Beckham County, OK - Obits: Joseph Wells, 1927
Thursday, 19 February 2009
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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WELLS, JOSEPH
(27 Jan 1927, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Uncle Joe Wells, who has been suffering with cancer of the stomach for
several months at the home of his sister, Mrs. G. Wilson, passed to the
great beyond Friday at 10 a.m. Rev. Elliott conducted the funeral services
at 2:30 Saturday afternoon and interment was made in the Thompson cemetery
(Custer County).
Obituary.
JOSEPH WELLS
Joseph Wells was born in Bates county, Missouri, October 6, 1870, and died
January 21, 1927, at the home of his sister, Mrs. G. Wilson, near
Carpenter.
He was married in 1892 to Blanche Hall.  Six children were born.  The wife
and two children preceded him to the great beyond.  He was converted at
the age of twenty-six and united with the Methodist Church, later with the
Baptist.  The four surviving children are Mrs. Charles Reeding, Tibbetts,
Mo.; Ira L. Wells, Casper, Wyo.; Mrs. Rauph Wagger, Tibbetts, Mo.; and
Josephine Ellington, Butler, Mo.
He was laid away at the Thompson cemetery with S. S. Elliott officiating,
Grubitz & Son in charge.

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