Person: Mary Adeline Billington, Myaamia Name: Maankoonsihkwa

• Oklahoma Allottee

  Kansas Allottee

  Treaty Reserve Recipient

  Myaamia Language Source

  Nationality: Myaamia
  Family Group: Billington-Dollar
• ID: 2669
  

  Gender: Female

  Date of Birth: Year 1853
  Location of Birth: N/A

  Date of Death: Knw 12-18-1933
  Location of Death: N/A
• Biography/Notes:
  Mary Adeline was the daughter of John Baptiste Boure, Jr., and Roseann Geboe, the sister of Chief David Geboe. Family stories say that John Boure, Jr., left for better opportunities on the western frontier in the late 1850s and was never heard from again. Mary Adeline's mother, Roseann, later married John Sharkey and had one other son. Mary Adeline married Winchell Theo- dore Dollar, a Dutch immigrant, in about 1868 while still in Kansas. They had several children, but only two, Theodore and Silver, lived out of childhood. Mary Adeline divorced Mr. Dollar and married Asariah Billington in about 1883. They had four more children: Addie, Milton Howard, Rose Ann, and Frank. All told, by 1900, Mary Adeline had given birth to 13 children, but only 6 were then living. After a life of such hardship and loss, it is easy to believe the family stories that portray Mary Adeline as a “feisty” woman, handy with a pipe and shotgun.