Beckham County, OK - Obits: Herman Stevens, 1908 Saturday, 13 December 2008 Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm ************************************************ STEVENS, HERMAN (3 Dec 1908, Thursday, Sayre Standard, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK): C. H. and A. P. Stevens brothers of the late Herman Stevens, were in Sayre Wednesday attending to legal business. Herman Stevens, editor and publisher of the Elk City Democrat died last week of heart disease in a sanitarium at Battle Creek, Michigan. J. W. McMurtry of Elk City has been appointed administrator to wind up the business left by Mr. Stevens. Besides owning the Elk City Democrat, he was interested in some farm lands and stock over on Sweetwater. (10 Dec 1908, Thursday, Beckham County Democrat, Erick, Beckham Co, OK): HERMAN STEVENS A message received this morning from the Hospital at Battle Creek, Michigan, stated that Mr. Stevens died very suddenly and unexpected today. Mr. Stevens made a fight for his life for three years, suffering from a complication of disorders resulting from an organic heart trouble, an Aneurism of the Aorta. He was born and raised in Waterville, Maine, and for years was engaged in the show business, having been connected with some of the largest circus interest. And some years ago quit the road and became interested in the settlement and improvement of the western part of Oklahoma, and of the growth of Elk City and surrounding county, and his pen was a tower of strength to our city, of which he believed there was no better. It was his pride and his dream of the future. He was a man of strong convictions and given to say very plainly what he meant. He was an uncompromising democrat, an extremest if you will, but a democrat from basic principles, and built up before he was stricken a newspaper that was read and at the same time feared by grafters and schemers. He is gone, but he will be missed by friends and by those who have felt his steel. He was a Mason, and an Eagle; and greatest of all he was a man an Oklahoman; and a true friend. - Elk City Democrat. It is with deep regret that we publish the above, and it will be a source of sorrow to the many friends and acquaintances in and around Erick to learn of the death of Mr. Stevens. --------------------------------------------------- Return to Beckham County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/beckham/beckham.html