Beckham CO. OK - Obit of Willis J. Dalton

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Father and Mother of Willis J.Dalton is Asa DALTON and Gemina (Daniel)DALTON
Descendants of Willis Dalton

Generation No. 1


1. WILLIS3 DALTON (ASA2, WILLIAM1) was born February 1845 in Arkansas, and
died November 09, 1916 in Elk City,Beckham CO.,Oklahoma. He married
ELIZABETH GLADWALL.

Notes

DEATH OF WILLIS J. DALTON-born February 1845 -died November 9,1916
*******W.J.DALTON died November 9th at his home nine miles south of Elk City
.He had been a sufferer from dropsy.Deceased was aged 42 years and 9 months.
Funeral services were held on Friday and interment made in the Fairlawn
cemetery . Beckham County,Oklahoma (Newspaper November 16,1916. ******** IN
MEMORY OF WILLIS J.DALTON The neighborhood was sadden last Wednesday noon,at
12:30 by the death of Father DALTON,one of our most loved and respected
citizens.He had been very well althrough the years of age and had tended his
farm until a week or so before his death.He was a pioneer of Oklahoma
,having come here in 189? With his wife and two daughters.He moved to his
homestead three miles east of where Elk City now stand.With a vim/they began
to build the now beautiful home on the land where then the coyote and
buffalo roamed.With this same vim are energy was his entire life endowed.He
was a confederate soldier and member of that Lodge.His comrades directed the
cemetery service .His disposition was kind and loving and his friends were
numbered by his acquaintances and each of them had a kind word to speak of
him.The choicest thing to be said of Father DALTON is that he was a devoted
christain and although the warm weather was trying,he and his patent
wife,their heads bowed and silvered with the frosts of man winters,were to
be seen at the place in Sunday School most every Sunday.
*******************Dear Father we loved thee dearly,Thy tender touch and
love- The way in which you led us- Is the way to your home above; With you
tenderly watching o'er us- As you've watched in times of ?- We cannot leave
the pathway -You've told us of before-So we'll just live on doing -What good
we can down here- Until the time of coming -Is ripe to join you there-Dear
companion,you and wife-Tho it be grief or gladness-Have rifted down the
stream of life-Dispelling all the sadness-In the tender love that
bound-Their hearts and lives together -In one anothers council found -That
union worked for better -That golden cord is broken-Mrs.Willis DALTON ,wife
of deceased,Mrs.Una PENN, daughter,Mrs.Etta COOK,daughter,Jack DALTON
brother.

Children of Willis Dalton and Elizabeth Gladwall are:

i. UNA4 DALTON.

ii. ETTA DALTON.