe Allen), brother of Millie Ann. My 3rd great granduncle. 10. Millie Jane Griffith Yandell - wife of Robert Lee Yandell; daughter of James H. Griffith and Mary Adeline Hall and granddaughter of Millie Ann Oller and Christopher Griffith. My 1st cousin three times removed. 11. Children of Lee and Mary Jones: Edgar, Viola, Velma, Verna, Vida, Jay, Edythe, Ulyssess "Doke," Attie, Jay, and Verna. Edgar was my great grandfather. 12. Viola Yandell was the daughter of Levi & Mary and wife of Andrew Jackson Yandell.
Barbara Hale Reynolds
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