Beckham County, OK - Obits: Joseph Thomasy, 1914
Friday, 06 February 2009
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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THOMASY, JOSEPH
(28 May 1914, Elk City News Democrat, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Joe Thomasy  of Carter, Okla., died last Thursday.  He was born in France
50 years ago.
(4 Jun 1914, Elk City News Democrat, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
We are sorry to chronical (sic) the death of our friend and brother Joe
Thomasy, who came out on a mighty deep from France as a sailor boy, at the
age of nine years.  His ship sprung a leak like the great Titanic and went
down.  His cousin threw him out to swim or drown and he swam and floated
to a nearby Island and was picked up by another ship and kept until he was
nineteen years of age and then came over to the United States.
He came to Oklahoma sixteen years ago at the age of thirty-two and filed
on 160 acres of Oklahoma's best land and proved up on it.  He married a
Miss Aldridge, a daughter of Rev. J. H. Aldridge, who survives him.
Mr. Thomasy was a man of sterling integrity and was liked by all who knew
him.  The friends and neighbors of his community extend their heart felt
sympathy to his bereaved family.  E. H. Curtis.

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