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©The Daily Oklahoman Oklagoma City, Oklahoma April 3, 1928, Page 10 1850 ~ 1928 Death Claims Seger Widow Colony Woman was Matron at Arapahoe Indian School in 1875. Colony, Okla., April 2. - [Special] - Mrs. Mary E. Seger, 77 years old widow of the late John H. Seger, pioneer Oklahoman and Indian Educator, died at her home here Sunday. She had suffered a stroke of paralysis about three weeks ago, only about a month after her husband's death, February 7. Mrs Seger was the first white woman to live with her family in Washita county and made her home in the first house built in the county in 1883. She leaves five sons, Nealha H. Seger, Geary, Okla.; Jessa H. Seger, Colony, Okla.; Harry M. Seger, Quincy, Ill.; John D. Seger, Moorehaven, Fla., and James O. Seger, Seminole, and two daughters, Bessie B. Seger and Mrs. Lena Crank, of Colony. Burial will be at Colony. |
Colony, Oklahoma April 1967 March 2, 1880 ~ April 15, 1967 Miss Bessie Louisa Seger, 87 years old, died Friday, April 14, at her home in Colony. She was the daughter of John H. Seger, Indian agent, who conducted an Indian colonization project on Cobb Creek in Washita County. She had lived at Colony for eighty-one years except for four years near El Reno. The family first lived in the area which later became Seger's Colony in 1884 and 1885 when the government devised a plan for leasing all the Cheyenne-Arapaho territory west of the South Canadian River to cattle companies and Seger was sent out as overseer. Miss Seger and her two brothers were the only white children in the area. The lease was canceled in 1885, and the Segers returned to Darlington. Shortly afterward, he was selected by Jesse M. Lee, military agent, to conduct a colonization project with 500 Indians from the Darlington reservation, the last of their tribe to abandon the warpath, and he returned with them to the site of his former home in what was to become Washita County. Soon afterward, he moved his family from Caldwell, Kansas, to Colony. From 1889 to 1893 Miss Seger lived near the old town of Reno City, north of El Reno, where her father had filed on a homestead. In 1893 she returned with the family to Colony where her father became superintendent of the Seger Indian School. In 1901 she ran for a claim, which she proved in 1905. She operated a hotel in Colony, served as boys' matron at the Seger Indian School, taught music to settlers' children in the early days, and worked several years as a telephone operator in Colony and Weatherford. She was a member of the Columbian Memorial Presbyterian Church. She died at 5:10 o'clock last Friday afternoon at the residence in Colony where she had lived for forty three years. |
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