Seek information on family, descendants of Mary Monfort, b. IN 1872 or 1874, migrated with Parents Peter S. and Sarah Embry Monfort to KS about 1880. Mary had several siblings and half-siblings, some in the pharmacy or medical field. Eventually one relative owned Monfort's Drugs in Alva, OK.

Mary m. 1. Enos W. Parsons, either in Wichita area or around Skiatook, OK. He was 25 years older than her and had a son, Oscar Parsons, b. 1878. With him she had about six children but it seems only three survived by 1900, Mona, b. Dec. 1894, LeRoy, b. Aug. 1897, and Melvin, b. Feb. 1900.

Enos Parsons expired by about 1904.

By 1910 Mary had married 2. Grover Cleveland Myers and was in OK with him and her newborn son, Dennis Ervin Myers, but her three children listed above were in the Sedgwick Co., KS "poor farm" which seemed to function as a type of orphanage. By 1920, her son, Melvin Parsons, was listed in her household in OK (he would have been 20 years old). Perhaps she retrieved the children after the 1910 census and brought them to OK.

If anyone can share information on how this Wichita area poor farm functioned for local families about 1910, I would appreciate it. Might Mary have left her children there while she and her second husband resettled in OK? It seems she lived with Enos Parsons in OK (don't know if she married him there). Some of her relatives went back and forth from Sedgwick Co. to Indian Terr. at that time, and some inlaws worked in the oil fields. Later many moved to CA.

Grover Cleveland Myers was born in 1883 in Fredonia, KS. Don't know where he married Mary Monfort Parsons. He is not buried with Mary; he was buried in Tulsa (Osage Gardens) Cem. in 1954. His only child with her, Dennis Ervin Myers, died in the war in Germany. Grover was 11 years younger than Mary, and he was 11 years older than her oldest child.

She had a sister, Mona Nancy Monfort Wilson, who lived in this area, and I am trying to identify her husband, FNU Wilson, and what happened to her son, Harvey Lee Wilson, b. 1 Nov. 1896.

Mary's half-siblings were cousins of my grandfather. Trying to help fill out this branch of the family tree and it has history in Elk City and Wichita, KS and in the Indian Terr.

Thanks for any assistance.