This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Archer, Pike, Montgomery, Enyart, Walker, Martini, Meyers Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/7034 Message Board Post: Olive Archer of Cheyenne passed away at 12:55 a.m. April 3, 1984. Mrs. Archer had been a resident of Hydro Manor Nursing Home for the past 2 1/2 years. She had enjoyed good health and had celebrated her 100th birthday last January 4, 1984 with her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, great great grandchilddren and a host of friends and other relatives. On March 26, 1984 Mrs. Archer suffered a heart attack at Hydro Nurrsing Home and was taken to the Weatherford hospital, where she remained for seven days until her death. She was buried at Cheyenne Cemetery, Cheyenne, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma following the funeral held at the Baptist Church in Cheyenne at 2:00 p.m. April 5, 1984. Mrs. Archer is survived by 5 daughters and 2 sons: Ruby Montgomery of Milwaukie, Oregon; Jewel Enyart of Alice, Texas; Nola Walker of Bend, Oregon; Blane Archer of Weatherford, Oklahoma; Marie Archer of Wynnewood, Oklahoma; Lucille Martini of Portland, Oregon; and Oscar Archer of Price, Utah; 37 grandchildren, 77 great grandchildren, 7 great great grandrchildren and one sister, Syvlia Meyers of Magnolia, Oklahoma. Olive Martha Pike Archer was born and grew up near Graysville, Missouri. At the age of 19 years on March 31, 1903 she was married to Calvin C. Archer of Glendale, Missouri. The young couple the following day boarded the train to Elk City, Oklahoma. There they filed a homestead claim and settled in the Three Corner Districk about 10 miles east of Roll. This was prior to Oklahoma statehood and was known as "Oklahoma Territory." For the first year of their marriage their first home was a "dugout" with a thach roof and dirt walla and floor. Later Mr. Archer built their first house, consisting of one room. This had a real roof, reall walls and a real floor. A great improvement. In this rural community Mrs. Archer gave birth to eleven children. One child, a daughter, was lost at age 2. The remaining ten grew to adulthood. Twenty years ago in 1964 at the age of 84, Mr. Calvin Archer passed away and since then Mrs. Archer has lost her first three children: Lawrence Archer of Sayre, Oklahoma; Loyd Archer of. (The end) Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK