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Mrs. Funk is a great-granddaughter of Nancy TRIMMIER, whose father was born in a Revolutionary camp. Nancy Trimmier lived in South Carolina near Spartanburg. The Trimmiers were of French origin, and were extensive planters, cotton mill owners, conducted carriage factories, and were prominent in the South in an official way. Mrs. Funk's father was Capt. T. B. Sloan, who was born at Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 1830, but when a boy his parents settled in New Albany, Mississippi. He is still living at New Albany at the age of eighty-five. He received his early education at Spartanburg and New Albany, and in 1861 went into the Confederate army, and at Gettysburg he was wounded and made a prisoner, and remained in the Federal prison on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie until the close of the war. He then settled at New Albany, was married, and became a planter and merchant. He married Mary HENRY, who was born in South Carolina in 1840 and died at New Albany, Mississippi, in 1885. Their children were: Georgia A., widow of W. H. GANTT, and she now resides on a plantation in Arkansas; Mrs. T. S. Funk; Minnie Frances, wife of Major W. STROUD, who is a large shipping contractor and at the head of a transfer business at Greenwood, Mississippi; Will Theodore, wife of W. H. BONE, a planter at New Albany, Mississippi; Compton, whose whereabouts have been unknown for several years; Elizabeth Irma, wife of Frank W. O'KEEFFE, connected with a department store at Meridian, Mississippi. Mrs. Funk received her early education in the public and private schools of Mississippi. She spent some time training for library work in the Carnegie Library at Oklahoma City. In 1886 in New Albany she married Richard Walker Funk. He was born in Wallerville, Mississippi, received a public school education in his native town and at New Albany and in the University at Oxford, Mississippi, and in business became a general merchant and furniture dealer in Mississippi. In 1902 he moved to Shawnee, where he established the Shawnee Furniture Company in partnership with J. B. ARMSTEAD. This house was burned out in 1904, and since then Mr. Funk has been connected with the Flemming- Brown Furniture Company at Shawnee. He is a democrat and is a member of the Knight of Pythias. Mr. and Mrs. Funk have two children: Waller Adair, who received a high school education at Shawnee and pursued further training in a school of technology in Chicago and is now superintendent for an electric company in New York City. Louise Trimmier is now a sophomore in the high school at Shawnee. SHAWNEE CARNEGIE LIBRARY Vol. 5, p. 1845 One of the first institutions to mark the growth of Shawnee as a center of culture and liberal education was the Shawnee Carnegie Library. This central city of Oklahoma now has much to be proud of, not only as a commercial metropolis of a large and distinctive territory, but as a city of churches, schools, and the various institutions and organizations that increase the attractiveness and advantages for those who not only seek opportunities to advance in a business way, but the facilities of enlightenment. \t The handsome new library building in which the large collection of books are stored and are distributed to the public was erected in 1905 in beautiful Woodland Park, on North Broadway. This building cost $15,768. The library now comprises 10,500 volumes and is steadily growing, not only in additions to the book collection but in a more important degree in the use of the books themselves. The first librarian was J.C. HOLT, who was succeeded by Mrs. J.C. PARKER in 1907. Since 1909 the librarian has been Mrs. T.S. FUNK. The present library board is made up of the following person: Mayor F. P. STEARNS, president; Judge W. M. ENGART, vice president; George E. MCKINNIS, Otis WEAVER, Mrs. W. H. DODGE, Mrs. Agnes AMOS and Mrs. George LARCH-MILLER. Mrs. Funk was secretary of the library board almost from it organization in 1902. The first president of the board was Mrs. J.R. SCHLOSS. Other members who at different times have been especially identified with the work of this organization were: Mr. and Mrs. C. J. BENSON, Mrs. Dr. SHIVE, Mrs. Glen LEHMAN, Mrs. Henry BEARD, Mrs. James AYDELOTTE, Hon. R. E. WOOD, Victor E. HARLOW, Paul COOPER and Mrs. Frank BOGGS. Transcribed for OKGenWeb by Allison Sheldon July 27, 1999. SOURCE: Thoburn, Joseph B., A Standard History of Oklahoma, An Authentic Narrative of its Development, 5 v. (Chicago, New York: The American Historical Society, 1916).