Individual Details

Bernice W. House

(11 Feb 1920 - 8 Sep 1998)



Buried with Joe, Tahlequah Cemetery.

Parents listed as Walter House and Leacy O. Mills on her Social Security Claim. She was born Bokoshe, LeFlore Co, OK.

1830 Census. Bokoshe, LeFlore, OK, Hh 111
Walter House, 37, married at age 22, b. OK, parents b. Maine, Farmer
Leacy, wife, 36, married at 21, b. OK, father b. Kansas, mother b. AR
Maybell, 12. Bernice, 10. Sherman, 8. Herman, 6. Maxine, 4 years, 9 months - all born in Oklahoma

1840 Census. Grandview, Cherokee Co, OK, Hh 123
Berneice W. House, age 20, b. OK, lived in LeFlore Co, OK in 1935, working as a housemaid - perhaps in the household listed before her - the home of Virtes & Anna Williams, ages 70 and 69, respectively. He was a Christian Church minister.

3 Jan 1941. Arkansas Marriage License
J. C. Wood, 29, of Tahlequah, OK to marry Miss Berneice House, age 20, of Muskogee, OK. Sebastian County, Arkansas.

Tulsa World (OK) - Thursday, September 10, 1998
Wood, Berneice W., 78, homemaker, died Tuesday. Services 10:30 a.m. Friday, Reed-Culver Funeral Home Chapel, Tahlequah.

Events

Birth11 Feb 1920Bokoshe, LeFlore County, Oklahoma
Marriage3 Jan 1941Sebastian County, Arkansas - Joe Christopher Wood
Death8 Sep 1998Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma

Families

SpouseJoe Christopher Wood (1911 - 1986)
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