Beckham County, OK - Obits: W. Thomas Lauderdale, 1920
12 June 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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LAUDERDALE, W. THOMAS
(3 Jun 1920, Sayre Standard, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
Tuesday evening the death angle (sic) came to the home of W. T. Lauderdale
in this city and took away the father to the great beyond.  Mr. Lauderdale
was sixty-two years of age and one of the pioneer residents of the city. 
He leaves a wife and several children to mourn his death.  He has two
grown children living here, one of whom is Ira Lauderdale and the other
Mrs. Frank Waddell.
Mr. Lauderdale was honored by all who knew him and the family has many
friends who join the Standard in the deepest of sympathy for the bereaved
ones.
Funeral services and interment were held at the Sayre-Doxey cemetery
Wednesday at 3 o'clock.
(3 Jun 1920, Sayre Headlight, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
Thos. Lauderdale, one of the pioneer residents of all Beckham county, died
at his home in the northern portion of this city on Tuesday afternoon,
after an illness covering several years.
Mr. Lauderdale was born in Texas, June 19, 1858, and thus lacked but a few
days of being  62 years of age.  He came to Greer county, then a portion
of Texas, when a young man, locating on a farm a short distance from
Willow, where he resided untill the opening of what is now Beckham county.
He made the "run" into Oklahoma, and located a home one mile north of
Doxey, where he lived untill twelve years ago, when failing health
compelled him to give up farming, and he moved to this city, which has
since been his home.
Thomas Lauderdale was widely known in this section during the early days,
and numbered his friends only by the list of his acquaintances, and today
large circle of friends mourn his death and extend sympathy to the
bereaved family.
He leaves a wife, four sons, Jerry W., Ira G., Connie and Thomas, and one
daughter, Mrs. Frank Waddell, to mourn the loss of a kind and indulgent
father.
The funeral services and interment were at the Doxey-Sayre cemetery at 3
o'clock yesterday afternoon.

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