This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wineinger, Norton, Stokes, Campbell, Cowell, Stevnson, Keenen Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/2708 Message Board Post: Margaret Elenor Norton was born April 27, 1859 in Brown County, Illinois, and at the age of ten years, moved with her parents to Ringgold County, Iowa, in the days of the pioneer. On September 1886, she married Aaron Wineinger. To this union were born three sons: James Lyon and Ellis LeRoy, now living, and John Wesley who died in infancy aged three months. In 1900 they moved to Kay County, Oklahoma, and in 1902 in the month of February they moved to their homestead about three miles southeast of Reydon, Oklahoma; (formerly Rankin, Okla.) where they lived about twenty years, before moving with thei son, James L. to Midwasy, 3 1/2 miles north of Reydon, where she spent the last eight years. Mrs. Wineinger was sick about three weeks of paralysis and liver trouble and all was done that could be done but she died about 5:15 a.m. Sabath, April 12, 1931, aged 71 years, 11 months and 15 days. She leaves to mourn her padding her devoted husband, her two sons, above named James L., Reydon, and E.L. of Alma, Colo., and four grandchildren, raymond of Denver, Colo., Mrs. Gladys Stokes of Denver, Colo., Mrs. Violet Campbell, Amarillo, Texas and LeRoy Jr., of Denver, Colo. All of the above were here before her death and funeral, but Gladys and LeRoy Jr. She also leaves three sisters living, Mary J. Cowell, Morgantown, W.Va., Sarah Agens Stevenson, Clearfield, Iowa, and Minnie B. Keenen, Blocktown, Iowas. Mrs. Wineinger was truly a pioneer mother, living in Iowa in that state's developing years, and then coming to Oklahoma in its opening days, saw this country grow from raw prairie land of the Indian to its present settled state. In early life she confessed her faith in Jesus as her Saviour and lived a consistent life. To her devoted husband she was a help-mate, in the fullest sense of the word. And to her children and grandchildren she was a model mother and grandmother. Their little home on the claim she made a bower of roses, filling her world with the son of birds and the perfume of flowers. She was a very helpful neighbor, going to the homes of sickness and sorrow with help and comfort, never complaining even when burdens pressed hard. Funeral services were held at the Rankin (White Rose) cemetery, Reydon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma at 2:00 o'clock April 133, 1931, conducted by Rev. S.S. Elliott of Strong City, Oklahoma.