Beckham County, OK - Obits: Alice Hall, 1923 02 Mar 2008 Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************ HALL, ALICE (26 Jul 1923, Thursday, Elk city News Democrat, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK): THE PASSING OF A PIONEER. Tribute to Mrs. Frank Hall. Born in Illinois, 1855, died at Elk City, July 21, 1923. Age 68 years, 4 months and twenty-nine days. The news of the death of Mrs. Frank Hall on Saturday, July 21st came as a shock to her many friends and neighbors. On the evening before her death she was lying on a couch on the porch apparently as well as could be. She and her husband had been talking when she appeared to fall asleep. Mr. Hall went into the house to bed, thinking his wife would be in soon, as she often slept on the porch a short while before retiring. After a time he head a noise and his wife called "Oh, Papa!" Running out on the porch he found her lying on the floor where she had fallen. She was so heavy he was unable to get her up on the bed. When he found she could not speak, he went to the telephone, but was too nervous to remember the phone numbers. Finally he heard a wagon passing and called. It was Mr. and Mrs. Halterman who stopped and assisted in getting Mrs. Hall to bed and called the doctor found the right side was paralyzed. She gradually became worse, dying the following morning at eight thirty. Alice McElhaney and Frank Hall were married at Appleton Sity (sic), Mo., in 1873 and to this union were born seven children, the three daughters preceding their mother to the Great Beyond. The other four sons live near Elk City and were with her at the time of her death. The family moved to Oklahoma twenty years ago and have helped in building up the country. Funeral services were in charge of Reverend King and were held at the First Methodist Church Sunday afternoon. A great concourse of her friends gathered to pay a last tribute to a good woman, one who had been a consistent christian since her girlhood days. The following friends carried the precious body to its peaceful bed in Fairlawn cemetery: W. C. Cowan, Joe Howe, Charley Howe, John Root, John Richmond and Claud Burnett. Interment and funeral arrangement were in charge of Grubitz and Son. A devoted husband, four sons, Frank, Roy, Bruce and Fred, a brother at Avalon City, Missouri and a sister at Pratt, Kansas are left to mourn the loss of this loved one. ---------------------------------------------------------- Return to Beckham County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/beckham/beckham.htm