Continuing the theme of heritage of family of TB and Elva Ferguson, we must note their daughterin- law, the wife of Walter Scott Ferguson. Lucia Loomis was born in 1887, to Dr. Edward (Enos) O. and Lena Arbogast Loomis. Dr. Loomis was a prominent physician and influential citizen of Wapanucka, Johnson County, Oklahoma. Miss Loomis graduated from St. Xavier’s Academy in Denison, Texas, attended Hardin College in Missouri for two years, transferred to the University of Oklahoma and obtained a degree in fine arts there. At OU, she met Walter Scott Ferguson, son of TB and Elva Ferguson. The couple was married in 1908. The couple moved to Cherokee, in Alfalfa County and began the Cherokee Republican.
Lucia, like her mother-inlaw, Elva, first assumed the duties of subscription solicitation and bookkeeping and eventually wrote local items, interviews, editorials and “special features.” Lucia and Walter debated women’s suffrage in the paper. In 1909, a son, Loomis Benton Ferguson was born.
With the move to Oklahoma City in 1919 and to Tulsa in 1928, and after giving birth to two sons and a daughter, Lucia believed that her journalistic career had ended. However, she contributed an occasional column devoted to women's interests in her mother-in-law's newspaper, the Watonga Republican, and in 1922 George B. Parker, editor of the Oklahoma News, asked her to develop a women's column to compete with Edith Johnson's column in the Daily Oklahoman. Ferguson's 'A Woman's Viewpoint' became so popular that it was syndicated by the Scripps Howard News Service and appeared in 35 newspapers across the United States. In addition, under her maiden name she wrote advice in the Tulsa Tribune's 'lovelorn' column”. Linda W Reese. Ferguson, Lucia Loomis. Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, https://www,okhistory.org After her husband, Walter Ferguson, died in 1936, Lucia Ferguson supported a number of civic activities, including the Tulsa Symphony and Chamber Music organizations, allowing one group to practice in her living room. She served on the board of directors of the Thomas Gilcrease Institute, the Urban League, and the YWCA. Inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1937, Ferguson was a lifelong supporter of women's empowerment through the League of Women Voters.
She helped organize Planned Parenthood and worked with the Little Theater and Town Hall boards. Ferguson and prominent Tulsan Audrey Cole were killed in an automobile accident near Cross City, Florida, on February 27, 1962. Ferguson was interred at Rose Hill Mausoleum in Tulsa on March 2, 1962.
The grandson of Walter and Lucia visited the Ferguson Home Museum in late September 2023.