┌── Nathan Hinshaw
                                                         │    1842-1907 
                            ┌── Charles Alonzo Henshaw ──┤
                            │    1865-1948               │
                            │                            └── Rachel Emma Jones
                            │                                 1846-1920 
Stella M. Henshaw ──────────┤
B: 1918                     │
D: 2000                     │
                            └── Myrtle Mae Harrison
                                 1895-1956 
M: Oliver Philson Lancaster

Stella M. Henshaw     [ID 11707]

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Born Oct 25 1918, Oklahoma.^1,2,3,4  

She married Oliver Philson Lancaster, Dec 26 1934.^1,5  Oliver, son of Aaron Orval Lancaster & Martha B. "Mattie" Pickett, was born Mar 4 1896, Ozark, Franklin County, Arkansas.^2,5,6,7,8  

Children:^1,4

Oliver died Jul 30 1973, Bakersfield, Kern County, California; age 77.^2,5,6,7  

In 2000 Stella was living in/near Okemah, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma.²  

Stella M. Henshaw died Jun 30 2000, Creek Nation Hospital; buried Highland Cemetery, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma.^1,2  

Stella's obituary was published in The Shawnee News-Star (Shawnee, Oklahoma) on July 1, 2000:¹

Stella M. Lancaster Stella M. Lancaster died Friday at Creek Nation Hospital.  She was 81.   Mrs. Lancaster was born on Oct. 25, 1918, the daughter of Lonza Henshaw and Myrtle Harrison Henshaw.  On Dec. 26, 1934, she married Oliver Phil Lancaster, who preceded her in death.   She was a homemaker and a member of the Pentecostal Holiness Church and had lived in Okemah for the last three years.   She was also preceded in death by her parents, son Gene Lancaster and two brothers.   Survivors include three sons and two daughters-in-law, Troy Lancaster and wife Wanda of Medford, Ore.; Larry Lancaster and wife Tina of Bakersfield, Calif. and Rick Lancaster of Okemah; two daughters, Sharon Kay Tobey and Opal Young, both of Okemah; one brother, Leslie Henshaw of Okemah; two sisters, Geraldine Stotts and Gladys Stotts, both of Okemah; 15 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.   Services will be 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Parks Brothers Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Charles Stotts officiating.  Burial will be in Highland Cemetery under the direction of Parks Brothers Funeral Home, Okemah.

Social Security information for Stella M. Henshaw: 573-34-6908

Social Security information for Oliver Philson Lancaster: 444-12-0576

Sources

1. Obituary of Stella M. (Henshaw) Lancaster; The Shawnee News-Star, Jul 1 2000:
   http://www.onlineshawnee.com/stories/070100/obi_070100.shtml.
2. "Social Security Death Index" (as it is commonly called), derived from the Social Security Administration "Death Master File". See: http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson10.htm
3. 1930 census, Hickory Ridge Township, Okfuskee County, Oklahoma; roll T626-1917, ED 8, page 5B, line #74, dwelling #89, family #91.
4. Contribution from Jo (Henshaw) Shelton.
5. RootsWeb WorldConnect data by Sharen Neal ().
6. RootsWeb California Death Records database:
   http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi.
7. California Death Index, 1940-1997; http://www.ancestry.com.
8. 1920 census, Caney Township, Atoka County, Oklahoma; roll T625-1452, ED 4, page 2A, line #32, dwelling #25, family #25.
9. California Birth Index, 1905-1995; http://www.ancestry.com.

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