Rachel Elizabeth Atkins
- Born: 1881, AR
- Marriage (1): William N. Gragg on 17 Jan 1898 in Crawford Co, AR 1
- Died: 22 May 1956, Muskogee Co, OK at age 75
 Noted events in her life were:
• Nickname: Bettie.
• Obituary: Muscogee Daily Phoenix. Funeral services for Mrs. Betty Jones, 75, resident of Webbers Falls who died Tuesday at her home, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Webbers Falls Assembly of God Church.
Pallbearers will be Harvey Ellis, Famous Heaton, Leo Ward, Lark Corder, Velmer Cope and Leo Clay.
Burial will be in Fields Cemetery at Porum directed by Lescher Funeral Home.
Mrs. Jones is survived by her husband, W. H. Jones; seven sons, Ed Graggs of Arizona, Willie Lasiter and Ern and Clem Jones, all of New Mexico, and Bill, Perry and Frank Jones, all of Webbers Falls, three daughters, Mrs. Lena Patterson, Mrs. Rene Burns and Mrs. Mollie Masterson, all of New Mexico; a brother, Ed Atkins of California; three sisters, Mrs. Mollie Venible of Atkins, Arkansas, Mrs. Susie Holley of Keota and Mrs. Willie Clemins of Pine Bluff, Arkansas; 76 grandchildren and 42 great-grandchildren.
Source: Muskogee Daily Phoenix, May 23, 1956
Gravesite Details
Willie Lasiter is identified as a daughter in the obit for William Henry Jones, spouse of Betty Jones.
Rachel married William N. Gragg, son of Thomas Malcolm Gragg and Susannah Cornutt, on 17 Jan 1898 in Crawford Co, AR.1 (William N. Gragg was born about 1879 in MO and died before 1900 in Franklin Co., AR.)
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