Beckham County, OK - Obits: Claus Henry Petersen, 1921
Friday, 19 Sep 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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PETERSEN, CLAUS HENRY
(19 May 1921, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Claus Henry Petersen was born in Schleswig, Holstein, Denmark, Nov. 29,
1854; was married to Maria L. Frahm in 1880, and came to America in 1888
with their four boys, Henry H., John N., Will H. and Thomas, landing in
New York and settling near West Point Nebraska where they lived four
years.  Next moving to Oklahoma City living there eleven years before
homesteading in 1903, three and one-half miles west of Rankin.  Nearly two
years ago he moved into Rankin (Roger Mills County) where he died
Wednesday night, May 11, aged 66 years, 5 months and 12 days.
Mr. Petersen followed blacksmithing all his life until a stroke of
paralysis in 1898, while living in Oklahoma City ended his active labor,
but not his work.  He was able to get around with a crutch, and when not
suffering he was a good shoe cobbler, always cheerful and helpful to those
about him.
Besides his widow and four boys mentioned above, he leaves to mourn his
death, three daughters, Mrs. Anna Hutchens, Mrs. Maggie Vincent and Miss
Augusta Petersen, and fourteen grandchildren, living in and around Rankin,
and three brothers and one sister living in Nebraska.
Burial took place at the Rankin cemetery at 4:00 P.M., May 12.  (White
Rose Cemetery, Roger Mills Co, Okla.)

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