Beckham County, OK - Obits: Henry Jackson Conley, 1921
Friday, 14 Dec 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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CONLEY, HENRY JACKSON
(24 Feb 1921, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
FUNERAL OF H. J. CONLEY.
The remains of H. J. Conley of Hammon, who died at Clinton, Okla., on
Wednesday, February 16th, was brought to Elk City last Sunday, and funeral
services were held at the Baptist church.   On account of the weather,
they did not take the body to Hammon to have funeral services as planned,
so a large crowd from that place came down on the train, and a number of
the members of the Masonic Order came down in autos.  After the opening
services conducted by the Masonic members, Rev. Trent, of the Baptist
church made an address, paying a great tribute to the life of Mr. Conley.
Mr. Conley underwent an operation for appendicitis at Clinton on the 13th,
but lived only three days.  He was one of the old pioneers of this part of
Oklahoma.  He came here twenty-one years ago, locating on a farm two and
one-half miles north of Elk City.  He moved to Hammon and for a number of
years was in the mercantile business.  He was married eleven years ago to
Mrs. Eva Savage, who survives, living in Hammon.  He had three children by
a previous marriage; Vance Conley of Colorado, Mrs. Anna Billeu, of New
Mexico, and Mrs. Chas. Phelps of near Elk City.
The interment was in charge of Grubitz & Son, and the body laid to rest in
a private cemetery on his farm near Elk City.
Among those who came from Hammon to attend the funeral were A. E.
Williams, John Lewis, Tom Briggs, P. E. Baldwin, A. G. Gowen, W. F. Gowen,
W. F. Crane, Arthur Creach, Esta McFarland, M. Jernagan, E. Smith, Mr.
Vosburg, Sidney Shults, J. A. Dugger, Wm. Matthews, P. R. Hines, John
Hiatt, wife, daughter and niece, Mrs. Sam Creach, Mr. and Mrs. H. E.
Bowman and son, H. E., Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Luke Trent, Mr. Oden and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Walden, Miss Butrey, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard
Savage and daughter and Miss Belle Bennett.

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