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- In the 1920 census his name is recorded as James M. Walls. In all other census and all other records his name is John M. Walls.
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- John Walls’ Rites To Be Wednesday
Funeral rites for John Walls, 92, who died Monday at 7:05 a.m. in the Twin-Cities Nursing Home, will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Standerfer Mills Funeral chapel with Rev. T.P. Spear officiating.
A former coal miner, Mr. Walls is a long time resident of this area, having come to Hartshorne in 1902. In 1905 he bought a home in Haileyville and lived there until about five years ago when he went to the country home of his daughter, Mrs. Grady Burns. The Burns family had lived with him until they moved to the country. He had been in the nursing home for about a year.
He was born in Ohio September 10, 1872. His first wife, Laurabelle Shaw Walls, died in 1914. She had a son, Owen Walls, by her first husband, a cousin of John Walls. He lives in Oildale, Calif.
His second wife, Lena Pingleton Walls, died in 1927.
The daughter and stepson, 18 grandchildren and 50 great grandchildren survive.
The Hartshorne Sun, Hartshorne, Oklahoma. Thursday, 24 December 1964.
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