Marie Watkins Oliver (1854 – 1944)

Selected Bibliography
from The State Historical Society of Missouri

Articles in the Missouri Historical Review [REF F550 M691]

• Oliver, Allen L. “The Missouri State Flag.” v. 52, no. 1 (October 1957), pp. 35-39. [opens in new window]
• Oliver, Robert Burett. “History of the State Flag of Missouri.” v. 13, no. 3 (April 1919), pp. 226-231. [opens in new window]

Articles from the Newspaper Collection

• “Flag a Symbol of Family’s Legacy; Designer’s Descendant Presented with Banner.” Columbia Daily Tribune. May 25, 2005. p. 16A.
• “Mrs. Oliver Passes Away.” Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian. October 18, 1944. p. 1.
• “This is State Pride Week; Much History Recalled.” Jefferson City Tribune. March 26, 1925. p. 4.

Books

• Christensen, Lawrence O., William E. Foley, Gary R. Kremer, and Kenneth H. Winn, eds. Dictionary of Missouri Biography.. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. pp. 583-584. [REF F508 D561]
• Dains, Mary K., ed. Show Me Missouri Women: Selected Biographies. Kirksville, MO: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1989. v. 1, p. 258. [REF F508 Sh82 v.1]
• Laws of Missouri Passed at the Session of the Forty-Seventh General Assembly which convened at the City of Jefferson, Wednesday, January 8, 1913. Jefferson City: Hugh Stephens Printing Co. pp. 349-351. [REF M345.21 M691 1913]
• Trout, Carlynn. Notable Women of Missouri. Columbia, MO: Columbia, Missouri Branch of the American Association of University Women in Partnership with Eugene Field Elementary School, Columbia, MO, 2005. pp. 25-26. [REF F508 T758 2005]
• Waal, Carla, and Barbara Oliver Korner. Hardship and Hope: Missouri Women Writing About Their Lives 1820-1920. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997. pp. 117-131. [REF F508 W111]
• Watkins, Marie Oliver, and Helen Hamacher Watkins. “Tearin’ Through the Wilderness”: Missouri Pioneer Episodes, 1822–1885, and Genealogy of the Watkins Family of Virginia and Missouri. Charleston, WV: Mathews Printing and Lithography Co., 1957. [REF F508.2 W328W]

Manuscript Collection

• Oliver Family, Papers, 1805-1977 (C3731)
  This collection contains the papers of the Oliver family of Cape Girardeau, MO. The material includes family and professional correspondence, legal firm records, family financial and legal records, speeches and writings, genealogical materials, and photographs, as well as information on patriotic organizations, the Missouri State Normal School, and First Presbyterian Church of Cape Girardeau.
• Watkins, Marie Oliver (1885-1959), Papers, 1822-1962 (C2689)
  
  http://www.umsystem.edu/whmc/invent/2689.html
  
  These papers contain genealogical research compiled in preparation for the publication of the book “Tearin' Through the Wilderness”: Missouri Pioneer Episodes, 1822-1885 by Marie Oliver Watkins and Helen Hamacher Buchanan Watkins. This genealogy traces the descendants of Charles Allen Watkins and Henrietta Rives of Virginia and Ray County, Missouri.