In a message dated 7/23/2002 4:00:18 PM Central Daylight Time, ednaicole@yahoo.com writes: Hi Edna, I can't find where I answered this one and yet I should have. Since I usually delete them after I answer I am a bit puzzled. So... if this is a duplicate then please forgive me but.... The answer is no - the Nancy Jane Ivester who married John Asbury Roberts is not the daughter of Asa Monroe Ivester. Asa Monroe Ivester is my great grandfather - and that Nancy Jane was a sister to my grandfather John Wesley Ivester. She did die young. Take care - Emma > Can someone tell me if the Nancy Jane Ivester who married John Asbury > Roberts mentioned as the parents of Mollie Jane Wisdom in the attached > obituary is the daughter of Asa Monroe Ivester? > > Janice Ivester shows Asa's daughter, Nancy Jane Ivester died before 1880. > Does anyone know of another Nancy Jane Ivester or is the 1880 death date > incorrect? > > Another note, Mollie is the longest lived Ivester descendant I have found; > 106 years, 9 months, 8 days. The next longest is Theoshee Lucretia > Ivester, d/o Henry C. Ivester at 106 years, 3 months, 10 days. She married > David Sherlin. > > Edna > > > Today's Obituaries-November 19, 2000 > > > Mollie Jane Wisdom > > > > Mollie Jane Wisdom of Tecumseh died Friday in Tecumseh at age 106. > She was born Feb. 9, 1894, in Brown, Oklahoma Territory. She was the > daughter of John Asbury and Nancy Jane (Ivester) Roberts. > She attended school at Centerpoint. Mrs. Wisdom was reared on a farm near > Brown, west of Tecumseh. > On Dec. 22, 1909, she married William Newton Wisdom in Brown. He preceded > her in death on Dec. 3, 1955. > A homemaker, she also worked with her husband in his shop in Shawnee > tailoring men's clothing. She worked in clothing alterations for 50 years. > She also worked at Star Cleaners and Greene's. Mrs. Wisdom was a member of > the Christian Science Church and Tecumseh Senior Citizens' Center. > She also was preceded in death by her daughter, Levada Smith; son, William > Andrew Wisdom; sister, Elizabeth Shirey and two brothers, Bill Roberts and > Dee Roberts. > Survivors include daughter-in-law, Beverly Wisdom of Lovington, N.M.; three > grandsons and their spouses, Bob and Cookie Smith of Wills Point, Texas; > Andrew and Pauline Wisdom Jr. of The Plains, Va.; John and Sandy Smith of > Shawnee; granddaughter and spouse, Andrea Lee and Ken Burt of Lovington, > N.M.; eight great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren. > A memorial service will be 9:30 a.m. Monday at Cooper Funeral Chapel with > Martha Belle Morris officiating. Burial will be at Tecumseh Cemetery. > > > >