Nettie was born in the Oklahoma Territory in 1891 to Powhatan King Lester and Talitha Augusta Putman. Her father died[1] when she was six and for a brief time she and her mother lived in Arkansas with relatives. She married Wesley Cobb Garrett in Oklahoma at age 15 and had six sons and one daughter. Nettie passed away in 1958 at 67 years old, 22 years after her husband.
Timeline
1891 Jun 17 - Birth - Indian Territory
1900 United States Federal Census[2] - Lee, Boone, Arkansas
↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3XJ-DLM : accessed 19 December 2019), Geanette Lester in household of Thomas Hayes, Long Creek, Lee & Jackson Townships, Boone, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 22, sheet 8B, family 140, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,051.
↑ "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VXLN-KFX : 4 November 2017), Wesley Garrett and Nettie Lester, 27 Jun 1906; citing Oklahoma, various county courthouses, Oklahoma; FHL microfilm.
↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ML7P-TP7 : accessed 3 December 2019), Westley Garrett, Sallisaw, Sequoyah, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 210, sheet 9A, family 185, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1273; FHL microfilm 1,375,286.
↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN13-X2Y : accessed 3 December 2019), Wesley Garrett, Sallisaw, Sequoyah, Oklahoma, United States; citing ED 165, sheet 3B, line 66, family 64, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1488; FHL microfilm 1,821,488.
↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XC42-9DQ : accessed 3 December 2019), Wesley Garrett, Sallisaw, Sequoyah, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 25, sheet 6B, line 73, family 127, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1931; FHL microfilm 2,341,665.
↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VBKV-HPT : 27 July 2019), Jeaneat Garrett, Ward 4, Claremore, Claremore City, Rogers, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 66-9, sheet 8B, line 50, family 173, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3330.
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