Beckham County, OK - Obits: Adelbert Ames Bryant, 1907
11 Oct 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) 

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BRYANT, ADELBERT AMES
(6 Nov 1907, Wednesday, Elk City Record, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Adelbert Ames Bryant departed this life at his home four miles south of
Cheyenne, on Friday evening, October 18, 1907.  He was born in
Minneapolis, May 1, 1892, being thus 15 years, 5 months and 17 days old. 
Until the last four and one-half years he had resided most of his life in
northwestern Iowa, where he had many friends.
Oklahoma's clime and products, however, were proving attractive factors to
the would be little farmer.  He was gladly bending his faculties to reveal
the wonder and mysteries of the soil and air.  His ambition seemed to
become a proficient farmer.  Although Bertie was apt with tools, and if
given the opportunity might have made an excellent mechanic, yet tools,
implements were needed about a farm and that was where he centered his
ambition.  But such, it seems, were not the wishes of his Heavenly Father,
for with only a week's short notice of a slight cold, and a sore throat,
although the doctor was called four or five times, yet the unseen hand
must have beckoned him up higher, for almost before the poor mother had an
idea but what Bertie was quietly sleeping, she was told by the doctor that
he was dead.
Those who knew Bertie in the last year or two of his life know that he was
a Christian and his friends say of him that they never heard him swear or
use slang.  He never used tobacco in any form.  Within a few days of his
death, he was urged to take some liquor, "No" he said, "I don't want it to
ever be said that I've tasted liquor."  For more than a year he has
returned thanks around the family table thrice daily.  His death is an
irreparable loss to the lonely mother and Grandpa who are all that remains
of the family circle.  The remains were embalmed and taken by Mrs. Bryant
and Mr. Ames to the burial ground at Marcus, Iowa, where the funeral took
place October 22.