Beckham County, OK - Obits: Larkin Sherod Banks, 1926
03 Aug 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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BANKS, LARKIN SHERROD
(25 Feb 1926, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
L. S. Banks was born March 6, 1824*, and died February 12, 1926 at the
home of his son in Ft. Worth, Texas after an illness of two weeks.
*Cemetery records have born 1842.
Mr. Banks lived in Arkansas until the Civil War broke out and he enlisted,
served the full four years.  He was married to Miss Caroline McCleskey,
September 5, 1872 and moved to Blum, Texas where he lived until September
1924 when he moved to Elk City, Oklahoma, where he lost his wife September
3, 1925.
The body was shipped back to Hammon, Oklahoma, and buried by the side of
his wife.  The Masonic Order of which he had been a member for 40 years
had charge of the burial.  He was converted early in life and united with
the Methodist Church and lived a true christian life.
He leaves to mourn his loss his children, J. C. Tulsa, Mrs. Lida Smith of
Hammon, Mrs. Moore of Elk City, J. L. of Blum, Texas, J. E. of Slayton,
Texas and S. D. of Ft. Worth, a sister, Mrs. W. H. Evans of Elk City, one
brother, J. W. of Cleburne, Texas, two daughters, Mrs. C. H. Taylor of
Hammon and Mrs. T. B. Lester of Cleburne Texas preceded them in death.