Beckham Co. OK - Samuel T. Flowers

Submitted by Carol Clifton Lynds <calynds@aol.com> 

 
                         Samuel T. Flowers obituary
                                      
                                      
   We, of Walnut Valley Primitive Baptist Church at Blanchard, OK are sad
   and lonely because the Lord has taken away our beloved pastor and
   father in Israel, Elder Samuel FLOWERS. ...He was born April 25, 1891
   to William Franklin and Didamie Hayes Flowers at Scottsboro, AL. He
   died October 24, 1973 at the age of 82 years.
   
   He moved with his parents to Texas at the age of 5 and when he was 7,
   his parents homesteaded in Old Greer County, OT, near what later
   became Erick, Beckham Co, OK. He was the author of a book, "A Bunch of
   Flowers" that describes early like in OK when most people lived and
   reared their families on the farms and a man's word was a good as his
   note and life was more simple.
   
   In 1910 he married Anna Myrtle Morgan and they had 10 children (4
   girls and 6 boys). One daughter Edith preceded him in death. His
   survivors are his wife, Myrtle, and daughter Lela of the home, and two
   other daughters, Elsie Dugger and Annalou Clifton. His six sons are
   H.T. (Tink), Erick; Joe, Frank, Arlie, Paul and S.T. All six sons were
   pallbearers. Mr. Flowers also had 24 grandchildren, 24
   great-grandchildren, two brothers: Jim and Bill; two sisters Tullie
   Turner and Tabbie Turner.
   (This is an excerpt written by the order of Church while in
   Conference, Nov 11, 1973 by Elder Sam Rankin, Moderator.)

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