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AGED WOMAN IS KILLED BY TRAIN

Guthrie, Okla., July 29 – (Special) – “Grandma” Brinton, aged 79, was instantly killed Sunday evening at 8 o’clock by a Fort Smith & Western train at Warwick, a small station thirty-one miles east of Guthrie. The old lady started to cross the tracks when the train struck her. Both shoulders and her neck were broken. She leaves a number of children, all of whom were married.
The Oklahoman 7/30/1912

CLAYTON, GEORGE
Judge George E. Clayton who was a Justice of the Peace in Perry immediately after the opening of the Strip died at Guthrie last Monday. For years his home has been at Waterloo, a small town south of Guthrie, but for the past three months he has been confined to a Guthrie hosptial where his death occured. [The Perry Republican 1915-03-25 - Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]

DAVIS, HOMER E.
Guthrie, Ok., Aug. 23 - Homer E. Davis, died in a local hospital on Tuesday from gangrene of the feet resulting from lead poisoning brought about by handling type and other lead products for many years as a printer. Davis was 66 years old, a brother of Mayor Ralph Davis and a pioneer printer of the Southwest. (The Dallas Morning News, August 24, 1927, page 2, part 1)

EDWARDS, MARTHA
Mrs Martha Ann Edwards of Cimarron died Friday March 21 in the Fulmer Convalescent Home in Dodge City, where she has been a patient for the past three years. Mrs. Edwards would have been 92 years old April 10. She was born in Texas County, Missouri. Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. Rueben Flowers. She and Harrison Edwards were married in Missouri in 1884. They went to Oklahoma in 1916. Mr. Edwards died there January 13, 1922. Mrs. Edwards came to Cimmarron to make her home in 1928.
Survivors are two sisters, Mrs. Polly Ward of Cabool, Missouri and Mrs Nancy Robertson of Santa Cruz, Calif. and three brothers, Milo Flowers of Cimarron and Perry and Henry Flowers of Ingalls. Mrs. Edwards was a Baptist. Funeral services were held in the Federated Church in Ingalls, Sunday March 23. Burial was in the Cimarron Cemetery. Dunsford Funeral Home of Cimarron was in charge.
[The Jacksonian Vol LXV no. 13 Thursday March 27, 1958 - Submitted by Chris Walters]

FRAZER, GEORGE M.
Guthrie, Ok., March 24 - George M. Frazer, 65 years old, a prominent merchant and old settler of Guthrie, died Tuesday. (The Dallas Morning News, March 25, 1925, page 11, part 1 - Submitted by Peggy Thompson)

HESTER, Mrs. A. C.
Mrs. A. C. Hester, 78 years of age, died at the home of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. H. M. Johnson in Perry, Sunday morning at 2 o'clock, December 12, 1920. She had been in ill health for a number of years.
She is survived by the aged husband J. L. Hester who has been living at Pawhuska, and sons Bruce and Ebber of Granite and grandchildren Mrs. Madge McClellan and Vaughn Hester of Perry. The body was shipped to Granite for interment. [The Perry Republican 1920-12-16 - Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]

KRETZER
Guthrie Leader Kicked To Death
After spending the day in Guthrie Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Kretzer drove to their home nine miles northeast of the city. Mrs. Kretzer prepared to get the evening meal, while her husband was putting away the horses. The meal prepared but the the husband did not come to the house. Mrs. Kretzer becoming uneasy went out to the barn and was horrified on finding her husband dead, under the horses, his body mangled. The deceased was 74 years old and the step father to Mrs. J. H. McLean of the Occidental Hotel. The remains were buried Sunday at Summit view. [The Daily Oklahoman 1898-09-30 - Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]

LAPLIAN, EVA
Died of Hydrophobia
Guthrie, Ok., Jan. 23 - Mrs. Eva Laplian, living near Cleo, died in great agony of hydrophobia caused by the bite of a skunk which she attempted to drive from her hen coop. (The Dallas Morning New, January 24, 1899, page 6 - Submitted by Peggy Thompson)

NEERMAN, MRS. CHARLES F. & LLOYD
Guthrie, Ok., May 24 - Mrs. Charles F. Neerman, aged 36 - wife of Postmaster Neerman of Stillwater, died today leaving a husband and seven children. Lloyd the 5-year-old daughter of Mr. Neerman, died Monday. (The Dallas Morning News, May 25, 1905, page 9 - Submitted by Peggy Thompson)

RICHMOND, W. A. DEAD.
W. F. Combs, six miles southeast of Hobart, received a telephone message last night announcing the death of his brother-in-law,. W. A. Richmond, at his home in Guthrie. Mrs. Richmond: and her daughter, Mrs. McQuithie, the former a sister of Mr. Combs, were here on a visit and expected to remain until after Thanksgiving. However, the unexpected death put an end to the visit and they returned home today, Mr. Combs accompanying them. When they left home a few days ago, the deceased was enjoying usual health, and the death came as a surprise and shock to the family. [The Hobart Daily Republican 1919-11-19 - Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]

WENNER, Mrs. Charles L.
Mrs. Charles L. Wenner died at their home in Guthrie, Monday night, death being very sudden, presumably due to heart trouble. the family lived in Perry until a few years ago when they moved to Guthrie. [The Perry Republican 1919-01-30 - Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]

WILLIAMS, GUY
Died of Lockjaw
Guthrie, Ok., May 30 - Several weeks ago, while Guy Williams, the son of Rev. Williams of Osborne, Ok., was visiting at Wellington, Kan., while at a party one evening the glass in the door was broken while he was scuffling with several girls, and his hand was cut on a piece of the glass. But little attention was paid to the wound, but in a week it suddenly became very painful and a few days later lockjaw set in, from the effects of which he died yesterday after suffering terrible agony. (The Dallas Morning News, May 31, 1897, page 3 - Submitted by Peggy Thompson)

Guthrie, Oklahoma, August 31, 1909.

After several months of ill health, Mrs. Iva Belle Kimball, wife of L.E. Kimball, passed away at her home at 821 East Noble, yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Mrs. Kimball was one of the pioneers of Guthrie, coming here with her husband about twenty years ago, and has been a resident of the city ever since. She was before her marriage, Miss Iva Belle Ames, and was born in Bowling Green, Ohio, June 9, 1855; and was married to L.E. Kimball in Worthington, Minn., October 2, 1877, removing to this city in 1889. No person was more respected by the people with whom she come in contact than was the deceased. She was possessed of those traits of character that made her a friend of every one who knew her. She was kind hearted and charitable, ever ready to do a kind act and always had a good word for every one. Her kind words and many good deeds will be missed by many in this city. Mrs. Kimball was a devout Christian and lived her religion in her every day life, and when death came she was ready, feeling that she had fulfilled her mission on earth and was ready to enter into her reward. She leaves a husband, two daughters, Mrs. Charles E. Billingsley and Mrs. George H. Willis, of Guthrie and one son, Willard, who is employed at Kansas City, but was at home when death came. No arrangements have yet been made for the funeral.
Submitted by Gary Boomgaarden