Found her death record on Ancestry
Mary Powers Brooks
B 12/16/1866 in KY D 09/07/1943 in KY (Jessamine) age 76
Father James Powers, mother Hester Smith
Says both parents born in KY
Cause of death coronary heart due to heart weakness by senility(?)
Says she was widowed, doesn't say her husband's name
Informant was R.L. Powers (probably her brother Robert)
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