Beckham County, OK - Obits: Jesssie Lynn, 1908
21 June 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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LYNN, JESSIE
(28 Oct 1908, Wednesday, Elk City Record, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Obituary.
Jessie Lynn was born in Lincoln, Ill., Oct. 10, 1844, and was married to
Miss Levnie Crum May 5, 1864.  To this union 12 children were born, 5 of
whom survive him.  Jessie and Luther of this city are his sons.  Mrs. Lynn
died December 16, 1890.  He was again married to Mrs. Cordelia Waggoner. 
To this union was one son, Frederick, of this city.
Mr. Lynn moved from Illinois to Decatur, Texas, in 1868.  He moved to this
place, took up a claim just south of the city, long before Elk City was
begun.
He had been a member of the Christian Church for thirty years, an able
Bible scholar, and a man held in the highest esteem by all who knew him.
He died Oct. 25, 1908, after a lingering illness of several months. 
Funeral services were conducted by E. M. Pinkerton at the Church of
Christ, Monday afternoon, after which the body was laid to rest in the
City Cemetery.
A good man is gone, his place will be hard to fill.  The family have the
sympathy of the entire community.

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