The Topeka Daily Capital Saturday February 25, 1899 Anna L. Deskins. Mrs. Anna Laura DESKINS, 91, 821 Jefferson, died Thursday evening in a rest home at Lawrence. She was born March 20, 1869, at Chillicothe, Ohio and came to Kansas with her parents when she was 12. She is survived by two sons, Donald C. Deskins, of Truckee, Calif., and Clarence Deskins, of Louisville, Ky.; four daughters, Mrs. Hulda WOOD, 2718 Schuler; Mrs. george LEAMAN and MRs. Edith McMANIS, both of Lawrence, and Mrs. Lillian OLIVER of Rough and Ready, Calif.; 16 grandchildren, 44 great-grandchildren, and six great-great-grandchildren. Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Rumsey Funeral Home at Lawrence with burial in the Clinton Cemetery.