Beckham County, OK - Obits: William Vanderslice, 1929
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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VANDERSLICE, WILLIAM
(28 Mar 1929, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
WILLIAM VANDERSLICE DIES WED. NIGHT AT HIS HOME
William Vanderslice passed away at his home on North Booth street in Elk
City Wednesday night, March 20, at 8:30 o'clock, following an illness of
about eight days.
Mr. Vanderslice was eighty-one years old at the time of his death.  He was
born in Nolensville, Tenn., and moved with his parents to Arkansas at the
age of nine.
During the Civil war he enlisted in the Confederate army at the age of
sixteen and served for practically one year in Company E, Second Arkansas
Cavalry under Captain W. H. Cooper and General Forrest.
While residing in Tulip, Arkansas, he married Miss Alice Germany who
preceding him in death four years and one half month.  Mr. Vanderslice
moved with his family to Elk City about twenty years ago where he has
since resided.  His kind and gentle nature and goodness of character had
won him a host of friends in this vicinity who join with the family in
their grief over his departure.
Funeral services were held at the First Presbyterian church Friday
afternoon at 2:00 o'clock, Rev. John A. Tracy, pastor of the church
conducted the services.  Interment was held in Fairlawn cemetery.
Relatives who survive Mr. Vanderslice are two sons, W. A. Vanderslice of
Chicago, and S. F. Vanderslice of Cleveland, Ohio; three daughters, Mrs.
O. L. Stewart of Lindsey, Okla., Miss Effie Vanderslice of Kansas City,
Mo., and Mrs. H. I. Wimberly of this city; a sister Mrs. Sallie Jackson of
Oklahoma City, a brother Robert Vanderslice of Arkandelphia, Ark., a
granddaughter Isla Mae Wimberly, and a grandson Robert Wayne Vanderslice,
both of this city.

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