Wolfe County News
Wolfe County, Kentucky
July 1956
WOLFE COUNTY NATIVE PASSES IN OKLAHOMA
Funeral service for James Jackson Gosney, 74 of Kiefer, Oklahoma were held
Monday, July 23 at the Kiefer Christian Church, of which he was a member.
Mr. Gosney, son of the late Charles H. and Malissa Tutt Gosney, was born at
Spradling, Kentucky, February 4, 1882 and grew to young manhood in Wolfe county.
He was married to Miss Nettie R. Cope at McCormick, Kentucky, May 29, 1907. They
moved to Oklahoma two years later.
Mr. Gosney was a charter member of the Kiefer Masonic Lodge No. 48, and a past
master of the lodge. He was a 32nd degree Mason, and a member of the McAlester
Consistory. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War.
Survivors, in addition to his wife, six children, fourteen grandchildren and one
great-grandchild, are three brothers, Woodford Gosney, Newport, KY; Charles S.
Gosney, Drumright, Oklahoma; and Sullivan Gosney, Bakersfield, California; and
three sisters, Maymee Lallathin, Rainer, Washington; and Mrs. Sarah Wright,
Oneida, Tenn. He was preceded in death by three children, two of whom died in
infancy and a son who lost his life in World War II, two brothers, and two
sisters.
Interment was in the family lot in South
Heights Cemetery in Sapulpa.
Mr. Gosney had visited in Wolfe County last summer.
Carole Bays < acbays@mrtc.com >
Wolfe County News
Wolfe County, Kentucky
April 1963
Funeral services for Mrs. Nettie Cope Gosney, 72, Kiefer, Oklahoma, native Wolfe Countian, were held April 18 in Kiefer. She had been in ill health for several months.
Mrs. Gosney, d/o the late Mr. and Mrs. Ed Cope, was born in Wolfe County, Jan. 16, 1891. She was married to Jim Gosney in 1907 and they moved to Oklahoma in 1909. He preceded her in death in 1956.
She was a member of the Christian Church and Eastern Star.
Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Hilda Fitzpatrick, Sapulpa, Okla., Miss June Gosney, Tulsa; and Mrs. Betty Thompson, Tulsa; three sons, Jim Gosney and John Gosney, Bethany, Oklahoma, and Jack Gosney, Keller; two sisters, Mrs. Carmen Davis, Tulsa, and Mrs. Mina Reed, Huntington Park, Calif.; two brothers, Pete Cope, Houston, Texas and Orlon Cope, Holdenville, Oklahoma; 15 grandchildren, three great grandchildren and two nieces in Wolfe County, Mrs. Ezra Manning and Mrs. Arkill Hollon.
Interment was in the South Heights
Cemetery, Sapulpa.