Typed by: Kay Ward

The Daily Democrat, Marlin, Texas, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 1987
Page 2, column 5

BAGBY, Mrs. Mildred

Surnames: BAGBY, KEIRSAY, MASTERS, SMITH, TASH, BATES
Mrs. Mildred Keirsey Bagby, 91, formerly of Chilton, died Jan. 23 in an Austin hospital after a lengthy illness.
Services were Jan. 26 in Norwood Funeral in Broken Bow, Okla. Burial was in Crown Hill Cemetery at Broken Bow.
Mrs. Bagby was born Sept. 15, 1895 in Chilton, daughter of Parham Keirsey and Mary Ann Masters Keirsey. Her parents were pioneer settlers in the Chilton community, having moved there following the end of the Civil War in 1865. Her father fought with the Army of Tennessee, Confederate States of America, and she was named for one of Gen. Robert E. Lee's daughters, Mildred Lee.
She attended Chilton schools until her family moved to Clarksville, Red River County, Tex., in 1913 to pursue a cattle business. In 1919 they took their cattle herd and moved across the Red River to Broken Bow, McCurtain County, Okla. - part of the former Choctaw Nation - to the open ranges of southeastern Oklahoma.
On Oct. 20, 1923, she married Ballard C. Bagby, a true cowboy of the Old West who had "worked the ranges" from Texas to Montana. She and her husband had a ranch east of Broken Bow and raised cattle, sheep, goats and hogs. Their cattle brand was the Ten Bar. Her husband was the first rural mail carrier out of Broken Bow - first driving a horse and buggy, then a Model T Ford. He preceded her in death in 1947. She was known to her nephews and niece a Little Auntie.
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Clara Lee Bagby of Austin; two grandsons, Michael and Douglas Smith, both of Baytown; one granddaughter, Mrs. Sandra Tash of Austin; five great-grandchildren; a nephew, Harry F. Keirsey of Broken Bow; and a niece, Mrs. Mary Jane Bates of Odabel, Okla.

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