Beckham County, OK - Obits: John C. Hendrix, 1919
18 Mar 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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HENDRIX, JOHN C.
(6 Mar 1919, Thursday, Sayre Headlight, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
The friends and acquaintances of John C. Hendrix have noted for some
months past that he was failing rapidly in health hourly.  Surrounded by
his wife and family he passed away at an early hour Tuesday morning. 
Since statehood, and the organization of Beckham county, Mr. Hendrix has
been a very prominent figure in official and political life of this county
and was widely known.
The funeral services were held from the Christian church at 2 p.m.
yesterday, attended by the Odd Fellows, of which he was a member. 
Business houses and county offices closed from 2 to 4.  Interment was in
the Doxey-Sayre cemetery.
John C. Hendrix was born August 9, 1868, at Austin, Nevada, his parents
returning to Missouri, their former home in 1870, and moving from there to
Dallas, Texas, in 1873, and to Eastland, Texas, in 1876.  Mr. Hendrix's
education was received in the schools of Eastland, where he studied law
and where he was admitted to the bar February 1, 1889.
Two months later, or on April 22, 1889, Mr. Hendrix came to Oklahoma and
filed on a claim 12 miles southwest of Oklahoma City, or rather where
Oklahoma City now stands.  Later he relinquished his claim and returned to
Texas, being elected the first county attorney of Floyd county, organized
in 1890, three years.
He again came to  Oklahoma at the time of the Cheyenne opening in 1891,
residing at Cheyenne for a time, then going to Cloud Chief, Washita
county; where he served as county attorney and county judge, but returned
to Roger Mills county in 1900, taking up his residence at Cheyenne, where
he resided until statehood, moving to this city November 17, 1907, and
which place has been his home continuously since.
Upon taking up his residence in this city he formed a law partnership with
Judge John B. Harrison, now of the state supreme court, which partnership
continued until Mr. Hendrix was appointed county judge upon the
resignation of Judge Fleetwood Bell, in the fall of 1909.  In 1910 Mr.
Hendrix was elected to that position, which he held for the next two
years, then forming a law partnership with D. W. Tracy, which continued up
to a couple of months ago.
Mr. Hendrix was married January 15, 1891, to Miss Alice Brashear, at
Lockney, Texas, and to this union was born two sons, Adlai and Paul
Hendrix, wife and sons surviving him.  He also leaves an aged mother, now
a resident of Amarillo; one brother, Judge W. F. Hendrix, of Tulia, Texas;
two sisters, Mrs. Mattie Sams, of Amarillo, Texas and Mrs. Virginia
Harrison of Prentiss, and one little grandson, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Adlai Hendrix.
(13 Mar 1919, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
JUDGE JOHN C. HENDRIX DEAD.
Judge John C. Hendrix, a prominent lawyer in this county, died at his home
in Sayre, on Monday night after an illness of several months from
Diabetes.  Mr. Hendrix has been a part of Oklahoma since the early day. 
He was at one time attorney for old Roger Mills county of which Beckham
was a part.
Judge Hendrix was fifty six years of age, and leaves a wife and two sons,
Adlai and Paul.
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon and interment made at
Sayre-Doxey cemetery under the auspices of the I.O.O.F.

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