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If a person died in Groom, Texas in 1906, where or how do I locate a record? Newspaper article, obituary, cemetery record, doctor records...
My great-grandmother, Mrs. Ike Killian (Lucy Ann (Bradshaw) Killian) was aboard the train from Beaver County, Oklahoma headed for Mangum, Greer County, Oklahoma.
Lucy Killian was pregnant, sick with pneumonia, and had just become a widow in Beaver County. The conductor of the train realized Lucy and one of five children with her were very ill. The conductor had the train return to the Groom Station where they took Lucy and her children off the train.
Texas Online History confirms there was a train station and one hotel in 1906. The hotel is where Lucy gave birth to a premature female child. The child was named Mary Etta Fay Killian after the woman at the hotel.
The five older children were taken by an uncle to the maternal grandparents in Greer County, Oklahoma. Another maternal uncle went to Groom and remained there 3-4 days before Lucy died. The infant child was then taken to the maternal grandparents and she died 6 months later.
What is not clear or validated is that it is assumed Lucy Killian was buried in Groom, Texas. This event occured between February 8th (when Isaac "Ike" Killian died in Beaver County, Oklahoma) and February 26, 1906 where we have found a news statement in Greer County stating the five children were now in the home of the maternal grandfather.
Where or who can help us find the grave should Lucy Killian have been buried in Groom, Texas?
Julia Nelson Luke
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