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Mary E. Pruitt (1875-1895) Age 19-20
​DAUGHTER OF THOMAS R. AND LYDIA ELLEN (HUFF) PRUITT

1875
 
Mary E. Pruitt was 9 months old in the 1875 Kansas Territory Census.  She is shown at age 19 in the 1895 Kansas State Territory Census.  (Images shown in the section for her mother, Lydia Ellen Huff.)

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1895
 
Mary died 30 Mar 1895 near Otto in Cowley County, Kansas, and is buried in Dexter Cemetery in Cowley County.  The obituary included on her Find A Grave memorial names her as Mary, but the actual memorial is under the name Lydia Mary.
 
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10808618

Winfield Daily Courier, Winfield (Cowley County), Kansas, Monday, April 8, 1895:

Near Otto, Kansas, March 30, 1895, of pneumonia, Mary Pruitt aged 19 years.  She joined the United Brethren church about eighteen months ago and was a consistent christian and loved by all who knew her.  She leaves a widowed mother, two brothers and a little sister to mourn her loss, besides a large circle of friends, but we feel that our loss is her gain and we will meet her again someday.

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Many thanks to the Cowley County Historical Society Museum and Bill and Lou Tharp of Cowley County Kansas Genealogy Research for providing Mary's obituary.

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