Lewis, Lila
Entered into rest at the residence of her great niece, Mrs. Virginia Henderson Wynne. Tulsa, Okla March 19, 1950.
Miss Lila Lewis. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. Elliott Sons.
The Augusta Chronicle March 21 1950
Submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer
Eliza Ann Logan
Died: 29 Mar 1955
Obit: Liza Ann Logan was a choctaw Indian and was born to John Calhoun logan and Tabitha Sublett in Alabama May
1 1868. She married John Lecelle White Dec 5 1882. She died mar 29 1955 in Tulsa Oklahoma .She left 8 living children
and one was my grandfather Alonzo White
Submitters by Nancy Richardson
Roberta E. Campbell
Prominent state and national club woman Roberta E. Campbell, daughter of John Edward and Emeline Journeycake Campbell,
was born at Alluwe, Indian Territory, on October 31, 1878. Her father had moved from Virginia to Indian Territory
after the Civil War to establish a mercantile business at the Alluwe trading post. Her mother was the daughter
of Charles Journeycake, last chief of the Delaware tribe. Roberta Campbell received her early education from a
private tutor before studying music and art at a girls' seminary and Hardin College in Missouri. Charles Journeycake
taught his granddaughter Indian legends and chants that she later performed on stage and blended into her music
compositions.
On October 31, 1901, Roberta Campbell married Eugene Lawson, who had settled in Nowata, Indian Territory, to practice
law. He was also employed in banking and the oil industry. They had one son, Edward Campbell Lawson, born in 1905,
who became president of the Tulsa-based Lawson Petroleum Company after his father's death in 1931.Roberta Lawson
dedicated thirty-five years to club work. She had first showed an interest in associations when she returned home
from college; she and four friends formed a club to promote friendship and culture. In 1903 she continued her club
interests as president of Nowata's Women's Club. From 1917 to 1919 she served as the fifth president of the Oklahoma
State Federation of Women's Clubs.
Beginning in 1918 Lawson held a number of offices in the national organization known as the General Federation
of Women's Clubs. While serving as the General Federation's music chairman, she wrote Indian Music Programs for
Clubs and Special Music Days (1926). In 1935 she was elected president of the two-million-member General Federation.
During her three-year presidency the organization worked on important social issues such as uniform marriage and
divorce laws, birth control, and civic service.In 1917 Gov. Robert L. Williams appointed her to head the Women's
Division of the Oklahoma Council of Defense during World War I. In 1933 and 1934 she participated on Eleanor Roosevelt's
National Committee for the Mobilization for Human Needs. Lawson also served on the Board of Regents for Oklahoma
College for Women (now University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma) in Chickasha, and the board of trustees of Tulsa
University. She was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1935. A member of Tulsa's First Presbyterian Church,
she belonged to several local music and women's clubs as well as heritage organizations such as the Daughters of
the American Revolution.
Roberta Lawson died from monocytic leukemia in her Tulsa home on December 31, 1940, and was buried in Tulsa's Memorial
Park Cemetery.
Submitted by Kristy Fox
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