The document chronicles the life of Mary Will Myers from her birth in 1874 in Marion, Louisiana through her death in 1963 in Los Angeles, California. It outlines her family origins and marriage in 1892, the births of her children, her family's migration from Louisiana to Arkansas in the early 1900s due to economic hardships, and then to Los Angeles in the 1920s after the deaths of some of her children. It follows her loss of her husband and many children over the subsequent decades until her own death on a bus in Los Angeles at age 89.