Beckham County, OK - Obits: Larkin Stephens, 1905
Friday, 12 December 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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STEPHENS, LARKIN
(10 Feb 1905, Friday, Sayre Standard, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
Larkin Stephens, aged 77 years, died Saturday, Feb. 4, 1905, at the home
of his son, J. W. Stephens, near Wash, Roger Mills county, Okla.
Mr. Stephens was here last summer visiting his son, and liked this country
so well that he decided to come here to live, and arrived here January
26th, 1905.  He took sick with pneumonia within a few days of his arrival,
and died Saturday, February 4.
He was from Ophir, Cherokee county, Georgia, where he was known as "Uncle
Larkin", and was one of the best known men in that country.
He was one of the few remaining members of the Pat Lyon Camp of
Confederate Veterans at the Ball Ground, Cherokee county, Georgia.

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