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A WOMAN OF BEAUTY AND CHARM

On Statehood Day November 16, 1907 at the state capital of Guthrie, Cherokee Nation citizen Trainor portrayed Miss Indian Territory to Charles Gashman Jones' Mr. Oklahoma Territory in a mock wedding joining the Twin Territories. Trainor was married four times, with each husband dying young. Her second husband was Dr. Leo Bennett, owner of the Muskogee Phoenix, a U. S. Marshal, and mayor of Muskogee. They traveled extensively to Washington DC where President McKinley admired her beauty and charming manner. She re-enacted the mock wedding on the 25th anniversary Statehood Celebration.