Marjorie Ione Luton

Marjorie Ione Luton, daughter of Ada Vonner Brown and John Bryant Luton, was born 1 June 1916 in DeQueen, Sevier County, AR. She experienced a short life of less than four years. All of that life was spent as a resident of DeQueen, where her parents operated a hotel. Marjorie was the victim of some sort of serious and prolonged illness. Neither her obituary nor surviving correspondence describes the precise cause of her ailment. The obituary does describe her as having been at one time been a bright, cheerful, buoyant child, so it is reasonable to assume she was not sick from birth nor was her condition due to some sort of congenital syndrome. A likely culprit for her downturn is tuberculosis or a lung problem that lingered after a case of the infamous Spanish flu that plagued the world during the winters of 1918-1919 and 1919-1920.

Marjorie passed away 1 March 1920 at home. She was buried the same day in the city cemetery, also known as Redmen Cemetery. The grave plot chosen was not far from where her grandparents, Cullen Penny Brown and Emma Ann Martin Brown, had been interred. Over the years the remains of many other family members, including her parents, would be laid to rest nearby. (The original gravemarker is no longer there. It was a large, ornate stone containing the month, day, and year of her birth and death. Today if you visit Redmen Cemetery, you will see a small marker, with the dates limited to only the years.)

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