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- Mary Elizabeth Fowler, born 17 Sep 1844 in McNairy County, Tennessee to Joseph Solomon and Elizabeth (Lowery) Fowler. She married William J Hays of Tennessee in Cooke County, Texas on 29 Nov 1862. Their first child, Nancy Elizabeth, was born in Texas before they moved to McDonald County, Missouri. Two children later, they moved to Cherokee Nation Indian Territory, where Mary's father and mother were living on land leased from the Cherokee for cattle and horse grazing. One child was born in Cherokee Nation in 1872. The next move was to Chautauqua County, Kansas where 3 more children were born before moving to Chase County, Kansas where two more children were born. When Mary's father died in Chautauqua County, Kansas in 1887, they were living in Ouray County, Colorado, where their last child was born in 1889. By 1900, they are in Nez Perce, Idaho and by 1910 they had made their last big move across the river to Asotin County, Washington, where her husband, William, died in 1911. Mary lived another 20 years and died in 1933. She has 4 (if not more) of her 10 children buried in this cemetery. [4]
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