Beckham County, OK - Obits: Johnson Thomas Smallwood, 1929
Sunday, 16 November 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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SMALLWOOD, JOHNSON THOMAS
(23 May 1929, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Johnson Thomas Smallwood.
J. T. Smallwood was born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, on December 6, 1863. 
He died in Elk City May 15, 1929.
Mr. Smallwood was apparently in good health to the time of his death.  He
was standing in the barn door at his farm talking to two boys whom he had
stopped for a friendly conversation when he fell dead.
Mr. Smallwood, being a pioneer settler of this country, leaves a host of
friends, relatives and acquaintances who regret his passing.
He, like the rest of us, had made great plans for the coming years and was
busy in his garden the morning of the fifteenth when Mr. W. H. Hewlett
drove by on his way to his farm and asked Mr. Smallwood to go with him,
which he did, dropping his hoe and leaving his work, expecting to finish
it later.
Apparently in the best of health and spirits Mr. Hewlett left him at his
home where Mr. Smallwood, as usual, bade him a cheerful farewell.
At 2:00 o'clock the following afternoon he fell dead without the
slightest warning.  The open row he had made to plant something in still
stands unfinished as he had left it.
Mr. Smallwood leaves to mourn the loss a wife, Mrs. Lula Smallwood and his
children, eight girls and two boys who are as follows:
Mrs. Elinor Baber, Mrs. Nellie Tucker and Mrs. Temple Purdy all of
Oklahoma City, Mrs. Ola Plost of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Miss Emma Smallwood of
Pampa, Texas, Mrs. Lula Flynn of Elk City, Mrs. Suzanne Morrison of
Charlotte, North Carolina, Mrs. Marthena Smallwood of Norman, Oklahoma,
and two boys, Jim Gilliam Smallwood of Van Couver, B. C., and Johnston
(sic) Thomas, Jr., of Pampa, Texas.
Two sisters are Mrs. M. A. Kincaid of Elk City and Mrs. John McDonald of
Elk City.  Interment was made in Fairlawn cemetery.

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