ANNIE OAKLEY

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Ohio Historical Marker
Annie Oakley Memorial Park
Greenville, Ohio
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Ohio Historical Marker

ANNIE OAKLEY, 1860-1926
"Little Sure Shot"

One of Amerca's best-known sport shooters and entertainers of the late 1800s, Annie Oakley was born Phoebe Anne Mosey (or Mozee) north of Versailles in Darke County in 1860. She achieved local fame for her shooting ability as a hunter while still in her teens. By 1895 Oakley was a star performer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West. With husband and manager Frank Butler, she refined a shooting act and image that appealed to late 19th century notions of a romanticized but vanishing West. Throughout her 30-year performing career, Oakley provided honest entertainment in a deception-prone industry while demonstrating widening opportunities for women. She retained her Ohio ties throughout her life and is interred at Brock Cemetery, eleven miles north of Greenville.

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Brock Cemetery
Annie Oakley Gravesite sign Grave of Annie Oakley & Frank Buther



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Brock Cemetery
Ohio Historical Marker in Cemetery (front) Ohio Historical Marker in Cemetery (back)

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ANNIE OAKLEY

Phoebe Ann Mosey, also know as Annie Oakley, was born six miles northeast of here in what was then Woodland, later renamed Willowdell. Born in 1860, she was the sixth daughter born to Jacob and Susan Mosey. After the death of her father, she engaged in shooting wild game to feed the Mosey family. This child prodigy shooter shot match after match until she won a life-changing match in 1881 with champion shooter, Frank Butler. In 1882, Phoebe Ann married Butler in Windsor, Ontario.

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THE ANNIE OAKLEY FOUNDATION/
THE ANNIE OAKLEY COMMITTEE
HERSTORY PRODUCTIONS,
CHRISTY IGO PRESIDENT
THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
2003

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ANNIE OAKLEY
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She chose Annie Oakley as her professional name and went on to dazzle audiences in the Midwest with her phenomenal accuracy. Sioux Chief Sitting Bull was so moved at seeing her amazing skill that in 1884 he adopted her as his daughter, naming her “Little Sure Shot.” After joining Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in 1885, Annie became the star who thrilled audiences, including royalty and nobility across England and Europe. Retiring from the Wild West in 1901, Annie shot mostly for fun and charity events, donating funds to orphanages and disadvantaged widows. In ill health for several months, Annie died in Greenville at age 66.

THE ANNIE OAKLEY FOUNDATION/
THE ANNIE OAKLEY COMMITTEE
HERSTORY PRODUCTIONS,
CHRISTY IGO PRESIDENT
THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
2003