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Sale Recalls Tulsa History
THE &<\1£ OF THE OLD
M0 IV bra y-Manning Funeral
Home building at 9W S. Boulder
Ave. ends an era of 'I\llsa
undertaking dallng back to the
early 188ll'S.
The building has been sold
to the First Church of Christ
Scientist, which will raze it for
a parking lot.
Real estate mortgage files
show the church paying $60,000
for the prop&rty.
The Mowbray Undertaking Co.,
forerunner oC Mobray-Manning,
began in a hardware store
owned' by Tulsa pioneer Jeff
Archer for whom Archer street
is named. Archer was kiJIed
when an Indian shot into a pow.
d<!r keg in the store, located
then, (1882) on the east side
of Main Street between the Frisco
right-of-way and Fir 5 t
Street.
An old photo shows the Archer
store advertising "Furniture
and Undertaker; Wagons, Implements
Etc."
The undertaker was t.hc late
Rev. George W. l\lowbray Sr.,
who had come to Indian Territory
as a Metbodist missionary.
He was Archer'S father-in·law.
TIle company was established
when Tulsa had lc.u than 200
residents.
The home was incorporated
under the name of MO\\-'brayMaMing
in about 1918, when the
late Everett Manning took over
as president until his death.
The property was sold to First
OlUrch or Christ SCientist by J.
Denny Estes, who has been director
at the preSl2nt site for 47
years.
First Church of Christ, Scientist.
itself has been a Tulsa
landmark since the turn of the
century. Il bought the present
property at 10th Sireet and Boul·
del' Avenue in 1914.
