Beckham County, OK - Obits: Joseph Privitt, 1918
Saturday, 27 Sep 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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PRIVITT, JOSEPH
(31 Oct 1918, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
JOSEPH PRIVITT
Died at Sea, Sept. 21, 1918
Another Elk City young man has made the supreme sacrifice, Joe Privitt,
having died of pneumonia September 21st, 1918, at sea, just before the
ship landed "across".  Word was not received of his death until last week.
 The remains were shipped back to New Jersey, and after information was
received by his mother, the body was shipped to St. Louis, Mo., to her
brother living there, and the body was interred in a cemetery in that
city.
The word came that he was only sick a few days, and faced death bravely as
a true soldier.
Joe Privitt was the son of Mrs. N. L. Moring, who lived west of the
Central School building in Elk City for several years, and recently went
to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lillian Flowers, at Lela, Texas.  Her
daughter, Nellie Moring accompanied her there.
She has another son, Elmer Privitt.  Mrs. Moring is a sister of Dennis
Carr, near Grimes.
The family is deeply grieved over Joe's death.  He was always ready to
help his widowed mother and was employed in the Pullman Cafe at the time
he entered the service last June.  He was just past twenty-one, full of
life and energy, looking the picture of health, and his many friends were
indeed shocked to hear of his death.
The sorrowing mother, sisters and brother, have the sympathy of the
community in their hour of grief.

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