Beckham County, OK - Obits: James Flanagan, 1918
29 Jan 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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FLANAGAN, JAMES
(21 Nov 1918, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
SERGEANT JAMES FLANAGAN.
James Flannagan (sic) was born in Tarant (sic) County, Texas, February
1896, moved to Berlin, Oklahoma, when he was nine years old, and lived
around that place until he was called to training camp at Camp Travis, in
October 1917.  He was killed in action in France, October 6th, 1918.
Everyone who knew James speak of him as being a jovial, good-hearted boy,
making friends with everyone, and he was one who always would speak to his
friends wherever he met them.  He was a hard working young man, honest and
true.  He loved his mother so devotedly, and his friends say he always
spoke so well of her and his loved ones.  When he received a letter from
his mother stating that she was uneasy because she had not received mail
from him, he sent her a cablegram telling her he was well and happy and
was so sorry that she had not received his letters.  This cablegram came
to her after date given of his death, and it was hard for her to believe
that he was gone, but it seems there was some mistake about the dates. 
Later his name was published in the casualty list.
He leaves a mother, and stepfather, Lee Staley, a brother, Ivory Lee
Flanagan, who is now at Leedey, and half-brothers and sisters as follows:
Carl, Walter, Ralph, Oscar, Mary, Henry, Edith and George Staley, all of
Elk City.

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