VINITA, Feb. 9.—Mrs. Jeannette Starr Billingslea, 86,
pioneer Vinita resident, died Wednesday. Mrs. Billingslea
had suffered a fractured hip in a fall about a month ago.
She had been bedfast since that time.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
She was a great-niece of John Ross, chief of the Cherokee
nation during the removal of the Cherokees from the
southeastern states to Indian territory in the 1830’s.
An alumna of the Cherokee Female seminary in Tahlequah, she
was a charter member of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy here.
Survivors include one daughter, Miss Willie Billingslea,
Vinita; one son, Joe Billingslea, Springfield, Mo.; one
stepdaughter, Mrs. Helen Pierce, Nowata, and one stepson,
Frank Billingslea, Coffeyville, Kan.
From The Oklahoma, 2/10/1949
Donated by:
Emily Jordan
