Beckham County, OK - Obits: Edgar D. Milstead, 1906
31 August 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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MILSTEAD, EDGAR D.
(12 Jul 1906, Thursday, Elk City Democrat, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
We attended the funeral of Edgar Millstead (sic) at Canute on the 5th. 
Mr. Millstead might be called an old settler, although a young man of
about 29 summers.  He came to this country from Ray county, Mo., where he
was born and raised,  in 1898 with the advance guard of the settlers.  He
filed on a homestead near what is now Canute, which has been his home and
where he resided at the time of his death.  Though raised a farmer he was
for years manager of E. B. Keen's big department store at Canute.  Finding
his health failing he retired from that position this spring, but about
the first of June was attacked by hemorage (sic) and pneumonia with a
nerveous complication that resulted in his death.  He leaves a widow and
two children to mourn the loss of a husband and father.  They have the
sympathy of his many friends, and the love and protection of the two
orders to which he belonged, the Odd Fellows and Masons, who conducted the
funeral from the residence.  It was the longest procession we have ever
witnessed in Oklahoma, is evidence of the esteem in which his neighbors
held him.  He was honest, truthful, kind hearted, obliging, sympathetic
and charitable; in fact, he had all the attributes of a christian
gentleman, but was not a member of any church, so we leave him with a just
God whose wisdom and mercy is not bounded by water lines or church
Dogma's.
(12 Jul 1906, Roger Mills Democrat, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Edgar Milstead, well known and highly respected by the people of Elk City
for his sterling traits of character, died at his home near Canute on the
night of July 4.  His death was not unexpected as he was compelled to
retire from business in the early spring on account of the inroads of that
unconquerable disease - consumption.  His body was laid to rest in the
cemetery at Canute on the 5th under the auspices of the masonic lodges of
Elk City and Foss.
The hundreds of people that followed his remains to the tomb to pay their
respect fully attest the high esteem in which he was held by those who
knew him.  He leaves a wife and two children to mourn his premature death
but they have scores of friends to sympathize with them their irreparable
loss.

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