Wells Family - Person Sheet
Wells Family - Person Sheet
NameRavanah Wells 
Birth7 Mar 1856, Decatur Co, IN
Census16 Apr 1930, Norman Twp, Cleveland Co, OK
Memoroll#1898, pg 18
Census16 Apr 1940, Norman Twp, Cleveland Co, OK
Memoroll#3284, pg 30
Death2 Feb 1942, Fairview, Major Co, OK
BurialRusk Cem, Fairview, Major Co, OK
FatherSimpson Tanner Wells (1832-1919)
MotherJane Achsah L. F. Douglass (1829-1903)
Never married
Misc. Notes
listed as Raffava in the 1860 census. She is living with her brother John’s family in 1900 and 1920 in Oklahoma.
There are legal papers that show Ravavah being declared legally incompetent and being cared for by John. The land that she homesteaded was then put up for sale and John purchased it. There is an article of agreement relinquishing all rights to the land with signatures from their brothers and sisters---Achsah Jane Horton, Junius E Wells, Charles C Wells, and Emma Alice Long dated July 26, 1912.
She is listed as Ravavah in her father’s 1919 obituary.
She is listed as Ravannah, age 71, born in Iowa in the Central Oklahoma State Hospital in 1930.
Still there as Ravanah (80, IA) in the 1940 census, listed as having a 6th grade education.
There are legal papers that show Ravavah being declared legally incompetent and being cared for by John. The land that she homesteaded was then put up for sale and John purchased it. There is an article of agreement relinquishing all rights to the land with signatures from their brothers and sisters---Achsah Jane Horton, Junius E Wells, Charles C Wells, and Emma Alice Long dated July 26, 1912.
She is listed as Ravavah in her father’s 1919 obituary.
She is listed as Ravannah, age 71, born in Iowa in the Central Oklahoma State Hospital in 1930.
Still there as Ravanah (80, IA) in the 1940 census, listed as having a 6th grade education.