Beckham County, OK - Obits: William Henry Blackburn, 1911
30 Aug 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) 

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BLACKBURN, WILLIAM HENRY
(18 Aug 1911, Friday, Sayre Headlight, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
W. H. Blackburn who has been sick quite a long time died Sunday night at
his home in Sayre.
(24 Aug 1911, Sayre Standard, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
William Henry Blackburn was born in Alabama, December 28, 1850, and went
to sleep to awake with Jesus Sunday, August 13, 1911, at 10 p.m., at his
home in the north part of Sayre.
He had been sick for fourteen weeks and what he suffered none but God can
know.  He accepted Christ at the early age of 14 years and has been a
constant worker for Him ever since, ever trying to do something for Him
and to lead those around him to a higher and better life.  About three
weeks before he died he said he would soon be done with this world of sin
and sorrow.  Asking his children and loved ones to meet him in that happy
home where sickness and death is not known and about one hour before his
spirit ascended to Christ, he spoke but one word, which was "happy."  That
one word told us more than many could have done before.
He was married to Lucy Ann Stevens in Alabama in 1871 and to this union
twelve children were born, ten boys and two girls, two dying in infancy
and one after reaching young manhood, leaving his widow, eight sons and
one daughter and eighteen grand-children, an aged mother and four sisters,
besides other loved ones to mourn his loss here, but who hope to meet him
in the sweet bye and bye.
He was laid to rest Monday, August 14, 1911 at 5 o'clock in the afternoon,
at the Lone Oak Cemetery, after services by Rev. Willie Smith at the Lone
Oak Baptist church of which he was a member.
The family wishes to thank their many friends and neighbors for their kind
help and sympathy in this, our great bereavement.  MRS. G. H. BLACKBURN.