Maggie Ellis Laws Clem

© Cheyenne Star

June 1998

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Maggie Ellis Laws was born on February 7, 1902 in Lakota, Cooper County, Missouri, the second of nine children born to L.K.H. And Margaret Eldredge Laws.

She passed away in her home in Leedey on June 1, 1998 at the age of 96.

Her family came to Indian Territory in 1903 and settled in the Trail community in Dewey county.

In 1909 they moved to a farm two miles north of Camargo.

She obtained her degree in 1926 from Prairie Home, Missouri and retruned to Oklahoma where she obtained a teaching certificate and taught school in Dewey and Roger Mills counties.

On July 17, 1934 she married Phillip Clem. They lived in the Shirley and Trail communities before moving to a farm southwest of Camargo where they raised their family.

She was a member of the Leedey First Baptist Church.

Maggie and Phillip retired from farming and moved to Leedey in 1969.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; one daughter, Ramona Warren; one granddaughter, four brothers and two sisters.

She is survived by two daughters, Jane and Wesley Harden and June and Karl Lovelace, all of Hammon; one son-in-law, Clifford Warren of Stillwater; six grandchildren; six great grandchildren; one sister, Mattie Cole; and one brother, Lewis Laws.

Services were June 3, 1998 in the Leedey First Baptist church with interment at the Shirley Cemetery, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma.

Memorials can be made to the Leedey Fist Baptist Church.

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